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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

same class of men to the senate. But a
day or two ago one of the best informed
men of that state asserted that the
change in sentiment was greater than
could be credited abroad, and the next
men sent to Washington would be dis
tinctively tariff reformers. Clubs ON
that basis were being organized in
all sections. They demand that
raw materials for the manufacture
ers shall be put on the free list.
and the taxes on articles of
general consumption shall be re-
duced. The names are published of the
members of one of these clubs in a
rural district in Cass county, and ma
jority of the members have been Repub-
icans voting that way at the late cleo
ton. Two Of them have been Repub-
lican members of the legislature. They
are assailed by the Republican organs
as mugwumps and those disloyal to the
party. The incident is but an illustra-
ton. Local causes have given the
leaven something of its epidemic char
acter, but the districts are few west of
the Missouri where the protection dog
mas of the Republican platform of 1888
could now be carried before the people.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
WHAT'S JUSTICE?

To the Editor of the Globe.
Being Republican, / can all the more
cordially commend the frank utterances of
your editorial review of Senator INGALLS,
speech. You have discussed the race ques-
ton in less prejudiced tone than our Re-
publican papers are accustomed to do.
Therefore | am encouraged to ask you II you
think it possible that the whites can treat the
negro with injustice, however disguised,
without sharing the consequences with him?
Do you not think 1t a foul wrong 10 beat him
back IN his upward struggle, and conSign
him to lower plane and establish him on it?
An answer to these questions may help to
solve the race problem. 5.
WinOna, Jan. 81.
The GLOBE cannot undertake TO solve
the race problem. Our best endeaVOrS
in that direction are to make sugges-
tions, with the hope that our lawmakers
may be benefited by them. But what
ever we can say or do IN affordlng a
solution of the gravest problem ever
presented to the American people shall
be cheerfully said and done.
The GLOBE has said. and repeats,
that there is no halfway ground to be
occupied in dealing with the negro;
therefore, we believe the situation to be
reduced to the two alternatlyes-ama
gamation or deportation. If the negro
the white mans equal in every re-
spect, then his place is right here in this
country. If he is not the white
mans equal, it is impossible for
him to have fair showing
here, and it would only be simple JUS
tice to him to let him go to land of his
own, where he could develop in his own
way and after his own fashion. If the
negro is entitled to half his rights as a
man he is entitled to all of them, and that
would include social, as we'll rs civil and
political equality. If he is socially the
equal of tile white man, then there
could be no bar to amalgamation. 1t
would come of itself, and yet the GLOBE
Is free to say that it can conceive of no
greater evil that could befall this coun-
try than an amalgamation of the races.
AS Senator INGALLS, puts it, we would
lose the virtues and retain the vices Of
both. II we are not prepared, then, to
admit amalgamation to be possibil-
ity-yea. probability-the sooner
the negro is removed from the
disturbing and depressing influ-
ences which must ever surround him
here, the sooner will he have justice
done him. Unless we can elevate him
to plane of perfect equality with our
selves, every hour that we keep him
here we are perpetrating the foul
wrong of beating him back id his up
ward struggle, and consigning him to
lower plane and establishing him on It..
Yes, the GLOBE agrees with our Wi
mona correspondent that IN treating the
negro with injustice we share the con-
sequences with him. The difficulty,
however, is in determining what is JUS
tice and what is injustice in his case.
If we were all of one mind, the way
would be clear. But as we differ, and
differ honestly, in our views, the way
grows darker at every step we take.
May the light yet shine from heaven to
enlighten the American people on this
subject.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
HELPS OUT THE SURPLUS.

