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The Van Buren press., 1896-02-29
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-31
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
Dayton Avenue Church Celebrates
Its Pastors Long Terra

In honor of twenty-five years continuous
pastorsmp, the congregation of the DAYTON
avenue presbyterian church united in fen
uerIng reception to Rev. Maurice D. Ed
wards and Mrs. Edwards at the church. Dav
Ion avenue and Mackubin street. last even
ING. 80 lar as Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards were
concerned the commemoration Of NJ Fdo
wards, tWenty-second anniversary "a nastor
OF the churcn, was a complete SURPRISE a
Iact winch only served to render the occa
sion more gratifying
IN 1874 MI. Edwards came to St Paul from
FlttsDurg. Pa, and assumed almost immedi-
ate charge Of his present pulpit. The church
organization at that time was composed of
DuI twenty members and the house of wor-
snip was only a small frame building Under
the care Of Mr.. Edwards the CONGREGATION
mas increased to over 500 members, and q
frame church once stood. This building has
been removed to the rear of the church
where the reception of last evening was held
Under the direction of the ladies of the con-
gregation the parlors were prettily decorated
ana between the hours Of and II O'Clock
rendering their congratulations and good
wishes to the pastor and his wife. During
the evening e. G. Stringer presented Mr.
and Mrs. Edwards with token of the affec-
ton and regard in which they are held by
the congregation, to which Mr.. Edwards re-
phasfzing his qualification in regard to the
spirit which had prompted the gift Re-
freshments were served by the ladies of the
church. The committee under whose ar
rangement the reception was held was COM
posed of Mesdames S. B. Mcconnell Gregg
j. A. McAdam, H. Thompson, and the Misses
Boyd, Bassford, Thompson and Simons
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards were assisted in re-
ceiving by Mr.. and Mrs. E. G.. Stringer Mr.
and Mrs. Baldwin and Mrs. Weed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-31
NO SHOWER AT ALL.

The financial world has carried itself
over the crisis Of this election with less
disturbance than was anticipated
Everybody knew that as the end of
the campaign approached the money
market would tighten. The tension
throughout the country is very great
While there are few people among the
we'll informed who believe that Mr..
Bryan stands a ghost Of show of
election, there always exists the bare
possibility of such a calamity. Should
sudden mania take possession of the
minds of the people who have not de-
clared themselves, they might go with
a rush, as even intelligent beings will
send themselves, as well as others, to
horrible and useless death when smit-
ten with panic. 1t is this one remote
possibility against which careful men
have thought it necessary to guard
AS we have said often, It is not the
chance of Mr.. Bryan's election which
measures their precaution, but the
enormous interests that are at stake.
The calamity would be so unprece-
denied in magnitude and so irremedi-
able that men who have no more idea
that it is going to happen than they
have that the sun will not rise tomor-
row still feel it due to others, whose
property and interests are in their
care, to take steps to make the loss
as light as might be If the impossible
should happen.
Therefore, capital has become more
and more cautious as the eventful day
approaches, and leans have been made
with less freedom and more careful
scrutiny Of collateral. There was some
apprehension that the consequence of
this would be a desperate financial
stringency, carrying with it possible
distress. Nothing of the sort has hap
pened. The only thing marking these
last days as different from others is
the financial furry in New York city,
which has all the marks Of a bur-
leSque The telegraph tells us that
money went on Thursday up to 20, so
and then 100 per cent. This sounds
is that it did not create any disturb
ance worth mentioning. No banks were
drawn upon, nc business houses failed
None of the great financial agencies
| showed any signs of distress. Men who
wanted to make time loans on first
| class security were able to get money
| for per cent or a little over There
| was plenty Of currency for all legiti-
mate demands. Business houses We're
well taken care Of, and had no paper
| floating about which they must cover.
| A rate Of 6 per cent for good time
| loans with call money at over leo tells
| US exactly what happened. This Is
| that there was no cash lying around
loose for speculative ventures. Legiti-
mate business could get whatever it
needed to carry it over until the day
! when we all expect to see the menace
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-31
LOSE THEIR HEADS.

