The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-15
The St. PAUL GLOBE,
A NEW DEPARTURE.
Will 1t Become a Paper of the
People?

"A good many of us have been attack
ing the st. Paul Globe savagely. And
under the management of that God
1orsaken, moss-backed, turtle-shelled,
antiquated plutocrat, Judge Flan-
dreau, it deserved all that could be
said against it. But a change has
come over the spirit of it's dream. 1t
mas passed into new hands. The Baker
1amlly-able men-are now in possess
sion. They have put $6O,O 900 of their
own hard cash into it, and they want
to make it financial success, and
they know they cannot do that by fol-
lowing in the footsteps of Flandrau:
whose head has become the soft cush-
ion on which indignant Democrats sit
down hard wherever they are assem-
bled-as notably at Lindstrom the
other day. They realize that they had
better be at the head of whole
people in revolt, in the greatest cam
palgn ever seen in this state, than to
crawl under Flandrau's peanut stand,
and yelp, in a small, minor key, like a
distressed terrier in the roar of cy-
clone.
And hence we find these utterances
IN recent number of the Globe.
Speaking Of the courts deciding
against the workmen, it says:
A far more serious effect will be the
increase of that feeling of despair.
amounting in times of turbulence to
desperation, that there is no law for
the poor, but only for the rich and
powerful. The danger point of the
present social condition is precisely
TINS, that the wage-earners feel that
an law is on the side of their en-
ployers and none on theirs: that law
shlelds the employer and leaves to
them only physical force as means of
gcttlng what they esteem their right.
III the law designed to prevent trade
combinations is only effective to pun
lSh employees whose strikes impede
commerce, the latter will ask them
selves il they indeed be free. 1t will
add fuel to a flame that burns now but
too brisk1y.
If, however, it is held that trust
mas no standing in court, that 1t cannot
use ITS pOtrerS to enforce contracts or riQlts
the backbone of the trusts will be bro
ken. II, further, legislatures pass acts
declaring that it shall be q sufficient de-
Jehse TO dny SuH on a contract or to re-
cover a debt that the plaintiff Is a trust.
organized in contravention of laws
promoting them, and that if the evi-
dence sustains the defense the plain
tit's action shall be dismissed; if all
standing in any court, for any purpose,
be denied them and a species of out
laWry be declared against them, then
the trus t will disappear from sight and
one OF the most tyrannOuS outgrowths
OF paternalism will have been lopped
off.
Why, this is the very doctrine we
proposed,-(and it was the first time 1T
ever was proposed), in the celebrated
Antitrust Convention, held in Chi
cago in 1898. But the governors of the
states had packed that convention in
the interests of the Rings, and we had
TO break up and form seperate gath
ering; and the whole movement ended.
as was intended, in nothing. And now
the doctrine, for which we were de-
nounced as an anarchist, is advocated
by the leading Democratic paper of
Northwest. Good for the Globe. The
world moves!
But the Globe goes farther. 1t
quotes an alleged prophecy of James
G. Blaine, as to the ruin that would
be wrought if the high tariff was ever
reduced, and then adds:
There was a man who, gazing into
the future along the lines Of these
baleful forces, foreSaw to what end
they would come: a man whose name
will live when Blaine's is forgotten:
man who was at once a patriot, a
statesman and an honest man. 1t was
Abraham Lincoln. who, seeing the
forces loOsed from Pandoras box bv
the civil war, said, as he looked down
the vista of the years, and saw there
what would come Of the union Of these
forces with government: i see in the
near future a crisis which unnerves
me and causes me to tremble for the
safety of my country. AS Il result of
the war corporations hare been enthr0ned,
and an era Of corruption IN high places
eciu tottoac, and the money power of the
country will endeavor to prolong it's
reign by working on the prejudceS of
the country, until all the ,ceaHh of the
country as aggregated an tc,C hands and
the republic is destroyed. l feel at this
time more anxiety for the safety of
my country than ever before, even in
time of war. God grant that my fears
may prove groundless.'
"We put these two forecasts to-
gether, the one of the eager partisan.
the other of the broad patriot. filled
with charity for all and with malice
toward nOne,' and ask a comparison of
the predictions of each with the pres
ent conditions. undoubting what ans
wer will be made as to which was the
true prophet"
Splendid for the Globe. We reach
out the hand of good will across the
bloody chaSm. Shake!
Follow in these lines and YOU will
become great instructor of the peo-
pie; an enlightener Of your followers:
and a safeguard to the republic. Fol
low in these lines and you need not
fear the face of your God, when the
Great Editor writes "3O'' at the end
of your copy.
P.S. Since indicting the above we
have read the Globe of Aug. 9, aud in
it we find three very significant arti-
cles. The first is the publication
without word of dissent or comment,
of the following reflection on the pre-
decessors of the present managers:
'sLe Roy independent: The ST. Paul
Globe wastes quite an amount of 9TH
erwise valuable space by inserting
promiscuously in its columns, "A