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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-04

to extra pay for any time which he
works III excess of eight hours in any
one day, even though he may work less
than eight hours on some otter day,and
other questions important TO the admin
istration of the postoffice department.
The cases came to tile supreme court on
appeals from the court Of claims, where
the decisions were against the govern
ment anu in favor of the letter carriers.
They affect very large number, if not
all, of the letter carriers throughout the
United States, and large sum or
money is involved in the decision.
The silver mine owners and others
who are of the lelief that silver is as
good as gold, and must be treated as
money have not yet abandoned their
efforts to secure a decision from the
courts that under the constitution the
proper officers of the government must
receive silver bullion and coin it into
dollars without other charge than the
coinage cost for whosoever presents it
to them. EX-Attorney General Garland
has been retained by them, and today
he moved in the United States supreme
court to advance the case, which is pop
ularly known as the silver brick case,
and officially as Case No. 1919, The
People OF the United States eX rel
George q. Merrick, appellant. VS..
Charles w. Foster, Secretary of the
Treasury. Merrlck is resident of
Colorado, and seeks mandamus TO
compel the secretary of the treasury to
receive silver brick and coin it into
dollars for his benefit. He brought the
action originally in the courts of the
District of Columbia, and. when man
damus was denied, took an appeal to
the supreme court. and today had a
motion mace to advance the case, i'll
order to secure final decision from the
cou TT of last resort.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-04
THE INOCULATED.

First they pumped him full of virus from
some mediocre COW, Is
Lest the smallpox might assail, and leave
pitmarks on his brow;
Then one day bulldog bit him-he was gum
Mug down at Quogue- so
And they filed his veins in Paris with an ex-
tract of mad dog:
Then he caught tuberculosis, SO they took
him to Berlin ~
And injected half a gallon of bacilli into,
him.
Well. his friends were oil delighted at the
quickness of the cure, 81
Till he caught the typhoid fever. and speedy
* death was sure:
Then the doctors with some sewage did lnrI
oculate hen,
And Injected half its gastric juice into his
But as soon as he recovered, as, of course. he
had TO do,
There came along a rattlesnake and bit his
thumb in two.
once again his veins were opened to receive
about gill
OF some serpentiue solution with the venom
in it sill.
To prepare him for voyage III an Asialie
sea,
New blood was pumped into him from
lep'rous old Chinee;
Soon his appetite had vanished and he could
not eat at all.
SO the virus OF dyspepsia was injected in the
fall:
Dnt his blood was SO diluted by The remedies
he'd taken
THAT one day ne laid him down and died,
and never did AWAKEN:
With the Brow:i-Sequard elixir tho they
tried Fesl!sri.G;ioD,
He never showed i SYMPTOM q TeY.NiaS aAi-
nation,
Yet his docto. Still coala save h!Rl Inc PEI
sistently lnGirialls1.
ii ne only cosl- inject a lt!.e life $40 as
vain
independent.
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Condemnation of Gould.

Arthur 7. Hadley in Forum.
The contrast between Gould's public
and private morality is not easy to eX-
plain. 1t may be that his great finan-
cial power was attended with lack of
normal moral development that he
suffered, in short, from the obliQuity of
genius. Or it may be that he believed
the common charge that the American
public valued success i'll money-getting
too highly To be over critical about the
means by which it was reached, and
that lie had only to maintain for few
years position at the head Of the
financial world to secure from society a
bill of indemnity for his past offenses.
If so, he was mistaken. The American
public proved better than its reputation.
1t never acQuieSced in Gould'S methods.
1t passed laws to prevent the
repetition Of his worst Offenses. ltdrew
the lines of financial legality closer as
the years went on. What he did i'll
Erie could not have been repeated in
Union Pacific half a dozen years later.
What he did III Union Pacific was worse
than he was allowed to do in Manhat-
tan. What he did in Manhattan could
hardly be repeated in the same form
today. Loose as are our financial
methods even now, they show a ire
mendous advance over the worst days
of Erie and Kansas Pacific. Nor was
society ready to forgive and forget the
fragrant violations of business morals
which had marked the early days of
Gould'S career. The newspaper COM
ments on his life furnish sufficient
refutation of the charge that America
cares for nothing else in comparison
wi tn success in the pursuit OF wealth.
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THAT TERRIBLE FUSION.

