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The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
CANNOT STOP THERE.

If we were out OIL a search for Wis
dom, the columns of the Iowa State
Register are about the last place in
which we should expect to find 1t.
There is, nevertheless, in a recent issue
of that journal an article on proposed
or possible changes in the Democratic
situation, including a statement that
is both true and so palpable that he
who runs may read. 1t is as follows:
The party Democratic must do one of two
things, get back to sounder basis of the
past or else push forward to still unsounder
conclusions; that is. to what Mr.. Debs has
denominated the Social Democracy. Which
one do you prefer? If you are Democrat
the old-time Democracy, or the Social De-
mocracy? 1t seems to outsiders that every
Democrat must choose which one he will
follow, which one he will be.
This is valuable as being the view of
an outsider, and also of an insider
who looks on the situation without
bias or passion. There is no halfway
house, as we have said SO frequently,
on the financial question. The most
wonderful thing about it's advocacy to
us is that anybody should ever think
or speak of free silver as a finality. If
it is the act of the government which
gives value to money-that is, if fiat
is Value-What conceivable reason can
there be for employing this beneficent
device up to so per cent of the amount
Of our circulating medium and stop
ping there? Henry George is not guilty
of any such nonsense as this. He says
that gold and silver as money are both
equally relics of barbarism, and that
he is for paper money only.
So say the Populists, and so says ev-
cry man who has yielded sound
money principles and is not afraid to
go where the logic of his convictions
carries him. A man or a party can
no more remain permanently on the
basis furnished by the Chicago plat
form than he can stay suspended in
mid air without any material support.
He must go forward or backward. He
must return to the view of money held
by Jefferson and Jackson and
Tilden, or he must go on to
the view held by Ben Butler and
Solon Chase. There is logic in the ad-
vocacy of the gold standard. There is
logic in the advocacy of irredeemable
paper money based on nothing but ma
tionaI credit. There is no logic in
money that tries to teeter between the
two, and to fulfill the principles Of
both. 1t is like trying to stamp a disc
out of mixture of equal proportions
of metal and wind
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
READY FOR DAM WORK
Government Gets Land and FIovvare
Rights at Meeker island

The deal by which the government
secures all the. necessary land and
noWage rights for the big dam at
Meeker island has at last been closed
and all that remains is the recordina,
OF the deeds. The total amount Of
money necessary for the purchase of
the land is not yet made public. b1t
MAJ. Dushane, Of the United States
army engineering corps, says that In
most cases the consideration was the
merely nominal sum of ST.
Work Will be commenced on the dam
early next spring, and will be pushed
forward as rapidly as possible.
Maj. Dushane is enthusiastic over the
project, and says it means much to
both st. Paul and Minneapolis. 1t
Will extend the head of navigation lit
orally to the latter city, but practically
two or three boats, at least, will stop
at st. Paul to every one which con-
tinues up river. He is of the opinion
that a few years hence will witness a
great volume of the freight trade from
the Northwest go by way of the Mis-
sissippi, and especially of the products
for export, which will find their way
abroad by way Of New Orleans.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15

and upon the depositor the obligation
of exercising his judgment, alertness.
watchfulness and self-dependence.
But, instead of leaving this business
to the sole care and responsibility of
those who engage in and those who
patronize it, the state assumes for the
depositors the duty Of providing Sc
curity. It does not make the individual
character of the banker a test quail
fcation; 1T regards it as wholly incon-
sequential and provides checks upon
and guards against his dishonesty. 1t
assumes that he is. and will be a rascal
by obliging him to have a board of
directors to watch the business, and
and successful in business, the depos-
itors accept their supervision in place
OF their own. But experience demon
strated that directors did not always
direct, and so the state provides an
examiner with inquisitorial powers to
watch the banker and the directors.
We have had ample illustration of the
effect of this assumption by the state
of individual duties.
We have seen depositors relying
wholly upon the safeguards Of the law,
using no care themselves, and espe
cially is this the case with those whose
savings are small We have seen a
decided weakening of that fine sense
of honor, that pride in integrity, that
rigorous watchfulness of the trust
money, that sharp inspection of secur-
tiles and that absolute exclusion of
the speculative that are essential in
the character and methods of the bank
er. How much Of this is due to the
postulate Of dishonesty Nhich is the
base of the action of the state? What
effect must it have on character where
dishonesty is presumed? And, on the
other hand, are depositors benefited by
being relieved from the duty and re-
sponsibility of personal investigation
into the character of the men to whom
they intrust their funds? Can 1T be
said that state supervision in this
branch of industry is justified by the
general results?
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
AN EFFECT OF STATE SUPER
VISION,

