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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
HONEST JOHN ROCHE.

When the news of JOHN RocHE's
death was circulated through the streets
last night, it was received with general
incredulity. Everybody said, "Why, L
saw him only few moments ago. He
is not dead" Mr.. ROCHE was a fine
looking man of apparently robust
physique. His complexion and his car
rage were those which speak of health
and regular and simple life; and per-
haps of all the well-known people whom
we meet from hour to hour, he would
have been the last of whom it would
have been predicted that he would pass
from day to the night of death with no
twilight Of warning.
Another remarkable thing is that,
when the painful duty of telling his
relatives the sad news confronted those
who were with him at the end, no one
could tell who were his intimate friends
to be called on in such an emergency.
He had for great many years been the
head OF the financial department of this
city, ceaseleSsly in the midst of things,
living Oh the most prominent street of
st. Paul, consulted every instant by his
fellow officials and by all our citizens.
easily as familiar and conspicuous
personality as was included in the roll
of men of our town; and yet those who
knew him best could not name an asso-
ciate or close friend at this hour. So
absolutely did he divorce his private
from his public life, and so unaSsuming
and unObtrusive was his career.
The GLOBE has the proud conscious
ness on this morning of feeling that it
has always in its columns given to
JOHN ROCHE the credit which he de-
served for his faithful and honest work
in the service of st. Paul. He received
small salary for very important duties,
and the myriad of details which are i'll
eyitably involved in the finances Of
growing city had at his hands an atten-
ton astonishing in its accuracy and
completeness. No stress of business
came on him unprepared, and the casual
inquirer, as well as the head Of a de-
partment, found him courteous, capa-
bic, well-informed. suggestive, reli-
able in his Judgment, unyielding
in his sense of duty, needless
of foolish criticism, absolutely up
right and tireIess in toll. He took few
into his confidence, he made no effort to
court friendship, he kept away from the
haunts Of his contemporaries, he did not
know many men, lie never obtruded his
personality on others. And yet, in spite
Of all these things, his popularity with
all classes was limitless. This was be-
cause the people had confidence in him.
This was DeauSe he was Honest JOHN
ROCUF
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
LET TT GO

There is a nil tuce of menace and
peSSimistic prOpht cy in the declaration
by Republican authority that, if the
Michigan breach in the mode of deliver
ing the vote Of state for president is
persisted in and spreads, the electoral
machinery must go by the board. 1t is
apprehended, and perhaps with good
reason, that. if the Democrats carry
Ohio next fall, they will adopt the plan
for that state, so as to be operative in
the presidential election soon to be on.
This would be serious matter for
the Republicans, if they should really
have chance to elect a president.
But there is nothing alarming in the
threat to dispense with this part of the
electoral machinery. 1t has always
been a sort of fifth wheel business,
any way. 1t is one of the de-
vices that, perhaps, had use
full mission when the system was framed,
but has been outgrown. 1t is no dispar-
agement to the political architects of a
hundred years ago that room has been
found for some little improvements in
the details Of their work. The elector
10 " SlipCth Ouo HliuulCuili' lio fOtoI
may as well put the name of his choice
for president on the ballot as to elect a
clerk to vote for him. The state can be
recognized as a factor, even if the vote
is direct. 1t will be still better if one
of the plans that have been occasionally
discussed for proportionate representa-
ton can be utilized. 1t will be nearer
the ideal system when the minority IN
every state shall have its relative weight
i'll the ballot. Michigan has made a
good start.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
A TRuE AMERICAN

The latest number of the New Eng
land Magazine has a very entertaining
article on WALT WHITMAN, the point
in which to be noted does not relate to
him as poet, although he has much of
the true fire, if it does blaze in an en-
ratio way at times. The average man
no doubt understands him to be good
deal of a crank. He has the strange
humor to illustrate in personal and con-
slant practice the theories that others
hold up and eXtoI but do not eXemplify.
The conception may notsbe a poetical
one, but WHITMAN has lust as sincere
and warm hand for the humbleSt
toiler as he has for the highest exhibit
ton of art and culture in the human
form. There is to him no alb
straction or gllttering generality about
the declaration that all men are
free and equal" One man is to him
as good as another, as long as he be-
hayes as well, as matter Of personal
association and social recognition. 1t is
a matter of entire unconcern with
WHITMAN whether he Yields a shovel
in the ditch or fills the professors chair
in the highest school. He does not
give the tips of gloved hand to the
one and the broad, bare palm to the
other. His type of Americanism is the
ideal one of republic, but it is far
from the practice of any class in the
social stages. WHITMAN may not be
the prophet of new school in the hu-
manities, but his example may be use
full for observation. 1t is in the line of
the solution of some of the vexing
social problems.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12

