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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-11-03
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St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30
THE RED LaKE PINE

Elsewhere the GLOBE publishes the
full text of the report of Special Agent
Frank J. Parke. Of the general land Of
fee. concerning the situation in and
around the Red lake pine region. 1t is
confidently expected in Washington
that this report will form the basis of
the final settlement of this much-vexed
question.
Since the original law was passed fix
ing the basis upon which the Indians on
that reservation might dispose of the
pine timber thereon, there have been
charges of rascality connected there
with. and counter charges Of corruption,
until the public is lost in maze of con-
flicting statements. What has been de-
veloped certainly is that there Is no
room for reasonable doubt that the
pine land 1ings in this state have
been longing to secure that valuable
timber without large eXpenSe-prac-
tically the last and best white pine un-
appropriated in the state. There can be
no kind of doubt that the special agents
and special examiners appointed under
the Harrison-Noble regime were Sc
iected because they were ready to be-
come the willing tools of cormorants
who have grown fat and dictatorial
by braZen filching of the other pine
lands of the state. Secretary Smith
and Commissioner Lamoreaux did well
when they selected new and outside
men to take their places.
There are some hopes now that the
Red Lake pine will soon be opened
to the uses of the needy settlers
of that rapidly developing section of
Minnesota. The settlers need the pine.
and some arrangement must be made
sooner or later to give it to them. Prob
ably it will be more honestly sold and
converted to the uses of the people now
than it delayed until other and stronger
rings were organized to piunder the In
dians of their wealth. 1t is possible
that somebody is making money out of
the present arrangement. 1t would be
wonderful if somebody aid not. But
the Indians want to sell. and the public
wants the pine. Let Secretary Smith
rely upon his chosen agents and sell the
pine, rather than have the nasty mess
carried over into another presidential
campaign.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30
DANCERS OF PATERNALIsM.

For years past few men, laboring
ostensibly in the interests of the work
ing classes, have been persistent in their
advocacy Of the plan Of governmental
control of the railroads and telegraph
lines Of the country. They have claimed
that these were enterprises of which
the government should properly become
possessed, and that with the manage
ment of such corporations under politi-
cal control the interests of all employees
would be better subserved than under
private corporations. The idea has
been consistently combatted by the
Democratic party, which has held thai
paternaIism was not one Of the functions
of government, and that il there was
good argument for the assumption Of
was equally good reason for the gov
ernment assuming charge Of all busi-
ness, of whatever nature.
The paternalistic idea is now under
going a test that will be watched with
interest by all intelligent friends of the
working classes. Without special legis.
lation in this direction, the government
| has been compelled to assume jurisdic-
| ton over the Northern Pacific railroad,
| and its affairs are now managed by re-
| ceivers who are responsible to the gov
| ernment alone. For q long time the
employees OF the company have had a
grievance. OF a number of them. Their
| hours of labor were too long, and their
| compensation was inadequate. For some
time past they have been organizing for
the purpose of securing redress. Last
week a strike was threatened, but the
receivers Of the company applied to the
| United States circuit court at Mllwau=
kee for an injunction to prevent such a
demonstration. Judge Jenkins decided
the other day thatthe injunction should
issue, and the contemplated strike has
been abandoned. And for good reason;
Tor employees Of the road who should
band themselves together to enforce
| their demands would be in effect guilty
of an attack upon tie property, the Of
iicers and the authority of the govern
ment of the United States. and conse-
quently liable to prosecution and pun
ishment for treason.
Here is dilemma that has been over
looked by the agitators of paternallsm,
and may serve as warning. The act
which places our industries under gov
ernmental control will sound the death
knell OF all labor organizations. Union
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30
AT MISS HowAKD's HOME,
The Lady Was Too Ill to BE Seen
Yesterday.

