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property that can be made without a
sacrifice of the city's interests.
THE DEMocRArIC ASSOCIATION.

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The Minnesota Democratic associa-
ton celebrated it's fifth anniversary
with it's annual banquet last evening,
at which the leading address was made
by Hon. Charles S. Hamlin, assistant
secretary of the treasury, followed by
some good speeches by local Demo-
Gratis. This completes the fifth year of
the association, and it enters on it's
sixth with a large roll Of members and
under capable officers. The association
directs its work, along educational
lines exclusively, believing that the
first and most important work for the
Democracy is to. get men to thinking
Alright, confident that then they will
vote right
During its first years it had to COM
bat a suspicion that it was created
mainly for the purpose of building up
a party machine for some one to run
in his own interest; but gradually that
Idea wore away unfit it has disap-
peared, and the educational purpose of
the association is recognized and adj
mitted. 1t is unique among the asso-
Citations and clubs doing political work
in the various states, as it is volun-
tary organization of men who are will
ing to attest their faith in their party
and to aid in the work by paying an
annual due. 1t makes no assessments
on officeholders or candidates, and, in
fact, the large majority Of it's men,
bers are men who are neither office
holders nor officeseekers
In addition to- getting and sending
out reading matter bearing on the
issues supported by the Democratic
party, it gathers details Of information
which are valuable in a state cam
paign, and this it places at the disposal
of the state committee when the cam
paign opens. 1t has endeavored
to get the state conventions to
adopt some plan of party or
ganization that is Democratic, built
on the rank and file, and with all
authority derived from them. These
being it's purposes, it is not surpris-
ing that they commend themselves to
the Democrats of the state, and that
they give to the association the cordial
support that enables it to carry on its
work.
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rule of seat for each passenger is
enforced, as 1t is in London and Paris,
at the very center of the greatest traffic
In the whole world, and if this is done,
rs 1t is done, without hardship to the
public, without involving any serious
delay at the hour when traffic is great
est. and without preventing the trans
portation concerns from earning salts
factory profits, then it can be done
anywhere else. Public convenience and
public right demand such a rule by
municipal authorities Every street
railway company that has received a
franchise from any city ought to be
obliged to provide accommodations for
all passengers, and to be forbidden to
carry more persons at any hour than
1T can provide with seats This is one
OF the coming reforms which cannot
be agitated too ardently or established
too soon
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23
PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPY.

In another column there appears an
appeal by the Newspaper Sermon as
ISOLATION, of Boston, with whose work
in furnishing Sunday reading of a
religious character to the great dailies
of the country the patrons of the
G o b are already familiar, to secure
good reading matter for individuals
and families now beyond the reach Of
it. There are a great many people in
the country who, by reason of their
lation and publication, and through pc
cuniary inability to supply themselves
with good reading, never see a maya
zine or other periodical or a first-class
to the other. There are, on the other
side, a multitude of families whose
library tables are crowded with
all the best products of the print
ing press, only to be swept into the
waste heap or to accumulate in odd
corners or atticS as a fresh supply
comes in. To make the Superf1uity Of
the one minister to the needs of the
other is the purpose of this practical
charity. 1t aims to do, on a large scale
and over wide area, what is already
done in most cities in the case of hos
pitfalls, asylums and other retreats for
the unfortunate. These obtain a lib
eral supply of good reading by the
benefactions of people of wealth and
culture, who send to them numbers
of old magazines and books which they
have finished reading and do not care
to preserve.
To extend this system Of distribution
to the remote and isolated portions Of
the country would be to broaden IN
telligence, widen the area of culture,
promote high thinking and throw a
ray of light into narrow and often des-
olate lives. The Newspaper Sermon
association agrees to become the me-
dunn by which this distribution can
be effected. 1t promises to every one
who will agree to send to one of these
needy ones for a year first class Sun
day or weekly newspaper or a maya
zine to take charge of the matter so
furnished, and to see that it reaches
some worthy and needy individual as
its destination. We can assure all
those who are interested in this prop
osition that this association is worthy
of all confidence that may be placed in
it, and that it will perform the office
that it undertakes with discrimination
and conscientious judgment. The plan
itself deserves the hearty approval and
assistance of all those who believe in
intelligence, and it's promotion by a
wider circulation of good literature
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23
REPUBLICANS TALK 1T OVER.
Prominent Speakers Tell of the
Party,s Formation.


