St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-20

6COOPER MAKES HTMsEIF FELT
to get some kind ofindireet advertising notice
]. In the HaandWe's columns, he may, perhaps,
q be pardoned if he thinks ha is the biggest
p man on earth.
He 1magines, and who would not, that be-
cause he controls the society editor he is an
authority on society, and SO on with all the
other departments of a paper.
In due course Scooper acquires proprie-
tary interest in the paperand then there is
no holding him. He was great mortal be-
fore, now he is deity who demands worship.
Incense must be burned at his altar to insure
favors.
Talk about power, oh, reader; there is no
greater direct power in this modern world of
ours than that welded by the man in control
OF big newspaper with unlimited capital at
his back. LEtat c'est moi he may truthfully
say.
"Just lay out the Governor of the State"
he will say to his trembling, submissive edi-
torial writer, 81 am not pleased with his veto
. OF the Anti-Ham and Eggs bill. Call Senator
Flyboodle a rascal and sophistical rhetori-
clan inebriated with the exuberance of his
own verbosity."
This you know is only Scooper's opinion,
but expressed every day in the H,,nads7me for
about three months, Senator Flyboodle's
political doom is sealed.
The lofty disdain with which Scooper treats
the opinions of the Daily Bassoon, a rival
journal, is shown by the Bassoon's name never
by any chance being mentioned in the Hunols7an
and its existence being completely ignored.
Should the BdSSoon enter on a crusade against
the Superintendent of State Scrubwomen, who
it charges with making practice of purchas-
ing damaged scrubbing brushes from I'M
principled manufacturers, it is cue for the
Humdr-una to bestow the highest praise on the
superintendent and to prove beyond all ques-
ton that, so far from his having purchased
damaged brushes, he was always particularly
careful to secure the finest made, which were
of beaten gold and set with large diamonds.
Scooper and the proprietor of the HaundsMne
know perfectly we'll that the Daily Bassoom is
right, but they would rather die than admit
it; and yet Scooper will order editorials on
the power and impartiality of the press, chat
mighty engine the palladium of our liberties,
etc." What a monumental humbug you are,
Scooper.
And there are Scoopers in every great city
in the Union and lots of them in the smaller
ones.
In the course of human events president
is elected whom the Ha.n.dsune has supported
as candidate. Then Scooper thinks he will
try something diplomatic for a change. He
would like the English mission, but he can't
get that. Then he applies for Far Cathay
without success. At last he gets nominated
Minister to Jugurtha, in the wilds of Araby.
The Senate confirms him, after a discussion
as to whether his record was altogether clean
in the State Scrubwomen brush question
Scooper still retains his connection with the
Hun,dh-unl and goes to Jugurtha. The East
ern potentate, whose predecessor has mur-
dered several missionaries, receives Scooper
in grand style. Scooper is a long time get
ting used to it all. The dusky guards and
retainers, the native ladies of the court car
ried about in their paanquins and the palm
trees recall scenes to him that he has wit
messed on the New York stage in comic
operas and burlesques that he had viewed in
all their glory from a proscenium box that
managers, grateful for the H,tna6b'une's favors,
had placed at Scooper's disposal.
But Scooper grows weary Of the monotony
and wants to get back at his old work of
bullying reporters ard scaling their bills.
Besides, the Bassoon is getting altogether too
bumptious and boasting about it's circula-
ton. scooper resigns his mission, returns
to the United States and plunges once more
into the whirlpool of local politics. Scooper,
who cannot write with any grace, contributes
articles on life in Jugurtha, which he appro-
priated bodily from guide book.
With all his material success Scooper has
never had broad, comprehensive idea in his
life. He looks at everything from the mar