The bill to refund s16,OO0,OOO or so of
war tax to some of the states will be-
yond question become law. 1t passed
the senate the other day with small OBJ
lection, and it will have quite as little
in the house. There will be no veto, as
in a former case 1t affects to equalize
the financial condition Of the states as
regards the direct war tax by handing
back the money to the states that paid
the assessment. The special motive
impelling it is that it reduces the sur
plus and affords less room for tariff re-
duction. 1t does not reach the parties
who advanced the money quarter of a
century ago, as that would be, of course,
impracticable. The new states get very
little of it, as they were not advancing
much money at that early, or prenatal,
period in their history. 1t helps deplete
the treasury, and that is the chief aim
of the protectionists. Nothing would
have been heard of the matter if there
had been no tempting surplus.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

big n. The trainers of the constitution
labored under what in this day would
be considered delusion- that the states
were sovereign and that the general
government was only confederation OF
sovereignties. In this way the senate
came to- be created as fictitious con-
triyance to give distinct representation
to these several sovereigntieS. Accord
ing to the latter-day construction it is
I'VE, the people," who rule. and not
'we. the states;;" therefore, if the senate
is to he perpetuated as part of the gen.
eral congress, then it should come. as
the other part does, direct from the
body of the people, and the senators
should be elected by popular vote
The necessity for this change
is all the more urgent in view
of the modern tendency to reduce
the seat of senator to the status of
chattel property and to make it market
able. And while the constitution Is be-
ing revised to relieve the senate of its
aristocratic tendencies it will be equally
necessary to revise the legislative arti-
Gle so as to relieve the lower house of
its rabble quality. A more equal distri-
button of dignity and the decencies in
the capitol building is one of the press
ing needs of the hour. Another legis
latiye reform of prime Importance is to
limit the powers of the speaker Of the
lower house so that he will be only
what the constitution designed him to
be-a presiding officer, without any of
the powers or privileges of an autocrat.
Then, too, it is almost imperative that
what is known as the commercial clause
of the constitution shall be recon-
structed So as to make the meaning OF
the instrument so plain that a wayfar-
ing man can read it. There are things
in our commercial life in existence to-
day that were not dreamed of in the
days when the constitution was framed.
In view of all these facts, how much
better it would be for congress, instead
of trying to patch up an instrument that
for the most part has fallen into inocu-
Gus desuetude. to meet the situation
courageously by providing for new
constitution,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
MUST BE GOOD WINE.

1t is not claimed that the consumption
OF wine in this country has fallen off in
ratio to population, at least not to any
considerable extent. Yet there were
more gallons of wine imported into the
country in 1910 than there were last
year. The population has grown from
less than 20,0O0,OO0 to over 10000. 900,
and wine never flowed more freely than
now. Last year there were about seven
gallons of native wine produced to one
imported. AT banquets and restaurants
1t is rare that wine is offered that does
not have the foreign label. American
wine is drunk for the imported, and the
consumers do not know the difference.
This shows that the distinction must be
mainly matter of the imagination.
Some of it is sent abroad and returned
with the label, paying the duties.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
NORTH DAKOTA TALK.
Penitentiary Saints.

Fargo Argus.
The great penal institutions Of the
states are disgrace to the intelligence
or the nineteenth century, and there
are as many good men inside, by force
of circumstances, as outside, in proper
ton. 1t is not the duty of the state nor
the province of officials to punish for
crime-but to restrain criminals from
committing crimes. The further con-
finement of the Youngers at Saltwater
is crime of the state of Minnesota
narrow, revengeful crime-nothing
more or less. a pitiable shame for a
great state to wreak its vengeance
upon one man,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
P. F. LYONS, Observer.
THE STORY OF A DAY.

