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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
THE PENSION PERIL.

New York World.
On the 1st of January next there will
be on the pension roll fully 100000
names.
The appropriation for the payment of
pensions which congress is expected to
make at the coming session is $780,
600.
These figures are startling.
They show that the pensioners are In
the proportion of nearly one In twelve
to the voters of the whole Union. And
this for a war that ended more than a
quarter of a century ago!
They show that the cost OF the pen
sion list abSorbs more than 40 per cent
of the nations revenues.
The pension list costs 100000, 900
more than the entire expenses of the
government in the year before the war,
1t has increased $160,000,000 since 1877,
when the war had been ended dozen
years.
The number of pensioners on the 1st
of January will almost equal the regu
lar standing armies of France and Ger
many combined, which contains 1,046,-
900 men.
The cost of the list exceeds by s73.-
100000 the annual cost of the great
standing army OF overtaXed Germany.
1t exceeds by S56.000,000 the cost OF the
standing army of France.
Under the reckless ingenuity of rapa-
cious claim agents and the partisan zeal
of corrupt pension commissioner the
list is increasing at the rate OF $3.50, 200
month. If not checked the cost for
1894 will reach the enormous sum of
5000. 000,0 900!
This carnival OF wrong and robbery
must cease. The pension list must be
purged of its frauds. As 1t stands it is
an impeachment of the patriotism of the
men who saved the Union. 1t has been
made a roll of dishonor against the
earnest protest of honorable soldiers.
Every name added to it by the present
commissioner IS tainted with a suspi-
cion of unworthiness.
1t will be the duty of the Democratic
president and congress to revise the
pension list in the interest alike OF de-
serving veterans and of an imper lied
treasury,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
THE RLOM FALLS.

The blow has fallen. Every Repub-
lican editor in the country knew it
would, and it has. An American in
dustry has been struck down in its
early youth by the blighting effects of
prospective tariff reform. The recent
Democratic triumph at the polls is al
ready getting in its pernicious work.
And the chorus of Republican editors is
eXultantly whooping it up to the tune
of II told you So"
Moreover, this American industry
thus cruelty nipped in the bud was one
for which the great masses of the peo-
pie could not but cherish a deep and
heartfelt sOllcitude. 1t was no less
an industry than the manufact-
ure of genuine imported antique
Turkish prayer rugs. An imported
Turkish-prayer-rug mill had been
started in Pennsylvania. 1t would
have made imported antique prayer
rugs for the million, and served as a
glorious stimulus to piety. But now it
is all changed. The mill has been
abandoned. In anticipation of tariff re-
duction the new American industry of
imported antique Turkish prayer rugs
gives up the ghost. Piety will have to
rustic along without Turkish prayer
rugs of American manufacture. The
devil is thus directly encouraged by the
late Democratic victory 1t is too bad :;
and, as we said before, every Republi-
can editor in the country knew it was
coming, although very few of them re-
allied that 1t would be this bad.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
IS 1T STANFORD?
Time for Minnesota Republicans
to Do a Little Thinking.

Time for Minnesota Republicans
to Do Little Thinking.
The senatorial contest was the princl-
pal and all-absorbng topic of CONVERSE
ton around the hotel Hobbies yesterday.
There were number of politicians in
the city from the state at large and all
of them took an interest in the work of
figuring on the outcome of the contest
for Senator Davis seat at Washington
The contest all not blind partlsans of
Senator Davis admitted, would be inter-
eSting as we'll as exciting. The de-
mand for a senator from outside the
Twin Cities is growing In Intensity and
will affect MIR. Davis in localities in
which he fancies he is perfectly secure.
The people and the politicians are
studying the returns of the recent cleo
ton, and wide-awake Republicans are
becoming convinced that the Repub-
lican party must change its position on
the force bill. the tariff, and several
other matters. OF go out OF business
This CONJUNCTION has been reached by
many Republicans without much Of "a
struggle, because many of them were
formerly strong tariff reformers, and
during the past four years simply stihed
their convictions tor the good of their
party. The latter course of reasoning
and action was followed by those who
believed that the Republicans of the
East would demand the fulfllment Of
the platform of 1888.
There are many Republicans in this
state, however, who voted for Presl-
dent Harrison in 1888 under the belief
that the Republicans. if successful,
would revise the tariff downward rather
than upward. They were not prepared
for the Mckinley tariff bill or their
votes would have been different. All
of the latter class heartily agree with
Gov. Pillsbury in his statement of the
necessity for change in the leadership
of the Republican party. In all the
arguments in the political centers the
anti-Davis men have had the best of it.
The Davis workers are invoking the
various Davis resolutions that have
been adopted, declaring that the Re-
publicans of the state demand the re-
election of Mr.. Davis.
1.-THE arguments of the Davis men
will fail to convince Republicans like
Gov. Pillsbury," said Republican YES
terday, ''for the simple reason that the
Republicans of Minnesota have had
their eyes opened as to the situation,
and when it comes to choice between
the welfare of the party and the return
of Davis they will be very apt to choose
the former. The Republicans have Just
won in Minnesota against odds, and
when the party went down in other
states, but this victory will be short
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
THE LOWER HOUSE.