The people who really have conven-
fences for thinking and still bring
themselves to support the cause of
free silver are pretty sure, sooner or
later, to get clear off this mundane
sphere and lose themselves in the
mists of cloudland. There is nothing
very wonderful in this. A man who
has persuaded himself that a govern
ment can -Iegislate value into and out
Of things has already cut solid ground
from beneath his feet. He has aban-
doned the practical rules of life, set
himself outside the operation of the
laws of nature, proclaimed the power
of political bodies to work miracles,
and is thereafter ready for any ex-
cursion into the realms of psychicaI
unhealthy He is relieved of the tedi-
GUS rules of this work-a-day world,
and his fancy is free to disport itself
as it may please.
This substitution of Imagination and
invention for reality is the marked
feature Of such talks as that
which Mr.. w. w. Erwin gave
to his hearers the other night.
Mr.. Erwin is q man of capac-
ity for eloquence, and he started out
with a supply of reason and logic. He
long ago threw those to the winds,
and when he talks now to the people
he speaks an unknown tongue. The
statements that he makes are as if
drawn from fairy tales. The very terms
that he uses convey no meaning to the
ordinary well balanced mind. He talks
about our independence from all the
rest of the world, as if that could have
any application to natural laws and
relieve us of the operation of the law
of gravitation, to which baser people
are subject. He talks about the wealth
of some and poverty Of others, as If
they were a phenomenon belonging to
this age solely, instead of q permanent
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-31

fact in human history, whose signifi-
canoe is less in the United States to-
day than 1t ever was before since the
world began. He says that "the mar
kets of all the products are in the
hands of the option traders" which
may be conceivable to one who has
already denied the law of demand and
supply. He talks about "a money sys-
tenn controlled by the bank Of Eng
land" as if. any other force in the
world than the mental valuation which
the people put upon things could con-
troll money in the long run.
Then, little later on, he gets outside
OF the sphere of intelligibility alto
gether. He talks about "a free cur
rency," which isSa term equally I'M
known to political economy and to
common sense. Then he goes on into
a long rigamarole about foot pounds
per capita" in the various countries
OF the world, in which reason seems
to have abdicated entirely Such
speeches as this of Mr. Erwin's show
the power of an issue appealing to
fanaticism, as does this free coinage
matter, to utterly unbalance the mind
and to withdraw those who believe in
It from touch with the practical,
the comprehensive and the sane.
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THEY STAND BY THEIR CoLoRs.

AS was to be expected the ill-ad-
vised action of certain worthy but
mistaken gentlemen has been misrep-
resented with great avidity by the
Populists as an act authorized by the
National Democracy. The enormity
of the blunder which they made is
shown by the glee of the free silver
people, and their hurried kilograms to
every portion of the state in an en-
deavor to connect, if possible, this cir
cular with the National Democratic
organization
The G e spoke yesterday for it
self and for the party, and with full
knowledge of the feelings and opinions
Of those who direct it's present and
future. We publish this morning the
formal and indignant disclaimer of
the officers and representatives of the
National Democrats in Minnesota.
They did not know of this unfortunate
act until it was committed; and, both
as matter of principle and Of policy,
they think it impertinent and fatally
| Hl-advised. AS we said before, we do
| not question the right OF these men to
act as they please politically. We do
| question their right to address them
| selves specifically to National Demo-
| Gratis; and we deny, in the most en-
| phatic language which it is possible to
use. that the National Democrats of
| the state view this action with any,
thing but amazement and sorrow, or
that they will follow the stultifying
course there suggested. They stand
by Palmer and Buckner until the last
gun is fired, and by all that those noble
men represent
The National Democracy will be
found exactly where it was on the day
after the Indianapolis convention, until
the election is over. 1t relies upon the
faithful support of every member of the
organization. It is founded upon the
| proposition that the triumph of either
| McKinleyism or Organism permanent
ly would be a misfortune and a menace
| to the future welfare of the republic.
publican paternalism and Populistic So
| cialism. 1t believes that the former is
| the parent of the latter. It seeks the
perpetuity of true Democracy, believing
| that it's disappearance will be a ealam-
| ity to the country even more dire than
| the triumph of free silver. We appeal
| to all those who hold in affectionate re-
| gard the principles of Jefferson, Jack
( son, Tilden and Cleveland, and who be-
| lieve, as we do, that it is of vital i'm
| portance to maintain an organization
| around which those who in their hearts
agree with us may rally in the future,
| to remain loyal to their faith and their
| purpose as disclosed in the indianapolis
| platform, regardless OF Republican ad-
vice or Populist Misrepresentation
| There is but one test and one duty for
| National Democrats. Vote for Palmer
| and Buckner, and let nothing beguile
| or brighten you from that plain path
| Of right and of honor.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-31
ADEsERyED TRIBUTE.

