St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-21

has any merit IN II WudlSFCi, 'iAS
one is entitled to it for the guam
sity and quality of it. 1t was FRANK
open and as capacious as the am
bilious hopes of "the unsalted CITY
of the zenith seas" 1t carried no
mask, wore no disguise. While OF
the same species it differs from us
relatives. 1t is sui generis. IL IA
Mr.. Cant's own original cant. Bus
it was not popular The mouse
would have it not. 1t decided Una.
MIR. Cant's cant can't.
Duluth is ambitious. 1t has given
it's. energies to. things nfaterlaal ana
base and sordid. 1t has conhned us
energies and ambitions to such Vul-
gar things as hematite ores. 1t mas
PLAYED in dirt, where it could find
it among it's granite hills. IL mas
made faces at Superior and bellt-
tied the pretensions of the city on
the flats. It has cultivated the elus-
i've boom and opened it's doors TO
the money-laden stranger that 1t
might take him in. 1t has scorneu
the dam literary fellers"' as an
impracticable, impractical lot OF fel-
lows who knew. nothing about ores
and dirt. It preferred the company
of the festive boomer, with his
scintillating diamonds, his good din
ners and fragrant cigars and exhil-
arating wines and loud, buoyant
talk
But Duluth, having exhausted ore
and dirt, and the boomer having
flown to more remunerative fields,
now turns longing eye towards
Education-with a capital. Duluth
wanted a state normal school. She
has been growing the raw material
of teachers and wanted an institu-
ton to, as it were, lick them into
shape-a smelter, as her practical
men might figuratively term it.
With the collapse of the boom there
has come a large, if not an elegant,
leisure, and it begins to dawn on the
Duluthians that there is truth in the
couplet of the revered Isaac Watts,
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do"
So Duluth's enterprising delega-
ton set out to capture state nor
NAL school, with an appropriation,
of course. There was the customary
cant about education, the duty of
the state, the Importance Of trained
teachers, and, taking a minor key,
plaintive reminder Of how Duluth
had been neglected by the state.
City after city had been given some
kind of an institution for the regen
Grafton of the race, but poor Duluth.
sitting on her granite hills, had been
passed by on the other side, like a
good Samaritan fallen among
thieves, and left to sit wrapped in
the mantle of her geographical po-
sition and Proctor Knots speech.
But to the delegations cant the
Cant"
Then Mr.. Cant tore off the mask
he and some other statesmen wore
with ruthless and unsparing hand
The bill to submit an amendment
to the constitution whereby sleeping
cars might be taxed was his oppor-
tunity. He told how the bill was a
nefarious scheme of the saturnine
Pullman to evade taxation under
the pretense of providing it. His
virtuous soul rebelled against it. He
would draw his snickersnee and
prance into the arena of the house
and destroy it. But the sleek and
oleaginous promoters beguiled him
into silence and assistance by prom
Using to let Duluth have What she
wanted. That sop to Cerberus has
been yanked away from him, and
now he let's the legislative cat out
of the bag.
We say that Mr.. Cant's cant is
rather worse than the common run
OF cant. That is hypocrisy, but
this involves something worse and
more dangerous. 1t means that Mr..
Cant thinks it the proper and legiti-
mate thing to do as a guardian of the
| publlc veal, to assent to the pas
sage of measure he deems vicious
II his locality can secure an an
preparation. In the vernacular this
is called logrolling; in ordinary con-
Versation it is called by a palmer,
but more accurate, name. If some
promoter of bill Mr.. Cant deemed
as vicious as he thinks this one is
were to come to him with a proposi-
ton to pay him $4,000 for his aid
and vote, we believe that he would
kick the proposer out of doors. Pos
sibly there is difference in the
two cases; there certainly is a legal
difference, but then the moral per-
ceptions of the law are never fine.