The Republican party is just now
particularly fond of believing that the
big Democratic majority in the next
house of representatives will contrive
to tangle the Democratic party in mesh
of doubt, difficulty and defeat. So large
majority must necessarily be I'M
Weldy, argue our friends the enemy /;
and on this argument they base the
most delightful hopes of Democratic
diSeord, leading up to Democratic dis
comfiture and the resounding glorifi-
cation of the G. O. p.
This seems logical enough, but prec.
edent doesn't appear to bear it out.
The present house is more oYerwhelm-
ingiy Democratic than Its successor
will be, yet the late long ses-
sion of the present house failed
to bring about the Democratic dis
comfture which the e. o. p. now con-
siders should be the inevitable result of
an unwieldy Democratic majority in
the national legislature. A slim Repub-
lican majority of five or six in the lower
house of the Fifty-frst congress, on the
other hand, contrived to most effectually
''hoodoo" the Republican party in the
elections Of 1890; from all which it
would appear that the small and not the
large majority is deadly AT any rate,
the Democratic party is just as much
pleased over its big majority in the next
house as the Republican party pretends
to be-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
THE DISPATCHES DEFENSE.

The Dispatch, having imported Jailer
GARVIN from Joliet to be the chief OF
st. Paul's police force, feels heavy
weight of responsibility Oh its shoulders
and is doing its best to justify itself be-
fore the injured public. Last night it
undertook to prove that GARvIN was
not so inefficient a chief of police after
all, because several burglaries were also
committed under the previous regime.
The GLOBE does not believe that there
is very much in this style of reasoning.
1t is slim consolation to gentleman
sick with fever to know that he is not
the first one who has had the disease,
and the people whose houses have
been broken into with impnnity
during the past few months are
not likely to vote a gold medal
to Mr.. GARVIN because Gov. MER-
RAM suffered a similar experience
in 1885. The Dispatch is quite right in
drawing the sword on behalf of its
creature, but the GLOBE suggests that
it try some other line of battle. There
are some very interesting criticisms of
police officers in the volume of remlnis-
cences recently published under the
title Of IAN Englishman in Paris" The
author, describing one of them, speaks
of him as policeman who ran in a
woman of sixty all by himself, and
boosted that he could have done it if
she had been eighty" If the Dispatch
will buy copy OF this book, it will find
in this and other epigrams of the same
sort material for very appropriate Gu
logies of its friend from Joliet.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26

lived unleSS we change our position on
several questions. The low tariff voters
are vastly in the majority, md it is but
matter of time until the opposition to
the Republicans combine. If we go back
to the position of Gordon E. Cole on the
tariff, Minnesota will remain Repub-
lican, otherwise | am confident it Will
change to the other side.
Another matter that the Republican
members of the legislature should not
fail to, consider" continued the speak
er, lis the report on the funding of the
Pacific railroad debt made by Senator
|, Davis. 1t will be remembered that he
recommended settlement so much
against the interests of the people as to
excite a great deal of comment. 1t
oseems to have made him solid with
Stanford, Huntington and that crowd,
! and L have heard it whispered that Stan
/ ford is backing him in this fight.
"A great deal of money has
been spent by Senator Davis so far, and
Fall that is necessary is still forthcom-
ling. OF course, Mr.. Davis, as all know,
had not the means to make campaign
such as has been made, and some out
side parties have evidently been putting
up. do not myself like the idea of a
Minnesota senator who is for the east
and the Pacific railroads, except upon
some non-political matter like an APP
preparation for government building
or the survey of public lands"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
The CHARITY BALL,
Continued From First Page.