been singularly unfortunate in escap-
ing general observation. The Record
concludes its account of the London
company with this:
To protect this fairy tin in Dakota
the duty of $50 ton was imposed by the
MCKINLEY tariff Oh foreign tin. I'VE
must also amply protect the tin miners"
said the tariff statesman, "while we are
more than doubling the duty on tin
plate to protect the manufacturers"
The manufacturers whom they meant
are the manufacturers of galvanized
sheet iron. who constituted the ''Amer-
can Tin Plate association" These man
ufacturers were abundantly protected
by high duties on sheet iron, but that
was not enough and they insisted that
tin plate should be taxed out of compe-
tition with their product.
Somewhere in California a sample of
tin ore from local mine was shown the
president, and various rumors of mines
have been put in the air; but it is quite
certain that American tin mines have
not yet established themselves as prac-
teal facts. AS the duty goes into effect
in July, there need be no delay for lack
of protection.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
POLITICAL TIN.

Some OF the MCKINLEY organs deny
that committee appointed by the Oma-
ha board of trade to investigate the tin
business in the Black Hills reported
that il did not exist there i'll quantity
and under conditions to make it pay to
work. The Chicago Tribune is the i'm
mediate authority for the statement.
The report of such committee might
not be conclusive. There is no doubt
that some intelligent visitors to the tin
region believe that the mines there are
rich with ore that can be proftably
worked. 1t is quite certain that no con-
siderable quantity of tin has ever been
put out from that source, and suspicion
attaches even to the alleged specimens
credited to the mines. The HARVEY
company has been understood to con-
troll the important tin-mining districts.
This is an English organization and has
been supposed to be investing some
millions in the plant. The Philadel-
phia Record gives an account Of the eX-
posture of scheme called the Harvey
Peak Tin Mining company. 1t was or
ganized in London with a capital of
S10,000,000 to develop mines in the Black
Hills reputed to be rich enough to sup
ply the world with tin. The statement
is, that a mining engineer al Deadwood,
L. Ii. WHITE, wrote to the Financial
News. representing the scheme as
fraudulent, causing it to go to pieces.
An organ of the scheme denounced
WHITE as fraud, but was glad to re-
tract and pay $500 rather than stand a
suit. But his statements as regards the
Harvey Peak tin mines do not seem to
have been clearly disproved. If there
has been serious attempt to do so, it has
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
GETTING AFTER THEM.

The statement has been made by the
tax authorities in New York, that only
one-tenth of the personal property in
New York city does duty as contribu-
tor to the public revenue. That is
probably stronger statement than
would be accurate in most cities, as there
are more milliona:res who are largely
by such virtue of the evasive varieties
of property, than in other communi-
ties. 1t is not surprising that various
devices are proposed to relieve the IN
equity as far as may be. The bill to
tax inheritances in excess of $1,000
meets much favor and will be likely to
become law. 1t happens fortunately
that the rich tax dodgers are forced to
leave their chattels and things when
they die, and in the subsequent legal
events they are brought into view.
The state can then partially recover
its own, of which it has been defrauded.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
CHARLES PRATT.

Four or five years ago CHARLES
PRATT, whose death has recently been
told of, passed a week or two in st.
Paul, where he met a number of our
citizens. They remember him with
pleasure as a type of the self-made man
of the best kind. His wealth was very
great, but nothing to what it might have
been had he been less generous He
left at his death fifteen or twenty mill
ions of dollars. but he had spent as
much as this during his life in contri-
buttons to objects which commended
themselves to his Judgment. He had
started with nothing, and what he had
was the result of his own labor and
patient accumulation. He never for
got his humble beginning, and his
whole idea was to help those who
had been less fortunate than himself.
He endowed a school in TIC city of
Brooklyn, where he lived. and many
young men in the country to-day have
to thank him for having in this way
made it possible for them to receive the
advantages of a liberal education. He
aided Amherst college with large gifts
because he appreciated the value of the
opportunities sucn an institution af-
forded, and was anxious to assist others
in fields from which his poverty had de-
barred him when he was young. A few
years ago he became impressed with the
merit of technical education, and he
founded, at an expenditure of nearly
$5,0O0.OOO. the Pratt Institute of Brook
Ign. He secured the best instruct
Ors obtainable, opened its doors to
every one who was worthy of it,
and at present 1900 young peo-
pie are learning at his expense
honorable crafts at which they will earn
their livings, and in which they will in
crease the comfort and happiness of
their fellows. He had the broadcast plans
for the expansion of this school, and
there was no limit to what he might
have done had his life been prolonged a
little. He built churches, was active in
works of private and concerted charity.
and his last act before his death was to
sign check for $1,000 in aid of all as
ISOLATION for the relief of the poor. In
addition to all this, he never lost his
simplicity and homeliness of bearing.
He was approachable, gentle and kind.
He was noble man, whose whole
career is a monument to the goodness
and worth of human nature; and the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
THEY COME SUDDENLY

