St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-17
SUNRISE SIGNALS.
nAsLrY, BAeAuLEY, BEeoLn.

Hollanu nouSe.-NeW \ Ork recorder.
Ex-Gov. Baglev, of Michigan. is dead, but
the offense of butchering his name in the
above style IS enough to make him turn
YEARLY in his grave.-St. Paul Globe. t'iie
But the Recorder didn't mean ex-Gov. Bag
ley. 1t meant ex-Gov. Begole. hard 'o'' and
accent on the last syllable, but sometimes
mispronouneed as spelled by the Recorder
See!-Cloquet Pine Knot
Yes, we see. but il makes us awful dizzy.
John Habberton has a two-column article
in Chicago paper entitled Hope for Anna
Tours" Surely not for the amateur planisti
Presidential Candidate Cullom looks great
deal more like Abraham Lincoln than he will
after the Minneapolis convention. 4
That Blaine delegation elected from PENN
syivania is now looking for another candi-
date. What's the matter with me?-B. Har
rison. -
Gen. Alger was born in a log cabin, and it
is now painfully evident that some one must
have taken the horseshoe from the door.
"Sunrise Signals is pleased to accord space
to the following communication from Min
nesota agriculturist who evidently has CON
siderable time in which to think during these
LONG winter evenings"
Coon CREEK. Mimi, Feb. 16
Editor Signals: I've been farmer in this
state for twenty years. and am likely to con-
tinue in the same condition Indefinitely. L
don't dress according to style nor quite so
bang up as my neighbors in this neck of the
woods. But 1 read more newspapers. /
to inf in
though, for that matter, politics is spreading
so thin in these Kilkenny days that it hardly
pays to vote at pres ent low prices. Only
last election man whose farm joins mine
got three dollars for his vote, while had to
walk mile and a half and vote for nothing.
spoke to the election judges about this and
they give me the laugh.
But that's local politics. and if there's any
thing meaner than local elections Eve missed
it in the course of tifty-fve years steady liv-
ing without missing a day. take all the ST.
Paul and Minneapolis papers, two from Chi
cago, three from New York, weeklies, most of
the monthly magazines and the AnokaUnion.
This may sound like extravaganza, but 1
make it up by having wheat to sell when 1
want to sell it without having to sell it under
compulsion. occasionally l work off a fat
steer or a hog under the same combination
of peculiar circumstances.
Still, am not so rich as Creosote il you'll
excuse my dipping into profane history
Eve got more caution than dollars, and more
dollars than fool curiosity. Once a month l
go down to St Paul and Minneapolis. But
manage to steer clear of the shell game and
the green goods man, while the man with the
silver brick, in my presence folds his grip
like collapsed lung in a conSumptlye poet
and silently feels his way out of the hotel.
Some people blame me for taking SO many
newspapers, and attending so few circuses,
but by this means you will perceive L have
been enabled to keep track of the increase
of crime.
Also to refrain from spelling Coon Creek
with capital KS.
Speaking of silver bricks, see that my old
friend Congressman Bland is still doing his
sleight-of-hand business at the old stand.
He makes me tired. His power to produce
wide range of debiltating lassitude is in
spirational. Yesterday one of nv Deighbors
who belongs to the Farmers Alliance was
apologizing to me for PLANK in their plat
form which proposed to consolidate all ,
working hens under government control,
and thus buck the artificial egg monopoly. :
told him to say no more; that while the
scheme was q trif1e nebul0uS and gummy,
still, when compared to the Bland free COIN
age bill, it was a wise and judicious measure.
Who's Bland?" he asked me, land what's
he trying to DOR
Upland is a statesman" told him, "who
draws $1,000 salary. mileage. stationery, pen
knives and ivory-baek playing cards. He's
now trying to worm bill through congress
which nearly all practical business men de-
nounce as a fraud, and which all financial
failures in the business world say is mighty
good thing. If a man is known by the COM
pany he keeps the Bland silver bill should
be known by the cranks who indorse 1t. It's
a bill that permits a silver mine owner to
take Is cents worth of pig silver to Uncle
Sam and make the old man yield up a round
John Dollar for it, and that, too, when Uncle
Sam really doesn't need it in his busin ess
It's bill to buneo the United States out of
its gold dollars and load it up with millions
of deprecated currency. It's a bill to knock
Off % per cent from the wages of every work
ing man or woman in the country. It's bill
to raise the price of everything you want to
buy and lower the price of the labor you want
to sell. It's bill 10 make money cheap and
food dear. It's a fake in the index, a fraud
in the contents and lie in the ap-
pendix. It's a plan to make gold
dollar as big as cart wheel and silver
dollar as small as pin head Carried to its
logical conclusion, it will make every buyer
and seller stipulate what kind OF money he
will give or take and confuse and compli-
cate all commercial transactions It robs
the creditor of % per cent of the money due
him and robs the debtor of p per cent OF his
earning power 10 pay the creditor. 1t is a
boomerang that will react misceIlaneously
upon friend and foe. 1t is bill that should
be entitled AN act for the special benefit of
mine owners and Speculators.' 1t is honey
combed with evils, and lacks a single re-
deeming quality. The men engineering it
are silver brick swindlers, and the majority
of congressman voting for it paid cappers of
a great national brace game. The minority
favoring it are giving their brains vacation
MIR. Bland in his bill declares that dollar is
worth dollar because the law so declares
it. but neglects to add that a coon dog
would remsin a coon dog even if the law
declared it to be an elephant.
At this point my Alliance neighbor said If
didn't mind he would go home. lie down g
bit and sleep off his fatigue. Meanwhile
shall continue to take the papers, and hope
to send you another letter upon some live
topic of transitory interest to the great mass
of transitory visitors to this world.
JASON JACKSON.
SCENTS FROM "SLUG FIVE"
The man who is shipwrecked necessarily
valves his landed interests.
Mustard forces-Ham sandwiches