Mrs Galusha-Mahogany silk green and
gold brocade pettlcOat; diamonds.
Miss Galusha-Yeilow crepe.
Mrs. A. X. Dalrymple-Blue silk net over
cream silk, lace; diamonds
Miss Theresa LyOns-Apple blossom pink
satin brocade otter fur trimming.
Mrs. Achille Michaud-Black silk, green
velvet trimming; passementerie.
jet; diamonds
Mrs. E. A. Whitcomb-Pearl embroidered
crepe and cream corded silk; diamonds;
red roses.
Miss Sprague-Pink silk
Miss Provest-Sriped China silk.
Miss Mary Gilfllan White China silk,
point lace. roses.
Miss Goodrich-Empire gown of pink silk
crepe over pink silk, green velvet garniture,
hyacinths.
Mrs. A. P. Goodrich-Black velvet jet
trimmings, diamonds.
Mrs. Tams Bixby-White crepe de Chine,
brocaded silk, duchesse lace.
Miss Annie Towle-Yellow crepe, green
velvet sleeves. gold and pearl passementerie.
Miss Hennessey, of Albany, N. G.-White
Grape, chiffon; white hyacinths, pearls.
Mrs. G.. r. Robbins - Pineapple gauZe,
strewn with rose buds, over green silk; Amer
lean beauty roses. diamonds.
Miss Pulman-White and brocade silk and
lace
Miss Bertha Constans-Red Grape, gold
trimming.
Miss Clara Hass Rock Island Ill-Lemon
Grape, gold lace, diamonds.
Mrs. Borup-Black velvet, jet front, dia-
monds.
Miss Sophie Borup-White China silk, pink
roses.
Mrs. CORTLAND Iaylor-Black silk jet, dia-
monds.
Mrs. Newei-Black velvet jeweled lace,
diamonds.
Mrs. ebeau-Yellow silk, black velvet
frock. pink roses.
Miss Wiebeau - Heavy white silk; dia-
monds.
Mrs Yitum-Cream silk. trimmed with sill
yer cord: point lace
Mrs. j. L. Shadle-WhIte corded silk, pearl
trimming; diamonds.
Miss Mabel Perkins-White satin and lace.
Mrs. Horace l. Stone-Empire gown of pink
satin and apple green velvet, trimmed with
pink chiffon.
Miss Jane Horn-White crape-violets.
Mrs. s: II. Topliff-Yeilow brocade, jet.
Miss Kate Humbird-Crlmson Grape.
Mrs. Wilson Humblrd. Cumberland, Md
Quaker grey crape-jeweled chiffon.
Mrs. ID. Wedelstadt-Pale green Grape.
Mrs. DR.. SWeeney-White silk Grape over
white silk.
Miss Lindsey, of st. Louisville silk.
Miss SeVerance-White silk, apple green
train.
Mrs George Ryan-Cream Grape and
Duchesse lace.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
MEN AND WOMEN.

A woman is ON exhibition in New
York who Is eight feet six inches high.
and New York paper in speaking OF
her says: ''Sbe is tall and well
formed"
France has population of 38,2lS, 903,
comprising about 10000, 900 families. and
of these 100000 have no children, while
100000 have only one child each.
Miss Alice Chaplin, the distinguished
sculptress of animals, is at present stay
ing at Osborne, where she is making a
study for the queen of two Spanish bull
oeks, the property of her majesty.
Herbert Spencer, the philosopher. is
said to be man of singular modesty,
with a gentle voice and almost femi-
nine grace"
f. ID. Millet. the famous artist, seems
to be under fortY-fve. He has a few
lines in his face and not gray hair in
his closely trimmed black locks.
Gen. John j. Perry, of Portland, Me-,
is one of the few surviving congress
men of the ante-war period. He served
two terms at Washington prior to 1861.
Rev. Samuel Longfellow, like Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, his brother,
was verse maker, and once compiled
a collection of hymns for publication.
When he asked fellow parson to sug-
gest title for the work, the friend
thought it might be called Sam-oook.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
NOTED UTTERANCE.

