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that the law could infiict. 1t lies in
the rapid and certain decline Of their
circulation and the business that fol-
lows it, and in eventual bankruptcy.
Nothing could be more wholesome. Ev-
cry honorable newspaper man has rag
ed inwardly against the defilement of
his profession by these journalistic
scavengers. He has been doubly in
dignant because the very public that
criticised him because others in the
same business We're linked with crime
willingly contributed to the profits and
the continuance of crime by offering it
who would not have allowed these
newspapers within their homes have
bought them on the streets "just to
see what they had to say" and thou
sands of business concerns, whose
managers were applauding the higher
standard of morality, gave big checks
to the proprietors of the yellow"
newspapers to pay for advertising.
Thank heaven, the nauseous exhibit
ton and all the demoralizing influence
that it spread abroad in the country
is to come to an end. It is, we think,
a high tribute to the motives that sway
the journalism of the United States, to
the independence and the staunchness
of principle of it's representatives
on M 01n Of will in
degradation that brought to it's pro-
moters almost fabulous fortunes has
tempted so few editors and managers
to debase their own papers in the hope
Of a similar profit. The only new
journalism" that exists, Or has ever
been worthy Of the name, is the con-
test Of enterprise, of improved motives
of gathering and presenting the days
doings and of honesty and ability in
fighting for the right. That new jour-
nalism will live forever. The vu1tures
and hyenas who assumed it's title in
order to pander to the vilest impulses
of human nature, and to contaminate
and degrade the race, are already
aware of the punishment that awaits
them. That punishment should go
forward publicly and privately until
these wretched creatures are driven
penniless and disgraced from the
haunts they have befouled, and have
passed out of the sight of true Journal
ism and of all decent men and women
forever.
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be all OF this and yet a lack Of "the
brave old wisdom OF sincerity?" Who
more dignified than, say, Senator Jones,
of Nevada, more full Of a sense Of his
responsibility, more master Of his
subject, and who more lacking in
downright sincerity?
The discovery of the common hunger
for the sincere man. the thoughtful,
serious, honest man, is not of recent
date. 1t put itself in evidence thirteen
years ago when the managers Of the
movements of the Democratic party
thought that they had found
in a man who, as governor of his
state, had held public office to be a
public trust, an available" candidate
for the presidency. No other indica-
ton had he given the voters Of the
nation than this capacity to resist pres
sure that would defect him from doing
his duty. He was simply a strong. cour-
ageous, sincere man, and what dignity
he had came from his simple sincerity
of filth, he was confronted with the ex-
posture Of a story, part truth, mostly
fabrication instead of lodging, deny
ing, equivocating, or appealing to the
courts for a vindication to be there
after recalled, he simply said: Tell the
truth"
The whole significance of the first
election of Mr.. Cleveland lay in the
fact that the country was utterly
weary of the insincere man, the adroit
man, the one who eff he must have
convictions never ''b'leeved 'em too
hard" OF brilliancy Of intellect, pow
ers of oratory, dash, smartness, in the
Yankee sense, they had had surfeit
OF plant men, bending to persuasion Or
pressure, dual natures, with morals for
exhibition and immorals for use, build
ers of platforms never to be stood upon,
public pulse-feelers adapting them
selves to the changing beats, observers
of straws to learn the direction Of the
wind that they might turn backs to
1t and run with it, Of these the country
had had its fill and hungered for sin
cere men. Mr.. Cleveland was elected
and reelected in spite of the dignifed
but insincere men managing his party,
because he satisfied this hunger, be-
cause he was what most public men
were not, earnest, sincere, courageous.
For such a man the country is as hun
CRY as ever, and such a one will be the
next President of the United States if
nominated.
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TH0REAU ANnLoWELL.

