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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
JED TOMPKtNs IN COURT.
How He Explained the Way He
Came in POSseSsiOu Of n Sheen

How He Explained the Way He
Came in Possession OF Sheep.
Courier-J ournal.
Near FayetvilIe. Tenn, shortly after
the recent cyclone which did so much
damage in that state and Kentucky, old
Jed Tompkins, coored, was hauled up
before Squire Mason for stealing one of
Col. Ballentyne's sheep.
Before the trial the Squire, the col
onel, Jed and several others were loung-
ing in front of the 'squire's dingy little
office, all hands, with the exception of
Jed, relating incidents of the terrible
storm; the Squire winding up with a
tree on his farm from which the wind
had stripped the bark, and the colonel
place through which the tornado had
driven wheat straw.
On the trial the evidence was all
against Jed. the colonel identifying the
sheep, which had been found hanging
up on Jed's back porch
''I'll have to hold you. old man, I'M
less you can explain how that sheep
came there" said the magistrate.
CANT 'splain, Square, Jed an
swered. ''W'en got up in de mawnin'
dat sheep was jes' layin' dar."
And you don't know who brought it
there?''
mo. suh-'lesan de cyclone bowed
it dar."
"Aha! 'Lesan de cyclone bowed it
dar, eh? And did you ever see a cy-
clone that could skin sheep?"
No, sub, CANT say as l has 'lesan
'twar dat same cyclone what peeled
Square NasOn's tree and driv the straw
thrOo Col. Ballyntyne's wall"
The Squire pulled up his specs and
took long look at Jed, and the colonel
arose and stated that he would not
the first cycl one that had ever blown
any of his property into Jed's posses
sion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
FARMERS. THINK OF 1T.

1t is hard to tell whether Uncle JERRY
RUsK understands the tariff question too
well, or doesn't know 1t well enough.
He made speech to the Ohio Alliance
the other day, and if he understood
the purport of his remarks, he managed
to give an awfully black eye to the Nc
KINLEY bill. He told the Ohio agri-
culturists that the price of farm products
was regulated by the portion exported;
or, In other words, that all of the farm
erS' sales are in free trade market,
but all his purchases in a home pro-
tected market. Accepting Uncle JER-
RVS statement as correct, it oughtn't
to have taken more than three grains of
sense to the man for all of the Ohio
farmers to see that they have no use for
the Republican high tariff.
The wonder is that Uncle JERRY, be-
ing a cabinet officer in the HARRISON
administration. should have stumbled
onto such good, sound Democratic doc
triDe in his Ohio speech. That is why
we suspect he didn't fully realize the
force of his statements. They make eX-
celient wine down in Ohio, and we have
man of social turn, had been around
among the Buckeye farmers, sampling
the product of their vineyards. There
is an old Latin maxim, "When man is
in wine he is truthful" And so it must
have come to pass that while Uncle
JERRY was under the cheerful influence
OF Ohio grape juice he discarded his adj
ministration training and for once spoke
the honest sentiments of his heart.
Whether so or not, he spoke the truth,
and spoke it well. He spoke truth
that the farmers of Minnesota, as we'll
as those in Ohio, can study with profit.
The same truth was forcibly expressed
in the platform adopted by the Fifth
district Democrats. which says:
''This system of high taxation has i'm
poverished the agriculturist not only by
adding to the cost of whatever he is
forced to purchase, but also by causing
foreign nations, in self-protection, to
retaliate upon America, and seek else
where their supply of food products.
Hence it is that the exports of the
United States in cattle, corn and wheat,
and all other agricultural productions,
have constantly diminished during the
past ten years, while new and extensive
wheat fields have been placed under
culture in Russia. Egypt and India.
The best customers for the wheat of
America are the nations whose products
are barred out by our robber tariff. We
exclude the manufactures which are Of
fered in exchange for the products of
American agricultural labor, and then
mutely wonder why wheat declines in
price, why cattle are becoming less and
less valuable, and why distress among
all classes of laborers finds expression
in strikes and lOck-OutS."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
PLEASE LET UP.