Yesterday.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 29.-A reporter
visited the Howard mansion, on st.
Charles avenue, Immediately after the
receipt OF the news of the result of the
Prendergast trial. 1t was found that
Miss Annie Howard, the bereayed af-
fianced of the assassinated mayor of
Chicago, was too weak to be seen, as
she is just convGleScing from severe
attack of the grippe. DOW so prevalent
In New Orleans. The first intimation
that Frank I. Howard had of the ver-
dict in the case was when reporter
visited him at his house fronting La
fayette park this evening. He said:
II am rather surprised. considering
Chicago's usual hustling style, that they
were so slow in determining upon the
fate of that assassin. When I left Chi
cago. twas said that Prendergast would
be hanged before Christmas. 1t was
two months yesterday since the horrible
crime was committed. l have found
that the lawyers of New Orleans were
of the almost unanimous opinion that
the assassin would be acquitted. This
opinion was based upon the theory that
agined that this sentimental plea, so
effectual here, can be similarly utilized
in Chicago. ! fail to see why a man
guilty OF such a horrible crime,
even though he be adjudged in
sane, should be spared any more than any
one else. But this man Prendergast
was not insane. After committing the
crime he made all possible haste to de-
liver himself up, in mortal terror lest
the vengeance of the aroused and in
censed people should be visited upon
him. DR.. Lyman subsequently re-
marked to me that this, in itself, was
sufficient to dlsprove insanity. L went
to Chicago Immediately after receiving
word that Mayor Harrison had been
murdered. l discovered that all the
incidents and particulars of the crime
were indescribably horrible. My sister
ana the ladies who had rushed into the
room had their shoes and skirts be-
smeared with blood. The mayor was
man who was accessible to all, and the
wounds and powder burns evidenced
that he in no wise suspected harm from
the intruding assassin"
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30
PRENDERGAsr MUST HANG.

IISESN ~ IL tSG hSl VI u L III u M.
a verdict of guilty CT murder in the
first degree was returned yesterday
against Prendergast, the assassin of
Mayor Harrison. of Chicago, and the
punishment of death was awarded.
No other Judgment could have>becn
justly rendered from the evidence sub
mitted to the jury. The fact Of the
killing was confessed, but the claim of
insanity was made on behalf of the
prisoner. The testimony of the alien
lists on this point was conflicting, while
the conduct OF the prisoner during the
trial demonstrated that if he was insane
there was method in his madness. He
manifested all the bravado and much
the same characteristics that were dis
played by Guiteau during his trial for
the murder of President Garfield.
The demeanor of the culprit upon
hearing the verdict was, however. proof
positive that, even if he was insane at
the time of the commission of the crime,
he is perfectly sane now. He exhibited
every sign of mortal fear as the fateful
words fell from the lips OF the foreman
of the jury. All the bravado that had
marked his conduct during the trial
vanished. and he quivered in cowardly
dread of the gallows. The time had
passed for dissembling; he was no
longer capable of hiding the fact that
the shadow of death, which has no ter
rors for a madman, caused him great
alright
Those who have watched the progress
of the trial OF this miserable wretch,
and diSpassionately weighed the evi-
dence and scrutinized the conduct of
the prisoner, will reach the conclusion
that the verdict of the jury was just
one. The assassin was a crank, it is
true. All men who transgreSS the
moral law are cranks. But he fully
understood the distinction between
right and wrong. He knew he was
committing an awful crime, for which
he merited death. His surrender 10 the
police, in order to protect himself from
the fury OF mob, which might have
ended his existence on the same night
that his victim closed his eyes in death,
showed that his reasoning powers were
unimpaired. All his feigniDg insanity
betokened deliberation, although his
form Of stimulation was crude, such as
might lave been expected from an
ignorant man.
The verdict is just one. Now let it
be executed, and justice will be avenged,
although the crime can never be atoned,
for the death of the craven assassin
can be no recompense for the loss of
his noble victim.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30
The VERDICT A JUST ONE,
PROMINENT P=RS 0Hs SATISFIED WITH
THE RESULT
IN THE pRENDERGAsT TRIAL.

