The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-01
WHY THE MOTTO DIsAPPEARED.

W II MOIIo
For years so numerous that the mem
ory of man runneth not to the contrary
the Sun-there is but one, and it's To-
cation may be omitted-carried at the
left of it's name a card in which a ris-
ing sun was legended eff you see it in
the Sun, it's So" Lately the card has
disappeared. Surmise as to the cause
of the omission has been rife, and
among the suggested explanations is
the rather cynical one that, the Sun
having openly espoused Repubiicanism
such motto would be inappropriate
A more probable one is the chagrin
that has followed the several Conspicu-
GUS refusals of the president ard his
department chiefs to obey the Suns
orders directing the policy Of this ad-
ministration. To have roared at Cleve-
land for not fighting Spain to free
Cuba. and to have assured those upon
whom the Sun shone that Mckinley
would do it as soon as he was seated
in the presidential chair, and then to
have him treading in Clevelands foot
prints with legs that are painfully
short" cast a severe reflection upon the
dogmatic 'it's So"
Then there was that section % case.
When it was first discovered and while
stalwart Republican papers were
troUncing it and it's undiscovered au-
thor, the Sun stood up valiantly for
it and him. 1t was orthodox party doc
trine, simon-pure Republicanism clear
quill protection, warp and woof all
wool; meant just what it said and said
just what it meant. Then, when the
attorney general was asked what it
meant, the Sun tod what his answer
would be, because it could be nothing
else; he would say the tax should be
laid on goods of origin in uncontigu-
Gus foreign countries coming into" the
United States from contiguous coun-
try. 1t secuted the idea of any other
decision being made. And it had good
warrant, for it was in it's own col
umns that the Washington dispatch
appeared, sent by its own veracious
correspondent, month before, giving
the decision Of the attorney general
that diamonds from Europe. coming
into the United States from Canada,
were subject to the 10 per cent discrim-
mating duty. How could it anticipate
that the attorney general would so cas-
lily reverse himself?
On TIasSau 10 O1ir1iOp wac p11,l;cb
ed. For two days the Sun was in total
eclipse. What had appeared in the Sun
wasn't so. What the Sun had said
was so was not so, but was directly
| opposite so. By Thursday morning the
| Sun had sufficiently recovered it's
| breath to term the opinion Judge Nc
Kenna's masterpiece. Read the opin-
| ion through forwards" it said, land
| then read it through backwards; read
! it again, skipping alternate para
| finish to beginning, and you will get
each time the same idea, namely, hat
the attorney general found the job and
the responsibility too big for him and
preferred to enwrap himself in man
| tie of obscurity."
Having made an analysis of the
opinion after it's own formula, it con-
cludes that it is a masterpiece as IAN
ingeniously conceived and laboriously
| executed plea for the postponement Of
difficult question of Interpretation
of national policy" by man who does
not like to take bulls by their horns
and sis a past expert in the art of COW
! ering up his mind" Under all the cir
cumstarces we think the Sun was full
1y justified in hauling down it's old flag
and ceasing to assert that eff you see
it in the Sun, it's So"
THE DOCTORS ALMA MATER.