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St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
CONDITION OF RAILROADS.

Mr.. ROBINSON has preface in which
he tries to explain the mysteries of rail-
road building in words of one syllable
SO that even the wayfaring man, though
a fool, may have no difficulty in under
standing them. He says that if a man
wants to build a road worth 81, 1000, 900
he starts out with this much money and
does it. When he has used this up, in
order to get additional capital to i'm
prove his property, he borrows a mill
ion more on the security of his in
itial investment and issues bonds
as evidences of his debt. The
proceeds from their sale he uses in
betterments, so that he now has S2,0OO.-
600 invested. AT first he makes profit
back into his road in the shape of i'm
provements. After a while, however,
hard times and low rates come, and he
can not earn enough even to pay the
interest on his bonds. This means
bankruptcy, and his capital is ''wiped
out" under the auctioneer's hammer.
Lest anybody should not see all this
clearly, MIR. ROBINSON, in parallel col
umns, shows that it is exactly similar to
the career of the farmer who starts
out with capital of $1,000 invested
in a farm, who mortgages this for
$1,000, sand who is ultimately evicted
from his homestead by a foreclosure,
because times are hard and prices are
low. Surely this is as simple as can be,
.nf Iz,fl Ia,
hold up his hand and have Mr.. ROBIN
SON call him Ounce.
This is the preface. and the rest of the
pamphlet says that the aggregate cap
italzation and funded debt of the rail-
roads in the United States is nearly
$4,000, 100000. In 1889, on the part of
this represented by bonds, an average
return of something under 5 per cent
was paid. and OH the part represented
by stock an average return of something
under per cent. The total of stock
and debt on all the railway lines in this
country is about S5S,000 mile. In the
Northwestern states it is $4,000 a mile
below the average. The ratio of operat-
ing expenses to gross earnings is lower
in the Northwestern states than any
where else i'll the Union. The average
dividend payment On the stock of these
Northwestern lines was in 1899 less than
one-half of per cent, and so per cent of
the stock paid no dividend at all. Mr..
ROBINSON says that this ought not
to be so, because the railroads are en-
titled, like any other enterprise. toa rea-
sonable return on the capital invested
in them. and that the s60.00O mile of
capitalization and bonded debt which
they return represents honestly their
average value per mile. He admits that
this will excite some skepticism. but to
prove it he calls attention to the tre-
mendeus rise there has been in the
vaiue of the railroads land holdings, to
the tremendous amount of capital
which Is annually wiped eut'' by rail
road foreclosures, and to the fact that
the average cost per mile of railroad in
Great Britain is s195 000,, in New South
Wales S6S, 5000, in Victoria $40. 900, and in
India SS1, 600. Mr.. ROBINSON says that
the reason why there is SO small re-
turn on the $60.00O a mile invested in
railroad property in the Northwest is
because there has been SO much hostile
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

Shall the maintenance OF this fortress
be paid for by the rest of the people
of Minnesota or by the men who built
1t? Shall every man who rides between
st. Paul and Minneapolis be taxed for
this sort of madness, or shall it crush
those who are responsible for it? There
is only one answer. Railroad kings can
do what they will with their own, but
the day is passed when any monarch
can exact the cost of his battles from the
reluctant pockets of an honest yeo-
manry. ~
Let US find out how many enterprises
Of this kind are covered in the railroad
history of our state. Let Senator MAYO's
resolution be adopted. When we have
diagnosed the disease perhaps we can
learn why railroads do not pay, and
help to save them from themselves.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
TROUBLE WITH RAILROADS.