The Central Republican league held
it's meeting at Central hall last night,
and was treated to a very interesting
programme, consisting Of speeches by
r. V. Smalley, Gen. Childs and Oar.
f. Reese.
Mr.. Smalley, the first speaker. dwelt
extensively on the birth of the Repub-
lican party, taking 1t down with its
victories and triumphs," as he put it,
to the present day
All parties that live long" said Mr..
Smalley, have their roots far back in
the past and go deep into the con-
science. There are temporary parties
that have no roots in the past, they
come and go like the mist"
The speaker then took his audience
back to the days of slavery. citing the
Mexican war in 1850 as being insti-
tuted to acquire more territory for
slavery, the possible admission of Cal
ifornia as a slave state, and the Mis-
souri, compromise.
The Kansas-Nebraska bill" con-
tinued the speaker was the direct
cause of the formation of the RepubH-
can party, and the abolishing of the
Missouri compromise. The bill was
finally worked through by Stephen A.
Douglass. In the Kansas-Nebraska
bill the people themselves were to de-
not. Armed men went into Kansas to
control elections Nebraska was not
so much thought of as a slave state
on account of being too far North.
The passage of the KansaS-NebraSka
bill early in 1854, brought new politi-
cal party into being. In some states
it was called the anti-Nebraska party
only Shortly afterwards a convention
was held in Michigan and at the sug-
gestion Of Horace Greeley. the thing
was called Republican, That con-
ventiOn deserved the honor in Repub-
lican history Of being the first state
convention to assume the name Re
publican In 1856, the party felt suf-
ficiently strong to undertake a national
contest, and held convention in Pitts
burgh 1t was then determined to hold
a national convention in Philadelphia.
where John G. Fremont was nominated
for the presidency. The Fremont cam
paign was one of great eXuberance.
but Fremont failed by the votes Of
PENNSYLVANIA and Indiana. Just forty
wears ago this month was when the
convention was held, and the Repub-
lican party is now forty years old as
national organization, and forty-two
years as a state organization"
Gen. Childs then gave very inn
pressive talk on George Washington.
embodying all the wonderful charac-
teristics which he possessed, and con-
Guided by saying that he wished every
boy in this country, even If it should
be at the expense of the national treas
ury. could enjoy visit to the tomb of
Washington.
Oar. F. Reese was the next gentle
man to take the floor. He appeared
greatly pleased at seeing the pictures
of Washington, Lincoln and Mckinley
on the walls.
Washington" he said, did we'll In
his day. but he could not live In our
1ay and do as he did then"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23
THE MISSION OF sENsArIoNALtsu.

THE MISSION OF SENSATIoNALiSM
1t is desirable to justify oneself in
the eyes of the world, but necessary
to justify oneself in ones own eyes
The way a certain New York paper,
whose Sunday edition is a national
synonym for everything that can
shock, stun or horrify, accounts for
itself is to claim that it has mis-
sion, "a mission to make its readers
feel that life is interesting; that it is
no humdrum, dead-level world, but
one that is full of beauties and Won
ders and horrors"
This is plausible statement, but in
fulfilling it's mission our contemporary
pleasure of excitement is lost unless
there are intervals of calm with
which to compare it; and in order to
appreciate the delight of supping ones
fill of horrors one must have an oc-
casional meal that is less highly sea-
soned. 1t is impossible to remain in
a shocked condition all the time. and
N~--N~
the direct effect of such Sunday pa
per as we have mentioned is to create
an almost Unsuitable craving for the
works of Rosa N Carey, Charlotte
Yonge or even the Misses Warner 1t
is desirable, of course, that the books
of these gentle ladies should have a
lively sale. but to bend all the en-
ergies of great newspaper to this one
end seems waste of force
Were we called upon to define that
Journals excuse for being, we should
do it a little differently. It's mission
is that of all Observation-Disclosures make
men revert the more affectionately to
the commonplace. the pure, the safe,
the simple. The cyclone makes us
almost passionately appreciative of
sunshine and quiet weather, but it,
too, works devastation by the way.
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jobbery. 1t argues a public sensitive
ness, public conscience. that is sure
to bring purer public morals.
Gambetta set the pace with his
exploitation Of the Algerian bonds, in
which he and his associates amassed
them, attention was too much en-
crossed with the removal of the debris
of the monarchy and the building CT
the republic to give TO their pecula-
ton and speculation the attention sub
sequent schemes received. The expos
ure of Crews son-in-law, Wilson, who
made profit of his place and connec-
ton by selling the decorations be-
slowed by the state for eminent pub
lie service, was the fist of the series
of exposures and scandals that shook
the social fabric and made the repuD-
lie rock on its foundations; bringing
down ministries, and causing the resig-
nations of presidents, that numbers
the Panama scandal among it's greater
events, and now brings France to the
Drink OF revolution in the corrup-
ton growing out of the connection of
the government with the Southern rail-
way. Although the senate interposes
itself between the eXploiters and the
public indignation and the courts of
justice, it is inevitable that this last
defense will be swept away unless it
make complete surrender; for it's pre-
text that it is merely preventing a per-
secution that violates justice is too
specious to be a justification. Public
sentiment will stand by Bourgeois and
the chamber, who admit that, if try
ing to bring corrupt men to justice be
persecution. then it is true that they
are prosecuting. But it is well for any
country when its public men are afraid
of even unfounded rumors associating
them with public jobbery.
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A HOPEFUL sENsrTIvENEss.