Notwithstanding the insane efforts of
the Pioneer Press to prove the contrary.
st. Paul is healthier city than Mime
apOlis. The latter's health record is
excellent, the mortality being as low, or
lower. than any other city similarly sit
uated. But st. Paul has some natural
advantages, which are conducive to
health, possessed by no other city in the
world. Our natural drainage is one
peculiar advantage. and the purity of
our water supply is another. Yet in
spite of these facts the Pioneer Press
printed column and half of statistical
matter in its editorial column yesterday
which will carry to the outside world
the impression that Minneapolis is the
healthier of the two cities. The Mime
apolis people have never made any such
pretension, so we see no reason WHY a
st. Paul paper should take nonsen-
steal course. even though it be done
under the pretense that it is exposing
census crookedness. The fact is. the
PioneerPress has gone daft on the census
troubles. The whole thing is over now,
and done with forever. Whether Just
VI uol IilC ICtulllS VI tuS recount VIII.
forever lemain as a part of the census
figures of 1890. We have reached a
point where righteousness shall be
righteousness still, and unrighteousness
shall be unrlghteOusness still. Things
will stay just as they are, whether they
be good or whether they be bad. All
persons who have their wits about
them realize that there is no use in
kicking against the pricks, and with
the best possible grace are bowling to
the inevitable. 1t is to be hoped that
our Robert street neighbor will recover
its reason sufficiently to make no more
such breaks as it did in yesterday'sis issue.
The welfare and future prosperity of
st. Paul demand that somebody be
muzzled before any more harm is done
to the city.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
SOUTH DAKOTA POLITICS.

If Senator Moody wants to make an
ass of himself before the august body of
which he is, unfortunately for South
= Dakota, member, he can do so. But it
may be stated with positlveness that
the ] owners and managers of the Yank-
ton Cement works have not asked for
any, 'protection7 for their products. nor
will they. All they will ask for will be
freight rates that do not discriminate
against them, and an open field and a
fair fight. MIR. Moody must fall back
upon the ''tin'' of the English syndi-
cates.-Yankton Journal.
~H
''What will the total vote be?' was
asked of the ''sure-enough'; governor
LESS than last year. 1t was 10000 in
all, believe, last year. l do not be-
lieve it will be over 10000 this falk Of
the 10000 the Democrats had $4,000.
They won't poll over 5000 this fall.
We will get 10000 of this old $4,000. Of
the $4,000 Republicans we Will get over
half, probably 10000, giving us ma
jority of 5000. or plurality of 10000
over the Republicans"
With this last statement the reporter
left Mr.. Louck, thinking that he Ger
tainly was very confident, not to say
misguided and misinformed, as to the
final outcome of this falls election
Louck'S interview in Sioux Falls Press.
49,
Why do the Republicans in congress,
why do Picker, Clifford, Pettigrew and
Moody vote to put binding Irvine upon
the free list? They tell us that protec-
ton means cheap products. Why not
protect" binding Irvine more, SO as to
cheaper it? They must have slipped
cog somewhere in their logic or facts
Bridgeport Herald.
The Republican bosses boosted before
their county convention was held that
no man with even suspicion of prohi-
bition attached to his garments, should
have place on their ticket. They even
said if prohibition was recognized by
any nomination they would not support
the ticket. And so now they are chuck
ling over the assertion that ''there is
not solitary prohibitionist on our
ticket" Every last one of these nomi-
nees on the Republican ticket will vote
against Mellette and Picker, and every
other temperance man on the ticket
from top to bottom Yankton Telegram.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
WHAT?

w lldC nave Uney cone!
We refer to the five Minnesota con-
giessmen.
What have they done for Minnesota?
Nothing.
Yes. they have. They have voted to
increase taxes and Cypress labor.
They have helped to scatter the sur
plus everywhere but in Minnesota.
They have helped to create treasury
deficit without Minnesota being a dollar
the better off for it.
They voted to take the tax off whisky
and tobacco.
But they voted to increase it on wooden
goods. which we need so much up here
in Minnesota during the winter months.
Under the plea of protecting home in
dustries they voted to tax camel's hair
as wool, although it is not grown on this
continent outside of strolling circus.
Mighty statesmen, these five con-
greSSmen are.
What have they done?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
THE STORY oFADAY.

