The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-22
A SHAMEFUL SPECTACLE.

is worthy of all that any has to give.
A SHAMEFUL SPECTACLE.
We must apologize to our readers for
the disgusting necessity that is laid
upon us of discussing in our news and
editorial columns q topic which every
decent newspaper avoids. 1t is not out
of keeping, however, that municipal
administration which got into power by
damning the opposition to it as the
better element should take early and
ample measures for convincing the
public that it lays claim to no such
following. If there be any element"
in st. Paul too low to find pleasure in
who told such dreadful stories about
their predecessors as the gang we
do not know where to look for it.
The original performance was bad
from certain street Of resorts too dis
reputable to be even characterized by
any other term, and localizing them
upon another business street. 1t is
limited that the transaction had it's
pecuniary side, as dealings with these
poor wretches by other wretches who
do not want to be poor usually have.
That concerns the common honesty of
this administration and it's agents, and
has enveloped the city hall in a cloud
of foul suspicion. But even aside from
that the arbitrary shifting of the scar
let stage from right to left, without so
much. as a word of warning, a hint, or
by-your-leave to people whose in
terests were deeply involved, makes
this an extraordinary transaction. The
flock Of f1amingoes is driven, by official
command, from one confine to another
The act is deliberate, premeditated,
studied There are those who profit by
it. But those who lose by it, who have
a right to be stormily remonstrant be-
cause interests greater than those of
the pocket are affected, are kept abse-
lutely in the dark until the deed is
done
Now observe the denouement These
citizens, righteously wrathful, go to
enter their protest to the incumbent
of the mayors office, by virtue we may
say, Of the votes Of the worse ele-
ment." He is quite concerned for their
misfortunes; grieved through his pal
plating official pericardium by their
injury. And from the mighty official
brain there is evolved the sage advice
that the protestants should see the
owners of the property newly occupied
they will not agree to GUST their I'M
| desirable tenants. OF the whole nasty,
Sickening, unclean business, this strikes
us as the climax. Not one of these
mission. A word from the mayor to
his chief of police and they open their
doors or shut them, settle down or
move on with the doglike submissive
Yet the tongue which gave the order
to remove from Jackson street is I'M
able to speak the word which would
cause the evacuation Of Third. The
! Office that sent the f1uttering flock to
| this new cote blandly regrets it's in
! ability to do more than send citizens,
1 whose rights and whose sense of de-
| cency are outraged in common, to con-
! suit with landlords and see what can
be done. st. Paul, it appears, is to be
redistricted by ukase; and no neighbor-
! hood may know at what moment it
will be called upon to welcome a col
ony of the prohibited. We are not
demanding Of this administration any
| impossible standard of morality or any
performance that our social customs do
not warrant. We declare that it's &C
ton in selecting for infamous purposes
street where the rights of at least
one of the greatest business institu-
tons of St. Paul and its employees are
invaded, without consultation or re-
dress, is well matched by the flavor OF
financial irregularity which has been
lent by common. report to the beastly
transaction.