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St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
COMBATING A CRIME
Bishop Hare on the Easy Di-
vOrce Law of South
Dakota.
A Lasting Shame Upon the
Fair Young Common
wealth.
The Renowned Ppelate De-
nounees 1t in Strong
Terms.
~ y
The Law Fosteped for Profit
and to Advertise the
State.

With all the notoriety, criticism and
general ridicule that have fallen to the
share OF South Dakota on account of her
lax divorce laws, says the Chicago
Herald, it is a significant fact that very
little 0utcry against them has been
heard from citizens of that state. The
prevailing opinion there may be said TO
have been expressed by prominent
politician the other day. when he said to
reporter: "No, sir; we don't want the
law changed. 1t is too good an adver-
tlsement for South Dakota" !"
That this is the view held by many
South Dakota people, especially those
in positions of influence and authority,
is Indicated by their eloquent silence
Oh the topic.
A voice OF rem0ustrance. however,
has at last been raised within the very
stronghold of divorcedom, the city of
SiouXFals. Itremained for Protestant
clergyman, and no less influential a
man than the Episcopal bishop of the
state, to make the first formal and
public protest against what he denom-
mates IA national scandal"
Denounced FroEn the Pulpit
Rt. Rev. William Hobart Hare, bishop
of the diocese of South Dakota, took up
the subject of Marriage and Divorce" Z"
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
FUTILJSM.

Futilism is the outcome of the efforts
of the futilist. The futilist is one who
believes religiouSIy in the government
as a reformatory medium. There is no
social i'll, resulting from whatsoever
cause, that the futiist does not believe
could be removed if only the govern
ment be invoked The futilist and
The difference is that the paternalist is
usually active in getting the govern
ment to do something which will feather
his nest. while the futilist is more of a
disinterested philanthropist.
The Tutilist learns nothing by eX-
perience. He has been experimenting
for ages. Every i'll to which he has ap-
piled governmental poultice is just as
lively as ever. He never eXtirpated a
single pest with all his activity and eff
fort. From each failure, which he al
ways ascribcs to every cause but the
right one, he rises with undimlnished
confidence to use the same means for
some new development of human
cusSedness. He has no faith Ill mems
ability to take care OF themselves; :;
his basic article of faith is that they
must be guarded and shielded at every
turn.
He is numerous and ubiquitous per-
son. Often he manages to get himself
elected to the Legislature, and comes
down to his state capitol with his grip
bulging with remedial bills. If he can
not get elected, he resolves himself
into an army of lobbyists and hangs
about the halls and committee rooms.
borlug everybody with his plants.
Sometimes he is woman, and then he
is especially to be, and is feared. Per-
hapS he succeeds i'll getting some OF his
panaceas adopted and embodied in the
statutes. Then he goes home proud and
happy, and waits for the law to get in
motion and begin its demolishing and
renovating career. The statute is too
dignifed body to move Of its own vo-
lition, of course, and the persons affect
ed by it will not furnish the motive
power, and it becomes one of the dead
letter laws. Of course the futilist
never imagines that it is his duty to set
his law in motion; he would rather
have the satisfaction of railing at some
one else for not doing it.
The futiiiSt has filed the statute
books with laws enough to legislate all
humanity into morality if mere laws
were efficacious. But they aren't. The
social evil flourIshes in the face of laws
prohibiting it. Gambling goes on un-
temporary spasm from which he recOv-
ers soon. The congress abolished trusts
aud they pursued their fecund career,
multiplying more rapidly than ever.
The manufacture and consumption
of oleomargarine grows steadily in
the presence OF law designed
to stop it. 1t graces the tables
of our own state in spite of-a pro-
hibition of its sale and Of $4,000 COM
mission. The futlist in the legislature
prohibited the railroads from granting
passes, and yet he rides over the state
on them. And now futilist from Min
neapolis, uudeterred by the fate of pre-
vious efforts, would stop men from buy
ing and selling grain, Indifferent to the
fact that, even if he succeed in passing
his bill, men will keep right on doing
what is forbidden. The FutiIist is the
reverse of the Bourbon; he always
learns and always forgets.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
MoNARCH1CAn OVERTHROW.

