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St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26

thought that enters the heads of those
who are running the Democratic cam
paign. They stand for honorable cit
izenship and good government; and
their sole duty, after a victory shall
have been won, will be to, discover
those men who can best serve the peo-
pie.
No man has asked. of Mr.. Cullen
any promise of favor, except only the
element who, having BEEN sruthlessly
turned down in their attempt. are now
in active coalition with the Repub-
licans. The power behind Mr. Cullen
and the ticket which he heads will be
the power of the people. 1t will pay
men. No human being can dictate to
it; and the sole motive that can sway
1T will be a desire to serve the public
good to administer economically and
honestly the government Of ST. Paul,
and to restore and retain prosperity
for rich and poor alike. These
being the well-known facts of the
case, the origin and history of this
movement to make the Democratic
party truly the party of the people
being known to all men, it is the
height Of impudence. as we'll as the
depth of folly, for any opponent to at
tempt to revive the stale cries and
charges of bygone days, which have
now nothing strong about them except
their ancient and fishy odor Once
more this proves how impenetrable
the Republicans find the Democratic
situation, how empty of ammunition
their own arsenal, when the only clam
or that they can raise to attract at
tention from the excellence and deserts
Of the Democratic ticket is parroted
echo from previous campaigns, which
has no more relation to the present
than any other departed and forgot
ten issue
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
WHAT CUBA COSTS us.

Between the .usurrectionists in Cuba.
the sugar trust and the German tariff
in this country, the people are paying
very pretty penny Cor the rebellion
in the Queen of the Antilles. What one
or both of these factors of cost are
making our sugar consuming people
pay is capable of a very close calcula-
ton. Barring out about one-seventh
of the supply which Louisiana fur
nisnes, the remaining six-sevenths is
imported almost entirely in the raw or
unref1ned condition That pays a tar
tff tax of 40 per cent, which is added
to the cost by the refinar and paid by
the ultimate consumer. Our raw beet
sugar comes from Germany and
France, and our cane sugar chiefly
from Cuba. In March, 1895, the i'm
Port price of beet sugar under No Is
Dutch standard, raw sugar was l.S
cents pound, and of the same grade
of cane sugar IL .7aeents. To this 40
per cent was added for taxes At the
close of February this year thu price
of the former was %, and the latter
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26

waiting substantially similar soil, under
similar conditions, would not refuse
to sow the same seed because he had
personal grudge. against his, neigh
bor. We are no imitators of Great
Britain's political institutions, and no
admirers of her social organization.
The American people and their scheme
of government are immeasurably SUI
perior; but when we look about to see
with what instruments we may best
build up the fabric of our own indus
tries and achieve success and happi-
ness, 1t is the mere blindness of un-
calculating hate that would make us
reject the experience even of an enemy
If protection is essential to a peoples
prosperity, and if the silver standard
is an Indispensable condition of active
business and the general increase Of
wealth, how is the condition of Great
Britain, as set forth in a fiscal report
that cannot be challenged, to be ex-
planned?
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
pAvEMENTs FoR THE CYCLISTS.

The request Of the members of the
bicycle associations, and all riders Of
the wheel generally in the city, that
their convenience shall be consulted
in the future laying of pavements, is
an entirely reasonable one The first
practical question arises in connection
with the placing of a new pavement
on that portion of Sixth street between
Pleasant avenue and Summit, includ-
ing the descent of the hill For the
accommoda ton of travel it has been de.
termined to place a sandstone pavement
What the devotees of the wheel ask
is that strip four or five feet in width
on either side of the roadway shall be
laid in asphalt, to make the ascent and
descent easier for bicycles.
There is no reason in the world why
this request should be denied, and a
very strong one why 1t should be
granted. A cyclist is a public traveller
as much as man who drives cab
or carriage, and his wheel is a vehicle
just as much as one that is drawn by
horses. Now, the very purpose of put
ting sandstone instead of asphalt on
the Sixth street hill is to make an
easier footing for horses and a safer
path for carriages and wagons going
up and down This sandstone would
make it very rough and uncomfortable
for the riders of wheels; and for pre-
cisely the same sort of reason that
sandstone is preferred to asphalt in
the middle of the street, asphalt should
be preferred to sandstone on the sides.
The number of wheels in use in this
city is now we'll up in the thousands,
and is growing constantly. Sixth
street is the only avenue to and from
st. Anthony hill that is suitable for
bicycle travel The, steep grade and the
sharp curve on Third street make it
impossible for any but experts coming
down, and almost impossible going up.
All the volume of bicycle travel there
fore, between the hill and the business
district of the city, will follow Sixth
street, and it's needs should be con-
suited in the construction of the new
pavement. We hope sincerely that the
board Of public works will see it's way
to order this combination, not as
concession to the interest of Wheelmen,
but as just as much part of public
right and duty as the laying of any
kind of pavement at all.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26