one or the speakers at recent public
gathering expressed the hope that the
new generation would have its manhood
tested as severely, if not on the same
lines, as those that have preceded in the
solution of great problems. There is
little probability thatIt will be called to
bare its bosom to the missiles of war, as
in the past crucial eras of the republic,
but there will be ordeals and issues to
test the coming manhood. 1t is usually
easy to look back and trace the eyOlu-
tons that have led to the great crisis in
the national life, but to the actors in
them they came as surprises, and their
share i'll their operation would have
been treated as wild fancy if pict-
ured in advance. The men who
achieved the independence from Great
Britain rubbed their eyes III surprise
when they found themselves really an
tagoniZed to the mother country. War
was not anticipated, and no one thought
of trying to cut the cords that held the
colonies to the throne. BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN as late as 1715 wrote to
CHATHAM that he had ''never heard from
any person the least expression of
wish for separation" A few months
earlier WASHINGTON wrote, ''No such
thing as Independence is desired by any
thinking man in America" JEFFERSON
said that before the first blood was shed
at Lexington, on the 10Th Of April, 1775,
he had never heard the least whisper of a
desire for independence. About the same
time JOHN ADAMS Indignantly pro-
nounced it the grOSSeSt SANDER on the
province of Massachusetts that there
was any desire to cut loose from Great
Britain. In the later conflict for the
preservation of the Union. if anybody
predicted great war he was a deluded
crank, or was uttering tue vaporing of
angry partisanship. The first gun
fired at the flag shocked the nation, and
brought the first realization of the
crisis. 1t is easier to see what has been
than what will be. DULY few minds
in any age discern very much in the
future. The great problems of ma
lions come to the solution sud
denly. No age of the past has
had more varied and momentous
questions rising before it than the
present. Inc planet may not have ac-
CELEBRATED the speed of its revolu-
lions, but life upon it has been moving
at 4 marvelously quickened rate. A
new earth is being evolved from the
old. New conditions and new align
ments in every range of human life are
pressing. This country must be in the
lead in the solution of the problems of
humanity. The ''divine discomfort"
pervades all the domains of thought and
endeavor, and the growing tumuItuous-
ness of forces must breed new events.
There will be rending of the old and
new adjustments in the social and po-
litical fabrics, and the religious phases
will move with the currents. The hour
of the storm that brings fresher atmos-
phere cannot often be dated.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
MEN AND MEASURES.