When the Democratic state commit
tee, to guard against possible con-
tingency Of close national election.
and aiming to prevent the election of
Republican vice president i'll case the
election went to the house, withdrew
four of the Democratic electoral candi-
dates and named four Demo-PopuliSts
in their place, the Republican commit
tee and the Pioneer Press had what old
women call "conniptlon fits" over it.
They made lachrymose appeals to the
poor Democrats of the state who had
been thus ruthleSsly sacrificed by their
committee. They held the act up as a
deliberate sacrifice of principle for the
qualification of mere spite and fierce
greed for place.
If that quick virtue which inspired
that highly moral rebuke is not sleep
ing too deep a slumber to be shaken off,
it has now another opportunity to dis
play itself before an admiring world.
Again there has been a fusion. Again
principle has been torn to tatters and
scattered on polar wave, that "thrift
might follow fawning." Let JAMIsoN
and BIXBY again let flow their ford
eloquepce. Again let the thirteenth
story windows of the Pioneer Press be
opened and its seven walls of wrath be
poured out on sthe sacrilegious crew
who have protaned the Republican holy
Of holes.
There has been fusion again, not by
''ornery Democrats with PopuliSts," but
by the strictest sect of pharasaical Re-
publicans with those barbarouS gentiles,
the Alliance. Republican principles,
priceless, divine. have been traded for
messes of pottage; places for this one
and that, and for ''little brief author
ity." Twenty-Five Republican senators
have actually fused with three Alliance
senators. Contemplate the mixture!
Protection, free trade, land loan, mono
metallism and free coinage, subtreaSury
and subsidy, all commingled on the floor
of the senate, and for what? A presi-
dency? A vice presidency? No; only
few clerkships, committee chairman
ships, scriveners, coat-holders and mes
senger boys. Oh. yes, and file keeper.
Come JOE and Bob and TAMs; get out
your handkerchiefs and weep again III
public.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-04
HEALTHY LOAFERs-

The surgeon at the soldiers home in
Quincy, H., was reprimanded recently
for describing certain inmates as s'dead
beats who ought to be made to work for
a living" Being physician, it is rea-
sonable to suppose that he knew where
of he spoke in thus rudely asserting
the bodily ability of these inmates to toll
for their sustenance, as other people do.
Probably it was simply for his rudeness
and not for any lack Of veracty that he
was reprimanded. he should have
fonnd some more delicate and propitia-
tory phrase tor describing men who are
able to work, but prefer to live in idle
ness at the expense Of people who do
work and pay taxes.
But should the fact Of his former serv-
ice in the army exempt man from
classification as dead beat" when he
elects to live on the bounty of others
notwithstanding expert testimony to the
effect that he IS physically qualified to
earn his own living?
ga nations gratitude to its defend
ers" is all right and proper. But
shouldn't there be some distinction
made between disabled defenders and a
lot Of healthy loafers?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-04

England has now over one hundred
gunboats that could enter the lakes.
Representative johnson, from North
Dakota, is very sanguine OF Senator
Casey's defeat. Il am Republican"
he said today, but would prefer most
any result of the senatorial contest in
my state to that of the reelection of
Casey. My opposition to Casey is due
to the fact that l believe in clean
politics, and that Casey was elected by
improper methods and is again trying to
practice similar methods. | should not
have returned from North Dakota had it
not been already assured that Casey
could not be reelected. | prefer the
election of Republican, but [ would
rather see an Independent or Demo-
crat elected than.tO see bribery reSorted
to. A victory which carries with 1t a
loss OF character will hurt the Republic
ans more than they can be hurt by de-
feat. There will be no caucus on the
senatorship. but the representatives of
the people in the North Dakota legisla-
ure will elect some man to the senator
ship by honest methods, and the chances
are about equal between the three
parties. The senator may belong to
either party,or may be Independent"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-04
JOHN LIS DEGENERATION.