Denver switchmeu go on strike.
The Comte de Paris is on his way to Amer
lea.
Forrestal Bros arrange matters with their
creditors.
Miss Rush wins the ladies' riding race at
Long Prairie.
Cinnamon implicated in an Oregon bank
robbery are arrested in st. Paul.
North Dakota Democrats are said to be
aging pipe to corral the legislature.
gThe government board of directors makes
favorable report on the Union Pacific.
The Western association games are won by
Sioux City. Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
Rev. Faude, of Minneapolis, gets a letting
warning him to quit attacking the Catholic
church.
The libel suit of Messrs. Latto and Will
ANS against FANNY Davenport is OIL trial in
Minneapolis.
Representative Kennedy makes an impas-
stoned speech upon the expunglng of his re-
marks upon Quay from the Congressional
Record
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

canned, aud in cases where there is the
usual supply the advance is due to SYM
pathy and fashion. All feel the rise.
There has been no failure of fruits on
the Pacific COAST, yet they have ad-
vanced in price from 40 to SO per cent.
Canned corn, tomatoes and all fruits
largely put up in the East have jumped
up long notches. Apples and peaches
have more than doubled In price. 1t
will cost most people considerably more
to live this winter than it did last, even
if new and higher tariff were not to
come in to add to the expenses of con-
sinners
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
HOLD THEM TO 1T.

AS the members of congress from this
state, who voted for the election or force
bill as it passed the house. are to come
before the electors and exploit their of
fcial services upon the stump, it may be
we'll to invite them to elucidate some
what in detail the features of the meas
ure they supported. Much has been
said about it in general way, but there
is great lack of information as to the
sinuosities of the machinery involved
and the real pu1port of the scheme. 1t
is not altogether satisfying to the dis
truStful to assert that it ''seeks only to
make pure elections" An epistolary
controversy has for some time been go
Ing on in Iowa over the subject be-
tween Mr.. CLARKSoN, the late postmas-
ter general, and LEONARD BROWN, of
that state, which is said to have excited
intense interest in Iowa. Mr.. CLARK
son defends the bill, and pronounces it
1.-THE greatest question now before the
public" MIR. BROWN seems to be
Republican who cannot go further with
the party. He believes there are mill
ions of other Republicans who will
leave the party when they fully realize
the iniquity of the project. In his view
1t is ''the most revolutionary measure
that ever passed the house of repre-
sentatives." and was rushed through
with the most discreditable haste, in
spite of the fact that its champions pro-
nounce it the greatest question before
congress or the country. He finds that
1t is pamphlet of seventy-two printed
pages, introduced on the 18th of June
apd but one copy for each member print
ed, "for the evident purpose of Keep
ing its contents away from the people,"
Its consideration was commenced June
26 and the bill forced to vote by gag
ging its opponents and the tyranny of
the speaker on the I'd of July. 1t is not
surprising that Mr.. BROWN and all
rlght-thinking citizens should be indig-
nant at such record, even had the bill
been less voluminouS or important.
He concludes that only the seven Judges
car fully fathom its intricacies, but that
it virtually puts the federal Judges In
absolute control of the elections to
which the bill applies. His words are
that this bill destroys republican gov
eminent, and makes the judges of the
United States courts as absolute in their
power over the people as a Roman pro-
consul in the days of the Caesars"
He adds further: "Of the federal
courts. twenty-five are Republican and
two are Democrats. There can be moth
ing but corruption under such system
OF elections. The candidate will have
to bride the corrupt judge to place his
lame on the ticket. The judge be-
comes dictator, for 'The decisions of
said judge shall be final"
This is a measure for which all the
Republican candidates for congress in
this state voted, and for which they
should be held responsible.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