Mrs. Coppinger is dead.
La Crosse records $4,000 blaze.
Boston suffers from another big fire.
Kilrain whips Vacquelin in three rounds
Mrs. Parnell is said to be out of fuel and
money.
Marquis de Mores wounds his antagonist
in duel.
Hon. E. W. Durant talks in Chicago on
lumber thefts.
Fire destroys property valued at Sl25 900,
at kenosha, Wis.
Fire and explosions do $500, 900 damage at
Danbury, Conn.
Speaker Reed explains his position on the
question of quorum in the house.
Fire-eater ingalls, is getting something like
ton of letters day on the Southern ques-
ton.
Paulsen finishes two-thirds of a mile be-
hind McCormick.in the Eau Claire skating
race.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

than HARRISON had appointed in all
the United States. When the Repub-
licans do appoint one he is usually a
very light mulatto, or one who is rich.
FRED DOUGLASS and BLANCHE K.
BRUCE are always the first on the list,
and both have got rich. holding Office.
BRUCE has just been put in $4,000 Of
fee in Washington. There are half a
dozen Northern states that the Repub-
licans would have no chance in but for
the negro vote, and yet they never
elect them to any Office. In the few
cases that they have nominated one
they have voted against him. But one
or two instances in all the North are re-
called where they have elected col
ored man to the legislature.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
BE COMING ALARMED.

There is growing and serious appre-
hension among the policy Republican
organs lest congress should, after all the
party professions, effect no changes in
the tariff that will placate the growing
restiveness in the West. They are not
concerned for reform that will really
benefit the people, but they fear that
the party will suffer in the fall elections
unless they can show that some sub
stantial reduction has been made in the
tariff eXactions. They understand that
the people are getting very much in
earnest in this matter, and there is no
escape from the party responsibility.
They have the administration and both
branches of congress. There is no chance
to shuttle any of the blame of non-actiou
on the Democrats. They evidently have
very little confidence in the purpose
of their party leaders at Washing
ton who asked to be allowed
to reform the system as friends of pro-
lection. How it can be revised in the
direction of protection and meet the
demands to put raw materials on the
free list does not appear to them. 1t is
apparent to some of them that the
varied and eager devices to get rid Of
the surplus are in the interest of the
present tariff. One of them cites the
proposed expenditure of $500, 900, 600 in
war ships as measure of this class,
and declares that it will be ruinous to
the Republican party. The Omaha Re-
publican, intensely partisan, even goes
SO far as to say: "We want enough rev.
enue raised by the tariff to pay the ex-
penses of the government, economically
administered. and no more" This, no
doubt, is reflection of public senti-
ment in Nebraska. and the Omaha
paper emphasizes its warning with the
suggestion that, if the congressman
come home without the relief de-
manded. they will not be able to return
officially.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
LECTURE TO raE PANS.

1t is not needful to chide the good
ladies of the w. G. T. U. if they did, in
their amiable solicitude, sweetly re-
prove the Pan-Americans for not turn
ing their glasses at the banquet tables
set before them all over the country.
These Pans don't seem to be specially
busy Of late, and their minds may be in
receptive mood for good seeds. 1t is
probable they have never heard much
about prohibition in their countries,
and as they are in pursuit of informa-
ton, the ladies may be attractive In
structors. If they had confined them
selves to United States productions at
the banquets, it might be suspected
that the good ladies were not quite dip
lomatic in reading moral lecture to
them, but no sympathy can now be elic-
tied for them. 1t may be even assumed
that the devoted ladies are quite
sincere when they invite these repre-
sentatIves of the more bibulous civiliZa-
ton of the other Americas to ''study
the vast benefits of prohibitory law as
pTacticed in eight states of the Union"
1t is little difficult to count quite SO
many, even including two Dakotas that
have not got the law in operation yet;
but the sample states are Maine. Iowa
and Kansas. The Pans sat at banquet
tables in some or all of them, and per-
haps had intimations of the rigor Of the
prohibltory system. Should they fol-
low the suggestion of the ladies in their
address further, they are not likely to
take away the most favorable impress
sions of the sacredneSs of statutes in
those states, but they will certainly dis
cover that there are marvels of ingenu-
ity to beat the law in places
where it is recognized at all.
They will hardly go to their several
lands as apostles of theories that men
can be made to regulate their personal
habits by law.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
Like the Old Norman

Bismarck Commonwealth.
No person or party ever attempted to
straddle fence so openly as has the
Republican party of North Dakota at
tempted to get leg on each side of the
prohibition question. But what else
could you expect when the state officials
and majority of the members of the
legislature believe in high license and
were elected by prohibition votes? YER
lily, the Republican party kept its
pledges-like the old woman kept hotel
out West.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
Said to Be ISLANDERS.

