The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-19
ANOTHER HuMBuG uNmAsKEp.

Still another illustration is added to the
great number already furnished of the
disposition Of our local officeholders to OPP
pose every undertaking which does not
conform to their preconceived views OF
their own duties and obligations.
The course which has been pursued by
DR.. Ohage, McCardy and the other city
officials involved toward the dairynen
of this city has been characterized by the
Globe as in the nature Of petty persecu-
ton Of responsible citizens. injurious to
the city and animated by ignorance, ma
lice and cowardice. The decision of the
supreme court, as usual in such cases,
sustains the position taken by the
Globe. The bullying Of which the
dairymen have been the victims through
out is revealed for just what it is. 1t
law, but was contrary to the common
sense Of the situation and deserves to go
on record as being of q piece with the
dangerous and almost criminal conduct Of
our city officials with reference to the
smoke ordinance and the sidewalk affair
Sheer official pig-headedness has lain at
the bottom Of the entire business. we
arc sorry to have to characterize the Of
fetal conduct of DR.. Ohage in this Wayi
but there is no other adequate explana-
ton of his purblind and tyrannical con-
duct throughout.
We have sustained DR.. Ohage willingly
in more than one instance when many
who agree with US on questions OF munic-
ipal concern have felt hurt by our ad-
vocacy Of him. We have defended him
against the imputation Of playing poll
tician like his party associates. But IN
this case he is tarred by precisely the
same stick, and his conduct has been just
as small, as tyrannous and as essentially
dishonest as that of McCardy in this and
other matters, or as that of Mayor Kiefer
in any Of the many directions In Wh1ch
that great man has felt at liberty to
play politics at the city's expense.
In the face Of the plain provision of the
state law, and in the teeth of the SEN
sible example set them by the authorities
of Minneapolis, McCardy and Ohage unit
ed in their campaign of official SANDER
and persecution of the dairymen. They
have misled the people of the city DELHI
erately, even going so far as to m1sinform
the members of the civic league to the
detriment of the dairymen who stood out
against their Illegal aggressions. They
told the people there was no money avail
able to pay the expense Of the Inspection;
but when Dr. Ohage's corps Of presum-
ably political health inspectors had gone
for a time without their pay, McCardy,
as usual, when he has to come to the
aid Of his fellow machine politicians,
found the funds which were necessary to
pay the inspectors
Let the responsibility now rest where
it belongs To Ohage and McCardy the
people of this city will be indebted If
the dairy herds that supply our
people are to go uninspected for any
length Of time The G 10 b has urged in
season and out the imperative necessity
of making the necessary inspection; but
refused to sanction the plain discrimina-
ton used against the dairymen by seek
ing to impose upon them the burden OF
serious public obligation, without war
rant either of law or Of necessity, as the
event now proves. The foolish ordinance
goes the way Of many of It's kind passed
by our office-holding combine. Let us
hope that there will be sense and decency
enough found among them to proceed at
once to enact an ordinance in conformity
with the law and the constitutional rights
of citizens and enforce 1t in proper and
effective manner