Fatty degeneration of the jag is the
disease that is carrying off the box re-
ceipts of John L.Suliivan.-W ashington
Post.
John L. Sullivan's example is bad.
Even the scene shutters in the theater
he played in last week have taken to
striking Washington Star.
John l.. Sullivan is drunk again. His
sprees are so frequent that it seems
hardly worth while for him to have in
termiSsions of sobriety. Why doesn't
he make his life perennial jag?-Chi-
cago Times.
John L. Sullivan is becoming an ac-
compished star actor. This talk about
another fight with Corbett is an adyer-
Using dodge worthy of any of the bright
est lights of the dramatic w0rld.-St
Louis Republic.
The public never credited j. l.. Sulli-
van with very much of he art, but now
1t appears that he has one so large that
he is apt to die from it. Appearances
have evidently deceived the public
Baltimore American.
Sullivan has at last come out with the
charge that he was the victim of foul
play at New Orleans; that lie was In a
trance" after the second round, and
that his legs had 'evidently been doc
tored." Hip-no-tized perhaps.
delphia Record.
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MEN AND WOMEN.

In the house of representatives the
man with the largest name is Archibald
Henderson Arlington Williams, OF North
Carolina.
Because Gen. Patrick \. Collins, who
is now one of Boston's leading lawyers,
began life as a cabinetmaker, the New
York Recorder has nominated him for a
place in the greatest Of cabinets.
Congressman M. D. Harter has been
named in connection with the next gov
ernorship of Ohio.
The serious illness Of the shah of Per-
STA is reported. The exact nature of it
is not stated, but it is we'll known that
he has long been very sick of the in
trigues against his authority i'll various
parts of his dominionS.
Congressman Tom Johnson, of Ohio,
is always ready fer a fight when any
one calls him Thomas" Tom is the
proper name given to him by his sponS-
Ors, and he doesn't want 1t heightened
by any overpolite friend.
Mrs. Tel Sono. the Japanese reformer.
who is now lecturing i'll this country to
raise funds to establish in Toxic non
sectarian training school for women and
girls, had the honor of being the first
woman lawyer in Japan. She has been
n Christian for only five wears.
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III l1fsO ~ sBHteU Nun
Washburn'S Anti-Option Bill
in the Way Of Several
Measures.
Efforts Will Be Made to Super
cede 1t as Unfinished
Business.
If 1t Can Be Pushed to q
Vote Soon It HAY
Carry.
Ordway Going to Bismarck
Bent on Capturing the
Senatopship.
Special 70 the Globe.

Special TO the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The anti-op-
ton bill will come up in the senate
tomorrow. A United States senator,
who has been counted among the Wash
burn crowd. said this afternoon:
1.-The fight on the bill will be harder
than ever. Before the holidays there
was not much else OF great Importance
pending. But the immigration bill of
Chandeliers and the Nicaragua canal
bill, which Sherman is going to
father, have now become promi-
nent, and Chandler and Sherman have
told me that they are determined 10
get them up for consideration at the
earliest possible moment Washburn
will not give way if he can help it. l
doubt il he can help it, though, for the
opponents of the anticipation bill and the
ardent champions of the other two will
JON forces and thereby muster enough
votes to push the anticipation bill to the
wall. 1t WaShburn can get his bill to
vote at once he will carry it, but
Chandler and Sherman will not walt
for him long, and, as the opponents have
long speeches to make, | think the
chances of passing it are poorer now
than ever"
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AS THE GLOBE SAID.

