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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12
A LAST WORD.

The Pioneer Press processes conf
dence in a great change in public opin-
ion in the matter of pardoning the
Younger brothers. There has been
change to the extent that few people
who, not many years ago, would have
cut off their right hands rather than
sign a petition to that effect, are now
enlisted on the side of sentiment
against justice and the preservation of
public order. How extensive that is
no one can tell, barring the test. i'm
possible at present, of an actual tally
of votes. But everything goes to show
that the Clio is right in believing
that. if the voice of the people could
be heard, it would be overwhelmingly
against the release of these most des-
perate offenders.
The opinion of the state press, as
shown by extracts which we print this
morning, indicates this Enthusiastically.
When all the papers are heard from,
we are quite willing, as we have al
ready said, to abide by a judgment
which, thus far, is strongly against
pardon. If our contemporary will per-
nit, we must decline to accept the opin-
foT of Mr.. Dunn, who is said to have
reported that, in his travels through
the state, he found a general sentiment
in favor of the release of these men:
One of the most deplorable features Of
this movement is the appearance of
political deal that has been given to it.
What obligation may rest on any man
to support it we do not know; but We
do feel that we know what the people
think about it. One has but to make
inquiries of the first ten or fifty or one
hundred men that he meets to discover,
and this the Globe has done. AS a
straw showing the drift of public opin-
ion, we may mention that a represent a
tive of the G l o b was a passenger on
a train reaching st. Paul on Saturday
on which a vote on the question was
taken. OF 100 men who cast their bal
lOIS, 70 Only were III 1dfOl VI q pal uOiiJ
and Is were against it. We have no
doubt that the popular vote would be
at least as decided as this over the
whole state.
But in any case, the argument against
a pardon rests on an even more solid
foundation. The question is whether
the observance of law shall be enforced,
or whether this state will give the most
signal encoura cement in it's power to
the preparation of crime and to the
execution of offenders by mob law in
stead of by the courts. That is the
fundamental question that confronts
the board Of pardons; and we do not
believe that it will either defy the pub
lie will or insult the law and make it
So much mere waste paper by an act
which must be interpreted everywhere
as an announcement that there exists
no adequate punishment for crime in
Minnesota, and that the worst offender
need contemplate only a temporary in
generation until the pardoning power
can get around to undo the work of
laws and juries and courts That hide
Gus wrong and offense against justice
and order we do not believe within the
range of possibility.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

lutely that further representation or
additional lying will be followed by an
actual resort to arms. The powers will
not consent to such a demonstration
until they are convinced that 7ithout
it the Turk will have his own way.
At each step in the negotiations some
new question arises, over which beth
sides wrangle and exchange corresDon-
dence, and these conferences continue
until at last, as an ultimatum, the
powers order the Turk to do their will
under penalty of an immediate appli-
cation of force. Then he yields gri dg-
ingly one line OF his Entertainments ard
retires to hold the next with similar
sullen stubbornness. Europe cut cut a
good big job for itself when it decided
to take the part of the Moslem instead
of the Christian, and to patch up the
Turkish empire instead of decraaing its
extinction. 1t is still an even chance
whether that policy can be carried out
without provoking a general Euro
pean war and bringing about exactly
the conditions that it was intended to
prevent.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12
WHO ARE THE "pEssIMIsTs 2"