Just as it is impossible to discern
the line that divides the colors of the
rainbow, the one merging into the
other by degrees so fine as to make
the final stage imperceptible, so it is
impracticable to define with precision
the line on one side of which lies the
domain of individual activity and re-
sponsibility and on the other the field
of proper and legitimate state or ag-
gregate action and responsibility Over
this disputable border land the indi-
vidualists and collectivists constantly
contend. The latter, indeed, will not
admit that there is any border land at
all, and, according to their initiation
into the higher degrees of their faith,
they hold more and more to the states
absorption of all duties and RESPONSE
bilities, eliminating in Bellamy's in
dustrial army. The individualist, on
the other hand, would limit the state
to the narrowest possible limits, vir-
tually to the exercise of police powers
Between these ever contending con-
cepts of government and it's functions
stage of development.
The individualist rests his case upon
the broad proposition that character
develops under the stress of RESPONSE
bility; that this is as essential as is
exercise to the muscular development;
that the common disposition is to avoid
responsibility, and that the assumption
by the state of supervision over any
of the affairs of life that relieves men
of the obligation to use care, prudence,
fcrethought, tends to make men less
self-reliant and thus to affect injuri-
ously individual, and therefore state
or national character. The opposite
policy has for many years been advan-
cling it's forces over the border land,
making society take on more and more
Cf the duties and obligations formerly
left to the individual, and the expert
ment has gone far enough to enable
account of stock to be taken and to
make up the profit and loss account
In the case of those men who offer
to receive on deposit the money of
those willing to entrust their surplus
to them, enga ging either to return the
money on demand or to pay a stipu-
lated price for it's use, if deposited for
a time, men known as bankers, the
fundamental qualifications are integ-
rity and good business ability. The
individual who has accumulated a sur
plus of money for which he has no
immediate use would entrust his money
to a banker only after such inquiry
as would assure him of the possession
of these prime requisites. They would
be his main security. This condition
would have the double effect of placing
upon character and reputation of the
banker for strict integrity and ability
high premium, making them a val
liable capital to be prudently guarded,
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
KELLER,s BEET SUGAR MILL.
Sauk Center Senator Thinks He Has
Capitalists Interested in 1t.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
SAUK CENTER, Mimi, Oct IA
Senator Henry Keller has just returned
from st. Paul, where he has been in
consultation with his New York rep
resentative regarding his sugar beet
factory, plans for which are maturing
rapidly. He will have two capitalists
here next week to look over the enter
prise and reach some definite con-
clusion. He has shipped a car load of
beets of his own raising, to Nebraska
and will himself be on the ground to
see that they are manufactured into
sugar and the same sugar returned.
These beets have been handled pur-
posely very carelessly, having. been
covered by snow and some slightly
frosted and the senator says that If
they produce a good quality of sugar
he is confident that beets we'll cared
for will do decidedly better and the re-
turns from this car will demonstrate
Minnesota's value as a beet raising
state. The beets are the product of
seed furnished by the state Senator
Keller is spending a vast amount of
time and no little money to demon
strate the practicability of sugar beet
raising, and the result is being watched
with interest. He says: Il am bound
to let the people see that sugar beetS
can be successfully handled in Mime
sofa, and they will be next to wheat to
raise"
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15

