St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-05
CHATS WITH TRAVELLERS.


mining state, yet he is emphatic in his
denunciatlon of the silverites. In con-
versation with GLOBE reporter, at the
Ryan yesterday, Mr.. Gilmore said: For
years this country has been inflicted
with the buster of silver producers,
whose whole aim was to bolster up the
marketable price of that commodity. In
their determination to get high
figure for the output of the mines, moth
ing has been left undone that could. in
their opinion. aid the attainment of this
one object. Political faith has been re-
nonnced, good citizens viiified, honest
business men ridlculed, conservative
bankers denounced. and all kinds of
schemes and arguments reSorted to III
this monstrous fight for profit Just try
and realize the immense amount of
money spent, of energy and time wasted,
of consciences and principles pIoSti-
tuted; OF the losses to the community
through stringency and shrinkages
brought about by this agitation. Then
look at the end so ruinouslY contend
ed for by these people. They produce,
say, S60,000,000 of silver year. and
they want to get. say 500. 000, 900 for it.
In order H1 to gain an additional profit, of
SAC, 0Oo, 900 year, they have recklessIy,
seltishly, NAY, criniinally, brought.
upon the whole nation a most
disastrous condition. The entire
amount involved to the mine owners
is nothing, compared with the damage
they have done other classes of citizens.
The value of their whole annual product
is no more than the loss which other
branches of industry and of agriculture
suffer from natural, or unnatural,
causes, but which losses the mine own
ers are not asked TO make good.
II - rs !
"Then, too, how insignificant is this
one industry, which produces only
S60.000,000 and employs but few people,
comparatively, when we think of the
billions of dollars which our exports
amount TO, and of the immense amounts
involved Ill our manufacturing and
other Industries, with the millions of
people engaged therein
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Finlay A, Grant, of Bismarck. n. D.,
was at the Merchants Yesterday. In
his youth he was president of the Ma
tfonal Amateur Press association, and
he has always taken a lively interest in
literary and newspaper work. MIR.
Grant is an author of more than ordinary
talent, and his articles are frequently
published i'll the newspapers and,maga-
zines published at Boston, where he re-
| sided until few yearSago. He is not
III literature for money, but merely for
the pleasure he finds in it. In talking
to a GLOBE reporter Yesterday Mr..
Grant made some very pat remarks
anent the proposed. authors congress
and the recent press congress at the
worlds fair. He said:
1.-The authors of the United States
the men and women who write books for
n Iny
from convention which shall pay
strict attention to business and discuss
the relations between writers and
printers and questions of interest to the
boOkmaker and the book publisher. 1t
is not at all unlikely that an association
of American authors will be formed
very shortly for mutual protection and
the advancement of their personal in
terests. Many of the leading writers
of the country. am told, when first APP
preached upon the subject of
fair, heartily Endorsed the pro.
Jec;, believing that such convention
would prove of practical benefit. The
recent So-called press congress, how
ever. served to open the eyes of these
gentlemen. and they are very backward
now about taking any part whatsoever
! in congress to be conducted on the
same plan. The press congress was in
! no sense of the word representa-
tive convention. 1t did not bring
| forward single representative
newspaper man during the entire week.
Eighty per cent of the addresses and
| papers were delivered by women-God
bless 'em-a Joe Howard. Murat Hal
stead. Col. Mcclure and several other
archaic representatives of a. bygone
/ journalistic age were SandWiched i'll
between Sister B0nney, Sister Henro-
[ till ana the other women who couldn't
tell the difference between a shooting
stick and Krupp gun. All i'll all, it
was the most hilariously humorous ag-
gregatlon of curios ever seen under one
roof.
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"Now comes the authors congress.
This has been mapped out along the
same lines as its predecessors. The
women who are managing it have no
lottier aim than to Shine by the reflected
light OF few literary n0tableS who are
expected 10 pose for them. And right
here comes the rub-the literary lions
refuse to be trotted out for such
silly dress parade. Such men as
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edmund
Clarence Stedman, Thomas Bailey
Aldrich. James Whitcomb Riley,
Glider and F. Hopkinson Smith, for
some unaccountable reason, are not
wildly enthusiastic over the idea of
visiting Chicago to be pulled and hauled
about for the edification of a few lion
hunters. They are not attracted by the
glittering prospect of throne rooms and
banquets and receptions. They are
| perfectly willing to forego the pleasure
| of an address of welcome by Sister E.
| c. Bonney. The literary experiences
| of Mrs. Charles Henrotin and Mrs. Pot
| ter Palmer do not interest them very
| deeply. In short, they mean business,
| and they believe the authors congress
| does not
- The press congress was the laughing
| stock of the whole country; it is hot too
| late to save the authors congress.
| Throw overheard the tuft hunters, the
| literary parveuueS, the ambitious
women with money and without brains,
| and the unseXed billy-goat figureheads,
| and surrender the undertaking to the
men and women who write bOOke and
make books"
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B. F. Niesz. of Denver, one of the vice
| presidents of the National Real Estate
| association, which meets in this city in
| August, was in st. Paul for few hodrs
yesterday. He is Ell route from Chicago
to the Yellowstone Park. Mr.. Niesz
| says that Denver will send delegation
| of more than a hundred real estate
men to the st. Paul convention.
I'VE are coming in STYLE" said he
to the GLOBE man, with special
train and all the modern improve
ments' connected herewith. Denver
! wants the next real estate convention,
! and believe she will get It. We went
| to the Buffalo congress to secure this
/ summers meeting. but st. Paul beat us
/ out of the honor. This time we haven't
st. Paul to compete with, and Denver
/ is more than match for any other city
! in the country"
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A travelling man, who is connected
| with one of the largest packing estab-
lishments in Chicago, told GLOBE re-