Mr.. F. B. Sanborn, in the current
Forum, in an article on "Thoreau and
Emerson" thinks it is necessary to the
fame of the former to defend him
against Lowells drollery, in the "Fa-
bic Of the Critics." which he admits
is good, in which Lowell rebukes
Charming for treading Tin Emerson's
tracks with legs painfully short" and
tells him that
with good fruit of your own
Can't you let Neighbor Emerson's alone?
He then humorously goes on to as
sure Charming that there is no use in
his poaching on Emerson's orchards
because
''Thoreau has picked up all the windfalls be-
FORE
The similarity, or some similarity
between Emerson and the hermit Of
Walden must have existed, for M.
Sanborn quotes a Boston wit, in 1849
saying of the latter, whom he passed
on the street: Look at Thoreau: he il
getting up nose like Emerson's." and
he also quotes Thoreau's mother as
accounting for a remarked likeness
in thought of the two mystics of Con-
cord by saying: 90 yes! Mr. Emerson
has been a good deal with David Hen
ry." But Lowell was struck by what
seemed to his immature Judgment q
striking likeness bordering on imita-
ton, ten years before he put out his
jolly satire. He had been disciplined
by the faculty for presuming to have
his own choice of studies instead of
the prescribed curriculum, and went
down to Concord to rusticate Emer-
son was there, deep in his philosophy.
against which New England's Puritan
ism was in revolt and to which Low
ellis early training put him in opposi-
ton. In a letter from there he speaks
of the philosopher as "a good-natured
man in spite of his doctrines" doc
trines which commended themselves to
Lowell in later years when ripper iudg-
ment made him question the old faith
and say:
Perhaps the deeper faith that is to come
VIII see God rather in the strenuous doubt
Than in the creed held as an infants hand
Holds purposeless whatso is placed therein -
But of Thoreau he then also wrote.
ut is exquisitely amusing to see how
he initiates Emerson's tone and mar
ner. With my eyes shut I shouldn't
know them apart" 1t should, however.
be remembered, what Mr. Sanborn
overlooks, that Lowell was but nine
teen years old when he thus summed
up and passed judgment upon these
seniors, and was only ten years older
when he put his early conception OF
Thoreau's imitativeness of Emerson
into the Fable" Eyes so young as
were his at these ages may be keen to
see, and tongue quick to comment on
mere superficial appearances, whose
deceptiveness judgment is not yet ripe
enough to detect. Given, in addition
a nature one-half clear mystic and en-
thusiast and the other half humorist
as Lowell, in 1S47, described himself.
anu II Is HOL SUI pTiSilS lIldI ne made
the fancied likeness of the two Con
cordians the play of his other half
But sounder judgment and sobered
opinions come with ripper years, and
at thirty-five LowelPs estimate OF
Thoreau was quite different from the
impression of his youth. When the
| tidings of the death of Agassiz reached
him in Florence, and set "the garru-
| lous memories" to bringing back the
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Saturdays when the great naturalist
gathered about his table the men who
have made Boston as immortal as
Athens, Lowell, passing in review "the
living and the dead. who gathered in
"the warm-lighted hail." pays tribute
to Thoreau that .Sanborn should have
alluded to. at least, in justice both. to
his favorite and his young critic 1t is
there that he is the just critic, the
humorous half of him suppressed, and
no admirer of the Walden recluse can
take just exception ito his Judgment.
He says
First ne from sympathy still held apart
BY shrinking oYer-eagerness of heart
Cloud-charged with searching IRE, whose
shadows sweep -
Heightened mean things with sense of
brooding i'll
And STEPPED in doom familiar field and
hill a
New Engiand's poet soul-reserved and
deep,
November nature with a name of May.
Whom high Ger Concord plains we laid to
sleep
While the orchards Knocked us in their white
array
And building robins wondered at our
tears,
Snatched in his prime the shape august
mat should have stood unbent meath
fourscore years,
The noble head, the eyes of furtive trust,
All gone to speechess dust
That should amply atone for what
ever of justice there was in the HUI
morous satire of the Fable" as his
later judgment atoned for like injus-
tice there done to Bryant
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IT FREES A CHURCH
WILL OF A BALTIMORE MILLION
ARE ENDOWS THE PARK
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
ITS FLOATING DEBT is GONE.
THANKS TO THE BENEFICENCc
OF THE LATE MIR,
STICkNEY,
r. INGERsoLL's TRIP EAST
Was in Connection With the Convrr
sion of the Money to- the
Church's Use.