another column, which Is not any,
body's hearsay, but may be verified
from the court records, that the city of
st. Paul owes another neat bill of from
$4,000 to $4,000 to Mr.. McCardy's admin
istration of the comptroller's office as
a personal perquisite. 1t being neces-
sary to lay stone sidewalk on Cen
tral Park some years ago, the work
was let to company which furnished
artificial stone made by a process that
was claimed to be an infringement of
certain patent. Mr.. McCardy was
notified of this. He was informed. be-
fore he had paid the contractor. that
suit would be brought for infringe
ment. and that the city would be made
party, in order to insure responsible
ity. This was told him in due sea-
son so that he might refuse payment
of the amount claimed by the. con-
tractor, and save the city from that
liability. On the contrary, not only
did he pay the contractor, but no ac-
cover for the city on the contractors
bond, If there is any such document
in existence. The amount paid to the
contractor, for work whose quality was
challenged at the trial afterward
brought by the patentee of the process,
was $2,726.75. The amount collected
from the city by a judgment for in
fringement was $2,243.93 Thus $4,000
was expended in this instance through
what seems to be worse than gross
carelessness, when it is remembered
that Mr.. McCardy had warning of
what would happen before the city had
paid for the work. The s2,243 taken
from the treasury under this Judgment
was just SO much money abstracted
from the pockets of the taxpayers
without warrant or consideration.
What may have been Mr.. McCar-
dy's motive we do not know or pretend
to say. But this Is an excellent Illus
tration of his methods and Of the sit
uation of the city's finances under his
care. He is the most expensive luxury
that the citizens of st. Paul now en-
joy. He has cost the public more
than the whole salary of his office, in
expenses that were unnecessary and
inexcusable; and that were incurred
because of ignorance, Indifference
or obstinacy on his part. We
think that the people of this city will
put an end to such an administration
of the comptroller's office, and turn it
over to the charge of man who pos
sesses all the good qualities and more
than the ability Of Mr.. McCardy, with
out those peculiarities that are as ex-
pensive as they are disagreeable. As
comptroller, Mr.. McCardy Is a preten-
tious humbug. Those who have discoy-
cred that or are now finding it out
Will cast their votes for Mr.. J. I. Beau
mont week from Tuesday.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
WILL PARTY RATES BE GRANTED
BY THE RAILROADS HERE
AFTER.
ACTORS AND BALL PLAYERS
ALIKE WILL COME INDER r,.u
GENERIC WORD AS QUOTED
ABOVE.
ALSO PUGILIsTs AND OTHERS
who Travel in Bands for Exb;b;t;o-
furposes-ThOught This Will
Beat the ScaIpers.

Indications point to the adoption in
the near future by the lines members
of the Western Passenger association
OF the plan which has been put into eff
feet by the trans Missouri lines bear
ing on the party rate question. AS
published in the dispatches in this col
umn, the roads between the Missouri
river and Ogden have provided that
reduced rates may be given to theat-
real and ether parties whose purpose
is the giving Of exhibitions. This
promises to be the solution of the yexed
rate question, embracing as it does
theatrical companies. base ball and
other athletic teams, or regularly or
ganized companies giving exhibitions.
and should do away with all possibility
of manipulation by brokers if the roads
deal honestly with each other.
surrounded with proper restrictions.
the plan may advantageously be put
into effect by the Western roads with
out any violation of the interstate
commerce laws or passenger agree,
mentS.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
THE CYCLO-RIDE CURE.