1t would be amusing, but for the pathetic
side Of it,; to note the, studied .pessimism
and stubborn resistance to facts shown in
the allied Democratic and Populist press of
the country, and it's persistent refusal to
recognize the improved and constantly inn
proving business conditions an Improvement
which every trade journal notes, and which
the news columns of the daily press rec
ognize in spite of the editorial declarations
to the contrary.
1t is not possible that any great number of
people can be deceived by such misrepresenta-
lions, for the majority of Americans are in
telligent and practical.-St. Paul Dispatch.
ga tariff law half made is of no prac
teal use except to indicate that in a
little while a whole tariff law will be
done, and it is making progress. 1t is
reaching the end, and when the end
comes we will have business confidence
and industrial activity. Let us keep
stout hearts and steady heads. "-Presi-
dent Mckinley at the banquet of the
National Manufacturers, June 2, 1897.
'Mr. President: The business of the
entire country. is in a state of suspen-
sion waiting the action of the senate
on the bill under considera ton" Sen
ator Aldrich, chairman of the senate
finance committee, ON reporting the bill
back, to the senate May %, 1897,
Will the Dispatch kindly note "the
studied pessimism and stubborn resist
ance to facts shown by these two au-
thorities Of the "allied Democratic and
Populist press" and assure its readers
that they must not be deceived by
such Misrepresentation" If, owing to
it's obligations to the chief of these
studied 'pessimists, it should feel
bound to decline our request, will it not
please desist i'm the future from attrib
uting to the opposition press the opin-
ions. amusing and pathetic, of its two
party leaders? Will it also make note
that the tariff act is still only half
made" and that the lend" has not
come after which 1--WE will have bust
ness confidence and industrial activity"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12
HUNG UP FOR THE RACES AT THE
COMING MINNESOTA STATE
FAIR.
FOUR DAYS OF GOOD SPORT,
WITH ENOUGH MONEY IN SIGHT TO
DRAW LOT OF COON
HORSES.
EXCELLENT CHANCE FOR RACING.
Track Has Been OverhauIed and IL
Now Faster and Better Than
Ever.

The state fair management thorough
ly appreciate the interest which every
body takes in speedy horses and
are making every effort for a racing
meeting, during the fair week, which
will have all of the advantages of the
best meetings of that class. They have
as the foundation the advantage of
one OF the best tracks in the country,
which was carefully rebuilt last fall
and resoiled from five to eighteen in
ches with black loan. Careful and
daily attention is given to the track
during the summer, to keep it in first
class order, and experienced horsemen
concede what the management claim.
that it is one of the fastest and safest
tracks on earth. The grand stand.
which will seat about Il, 900 people with
comfort, is not surpassed in convenience
for sightseeing by any in the country.
Horsemen understand, too. that the
purses are paid as soon as the races
are over. 1t affords the best kind of
an entertainment for the public and is
especially advantageous to the owners
OF the horses, as they are assured at
the outset of fair play.
The purses offered are much larger
than heretofore, aggregating nearly
$I5O0. The races will be given on
four days of the fair and the purses
offered are as follows:
tuesday, Sept. 7.-2:18 class trotting purse
SoOo; 2:l3 class, pacing, purse $500; one-mile,
running, purse $500.
. Wednesday-2:4o class, trotting, purse 800;
z;oO class pacing, purse $7OO; One-half mile,
running, purse $3.50
. IT. Thursday-2;1S class, trotting. purse $1,000;
mile, running, purse SITS.
Frlday-2:2S class, trotting. purse $500; 2:19
class, pacing, purse $500; one mile, running,
The money is divided, one-haIf going
TO the winner, twenty-five fifteen and
ten per cent to the others in the race.
IN the order of their positions at the
hnlsh. The purses, the track and the
grand stand all combine to make the
four days racing the greatest attrac-
ton offered by any state fair in the
country, and when the other DEPART
ments are added the whole makes a.
combination which no one can afford
to miss.
In addition to the racing programme.
as noted above, the management
have secured Happy Jack, the horse horse
which PAGES without rider. driver or
SADDLE. Visitors to the fair last year
VII! remember the great attraction Of
MARION Mills, the horse giving a
similar exhibition, but Happy Jack
is the original animal trained for this
unique feat. When he was Originally
engaged his record was 2:11, but on the
5st OF July, at Columbus, Ohio, he re-
duced it 2:O9. Happy Jack will give
pacing exhibition every day of the
races. This will fill in the time be-
tween the heats in a very agreeable
manner and prove one Of the most en-
pertaining features of the week. -
Parties desiring to participate in the
races should remembeI. that tbo a,1+, Jlls
close at p. M, Aug. 3, and no condi-
uonal entries are accepted
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12
KEEP THEM BEHIND BARS.
Younger Brothers Should BE Thank
full They Were Not HANGED
To the Editor of the Globe

