St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-20
THE MODERN GULLTyER.

THE MODERN CULVER.
Children read Dean SwlFT's alIegory
with delight and wonder if CULVER
ever lived, and if the Liliputians ever
tied him down, or the BrobdignagIans
ever made toy of him. And most men
read IL for amusement, without ever
dreaming that the wise. quaint old dean
was drawing picture of social condi-
tionS of his time, or that he was pro-
phetic soul, foreseeing the social condi-
tons of the latter end of the nineteenth
century.
GULLIvER is living reality today,
and he is fallen among the Liliputians,
and they have tied him all over with
their ropes and staked them to the
ground, and he has just wakened from
long sleep after period of great eff
fort. and finds himself tied down, and
is expostulating and threatening and
twisting about, trying to loosen himself
just as SWIFT'S CULVER did. Only
we don't call the PROSTATE body GULL
YER, nor do we name the little folk
who have captured him Lliputians. We
call the great helpless fellow the People,
and his captors we call Trusts, and their
ropes we call combines, but no matter
what names we give them, they are the
same in fact.
This modern CULVER had a great
combat with another CULVER years
ago, and there we're wounds given and
received, and the struggle was a hard
and long one, and after it was over the
People went to work to repair the dam
ages, and he was so busy with it that
he knew nothing OF cared nothing what
the Trusts we're doing. But when at
last the People had set things in order
again and began to look after other mat
tiers which concerned him. he found that
the Trusts had not been idle, but had run
their combines over and under and
around the People and had fastened
him down so solidly with stakes they
called laws, and others they called
courts, and some they called senators
and others representatives, that the
People found he could hardly turn.
One Trust, called Railroads, had
rifled his pockets and appropri-
ated his acres and tied up his
roads so that he couldn't travel
or get his products carried unless he
did it just as they all agreed together he
should. Ii he wanted coal to warm
him, or lumber to build a shelter, or
clothing to cover him, or glass for his
house, or colors to paint it, or if he
went to sell his grain or buy his flour.
he found he couldn'tmove hand or foot,
for each Trust controlling each thing he
wanted had run its combine over him
and tied him down to the earth, and he
was helpless to do as he would. and
could only do as his little masters
would. The modern CULVER is get
ting very angry over the condition he
finds himself in, and, unless Modified by
release. he is sure some day to twist
himself loose, and then the Trusts must
beware. Somebody Will get hurt.
ARRESTS WTTHOUTWARRANT.
Judge GoGGIN, OF Chicago, recon-
mendS that those who are arrested by
the police without warrant should bring
suit against the chief of police for false
Imprisonment. There is probably not
large city in America where this advice
is not good 1t is one of the common
police practices in st. Paul, and most
every city, to arrest people upon the
mere suspicion of the patrolman. The
iDhumanity of this oVerstepping the
law has often been felt here and every
where else. A law permitting patrol
men to arrest people on bare suspicion
would be good one if every patrolman
were possessed of sufficient discernment
to not make the mistake of arresting
reputable people as being crooks. But
it so happens that the average pa
trolman is quite as likely to pick UP
on the streets the wrong man as he is
the right one. By giving patrolmen this
latitude many crooks can be run inn
who could otherwise remain at
large to ply their craft: but reputa-
BILE people are constantly in danger of
being Inundated by it. 1t has many
times happened in the history OF st.
Paul that some one of our first citizens,
whose business kept him out late at
night, has been arrested on the street
by stupid patrolman as suspect. But
here is not where the greatest harm is
liable to arise. for such man is quite
sure to be released upon his appearance
at the police station. 1t is the poor
honest class who suffer most by the lati-
] tude, for they are seldom recognized at