The mystery which has surrounded
the visit of Rev. E. P. IngersoI, pastor
of the Park Congregational church, to
New York city has been explained by
| that gentleman. and with the explana-
ton comes the uplifting Of the mantle
of gloom which has enveloped the
church during the past few years ow-
ing to the Indebtedness that has been
hanging over it,
DR.. Ingersoll returned to St. Paul a
little more than a week ago, and at
last Sundays services he announced
| from the pulpit that he had a piece of
good news for the members of the
church, but said that he Was not at lib
erty to say what the news was for a
few days, although it was in connec-
| ton with his trip to New York
The secret was finally impartial to
the members of the church at the mid
week prayer meeting, when Dr. Inger-
soil announced that the church had
fallen heir to a grant Of $4,000, which
would enable it to pay every cent of
its indebtedness, with the exception
of the bonded debt, for which provi-
sion had already been made
The bequest comes from the Stickney
estate, which has been in litigation In
the Maryland courts for the past two
years. Mr.. Stickney was a resident OF
Baltimore, and at his death it was
found that portion of his vast estate,
amounting to about quarter of mill
ion dollars, had been willed to the Con-
gregatiOnal Building Society Of New
York City. The will was contested by
the heirs of the estate, but the case
has been decided against them. Mr..
Sttckney was wealthy bachelor, and
at the time Of his death had been as
ISOLATED with the Congregational
churches of Baltimore for many years
His will stated that the money that thu
building society would acquire was to
be used at the discretion of the society
in aiding churches that were carrying
heavy debts or which needed money in
the completion Of church homes
DR.. IngersolPs visit to New York was
for the purpose of placing before the
directors of the building society the
condition of the Park Congregational
church, and at the close of the inter
view they decided to grant to the
church the full amount Of It's indebted
ness. The only conditions imposed are
that the church take up the annual
collection for the benefit of the society.
and that 1T always remain Congrega-
tiOnal in its denomination.
DR.. IngersoII is very much elated at
the result Of his trip, and in speaking
Of the matter last night, said that by
the obtaining of the grant the church
would be placed on sound financial
footing, and that much better work
could be done when the idea that the
church was hampered with large debt
was thing of the past
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WAS A REMARKABLE MAN.
AcI&er Posts Estimate of the Late
Mai. White.

Acker post held it's regular meeting
last night at the post headquarters.
Sixth and Seventh streets. Several
matters of a routine character were
were disposed of. A committee was ap-
pointed to look after the Transports
ton to the next National eneampment
at Buffalo The post adopted memo
Ram on the death of the late Maj
White. After giving the details of his
military record, breVet rank, service,
battles, skirmishes, ETC., the memo
riam, which was prepared by G. G.
Higbee, w. B. Summers and j. B.
CLANCY adds:
Comrade White was a remarkable man in
all the affairs of life in which he participated.
Losing his right arm in Grants first battle,
he was not content to leave the service OF
his country on an honorable discharge. He
sought and obtained a position he could fill,
and was at the front, in active service until
the close of the He promotion
to a captaincy in the regular army. and
was breveted major for meritorious services
during the Rebellion.
In civil life he was noted for his integrity
energy and great executive TaDility. He was
the executive officer of the Loyal Legion,
and it is largely due to his patriotism and
loyalty and his determination to do his ut
most to teach and perpetuate the principles
for which we fought that the Loyal Legion
of the State of Minnesota stands second to
no state in the Union. Always genial and
considerate Of the wishes OF others, he was
fearless in doing right
Suffering for years from a painful disease.
he bore it heroically that few knew how
the brink he stood. In the dead OF
night, while in the line Of duty, the fatal
fall came and he died as he had lived, grand
ly triumphant.
tenders coincidence and sympathy in this our
mutual bereavement.
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THE STREET RAILWAY CONPANY,s
ROUTE.