To the Editor of the Globe.
me " D merits the CONNIE adation of all
good citizens for the stand it has taken against
the proposed pardoning Of the Younger bTofh
erS. Oi''N-
The pardoning lower shoud only he evoked
10 rlgnt miscarriage Of justice, and in this
Ease no mistake oc :urred. unless it was IN
the substitution of life imprisonment in the
place OF capital punishment.
me writer was but a boy, living in a
aeIghooring state, at the time of the North.
neId RAID, and 1t is in no spirit Of vengeance
that he contends that the remainder Of tho
ilves OF the Younger brothers should be spent
in the penitentiary.
The capture and conviction Of these dos
peradoes, following a long series Of soma Of
the worst crimes ever perpetraiad in a civil
lzed country brought to Minnesota the heart
5eit gTatltude Oh the entire nation, and to par
don them now would be to tear down tha
warning that our state at that time unfurIed
to the criminally disposed-that robbery and
murder could not be committed on her soil
with impunity
That twenty-one years in prison could exni
ate the crime of which these men were guilty.
is the silliest sophistry which was ever at
tempted 10 De used as an argument and il
the members OF our pardoning board are
influenced by it they must expect To rean
their harvest in the increase of crime which
their act encourages
Judge Lynch has always ATTEMPTED tn iustifv
his acts by pleading the uncertainty Of law
and the great state of Minnesota shou'd MOI
lend itself to pandering to few sentiment
talists, to add zest and credence 70 biS 80
ment. S
The Younger brothers, if pardoned. will No
doubt pose before the public as martyrs and
heroes in some blood-curdling melodrama. and
the lesson they will daily teach will be most
deplorable. According to their own state
ments, they were bent on committing
most desperate crime, and albeit they were
resolved to take human life (which I
much doubQ they should suffer the conse-
quence or their act Whether they are re-
solved to live righteous lives or not does
not enter into the question for they and
their crimes cannot be forgotten and IL they
are truly penitent and sincerely wish to atone
for their outrage against law, they can rem
der society nc greater benefit than by making
an example of themselves and remaining be-
hind prison bars for the balance of their nat,
ural lives
&C. B. Moran.
st. Paul July 10.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12
TEACHERS IN DANGER.
Indian Agent Says Dances of Reds
Must BE stopped.
&C. B. Moran.
st. Paul. July 10.

ne stopped.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE army
officer in charge of the Pueblo and JIG
carilla Indian agency in New Mexico
has submitted a very vigorous report
on the dances carried on by the tribe
and has asked for instructions looking
to giving the teachers on the reservation
security from insults from the Indians
in the future. He says he has lust fin
ished an inspection of the day schools
about the agency and found many
teachers complaining that on account
of the dance in the Pueblo they We're
either locked in the room and corr
PEELED to remain there until, the festivf!
ties were over, or were driven out az
the village entirely and not allowed to
come back until the expiration of a,
given period of time. The teacher al
San Felipe was evicted and driven
across the Rio Grande, and numerous
other complaints were investigated
During the feast weeks, the report
says, the state of affairs complained,
of existed for days, all occupations of
every description giving place to. 1t
All the outrages committed, it is as
serted, originate in the dance. =.
This whole question, in all it's dam
nahle ramifications," the agent insists.
will have to be settled sooner or lat[g
en- The government cannot go on aps
propriating millions of dollars annually
for the civilization of the Indians:
when these plague spots exist and they
live on its bounty" ssfs
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

