St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-26
lister aud vote. provided the New York
congressional war shall be ended.
NOT AN ELtEdOSYNAHY IN.
STITUTlON.

LlNiUe care VI aH t'iot
lee. This is commendable.
The city of ST. Paul, in the same
shirt, pensions her guardians of the
peace and property OF her citizens who
shall have served her wOrthiiy and con-
tinuousy for twenty years. That, too,
is conmendable.
The state provides home for dis
abled veterans, where they may retire
and be sheltered from poverty and want
and cared for when sick. and be given
honorable burial when the final order
for muster ont comes. And the city has
its retreat for the poor, the destitute
and needy, into which they can go aud
be fed and clothed and taken care of.
These are the humanities Of our ciyili-
cation.
But because the state and the city
have done this there seems to have been
developed in che minds of some the idea
that it is the duty OF the state to take
care OF everybody who has shown in.
ability to take care of himself by
taking him into the public service at
a comfortable salary. They do not hest
tate to ask Tor nominations, and then Tor
votes, because they have been unf0r-
tunate anu are needy.
"The pint o this 'ere observation
lies in the application ont" E. q.
Rogers has this peculiar notion of the
public service. He did not always think
SO. That was when he was cutting a
wide Swath here as capitalist. 1t was
in the days OF the boom. wnen dirt was
turning into gold, and its value went
kiting. Ed flew high He made money;
he grew wealthy. With his wealth grew
his appreciation of his hitherto unsus
pected financial genius. He began to
suspect that he was a Napoleon of
Finan ce.
st. Paul became Utica too pent up
to be field for the full swing of his
genius He. like Alexander. sighed for
other worlds to conquer. He cast covet-
| Gus eyes on Chicago. keene and Old
| Hutch and Pardrldge and the Armours
| had made their millions there. and why
not hep SO he skinned the cream off
his st. Paul pan and hied him to Chi
| cagO. where III short order the bulls and
the bears licked up his cream. leaving
him nothing but a rich but inconvertibIe
| fund OF experience.
| Ed. like that king of France. forth-
with marched down the hill again and
returned to st. Paul minus his shekels
and plus his experience. and impressed
with the idea that in some way and for
| something he had done or had not done
| the public owed him support in a
| handsome sort of a way. Two yeaIs ago
lie thought they owed him a term in
| congress, but Kiefer was taken and Ed
was left. This trip lie has persuaded
| his party that the clerkship Of the courts
would about suit him. especially as his
excellency, Gov. Nelson, had kindly i'll
| creased its emOluments from measly
and beggarly 5000 a year to tile gentle
| manly and commensurate remuneration
| of S25. coo annually.
! Mr.. Rogers plainly looks on the city
as an eleemoSynary institution. designed
| to handsomely provide for decayed Ma
| pOleOns of Finance and of the lambs
shorn of their fleeces in Chicago. But
Ed is a Republican. and only shares the
economic ideas of his party. He isn't
to blame. if he is mistaken. Reed and
Mckinley declare it to be the duty of
the government to provide employment
for the people. and Ed needs employ
ment. Ergo, etc.
That isn't the Democratic idea, which
Mr.. Van Slyke represents. That idea
is TO fad fit man, capable of doing the
| work needed to be done, and take him.
Ii one can be found who has lived long
enough among the people TO be known;
to have established character for hon.
esty and dependability, that's the man
| the Democratic idea calls for. If, in
addition, he has been called on to per.
| form public duty, and in its discharge
| has been faithful. all the better. If he
| has served well in minor stations or in
those OF responsibility without emolu.
| ments, and one more responsible, with
| greater compensation, Is wanting an in
cumbent, the Democratic idea calls to t
such man. That is the difference be-
tween the ideas of the two parties That
is why Ed Rogers is the Republican can
didate, and why William Van Slyke is
| the Democratic candidate for clerk of
the courts.
1t seems like work of supererogation
to say anything of Mr.. Van Slyke. The
man is newcomer here who does not
know him or Of him. For thirty-four
years he has lived and done business
! here, except the yeals he wore the blue
| in his country's service. If any public
| movement ever called for individual
| sacrifice of time or means. Van Slyke
was III the front of the movement. He
| never deemed himself Napoleon of
| Finance, but was always modest,
plain, everyday man of business, mind
ing That's and contented with it. The
people have often called him to serve
them, and no man can rise and say he
did not do it well and faithfully; and
well and faithfully he will perform the
service to which the people will again
! call him on Nov. 6.