1t does not need extraordinary per
spicacity to understand that it is real
ly the Twin City Rapid Tran
sit company that is behind the
persistent movement to change
the cable line to Third street
and Summit avenue. We wonder that
the good people Of Merriam Park. who
want and have a right to better com
munication with the city, and our own
business men do not see why it is that
this agitation is continued in favor of
a particular route, and that the nro-
motors will not listen to any suggestion
OF change even for a better The street
railway company, naturally enough
and properly enough, from its point
Of view, is looking after its own inter
ests. What it wants is to get rid of
the cable line. It is assured of an am
pie supply of power from the Mis-
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A contributor to the Times-Herald
lad a chatty article on ex-senator
Calvin A. Brice recently, in the course
Of which he told how Briee became a
Democrat. It was after he had GOT
ten into the railway swim and was
located in New York His partner
in the operations of the firm and Brice
himself were Republicans, but. as their
railway schemes grew, the point was
soon reached where they came in touch
with the practical side Of politics, and
it became essential to the business of
the firm that both political parties
should be represented in it. Which
one should turn Democrat was de-
cided by tossing up coin, and Brice
lost. This story may be apocryphaI
but 1t gains credence from the course
Of the two-state senator when the
poor Wilson bill was being manEIe,l
by the ''f1ve Judas Iscariots'' OF the
senate.
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"NOTHING PAYS BUT GOD"

The drubbing administered to Re
publicans all along the line in the mu-
Dicipal elections has increased the
number of papers Of that party who
are now singing a very different song
to another tune than that which they
sang SO loudly and confidently six
months ago. Then the hard times were
due to the Democrats and their tariff;
then Mckinley was the advance agent
of prosperity, the great disciple of pro-
lection, whose election only was need
ed to restore confidence, set the
wheels humming in the mills and take
idle workmen off the streets and the
charity lists. twas the mere threat
Of tariff reductions implied in the cleo
ton of Cleveland in 1892 that started
the panic and caused hard times, and
the election Of Mckinley would bring
good times back again. They lied and
knew they were lying, but, like des-
perate gamblers, they were willing to
take future chances for the sake OF
immediate gain
The election went as they wished
but prosperity halted; Mr. Dingley's
committee went at the work of paving
the way for the restoration last De-
cember and had it all smoothed down
when congress met in March, but still
prosperity fingered behind. Then some
of the more astute papers began to
assure their readers that prosperity
depended upon no legislation; that it
was silly to expect that tariff law
would bring it, and told them that
they must be patient and it would
come along in good time Since the
wrath Of the buncoed voters has shown
in the spring elections, there is a gem
eral chorus of that kind of talk. The
Minneapolis Tribune gets into the cho-
rus and admits that 'there has been
no BOOM" and that 'men of small
means find it about as difficult to get
money as before, butt consoles
them with but 2''people with good
collateral and gilt-edged credit can
secure money at a lower rate than
ever" But it was not the people with
gilt-edged credit and good collateral
who were waiting and voting for the
show Of the advance agent of pros
perity; it was not to these that the
promises Of last fall were made They
did not need prosperity, for they had
it, and, save for a month or two in
1898, right in the heart of the panic.
any one with such security and credit
could get all the money his collateral
would carry. 1t was to the men out OF
the mills and factories, the retail deal
ers suffering from 1essened trade. that
the promises of good times with Nc
Kinley's election. We're made 1t is too
late now for those who talked of its
efficacy then to talk to them about the
futility of legislation; they will not be
believed. Men who were so simple as
to believe them then, when they were
lied to, are just of that mental consti-
tuition not to believe them now when
they are hearing the truth It is
too much, however, to expect Republi-
can politicians and editors ever to
learn the deep meaning of Lowel's
line that Nothing pays but God"
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The New York Times, philosophizing
on the floods Of the Mississippi. won
ders why so much money and effort
should be wasted in attempts to con-
fine the great river within levees. in
stead of doing as they do in Egypt
with the Nile. 1t laments the loss an
nually Of the fertile silt that is swept
down into the Gulf Of Mexico, Instead
Of being allowed to overflow and be,
deposited on the bottoms alongside
the river, thus giving the land a wear
ly op-dressing of rich fertilizer. 1t
makes the mistake of assuming that
the conditions Of the two streams are
similar. The vital difference is in their
sources. The Nile gets it's flood from
the equatorial regions and flows north.
The reverse of this with the MISSISSIPPI
p1 constitutes the vital difference The
Nile flood comes in advance Of the seed
time, while, south Of Cairo, the over
flow of the Mississippi is on land al
ready seeded or in preparation for IT.
When the flood has subsidized the time
for planting is past, and years crop
Is lost
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WEATHER FOR TODAY.

