St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-19

peing attempted to palm Oft upon the peO-
| pie. He considered them, as class. superior
| to any in other states of the Union. Coming
| from Capt. Castle, one of the keenest judges
| of men and a man of marked ability. this
| high compliment to the editorial Yves" of
Minnesota is worthy of more than passing
| attention.
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| Few people are aware of the high standard
| attained by the country weekly editors of
| Minnesota fact evidenced by the excel
| lence OF three fourths of the papers pub
| lished. Very few country weeklies in other
| states can attempt to compare with such pa
| pers as the Anoka Union. the Northfeld
News, the Mankato Review, the st. Peter
| Herald and others which can be mentioned.
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The ranks of the Minnesota editors contain
| some very successful men. There is G. s..
] Pease. of the Anoka Union. Twenty-Five
| years ago he located in Anoka. II had only
| few dollars when reached the town. he
| remarked to me the other evening. To-day
| MIR. Pease not only possesses the best equip
| ped country newspaper office in the state,
! publishing as bright and as readable week
| ly as can be produced in the capital city, but
| is generally we'll fixed in this worlds gifts
This has ali been accomplished by a logged
| perseverance, combined with tact and ability
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| j. A. Johnson of the st. Peter Herald is a
| young, but very bright member of the Mime
| sofa Editorial association. He is a remarka-
| Dly good speaker, hard work. and general
| all round good fellow. Mr. johnson informs
| me that he receives over 100 newspapers i'll
| exchange. and makes it his duty to read ev-
| cry editorial contained therein. Mr. johnson
naturally places high estimate on the coun-
| try weekly. what would the big city dali
| fhn ,trx-.r Iiac l.,
quired. Il maintain but for them it would
be impossible for their editors to gauge pub
| lie sentiment Oh any great question. You
cannot get public opinion from one paper
| published in large commonwealth like this:
! you must get il through your exchanges, and
the careful work of your exchange editor.
| ~
| Henry Willard paid the city a visit the past
week. But how the mighty have fallen.
| There was not even a deputation to meet him
| at the union depot. nor a complimentary
| banquet from the Twin City Commercial
club What change from his last visit
| Then he came heralded as the Moses who
| was going to land the citizens of the Twin
| Cities out of the wilderness of depressed
| trade, and was going to establish something
| nobody knew definitely what it was
whereby st. Paul and Minneapolis were to
| become the greatest cities on earth. Mr.. vii
| lard was TO diyulge this at q banquet of the
! Twin City Commercial club. Ever promi
! nent citizen of the two cities attended the
| symposium at the Hotel Ryan, and Mr.. Vii
lard made his long-looked for speech.
! Stripped of all verbiage it amounted to this:
| gentlemen if you want these cities to be
| prosperous and secure for yourselves profit
| able return for the money you have invested
my advice Is that you should show your faith
| in heir futl fr1rfh
money into them by securing the establish
ment of all the manufactures possible Let
me see what you are prepared TO do. and
| then will see what can be done to help
| YOU OF course, this was not exactly what
| the prominent citizens expected, and Mr..
| Willard has not since been 1.-The great L am
| that he once was considered to be. Il
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| If the property owners on Selby avenue are
| wise they will compromise their differences
with Mr.. Lowry for substituting electricity
| for cable power part of the way to Merriam
| Park. However they may kick it is unlikely
| that Mr.. Lowry will return to cable power
as, according to what he says the electric
service viii eventually beat that on the ca
bic line. There is some ground for this
opinion of Mr.. Lowry's. Nine months ago,
| on the general Introduction of the electrical
| car service there was nothing like the regr-
larlty of running observed as now, and the
system shows an Improvement ekly. This
being the case. and the operating of electric
al cars being considerably cheaper than the
cable cars, Mr.. Lowry will assuredly de-
mand some settlement of that $4,000 bonus
given him rather than to revert to the cable
power. But for the grade on Selby hill, it is
questionable whether cable line would be
retained in the city. The Seventh stree line
ic tn RI oil rin
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Gov Merriams position has latterly been
no sinecure, aud few men would care to I'M
dergo what he has been called upon to do
The prerogative conferred upon a governor
TO interfere in the execution of any con-
demned man committing his sentence to life
imprisonment, is one which many occupants
of the gubernatorial chair would be pleased
to dispense with. When man is about to
be hanged there is so much influence
brought to bear upon the CHIEF executive 20
commute the sentence, that man of weak
calibre-and such find their way into the
gubernatorial chair-may be led to give way
against his better judgment. Coy Merriam
displayed remarkable grit in the course he
took over the Rose execution. He was
ready to listen to arguments of the con-
demned mans friends in favor of commu-
tation, but because there was nothing in
them justifyinS an interference with the
verdict Of the jury who tried him, he refused
to interfere. Gov. Merriam will be upheld
in his straightforward and dignifed action
by all law-abiding people.
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A praiseworthy effort is being made by the
property owners on Third street to keep
some semblance> of trade ON this once popu-
lar thoroughfare. The effort, however, has
been too long delayed The recent exodus
from Third street must have seriously affect
ed it, and great deal of money will have to
be spent and improvements made before its
old-time prestige is recoverable it ever can
be recovered.
The churches are beginning to hold havest
thanksgiving services, and making collections
for various praiseworthy objects These
services are very appropriate but is it not
mockery for congregations TO be praising the
Lord for the safe gathering of the harvest
when, matter of fact, hundreds of thou
sands of acres of grain are wasting in the
fields. owing to the inability of the farmers to
get IL threshed.
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The law and order league preachers are
lying low nowadays. Despite the report
furnished the past week by the grand Jury
there was not a preacher yesterday who had
a word to say respecting 1t. Even Rev. Wal
lace H. Butrick was silent. How is thisg The
grand jury labored a week, and beyond a
few wine rooms, failed to find the great evils
pictured by the pulpit sensationalists The
preachers feel that they have not been in
dorsed, and. considering discretion the better
part of yalor decide to play the oyster act
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DR.. Wallis condemnation of hanging is de-
| serving of commentator. Capital punish
ment is a relic of the barbaric age, and il is
| questionable whether it is deterrent to
| crime-at least to such an extent as is i'm
| prisonment for life.
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