What divinity hedges about the cable
line and those who patronize it that
''the reputed organ never complains
of the service on any other line? The
foul air. in the trailers abundantly
given that line is never aired on the
other lines, notably the Rondo and
Lafayette, in the early morning and
late evening hours when the laboring
people of Arlington hills are hurrying
to and from their work. There is no
additional service there except now
and then a trailer put on when it
does the least good, and from $50 to Z
a. m. the cars are crowded to suffoca-
ton without even standing room on the
platforms.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15

be referred to arbitration in the fu-
future This preposterous claim, we
are informed, is now to be renewed,
and to have the sanction of the presi-
dent himself.
The proposition has been and still
is to make a general agree
ment with Great Britain by which all
differences falling within certain spec
flied classes, and exclusive of matters
touching the honor or the territorial
integrity of the two nations, shall be
referred to court of arbitration con-
stituted according to conditions laid
down in the document. To this agree
ment the consent of the senate is nee
essary. This is all that it has
any right or claim to. 1t can
pass upon the general PROPOSE
ton to arbitrate or not to arbi-
trate, and there it's legitimate functions
end. The former treaty was amended
by the senate committee to the effect
indicated by the London News article.
The members of the senate proposed
that, as a condition Of allowing this
country to arbitrate at all, they should
practically be made members of the
board of arbitration by stipulation
that each particular case coming up
should have to be referred to them be-
fore the arbitration tribunal could con-
slider it. The abSurdity Of this, and
it's variance from the intent of the
constitution, appears on the face. 1t
would be just as reasonable to cut Off
the appropriation for paying the Judges
Of the supreme court unless each case
coming before that tribunal was sub
mitted first to the United States SEN
ate for it's judgment. Under a general
arbitration arrangement we would
have a court and a list of subjects
which that court might consider. The
senate declares that this machinery
shall not be set in motion for any par
ticular case; that this court shall not
sit and no case shall ever come before
it until it has first been consulted and
given its consent.
This is so clearly an arbitrary, I'M
reasonable and unheard-of extension
of senatorial power that we find it hard
to believe, that Mr.. Mckinley can coun-
tenance it. The United States senate
has not earned so good a reputation
that we can afford to add to the sphere
of it's activity or control. There is a
very general popular opinion that the
country would get along better with
out the senate altogether. If, instead
of that the entire control Of our for
eign affairs is to be turned over to it
Indefinitely, so that it will be in the
power of the senate, after we have
agreed to arbitrate any difference, to
refuse to allow a particular case to be
submitted to arbitration and to insist
upon war, it will make the senate the
whole of our government, as far as our
relations with other nations are con-
cerned; and give to it a power which it
is least Of all fitted to exercise or pos
sess. If Mr.. Mckinley has due regard
for his own office, for the safety of the
people and for the preservation of the
constitution and custom from the en-
croachments of an arrogant senate, he
will utterly refuse to submit or even to
consider q treaty in which this often
sive and improper condition shall have
a place.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
BILL TOUCHED THE BUTTON
And the Excited officers Did the
Rest.


Rest.
Rrr, rrrr, rrrrr, rrrrrr, rang the
alarm bell in the sheriffs Office at $3.50
yesterday afternoon. That means a
Jail delivery Up jumped a half dozen
deputy sheriffs, and out they rushed
into the court house corridor, headed
by Ed Dahl, who headed straight for
the jail. Police Capt Rouleau. who
happened to be sauntering along the
corridor, Joined in the chase, feeling for
his gun as he ran.
Up the stairs of the sheriff's resi-
dence sprang Deputy Dahl, only to be
met at the door by the jailor, who an
nounced that it was a false alarm
Who touched it off? Why, no less a
parsonage than ''Bill'' Erwin 1t all
happened in this way Mr. Erwin had
called at the jail to consult with a eli
ent-one Furey, he of the Roebuck-
Gruber7 7$7OO-in gold fame. They were
seated, talking together in a room re-
served for professional consultations
with prisoners, when Mr.. Erwin ex-
tended his pedal extremities, as tall
men are wont to do sometimes, and
planted them against the wall In so
DONG one of the attorneys shoes fatty
pressed against the button that rings
the alarm. There are several of these
buttons set in the walls of the jail for
convenience sake, in case Of a break
Ior liberty or other disturbance among
the prisoners Of course Mr.. Erwin
couldn't hear the alarm bell ring in the
sherltf's office in the court house, so
MI. Erwin remained tilted back in his
chalr with his foot still on the button,
while the excited deputy sheriffs and a
crowd OF court house employees rushed
over to the tail
After it had all been accounted for
l.
cigars for the jailor, the criminal law
yer eXplained
Ihat wasn't an accident, not a. bit
OF it. You see it's been so devilish long
since I've had case, that [ thought
Ia send in a general alarm"
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
A LErHARG1c ADMINrsTRAr1oN.