One portion of GROVER CLEvELAND's
recent speech at the chamber of COM
merce banquet has caught the ear of
the entire world. This country rings
with it from sea to sea. 1t is worthy of
preservation in the family scrap book.
We refer to the paragraph wherein Mr..
CLEVELAND said:
We are all interested, as Americans, in q
common pursuit. Our purpose is, or ought
to be, in our several spheres, to add to the
general fund of national prosperity. From
this fund we are all entitled to draw, perhaps
not equally, but justly, each receiving fair
portion of individual prosperity. Let us
avoid trampling on each other in our anxiety
to be first in the distribution of shares, and
let us not attempt to appropriate the shares
of others.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26

If North Star Populists are still look
Ing for an explanation OF the comDara-
lively poor showing made by the Peo-
pies party in Minnesota this year, per
haps they can find it by recurring to the
following list of reasons given out by a
former Alliance man for disseminating
his support of the third party:
!. Because it is run by lawyers without
clients
.. BY doctors without patients.
3. BY preachers without pulpits.
4. BY women without husbands.
S. BY farmers without farms.
6. BY lnanciers without finance.
Z. BY educators without education. and
s. BY statesmen out of a job,
This is bilious and biased arraign-
ment, but it is not wholly without JUS
titication. Every political party has its
share of the genus "blatherskite," ex-
cept the Peoples party, which has more
than its share. There is much to com
mend in the Peoples party's platform
Of principles, but the political feather
heads who assume to run that party
will do more to retard than TO advance
the reforms the party contemplates.
Tariff reform, for instance, is a leading
article in the Populist creed, but what
chance would tariff reform have were it
dependent on the SIMPSONS, the LEASES
and the WATsoNs? Tariff reformerS
have no business in the PopUlist party.
Their only avenue of relief Is the Dem
ocratic party, which is the real Peoples
party, and the party through which each
and every reform beneficial to the masses
of the people must be achieved if
achieved at all.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
KNOCKED OUT BY sLEET.
ST. Louis Electric Lines Having a
Hard Time.

ST.. LOUIS, Nov. 25.-The sleet storm
has prevailed over all this section
of Missouri with the result
that strings would be as good conduc-
tors as the electric wires in use. In
addition TO practically putting an
embargo on communication by
telegraph, the conditions surround
ing surface transportation in this city,
where most of the street car lines
are operated by electricity were not
of a detachable nature. In addl-
ton, the prospects are that there
would be no immediate improvement in
the weather. In the Northwest it is
showing heavily and predictions at the
Office of the weather bureau are to the
effect that the rain will turn into snow
with much colder weather by tomorrow.
All wires are coated with ice, in some
cases breaks occurring. Even where
this is not the case there are delays and
StOppages where the sleet coating
causes currents TO be formed from
the overhead wires to the poles. and
thence to the ground. drawing off the
electricity and causing a deficiency OF
power. Both the market street and the
Laelede avenue lines were stopped
some time. On the Lindell railway
travellers were treated to beautiful
pyrOtechnic display. AS the trolley
wheel ran along the wire it WAS pre-
ceded and followed by blaze of light,
and as the icicles slowly dropped, each
was followed by brilliant fame OF
sparks. The union depot and Benton
Bellf0ntaine lines were incOmmOded by
lev wires and were not noted for regu-
larity, nor was the Mound City line.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
CLEVELAND GOES SHOOTING

The GLOBE is glad that Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND has gone shooting. When the
Earl of Beaeonsfeld had completed his
labors at the congress of Berlin, he
bought a half-hundred trashy novels.
and went into seclusion that he might
refresh his tired mind with their assist
ance. This was all very we'll for the
Tory prime minister but the open air
is filter instrument of refreshment for
Democratic president. When the
spirit of interest in outdoor sports is so
active that the annual football game ex-
fcites as much attention as did the cleo
ton, Mr.. CLEVELAND shows that he is
in touch with prevailing habits of
thought by taking his vacation amid
birds and guns. A president in SYM
pathy with the people is bound to be a
popular president, and Il popular presi-
dent is the kind we want.
The GLOBE is also glad that Mr..
CLEVELAND has gone shooting because
he will be amiable on his return. Last
winter he went shooting just before the
Snappers' convention was held in New
York, and when he got back he was en-
veloped in smiles. 1t will be remem-
bered that when they told him of the in
dorsement Senator HILL had received,
he laughed immoderately. He will need
all his good nature between now and
The 4th of March, because the hungry
will aSSall him in spite of his public re-
quest 10 the contrary. The boys who
'houted for HIM during the fall will
,hout at hin during the winter, and he
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
ATCHISON GLOBULES.