The Dispatch correctly calculates the
surfing the reelection of Senator DAVIS.
1t shows that the parties who for two
years have been planning for his seat
have found that they builded too well,
and find it unsafe to venture into the
open. Their plan depended on the
legislature being again a nearly equal
triangle, with the Alliance refusing to
vote for Mr.. DAVIS or any McKinleyite,
thus affording the opportunity for a
combination. The efforts of Mr.. DAVIS
and his hackers and of the elevator
combine to secure the legislature made
the legs of the triangle too unequal to
stand alone; they made it too Repub-
lican.
The GLOBE is pleased to further note
the uncommon clear-sig htedness of its
contemporary in perceiving what the
election Of MI. DAVIS will signify. Its
view is that which the GLOBE has here
tofore expressed, and we are glad to
have our Judgment confirmed by so eX-
cellent a Republican authority as our
evening neighbor has come to be. lit
MEANS" says the Dispatch, 'that the
most distinguished exponent of the con-
trolling principle of the Republican
party shall resume his seat in the
United States senate"
The controlling principle" of Mr..
DAVIS party is paternalism in govern
ment; that is. that the government
stands in loco PARENTS to its people. 1t
has the fatherly wisdom to know what
is best for the people and the parental
power to enforce it. There is never any
llmit TO what it~may undertake for the
good Of the people except considerations
of temporary eXpediency. 1t may not
be well to do it just now, but
we will when we deem it opportune.
No question of right TO do it is ad-
Missile. We want certain industries
make the people support them. We
deem the drinking of iutoXicantS injuri-
Gus; prohibit the traffic. We do not like
to have children taught in any foreign
language; pass BENNETT laws. Our
millers are very honest and philan-
thropic folk eminently worthy Of being
entrusted with monopoly of grain buy
ing and should not be interfered with in
fixing prices; pass an anti-option bill.
Chicago packers sell dressed beef
cheaper than our home folks like; pass
an spection-on- the-hoof bill. And
so on.
AS we have said and as the Dispatch
confirms, the senior senator is the en-
bodiment Of these ultra Republican
tendencies of the party in its later days,
and as such the GLOBE regards his cleo
ton as q fitting climax to the victory of
his party in this state.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-04

Tn RESPONSE to a call issued short
time ago asking all who favor reform
of our methods of taxation to assemble
in convention, there will be a gathering
in Minneapolis today OF those who nave
given the matter thought and study.
No one realizes the difficulties in the
wav as do such men. Equality OF bur
den-bearing is the end sought. 1t is the
end which intelligent trainers of tax
laws have ever sought, and to this day
have never found. The obstacle which
defeats every measure yet devised is
the inherent, ineradicable dislike OF men
to pay tax. Every one comedies that
taxes must be levied and paid; that the
social organization has this f0r It's
foundation, and every one proceeds to
get rid of paying every cent OF tripute
possible. He will lie to the officers OF
customs and chuckle if successful. tie
will lie to the assessor and thank God he
is not as other men are. He will re-
sort to . ything from artifice to per-
jury to avoid paying what he admits
must be paid by some one.
Why is there this general, positive
and yet unconscious decentralization
about tax paying? Why has the moral
sense of men become so blunted That
they do unQueStionably and as matter
OF business what in any other transac-
ton they would avoid with horror? 1t
is simply and solely due TO the convlc-
ton with which every man is lmm0Va-
blv possessed, that under our present
methods there is no such thing as
equality of taxation. Every man knows
that his fellows are Sinking all the
taxation they can, and he feels bound in
very self-defense to do the same. Ii he
do not he knows that he is paying
some other mans taxes who does hide
his property from the assessor.
The difficulty seems to point the rem
edy. Instead of more drastic laws for
the divulsence OF taxable property; in
stead of widening the tax net to gather
in yet more sources, thus increasing the
opportunities for evasion, there should
be restriction of the objects taxed to
those incapable of concealment by rea-
son of their bulk or fiXity. This is the
drift of opinion in New York, where the
tax commissioners have just been in
session, investigating this question.
The general opinion there is in favor
of removing all personal property from
the lists because of the ease with which
it avoids assessment AS illustrating
this it was shown that in 1871 the per-
Eonal property assessed in that state
was 1906, O0O,O 900, and in 1891 it had in
creased to only 1922, OO0,0 900, while real
estate assessed in the former year at
S742, OC0,C00. had increased in the latter
year TO s., 1898, 100000.
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STUB ENDS OF THOUGHT.

