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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
:. PAUL. MINI. SUNDAY MORNING.

like, intelligent manner. | do not be-
lieve the chief of police should get
salary of $500 per year and the poor
patrolman, who is exposed to all dan
gers and all kinds of weather. get but
One-ffth as much. / am informed that
it takes about $500 per year to clothe
each policeman. or nearly one-half his
salary. think the park board should
go ahead and beautify as much as posi-
bic the parks we have and extend our
park system so as to make it second to
none in the country. Nor should the
engineering department build any more
bridges. There is no more use for the
upper town bridge than there is for the
fifth wheel on cart. Improvements of
ali kinds should be curtailed, and when
made they should be necessary, and not
to benefit any one individual or set of
individuals.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

er than undertake extensive condemna-
tions and run the risk of much work
and trouble before all legal points are
settled. Special legislation is the
bane and blight of this country
of ours. There ought to be more
uniformity in our municipal laws and
some well-tried standard ought to be
patterned after instead of leaving it all
to special laws, which very often are so
conflicting as to make it utterly i'm
them, and must be left for the courts to
unravel. Our too frequent elections
and the mass of special legislation are
very detrimental to business-like ad-
ministrati0n of municipal affairs, and
this is the principal reason why Euro
peaD cities, as a rule, have cheaper and
more effective municipal governments
than American cities.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
Charles f. Keller,

think the local legislation brought
about by the Ramsey delegation a good
thing so far as 1t went, but it did not 90
far enough. l consider the two-branch
council wise measure. 1t will be a
check on extravaganza, and will cause
more careful consideration of all mat.
ters involving the outlay of money. The
BOARD OF education, before ordering any
improvements, should be sure that the
property holders desire them, and that
the same are not being engineered by
parties not directly interested. l am in
favor of teaching only the English
language in our schools.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

impossibility for any one who has not
thoroughly studied the new laws. And
it is just as impossible to state .consci-
entiously that they are unsatisfactory.
We must make careful study of the
new charter and all other enaetments
and watch their working before we are
justified in criticizing. AS to what the
park board should do l won't undertake
to say, because don't know what they
can do under the new law. / don't
want to give any opinions relative to
the recent legislation until | have
studied the subject thoroughly.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
Gafeh q. .Eni,nsnn.

As general thing l approve of the
legislative eDactments of the present
Legislature as far as they relate to this
city and county. | think the Ramsey
county delegation has struck the popu-
lar idea of reform. The tWo-branch
council will, | believe, prove to be a
good thing. The general city and
county legislation is move in the right
direction. | have no well-defined Opin-
ion about the policy of the new council
Or school board. | am i'll favor Of the
parks. They are public necessity, and
the sooner the park board provides them
the better. [ think the city council is
now and will be composed of men that
know better than do what is best to do
Tor the interest Of the city.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

graded streets enough for city of 800
600 people. We will have to get down
to first principles and practice economy.
We have been living in the air for the
past ten years. and the sooner we come
down to solid footing the better. We
have no particular need of a high
school. The city's obligation ends
when 1t has educated the masses. ] am
in favor of abolishing the teaching of
music, German. drawing and the like
from our schools. They are entirely
unnecessary.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

council and school board should be
economical without hampering the due
progress of necessary public improve
mentS or diminishing educational facil-
tiles. The park board should give US a
complete and beautiful park system,
literally provided and honestly ac-
quired. In the line of reforms, | would
suggest retrenchment in expenses. i'm
proYement in the system of keeping
public accounts, less parsimony and
greater efficiency in the administration
of public charities, the employment of
good matrons at all police stations, jails
and prisons. 1t is a ST ame the manner
in which relief is doled out to the poor.
Those in charge of the board of control
are not liberal nor charitable enough.
They ply those who seek aid with ali
manner of senSeleSs and useless ques-
tions, and are stingy with them to
meanness. German and all other for
elgn languages should be ousted from
our schools,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

sOnable expense. The service is of more
Importance than the cost. The park
board should prepare careful and wise
general plan of parks and park
ways SO as to secure them at the earliest
moment possible. One reform [ might
suggest is to enforce the present stat
utes, secure the best men possible iii
the city's service, and go forward, not
backward, in measures for the citv's
good. with a firm and calm faith in its
future.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
A. III. Rogers.

No, am not entirely satisfied with
the recent acts of the Ramsey county
delegation. 1t promised to bring about
certain reforms, but did not fulfil its
promises. The delegation in my opinion
has not struck the popular idea. The
fee system should have been abolished
entirely, and the city officials paid
liberal salaries. The general policy of
the council and the various boards
should be TO go slow, keep down ex-
penses. build no more school houses.
buy no more real estate. Throw Ger,
man out of the schools bodily. The
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
William WI. Rushnell.