The fact that the bicycle continues
to be popular, in spite Of the enthusi.
asm Of it's friends. is one of the most
significant testimonials to its merit.
The latest claim set UP in it's behalf
is that 1t Is a better remedy for the
craving for alcohol than the bichloride
OF gold cure. Under the caption of
wonders Of the Cyclo-Ride Cure" a.
New York paper publishes a number
of cases of absolute cure Of drunken
ness vouched for by reputable ply
sician. With the use Of the wheel, it Is
said, the appetite for alcohol departs.
The rider finds himself becoming
thirsty for water, just plain cold wa
ter, and any substitute for it
containing alcohol will, If fol-
lowed by even very moderate exercise
on the wheel, produce nausea, and,
after a few such experiments, a Ioath-
ing for liquor. permanent cure being
the final result.
The physiological explanation of
these desirable and apparently miracu-
lous phenomena is quite simple and Is
to the effect that the up and down mo-
ton Of pedaling has g. tendency to
close the cardiac orif1ce Of the stom-
ach by raising the diaphragm. Thus
a drink of liquor, followed by exercise
on the wheel, is unable to find its way
easily to the stomach proper, and
nausea is produced. A few repetitions
Of the experience, and the thirst for
liquor is replaced by repugnance This
certainly sounds plausible, and, taken
In conjunction with all the other
benefits the wheel has conveyed upon
mankind, makes it evident that the
bicycle will be one Of the prime factors
in bringing about the millennium. One
difficulty with previous remedies for
the alcohol habit has been that they
were more painful than the disease.
The discovery of the cyclo-ride cure,
making reformation not only easy but
irrisistibly attractive, furnishes in this
case what humanity, in it's slow, toll
some ascents, has always desired-a
way to fall up hill.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
MOVING AGAIN.

The general interest felt i'll political
developments during the past week
may have prevented many from realiz-
ing that it was signalized by some
thing Of the first Importance to ST.
Paul For some time past there has
been different feeling and tone in
the real estate market. Dealers, who
sky that prelude a change Of feeling
and of attitude, have been aware of
this. They have been at work quietly
organizing for the revival OF activity
that Is sure to come. But as matter
of factit is already here. Motif several
years has there been the same conf
dence in realty values, the same
amount of inquiry, the same buoyancy
among holders, the same tendency to
purchase among investors. The i'm
provement has begun. Like other great
changes, it has come silently, while
people were looking for it to advance
with the sounding Of trumpets. Real
estate has value, both actual and
prospective, such as 1t has not held
since the time that everything col
lapsed under the pressure of panic.
This is not occasion for surprise. The
wonderful thing Is that it did not hap
pen long ago. For 1t is obvious to ev-
cry thoughtful man that there is no
possible form of investment which Of
fers the assured rate Of profit that
there is in purchases of st. Paul realty
today. We are not assuming that
there will be another boom. We are
values. But it is easy to estimate,
in a moderate and accurate way, the
growth which this city, moving only
at the rate common to others Of It's
size, must achieve in the next five
years. 1t is also easy to fix mathe-
matically correct estimate upon the
present value of real estate in such a.
city, and upon what it is likely to be-
come. Taking only present prices, COM
pairing them with prices elsewhere, in
cities that have not tenth Of our
prospects, it appears that the purchas-
er of real estate, who buys it today,
not for immediate transfer, but to hold
as an investment, will realize from 10
to 25 per cent per annum on his money,
and in many instances much more.
Shrewd men, men who know the value
Of thing and recognize a bargain
when they see it, are at last thorough
ly convinced of the truth of
this. Therefore they have begun
to put their cash into what
is at once the safest and most remuner-
ative commodity in the market. Real
estate is moving again. They, will make
the greatest profit who hold for better
prices; but the restoration of steady
market for those who wish to realize
on their holdings and the TRANSFORMED
ton Of real property from a dead to
live asset, will be of immense value
to all our people. This Is one of the
most cheering and assuring features
in the future outlook of st. Paul.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
THE OLD STORY,

