St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-17
THE WEEKLY PRESS.

Where Is Aid. Potter and his scheme
to save the city $4,000 a year on street
lighting? Potter is like good many
others of his political faith in the COUP
Gil. He is ever ready TO talk reform and
its results, but fails to come up with
something tangible. Why not go ahead
on that scheme and let US see what
there is in it? If there is any money in
1t for the city we will stand by you
Irish Standard.
The talk OF improvements of interest
to the two cities means their location
between the centers of the two cities, or
in the outlying wards of st. Paul, taken
in with all their cowslippy pastures and
brambly wilderneSseS some years ago,
that Minneapolis should by no possible
ity get any advantage from increased
population or prosperity in that direc-
ton. at the grand SCOOP" two col
leges and several villages, mainly built
up from here. were "taken in."-Spec-
tator.
That a city market will be of incalcu-
liable benefit and boom to this part 0f the
city, the history of other outsice mar
kets in other large cities of the country
is ample evidence; so that the question
of benefits ought not. in the light Of
our knowledge, to be stumbling
block. just the exact location is an
other matter and should not be decided
without an exhaustive review of the
question in all its varied respects. with
special reference to the geography of
the city.-South Minneapolis News.
We clip the following from one of our
city dailies:
some of the best dogs in the city. had the
misfortune to have one of his dogs bite lit
tie boy on Feb. 3. Judge Emery ordered the
dog shot.
Well now, wasn't that rough on Mr..
Rose? Wasn't it monumental misfor-
tune to the said Rose to ''have one of
his dogs bite little boym OF course 1t
wasn't of the slightest Importance to the
boy or his parents. Had he been
chewed all up the misfortune to Mr..
Rose, the dog fancier, would have been
no greater. His misfortune reached the
climax when the dog bit the boy. Ana,
by the way, did there ever come to the
notice of our readers clearer case of
dirt eating on the part of a newspaper
than the aboye?-The Register
To the Editor of the Globe.
In leading article in your paper the
other day you infer Justly enough from
facts that there will be no intermixture
of the white people by marriage with
negroes or people of color. The ques-
ton is,Why not? Saxon pride prevents.
am not saying whether this is wise or
right, but simply call attention to the
fact. 1t is curious fact that the great
Iraelitlsh law gives the greatest man Of
Old Testament history, and one of the
noblest men of any time or land, a
woman of color for his wife. And then,
as such marriage would now, it made
trouble in the family; for Aaron
and Miriam, who we may justly
think superior in knowledge to the ordi-
nary Jew, took great offenSe, and made
a 'scene'-their brother ought not to
marry an ETHIOPIAN woman, that is. a
black or bronze woman, for the word
means burnt cOuntenance, so they felt
degraded. But as if forever to show
his displeasure at their conduct, and to
show his appreciation of what Moses
Miriam out from the people, and struck
Miriam with leprosy. She was leper
white as snow. Dominant races in all
historic times have assumed superiority,
and they have transferred their ideals
to their gods. The poet tells:
Ethiops' gods have Ethiops eyes,
Bronze cheeks and woody hair,
The gods of Greece are like the Greeks,
SO keen and cold and fair.
The true way Is to think of man as
man, and the accidents of birth or geo.
graphical location of little importance ;
but that knowledge, truth, virtue, in
dustry. duty to God and duty to men,
nobly done, as giving men of every color
the royal stamp. The old problems we
see in the facts of to-day and in the
twelfth chapter of Numbers are ever
springing up in new forms.
VIM. WILKINSON.