St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-30
and poor old New York is already dis
consulate at the prospect.
BE THANKFUL.


Everybody should give thanks today
to the Divine Providence that presides
over the destinies of the human race,
and although all have not been equally
| favored, each, in looking over1the record
| of the past twelve months, can find
something for which he has cause for
| gratitude - some boon received. some
catastrophe averted. A Though the year
has been full of disaster by land and
sea, although commercial stagnati0n,
financial ruin aud industrial distress
have visited thousands, there is reason
for thankfuluess that the calamity was
not overwhelming and that the how IF
promise is now shining in the industrial
heavens. giving hope for the future and
consolation for the past. Things might
have been worse; we might have suf-
fered more.
The people of st. Paul have good
cause for thanksgiving. They have
been visited with many evils during the
year that has flown. Their property
has been at the mercy OF a gang of des-
perate criminals, and yet they have eS-
capped with comparatively small loss.
Burglaries have been frequent, high
way robberieS too common occur
renee. but the thieves have not
carried away everything in sight
We have cause for thankfulness
that, although they Quilted the safe
in the office of the chief of po-
lice and carried off its contents, they
left the court house behind. Some of
our citizens have fallen upon the icy
sidewalks and sprained or dislocated
their limbs; they should be thankful
that the negligence of the city fathers
did not cause them to break their necks.
Our taxes have been heavy in order to
meet the cost of conducting a reform
city government that does not reform,
and yet the taXgatherers have not been
able to secure all that our citizens pos
SeSSed. For this also we are thankful.
we have cause to be thankful that the
national administration has fallen UNI
der the control OF party whose guild
ing star IS justice and patriotism the
equality of all men before the law. 1t
has shown its antagoniSm to class inter
estS by removing from the statute
books one of the browning infamies of
class legislatiOn-the compulsory coin
age OF silver. And 1t has already made
substantial progress in the direction of
the removal of system of class legisla-
tion-the protective tariff-that threat
ened the control of our government in
every department, and the subservlence
of our whole people to monopoles.
Republicans have reason to be grateful
that the force of their downfall has
been broken by TEN porary success i'll
few state elections; Democrats may
congratulate themselves upon the fact
that the landslide was delayed a twelve
month. and that it did not completely
overwhelm them.
There is reason for general thankful
ness that the worlds fair is over, and
that there is an end to- the quarreliug,
pickering and strife that it has engen-
dered. The board of lady managers
will indulge in no more hair-pulli ng,
and Col. Phoebe CouZlns will have to
content herself with appeals for the re-
dress of her grievances to the secretary
of the treasury. The committee on
awards has completed its work and
abandoned the field, where John Boyd
Ihacher alone remains to hear co m
plants and ward off criticisms. There has
been temporary lull in the contention
as to which brewery carried off the prize
for beer, which brand of baking powder
was found to be the purest, which piano
possesses the finest tone and the great
est volume.
Perhaps the most grateful person in
he universe today will be Queen Liliuo-
kalanI. who is once more at the steps of
the throne from which she was recently
deposed. She will, no doubt, have a fat
turkey roasted for her own especial
benetit,and enjoy the feast with as much
pleasure as her ancestors ever expert
enced when they dined on roast mission
airy. But ThurSton and Stevens, the
twin conSpirators who drove her from
power, will not be invited to her feast,
and if they have turkey at all it will be
served with humble pie.
1t is matter for thankfulness to the en-
tire community that at this time the
poor have not been forgotten. Through
out the land there has been systematic
endeaVor to provide all, no matter what
their condition, with bountiful Thanks
giving dinner. The waits who live
chiefly in the streets have been remem-
bered, and so have the sick and the
manned who thIong our hospitals and
asylums. None need be hungry on this
day of general JOY. At family reunions
all over the land blessing will be asked
upon bountiful repasts and a prayer
| will ascend for those who are absent
a prayer from the heart, that will reach
the most high as pleasing incense and
bring down the choicest benisons in re-
| Spouse.
The poor find that they are not friend
| less today. Let every one give thanks