St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-11
MINNEAPOLIS,
NOTE AND COMMENT.

The Minneapolis aldermen, especially
those Of the political faith which prevails in
The city council, must feel highly elated at
The regard in which they are held by the
ministers and laymen who spoke at the First
Baptist church mass meeting The speakers
there declared emphatically and unequivO-
cally. We mean that the patrol limits shall
be lett Just as they are" Not only
do they refuse to consider any movement
toward extending them, but they decline TO
listen TO the proposition that the question be
consigned to the care of the council. In dis
GUESSING this patrol limits question the rev.
erend gentlemen have fallen into more than
one error. They seem TO regard the estab
Gshment of the patrol limits as an action re-
lated TO prohibition OF the liquor traffic.
Error No. l. The dead line was drawn
to facilitate the work of a small police force,
and for no other reason. The ministers in
slnuate that the adjustment OF the
patrol limits would enable salOonkeep-
ers to establish themselves next door TO
school houses. Error No > There is a state
law prohibiting the existence of saloons
within Il certain distance of school hOures.
The ministers argue as II they meant that
the abolition of the patrol limits by the legls-
lature and the reference of the question to
The council would be practical abandon
ment OF the system. Error No. 3. When the
patrol limits were first established the matter
was handled by The council. The legislature
took action upon ii in order to deprive
Democratic council of a portion
the council charge of this question: the iegis-
latuTe win be merely replacing the question
on its original base. where it should be. But
why this reluctance on the part OF the mill
listers to having the council regulate this mat
ter: Is ii possible that they regard the coun-
oil as body not representative of the peo-
pie: body not so closely in touch with the
people Of Minneapolis as The legislature of
The state: The Hennepin delegation is ac-
cGSed of having sold itself. body and soul
TO the brewers and saloonkeepers. Do the
ministers insinuate that the council has like
wise bartered away its powersy A. B. Love
and other great men pause for a reply.
Now ii IS said that Harlow Gale has been
hoodwinking the council com ittee on
markets for months past. Where was Aid.
GIays nose Tor ''WOOdchuckS during all
this time:
An evening paper conveys the information
that Henrik Ibsen was little boOr in his boy
hood. ana even his brothers and sisters dis
liked him. In revenge for his meanness,
they used to pelt him with stones and snow
balls Their treatment OF him. however
gives him license TO lombard humanity
III general with unleavened literary pie
crust.
Health Commissioner Kelley is quoted as
saying: Il want TO say TO the public that we
are not following Dr. Klvington in taking up
The crcmaJory idea. 1t IS our own scheme
Thanks. doctor. The public is glad to
know that the health board has at last given
birth to some sort Of a scheme. AT the same
time II must be admitted that Dr.. Kilvington
originated the crematory idea. and according
to such good authority as Aid. Gray his
crematory worked all right only il was il a
bad lOCauon.
The Hennepin delegation will now agree
that IN killing the water supply bill they are
only following the example of the national
government. which protects bacilIi by taxing
Koch lymph.
The GLOBE is in receipt of a savagely
WoTded protest from a man who demands
siernly what the administration means by
allowing clocks 10 ran on Third street when
IL viii not allow Il square gambling house TO
run. or even cOlOred men 10, play crapsE 'sThe
author Of the literary curiosity goes on to say
that playing the clock is a game in which a
man mas little show for his money! and
might as well bet against the rising of
Inc sun as to expect to win money
in the long run" The GLOBE does not hap
pen to know of what particular .'clock on
Third street its correspondent complains.
but ii it IS the clock in the tower of the gov
eminent building thinks Supt Henderson
would be perfectly justified in having it
stopped. If people are in the habit of wager
ing money on It's accuracy. \ man who bets
On that particular Third street clock being
right is apt 10 lose, even if it is only a train
he desires 10 make.
The announcement that the Union league
would discuss the the patrol limits did not
have the effect Of drawing a good house last
night and although as a special attraction
ii was announced that the Intellectual giants
of the league would toy with the Tupp char
ter, there was not a corpOral's guard at
the leagues rooms LAST evening; so
1t was decided to postpone the meeting until
next week i'll order 10 give time for properly
advertising the event, and to work up pOpu-
lar feeling so that another laundering re-
monstrance against the Hennepin delegation
Fan be launched forth. The public must be
getting tired of this ''We-protest in -the-name-
f-the-best-peOple-of- the-city' business.