Rarely has any man received from
the community in which he labored for
years such a tribute as was paid to
Mr.. c. B. Gilbert last evening by the
people of this city, The severance of
his long connection with our public
school system, made necessary by his
removal to Newark N. j., was the oc-
casion of a public demonstration as
unusual as it was marked by deep
feeling and earnestness. 1t is true
that no words that might be spoken
and no honor that might be conferred
could adequately express the great
debt which the people of St. Paul owe
to the man whose services they have
lost. He is one of the foremost edu-
Gators in the United States. He is a
thinker and an originator as well. He
takes the broadcast and noblest views of
his chosen profession, and he has both
unlimited personal enthusiasm and the
faculty of inspiring others. The rare
union of these qualities accounts for
his great success in educational work
here, and makes it impossible that we
shall be able to fill his place.
That the schools of ST. Paul have
been raised to the first rank in the
Union, largely as a result of Mr. Gill
bert's direction. is only a part of his
great work here. There are greater
ends than even efficiency. And to
those who know what our schools are,
and what they mean to both teacher
and pupil, to those who have seen
eagerness and interest take the place
of slow compulsion and Indifference,
the infusion of life into methods and
the opening Of a larger aim and g.
nobler purpose to the minds of the
young seems the greatest achievement.
1t has permeated and transformed ev-
cry part of our educational system. 1t
has brought in with it new ideals; and
the search for character, the uplifting
of motive seem to count for more than
the mere examining of the intelligence
with facts. This work, of Yivifying
education and fitting it to life, leading
upward surely to the highest life Of
| all, is the crown Of Mr.. Gilbert's labors
in st. Paul. 1t has stirred the schools
to new ideas and efforts, and has done
an incalculable public service. 1t is
only later, If aims are permitted to
lower or ideals to grow dim, that we
shall understand the magnitude of the
loss that we have suffered in the re-
moval of Mr.. Gilbert from our city.
AS a man, too, he has had the con-
| fidence, sympathy and support Of those
| who knew him best. Rarely, we must
say in this final word, has any man
been attacked more UNANIMOUSLY or fol-
lowed with more vindictive pertinac-
ity. The cold and calculating forces Of
studied injustice have been met, how
inspired by the combined knowledge
of the worth Of the man assailed and
| the vile origin of the aspersions cast
| upon him. 1t is enough, perhaps, it is
a compensation for which many would
| be glad to suffer, to have won thereby
| the deeper and warmer affection of
others. And no man ever had more
loyal and devoted friends than they
who paid last night their tribute Of
respect and gratitude and admiration.
Mr. Gilbert goes from st. Paul know
ing that he has served it's people well.
A hearty Godspeed goes with him from
him as teacher, citizen and friend.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-31
removed from capital and industry re-

