The Princeton union., 1897-03-04

III lS97 sSi is. ,8s
that he ever served on the committee.
Dakota county is ably represented on
the floor Of the house by Messrs. Don
nelly ard Stapl they are old mem
bers and good fighters, while Senator
Schaller is an excellent talker and
popular with his colleagues. Anoka is
short on. orators, in fact the entire
Sixth district is lacking in good de-
baters, barring Speaker J ones and Mr..
sHartshorn and Senator Culkin, the
latter is a forcible and convincing
speaker. Nevertheless the members
from the Sixth congressional district
Willmake a hard fight for Anolka ! and
with few exceptions the Seventh d is
strict men will stand by them, and I am
inclined to believe that there will be
enough fair-minded men in the legis-
lature to ratify the action of the COM
mission appointed to select a sitefor
the fourth insane hospital. Geograph-
ically Anoka is 100 per cent. ahead Of
its down river competitor. Anoka is
situated on three great trunk lines of
railroads roads that tap three-fourths,
Of the area of the entire. State and is.
easily accessible to ST. Paul and Min
neapolis. Hastings has practically
only one railroad. The Anoka site,
while perhaps not as picturesque as the
bluff, is alright. But why should any
live town want a mad house located in
its midst? ST.. Peter, Rochester and
Fergus Falls would have been better
towns to-day if there was not an insane
asylum within a hundred miles Of them.
Then again, it is the height Of impu-
dence for any town north of St. Paul to
lay claim to State institutions.
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! "A few of the old fossil members of
the chamber of commerce are making
La great fuss over the expense Of the
public schools Of this city and are re-
solving in favor of a reduction Of teach
ers' salaries, cutting down the number
of teachers, etc, all in the interest of
ECONOMY. Some of these howlers for
economy are chronic tax-shirkers. II
! the real and personal property Of the
4 city of ST.. Paul was fairly assessed,
and the city board of abatement was
4 abolished there would be plenty OF
8 money to run the schools, and the rate
4 of taxation would be less than it is al
4 present. Half the property-o owners 81
/. St. Paul are taxed to death, and the
4 other half get off by paying less thar
halfsW hat they should pay. The pub
i Ilic sshools are Grip ppled for=I Iackssp
{ teachers, and the teachers employed
are paid less than the average teacher
receives in any village OF the State.
know OF one school in this city with .
daily attendance of about 300 pupils
where the principal is obliged to teach
one of the primary classes.
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! A friend of mine, an honest hard
working livery stable keeper, who has
SIC, 600 tied up in one of the suspended
banks of this city handed me the an
nexed extract which he had clipped
from the columns of the Union ADVOCATE
a bright labor paper published here
There are thousands of people in this
city who deposited money in some O
the banks-good money dollars worth
one hundred cents, and all they pos
sessed in the world. This honest
money they carefully dropped into these
slnkholes, and the genial banker, az
fhe received it, would read :thema a nice
little lecture on the wickedness q
q these silver cranks who would take
your honest dollars and give you fifty.
cent dollars in exchange Sometimes
the merry banker would sell the de.
/ positor a Mexican silver. dollar for
q ixty-six cents just to point the moral
of his tale, and would smilingly ask il
i that was the kind of dollar the, peo.
pie wanted. To-day the depositors
would be glad to get their money back
in Mexican dollars, Indian rupees or
any old depreciated currency, just so
long as they got something back. They
would even be glad to take it in kind,
\ like the pauperized laborers employed
by the Associated Charities, especially
if the kind was coal But, some peo-
pie will say, epositorsin ST. Pauls
4 busted banks will get their money
back, every cent Of Tin time. The
bank officials, the receivers, the as
signees and all the rest Of the outfit
say so, and they ought to know. Only
4 the depositors must be patient and
/ have a little common sense. The banks
would not have suspended, but would
be carrying on their same old game to-
lday, if the fatrwitted depositors had