Sioux Falls Leader
About 200 families in South Dakota
have become destitute owing to the
failure of crops in certain counties.
The facts have been investigated, the
charitable people of this state, Iowa
and Minnesota have contributed gener-
ously. and in all but few cases the
distress is relieved. In spite of this,
however, the papers of the country
from Minneapolis eastward contain
daily dispatches and interviews in
which the farmers of eighteen counties
are said to be starving and freezing.
Reports also come frequently of letters
sent East from counties which, in re-
atty, are prosperous, but which are de-
scribed as suffering the deepest destitu-
tiOn
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AN ILLUSTRATION.

North Dakota is perhaps an index Of
the work going on in the public mind
IN the West, and very considerably III
other states, in an educational way or
the tariff question. Last October, on;
of less than 10000 votes, a majority OF
$4,000 was given for congressman OF
the extreme Pennsylvania protection
school, not so much perhaps on account
of those views as Indifference and par
tisan feeling. The legislature sent the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
Not a Match for Them.

Pierre Capital.
The Capital holds that certain Repub-
liean papers are belittling the party by
the slurs and insinuations hurled at the
farmers in the legislature. These
press statements tacitly acknowledge
the weakness of the party. They virtu-
ally admit that the Republicans are not
a match for the farmers. We believe
the Republicans are able TO cope with
the farmer element, but nothing can be
accomplished without organization.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

IT Is not new idea that oil can be
used with effect on the waves at sea,
but it seems to have been used more ex-
tensively than ever before in the recent
violent storms on the Atlantic, and the
officers express themselves surprised at
the rapid quieting effectupon the raging
waters. 1t is probable that it will be-
come regular thing for use on such
occasions. Ii it will work in political
waters, there are opportunities of late
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
PUBLIC OPINION.

The Blair bill would paralize the
promising local movement in favor of
popular education now making such
great advances in the South.-Buffalo
Commercial. e
Mr.. Chandler is rather unfortunate in
his illusions to Florida elections. The
r. B. Hayes business Is not so easily
forgotten as he upposes.-Louisyille
Courier-Journal (Dem.)
We in the North have been aecus-
toned to regard the negro question as
mainly political question. To the
Southerners, who are now mostly eyer-
cised about it, it is mainly social and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
SOUTH DAKOTA SENTIMENT.
More in Chicago.

Pierre Free Press.
Where there is one case of restitution
in South Dakota there are ten in the
city of Chicago. The writer hereof has
visited many of the states in the union
and has had abundant opportunity to
compare the condition of our farmers
with that of those in the old states.
What is considered the direst poverty
on our rich prairies would be a paradise
to thousands upon thousands of those
who are attempting to exc out an exist
'ence among the stumps. rocks and clay
of the central and eastern states. Is it
not time to call halt on these malicious
faisehoods?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

One of the Italian gentlemen in New
York is now ready to retire as count
or nobleman. having made fortune.
He has paid the city $4,000 a year for
the exclusive privilege of looking over
and finding things in the city garbage
from the streets as it was placed upon
scows to be taken out and dumped in
the water. 1t is not stated whether he
wants to marry or not.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
Getting Right.
Duluth New

Oulutn NEWS.
Your Uncle Loren Fletcher is doing a
good deal of talking these days, and be-
tween times he gives expression to a
good deal of hard sense. He has now
come squarely out in favor Of tariff re-
form. and says it must come. Mime
sofa Republicans are profiting by the
unhappy example set by Iowa, and are
rapidly getting Oh the right track.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

Possibly about the time the streets
of the Twin Cities are lined with the
overhead high tension wires, EDISON
will devise some scheme that obviates
the dangerous wires. He Is said to be
atwork upon an electric motor for street
cars that does not use either the present
wires or the storage battery. He is
soon to give it a trial in one of the New
JERSEY cities.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
STATE SENTIMENT.
The Difference.