The Verdict of Guilty Universally
a., Expected, and One That Does
Great Credit to Chicago in Her
Determined Effore to Uphold
the Supremacy ofthc Law, and
Make Life and Property Safe.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.-Among the
members of the Illinois delegation in
the city the result OF the Prendergast
trial at Chicago was discussed freely
tonight. and was generally commended.
Vice President Stevenson, in speaking
of the verdict, said: The verdict of
guilty was universally expected. l am
not familiar with the expert testimony
adduced regarding the Defendants
sanity, but his crime was cold-blooded
one, rnd shocked the entire country. |
speak rather warmly because Carter
Harrison was my personal friend. The
verdict seems to be just"
Representative j. Frank Aldrich,
when informed of the verdict. said:
''Ninety-nine out of every hundred ex-
pected that verdict. l am not in the
least surprised at the finding of the
jury. l have followed the case in the
papers very closely, and am convinced
that there were no grounds for elem
ency. The defense certainly made no
case of insanity. and my convictions
would have to be very materially
changed if | were to say anything
against the verdict"
Representative Lane said: ''The YER
dict expressed my sentiments. indorse
it fully. There is no question as to
Prendergast's guilt"
Representative John S. Black said:
II speak not as lawyer. for | have not
followed the testimony in the case. but
as citizen, having formed some i'm
pressions from what have read and
heard, should say that the verdict is
righteous, and that the twelve men who
sat on the jury arrived at correct con-
clusion."
Secretary of State Gresham said he
had not been closely following the
newspaper reports of the trial and
therefore declined to express an opinion
or the result.
Chief Justice Fuller asked to he eX-
cused from expressing an opinion on
the case. 1t is not impossible that the
case may be carried to the United States
supreme court, and the chief justice
probably did not want to pass Judgment
on case which may afterward come
before him officially.
A number of the Illinois delegation
are out Of the city, among them being
Senator Palmer and Senator Cullom and
Representatives Post. Hit, McGann,
Hopkins. Durborrow, Wheeler. Cannon
and Funk
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30
NORTH DAKOTA POINTS.

Republican organs still relate their
tale of woe regarding the fix in which
the Democrats in congress are placed
regarding the tariff. Those editors who
have been growing fat on these sorrow
full yarns will be out of job by the 1st
of February, when their manufactured
''fx" disappears with the enacting of a
new tariff laW.-Grapd Forks Plain
dealer.
The people must get rid of prohibit
ton, but the politicians have it in their
power to present or prevent the oppor-
tunity of an expression on the question.
jamestown Alert.
Cows LewelIing's statement that he
was tramp back in '65 leads to the re-
mark that he'll be back at his old occu-
patton as soon as the people of Kansas
get another chance to vote. bismarck
Trihun1
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30
BUT ONE SENTIMENT
Expressed by the Citizens of New
York

York
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Chauncey M.
Depew, when informed that Prendergast
had been convicted and sentenced to
death, said: 81 would say simply this:
The verdict is very gratifying to me.
and should be so to every citizen. as
vindcation Of the supremacy of the
! law. 1t IS a verdict which does great
credit to Chicago, and demonstrates, as
did her action in the case of the anarch-
lists. her fearless and determined effort
to make her municipality safe for life
and property. That is all l have TO
say"
George j. Gould and his wife are
stopping at the New Netherlands hotel
in this city. The young financier has
waived the formality OF placing his
name upon the register of the hotel,a
he instructed the clerk to send neither
visitors, cards nor messages to his room.
The Associated Press reporter was
therefore unable to reach him.
Russell Sage was somewhat surprised
when informed of the conviction Of
Prendergast. Ee said: Il think he
deserves it. if ever any one did. His
pretenSionS of insanity were made up
in order to gain the sympathy of those
who might believe in him. [ think the
influence OF the verdict will be whole
some one. 1t will teach the masses to
have 10 sympathy for cranks; that they
are responsible to the law. which is the
bulwark and protection of our lives and
liberty, and its influences will be re-
strainlng to them and make them lead
the lives OF good and respectable citi-
ZenS1
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30