MON Ot III AhhO w.
The queen of the Hawaiian islands
has been OyerthroWn, and the republic
an spirit of the age has found another
opportunity to assert itself. More than
that, the republican spirit of the ISL
andS recognizes in the United States
the most perfect eXemplitication of re-
publcanism in the world, and seeks ad-
mission as part Of our country. While
the savage blood lurked in the veins of
the pretty well-educated Queen LIIIUo-
KALANI, and despotic tendency might
be expected of her, her course finds
ample parallel among monarchs of the
highly civilized white race who possess
the same opportunities, and tends forci-
bly, to show what man will do with
power. The strength of monarchy is
planted in ignorance. AS enlighten-
ment spreads among the masses mon
archy disappears like biting frost un-
der warm sun. The exciting times in
Honolulu revive the dark pages Of Eu-
ropean history when intriguing mon
archs throttled their subjects with
tyraunicaI measures. But the day is
gone when such movements can thrive
at all, or for any great length OF time.
Whether the United States wants the
Hawaiian islands is a matter deserving
of considerable careful consideration.
If there is nothing to be gained by the
acquisition further than the mere ex-
tension of our territory, it seems like
folly to accept it. If we could gain by
it means of bettering our defenses
and our commercial interests, then,
perhaps, it would be well to admit the
islands. Many contend that the cqui-
sition would be valuable to US in a COM
mercial way; but the matter should be
considered thoughtfully before taking
the step which will make that country
a part of the United States. The en-
largement of our territory is contrary
to the original principles of our govern
ment, and it should not be engaged in
without the best of reasons for so doing.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
WHOSE OK IS GORED?

1t made vast difference in the law
yer's opinion of liability whose OK was
gored. 1t makes as great difference
on whose side, politically, priests use
their influence with electors. For in
stance, it is said that two Polish Cath
Olic priests Of Milwaukee went to Madi-
son to labor with a member of their
faith and nationality to induce him to
change from BRAGG to MITCHELL.
Thercupon the Chicago Tribune moral
ICES: This blending of religion and
politics should not be encouraged"
And the staid and grandmOtherly Old
Evening Wisconsin calls it "a disgrace
full spectacle" and says that "the ap-
peal 10 the influence of the priesthood
is now a common method Of accomplish
ing a result among the Democrats"
off" it cimaxes. "the Republican lead
ers ever stopped to such practices the
BourbonS would howl like madmen."
This will not be very pleasant reading
for large class of Minnesota Repub-
licans. They will not now recall with
any pleasure the recollection of the
priests who canvassed the state during
the recent campaign, and Numbered
from their pulpitS warnings against the
enormity OF voting for a gentleman for
governor whose faith was that of the
Catholic church. They will feel that
their work of sending men out into every
Lutheran neighborLood to warn the
people that the election Of the Democrat
ic candidate for governor would bring
with it the appointment OF a Catholic
priest as state perlntendent OF schools
and the division OF the public school fund
among the parochial schools of that
church, was not after all so praise
worthy, when they read how such emf
nent authorities of their party view
such mixing of religion and politics.
Even Senator DAVIS may now regret
that he permitted himself TO say that
'"whatever may be said for our candidate
| for governor, this at least can be said.
that he came from land and a country
where popery has had no footing for
over four hundred years."
And yet, knowing that these methods
were being used by their adversaries,
the "Bourbons" refused not only to
''howl like madmen," but they refused
to follow their opponents down into the
Wallow of bigOtry in which they found
such relish.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
A disappointed Man.

Texas Siftings.
lie had been found guilty of picking
pockets. Judge Duffy said to him:
This is your second offense. l will
give you three years in the penitenti-
ary."
II deserve it, Judge; want to have a
chance to reform"
"You will get it,
81 will come out of the penitentiary a
better man than when went in. Do
have to go there at 0nce?'
"Certainly."
That's bad. l was in hopes 1 would
get out in time to work the crowd at
the worlds fair in Chicago"
"My impression is," replied Junge
Duffy, "that if you don't want to be
robbed you should stay away from Chi
cago."
Note-Judge Duffy was Tammany
hall delegate to the Chicago convention.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
SPEAK BUT GOOD OF THE
DEAD.