1t is not always prudent to accept the
little stories sent out from Washington
as verities and proceed gravely to dis
cuss them, for there are a number of
versatile fellows down there with facile
pencils and fertile inaginatons who,
when the real article is not in the mar
ket in quantity adequate to the de-
mand do not scruple to draw on their
imagination for their facts. So, when
the word came West over hot wires
that Senator Knute Nelson was be-
sieging the treasury department for
revenue cutter to be ordered forthwith
to Franklin, in Louisiana, to demand
the instant release from quarantine of
Senator Caffrey, one of Nelson's col
leagues on the committee to investigate
the resources and needs of the Mis-
sissippi river we assumed that one of
the boys was playing with his imagi-
nation. We have waited the customary
denial where such is the case, but, as
none has come, we are constrained to
accept the story as news.
Senator Caffrey lives in the sleepy
little burg of Franklin, which slumbers
under the spreading live oaks that
grow in such grandeur on the banks
Of the Teche, While from their great
branches the gray moss hangs pendant,
swaying lazily in the breeze, giving.
them a Pcfferian aspect of venerable
IL, III,
vocal all through the day, while the
gallinipper nips and the mosquito sings
and stings by night. Across the Teche
stretch the gloomy cypress swamps to
the Atchafalaya through which the al
ligators founder among the knees of
the cypress roots eternally bent in un-
availing prayer. 1t is the land of Evan
geline, the Acadia of the 'Cajans, Sc
rene, peaceful, somnolent. But to
startle out of the constitutional lassi-
tude which the soft climate induces in
those who dwell there came the dread
news Of el vomito in New Orleans,
reviving traditional memories of the
days when the yellow fiend stalled
merciIessly and resistlessly through
the cities Of the gulf and swept the
neighboring country with her deadly
besom. Forthwith quarantine was de-
clared and the bar of strict non-inter-
course raised against the outer world,
keeping within all who were there and
barring out all who would come within
,.,,o o6 1,rnoi1opfc of Fra T1l<lin
Among those inpounded was Senator
Caffrey, who, just now, is due to join
Senator Nelson's party. Senator Caff
rev advised Senator Nelson of his COM
pulsory absence, detained at home by
the health officers Of the insignificant
little hamlet of Franklin. No wonder
the. wrath of Knute was stirred. A
senator in congress of the United
States held q virtual prisoner by the
petty officers Of a contemplate burglet
in Louisiana, and kept from the per-
forTnance of an important duty laid
upon him by the senate in behalf of
an enterprise Of national import! Can
such an indignity be cast upon the
senate, and, through it. upon the United
States, ard not be resented? What is
our navy of armored cruisers for if not
tc meet such an emergency and uphold
the dignity of the senate Of the United
States? What is our standing army for
if not for just such an event? But, If
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
DID THE WORK QUICKLY.
NEankatO Presbytery Completes Its
Duties and AdjOurns.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
MADELIA, Mimi, Oct 1.-THE Pres
bytery of the MankatO district, which
has been in session in the Presbyterian
church of this place for the past three
days, and with large attendance, ad-
journed today. Rev. w. r. Reynolds,
of st. Peter, delivered the opening SER
mon. A very touching memorial was
read by Rev L. S. Badger of the late
Rev. Ransom Wait.
Several applicants were licensed to
preach, and two dismissals to other
jurisdictions were granted. The district
now contains fifty-eight churches, two
being added at this session. Last even
ing Rev. H. NJ. Presley preached on
Church Missions" Rev. c. c. Hoff-
mister on Loyalty" and Rev. John
Sinclair on Church Wealth" Rev.
L. w. Beattie was elected moderator
for the ensuing year. A resolution
thanking the people Of Madelia for
their kind treatment was unanimously
adopted. Winnebago City was chosen
as the next place of meeting. A ma
iority of the members go to Mankato
t. take part in the synod now in ses-
sion there.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
Tn the Divorce Court.