removed from capital and industry re-
vived
But people are not putting out good
money just at this moment to help
gamblers carry their margins, or to
keep spectators from sacrificing wild
cat collateral. There were evidently
lot of men on the street in New York
who had paper of this sort up against
maturing loans. They had to have
money wherewith to pay them, and
the security was not good Therefore,
they made one bid after another feel
ing willing to pay pretty nearly any
price to keep themselves from going
to smash. 1t sounds tremendous to
talk about money at 100 per cent, but
if the man wants it for only three or
four days, that means only. l per cent
interest, which would be very small
premium if it would keep him from
losing big stock, piled up in mar
gins or in questionable paper The
case is precisely the same as that of
man who. owing $1,000 on a mort
gage on bit of real estate worth to-
day not over the face of the loan, were
to try to place it elsewhere during
these times of universal caution. He
might make almost any ridiculous Of
fer of interest and nobody would take
him up, because what people want just
now is to be sure they will get back
their capital. This large rate on call
loans therefore has no significance
whatever. except as it shows by con-
trast how solidly founded is all legiti-
mate Industry and how well the
financiers and business men of the
country have fortified themselves
against the terrible strain Of the as
sault upon public credit, which is now,
happily, near it's end.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-31
sTEADFAsT AND TRUE.

The National Democrat denies the
infallibity Of conventions as Martin
Luther denied that of the councils Of
the church They have erred and they
can err, he stoutly insisted, when he
appeared in the diet of Worms before
Charles V. to answer to his heresy
National conventions have erred and
can err, declares the National Demo-
crat, when charged with recreancy to
the party, and I will no more put my
conscience and right of Judgment in
their keeping than did old Luther his
in the councils of the church. When
Eek had drawn from Luther his stout
1ns1stence of the errancy Of councils,
CharleS waved the session to close,
and Luther, sensing the meaning Of
the imperial gesture, exclaimed: 'I can
do naught else. Here stand ~ So the
National Democrat, who, in the seclu-
sion of the voting booth, "alone with
his conscience and his God,' scanning
the doctrines of the convention at Chi
cago and at st. Louis, refuses his as
sent to the doctrine of the infallibility
Of councils and marks his ballot
to make it announce his adhesion to
the old faith, proclaimed anew at In
dianapolis, can say with sturdy old
Luther: I can do naught else. Here
stand l."
Every voter shares The responsible
1ty Of the campaign his party man.
ayers make. Whatever there is in it
that is discreditable, he shares the
odfum. Whatever there is in it
that is high and noble and patriotic
the same is his also. If it is mean and
sordid the stigma is his too. The in
dividuals Of a party cannot escape the
good or the evil Of their associations,
for they assume it and share in it by
approving and confirming the acts that
bring either when they mark and de-
post their ballots. More solemn duty
no citizen ever performs, no greater
responsibility does he ever discharge
than when he thus passes judgment on
the acts Of political parties and ap-
proves or disapproves them. At no
time in his civic life is he so entirely
the man, and at no time is his man
hood put to such test. No frowning
emperor or inquisitor await his an
swer, but his conscience sits in judg-
ment on him.
When a Democrat goes into the
booth next Tuesday he should lay on
the shelf and read, before he puts the
pencil to use, these noble words of Gen.
Palmer: 'The duty you owe to the
country you cannot transfer to any,
body else. The duty Of a patriot is
personal duty, one that he must per-
form for himself; and when he finds
that misfortunes to the country have
followed the adoption of bad policies
he cannot say 7 am a Democrat,
and therefore u did this foolish thing
or 7 am Republican, and therefore I
did it, or L am Populist, and there
fore erred but he must be personal
ly answerable to his GOO, to his fam
lily and to himself for the manner in
WAAiOh LC PCIAoi HIS LIS uuIy. Auu the
Democrat who then and there says 81
can do naught else than stand firm in
the faith Of Democracy and turn
neither to the right into the unknown
dangers of the Chicago council, nor to
the left into the known dangers of the
st. Louis council" will have dis
charged his duty to his God, his coun-
try, his family and himself.
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party dfssensiOns, which in different
ages and countries has perpetrated
the most hOrrid enormitfes. fs itself
frightfuI despotism. But this
leads at length to "a more formal
and permanent desDOtism. The dis
orders and miserfes which result
gradually incline the minds of men
to seek security and repose In the
absolute power of an Individual and
sooner or later the chief OF some
prevailing faction. more able or
turns this disposition to the pur-
poses of his own elevation ON the
ruins of public liberty. without
looking forward to an extremity OF
this kind (Which nevertheless ought
mot 10 be entirely out of sIghO, the
common and continual mischfefs of
the spirit of party are sufficient to
make 1T the interest and duty OF n
wise people to discourage and re-
strain 1t. 1t serves always to dis
tract the public councils and en-
feeble the public administration. II
founded JeaIousies and false alarms.
kindles the luminosity of one pnrt
against anOthery foments occasion
ally riot and insurrection.
1t Is George Washington who gives
the answer to William J. BRYAN IN he
half Of the American people and the
pefpetuation Of the American republic
1t Is wonderful thing to us that. more
than 100 years ago. that master mind
which had grappled with the problem
OF founding the greatest government
that the world has ever seen; that
strong and tender heart whose love
embraced the past, present and future
Of this people, with the power of the
prophet grasped the situation that
was to exist today. AS If he had seen
in vision the absurd and wicked at
tempt which was to be made to divide
our country and to overthrow its in
situations; as if the revolutionary plat
form adopted by the Chicago conven-
ton had been unrolled before him, that
man whom we revere above all others
took up. point by point, it's declara-
tons and silenced them forever. From
the agitator and demagogue of today,
from the man whose intent Is evil and
the man who is sincere but mistaken,
we appeal to the Judgment Of the
greatest name in all our history. Could
the farewell address be read to or read
by every voter in the United States
within the next five days, side by side
with the platform Of the Chicago con-
vention, we should have no need of
further argument or demonstration. On
every issue Of this amazing campaign
George Washington spoke century
ago the wise, convincing and final
word.
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THREE LITTLE MAIDS.
Came From Minneapolis and Are Re-
ceived InhospitabIy.