Are there no limits to the application
Of the old saying? Does it mean that
there shall be no just criticism of the
actions in life of him who has passed into
the mysteries? Or does it mean that
only malice and spite and envy and
hatred shall cease their eager pursuit
when the object of their chase has
passed the dread portals into the silence?
The impulse to speak only kindly OF the
dead is natura! one, and unless the life
of the dead man was mostly evil, words
Of criticism, even if just, jar Oil the ear.
How strong this impulse is is apparent
in the extreme to which men feel
warranted in going III writing or speak
ing of the dead Friends and foes vie
make death a great magnilier. The man
is greater dead than living. Even his
vices take on the hue of virtues i'll these
obituaries. But we owe as much to the
living as to the dead. Where the life of
the man WHO has passed from our
sphere of activity has been Of such
prominence that his career may serve as
an example to our youth; where he has
risen above the kindly shelter of the
Obscurity Of the lives of ordinary men,
and has won public station, it may be
we'll questioned if death should seal our
ips to the speaking of the truth;
whether we do not owe it to our
children that the shadows as we'll
as the lights of the character Of
the dead publicist should be given.
Is it we'll for them to learn thatnothing
but praise shall be spoken of the man
dead, of whom, living, they have heard
also much of ill? Which will be dis
credited in their minds, the fact, the
charge or the panegyric? Will the iD-
lentiye to high aims, right conduct,
lives of honest effort be any stronger il
they learn that it matters little what
great vices may have run parallel with
great abilities in the life Of the deceased,
for the world will ignore the one and
eXtol the other when he dies? Do we
not forget that men leave after them
their lives as examples for good or evil
mixed or unmiXed? In trying to be
more than just to the dead, may we not
be less than just to the living who seek
eXemplarS?
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
BILL sCROGGINS' AID.


They Wuz fuSsin' and steWln,
And hustlin' to and tro,
From the old Tom.cat
To the watchdog fat,
All hands on the jump and go.
Some tall preparations,
BY distant relations
And others no kin at all,
Such Squirmin' and sWery1n',
AS one Wuz observin
Alta hOe-doWn, country oall.
AS the night wnz Wanln
There Wuz much complalnin,
And some felt uneasy, they did;
Yet the whole commotion,
Cos God took notion
To send down an angel KID.
The wee little feller
Did he holler and beiler,
And kick up his feet apsurdT
Well not by n jus-fIl,
He hadn't his mug-ful,
And wasn't sayiu a word.
All the same, i'll woEder,
He stared, by thunder.
AS much as if to remark,
stOh, gracious goodness,
Excuse my rudeness,
I'm in OH this jolly larkl"
And Scroggins, The daddy.
Clipper? Ave, glad he,
Bills ecstasy skyWard slid.
His strange iucoherence,
And blunt interference.
Was all on account of the Kid.
The jublant neighbors
Shet down OH their labors
AS soon as they heard the news.
And left pots and dishes
To run with best wishes
And other felicitous views.
Old gossipin' damSels
And whisperin nam selles,
With little ShaWlS over head,
Showed up with their JabDer,
And noisy palaver.
Well-disposed, but not well-bred.
And, seein' them comin-
These silly old Women-
Bill Scroggins retreated ana hid.
He knew from ther pratin',
And gesticulatin',
They wanted to size up the KID.
Some sittin. some rockln',
They kept up a taiKln,
AS females most sometimes do;
While down in the cellar,
Bill Scroggins poor teller,
Wuz wonderin when they'd get thro'.
CobWebby and musty,
And otherwise rusty,
He pashuutly bore MS lot
AWishin' those ladies
Were some place in Hades,
Where the weather WuZ good and hot.
For more nor ali hour
They kept up shower
OF stale compliments, they did;
Bill groaned in despair,
at the foot of the stair
But never u word from the kid.
An old tarmiganJ,
Guess all uncle or aunt
Suggested a name for the lad;
She recalled with tear,
And q blink and bear.
How she named the one boy she had
She thought that ,JosIer
Would suit the desire
of mabbe prince or king;
A neighborin lady,
Priscilla Ann Brady,
Remarked, sotter-voice: just the thing"
The child should be called
Just plain Archibald,
A lady i'll black here bid
ITO the deuce with you both,
Thought Bill with an oath,
All the while he laid low, that Kid.
"AoW would Grover suit?''
Said an ancient suite,
Who wuz stuck OH our chief-elect;
mot at all--none o that"
Spoke 'Grandpapa nat,
.:Methinks Ben were more circumspect."
A dreary eurmudgeon,
With COB like gudgeon.
Thought pierrepont pretty name;
Another said Caesar,
Not meanin' to tease her,
But Just in the interest of Fame.
Right here. thro' the trap,
Scroggius rose with snap,
Saying. ''Girleys, you give me Chilli
If yer askin' the father
What name he 'ud rather,
You can put the kid down for Bill, ;"
Michael Joseph Donnelly.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