a personal profit to some individual
having influence with congressman.
Even were we to go further than
this view and say that state cap
itol should be built of home material,
1t would not. make the case in the
least parallel With the idea of the pro-
tectionist An,C individual purchaser
stands in ans attitude different from
that Of state. Moreover, to have the
people agree othat it is for their lest
interest to do a. given thing is vastly
different from compelling them to do
that thing when they do not wish to
90 It, nor believe it to be for their in
terest Thereiis no proposition before
the public tdPopass law compelling
the capitol commission to use home
material. If the people who pay for
the capitol want it used, their views
are entitled torrespectful consideration.
Ii the people of the United States pre-
fer to use American-made iron or
wooden goods or tin plate or any other
commodity and voluntarily pay out of
their own pockets a higher price for
1T than they would have to pay for
the same article Of European make, we
have no word of criticism to offer. That
is their privilege, and no free trader
would interfere with it. This would
be precisely parallel case to that Of
the state capitol
1t makes all the difference in the
world when you come in with a tariff
act, operative on all people, and COM
pelling those who want to buy their
goods in the cheapest markets to pay
more for them against their will.
That element Is entirely wanting in
the capitol proposition. A .sraat state
building answers the purpose Tot only
OF housing the servants and representa-
tives of the state, but it advertises, to
considerable extent, it's position and
resources to other commemorative. We
are not buying or building state Cap
itols every day in the year. II we
choose to make a sacrifice of a small
amount for the sake of the benefit that
we think might be derived, once in a
generation, from the putting UP Of a
permanent structure, that is wholly
consistent with free trade principles.
When you come to Jumping together
the willing and the unwilling, taking
from the latter portion of their earn
ings by legal compulsion, and doing
this continuously and in connection
with all the purchases that they have
to make. not for public needs, but
for their personal and household uses,
you have approached the protection
standard. ~ =.-'.
We think that careful consideration
Of these principles by our esteemed
contemporary will convince it, first,
that the G o b has said nothing on
this capitol question that does lot har-
monte perfectly with it's position on
the tariff; and second, that there is no
logical similarity between the question
of material for a state capitol and the
purchase of the necessaries of indi-
viduals for their daily life, day by day,
month by month and year by year.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

While Cleveland pressed the cushions of
the executive chair every paragraph which
upheld the Cuban cause was called the utter
ance of 'jingo press"-by the st. Paul
Globe e. Now that the administration is
changed the l o b e has changed it's policy
as witness the following vigorous English
Princeton Union.
Changed nothin'., When old Morgan or
waspy Chandler or trucu.ent Lodge talked
"wah" the o b e called it lingo rant. and
does so yet. When papers like the Union
predicted that when Mckinley came in there
would be 'wah" or Cuban independence
the Globe said it was lingo rot and it
says so now, and Mckinley is proving the
Globe e to haveIbeeneeorrect.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12
M'kINLEY is MERCIFUL.
Grants PardOns to Six Government
COnVictS.

uranus fafuOnS to Six Government
COnvicts.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE presi-
dent has granted pardons in the fol-
lowing cases: - George Day, sentenced
in North Dakota to three months i'm
prisonmentSfor Illegal timber cutting.
John Redmon sentenced in Ken
lucky to eighteen months for possess
ing counterfeit coin.
q. F. Tilley, sentenced in Georgia TO
three years and fine for pension frauds
William Migs, sentenced in Alabama
to eighteen months and fine for Illicit
distilling.
Louis Flowers, sentenced in Indian
Territory to two years for cattle steal
ing.
Dave Hunt. sentenced in Tennessee
to five years for postoffice stealing.
Pardons have been denied to James
Pendleton, sentenced in Indian Terri
tory to eight years for theft. Frank
Callahan, sentenced in the District of
Columbia to three years for larceny,
and Justin Dudley, sentenced in Utah
to fifteen wears for incest
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

son of old Cornell may well be pardoned
a slight exaltatioh Of Spirit at the victory of
Poughkeepsie last Friday over the sturdy,
plucky crews from Yale and Harvard. How
ever old he may be, it always makes a
university man gee yeinng again NJ, when he
thrill. the blood isurges and the old college
cry-Cornell-I Yell Yell! yell.!-Cornell!!l!
rings exultantlyt from his lips. Who would
mt be a sophomore again if he could and
go on rampage Yith9the rest of the boys?-
Isanti Press. NJ u
Don't mention it,, no pardon needed get
out and make the woods about Cambridge
echo with your otd college yell.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12
WINTER. WHEAT @. x.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE fol-
lowing are the percentages of condition
of winter wheat on July 1 in the prin-
cipal winter wheat producing states,
as shown by the monthly report of the
statistician of the department of ag-
riculture: Pennsylvania, 101; Tennessee,
40; Kentucky, 101; Ohio, SO; Michigan,
rs; Indiana, IS; Illinois. 40; Missouri, So;
Kansas. SO; California, rs; Maryland.
Ill: Virginia, 10; Washington, los;
nraOop %
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12
Lithographers to Meet.

