St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-05

ling With Sound Sense.
BUXTON. March 40 the Readers
OF the GLoBE-My Dear Readers: These
are compound times. They are peculiar
and serious. Peculiarness and serious
ness mixed make tough combination
in politics and business.
They are peculiar, for every body Is
kept busy trying 20 solve why every
thing is so cheap, and, after solving,
are not able to buy anything even at the
very low prices. This is peculiarly
hard. 1t is hard pan, without anything
to put in the frying pan. 1t is rock bot
tom, without any rocks to put i'll your
pocket.
Where a little will buy so much, not 10
have or be able TO get that little 10 eX-
change for the much is peculiar seri-
business, narrowing to the soul and dis
cOuraging 20 business aspirations.
This is the first famine ever known in
land of plenty-the first time in the
history of man where a good horse
could be bought for 50, a buShei OF
wheat for II cents, pound of wool for
seven cents, pound of sugar for four,
and farm for claiming and living OH
it: where nation OF $1,000, 900 people.
in good health. i'll possession Of a pro-
ductive country filed with free schools
and abundance of good money, with
cities and country crowded with labor
ers wanting labor. still, everything i'll
the Industrial world covered with mill
dew, eaten by moths and full of worm
holes. With the sun shining brightly.
great America Is standing still, declar-
ing it too dark 10 see.
l hear some one say: These are
Democratic times" An inidel, who
iectured before a large audience. at a
large price, in Minneapolis short time
ago, said: III the government could
be turned over 10 the Republicans. in
twenty-four hours every idle smoke
stack would be smoking. every idle dol
lar would be circulating, and every idle
hand would be employed at good
price"
Just think of party able TO do so
much being shut out OF Office, and not
able to put one thing 10 smoking and
circulating! In these hard times. when
we are suffering for the circulation of
smoke and money, it is too awfully
awful to contemplate.
My dear readers. let US express polti-
cal opinions without Quarreling. Let us
not snend the short hours of manhood
and womanhOod wrangling over p0liti-
cal differences. Let US reason without
prejudice and exchange opinions with
due respect for all.
Political platforms and cTeedS have
binding force with some, and command
tue respect of many; but there is con-
dition TO which even platforms and
creeds must bow, and that is to natural
law. Law must bow to law i'll order TO
preserve order. Natural law is superior
10 human statutes and political parties.
Unless platforms and creeds come
within the scope OF natural law they
amount 10 nothing.
Everything Is cheap now and terribly
mixed. Why should it not be? The
only surprise is ii is not worse. If one
plain reason Tor this is given it will be
sufficient for one letter. Everything has
dwlndled 10 low point, and will dwin-
die still lower, because American citi-
too cheap 10 be respected. What is
cheaper than American citizenship? TIC
gain it our forefathers spent years of
blood and treasure. To gain it covers
the history of this country from Bunker
Hill to Yorktown. This precious
pearl. which cost our forefathers
years of struggling and suffering,
which was brought forth through the
price of unknown lives, tears and pray
ers, is now drug or the market at 50;
and every tramp, scamp. pauper and
anarchist from all lands is run after and
begged 10 accept it. And those who are
Indifferent and don't feel like squander-
ing 81 for that which our forefathers
paid so dearly and priced so highly find
accommodating politicians ready and
willing 10 present it TO them free in
order to catch their votes.
saw 10 men standing in line before
the clerk Of the court in the county in
which | reside before the last presi-
dental election, many of whom could
not speak English, and had to have the
oath administered to them by an in
terpreter. As this long line was push
ing and crowding to reach the clerk TO
purchase citizenship at the enormous
sum Of 81, just the price of a days
work at threshing machine in North
Dakota; as | sat looking at these men.
making 81 investment. thought of
Washington at Valley Forge, of Gates
at Saratoga. of Francis Marion. the
.sWamp fox living on roots
in the woods and fighting with
out pay; Of Nathaniel Green
at the CoWpens, of Anthony
Wayne at Stony Point: of Andrew
Jackson at New Orleans; of General
Putnam, of Patrick Henry. of Thomas
jefferson. OF Robert Morris. of Benja-
min franklin and many other patriotic
fathers and statesmen, who filed my
brain like holy dream. While thus
dreaming and thinking OF the price our
fathers paid Tor citizenship and the
right TO vote, l was startled to see a
rough, ignorant, drunken, tobacco
chewing fellow leave the crowd and
walk over TO farmer who was a candi-
date for the legislature on the Re-
publican ticket and say, "Who is going
TO pay for taking out my papers, The
politician farmer smiled and said:
"Well. l don't know" At this, the in
diyiduai who had been induced to try
American citizenship said to the politi-
clan: by -, if you don't want to
pay for these papers, then don't want
them" Here was frank, honest r.aR:
if the politician would not put up 81
and take his vote to become represent
alive, then lie had 10 use for citizen
ship. AS an investment and bus
mess proposition, he proposed to
make his vote pay for taking out
his citizens papers-another worthy
representative smiled. paid it, and was
elected. The legislature of North Da-
kota had thirteen Republican majority
on joint ballot. But, after fattering
the ambition Of half dozen candidates