fight of the Republican leaders entirely
upon the Alliance movement. There is,
OF course, just one thing that the Re-
publican managers would like to do, and
that is to turn and twist this
tight into straight contest
between the two old parties. II this
could be done then they feel assured
that prejudice would do the rest.
But circularlZe and denounce as they
will, and are doing, Messrs. Heatwole,
BiXby, Buchanan and the rest cannot
get away from the fact that this is "a
three-cornered contest, and will be to
the end.
The Ninth Ward Democratic club
held large and enthusiastic meeting at
the corner OF Fourteenth and Jackson
streets last evening. Alderman Geban
presided and the entire Democratic
ticket was heartily indorsed. The CLUB
has secured five halls and will
hold meetings in each of them, thus
making a circuit. David fitzgerald,
I'll. Q. Ehrmantraut, A. n. Nelson, K.
a. Walsh, and several other we'll known
Democrats made stirring speeches. The
Ninth ward campaign may be regarded
as opened.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
QUIET WAYS ARE BEST.
What's the use Of worrying
Of hurrying,
And scurrying,



And scurrying,
Everybody fiurrying
And breaking up their resty
When every one is teaching us,
Preaching and beseeching US
To settle down and end the fuss,
For quiet ways are best.
The rain that trickles down in showers
"A blessing brings to thirsty flowers;
Sweet fragrance from each trimming CUP
the gentle zephrs gather up.
There's ruin in the tempest's path;
There's ruin in voice of wrath;
And they alone are blest
Who early learn to dominate
Themselves, their violence abate.
And prove, by their serene estate,
That quiet ways are best.
Nothing's gained by worrying,
By hurrying
And scurrying.
With fretting and with flurryine
The tempter's often lost;
And in pursuit of some small prize
We rush ahead and are not wise,
And find the unwonted exercise
A fearful price has cost.
'Tis better far to join the throng
That do their duty right along;
Reluctant they to raise fuss,
Or make themselves ridiculous.
Calm and serene in heart and nerve,
Their strength is always in reserve
And nobly stands each test;
And every day and all about,
By scenes within and scenes without.
We can discern, with er doubt
That quiet ways are best.
Evangelist.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
Help Ye One Another.

Word comes from Washington that
the Republican congressional campaign
committee will pursue the tactics en-
ployed in Reeds district to help along
Mckinley and Cannon. This means
caravan ofstar campaigners from abroad
and an abundant corruption fund. with
BlOcks-Of-FIve Dudley to Superintend
the disbursing of it. Cannon was elect
ed two years ago by plurality of $500;
but his coarse conduct on the floor of
( the house and. his unrepresentatlve atti-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
NATIONAL POLITICS.
A Record of the G. o. p.

Pittburg Post.
The Republican party has never add
ed an acre to the territory of the union.
And its predecessors and originators,
the Federal and Wing parties. opposed
QUESTIONS made by Jefferson, Monroe,
Polk and Pierce that SO grandly crown
the Revolutionary edifice. True, Secre-
tary. Blaine has been skylarking with
the unbreeched savageS of the South
Pacific, and has leased a coal station at
Samoa, under the joint protectorate of
England, Germany and the United
States, but that is. laughed at as all
opera bouffe operation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

THE tariff commission that in 1882 was
in pursuit of information on protective
principles was forced to conclude that
in the decade ending fifteen years after
the war, and with all the impulse of the
war tariff 1.-THE growth of industries had
not more than kept pace with the growth
of population in the United States.n
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

A New YORK paper is dicovering
that there is spotty time in solar quar-
tiers, with big storms raging, and that
they augur dryer and colder seasons
for 1891 than the past year has afforded.
1t is quite as safe to guess that the New
York guesser guesses guesses that may
be guessed not good guesses.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
Inwardness of Blaine's Scheme

I Inwardness of Blaine's Scheme.
|, Chicago Times
Mr.. BIaine's scheme of reciprocity is
{ but the oil with which he hopes to SUBJ
due the rising waves which beat upon
the Republican ship. If he were to an
sweI the question truthfully he would
good, because it will benefit his friends,
4 the protected manufacturers deceive,
! he hopes, the farmers by false hope.
.lull them with a nursery song, and
harm only the unfortunate agriculturists
of the South, for whom Mr.. Blaine has
no love because their votes are not car
ried in Mr.. Blaine's pocket.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