I think the legislative enaetments
bearing on the city government and the
schools. parks and water boards have
been judicious and wise. The Ramsey
county delegation has performed an i'm
mense amount of labor in behalf of the
city, and its efforts, as rule. have been
well directed. l approve fully the two
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

interests OF the city Of St. Paul, the pro-
viding Of an efficient school system that
shall furnish a thorough, practical, busi-
ness English education. keeping abreast
with our growth and prosperity. It
should be progressive. The park board
should endeaYor to select the most de-
sirable sites in and about the city for
parks. which should be properly located
for the best interests of the city, not
only for the present, but for all times.
The only reform can suggest are an
honest enforcement of the laws and or
dinances of the city of st. Paul, and a
prudent administration for the best in
terests of the city at large.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

provision, which will result in more
useful and economical administration
of municipal affairs. In general local
legislation many good and important
measures have been enacted, but in my
opinion the delegation could have gone
much further without detrimental eff
feet to the good government of the city.
In my opinion the general policy
of the new council and school board
should be conservative system
of economy, keeping pace, however
with the requirements of the day, but
slowing up Oil general improvements
and eliminating all such things as may
be unnecessary to the public service. 1t
seems to me that a diminution of taxes
and lower assessments are more deSira-
bic at the present time than providing
for an elaborate system Of parks
throughout the city. With the exception
of two OF three locations which were by
nature designed for parks and observa-
ton purposes we can get along until
prices reach more conservative basis
and our burdens become lighter.
l can only suggest careful business
methods throughout all branches of the
city government, which are amply pro-
vided for in the amendments to the city
charter and which, if followed faith
fully. and | doubt not that they will be.
will not only restore confidence to the
depressed, but quiet the discontented
and ultimately make taXpaying pleas
ant Quty
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

Irish have as much right to insist OH
the teaching of their language as their
Teutonic brethren. but they would be
laughed at if they hinted at such thing.
As to parks, in my opinion they should
be let severely alone. Spend no more
money acquiring new parks ,Ibut beauti-
fy those we already have.
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w. p. Murray.

1 have nothing to say just now as to
the legislation accomplished by the
Ramsey county delegation. AS mat
ter OF course, some of it l approve.
Some of it l disapprove most heartily.
The Ramsey county delegation has not
struck the popular chord in my opinion.
The double council idea Is not to my
liking. 1t has proved a failure nearly
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
Walter H. Sanborn.

I think the Ramsey county delegation
in the legislature has worked earnestly
and zealously to do what it believed
would be for the public interest. / dc
not suppose that the legislative enact
ments it has passed are entirely salts
factory to any individual man or member,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
John w. Willis,

Not having had the opportunity to
examine the various measures enacted
bearing on the city government. and
only having a casual knowledge of the
same. | will say that. while not entirely
satisfied with such legislation, / am
SuhStantiallY In the main the Ramsnu
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branch council
provision. The
local legislation
that has been
had is a move
in the right di-
rection. In my
opinion. the pol
icy of the new
cou n Gil and
school b o a I d
should be con-
servative, eco
nOmical and alb
solutely devoid
of political bias
of anV kind.
We are certain
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

legislation will
be. Very few
of the acts are
printed, and un-
til that is done
it is impossible
to say what can
be done or what
line of policy
should be adopt
ed by the coun-
ell or park board.
In my opinion
the park board
ought to test its
powers on some
in KIP e n S iy e
piece of ground
fn nl- nnfI,
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everywhere it has been tried, and the
conservative city of Milwaukee aban-
doned it years ago, because it tended
merely to block legislation. AS to the
other matters you suggest, / could
speak volumes, but not just at the pres
ent time. Some time in the future |
will have something to say as to parks,
reforms. etc.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
Frank Ford.

have paid little or no attention to
the legislation enacted by the Ramsey
delegation. 1t would cost me more to
follow such legislation than | am af-
fected. There is leakage somewhere,
of that am assured, else how account
for our taxes gradually increasing,
while we are receiving for the past few
years $3.50, 600 from the liquor licenses.
| believe, however, in keeping up our
public improvements and pushing our
park system through. If we bring
things to dead halt we can never hope
to recover lost ground later Oh.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
WILLIAM, RickeI.