sch ools of Lockport had a spelling con-
test the other day, to the great delight
of their pupils, because some of the
teachers did not altogether cover them
selves with glory. OF the pighty-five
only five spelled Rensselaer, correctly,
and "a per cent of the whole number
misspelled acknowledgment ALI of
the following words were wrongly
spelled by more than half of the teach
ers, and several of them by more than
fifty: "Supersede," ''resuscitative,"
excellence" benefited" business"
medal" maintenance" "milliuer,"
''pretentious," gaseous" and "con-
cede." The name "Genesee' is said TO
have canght good many victims.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

and 1t was for the building of his church
in Sioux Falls that the Astors made a
contribution of SIS, 0J0.
The bishop is man of commanding
presence. with clear-cut, scholar ly
face and dignified bearing. His SER
mons are marked by incisive language,
wealth of illustration and happy
turns of thought. He breaches usually
without manuscript. and in an easy,
conversational style. which yet never
descends to familiarity. The we'll
known fact that he is the furthest de-
gree removed from pulpit agitator or
divorce law.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

SINCE SAM SMALL abandoned the
pulpit and accepted a position in the
editorial staff of the Atlanta ConStitu
tion, that paper ridcules ''as old maids
and old grannies" all "who have given
money to establish schools for freedom
in the South" SAM seems tHShave
caused the paper TO also become back
slider. This expression is enough to
cause HENRY ". GRADY to turn over
in his grave and groan.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

THE old English law contained pro-
vision whereby itigants might settle
their suits by wager of battle" By
This means the parties to the suit en-
gagged IN fistic encounter, and the van
uuished party was defeated in his case.
The law went out of existence in 1919;
but the bar of Chicago seems bent on
reviving it. During the past two
months the lawyers of that city have
had six or eight fights in court during
the trial of cases. The last one took
place Wednesday.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
A Perverse Nation.

Boston Herald.
Of all the living statesmen who have
been conspicuously associated with the
government of France during the past
fifteen years. there are just about three
whose skirts are entirely clear of Pan
anna mud. These are Ribot, Brisson
and Constans. All honor to the triol
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

The diplomatic philosophers are fig
uring now that there is little danger of
a European war. 1t seems that BIS
MARCK some years ago had sinister
motive in leading France into the hasty
occupancy Of Tunis. The greed made
Italy a lasting enemy of France. Italy
now stands with the triple alliance, and
makes it strong enough i'll the Mediter-
ranean to bar the progress of France to-
ward Syria or Egypt. All the other
powers except Russia oppose France in
the matter.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
E The GLOBE this morning publishes

E The GLOBE this morning publishes a
communication on the subject of the
location for the proposed new capitol,
but does wish to be considered as father
Ing the views expressed. Now is the
lime for thorough exchange of thought
upon the subject, and the public is in
Vited to use the columns of the paper
for the purpose. The communication of
This morning is much longer than de-
sired, and future communications should
be short and pithy. All presented in de-
IirabIe form will be published, regard
less of the views of the GLOBE.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
A Relief Anyway.

Chicago Herald.
Gail Hamilton continues to thunder
away at Mr.. Gladstone through the col
umns of the American newspapers.
She cannot have the remotest hope that
the grand old man will ever see any
of her articles, but she relieves her
mind anyway, and that is some satisfac-
tion. no doubt,
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
No Loss Without a Gain.

Chicago Inter Ocean.
The snow and cold have interfered
with railroads in the West, but have
enabled the farmer to market his stuff.
When the zero weather lets up millions
of pounds from storehouses and gran
aries will be found waiting to be loaded
at every station in the West and North
west.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

NEW YORK wants congress to apprO-
PIRATE 100000 for the naval review.
Here is Chicago's opportunity to effect
a deal with the Empire city whereby an
increased appropriation for the worlds
fair can be obtained. To be compelled
to come together for such an arrange
ment would be a bitter pill for the two
cities to swallow, but no doubt they'd
swallow il all right.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

