St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-22
WRIGHT GAVE HER LEAVE,
But Chief Justice Orr Took
Another View of Her
Case.
MUST PEBBLE OR STARvE.
Petition Of Licensed Peddlers
for Two Poor Men Is
Even Ignored.

ment has been stretched forth from day
TO day for some time past in arrest of
that grievous and unspeakable crime
against the peace and we'll -being Of the
community, of peddling by virtue OF the
mayors permit.
The era of bowling reform is upon us,
and the response which is made to the
demands of the reformers by the presid-
inc oracle of the municipal court-Hon.
Grier M. Orr-iS altogether worthy of
the rampant craftsmanship of the Lewis
and the McCardy. Nay, even that mil
liant purist, Hon. Timothy Reardon,
pales his Intellectual fires in the rubicund
and whitening presence of the chief
justice of the municipal court.
The chief justice tempers not his
justice with mercy. In common with
the other reformers,i it is determined that
crime shall not triumph under the aus
pieces of Democratic administration.
although, too. like the other reformers of
the g. o. p, he finds the pursuit of Dem
ecratic votes and cooperation of Dem
ocratc politicians not above his august
theories of municipal reform when he
happens to be candidate for elective
Office.
The Crime of Peddiing.
The story of Chief Justice Orr's latest
judicial fulminations directed against
the peddling fraternity is not an inspir-
ing one. For years past, even under
the auspices of that pillar of reform,
the late Hon. Frederick P. Wright. it
has been the custom of the chief execu-
tive officer OF the city to issue permits
to pedd!e to worthy and INDECENT per-
sons who might otherwise become a
burden on the community by reason of
their poverty and their inability to be-
come self-suStaining at any other call
ing.
On the 18th of June last Rev. Ernest
E. Irmscher, city missionary, visited
the mayor in company with a very
respectable old lady, a Mrs. Mary
Rebel. He assured the mayor that the
old lady was all that her appearance
and demeanor indicated-a respectable,
industrious and worthy person. whose
needs demanded that she be permitted
to do little peddling for a time, until
some better way opened to her to be-
come self-sustaining. The mayor readily
granted the request. Mrs. Rebel went
her way rejoicing.
2 Her next public appearance. as far
as the world knows. was as prisoner
in court yesterday morning where
she encountered the benumbing pres
ence of the great Republican, Democratic
jurist. Chief Justice Orr. The chief
justice, taking the heinous character of
her offense into account, and, no doubt,
reminding himself of the plaudits which
would be raIned upon him by his fellow
reformers. fined the unfortunate old
woman $40. Whether she will sojourn
at the workhouse till the fine is paid or
worked ont, or whether she will be able
to pay the amount out of the proceeds
of her ill-golten gains as ped6ler, the
immediate future must determine.
Another instance of the terror which
the chief justice is striking into the
hearts of the criminal classes in the
interest of reform, with a big r, was
given when N. b. Nettleton and NJ.
Sternberg were arraigned for precisely
the same offense as that charged against
Mrs. Rebel. They had peddled OIL
permit granted by his honor at the be-
ginning of the present month. Their
permit had been granted at the urgent
solicitation of a number Of other ped
oilers who had paid their license fee,
and who, knowing the distressed condi-
ton of Nettleton and Sternberg, had
united in signing the following petition:
PeddIers' Petition.
"ST PAUL. July 80, 1S94-Hon. Robert
A. Smith, Mayor City of st. Paul-Dear
Sir: We, the undersigned peddlers
who have paid their license fees, re-
spectfully petition that permission and
authority be granted to n. B. Nettleton
and NJ. Sternberg to peddle with a
we assign is the fact that it is impossible
for the persons named to make a living
unless permitted to peddle as afore-
said.''
This petition had been Endorsed by
Judge Willis in the following language:
Il hope that the request will be granted.
1t is better to enable people to become
self-supporting than to keep them on
charity next winter. cordially favor
the request"
Higher judicial precedent, however,
evidently does not count with the chief
! Justice of the municipal court. Reform
forbids. The county Offices are daily
looming in sight, and the dear people
have to be bamiaooZled once more into
the conviction that their safety depends
upon a renewal of the two years of pub
| lie virtue which came to close when
the light went out and the Moses OF re-
| form-the late Col. Wright-found him.
| self in the dark.
But the manufacture of political cap
/ ital in the interest of reform must pro-
| eeed apace, however the problem of the
unemployed is to be disposed of; and
| Chief Justice Orr must henceforth be
recognized, Notwithstanding his pnta-
| tive Democratic affiliations, and his sex
| as the judicial Nemesis'who is to mete
| out retribntiye justice to all offending
| naynnpratS