William Bickel,o of the Germania bank,
in speaking OF the recent legislative en-
actments bearing upon the city govern
ment, said that he was not entirely sat
isied with the work accomplished. He
expected that the wish SO often ex
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

the delegation is
doing its best,
and is making a
move in the right
d ir &c ii o II. L
heartily approve
the two-branch
council provis-
ion. ! think the
policy of the new
C o Il II cll | a n d
5 c Il 90 | Oard
Should be a pru-
dent and careful
suDeryis 10 n of
everything per-
tanning in any
1yav IN tba hact
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
William Lee. Postmaster.

I have only to say that if you have
honest men in office there would
be no necessity for extra legis-
latiOn, and no legislation can ever
be enacted that will make honesty ont
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

NNASSd dJiOu
has worked
consci entious-
ly, [ think,
a m id many
discords and
difficulties to
better our city
gov e rnment.
The net result
can only be
known after
a d Journment,
and to some
extent after a
trial. / have
no expectation
that the fnlI
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

cltygOVernnen5 /
and the school,
park and water
boards, and be-
lieve that, so far
as the amend
mentS to the
city charter and
the act reorgan-
izing and defn-
ing the duties
of the sciiOoI
board are con
cerned, the del
e alton has
struck the pop
ular idea. The
double council.
L believe, will
prove a wise
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
ID. II. NOYes

/ am not entirely satisfied with the re-
cent legislative enactments concerning
city government and the various boards,
although L think progress has been
made III the right direction. 1t is hard
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
John L.. TOwnIey.

I cannot say that l am entirely salts
fed with the local legislation, for the
reason that have been unable to de-
termine just what legislation has been
hrnupht about. nntWith St q ndincr thnt L
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

of dishonesty.
The fact of the
matter is. like
many other
cities through
out the coun-
try, we have
b e e II running
things most eX-
ira va g antly.
\School houses
Shave been built
, away Outln the
country, side
-w a TX S h We
been laid out
III the woods
and Wn haun
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

The Great HydraEeaded Council Is Supported by Many
and Disiked by the Few, Though the Board Reg
ulations Are Generally Approved.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

Results So Far Accomplished Appear to eet With the Ap
pPoval Of the interviewed, Though There Is a Con-
fessed Ignorance Of What Has Been Done.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

delegation has
struck the pop
ular idea. SO
far as my OBJ
SerVatiOn goes,
the general To-
cal legislation
is amove IN the
right direction,
and you can
put me down
as approving
the tWO-branch
council provis-
ions. III my
opinion t h e
general policy
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

The Legislative Enaements Which Are Snatch ST. Paul
From the Slough and Make Of It the Ideal Iunie-
paity Of the American Republic
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

The Consensus OF Opinion That Reforms Cannot Be
Wrought in Day, and That Conservative Adminstra-
ton Is the One Great Panacea.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
Peter Rerkey.

1 approve recent legislative enact
ments so far as comforting all power of
appointment, management. etc, on the
InayOr and ri.v council. fully. think
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

when they are elected legislators. They
get so far above and beyond the people
that you can't touch them with ten
foot pole.
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II. i. McCanarfr.

| believe the general policy of the new
council should be that of a progressive
and economical administration of mu-
nicipal affairs. With view in mind to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

UIOueDt QOOu Is
have scanned
the m a [ t Ell
pretty care
fully. | will
say that l am
partially sat
isfied with it.
The Ramsey
delegation has
not struck the
popular idea
in my opinion.
| take no stock .
in the double
headed coun-
C i | 0 II g
branch COM
posed Of such
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
Comptroller Roche.

John w. Roche-To say that the legis-
Iatiye enactments affecting the city and
county are entirely satisfactory is an
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R. IL. Dorr.

81 am not entirely satisfied with the
good has been accomplished. The most
important gain is in the limitation of
the power Of auxiliary boards to expend
money and TO incur indebtedness. The
arbitrary exercise OF this power has
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
Henry A. Castle.

So far as | have seen and examined
the recent local legislation it is redsona-
bly, satisfactory to me. The delegafinn
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Frederick Nelson.

The legislation has been entirely too
radical in every particular. 1t Is sur
prising how unaproachable men become
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
George II els.

1t is yet too early to express any opin-
ion as to Wnate the effect of the recent
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12
@. O. Cullen.