Word comes from Buffalo that
than dead letter in that city, as far
as Sunday observance is concerned.
The loophole which the Sunday sellers
find is the provision permitting LIQUOR
to be sold in connection with meals
at public hotels. There was an i'm
mense crop of hotels harvested at Buff
falo on Sunday, every little shanty
where liquor was to be sold adopting
that pretentious name. People who
have residences Of their own in the
city were welcome guests at these
places, and satisfied their thirst by
paying five cents for a sandwich. OF
course this could not occur in any
community where the officials were
in sympathy with the law, or willing
to execute it whether in sympathy with
it or not. 1t all comes back to the
same old proposition that any law can
be executed where public sentiment is
in favor Of it, and that none can be
where public opinion is against
it, and where those charged with its
administration are willing that it
should be set aside. 1t is for this rea-
son that local option should be per-
mitted in all large cities on mat
ters of the nature of police regula-
ton.
There will be no enforcement of
the Raines law in New York state ex-
cept where the local commissioners are
ardent1y in favor of it. This will hap
pen but infrequently. The ink was
hardly dry on the governors sigma
ture of the act before its character
was fully exposed. It was intended
to be and is simply measure to
transfer the political power conferred
by control of the liquor traffic u the
hands of the Platt machine. In def
ance of the state constitution, they
are attempting to relieve the
appointees under this act from
civil service supervision The
state commissioner selected Dy Gov.
Morton is a Platt politician, and the
deputies everywhere have been chosen
to build up the political power of Platt.
They will use this law exactly as they.
in connection with Tammany, used the
old one. They will wink at it's infrac
ton where the violators pull for Platt
in politics, or. where they put UP the
funds to secure immunity, and they
will enforce it against those political
1nnocents who cannot produce either
influence or cash. 1t is the old story
over again. Liquor laws, and any
other kind Of laws, are of little mo-
ment in communities where the boss
is supreme
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
BLOW TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF
WESTERN LITERATURE.

The dissolution of the publishing
house Of Stone & Kimball in Chicago
recently has caused the expression of
much more regret than any such trans
action ordinarily involves. This is not
because the public is especially inter
tlemen Of the firm mentioned, but be-
cause their work was the first fruits
of a harvest much talked about, but
never before made visible to the naked
eye-the development namely of Chi
cago as literary center The firm
were young and enterprising. They be-
lieved in good things wherever found,
but especially they believed in good
Things by Western authors. Their
books for publication were selected
with discrimination which amount
ed to genius, and bound and advertised
In manner which was high art. They
have published fewer uninteresting
books In proportion to their output
than any other firm in the United
States. And now Mr.. Kimball is 60
ing to remove this achievement and
the glory Of it to New York, and the
literary development of Chicago, and
consequently of the West, has received
blow from which it will hardly re-
cover in the course of a dozen ordi-
nary years.
1t seems a great pity, and if Chica-
goans were as public-spirited as we
have been led to believe, they would
certainly do something about it.
What are the disagreements of. two
business men when weighed in the bal
ance with the literary supremacy of
Chicago? If Mr. Kimball will not hear
to reason, he should be detained by
force. The broken partnership should
be glued together by the cement of
civic pride, and things go on as they
did before. The West waits to see
Chicago assert herself at this juno
ture
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26


2.S cents a pound. This makes an in
crease of 6 cents a pound on cane and
a cents pound on beet sugar
This rise finds it's counterpart in the
price of the standard granulated SUI
gar of our tables. In January, 1894,
the price was 3.74 cents a pound; in
January, 1895, the same, and in Jan
uary, 1885, it was 4.59 cents. This had
risen to asa by the end of March. This
is an increase of IL cents a pound. The
average annual per capita consumption
of sugar is 65 pounds. The rise makes
the cost per capita 71.5 cents a year.
That does not look as big as when the
aggregate Of the per capitas is given.
The increase amounts to $22 a short
ton. The consumption is 1,S0O,O0O tons
year. The additional cost of the
Cuban revolution, stated in terms Of
sugar. amounts to $S9, 100000 a year.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
GREAT NoRTHERN,s POSITION
On the Sleeping Car Rates Sustained
by CALDWELL.

