St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-14
MINNESOTA SENTIMENT.

Grover Is abreast with the reforma-
ton. Reps tear their hair; but let 'em
tariff they will.-Bede's Budget.
The Winona Republican publishes
detailed lists of improvements in that
city during the year aggregating
SS80.000.
The man who argues that the "bard
times" would not have come had Harri-
son been reelected may be ingenious,
sbut he isn't hopest.-Crookston Times.
The Republicans who are holding
down soft jobs in the st. Cloud land
ONCE should be relieved mex. week, but
no appointments have yet been made
Little Falls Transcript.
Clear, vigorous, powerful. the message
was hailed with delight by tile friends
or the administration, and was a sur
prise TO the oDp0sers of pure tariff re-
form.-Spring Valley Sun.
The tariff Bill reported blythe ways
and means committee is democratic and
all right. If any Improvement can be
suggested it would be in increasing the
tree list.-Wabasha Democrat.
There is this to say about the Mesaba
range. Tariff or no tariff, its iron will
he sold III large or small quantities, and
1t Will prosper il no other range in the
country does.-Two Harbors IronNews.
Another tendency of free ore will be
to force interior iron factories further
west. close to ore deposits, where the
western market can be more economic
ally supplied and absolutely controlled.
-Bede's Budget.
The Moorhead News. referring to the
pine land decision, says: These two
upright Judges have done service to
the people which should be gratefully
remembered when their term of office
respectively, expires.
Referring to the pine land cases, the
Red Wing Republican says: Whiletke
stale officials, governor, attorney gen
eral and Judges, deserve recognition for
energy and Independence, it is to Rep
resentative Dunn that the chief credit
is due.
The new tariff bill will certainly knock
out some of the big trusts, for which this
country is famous. A high protective
tariff has kept them free from compete
ton and they have made their own
prices en- their goods.-Crooksto
Times.
Did Cleveland and Gresham but know
II, 1t would be much better politics for
them to be turning out Republican post
masters and appointing good Democrats
to fill their places, instead of botherlng
themselves about Dole and Liiiuoka-
alr.-C0ttonWood Current.
In reference to the refusal of the rail.
road and warehouse board to permit
other roads to intervene in the Steiner
son case, the Moerhead News says: In
this act of the state board it is recog-
nlzed as protecting the rights of the
people, and its members should be
given due credit therefor.
The Waterville Advance speaks OF
the recent event in the family of Capt.
Harries, and adds: "This is the eleventh
child that has gladdened the home OF
Mr.. and MRS. Harries. 1t seems to be
the captains Idea that his district may
be made steadily Democratic yet"
The Litchfield Review, commenting
on recent article in the GLOBE in re-
latlon to the anti-option law, says:
The farmers are at the mercy of the
gamblers, who fix the price of their
wheat, and most of them, we believe,
would like TO see congress take some
step toward putting stop to this evil"
The people elected Democratic pres
ldent on the express pledge that the
tariff should be lowered at the earliest
opportunity. They may have made a
mistake or they may not. The party
has no discretion, however, in the mat
ter. 1t is bound to keep its promise.
That is what it went to Washington
for.-Winona Herald.
Manufactures won't stop; they will
start up. They will start up quicker
and more vigorously if we lower the
tariff than if we don't. Labor won't be
thrown out of a job; it will begin to
IND employment again. And it will
ind better employment at better terms
l InyVnV fxynr n nt1;
Duluth Commonwealth.
The Moorhead News quotes C. A.
Pillsbury as saying wheat is going up.
and the Minneapolis Times as saving
the farmers hope it will, but declare
they have no hopes i'll it, for the reason
that they have been compelled to part
with their surplus and now have no in
terest in it. 1t adds, however: Yes, it
is about time the price of wheat went
up-for the benefit Of the elevator men
and miuers of Minneapolis.
The people of the state. with the ex-
ception of small class of affiliated rob-
beers, are subjects for congratuiation at
the victory won in the district court at
Searle and Baxter in the suit brought
in the name of the state against G.. A.
Smith q Co., of Minneapolis, to annul
the sale oe section of pine land in
Mile Laos county and compel payment
of reasonable price for the timber al
ready cut.-Moorhead News.
The st. Cloud Times, defending Au-
ditor Biermann's integrity for leasing
land on basis of 100000 feet of lum-
Der from which $500, 900 was taken,s says
While those men knew just what they
were getting. Mr.. Biermann was gov
erned by the estimate in his office of the
timber on the land, and by the practices
of his predecessors in its SALE He also
had the attorney generals opinion to
back him. That he acted frauduIently
OF cnrrnntlY no one will halieva