St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-04
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

One thing can be set down as a dead
moral certainty. and that is, Gov. Mer-
riam is a candidate for United States
senator in 1898. King Bill is shaping
everything to accomplish his ambition.
-Anoka Union.
A bill has been introduced into the
legislature that should be passed with
out debate or opposition, 1t provides
Tor paying the years taxes in two in
stallments, the first on or before April
l, the second on or before Oct. lilo
kah Chief.
The legislature has had the unprece-
dented experience of paying railroad
fares over the Northern Pacific for one
of its lunketlng committees. A few
more such experiences will have the eff
feet to curtail these wholly unnecessary
and useless expeditions. - Sherburne
Star.
The Times once more considers itself
Endorsed. The report of the legislative
committee verlfieS all we have said
about the prison ring and great deal
more. Wonder if Bill Merriam will
have the gall to claim the nOn-eXiStence
of ring (as he did to us last summer)
uow.-PreStOn Times.
Gov. Merriam's veto of the loan and
trust company billiis calling down con-
siderable wrath upon his Napoleonic
whiSller. If you were not a banker
yourself, William, it would not have
excited so much comment; but, being
banker it leads the dear people to think
that you have personal cornS that ache
-LiIchfield News.
1t is becoming a little WearisOme to
listen TO many newspapers and public
men roar about how capitalists are going
to leave Minnesota if interest is cut
down. As matter of fact, these gen
tlemen who own the wealth will do
fer 10 per cent to S, but if they cannot
longer get 10 they will content them
serves with s, which is, after all, as
they we'll know, a fir .-Winnebago
Press.
We should think those newspapers
throughout the state that have been
roasting Senator DOnnelly ever since he
was elected would hang their heads
with shame after reading the manly de-
Tense he made OH their behalf, and
against the Northwestern Newspaper
union for trying to defeat the appropri-
alton for the publication of the laws.
Let it be said to his credit that Mr.. Don
nelly rose above that petty, selfish pride
which characterize so many public
men. and, like true friend. he stood
up manfully for the right.-Lake Crys-
tai Union.
If the Minnesota legislature has erred
during the present session it is not from
lack of advice from the press, and espe-
ciaily the country papers. A large per-
centage of the country editors seem to
have imbibed the spirit of Story,
fancy or Cooley, and pass on the con-
stitutionality of bills and laws with the
same freedom as those learned jurists.
1t is certainly amusing. if not laugha-
BILE, to see the attempts of these erudite
knights of the Faber to use legal terms
and Observation-Disclosures Pilot.
'aISupt. Kiehle fayors free text books
for pupils in the public schools, at an
expense of 40 cents each, as the most
economical method. Minnesota has
452, 345 persons between five and twenty
one years of age, with less than half
that nu mber enrolled, and but little
more than quarter of that number in
daily attendance. it is bad showing,
and If any means can be adopted to i'm
prove it. to cause the children to attend
school, it should at once be adopted.
Albert Lea Standard.
l1s Our legislature does not need to ap-
propriate a single dollar beyond the
Usual appropriations for the normal
schools of the state. Our country
schools get very little benefit from
them, as the normal graduates go into
the centers to teach. Let the normal
schools be kept up as they are, but let
liberal appropriations be made TO the
state high schools in every county, so
that they viii introduce good course
of didacties. This will be of untold
benefit to our common schools. Mower
Transcript.
Straws show which way the wind
blows and in the investigation now going
on to find what became OF the stolen
testimony in the Washburn bribery
case this little pointer alone, whichcame
out in the testimony, was very signifi.
can't Stenographer Bower. who took
the original testimony, testified that the
papers were fastened together with an
eyelet and when shown TO the present
committee they were pinned together
and the marks where the old eyelet had
bean were plainly visible, clearly show
ing they bad been tempered With
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