St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-09
FACTS AND FANCIES.

speaking of taxes said Lieut.. Sam Iver-
son at the capitol Saturday, do you know
they are the bane of many q man? My OBJ
servations have led me to fancy that the
weather. a man grows. he pursued thought
fully, the worse the nightmare becomes.
or course, the taxes mnst increase with the
accumulation of wealth. but not necessarily
in the same ratio. however. 1 don't care
how honest man may be- he finds himself
scheming to avoid a healthy growth in tax
payments have an instance in mind-a
man who, from small beginnings, has
scraped a snug fortune together. He loans
his money on farms and improved acres, and
how do YOU suppose he evades the assessor
Well when thai official begins to exercise
his functions in Minnesota my friend packs
himself Off 10 New York. and takes his chat
tells along with him Then, after the asses
sors duties have been completed, he returns
tho Minnesota and renews his collections.
The interest on his loans keeps him in high
fettle and he has no trouble to annoy him
but taxes. and if his reason ever becomes
unseated it viii be because of the suffering
h. endures when he is forced TO pay them
II
State Labor Commissioner Powers was
Eliminating in similar trend of thought
varying however in point of detail.
Il know most eccentric genius who lives
in Minnesota country town. said he, who
is a puzzle TO everybody. He is a successful
farmer. has large holdings, ana he does an
exclusively credit business. While his credit
is really unlimited, he never was Known TO
pay bill until he had been sued and iudg-
ment had been executed against his property.
Then he always settles the costs and renews
the debt l asked him one day why he al
lowed people 10 prosecute him in the courts
TO collect legitimate accounts. He said that
many years ago he was compelled to pay a
debt twice, but under his new system such
calamity would be impossible. He is always
fortified by court record. and he considered
a satisfaction Of judgment the only receipt
beyond which no sharks can go. The coun-
try merchants all want his custom, and they
all know when they trust him that they can
never collect until they execute a judg-
ment''
Col. Bobleter Is naturally interested in the
ethics of finance. He has given the subject
a searching investigation during his success
sive terms as state treasurer. and now. to fur
Their familiarize himself with the great none
tary systems of the country, he is studying a
pamphlet called How Money is Lost i'll Wall
Street and How 1t Is Made" There is one
danger, however, that he should be warned
against. The colonel is an enthusiastic Re-
publican, and he absorbs all sorts of specious
arguments published by the barons as readily
as a sponge absorbs water. Now the danger
which threatens him is a danger that is in
imical to many other Republicans with a
little means at their disposal, and that is the
American tin plate industry heralded in
rosy colors by every one of their partisan
organs Yes experience must probably be
their teacher and then they will know that
fl,a RfoL~
make the product a profitable industry in
this country.
IL
John Mccarthy, the popular Saltwater
postmaster, was at the capitol yesterday He
interviewed the state officials upon the effect
of the elections Of last Tuesday.
Il find the Republicans insist that they
won signal victory" said be. land, on the
other hand, the Democrats claim they car
ried three out of four Republican states
But how the Republicans can. by even their
most shrewd sophislical legerdemain, figure
much encouragement 1 can't conceive. II
reminds me of story. An Irishman and a
German had fight, and the German was
pretty badly whipped. Still. ne wanted to ex-
plain that everything hadn't gone against
him.
- had the best of him III one respect
said the German: 1 successfully got my nose
in the Irishmans mouth; and it occurs TO
me that the Republicans of Massachusetts,
New York and Iowa got their noses very sue
cessfully into the Democratic mouth"
II
This is the sth day of November in a ell
mate that has been heralded throughout the
universe as frigid, and yet the grass plats on
the court house lawns and the capitol
grounds are as bright and green as they were
in May. 1t is suggested that were the beau
ties of Minnesoias Indian summer adver-
tised with half .he persistency with which
the METEOROLOGICAL register is spread before
the people of the East on certain January
mornings there would be less feeling of awe
every time Minnesota is mentioned. Resi-
dents of the Atlantic coast states have but
one conception of thermometer Indications;
that is if they have not experienced the diff
ferent climates. In Boston or New York
zero marks a temperature almost unbear-
able while in 81. Paul there is much less
suffering at twenty degrees below than there
is along the coast at twenty degrees above.
so it is that Col Clough declares. without
fear of successful contradiction. that the
people actually suffer more from cold weather
in Richmond than is suffered in st. Paul.