St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-31
WILL DONNELLY BE THERE?

| to attend the first commercial congress
| OF the Western states, which is to be
| held at Kansas City from the 14th to the
18th. of April. Fifteen subjects are
| surely to be discussed and settled there,
and the executive committee in its cir
cuar solicitS everybody who has book
of topics for debate to send it to
| the secretary with appropriate ones
marked, so that there may be no lack
of material for the visiting orators to
sweat over. The sOiree will be opened
with an oliO on General Business and
Agricultural Depression-Cause and
Remedy" in which the entire company
will participate. The convention will
| determine why business and agriculture
! depreSS, and how they can be cured of
| this offensive habit. The GLOBE has
| not been asked to contribute to the gen.
eral fund of information which will be
| poured out on this occasion, but it ven
lures to suggest in advance that these
things depresS for the same reason that
ARTEMUS WARD gave his eldest daugh-
ter when she was inquiring of the new
piano forte, "Why do summer flowers
fade?" He said that it was because it
wa lIClL VIZ " ldUc. Ills MOuIu SGGul
to be the matter with trade and agri-
culture. They are apparently con-
Structed Oh plan which makes it part
of their nature to flop.
The fifteenth question on the list is
THE Indian question and Opening of In
dian Lands" The GLOBE is glad that
this matter is going to be tackled and
finally disposed of. 1t is high time that
something were done with it, and it is
very kind of the congress not to over
look it when it has such subjects as
''Legislation as Affecting Commerce,
Transportation and Finance" and the
"Irrigation of Arid Lands to take it's
attention. For more than half century
the problem as to whether the Indians
ought to be eXterminated has taken too
much of the best energies of the sue
| ceSsive senior classes of our high schools
and the fresh young blood of our sophie
more debating societies. 1t has got to be
crying shame that it should continue
III this style unsolved. Our ungradu-
| ateS have not been able to do any thing
| conclusive with it, any more than they
have with that other great question.
| did the assassination of JULIUS CESAR
| benefit mankind?" Their feverish agi
| tation can now be curbed. If they can
| wait less than month and then read
| the GLOBES Kansas City dispatches
they will be moored forever and for aye
in haven where the waves of doubt on
this matter will no longer buffet them.
The GLoBE is going to this congress.
| 1t accepts the kind invitation. This,
| perhaps, might be taken for granted,
| because the GLOBE goes everywhere.
! But more important question is, will
| our lGNATIUS DoNNELLY be able to go?
| How about this, Mr.. DoNNELLY? He
really has a conflict of 1ichnesses be-
| tween which it will be hard for him to
| decide. April IA to IS will be among
the closing days of our legislative SEES
| sion, aud the Sage will be needed here.
Then will be his last opportunities to
make twenty-five speeches day, for 50,
on every topic under the sun, from the
regulation of railroads down to the ad-
| journment of the senate for lunch
| There will be lot of compound oxygen
to be injected into our phthsic body po-
little at this time, and if our rotund Ties
! mothete from Dakota county is not on
\ pump lHS OClIOWS WHO Will DG
| able to? On the other hand, Just COLI
slider how he will be needed at Kansas
City. The ninth subject to be settled
there is taxation. The Sage knows more
about this than any living man. He is
the author of a bill for the taxa
ton OF mortgages which surpasses in
beauty and completeness the opium
eaters dreams. 1t is the only bill of
| the present session which unblushingly
| and avOwedly undertakes to work
miracle. The people at Kansas City
| are all crying for DoNNELLY on Taxa
ton. They want him, too, on the four
teenth topic of debate. Federal and
State Statistics" Heis a thoroughbred
in this line. He can sandwich quota
lions from ROBERT BURNS and ac-
| curate figures of his own invention. ac-
cording to recipe which would make
til fortune of the ham and egg gentle
men Oil Seventh street if they knew it.
What is to be done about this, gentle
men of the legislature. Mr.. DoNNELLY
must go to Kansas City, and at the same
time the regeneration Of society in Min =
neSota must not be Interrupted. Can
not the clock be turned back for those
four days by joint resolution properly
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