WASHINGTON April 10.-Forecast for Sun
day: Mlnnesota-Increasing cloudiness with
showers in the afternoon; warmer; southerly
winds.
Wisconsin-Partly cloudy weather; warmer;
variable winds, becoming southeasterly.
The Dakotas-Threatening weather with
showers; southerly winds.
Montana-Fair in western and showers in
eastern portions; southwest to west winds.
TEMPER AT1IRES
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TO DISCUSS TEMPERANCE.
scandinavian People VIII Hold n
Mass Meeting.

The Scandinavian people Of the city
will hold a mass meeting at Market
hall at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The
temperance question will be discussed.
and the speakers will be Rev. M. A.
Peterson, of St. Paul, and Oscar Wolf.
Of Home City. The programme viii in
clude several musical selections and
will undoubtedly prove both entertain
ing and instructive. Every one inter-
ested in temperance work is urged to
be in attendance
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-11

CROOKsTON IN BAD SHAPE.

Senator RingdaI Receives a Mena-
cling Telegram.
Senator Ringdal yesterday received a
telegram from County Auditor Gleason.
of Polk county saying that the Red
Lake river rose two feet Friday night
and the fats are submerged. Aid NAV
yet be needed.
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TEMPERATURES.
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 30 OF; mean temperature, SO; rel
ative humidity, 46; wind, northwest; weather,
partly cloudy; maximum temperature, At;
minimum temperature, 20; daily range, IS;
amount of rainfall in last twenty-four hours, 0.
RIVER AT g M
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ANNOUNCE THE PROGRAMME.
Entertainment by Father Mathew
Temperance Society.

The committe in charge Of the work
in preparing for the entertainment to
to be given by the Father Mathew So
ciety is meeting with much success.
The indications are that it will be one
of the most successful of its kind given
in the city this season. John Gehan is
in charge of the musical feature. Arch
bishop Ireland always proves enter
tanning and instructive, but never more
so than when speaking to an audience
given under the parent organization Of
temperance in the Northwest
The following is the programme of
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-11-17

Advises Those Of Illinois 20 Compromiss
with the OPERATOR.

Danville. Ills, Nov. IA large meet
Ing of miners and operators assembled
Saturday afternoon at the Grand opera
House to hear President Ratchford. OF
the United Mine Workers of America.
His address was moderate, but very
forcible, and he was repeatedly inter-
rupted by storms of applause. He ex-
planned to the miners that he favored a
compromise. and aid not insist on the
scale fixed by the miners In settling the
last strike. and he then stated his rea-
sons. He said there are over 400. 600 coal
miners in this country, and out OF that
number 100000 only were on a strike;
that the supply of coal In the market
steadily increased instead of diminished
each day during the strike: that after
the third week the railroads had stopped
all their confiscations.
Rock Springs, Wyo., Nov. 15.-The
news from Chicago that 5000 China
men were to be taken from this state
10 be used in the coal districts of ILL
nois was read with some amusement
here. The fact is that there are not
600 Cinnamon in the state. Four hum
dred and fifty of these are in this town,
where 400 of them are engaged in the
coal mines. They are perfectly satisfied;
would not leave their Chinatown under
any consideration.