CINCINNATI. o.. July n-Tomorrow the
National photographers association will meet
here in their fourth biennial session, which
will continue Ave days. Forty delegates will
be present, representing Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Buffalo. Rochester Cleveland
ver San Francisco, Louisville and Cincin-
natl. Next Thursday night will be devoted
to a reception and banquet.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

1t is hard to imagine why the Republican
members of the finance committee should
have brought their bounty business before
the sugar bounty provision incorporated in
the tariff act of 1890 answered no good pur-
pose. political or otherwise. 1t depleted the
revenues of the government and did not con-
vert the Louisiana sugar planters to Repub-
Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
For this frank avowal of the real purpose
Of the sugar bounty provision of the Nc
Kinley bill the Tribune is entitled to credit
for candor.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

have made some advance towards pa
ternalism in this country, but 1t is not
carefully guarded. Munich furnishes
the congenial environment, and it flour
ishes there, the wheel regulations be-
ing but a sample of the whole.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12
Montana-Fair; southeaster:y winds.
OBSERVATIONS.
TEMPERATURES.
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer. 1886; mean temperature, 20; rel
ative humidity sc; wind at p. m, northwest;
weather partly cloudy; maximum tempera-
ture. IS; minimum temperature, 81; daily
range, IL amouLt of precipitation in last
twenty-four hours. trace.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12
RIVER At s A. N.


Note-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. p. F. Lyons, Observer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

WASHINGTON, July 11.-Forecast for Mon
day: Minnesota, the Dakotas and Iowa
Generally fair; slowly rising temperature;
northweSterly winds.
Wisconsn-Generally fair; northwesterly
winds.
Montana-Fair; southeaster.y winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau, Washington, July II, 6:4S
p. m. Local Time, s p. m. 18th Meridian
me.-Observatons taken at the same mo-
ment of time at all stations.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

1t begins to look as though the Youngers
would be pardoned, and If they are, a howl
of disgust will go up from all over the state.
-Anoka Union.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

We register our voice against pardon and
in so doing we feel that we are expressing
the voice of the entire community and a
greater number of Minnesota citizens and
especially those who were living witnesses of
that Mortified affair twenty years ago-Jor-
dan IndeDendent
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

They have for many years shown evil
dence, unmistakable evidence, of a complete
reformation. The average prisoner by their
side is incapable of reformation, but these
men, coming of Christian parentage have
while they have grievously sinned, have as
sincerely repented. Any longer incarceration
would only crafty a morbid thirst for re-
benefit society. Let Cole and Jim go free
and let us remember that in the course of
justice none of US would see salvation. lie
Sueur Sentinel.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

Hanging was the punishment for their
crime, and yet they are asking pardon. They
surely ought not to be released.-Taylor' S
Falls Journal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

The ST. Paul G lob of yesterday con-
tanned a powerful editorial upon the question
Of granting pardon to the Younger broth
ers.-Austin Herald.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

We believe they will spend the rest of their
days in honorable living, and if their sins
deserve further punishment let it be meted
out by their Creator. They deserved all the
punishment they have received for their mis-
deeds, but by their conduct have shown
desire to- reform and atone for them so far
as possible.-Lanesboro Journal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

The petition for the pardon of the Younger
brothers is not likely to be very generally
signed in Minnesota. The people of this state
can remember twenty years with great vivid
ness.-Hutchinson Independent.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-12

1t is Of course Christian to forgive; these
men have lived twenty-one years Of COM
credit for it, but they are elf-confessedly
guilty of one of the most heinous crimes
known to mankind, and would it be in the
interest of public policy and safety to show
clemency in their case? Would they not go
to their homes to be made heroes of? Would
not the daring and reckless young men,
trusting in a similar clemency in their case
if captured, enter the lists as highwaymen
thus adding names to the prison rolls?
This matter of pardon is no trivial affair."
and the board which has the passing upon
before rendering its decision. Litchfeld
News-Ledger.