The GLOBE is no enemy of capital,
and no friend of the fanatic and an
archist. But 1t does not believe that
the sorrows of the railroads are due TO
Legislative regulation. 1t admits that if
railroads were allowed to charge for
their service whatever rates they cared
to fix they would make more money.
But, in such case, instead of bearing in
part the consequences of their
own dishonesty and folly, they
would throw these on the shoulders
of the public. Railroads newly
built in an unpopulated country
can not expect to earn handsome div-
dends. even on their cost, at the outset.
The lawyer and the doctor spend fifteen
years in idleness before they begin to
support ortthemSeIyes. The manufacturer
and the jobber in a strange city have to
balance ultimate gains against initial
losses. 1t is contrary to all human ex-
perience that Mr.. HILL should build
700 miles OF track across the unpene-
trated stretches of Montana and secure
a return from country where no man
lives. If he wants to go on royal
march to the Pacific ocean, it is nobedy's
business to stop him; but, in the name
of all that's honest, is it fair to say that
the legislature Of Minnesota has no
right to protect its people from a sched-
ule of charges based on the theory that
a miracle should be performed, and the
Montana Central road should earn per
cent for its stockholders?
Some years ago a project was con-
ceived of connecting the Union Pacific
with the great lakes and giving it an
outlet by water through Duluth. The
Duluth, Huron & Denver road was the
first step in the scheme. Its roadbed is
now graded through the state, but no
train has ever run over it. With a
southwestern outlet, the timber of
Northern Minnesota would find a ready
market on the treeless prairies of Ne
braska and Kansas, and great lumber
cities would grow up on the upper Mis-
sissippi. The scheme miScarried for
good many reasons, but one of them was
this: When one OF our Mime
sofa railroads learned that the
plan was consummating it ran
out branch line paralleling the
route determined on for the new road,
and, with amazing rapidity and at great
expense eQuipping it, anticipated its
rival in field on which it had relied.
This branch line was built not because
it was needed, but to crush an enemy, in
the same spirit which led the medieval
baron to build a castle against his foes
advance. This branch has never even
paid its operating expenses. Its con-
struction was a magnificent achieve
ineRt, but it was not business. 1t Was
war. What the GLOBE asks is this:
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
ROBINSON ON RAILROADS..

HARRY 2. ROBINSON, who is the ed
itor of local newspaper devoted to ap-
preciative articles on the doingS of rail-
roads and railroad men, has written
pamphlet which Is called "Our Rail-
roads; beinga statement of the value
and savings of the railroads of the
Western states" 1t is sold for 25 cents,
and this is said to be its second edition.
1t appears to be republished at this time
i'll its present shape because the sub
Ject OF railroad legislation is before the
public. Its final sentence is rhetori-
cal inquiry, ''Do we need more anti
railroad laws or do we not?" And the
pages which precede this outburst are
filled with figures and strife of words
designed to convince the reader that the
railroads of the Northwest are in
desperate condition through no fault of
their own. and that the only way to
save their lives is to let them do their
own sweet will. however much the pub
lie may suffer. In other words, Mr..
ROBINSON has presented to the public
i'll his brochure what we take to be the
railroads side in the existing contro-
yersy, and the reasons why they think
that they ought to be left alone.
There are two ways of looking at a
production of the kind which is offered
to US. One is TO say that the author
does not know what he is talking about.
The GLOBE does not suppose that Mr..
ROBINSON would like to have people
regard his effort in this light. 1t is only
few years since he jumped into the
arena and broke lances with Mr.. DON
NELLY amid much applause from our
railroad kings. He could not nave done
this unless he was well informed. The
other view is that he deliberately dis
guises and misstates the facts, in parti-
san zeal omits the story which would
work against his case, draws false in
ferences from admitted premises, per-
verts the established principles of rail-
road law, and, in order to bolster up
cause which must rest ON the shifting
sands of desperation if it needs such
defense, commands everybody to forget
his own experience and his own powers
of reasoning and adopt style modelled
OH the methods of ''Alice in Wonder
land" These are frightful alterna-
tiyes, but every reader of Mr.. ROBIN
SONS book must choose one or the
nfhpr -
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
THE REVIVAL MONTH.

From all times in the historic period
January has been the month when re-
ligious revivals were in operation. Any
Methodist communion that did not dis
play spiritual conyulsion at this period
was in a dubious way. Reviyals might
extend into other months, but their ini-
tiation followed the holidays. After the
fIiVolities calm naturally ensued, and
the new year was favorable TO a new
departure in the higher relations. 1t is
remarked that only sporadic indications
of the old custom are noticeable this
month. There is no epidemic apparent.
Whether this is due to the influence of
so many legislative bodies in session.
with no moral disparageinent to them,
or the absence of the usual frigidity in
the atmosphere. is not asserted. There
is all impression that hard times and Sc
we're weather are in some way conducive
to religious reyivais. The philosophy
of the matter is not considered. 'the
fact is only n0ticedsa
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

in agricultural parties. There are but
3S3 out of 1915 men who come into this
range. Even of these not many hold
the plow in person. The farmers,
planters and oyerseers number Ill;
the stock raiscrs, herders and drivers,
195. AS patriarchs and tillers of the
soil the Jews are out Of practice, but in
the mercantile lines and some others,
where the paths lead to honorable
thrift, they are largely represented.
They have their share of the good things
of life, and stand near the prosperous
front more freely than is common with
the other male elements. Not much in
formation seems to be gathered about
the Jewish women; but they do not
hang their harps on the willows.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
SOME OF THE HEALTH FADs.