Detroit Free Press.
A man is only as rich as he is con-
tented.
People find fault without looking
for it,
Some hearts are like fint-it takes a
blow 10 bring the fire out.
What is most beautiful in face lasts
longest.
Judge a man by the clothes he pays
for. rather than by those he wears.
If there is honor among thieves, they
stole it.
Don't give the devil his due if you
can prevent it.
What is one mans cloud is another
mans sunshine.
Only human beauty is spoiled by
admiration.
When life becomes too sweet, the fear
Of losing it corrects the sweetness.
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1t Discovers Trouble in the Ways
and Means Committee.

1t Discovers Trouble in the Ways
and Means Committee.
New York, Jan. ga special to the
Herald from Washington says: There
is trouble in the ways and means com
mittee. 1t began with the appointment
of the subcommittee of the ways and
means committee to investigate the
financial condition Of the treasury.
Representative Wilson, of West Viz
gina. introduced a resolution calling for
an investigation. Representative Dock
cry, OF Missouri, presented similar
one. The committee on rules decided
the investigation should be made by the
ways and means committee. When the
resolution was laid before that commit
tee Mr.. Wilson moved that the investi-
cation be made by Il subcommittee, to
consist of the chairman of the ways and
means committee. Mr.. Springer, and
four other members. The motion was
carried. That afternoon Mr.. Springer
announced the other members of the
subcommittee. They were Represent
atives Wilson, Turner Of Georgia;
Thomas 3. Reed and julius C.. Burrows.
''Where is McMillin" asked the
friends of that gentleman. Benton Nc
Mlllin, of Tennessee, the second mem
Der OF the ways and means committee,
had not been named by the chairman.
Mr. McNIillin'S friends were aStounded.
They asked him why he was ignored.
He could give them no information. AS
the inquiries and protests began to pour
in on Chairman Springer, he gave an
explanation. He had read III the papers,
he said. that Mr.. McMillin was to be
absent from Washington to assist at the
burial of Senator Gibson. He wanted
NEE ing of the subcommittee the next
day, and wishing to have all the mem
bers present, had appointed Mr.. Turner,
of Georgia. Mr. Springer expressed
desire to enlarge the subcommittee so
that Mr. McMillin might have place
among its members, but has not called
a meeting of the full committee So that
he might be formally authorized to do so.
The incident in the political situation
is regarded as having considerable sig
nficance. Messrs. McMilin, Springer
and Wilson are three of the most PROM
lnent Democrats in the house. Any one
of them might be pushed for speaker.
In the event of Speaker Crisp'S re-elec-
ton, ali three of them might want the
craftsmanship of the ways and means
committee during the next congress.
Mr.. McMillin has been developing sup
port. and his friends say somebody is
trying to freeze him out.
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put back where it was four years ago."
1t probably will be, and in the same
manner. The shortage of 100000 which
that legislature received from its prede-
cessor was paid in true MIcAwBER style
by issuing bonds for it. That legisla-
ture made appropriations exceeding the
revenues by nearly S15O,0O0. Its success
sor, the legislature of 81, shouldered
this deficit and the binding Irvine and
other useless appropriations by raising
the money to pay them, though they had
to raise the tax levy to do it.
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ORDWAY AFTER CASEY.
The Former Thinks He VIII Be
Elected Senator,

Special 10 the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-EX-Gov Ord
way will leave for North Dakota Satur-
day to take his announced part in the
senatorial fight as an active indepen-
dent candidate for Senator Casey's seat.
lie said this evening that. from advices
he had received today, he judged that
his chances of success were excellent.
'''rhey will get into scramble out
there before | arrive there" he added,
land when l get on the scene l will
find things better than [ would were l
to go out there now. | am fully deter
mined to win, and when come back /
shall have the seat l should have had
long ago." Ex-Gov. Ordway has leased
his handsome house in Bismarck to the
POpulist gOvern0r-elect. and it will dur
ing the latter's term, be known as the
State executive mansion.