Nothing are French statesmen more
Of" says one of the Paris dispatches
in this latest "crisis," than "associa-
ton in any way with any of the rail-
way scandals" There is a constant
dread lest their names be connected
with charge of completely in the cor
ruptions that have been unearthed and
which the ministry and the chamber
of deputies are trying to expose and
instincts of our latter-day senates, is
trying to prevent. AS one recalls the
scandals that have shaken France
since the latest republic was estab-
lished, it is small wonder that public
men are in nervous apprehension lest
some unfounded charge of completely
be made against them, or that some
actual connection be unearthed. So
sensitive has public opinion become to
such charges, so suspicious has it been
made by the revelations of corruption
of men of unsupported probity, that
rumors and baseless charges find &C
ceptance readily.
1t is at once the misfortune and the
good fortune of republics that corrupt
men find in them their best oppor-
tunities for exploiting schemes of plum
der, and that no dignity of monarchs
and titled classes exists that demands
the suppression of exposure of the
venal great ones. So watchful is the
press. so jealous are the opposition, so
suspicious the public that corruption
cannot long keep itself concealed, and
that fierce light that beats on public
men in arepublic, fiercer than even that
which beats upon a throne, sooner or
later, turns it's flash light on the secret
and dark places and exposes the con-
spirators to the gaze of an indignant
public. France has been prolific in
these exposures, and it is an excellent
indication that statesmen are in nerv-
Gus dread Of having their names asso-
ciated with anything that smacks of
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zANGwILL AND GIBSON.

Zangwill, who at his best is I'M
equaled in cleverness, is apparently
doing too much criticism of life and
letters lately to do it all we'll. He is
quite the last man in the world who
can be called stupid, but in Glib
sons Drawings and the American
Joke" discussed by him in the cur
rent Critic, and also in his department
of the Pail Mall Magazine for March,
he comes dangerously near the verge
of unintelligence. 1t is not worth while
to quarrel with him over his ideas Of
American humor, although he finds
that it's reputed originality has been
exaggerated, and ayers that the most
striking feature of the American hui
morist is his sameness He serves
up daily the same old jokes, and his
merit chiefly consists ssinS his mex
haustible ingenuity in dressing them
up afresh. England, according to
Voltaire, has many religions, but only
one sauce. America has only one joke,
but many sauces" The great Amer
lean joke as he finds it is the tenac-
ity of the young mans attentions to
the -daughterof the reluctant father
a conclusion hich4-leads- slas--to infer
that Mr.. Zangwill has taken a small
part for the whole, and identified Amer
lean hunor with the jokes of a certain
vivacious weekly. 55s--ss,-a--=7z-s~a.--s
hope Of a new joke, he meets with dis
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23
A COMING REFORM

