St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-25
MIR. CoCHRAN,s MANIFESTO.

The GLOBE publishes in another col
umn this morning extracts from mani
| festO issued to the public by THOMAS
COCHRAN, of this city, through the me-
dunn of a Chicago newspaper. Mr..
COCHRAN poses in this effort as the
spokesman of the law-abiding element
of st. Paul, and tells the history of his
achievements up to date and his glori-
Gus hopes against the future. Part of
what he says is true, part is cloaked in
garb of suggestion and innuendO
which saves it from the faint of any
thing worse than disIugenuouSneSs, and
part is entirely and unQualifedly false.
No man speaks the truth who says that
the public utterances of the GLOBE are
shaped by subsidy of either fear or
favor, and no man is fitted to figure as
a leader in any movement for virtues
advancement who mistakes barrow
Kindness for morality or regards indis
criminate invective as an effective
weapon for fighting its battles.
This paper has in every conflict be-
tween the right and the wrong been,
from the beginning, the fearless and
answering advocate of order and de-
cency; but it has not considered it the
part of intelligence or character to cas-
tigate unsparingly those who disagreed
with il, or to attribute the lowest mo-
tives TO men of proved integrity, simply
because in any particular exigency they
followed a mistaken idea of duty.
Mr.. COCHRAN's theory of conduct diff
fers from this. aud, if his manifesto is
true index to his method, he would re-
generate society by arrogating to him
self and few associates all the right
eouSneSs there is in the world, and by
CHASING the rest of mankind, quite re-
gardlesS of their records and the facts,
into herd cOnspiring with devilish in
dignity to destroy the good from the
earth. This is very foolish and danger
Gus course to pursue, because it trans
forms the contest from one of warning
principles to an interchange of bitter
personalities, unpleasant in themselves
and unprOductlye of valuable re-
suits. Such a battle can be waged
endlessly With varying fortunes,
but with the truth no nearer of
attainment at one point than an
other. 1t may interest Mr.. COCHRAN,
for example, to know that no small part
of the popular unwillingnesS to acqui-
eSee quietlyin the proposed suppression
of the prize fight was due to the fact
that many people i'll this community re-
sented his prominence i'll the move
ment against 1t, and that many citizens
of position and influence in st. Paul
have declared that they had more
chance of meeting honest men among
the thugs and gamblers about the box
ing ring than among the guardians of
righteOuness at Market hall. The
GLOBE thinks that Mr.. COCHRAN is
man of ability and honor, and has no
sympathy at all with the view which
has been so freely expressed to the con-
trary about him and some of his COM
radeS during the past few days. But
the fact that there are those willing to
say unkind and uncharitable things
about the motives of such as him
shows how unwiSe and waSteful is the
scheme of effecting reforms by induIg-
ing in personal attacks on ones Oppo-
nents. The GLOBE believes that the
laws ought to be enforced, but the way
to educate public sentiment to point
where it will demand this is by show
ing their claims to enforcement, and
not by making false and reckless &C
cusatiOns against reputable men.