1t is suspected that Ed 4. Sumner of Min
neapolis, is almost persuaded to be a full.
fedged Chauucy NJ. Depew SATELLITE He was
in St Paul yesterday, and he lost no oppor-
tunity to descant in vigorous English upon
the eloquence and admirable qualities of the
New York autocrat. Il heard Mr.. Depew's
address at the national convention of the
Sons of the American Revolution a little
over week ago in Hartford. Conn, he ex-
claimed to a GLOBE reporter. lowing to
one of the fundamental principles of
the society," he pursued, there
was no tinge of partisanship
in the speech. You know our organization
is strictly non-partisan aud non-sectarian
and nothing conflicting with this avowal Is
ever permitted in our meetings But you
ought to have heard that statesman He
fairly makes ones blood tingie He is as
full of genuine patriotism as a good filbert is
full of meat. L tell you he is sure to be heard
FROM" but whether in presidential sense
Or not Mr. Sumner retrained from relating
Senator Sevatson. of jackson county, was
at the Merchants for u few minutes yesteE-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
THE GEAR IS MAD.
An Offer OF Money for Charity
Brings EXPULSION.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 1.-THE Rus
sian government, replying to the Roth
schilds, states that the ears Jewish
policy has nothing whatver to do
with the ministry of finance,
and that the Rothschilds have
no right to interfere witlr
kussia's internal policy. 1t is believed
here that this action will make the
position of the Jews worse and be
detrimental TO the Rothschilds in
terestS in the petroleum industry of
the Caucasus. The car has ordered
the Jewish banker, Baron Ginsburg. to
quit st. Petersburg, and to close his
business for making an open attempt
to influence the minister of the interior
to ameliOrate the condition of the Jews
by offering to devote 100000 roubleS to
charities"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
SOUTHERN BAPTIsTs.
A Publication Board Established
at Nashville.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May H. The
Southern Baptist convention reas sem
bled this morning. 1t was decided that
the next convention will meet in
Atlanta on the Friday before the
second Sunday in May. next
year. Then came the matter of
establishing a publication board. DR..
j. NJ. Frost, chairman of the committee
in charge of that subject, made report
1t recommended the creation of a board
TO be called the publication board of
the Southern Baptist convention. Its
location shall be Nashville, where
a corresponding secretary to be chosen
by the board shall reside. The board
shall have general charge of Sunday
school WORK and shall improve publica-
tions and increase schools. 1t shall
arrange with DR.. Broadus, of
Louisville, KY, to write an
intermediate and primary Baptist
catechiSr. He shall be paid $500 for
the former and $500 for the latter, the
Baptist convention of the North to de-
fray half the amount. The report was
adopted with practically no oppsition
Every preacher is allowed to use what
ever literature he pleases, though pub
locations by this board are recon-
mended
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12

ALL the orthodox denominations are
having their heretics just now. Among
the latest is Rev. Mr.. BUDGMAN among
the Baptists, and Rev. II. 0. HOFFMAN,
the latter prominent Methodist
preacher in Illinois, who denies that a
perpetual sheol is taught in the Bible.
He also denies that Christ used the
word damnation with any such meaning
as is now attached to it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12
ALDERNTANTC 1PPOINTMENTs.

The mayor has completed the upper
chamber of the city council by the ele-
walton of WILLIAM PITT MURRAY,
ANsEL OPPENHEM and JAMES J. Nc
CAFFERTY to aldermanic honOrS. These
appointments have been expected for
some time, and will be received with
general satisfaction. All three are able
men, of strong, aggressive character.
very familiar with the city'S needs and
entirely fearless in their advocacy of
their own views on public and private
matters. Mr.. MURRAY has been closely
associated with the city'S government
from time to the contrary of which the
mind of man does not run, and since he
has been out of office has been relied on
perhaps more than any other man in St
Paul for counsel and direction in every
eXigency where the city's interests have
been at stake. 1t is very fortunate for
our citizens that he is willing to accept
the position for which he has been
named. Mr.. OPPENHEDIis Identified with
countless enterprises for local good, and
is part of as many interests which will
thrive under intelligent and honest gov
eminent and suffer from maladminis-
tratiOn as any business man in the city.
Mr.. MCCAFFERTY is a lawyer of large
practice and experience, who has given
of his time freely tor the public good,
and whose work in the city's council
chamber needs only to be as Intelligent
as that which he does for his clients to
give everybody the greatest Satisfac-
ton. These three men really represent,
in remarkable degree, vigor in SUBJ
stance; and if they have not also gentle
nest in method it will do no harm unless
they happen to disagree. They all hit
from the shoulder, and if they stand
side by side their united blows Will
make the adversary tremble. Should
they turn their strength ngainst each
other, however, no sounding board will
be needed in their meeting place to Sc
cure their debates hearing. They are
Stalwart fighters, and no one could tell
which has the loudest voice.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12

will never do it much good, or take up
a subscription among the American
visitors to Italy. There will be gap if
the land of Columbus does not show in
the exhibit. 1t would not be respectful
to the memory of the explorer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12

Mr.. McKINLEY's admirers say that
he owes his success in life to his I'M
swerving devotion to duty. This must
refer to his labors over the tariff, which
Congressman TIM CAMPBELL once de-
fined as "a thing of duty and a jaw for
over -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12

AT THE recent town elections in Indi-
ana the Democrats made an unusual
scoop. Perhaps it was due to the fact
that the distinguished citizen was out
on the Pacific coast at the time. too far
away for magnetic influences to operate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-12

CLEVELAND has a remarkable re-
vival, with thousands of conversions,
operated by Evangelist MILLS. The i'm
preston that such seasons are out of
date is an error.