There was introduced in the common
council of Chicago during the past
week an ordinance providing that when
any car running regularly on any of
the street railway lines in the city
shall have aHh of. it's seats occupied by
passengers, the gates shall be closed
and no person permitted to go on
board until a. vacancy occurs. While
we may view with suspicion the uses
to which such an ordinance might be
put in council that has acquired the
reputation now borne by that of Chi
cago, the principle involved is not only
the right one, but it is that to which
every American city will ultimately
come. The submission of the Amer
lean people to the greedy policy Of
transit companies, compelling a large
portion and sometimes a majority Of
all passengers during certain hours Of
the day to stand, as condition Of
being carried to their destination, is
a singular phenomenon. 1t is a part
of our national carelessness and ten
dency to pass over what are at least
minor fnfringements Of our rights, with
the notion that these things take up
too much time to bother with, and
will ultimately right themselves.
The crowding, of people in the street
railway cars will not right itself but
will grow worse and worse. as it has
done in every large city in ths United
States. until. it is maG. impossible by
local law. Thefmanagers will say, uni
versally, thatnitt,is not possible to ac-
commodate street railway facilities to
the great fuetpaettons of business dur
ing differentsshoyls of the day. In
answer to tfisi iesis necessary only to
reply that theIsiss no theory about this
thing. because. It has been actually
denonstre tedJpinAfthe most populous
I'D busiest cities of the world If the
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prepared to go the whole distance with
the committee. We are aware that pos
tai privileges are grossly abused and
that an immense quantity Of publica-
lions OF no value except to their pub
fishers would be made to pay higher
rates were the abuses corrected. We
are willing to go with the committee
II the experiment should then result in
such a surplus of revenue as would JUS
tify the reduction of the letter rate to
cent, We will gladly join in support
of the lower rate for letters.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23
Night Owls in Calico.

unique and enjoyable entertainment took
place at Columbia hall last evening. the oc-
cason being calico ball, under the auspices
of the Night Owl Literary club. The large
hall was early filled with merry dancers,
each attired in some form of calico costume,
which gave the company the appearance of
a lawn party rather than a midwinter func-
ton. Refreshments were served during an
intermission at midnight
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TEMPERATURES.
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 1898; thermometer. "a; relative
humidity. IA; wind. southwest; weather part
iy cloudy; maximum thermometer 81; min
imum thermometer, II; daily range, a.
amount of rainfall or melted snow in last
twenty-four hours, O.
Note-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. p. F. Lyons. observer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23

The announcement of the death by
suicide Of Hon. Michael D. Harter
came with the force of a blow to all
who either knew him personally or of
his prominence and influence in Dem
ocratic national politics. Before en-
tering congress from Ohio he had
spent his life in manufacturing and
banking, and brought to his new duties
all the benefit of his business training
and experience. He belonged to the
free trade wing of his party, and was
that rare man, free trade manufact-
urer. He secured the amendment to
the Wilson bill in the house putting
agricultural implements on the free
list, and supported all the efforts to re-
lieve our industries from taxed mate
rials. When the financial question was
projected into the issues of the day
by the panic, he ranged himself on the
side of a sound currency and in the
debates on this, as on the tariff ques-
ton, showed himself practical. sound
and capable man.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23
SCHOOL sELF-GovERNMESr.

The Oshkosh normal school has
adopted a practice that has been sue
cessfully in vogue in the Halifax uni
Vefslty Tor SIX years and has much to
commend it. 1t is nothing less novel
than the Introduction of self-govern-
ment in the school, relieving the fac
ulty from all disciplinary duty and
RENTING it to the pupils. The latter
organize a committee, styled the judi
CARY committee, with Jurisdiction over
all 1nfringements of the rules and of
offenses against morals and gentle
to the committee by teachers or pupils.
and the case is regularly investi-
gated and a decision rendered obedi-
ence to which is compelled by removal
or suspension from school. In Halifax
but two trials have been had in the
six years, one of which resulted in
punishment of the offender and the
other in pardon.
Such plan must necessarily he linn
tied to the schools in which are pupils
WAO nave reached an age When sense
Of accountability is attained, and
when their personal pride can be re-
lied on to restrain. It's apparent eff
feet will be to increase the esprit du
corps of the school and the sense of re-
sponsibility in the pupils. Nothing in
spires manliness like an appeal to
manhood, and nothing inspires rebel
lion against authority so much as it's
exercise as such. The system, it can
be expected, will aid in the develop
ment of those qualities which make
discipline easy by making distasteful
acts violative of disciplinary rules. 1t
teaches that self-government which,
when common, insures the best govern
ment. 1t comes at a time when en-
trance into citizenship is near, and, by
its methods, gives instruction in some
of the duties of citizenship. The ex-
pertinent at Oshkosh will be watched
with interest and the hope that the re-
suits will fully justify it.
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TODAY,s WEATHER.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-Forecast for Sun
day:
For Minnesota-Fair: cooler in northwest
ern portion; winds becoming northwesterly.
For Wisconsin-Fair; westerly winds.
For the Dakotas-Fair and slightly colder;
northwesterly winds.
For Montana-Fair; variable winds.
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