Pearl Goodman, Grace Bernham and Hat
tie MCGUIRE. a trio CT Minneapolis misses,
were at the central station yesterday. The
girls, the eldest fifteen years old, left Min
neapolis Thursday afternoon with the inten-
ton Of finding employment as cash girls in
st. Paul. They had So in cash to start with,
and engaged rooms at Seventh street no.
tel, paying that amount down for a room
for o week. Being unable to find work
Thursday, and seeing an account of their
departure in yesterday mornings papers.
they decided to return home. The girls say
they asked the hotel man for a return of a
part of the 81, but were informed that IL
they only remained one night the price Of
their lodgings would be just the amount they
paid. They were taken to the central sta
ton, and last evening relatives came over
and took them back home.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-31
AT THE THEATERS.

Trilby will greet her admirers at only two
more performances at the Grand. matinee
today and a. performance tonight will con-
clude the engagement.
The all-night performance announced for
next Tuesday evening at the Grand is oeca-
sioning deal of talk and seats are going at
great rate. A Boy Wanted Is promised
to make the comedy hit Of the season. The
skit is new and up to date, and the company
producing it IS said to be strong one.
The popular actor Robert Mantell, will open
an engagement for four nights and Wednes-
day matinee at the Metropolitan opera house
night in the weird drama 1.-THE Corsican
Brothers,, which will be repeated Monday
evening. Tuesday evening and Wednesday
matinee, Mr.. Mantell will present 'tMonbars,
and the farewell performance Wednesday
evening will witness the production, for the
first time in this city, of his new drama
The Face in the Moonlight"