Faribault Register.
Gov. Merriam's chances for renomi-
nation son the Republican ticket look
no brighter than did McGill's in 1888.
But there is this difference; Mr.. McGill
did not have barrel to use to buy up
delegations, while the present incum-
Dent mas plenty OF Doodle to back him
should he again want the nomination,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
Bad Medicine.

North Dakota Capital,
Some of the members of this Iegisla-
ture will have to rise to more than one
question of privilege" and explain
when they go home to their constituents
at the close of the session. The journal
will be bad medicine for some of them.
About the only ones who can contem-
plate the future with complacency are
those who never expect to be again
elected to such Representative position.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

THE veterans have been marching out
of Office under this administration faster
than others have come in. There seems
to be mistake about its having special
enthusiasm for the old soldiers outside
of its verbal work.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

THE contest in Boston over the OPEN
ing of the public library on Sunday has
been settled so far as to open the library
from 2 to p. m. 1t Is believed there
are number of people even in that city
who find worse places for spending
their time on Sunday than the public
library. In all cities there are people
who have no time except on Sunday for
visiting the libraries.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
Like a Democrat.

CaIedon1a Argus.
Heatwole. in his News, says: "Re-
duce the tariff, Tighten taxation, and at
the same time create the conditions for
commerce, which is but an exchange
for commodities, and ships will crowd
our harbors without so much as sug-
gestion of subsidies' You talk like a
Democrat. Joel; why not be consistent
and act like one?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

The good WANAMAKER hints fire.
quently of late that Providence would
do him good turn if he could be made
United States senator without being en-
tered with the regular fees in the race.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
Justice TO the People.
Alexandria Post

~,
We hear of "Justice to McGill," jus.
tice to Tom, Dick and Harry. but never
of justice to the people. Why should
McGill, Merriam or Bill Smith have a
mortgage on an Office because he held
it one term. MeGill may hold mort
gage. on the governorship, but Merriam
is said to have bought it for cash. Per-
haps he only leased it for term.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
win Stand by 1t.

HHISbOrO Banner.
The house on Tuesday refused by an
emphatic vote TO resubmit the prohibit
ton clause in the constitution. The
Republican party promised to give this
law fair trial and proposes to carry
out its promises to the letter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

THE example of FoREPAUGH is held up
as an incentive to the boys because he
did not smoke, chew or drink, and got
rich; but he sold cigars in his tents and
encouraged such habits in others, and
his lemonade was as thin as he could
main If
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

THE comic valentines appearing in
the shop windows indicate the redicu-
lous perversion of day that once had
sentimental associations. Newspapers
that give them out as premiums prob
ably want to encourage art.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

MAINE has had a prohibitorv law for
more than thirty years. and in each dec
ade in that time it has lost member
of congress. 1t will lose another now.
1t is not insisted, however, that the two
facts are at all intimate,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

THE Democratic paper at Grand
Forks, that is noted for its lively pc
culiarities, has its tow-line attached to
Gen. SLoCUM. of New York, as presi-
dental candidate. He has elements of
availability, but the present demand
for candidates for 1892 is small.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.-For Michigan and
Wisconsin: Threatening weather and light
rain; southwesterly winds, shifting to north
westerly; colder Tuesday morning. For
Minnesota: Colder: northwesterly winds;
occasional SHOWS. For Iowa: Colder; north
westerly winds; occasional SHOWS i'll Eastern
portion; fair in Western portion. For North
Dakota and South. Dakota: Colder; fair
weather; northwesterly winds.