Perhaps the general trend of inYesti-
cation and physical economy is right in
attaching so much Importance to the
prOlongatiOn of existence. The tenacity
with which the average individual clings
to life is proverbial, if not altogether
reasonable. The disposition is to sacrl-
flee much of the comfort and pleasure
of existence to keep the physical ma
chine from wearing ont or breaking
down. Peculiar styles of feeding and
treating the structure are devised.
Some would have coarse and unpal-
atable internal supplies. All sorts of
dietary schools have had their rise to
promote this great end of protracted
existence. 1t is gratifying to know that
the recent experiments of sanitary
chemistry in Boston, using Minnesota
wheat to some extent, have supported
the belief that the bread made from the
fine white -four, that is most agreeable
to the eye and palate, is really
the best adapted to meet the human
needs. 1t will be found, after while.
that appetites were made more for use
than punishment. Perhaps a rational
philosophy will have place and find
more useful concern in the condition
than the duration of the human econo-
my. One of the incoming longevity fads
is the .'KNEIPP cure" Its main feat
ureS were the craze with class forty
or fifty years ago, but did not have pro-
tracted run i'll this country. They are
likely to have new turn while the
general mind is especially directed
toward vitalizing eXpedients. This
KNEIPP is Catholic priest, who
originated the scheme in Bavaria about
fifty years ago for his own benefit,
and now at seventy or more he is re-
puted to be as rosy and fresh
as most young men. The plan is to
absolutely discard silk and woolen cloth
ing, g,and use linen so coarse as to scratch
and make one exceedingly uncofnfort-
able. Then trke cold bath every day
and put ON the clothes without drying
or wiping the person. A period of ex-
erciSe follows, SO brisk as to heat the
water on the person. For five minutes
or SO then barefoot walk should be
had upon wet grass OF in the snow.
This may be gradually extended to make
the feet tough. Hard beds must also be
had, and the diet of the simplest. There
IS no doubt thgt the party who survives
this sort of regimen forty or fifty years
will be too tough to be affected by any of
the more timid ailments of life. 1t is
quite possible for young persons of Wig
orous constitution to endure the ordeal.
Personal knowledge is had of young
men who followed the scheme so far as
to battle in ice water in temperature
25 deg. below zero, and at times plunge
in a snowdrift entirely naked. 1t is not
remembered that any OF the parties
broke down under such shocks. nor
learned to esteem them luxury and
delight. The activity of the movements
averted dangerous chills. This is some-
what of an extreme case. There are not
many who would undergo it for any
anticipated benefits. The better phi
loSophy of scientific inquiry is not to
sacrifice the pleasurable features of ex-
istence in pursuance of a theory that
nature favors hard and disagreeable
things. The appetites and senslbilities
will be found good counselors, if not al
ways quite safe guides.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
TO-DAY'S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 24-Forecast till p. m.
Sunday: For Wisconsin: Warmer, generally
fair; southwesterly winds. For Nebraska: !:
Fair; westerly winds; stationary tempera-
-ture IN eastern, slightly colder in western
portion Fsr Iowa: Fair, warmer in eastern,
stationary temperature in western portion;
westerly winds. For North-Dakota: Gener-
ally fair: northwesterly winds; colder in
northwest, stationary temperature in south
east portion. For South DAKOTA: Fair dur
Ing Sunday. with northwesterly winds and
slightly colder. For Minnesota: Fair, ex-
rept local SHOWS in extreme northern por-
ton; westerly winds; warmer in southeast,
colder in northwest portion.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
THE STORY OF A DAY.
Senator Hearst is very low.