mayor Had Mr.. Harrison been armed
on that faithful night. had he turned
revolver to the breast Of this man. how
quickly the coward would have fled.
There is something of chivalry in the
murderer who gives his victim chance
for his life. But ther is nothing of
that here. In the early days of the
worlds fair Mayor Harrison was wont
to call the city of
CHICAGO HIS BRIDE.
''He was her choice, and the nations Of
the earth, whatever their natal tongue,
hailed the union. But he is stricken
down by the hand of an assassin, and
today that brides smile has fed. her
lips are cold and white, her garb is
SOmber black. She stands with one foot
on the edge of the neW-made grave of
her mayor, the rigid finger of one hand
pointing to the mangled remains of her
choice, so loved and admired, the other
hand pointing toward that man, mutely
appealing to you, gentlemen. not Tor
vengeance, but for absolute, indepeu-
dent and fearless justice. Gentlemen, l
thank you"
AS Mr.. Trude concluded his impas-
stoned and ferVid address, the pent-up
feelings OF the immense crowd could 10
longer be restrained, and notwithStand-
ing threat by Judge Bretano that the
court would be cleared. q ripple Of ap-
plause started in the rear OF the room
and SWelled into vigorous handcIapping.
The bailitfS raped for order, and tho
applause ceased as soon as the Specta
tors recovered themselves Sufficiently to
remember that they were i'll a court of
iuSfipP.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30
THE INJUNCTION.

This is a new method of compelling
laborers in the employment of corpora
ti0ns to submit to the DEGREES Of tteir
employers. The company has ordered
a cut in wages. Hutchinson Democrat.
A series of interviews published to-
day go to show that the railroad boys
think it's the receivers and corporation
papers that are doing the striking-in
stead of the employees. We know & bet
ter lot Of railroad men never existed
than ours.-FargO Forum.
But even if it we're precipitate, that
should not prevent the men from using
good judgment i'll dealing with thiS
question. AS a rule strikes are always
disastrous to men engaged in them.
This would not appear to be time that
promised success. Duluth Tribune.
Some of the boys feel at present as
though an injustice had been done
them, but it is doubtful if the court or
the management intend imposing Tn
just duties upon the trainmen, and the
employees will probably so conclude be-
fore setting at defiance the American
governmeht.-Fargo Argus.
There is only one thing the men can
do, unless the court issues an INDUCTION
against the new schedule taking effect,
and that will be to quietly quit work
There is no law in the land that can
keep man from quitting work ii he
likes. The men will 10 doubt consider
both sides of the question before any of
them follow such a course. .-Crookst0n
Times.
ut seems to me we railroad boys
should use the same means employed
by the receiyers-employ some good
constitutional lawyers and get out an
injunction against the receivers for i'll
terferng with the existing schedule at
the time Of their appointment. de-
cision and an appeal would take three
months, and by that time winter would
be over and times better-A Rallroader
in Fargo Forum.
The injunction granted 10y Judge
ported. will mark a very important
epoch in the history Of strikes i'll this
country. 1t virtually prohibits labor
organizations as a body from engaging
in strikes, and apparently arrays the
government on the side of the employ
ers.-GraId Forks Herald.
"There will be no strike on the North
ern Pacific railroad" said a railroad
man today, 'for the reason that even
with the cut proposed the Northern
Pacific men are better paid from diyis-
ion superintendent down TO the section
men, than the employees on any other
system except the AtchSOn. The real
kickers are the locomotive engineers,
who lose the brotherhood schedule or
contract made Dy the road some years
ago. This was regarded as great
privilege, but now it is wiped away and
they kick, but they will not strike."-
Duluth Herald.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30
MINNESOTA SENTIMEN I'd