Judge Willis granted divorce Yesterday
to George Germain Jr. from Eva F. German.
The testimony Of Mr.. German concerning con ,el, ms
,aoords r.o of the police court, which indicated
q aeT chrsnic tendency on Mrs. Germains part
for falling into the hands Of the police. Upon
the last occasion of her appearance before
the police judge she was ordered 10 leave
Emily Nonis has brought an action for di-
vorce against James Nenis alleging ing deser
ton The plaintiff and nd, defendant en- were mar
Ieges Iae that the defendant abandoned his wife
in tbe wear 1891, and has since then made
no provision for her support The plaintiff
is M +birtvthree and the defendant thirty-six
Hears of age. They have two children the
so1,Stodv of whom the plaintiff demands.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
IN "BUTTEv HIS LIKENESS.
fhfs White Should Be Black or
Black and RIue

Room 81 at the Merchants resembIed a
klndergarten for few hours yesterday after
noon being occupied by Mrs. Margaret White
and nine children. - w --''o
A few years ago a happy family lived in
Battle Battle Creek. Mich. Then the husband and
lather Ia left for the far West in the homes
fd++oe oI oettering his fortunes, and after time
quent and finally ceased altogether Montbs
rolled by and then the wife decided to go ,'il, in
search OF him, and, taking their nine chill
tbe fPen recrne she IS started for Butte Mont where
Alter a short search aided by the nolica
She SaaI9 hnally located hubby, but he was then
IN iivlng with another woman, forgetful of the
bepenaanf bep @ wife and little ones he had left
there was scene, which ended in the with
araWal OF the wronged wife from the prem
1Ses. The care Of the children fell unon
the,u tbe cIy, which is now returning them to
White. vi NnrS.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
wants $4,000 for a wrist.

The suit of Mary Wulentzeck against the
city of St. Paul Ais on trial before Judge
Kelly and jury. The plaintiff stubbed m her her
and fell to the sidewalk. In consequence
thereof she sustained a complicated fracture
of the wrist bones which prevents her from from
wrist she thinks that the city ought to
recompense re- ON her with the comforting soface
of SO 0iAl
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
xy.r,xne, want Damages.

Judge Otis and jury were engaged yester.
day in trying the personal injury suits OF
Michael King and Coleman Grimm @ against tne
IFS who were employed by the defendant
conpany as laborers, were thrown from
working car as result, Of collision with witt
Seventh Street line. and both were injured.
One ast asks for s., 900 and the other $1,000 dam
ages. AS soon as the testimony was all in.
the attorney for the street railway company
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15
ONE MERRITT ASSIGNS.
Accumulation of Judgments Be-
ueved to- Be the Cause.

Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi. Oct. IA. r. Mer-
ritt. one of the Merritt brothers who
became famous through their $1,O00,OO0
law suit with John d. Rockefeller,
made a voluntary assignment today for
the benefit of his creditors to Charles
S. Christopher. No particulars could
be learned as Mr.. Merritt could not be
seen. and his attorneys refused to talk.
Judgments have been piling up in the
district court against Merritt during
the past few weeks, and 1T Is supposed
this is the prime cause of the assign
ment. The statement of assets
and liabilities was not filed with the
deed of assignment and the attorneys
say it will not be ready for several
days. A. r. Merritt is the man who
was recently before Gov. Clough on an
application for requisition from New
York, which was denied He was al
legged to have been connected with
fraudulent deals in Kentucky coal
lands
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15

Spain may be Bourbon who never
learns and also never forgets. She re-
fuses to state the precise date when
she will have Cuba subdued, remember
ing the repeated predictions of Secrc-
tary Seward that the Union forces
would squelch the rebellion in ninety
days. Recalling that, the administra-
ton should know better than to ask her
to name the day.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-15

The "reputed organ of Mayor Doran"
might also, whils~asking him for infor-
nation, inquire if it be true that the
vacancies on the board of public works
are to be made trading stock to pla-
cate Col. Kiefers Unsuitable appetite
for some public place and to keep him
cut of Mayor Doran's or Fred Stevens
way. sfs