St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-17
TOPICAL TALK.

The Panic At a baptizlng down
In Virginia before the
Grows. war an old darby, who
was submerged before
he got his mouth shut, was badly
StraDgled. He came up smut
tering and blowing like por-
poise, and when he recovered breath
sufficiently to speak he addressed the
officiating Clergyman with this re-
mark: "Brudder Jones, some white
man is gwine to lose niger yet by dis
id foollshness." That is about the
situation down in Wall street to-day.
Somebody is going to get awfully hurt
before the stock panic is over. Posi-
bly, 1T Will not be the ones who ought to
the pane may yet get away with
those who are responsible for il. Stocks
that were supposed to be as solid as the
rock of Gibraltar took q tumble yester-
day. Mr.. Wapamaker's holdings i'm the
Delaware IL Lackawana suffered along
with the rest, and when the power of
the federal administration is not sui
iiclent to keep up the interests of ia
vorite cabinet officer, the situation
must be equally. Jay Gould is cred
tied with being at the bottom
of the whole business, and there is
every indication that he is the guilty
party. He is unQuestionably the orig
inator of the panic, and there is but
little doubt that there was conspiracy
in the beginning between himself,
Deacon White and few others, to clean
out The pit. Yet the chances are that
the conspirators will fall into the pit
they dug for others. Ii SO, the country
will rejoice. The bad part Of this
whole business is that the federal gov
eminent is powerleSs to 90 TO the relief
of the sufferers. The extravaganza of
the last congress Quilted the treasury so
completely that there is no money in
reserve to be turned loose. The sur
plus pile of Sl00,O00,0D0 which Mr..
Cleveland left in the treasury is shrunk-
en- to less than S10,000,000 and every
dollar of that needed to meet the extra
ordinary pension appropriations made
by congress. Thus the stockholders
are left to fight it out among themselves,
and it will be a.Survival of the luckiest,
while the metropolis will be strewn
with the wrecks of lost fortunes.
School House The citizens of st.
Paul are interested in
Ventilation. knowing whether or
not the Ruttan venti-
latlng system is a success. There is a
scarcely home in the city but has a
representative in the public schools. 1t
is question of vital Importance to the
parents to know what kind of an atmOs-
phere the children have to live i'm dur
ing school hours. Ii it is as bad as
some of the teachers represent it to be,
then it is worse than fOlly-it is crimi-
nal-tO permit defective yentilating
system to continue in use. Since this
matter has been agitated number of
parents have made complaint to the
GLOBE that their children who are at
tending the public schools come home
quite frequently with sick headaches,
dlsordered nerves and Stomachs, and
exhibit other symptoms of blood poison
ing, which they attribute to the vicious
atmosphere of the school rooms. Ii is
true these statements are made in coll
tradiction to the head of the health de-
partment, who has made a personal eX-
animation of the school houses and de-
clares that the ventilation is perfect. 1t is
possible that the ailing children may be
sufferers from other causes, such as eX-
posture or imperfect sewerage in their
own homes. Yet it is something that
cannot be taken for granted. The health
fulness of the school buildings must be
established beyond all question or the
buildings must be vacated until good
ventilation is secured. The possibility
that our little ones are to be cooped up
all winter in foul atmosphere is too
horrible to contemplate. The health of
several thousand school children is of
more Importance than the reputation of
a few officials. Under the circumstances
those in authority should at once organ
iZe competent and diSlnterested COM
mission to investigate the condition of
the school buildings. and thus put the
public mind at rest.