The Wadena Pioneer publishes its
list Of marriages for 1898 under the head
of ''Tales of Woe"
If the authorities push the investiga-
ton of other pine land deals there may
be money it it-for the school fund
Morris Tribune.
The Jordan Independent puts out
siXteen-page Christmas number contain
ing an entertaining and valuable write
up Of the town.
If the fool governor has his way, Col
orado will isolate herself, like leper.
from business dealings with people out
side the borders Of the state.-Chatiield
Democrat.
In twenty years of experience work
ing for wages, the News man never
knew raise in wages to come from
any cause except the efforts Of trades
unions. County News.
J. C.Donahnwer, now eX-United States
marshal by his own selection. will 90
into the banking business. it is said.
Guess the hard times didn't tackle the
government officials.-NeW Ulm Re-
view.
1t is reported that Cows. Waite and
Pennoyer SHE'D their castor into the
ring again because they thought Lew
elling, of Kansas, was gaining too much
netority from his tramp proclamation
Mankato Free Press.
All the country demands of congress,
and all the Democratic party asks OF its
representatives in that body is to speed
lily pass the Wilson tariff bill. No fill
clustering, no obstruction or unavoidable
delays will be condoned or tolerated by
the people.-Faribault Pilot.
The Blooming Prairie Times publishes
q siXteen-page holiday edition in which
the rapid growth. advantages. splendid
location,o the Steele county metropolis
are properly doomed. They boast of
$4,000 pounds of creamery butter
shipped toEastern markets the past year
met Joel P. Heatwole, of the North
field News, in Minneapolis last week.
and he denies being out of politics.
Joel might be coaXed, but can never be
driven out of politics. The man or party
who undertakes that task will hear
something ''drap," and it will not be
Joel.-Mack, in LIE Sueur News.
A large amount OF money has been
raised among the manufacturers of the
East to defeat the Wilson bill, so it IS
said. This hustling after money by the
millionaire manufacturers is probably
to help the poor workingmen. They
have always shown their readiness to
raise FUNDS [or nem-nOt.-Cr0OkStOn
Times.
1t looks as if the farmers in the West
would have hard time to keep out of
the clutches of this great devil fish, (the
irty-6ye-million Cordage company
and if Minnesota farmers are only wise
enough to realize their advantages they
will stand by and support the state
prison factory at Saltwater. .-Mankato
Review.
Pennoyer. the idiot governor of Ore
gon. has written an open letter to Pres
ident Cleveland, in which he holds him
responsible for the present depression
in business, which is all attributed to
the action of congress and the president
on silver. Well, such ebullitions cannot
be helped-the laws of this country
permit cranks to run at large and write
d, t. letters.-St. Cloud Times.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30
DorE AND ANT1DoTE.

We do not recall an instance where
the refutation of bare and bald false
hood followed so closely on the heels of
the latter as is the one afforded by our
morning contemporary down the street
in its account of the fasce which closed
the efforts of the Duluth combination of
Republican mine owners and specula-
tors in mining stocks and few Shang-
hal Democrats to bring pressure to
bear on Representative Baldwin to
compel him to vote against the Wilson
bill. with its provision of free iron ore,
There are some trifing inconsisten!
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30

to eXtort from the federal government
that which it seeks to withhold is. in
the eye of the law, conspiracy against
Its Integrity, and will expose those who
SO unite to the severest punishment.
The trades unions that seek to place
themselves under such restraints have
suicidal tendencies that should be re-
pressed by their more conservative as
sociates III the interest of manhood and
independence.
TIE placing of the railroads and tele.
graph lines under federal control would
be but one step towards the centraliza-
ton of all power in the hands of the
chance government at Washington. 1t
would be followed by further aggres-
sionS. 1mportations Wouldsoon be an eX-
elusive governmental function. and the
manufactures necessary for the conduct
OF railroad business would of necessity
pass into the hands of the central pow
er. Men who sought employment
would be required to have political
"pull," and none but partisanS of those
Ill authority could hope to secure or le-
tain employment. The system would
tCHu W IlIeNCut CHdllScS III tlc ddululS-
tration, for the party in power, through
the agency of its off1ceholders control
ling trade and manufactures as we'll as
political offices. would be able to per-
petuate itself indefinitely. The work
ingmen would be reduced to the posi-
tion OF suppliants at the feet of politi-
clans. They could neither entertain
nor express political opinions. No mat
ter what abuses they might suffer. they
would not dare protest, but would be
be compelled 70 assist in maintaining
them by their votes.
When the paternaliStic idea asserts
itself, labor will! be reduced to'vassalage
more abject than that under which the
negro race once lived at the South.
Ambition would be destroyed, industry
paralyZed. The danger of such con.
dition is more imminent than most peo-
pie suppose. 1t will be we'll to take
heed for the future. The instance cited
should be sufficient to awaken alarm.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-30
The .Ex-President Is Silent.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dee. 29.-Au
Associated Press reporter called on eX-
President Benjamin Harrison at his
home on North Delaware street this
evening to obtain an expression Of his
views on the verdict of guilty returned
in the Prendergast trial at Chicago this
afternoon. Asked il he had read the
verdict, Gen. Harrison said:
ssYes, have just glanced at it; have
not read it carefully"
do you care to express yourself re-
garding the verdict2'' was asked.
iecE I have not followed the trial