The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-03
MINNESOTA.
One of the Insignificant States.

| The state of Arkansas is the Egypt
| OF the Union. No state attracts sc
little public attention or shines with
SO little brilliancy among the galaxy
or states.-St. Paul Globe.
We were stopping for some weeks,
this summer, lin Mount Clemens,
Michigan; and every day we bought
the Chicago papers,-three or four OF
them,-and eagerly scanned them for
news from home. And the thought
was forced in upon us that MINES ota
was IN some respects, one of the most
insignificant states in the Union. AL.
though it was less than three hundred
miles from our boundary line to Chica-
go, and although the newspapers of
That city had great deal to say about
Kansas and Colorado and Iowa and
wisconsin, they utterly ignored this
great commonwealth, save when the
telegraph conveyed the news about a
murder or fist fight or something of
That important kind. The comings
and the goings, the sayings and the
doings of Lewelling and Waite and
PETER and Kyle and Pettigrew and In
gals were faithfully recorded, but
MINES ota! 1t was terra incoQnita,
Never once did [ see the names of the
learned Washburn, or the spotless
Davis, or the scholastic McCleary, or
any other of our illustrious men re-
ferred to in those metropolitan Jour-
nails. We were "the lost continent;''
the "NO-mans Land" Indeed they
did not seem to think our great Off
cials amounted to "shucks.' How
they could come to such a horrible
conclusion passes all comprehension;
for we know that Clay and Webster
Calhoun and Benton, Sherman and
Vest, Jones and Stewart are not to be
mentioned in the same breath, 1--WE
should say not)l with the truly great
men we have incubated so laboriously
for these many years;--yea, have set
upon so long, to hatch out statesmen,
that the very eggs have added.
Has the world grown weary of the
Tariff discussion? Is it fiat, stale and
improbable? Has it lost point and
pith and flavor and seasoning? Can
it be possible that the brutal age does
not care sixpence whether the tariff
on collars and cuffs is legislated up or
legislated down? Does it care nothing
whether "alZarine assistant" contains
80 per cent of castor oil or not? That
would be very interesting question
for most of US. Has the world no in
terest in the fact that the tariff on
tOoth-powders has been reduced 20 per
cent and that the Indians can now
clean their teeth? Is it oblivious of
that other great fact that sausage
skins and false teeth, 1--WE tremble
while we write it), have been placed
on the free list? And that the west
ern farmers can now import acorns
from England, free from duty, provid-
ed-mark the weighty distinction, =
prorided they are ang1ound! And "that
any animal, Gncluding foreign dukes
and counts. we suppose), imported es-
pecially for breeding purposes, shall be
admitted free"' And that wood ashes
and asafedita shall pay no duties-and
even cabbages shall be on the free
list!
And can it be that because our
great men refuse to talk of anything
else but these mighty issues that they
fail to attract the attention of man
kind? Does the world salute their
eloquent utterances with the disre-
spectful ejaculation-ratsi
Rome, thou hast lost thy breed of noble
When went there by an age. since the grea t
food,
When he who spake of Rome could say
That her wide walls encompassed but one
man..
And we might speak even worse of
MinneSOta-that her wide borders
seem to enclose only Washburn, Davis
and McCleary,-a flat vacuity Of moth
| ingness.
Would it not pay the state to send
off and import John J. ingalls,, of Kan
sas, to reside among us, as an immi.
grafton agency, to attract population,
by forcing mankind to remember that
there is beautiful land uphere, filled
with intelligent people, called Mime
sofa? l. d.