St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-10
SUNRISE SIGNALS.
The principal weakness of the Farmers
Alliance appears to be maximum of Ocala
platform and minimum of tariff reform.

The principal weakness of the Farmers
Alliance appears to be a maximum of Ocala
platform and minimum of tariff reform.
The history of the world, the experience of
ages, and the logic of modern events unit
edly prove that great reformations move
slowly. The prosecution of single one has
In the past. employed all the time and the
best energies Of the greatest minds In the
world. How, then, can a Farmers Alliance,
meeting only in annual session for few
days at tme hope to compass the long list
OF political reforms indicated in the Mime
sofa platform? The idea is absurd Such a
succotash Of impracticable schemes combined
with few grains of really meritorious prin-
cipes, has never before been witnessed in
the political history of Minnesota. II the
farmers of this state cannot concentrate their
efforts and combine their forces in behalf of
tariff reform. they can accomplish nothing
else in the whole list of their fantastic de-
mands. which has the appearance of a crazy
quilt to which each crank visionary and
demagogue has contributed patch. The
substructure of principle upon which the
Farmers Alliance has erected an airy edifice
is sound and substantial enough for all pres
ent practical purposes. 1t is tariff reform.
They should stick to it, 1t is a worthy sub
ject. possesses substitute. and is within their
reach. But the day is many icons distant
when any political faction. farmers, mer-
chants manufacturers can overturn
whole political system at one fell swoop
They must remove it i'll sections or not at all.
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The insiduous approach OF the book beer
season naturally suggests a new wing to the
Kelley institute at Dwight.
Ward McAllister is authority for the state
ment that it cost Miss Helen Gould 100000
to come out ExTreasurer Bardsley, :of
PENNSYLVANIA, would willingly pay that to
come out and consider that he had struck
bargain counter.
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Mrs Roswell p. Flower. on taking posses
sion Of the governors mansion at Albany,
finds it as would naturally be expected in
bachelor quarters. sadly in need of refurnish-
ing. The good matron periodically observes:
Il do not belong to the society of shoppers
who think that the foreign trademark is the
only stamp of excellence an article can pos
sess. There is nothing l want L can't buy in
Broadway" This reminds us that there is
one thing Jacob Sloat Fassett couldn't buy in
Broadway, and that was the governorship of
New York.
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Gov. Bulkeley. of Connecticut is very far
from filling a long-felt want, but he seems to
have come to stay.
We trust that the members of the ST. Paul
convention committee, soon to be in Wash
ington, have learned that St Louis has re-
signed all claims to the Democratic meet
Kalamazoo admits also that it is out of the
race
Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, lives
very quietly near Regents Park, London.
How man can make enough money out of
philosophy to enable him to live quietly is
something utterly ineomprehensible to the
average active and speculative citizen of the
Western hemisphere.
The notorious Jere Dunn, erstwhile of Chi
cago, at present resident of New York, in
cautiously provoked a quarrel with a re-
porter, and now the journalistic fire has
commenced all along the line in the New
York newspapers. They promise to make it
extremely warm for Jere in the metropolis of
even so dizzy city as giddy Gotham. In
defying the power of the press Ajax Dunn
will discover that he is dealing with a more
potent enemy than the bar-room thugs, plugs
and buffers with whom he associates.
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The Pittsburg Dispatch editorially an
nounces: ''Smoke Can Be Consumed" If
this is authentic there would seem to be no
difficulty in the way of securing plenty of
smoke to consume in Pittsburg.
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Like carrying Goals to Newcastle-Carrying
oysters to Baltimore.
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Says the Philadelphia Press: 'sWhen you
call o man colonel out West he generally ac-
sknowleGges the corn. because it never goes
against the grain.'' But in Minneapolis they
do not cali him Colonel out West. They adj
dress him as Col. West. and so far from
being out he is in it by a large majority.
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The Mckinley bill appears to have raised
everything but the Republican vote of New
York state
The attention of Senator Sherman is called
to the fact that Jerry Simpson once openly
boosted that he would dance a can-can upon
Johns scalp to the low, musical strains issu
ing from PETERS aolian whiskers AS a
prophet Uncle Jerry Simpson is still quite
a number of laps behind Uncle Jerry Rusk's
weather bureau.
The report that No Shirt has recently been
elected chief of the Umatilla Indians in Ore
gon sounds suspiciously like a subtle boom
for Oregon's climatic attractions.