St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-25
From Ignatius Donnelly's representative.

From Ignatius Donnellys representative.
SMALL POTATOES. 49,
The Paramount Sentinel. Republican,
in its last issue, prints the following:
I'm our opinion it Is pretty small pota-
toes for editors TO be jumping onto Ignatfus
Donnelly because he boards at the Ryan
hotel, st. Paul. Few men in the Quilted
States have put i'll more hours of patient re-
search and laborious study than The Sage Of
NIninger. His whole life has been one of toll
and trouble. OF victory and defeat. lie has
never squandered his hard earnings in riot.
Gus living or immoral ipdulgences; and i'll
the few remaining years that are in store for
hin; he has richly earned for himself and his
noble and devoted wife all the comforts
which his moderate fortune will warrant him
in buying. Mr.. Donnelly does not belong to
our party. and he is far from peing perfect.
but when his eventful career is brought To a
close we. believe the verdict of the people
will be that the world Is better and wiser for
his having lived in it,
IDS REPLY.
Thanks, Brother Day.
We were not aware that the nasty i'm.
becilities of the country press were
making our private affairs matter of
comment. They seem to think that
man cannot take the part of the farm
ers unless he is covered with manure up
to the arm-pits. Their idea OF what a
farmer should be is peasant, bar
baran and boor, dwelling in a howell
and living on hog-feed. This is what
they have been laboring tor years to
bring him to. Our idea of farmer is a
gentleman, a scholar. a thinker; dressed
i'll good clothes. and owning fine
library; living on the best the land can
afford, and housed in comfortable
home, with. all the modern con-
veniences. That Is what we are trying
TO bring him to. In every country but
this the owner of the soil is an aristo-
crat, here he is serf.
II we can pay our hotel tills what
usiness is it OF the shangdoodles and
snollygosters of the old-party country
press (many of VIII ON you could buy for
fifty dollar bill, aud they would be
dear at the price, where we lodge? If
they had their way We should have
starved to death long ago. They have
kept us out Of Off &c. to the infinite in
jury OF the state, for twenty-five years.
and they were paid for it, but it has no,
prevented lis from making a comfortable
living, ill the meantime, and building
up reputation which extends around
the habitable globe. There are thou
sands in Europe who simply know of
Minnesota because we live in ii. Our
income from our books and writings
| has gone as high as $4,000 year; and
! yet these "miSerableS," who live on the
paste the cock-roaches cannot eat, think
we ought not to board in a first-class
hotel! Their inSolence is as boundless
as their venality. Is there no way the
state can take dose of medicine and
eXpel these COPRoLITES? They are a
| disgrace to humanity.
For ourselt we do not stand in the
attitude of beggar or a supplcant te
the farmers or any one else. We take
the side Of the people because God AL
mighty will not permit us to do other
wise; we have never made penny by
it. and never shall, but we have LOST
many thousands of dollars In the cause
We do right because it is right: and we
have the pleasing consciousness that
those we labor for will probably be the
first to kick Is whenever an opportu-
nifty presents itself. But right is right,
FIVE ARE kicked 20 pieces. ''Oh, Nep-