Anybody is brave when he knows the
people are looking.
Marrying a man to reform him is equal
to putting your fingers in fire to put it
out.
The best compliment that can be paid
the young is that sensible old people adj
mre them.
After man marries. he 10 longer
hears compliments for himself from the
women; they are all for his wife.
Let tomorrow take entire care of
itself. and some day the poor COM
missioner will have to take care of you.
Pray too long for blessing. and you
will find that while you were praying.
some other man went to work and
got it.
A man has his own way pretty much
on earth, but what difference there
will be in heaven, where the women are
more than ten to one. All the men
there are in heaven went there when
they were little boys in long dresses.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
PLEASANTRIES.

Jack-PrisciIla has made George
happy for life.
Clara-Tm so glad to hear it! When
are they going to get married?
Jack-NeYer. She has refused him.
RECIPROCITY.
Mrs. Brown-I have. such lovely
present for my husband!
Mrs. Smith-What is 1t?
Mrs. Brown-A pair of slippers.
Won't he be pleased?
Mrs. Smith-Yes. What do you ex-
pect to get from him?
Mrs. Brown-Oh, nothing. much--a
diamong ring. suppose, or perhaps a
SealSkin SacQue.-Iruth.
COLD COMFORT.
Nv hats the reason you didn't Spe ak
to Jones when he passed by?'
''He lnSulted me the other day."
What did he say to you?"
''He called me an old ass
"Called you an old ass! How ridicu :
Gus! Why, you are not old. Texas
Siftings.
NO NEED FOR HURRY.
Miss Hastings (overtaking Miss 81 ow-
boy OH the way to church)-Hurry, Til
lie, or you'll be latel
Miss Slowboy-There is no hurry.
dear. Let me introduce Mr.. Bellows,
our OrganiSt.-Puck.
AN OHIO DELICACY.
Cawker-Did you ever try a Cincin-
natl sandwich?
= Larkin-No. How do they make them?
Cawker They are made OF two slices
Of water with thin piece of boiled ham
betWeen.-Judge.
ANOTHER VICTIM.
'How do you sound the 'g' In the
word 'gerrymander?' inquired the
man who had climbed three flights of
stairs to see the Acknowledgement
editor.
Hard" answered the editor. las in
get"
"There goes every cent i won ON New
YOrkh' reioined the caller, turning
away with heavy sigh.
And a moment later the melancholy
piick-plack of his weary feet was heard
on the stairway, growing fainter and
fainter as he went down and out to face
a cold and unfriendly world again.
Chicago Tribune.
THEIR SIGNIFICANCE.
Little Wlllie-Pop, what does G. o. p.
stand for?
Pop Second assistant deputy inspector)
Get out promptly, darn it.-Philadel-
Dhia Record
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
GREER IS CONFIDENT.
His Chances of Election He Be-
Iieves to Be Good.

His Chances of Election He Be-
Iieves to Be Good.
Hon. Allen j. Greer, of Wabasha
county, who will probably be Southern
Minnesota's candidate for speaker of
the house on the Republican side,
dropped into the city for short time
yesterday and chatted for time with
political friends. Mr.. Greer is one of
the ablest young Republican leaders in
the state, and in the session of
two years ago was found voting
pretty nearly as his constituents,
the farmers of Wabasha county, de-
sired. This probably accounts for the
700 majority ne received in his district
at the recent election. He is a gradu-
ate of the state university and man of
a fair and liberal turn of mind.
Il am candidate for the speaker
ship" he said yesterday, land believe
my chances of election are very good.
| have no claim to make at this time,
and no promises except that If elected
| will try to prove DIS fair and impartial
as the speaker of the house two years
ago, Hon. Z. Il. Champlin."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-26
THE NORTH SEA CANAL.
It Will Start at klel and Cut
Through schleswig-Holstein.

It Will Start at klel and Cut
Through schIeswig- Holstein.
Engineering Magazine.
During the approaching autumn and
winter several large undertakings in
connection with this canal will be com
menced at the Kiel Firth. They will
complete the building of two harbOrs
an inner and an outer. Three Kiel con-
tractors have taken over the matter for
100000 marks (E50,O00). The inner
harbor will be surrounded by wall of
granite and concrete 295 meters long,
which has to be completed 10y July 1,
1898. The outer harbOr has to be ready
by Aug. 1, 1888
The pier will, in this instance, have
length of 2S0 meters, and its heights to
be II meters above ordinary water
level. The course of the old Elb canal
will to some extent be used for the outer
harbor. A long pier for steamers is to
proceed from the outer harbOr. The
earth from the excavations will to a con
siderable extent be used for the making
of hill, on which will be built a light
house capable OF showing at a great dis
lance the entrance to the North Sea
Baltic canal