Senator Hearst is very low.
Terrific snow storms prevail In Russia.
John L. Sullivan is suspended from the
Elks.
Insurgents in Chill gain strength and con-
fdence.
Senator Pierce gives banquet at Bis
marck.
Jersey City has remarkable series of cas-
ualties.
The big Minneapolis walking match begins
tonight.
Hall will come from Australia TO fight Fitz-
simmons.
Judge jackson, of Kentucky, rules in favor
Of lotteries.
Interest in the Koch treatment is abating
IN Europe.
Charges of the use Of Doodle are banded
about at Pierre.
The Texas legislature is about to sit down
onprize fighting.
Lord Salisbury declares that home rule is
practically dead.
The silver pool investigation elicits no i'm
portant information
Two more regiments leave Pine Ridge for
their regular stations.
NNlhi'ig ILllllho VI 1cpcdllllS Lut pIOulD1-
ton of American pork
The United States senate makes no prog
ress on the closure rule
Houses are swamped by the breaking of an
ice gorge in The Mohawk.
Settlers along the Red Lake reservation
ask for arms and ammunition
The senate committee on elections reports
In favor of seating Mr. OBrien.
Nebraska's legislature wants the mortgage
on the Union Pacific foreclosed
There is a project on foot to connect Chi
cago. Duluth and Buffalo by ship canal.
A. G. Mills declines the presidency of the
board of professional base bail associations.
Senator Dean introduces bill in the M In
nesota legislature for the squelching of spar
ring matches
The attempt Of Democrat in the Illinois
legislature to secure a pair while he has an
eye cut out is not successful
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
SOME ONE.

Some one said that charming Kittie
Stopped to chat with IdleDate;
Some one said twas such a pity
Jinks was drinking so OF late.
Some one said that some one told him.
OF the truth he could not say
That Miss Lula went out riding
With the dominic one day.
Some ones always saying something
That were better left unsaid
For some time some one viii catch him;
Some one then will punch his head.
E. r. c. in Texas Sittings.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

fessions. AS lawyers become aged they are
able to exact much higher fees. It is sup
posed they find out more ways to battle the
endeavors Of the law. In a list Of English
lawyers who died last year fortunes Of $780,
600 are common. One who lived to his
nlnety-ninth year had personal estate Of
So, 900, besides large realty. In nearly all
cases the older the attorneys the richer. With
the ministers the reverse was the fact As
they become hoary in years and nearer their
celestial rewards, the smaller are their fees
and the less their inducements to live.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
Electricity in Music.

Electricity has not been practically
applied IN the art of music heretofore,
except. perhaps. in the operating
mechanism of church organs. George
Brand. of the United States navy. has
devised method by which the passage
of broken current over a conductor in
magnetic field produces musical tones
of varying pitch and volume.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
To Every Bride a Diamond Ring.

erasies to make preseutof diamond
ring to every bride in her company.
Every baby born in the troup (and there
were nine children when the company
went on the road last falD received a
check for 500, which was deposited in
some bank. at interest, for little one.
HISS Abbott often spoke glowingly about
the Abbott babies. and she always ell
e0uraged matrimony among the MEM
Der, of her company, in which, it is
said, there was never 4 scandal.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
Worth Twice as Much.

4 America.
Z Dashiey-Waiter, a bottle of port.
Waiter-Yes. sir Would you like
very old port. sir?
I Dashley-Why? Is there any diffe r
epce?
p Waiter-Oh, yes, sir. The old port
2 has eobWebs Oh the bottles.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
Good News to Her.

/ Boston Courier
sf Miss Decollette- learn from the
papers. Mrs. PrlHl, that dress goods are
going up."
e Mrs. Prim-s'The good Lord be
praised, | alius did approve the ol'
Fashioned style of fayin' EN- come right
clean up to the neck
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

THE teter in the Illinois legislature has
gone on all the week. and no one has been
tipped up. The vote has never varied from
PALMER, 101; OGLEsBY, 100. and STREATER,
3. The steering committees have had nice
JOB to keep every man on deck. It is much a
test of endurance and luck. The Democrats
will win if they can hold on long enough.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
THE ToILER.