The Great Northern officials have been iusti-
ned IN their position in the matter of equal
lztng sleeping car rates between Portland and
the Twin Cities by an opinion of Chairman
Caldwell, of the Western Passenger assoeia-
ton, contained in the association literature re-
ceived here yesterday. 1t will be remembered
that week or two ago action was taken by
the Great Northern's competitors over the
adjustment by that road of the scale of rates
on sleeping car business between here and
the Pacific slope 1t was question which had
not been brought up before, and there was on
that account some doubt as to the way in
which 1t was to be decided The opinion is as
follows
After due consideration, we are of the opin-
ION that the responsibility of adjustment or
equalization Of sleeping ear rates, as proposed
rests with the sleeping car companies inter
ested, and any reduction involved must be-
confined to sleeping car fares. The Transcon-
t1nental Passenger association agreement does
not, in our opinion. contemplate giving any
line authority to reduce the agreed rail rates
in cases of this character, neither does it pre-
vent equalization i'll sleeping car rates by
sleeping car companies over lines via which
rail rates are equal.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
OVER STEAMSHIP TICKETS.
Minneapolis Papers Stir Up a Small
Sensation.

SENSATION.
The fact that a steamship man in Minne-
apolis named Bothman had some little trou
bic month ago with some CT the lines he
represents, which. by the way he claims
has been amicably adjusted, is made the
foundation for rather shaky story, which
was printed in morning paper yesterday. to
the erect that Bothman has been guilty of
lnduig1ng in sharp practice, and that he has
on that account, been disqualified from doing
steamship business in the future. In brief. he
is charged with having done some shady
work in handling country business, for which
offense, it is stated, the agencies of the AL
Ian, Hamburg American, State, Anchor. Ger
man Lloyd. White Star, Cunard, and French
lines have been taken from MIN. Bothman
makes a specific denial of the truth of this,
and stamps the tale as false. The amusing
part of the story is this: The belief is ex-
pressed that the 500 line having been as
sisting Bothman, would in the future be re-
fused permission to handle the tickets its
agents have been selling. Inasmuch as Gem
eral Passenger Agent Galloway left for the
East on Friday he could not be seen, but the
officials at the local ticket office were both
amused and annoyed. They entered Wig
orous denial of the whole story, and ex-
plained that the 500 is hardly in a position
to be disqualified when it holds its own in
der rendent coupon tickets for a number of
ncnt steamship agent The 500 does a
transatlantic business, but has had no trou
bic with steamship men and does not expect
to have. On the other hand the fact that
Mr.. Galloway was present at the conference
in the East is given as an indication of the
friendly feeling felt for the Soo
we think We know this fellow, said a
500 official yesterday morning. and unless
We find ourselves mistaken he will not be
long in position to talk about cutting rates.
We know nothing of these things he charges,
but his ways are known and should they be
shown up. his disqualification as a steam
ship agent would not only be complete but
permanent" The official would say nothing
further but 1t is reported that the steamship
men at their meeting in New York will con-
slider the case Of she broker making the
charges.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26

The Socialists are going to put a
presidential ticket in the field this year.
and will hold their convention in New
York city on July 4. They are going to
make showing in several states, Min
nesota among them. Il Is said The field
is a promising one. There is a major
fty of the voters now who are uncon-
scious Socialists. and their eyes might
be opened, while among the Populists
they will find lot Of fellows whom
they could not tell from themselves.
They should be able to sweep the
state.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26
TO MEET IN ,FR1sCo.
May TranscOntinentaI Conference
Goes to the SIODe


It is extremely probable that the next meet
ing of the Transcontinental association will
be held on the Pacific coast, and the call to
be issued by Chairman Caldwell may be ex
pected almost any day now, for a meeting.
which will in all likelihood be scheduled for
San Francisco.
II IS several years since a gathering of
transcontinental officials has been held in the
far West and the feeling among the Western
executives is that they are entitled to this
consideration In addition, too. their presence
at the next meeting is considered by the East
ern men as essential, owing to several matters
Oh vital Importance to them, which will have
place on the docket of business The Western
transeontinental lines have not been repre-
sented at several Of the recent conferences.
and the st. Paul men are understood to be
quite willing to meet at the Pacific slope. The
time set for the meeting is May 49,