St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-02
BRAINY NORTH STARS.
They Issue Scathing Roast on the
City Council and Others. II |

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City Council and Others. II
The North Star LABOR club held a
we'll attended and enthusiastic meeting
last night at Labor Temple, and among
other things instructed their delegates
to the trades and labor assemblYato
present the following communication;
"The North Star Labor club. through
its delegates, desires to call your atteiiT
ton to The heroic manner in which the
city council has defended the commons
wealth against the onslaught OF the
Minneapolis Street Railway company;
oucn valor has never been uispia>, :,
since Sir John Falstatf played 'possnm
in the plain Of Shrewsbury. For
months past the people OF our
city have been demanding additional
transfer facilities, end the evils COM
planned of have now been remeGietl by
our faithful servants in the council after
the method of the Fiji doctor who adj
vocated saving off mans leg to cure a
corn. People living in South Minneap-
oils have long desired transfer station
at Cedar avenue and Washington. This
want has been attended to in unique,
but radical manner. The Keely cure
system of rendering man all the whisky
he Wants, after his appetite for 1T has
been destroyed, is to be applied i'll this
case. The appetite of South MinneapO-
lis people for Il transfer station at Wash
ington and Cedar avenues is to be de-
strOyed by abolishing the transfer sys-
tenn on the interurDan line. The trans
fer agent who is to be detailed for duty
at that point it IS plain to be seen. will
then have no more charms for pasSen-
gers than bottle of old rye for gradu-
ate OF Dwight.
But, inaSmuch as our council has
been keen enough to compel the street
railroad company to pat a dnmmy at
this point. we urge the trades and
labor assembly to take some
steps towards securing a proper
label for this prize. We would
suggest that he bear upon
mis- breast a placard something like
this: 10 the dear Zoe damned) public:
am an agent whose duty it is to give
transfers to the absent-minded and the
feeble-minded of South Minneapolis
who may take the wrong car home and
discover their error before reaching me.
God save the president (Potter)l
We desire to call attention TO the at
titude in this matter CT an alleged Dem
ocratic alderman. one Kitchlii, whose
fame as student of Cushiag's Manual
has travelled far and wide. but whose
knowledge of the platform upon which
he was elected could be cast into a
mans eye with perfect safety.
He justifies his action upon the
ground that he voted according
to the desires of Third ward citizens.
1t scarcely seems credible that his ward
is settled by class of savageS who
would barter away the rights and privl-
leges Of the whole city for d patry
transfer station at Twentieth avenue
north and Washington. If there are
any Third warderS in your body, we
trust they can brand this imputation as
SANDER and falsehood. Ia
"Your attention is also called to that
part of this huge Swindle which grants
tire use of Bridge square for 81 ZOO a
year, when $1,000 would be modest
sum. The superintendent of the rail
road company and silent partner OF
the city council has vouchSafed
the information that Bridge square
ought to have been donated TO the com
pany. Inasmuch as the company has
been given pretty much everything i'll
town, save some of the houses and lots.
perhaps the trades and labor assembly
better help to have Bridge square thrown
in and let the tail go with the hide, so to
speak.
"Should your organization take up
this question for consideration, that
bright and early bird, the president of
the council. is entitled to some notice.
The extraordinary activity displayed by
him the morning after this ordinance
was passed entities him to rank as the
Minneapolis 'Peep-o-day.'
60, ,f,n
scarcely feel justified in passing resolu-
tions. but Will content ourselves with
calling your attention to to the matter,
and leaving in your hands the task of
preparing good brown roast. We be-
lieve you will hear in this "a cry from
Macedonia; come and help u.s. Unless
the inroads of this corporation can in
some way be checked. our prayers
must soon be changed from Our Fa-
ther, who art in heaven to Our mas
ter, who art on Lowry hill.'"