Mr.. JAMES CoRBETT is engaged in
another fight. Its with PATRICK SHEE-
DY, widely known backer of the prize
ring. Iti is only war of wind; but they
are calling each other all sorts of names
at long distance apart, and making as
warm fight as such a battle is capable
of being.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

PRESIDENT HARRISON, in making
provision for LICE HALFoRD and the
rest Of his official family, seems TO have
overlooked Miss SANGER, his type
writer. He may vet make commodore
of her. She is certainly as fit for a
sailor as LICE for a soldier.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
TODay,S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s For Minnesota
aud Iowa: Fair; colder; northwesteriy
winds. For North and South Dakota: FAIR;
warmer Sunday night; northerly winds be
coming variable. For Wisconsin: Clearing
Sunday morning; colder; northwesterF
winds. For Montana: Local snow; warmer;
variable winds.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

Tue belief is growing that the death
of Justice LAMAR has afforded Presi-
dent HARRISON all opportunity to settle
comfortably for life another member OF
his official household - Law Partner
MILLER. 1t is hoped that President
HARRISON may skip this opportunity
and place an ADLER man on the bench.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

ST. LOUIS boastsof being an immense
boot and shoe center. As ''oId Missouri
is noted for containing more barefooted
people than any other state outside
Arkansas, the dealers must be interest
ed in the long distance railroad haul
n,nfhnd
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

AND still Mrs. LEASE is not happy.
She averred that she was not candi-
date for the United States senate; but
she was all the time feminist every man
who was. She is-yery much put out
about the election of Judge MARTIN.
OF course she wasn't a candidate.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

THE morals of France, as well as the
politics, seem to be in a putrid condi-
tion. The statistics of the nation for
1891. just issued. show that not less
than 25 per cent of the births in Paris
during the year are iIIegitimate. The
ilegitimate births in the Pas de Calais,
the Somme and the departments around
Paris and Orleans average 13 to IA per
cent. The wretched divorce laws of
America are capable of bringing about
such a state of affairs here.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29
MEN AND WOMEN.

The late ex-President Hayes was
wounded four times during the war,
once almost fatally, and had three
horses killed under him.
Ward McAllister has been. accorded
the doubtful honor OF having crimping
iron named after him.
Mrs. Sarah Ripple, of Scranton, who
is ninety-nine years of age, has smoked
since she was twenty.
Lady Castel Stuart, who had claimed
to be the last direct descendant of the
royal Stuar.s, died at Rome recently.
Murat Halstead declares the report
incredible thatex-President Hayes voted
for Mr.. Cleveland.
Barbara Frietchie's flag, which Whit
tier ImmortaliZed, is preserved by Bar
bara's niece, Mrs. Handschen. 1t is Of
silk, about twelve by eighteen incnes,l
and attached to staff about three feet
long.
Ex-President Hayes portrait, 1t IS
thought, will be placed on the govern
ment treasury notes before many
months. The faces of Grant and Gar
field have been so used.
Miss Ruth Burnett, of scarborough,
Mass, Mrs. Cleveland'S intimate friend,
after whom little Ruth was named, has
been formally received into the Convent
of the Sacred Heart at Kenwood. n. Y.
Mrs. n. B. Forrest, widow of the
famous Confederate general, dled the
other day at her home in Memphis. She
was the only person, save Uncle Sam,
to whom the stubborn old fighter would
bend his will.
When DR.. Brooks was commanded"
as the phrase goes, to preach before the
queen. some one asked him if he was
afraid to do so. NO" he replied,
smiling. Il have preached before my
mother"
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

OssIAN GUTHRIE has written an artl-
sle for the Illustrated Worlds Fair on
The glacial geology of the site of Chi
cago. That city was built on quag-
mire which seemed TO have no solid
foundation short of the center of the
earth, and Mr. GUTHRIE must have an
Imagination equal to the damsel who
furnished the Arabian Nights Enter
tainment to be able to build story upon
Ihe few frogs and toads which have
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

IHE gondoliers of Venice, like Othel-
10. have lost their occupation. The
street waterways of the city of the sea
are frozen over. This has not occurred
before during the century.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

PECK, the assistant Republican sta
tistic twister, has gone like the year l09!
out of existence. He still lives, they
say, but nobody cares to think about it.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-29

The pension rolls will, no doubt, be
revised. In the work justice should be
done the old soldier; but the taxpayers
are not deserving of injustice.