St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-05
MINNEAPOLIS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.


Several of the local microscopes have
been industriously and laboriOusly eX-
amining the proceedings of the last
council meeting all the week. They
have been looking for the motive be-
hind the resolution introduced by Aid.
MCGOWAN. AS yet their labor has gone
unrewarded. They have expended their
energies. injured their eyes, and
have received as little satisfaction
from their work rs Simple Simon when
lie went fishing for the whale. Nor has
Eny one else been able TO fathOm the
deep purpose of that resolution, OF
course, the apparent purpose OF the res
OlutiOn is patent even To blind man,
Tut Just what is expected to he gained
by Wiping from the city ordidances the
ordinance regulating the liquor traffic Is
as obscure as a nOn-tipping guest to
waiter in fashionable res
taurant. What good is it go
ing to do to abrOgate that
ordinance? If it is to hamper the work
Of Mrs. Briggs. Young and WhitcOmb,
the effort is futile. There is state law
under which those people can work.
Rest assured that they will make use of
the state law if there is any attempt 10
interfere with them by mOnkeying with
the city ordinance. II wont be much
more trouble for them 10 bring their ac-
tons under the state law. and they Will
work all the harder If they learn that
they are TO be hampered.
1t was at the library board meeting,
that board that is supposed to represent
broad culture. Politics had been under
discussion.
Ibid you notice the running of boys
in lOwa"' Q"eried President NOrIhrUp.
ION. you're mistaken" spoke UP a.
7. Ankeny. "BoieS is not running to-
day. The election comes tomorrow.
II meant our university football
players" explained Northrop.
And this man, tie maker of that
atrOciouS pun at time when the hearts
of men had stopped beating from Sus-
pense. is at the head of the leading edu-
catiOnal institution Of the state.
Herbert Putnam seems to think that
he can direct the affairs of the library
from the East as we'll as he can in Min
neapois. The board seems to think
that there is no hurry about appointing
successor 10 him. If that be true,
what is the use of appointing a libra
rian at all? The library got along all
right while Mr.. Putnam. was inthe East
during the summer. And does not this
talk about Mr.. Putnam directing the
affairs OF the library from Boston look
little like a scheme similar to that
that gave Prof. Tousley a foreign APP
pOintment and a salary as superintenG-
ent of public schools at the same time?
W. Z. Steele is said to be convinced
that moral SuaSiOn is worth ali the CO.
ercion in the world as in the discussion
of matters political.
There must have been some mistake
III the trial of that man yesterday for as
Saulting a band. 1t is difficult to con-
ceive how he could have been convicted
had his attorney been allowed to plead
eXtenuating circumstances, unless the
jury was composed entirely of deaf
muteS, who never heard band.
1t is evident that the founders OF the
Sons Of the Revolution made mistake
when they confined the order to the
United States. If they would establish
an auxiliary branch in South America
they might stand chance Of becoming
as powerful some day as the q. a. X.
The times are out of joint-not only
out of joint, but the baby has been mix
ing up the joints. The proposition 10
induce G. w. Williams and his horse
races has been under discussion in Min
neapOliS for Il couple of weeks now, and
neither &. l.. Morrill, nor the ministerial
association has said a word against the
wickedneSS of TIE citizens who are try
ing to establish sinful horse racing in
Minneapolis.