THE wholesale merchants in New
York send out their circulars stating
that prices will advance from to 20
per cent when the MCKINLEY bill be-
comes law. The consumers will have
that to pay. of course, but they will buy
fewer goods.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
WILL COST MORE

The impression that thegreat advance
Of late in canned fruit is due to the
coming tariff on tin plate is not quite
warranted. That tax is not yet in oper-
alton. There has been a general par
tial failure Of most of the articles
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

MAPLE SUGAR won't stand too much
padding, but maple syrup has no need
of any kind of a tree for its production,
If congress will slip it in with maple
sugar for the bounty, everybody will
make it and find the sweets.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

JAY GOULD could buy up all the drug
stores in New York, and yet many a,
man who has never tried to draw a.
check for million dollars or own a
railway has liver that makes life
much easier to live.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

THE Prohibitionists are running can
didates for congress in about half of the
districts in Kentucky. Can it be posi-
BILE that the jewellers among the blue
grass are repudiating their staple and
the inspiration of SO much eloquence?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
IN NATURES COURSE.

There never was monarch yet
Who tried to rule without a check
But in the natural course of things
Did somehow get it in the neck.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
TO-DAY'S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-For Minnesota
and Iowa: Fair followed by light rain
in Southern Iowa; slightly warmer; vari-
able winds, generally southerly. For North
and South Dakota: Fair; stationary tenn
perature; variable winds, generally south
erly. For Michigan and Wisconsin: Fair;
warmer; southeasterly winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

necessaryto employ extraordinary meas
ures to save him, if possible. Mckinley
is In Democratic district now, and
needs all the help he can get; but the
congressional committee cannot pull
him through
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
A DANGEROUS OPINION

A railroad man who has been identi-
fed with railroads and familiar with
their interior economy for the past quar-
ter of century recently made the state
ment that it was his mature judgment
that if railroads were managed on the
same principles as private business,
where there was capacity. prudence,
economy and only legitimate operations,
they could carry passengers at cent a
mile and freight at l cent ton per
mile. If the name of the man were
made public, it would ruin any chances
he may have of being made a member
of the board of railway commissioners
under the present administration in
this state. To verify his theory. it is
appalling to think what flood of water
would first have to flow out of the
stocks. 1t would sadly impair one of
the greatest of Industries, the produc-
ton of millionaires.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

KENTUCKY papers report that the
moonshiners are likely to leave that
state and go to Vermont to make maple
sugar under the bounty.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

A GOOD many people in France, who
want good, cheap meat, think the Amer
lean hog is good enough for them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
WILLIE's LULLABY.

Hush-a-bye. Willie, on the throne top,
When Tommy goes for you the bottom will
drop;
When election day comes you'n find it a fab.
And down will come lferrrfsxn9 Sam NRnoE
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

JERRY RUsK seems to have lost faith
in his scheme to irrigate dry lands bv
exploding bombs in the air. But an
other aspiring scientist has secured
an appropriation of $4,000 to try to bring
down the waters by sending dynamite
up in balloons. If he makes success
of it, the process is likely to be too ex-
pensive for general use by farmers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25
THE BooDLER's PRAYER.

Get what I can and how I can,
None to ask me why;
All the joys of earth while here
Canada when lily.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

TYPEwRITING contests are attractions
at some of the Eastern fairs. The oper-
ators are pretty and draw the crowds.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

One of the. Edison light expositors,
who is Endorsed as all authority ON the
subject, has been to Philadelphia and
proposed to stake his reputation as
scientist on his ability to construct ali
electric motor that will take train to
New York in thirty-six minutes, or at
the rate of $50 miles an hour. and he be-
lieveS that will be done in the next ten
years. 1t requires special road. nearly
an air line. with heavy rails and cars.
But Philadelphia people are not inter-
ested III fast travel. They are conserva-
tive
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

of the worlds fair. He must "shake him
self loose" from all party politics. He
is one of the largest Republican bosses
at Chicago. but he says he will shake.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-25

Rejected communications cannot be pre-
served. Address all letters and kilograms 70
THE GLOBE. st. Paul, Mimi.