Heavy the heart and weary the brain,
But write. my pen. ah, write!
For rest from labor will come again
With a kiss from her.lips at night.
Sonnet and story-trace them well,
IL beautiful lines and bright;
But tenderest thought in my heart will dwell
On the kiss from her lips at night.
And the world may frown on the head bowed
down,
And its splendors veil from sight;
bear the cross for gain the crown
With Il kiss from Der lips at night
Frank L. Stanton 10 Atlanta Constitution
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

THE Sioux may have one advantage from
the war. The killed will help to get down to
the figures of the census which they claimed
were too small, and they will draw just as
many rations. They will note that rations
come all the same. if the consumers are
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
Not a Good Point,

Brooklyn Life.
There's just one good point about
Miss Bristle"
s.? @"
'.Embonpoint"
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

q THERE were no new wrinkles in wars
grizzly front worked in on the Sioux in the
late milf. unless, perhaps the Gatlings or light
machines. Some of that smokeless powder
might have been tried. but the field was
hardly sufficient.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

VICE PRESIDENT MORTON has been able to
SO invigorate his stamina in the refreshment
rooms as to insist that the cloture can come
into the senate if it wants to. 1t must not,
however, trouble the buffet at the Shore
ham,
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
Ecstern fdverhsing Office, Rcom 21
Tribune Building, New York.

Complete files of the GLOBE always kept
OIL hand for reference. Patrons and friends
aTe cordially invited to visit and avail tnem-
selves of the facilities of our Eastern Office
v bile in New York
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

SNOW STORM and blizzard of forty-eight
hours in sunny Italy, where great part of
the people usually go barefoot all the year.
must be refrigerating experience.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

SOME senators would have it understood
that they missed good chance TO swell their
silver pile on an occasion. Perhaps they
held on too long. 80
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
BY LEWIS BAKER.

ST. PAUL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES
DAILY (NoT INCLUDING SUNDAY) 90
{ m. inadvapce 4 90 b weeks in adv. 90
one month zoe.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

NEXT Tuesday Villas will be elected sena-
tor in Wisconsin IL. and if ON the same date IN
CALLS is not made political stiff in Kansas,
the signs are fraud.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

TRr WEEKLY DAILY = Monday Wednesday
and Friday.)
! yr in advance. 81 90 mos. in adv. 81 w
months in advance - 81 W.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
THE SOLDIER VOTE.
What Effect 1t Had on Clereiand's s
Defeat.

To the Editor Of the Globe.
There seems to be settled determin-
alton on the part of Democratic papers
to publish everything favorable to Mr..
Cleyeland's nomination in 1892, and to
exclude all favorable references to any
other candidate. The GLOBE will prob
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

Rejected communications cannot be pre-
served. Address all letters and kilograms tc
THE GLOBE, ST. Paul, Mimi.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

DAILY AND SUNDAY.
yr in advanceS10 90 mos; in ady. 81 81 81
Gin in advance 3 90 weeks in adv. w
one month ....-S Soc
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

SUNDAY ALONE.
1yrIp advance 81 90 mos. in adv soc
& m. in advance / 90 / mo. in adv .....2 2Oc
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

WEEKLY ST. PAUL GLOBE.
One Year. 81 Six No. 65c Three Mo. 35e
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

Blocker Gets in a Good, Safe Single
Epoch.
Mrs. Beeker-They say that suicide
is greatly on the increase among men.
Bleeker-No doubt. | see in this
mornings paper that marriages are in.
creasing day by day.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
Chinese in Java.

The Chinese are no more welcome ia
Java than in many other countries.
They induce the consumption of opium.
to the impoverishment of the poorer
classes. Chinese money lending also
works untold mischief among the poor,
who have TO pay such high interest that
ruin and misery befall most of them
when they once take to borrowing. and
this results in an increase of crime.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

Local forecast for ST. Paul and vicinity
Fair; stationary temperature.
P.F. LYONS, Observer.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

The contrast Is drawn between two pro.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-25

Ignoramus Cat a party few years
hence)-"W hat i'll the world is the mat
ter with Miss Beauty's once lovely
arms? They are full of horrid red
blotches and scratches" Scientific
Guest-"O, that's ali right. She has
simply been yaceinated against con-
sumption, smallpox, typhoid fever. and
twenty or irty other diseases. New
York Weekly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-03-06
$500 Out of Pocket.

The Maplebon Enterprise says that
Mr.. John NJ Sprague had the misfor-
tune 10 loose an express package con-
tanning $500 in cash last Monday.
while on his way from his home TO the
store. He had two packages each con-
tanning the same amount and on leaT-
ing the house, placed them as he sup
posed in his inside vest pocket, but
the theory now is that one package
went into his pocket while the other
went outside and gradually worked its
way out and fell 10 the ground. He
had no use for the money until We'd
nesday morning when he reached for
it and discovered that there was only
one package in the pocket, wbereupon
he made immediate search but TO no
avail. He offers a liberal reward for
its recovery