/ am we'll satisfied with the recent
egislatiye enactments bearing on The
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because they are the result of the
thought of all the members of the dele
CATION. and each has yielded something
to accomplish anything, but it seems to
me that the laws that they have made
relative to the city council, the school,
park and water boards, and various Off
cialS, are wise and beneficial, and will
result i'll more economical and salts
factory administration of the city gov
ernment. | think the division of the
common council into two branches will
cause all legislation enacted by the
council for the city to be consld-
cred with greater care. 1t will pre-
vent hasty legislation and will save the
city thousands of dollars year. 1 be-
lieve the city of st. Paul is entering ON
new era of prosperity. General busi-
ness is improving. The citizens and
their representatives are striving for
wise and economical administration of
city affairs, and the new council and
school board should, in my opinion, see
to it that the schools OF this city afford
facilities for education i'll the common
branches of knowledge excelled by
none in this country, and that all neces-
Sary Improvements in the city go for
ward steadily and energeticaily, but
that no moneys be unnecessarily spent
and no improvements made that are
not demanded by the necessities of the
public, or asked for by the property
holders. 1t is time for economy, but
the city of St.Paul is growing in wealth
and power as never before, and it is no
time for Stagnatlon.
l would have the new park board sit
down hard on all propositions for parks,
except such as are for the manifest bene-
fit of the city, as part of an intelligent
and comprehensive park system. No
private ''jObS" can be tolerated. But
some good park sites should be secured,
aud they can never be secured to better
advantage than now. | have no special
locations in mind, except the long prom
ismed acres OH the river opposite Min
nehaha. l am willing to leave the mat
ter to the park board, Jealously watched
by the public eye and relieved from
the pressure OF private interest.
l have no special reforms" to sug-
gest. City government is a science in
which do not claim to be proficient
Honest and intelligent aldermen, ETC.,
after little experience, are better quail
fled to judge of these things than the
average busy citizen. st. Paul has not
been badly governed city at any time
during my twenty-five years residence.
With the reforms now proposed, il
ought to stand in the very front rank of
municipal administrations.
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HOW The new REFORM IDEA SUITS

Symposium Of Sentiment Edited by Prominent Officials
and ReforIners Touching the Great Reforms Now
Made or in Process of Incubation
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popular idea" has been realized-that
would be too much to expect. But |
think most Of the work has been ID the
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posed OF Such men as our Dresent conn
eli contains car attend to ALI the bust
ness !nat comes up, and il business
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Continued cn Scyentls Page
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-13

from the general next under the Pres
ident, who is also COMMUNICATIVE chief.
to the drummer boy. Ii the President,
as COMMUNICATIVE chief, issue All order,
tile responsibility rests with him, and
his right to issue such order may be
tested by impeachment.
We had many troublesome questions
and many dangerous places to avoid
during the early years after the war
with the South Now that calm view
can be taken, it is almost generally
conceded that our army behaved in the
South with remarkable prudence and
wisdom, and yet orders were obeyed.
This speaks we'll for the intelligence OF
our army from highest to lowest.
Except in its more important bear
ing upon the discipline of the service,
the question of obedience or disobedi-
ence is personal one affecting the in
dividual citizen or soldier, and not the
nation at large. If ever the liberties
OF this people are so far ieopardized as
to rest upon the disobedience of unlaw
full commands issued by superiors to
their subordinates in our little army,
they will be already lost, whether the
commands be obeyed or disregarded.
Unmaskimg Female Spy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-02-13

expedition against a tribe called the
Egbas, and took several thousand
prisoners. A traveller writes of their
fate that when within about five miles
of Abomey he was shocked by the
spectacle of living men tied to Il
cross near the side of the path pursued
by him and his escort. The poor
wretch was, it is true, alive, but not
far from dead. His face was swollen
by the stings of insects, and his whole
body was Scared by their bites. The
cross was of rough-hewn wood and in
shape similar to that known to every
Christian. The victim was tied
tightly with rope made of vine
which grows thickly in the Dahomey
forests. The rope sunk deep into the
flesh, and he was utterly unable to
help himself. The lower portion of the
body indicated that some wild animal
had been gnawing at him. Hardly had
the traveller passed one than lie came
upon another and similar spectacle
All the way to Abomey hundreds OF
wretches were exposed ;lpon crosses,
some of them dying and others dead.
His guard told him that all these were
Egbas captured in the recent raid and
punished in this way for resisting
Bedazin, who claimed to be the lord
paramount Of the Egba country. In
one place where q cross had stood was
curled up all immense python. The
serpent had apparently been making
some effort to swallow the man on the
cross for the latter was crushed to
jelly, and the cross lay recumbent and
broken on the ground. But the pitiless
rope of vine still held the remains to
the timber, and the serpent was disap-
pointed in It's meal. The doomed mis-
cradles had been exposed to theia, fate
in the course of the previous three
days, and within a week the. sun, the
insects, and the wild beasts and birds
would leave little more than the bones
Already the vultures We're towering
about. and in some instances had begun
their feast