The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-01
that have lived and hoped, loved and
persisted In all the ages of history.
Two LOCAL PESTS.


Tt can hardly be denied that the at
tention won by our local Jail and police
headquarters in the annual report of
Secretary Jackson, Of the state board Of
charities is fully merited. Both the in
stitutiops referred to are among the most
discreditahle survivals of the past which
may be seen in the city today. Their
appearance Is quite as offensive to the
mass of our local citizenship as 1t can
be to Mr.. Jackson or any other official
or citizen of the state. The attention
thus directed to them will, we hope, be
effective at least in keeping the evil
which they represent fresh in the minds
of our local officials.
Some years ago a movement was in
augurated locking to the establishment
of county jail which would meet the
requirements of modern sanitation at
least 1t came to naught chiefly, If We
remember Alright, through the active zeal
of real estate spectators who could see
nothing mere in the event than possi-
BILE opportunity TO foist on the county
their lots at an extravagant price. That
we have gone on since without trying to
do aught to remedy the disgrace to city
and county which is undoubtedly In
volved is in no small degree due to the
recollection of the unworthy scramble
which prevailed at the time.
So far as the county of Ramsey is
concerned there is no reason whatever
why the evil should not be remedied
Nothing which Secretary Jackson can say
will exaggerate the blot upon the good
name of tie community which is infiict-
ed by the existing county jail.
A succession of grand juries have held
their breath while they have examined
and reported on It, Those of them which
] have felt called upon even to avoid
! breaking out In denunciation have UNI
| consciously paid high tribute to those
charged with its administration. Filth is
an inevitable concomitant of existing
! conditions. weeks incarceration with
! in it's precincts would suffice to knock
| the moral underpinning away from any
ordinarily. we'll disposed prisoner. Stu
ate as 1t is, on one of our leading thor
/ oughfares, and with its architectural pc
| culiarities standing out in relief by rea-
son of its proximity to the city hall, 1t
] is veritable municipal nightmare 1t Is
a stencil 1t cumbers ground which pos
sesses high value for public purposes 1t
would be greatly to the sanitary and
moral welfare of the community it, being
rid for tie time being of their inmates,
our county jail and central police sta
! ton could be transformed into dual
bonfire
| 1t is not so long since City Comptroller
McCaidy was quoted in one of his news
paper organs as declaring that funds
| were at the disposal Of the city to sup
ply US with a public auditorium. Is it
among the possibilities, Mr.. McCardy,
that you might, without violating any OF
the sacred provisions of the charter OF
our municipal liberties, get together q
few thousand dollars with which You
might In conjunction with the wise men
of the county government save Secretary
jackson and the rest of us who are less
familiar with the interior than with the
exteriors of such institutions the pain
Of dwelling day after day on the wretch
ed condition of the abiding places OF Gun
local wrongdoers? We make the in.
| uuiry with becoming humility.