St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-27
THE WEEKLY PRESS.

Northwest Trade-It Is to be hoped
that the solid business sense OF the COM
mercial and industrial portions of the
two communities of the Twin Cities
will be applied, strongly and logically,
to influence the daily papers OF Min
neapOlis and st. Paul to refrain from
further demonstration of that form Of
idiOcraSy which crops out from time to
time, and, Of which we again see a dem
onstration anent the publication of the
directories OF the two towns. In view
of the experience of last summer this
seemingly temperamental defect is
particularly unfortunate. 1t is almost
needless to say that we refer to the
figuring out of fictitious and eXNgger-
ated population by the daily papers in
both towns on directory shOwingS. 1t is
a pitiful exhibition of weakness hen
some of our esteemed daily cOntem-
pOrarieS fail to recognize how ridiculous
they make these cities in the eyes of the
world.
SpectatOr-The board of education
has been getting some silly and tyrani-
cal ideas into its head of late, and has
adopted some arbitrary and unreaSOna-
bic regulation for the government of
teachers and pupils. One Of these is
the prohibition of the marriage OF teach
eTS, under penalty of discharge: an
other of prohibition OF other employ
ment out OF school hours, or even dur
ing the summer vacation: and another
the non-admssOn of children except
two months Of the year. The refusal to
admit pupils, except during April and
September, may serve to simplify the
school accounts. and help to tighten the
abOrS of school officers, but it will not
be relished by taxpayers and citizens
who help to support the schools for the
benefit Of the people. Personal and
private rights are infringed, in tyran-
meal dictation to teachers as to what
they shall or shall not do out of school
hours. or as to when they shall or shall
not get married. The next move will
probably be in the way of regulating
the diet OF the teachers, the supervision
of their private correspondence, and
the regulation of their religious asSOcia-
tons.
Irish Standard - The Eighth ward
people have formed Law and Order
league with the view of cleaning out
blind-pigS and the like. Now, this is
the way to get at such an evil if it eX-
lists in the ward. Better organize and
hunt down offenders than run to the
minister with all idle stories about
''crime rampant" There VIII be fewer
lies told, and SensatiOnalists will not
get an opportunity 10 air their ora
tOrical powers at the expense of the
city.
Northwestern Miller-In 1883, that
acknowledgements year, we had a
short crop, and reckOned that the world
would pay fabulous price for it. OF
course, we made a horrible mistake. We
found that there was plenty to feed the
4 Il,
result of this error will be recalled with
sorrow by many victim of the craze
for high prices which was then
witnessed. We were left high and
dry-cOmpletely stranded-whilea cold,
unfeeling world stood by and laughed at
lis. pointing the finger of scOrn at our
ridiculous figure and saving, Behold
the great American bull, who refused TO
pick up half a dollar because he eX-
pected to find dollar awaiting him
further along the road, and who finally
missed the half and the whole dollar
also" In IS we did not look over our
fence long enough, and therefore mis-
calculated the strength Of our neigh
bors' position. This year the situation
is exactly reversed, and again we are
apt 10 make as great mistake in an
entirely contrary way. We have a self
ably. Without a careful examination of
the worlds condition we are disposed to
jump to the conclusion that we have a
tremendous surplus to sell and hasten to
rid ourselves OF it at as low price as
possible. Again we look no further
than the end of our noses. There is
great danger that all the advantage we
naturally possess will be thrown away
before we fairly realize that we are
slaughtering our prices needlessly-
that we are not getting full value for
what we have TO sell.
South Minneapolis Telegram-Minne-
apOliS PAYS $500. 600 to its direct employees
and the liberal amount drawn by each
Of.itS army should enable them to meet
all legitimate bills. But any attempt
made at the beginning of a new admin
istratiOn to protect merchants and re-
curing honesty IN the public servants
falls through after spasmOdic effort to
carry out pie crust promise. There
are numerous policemen, firemen and
other city officials who are, plainly
speaking, dead beats. Sheltered under
the law. which makes it impossible to
garnishee their pay, they carry on a
system of non-payment among the
smaller tradeSmen that means actual
privation to their victims. These trades
men should find some protection.
Whether they collect pay for their wares
or not, they must pay for them or go to
the wall. We draw the attention of his
honor the mayor and his superintendent
of police to these facts.