The Minneapolis journal., 1901-10-05


were issued. These are not yet sold. The
floating syndicates have them. The syndi-
Gates are the big interests. In brief, the
big fellows, having not yet marketed
their goods, are opposed to a decline; the
insiders are for further rise. The
money market is so subject, just now, to
regular commercial strain-moving the
crops, etc.-that the big engineers will nos
encourage bull speculation for the present.
But the bulls are confident that when the
crops are out of the way and money is
easy, the Wall street leaders will conduct
one more campaign, which may well be
the last, and they are counting on it to be
the greatest of all.
Hearst's Society of AcOrns.
Several weeks ago a number of newspa-
per reporters and editors formed an or
ganization known as the Society of
Acorns." All of them were young men,
and their avowed purpose was to further
the interests of young men in politics, and
to stand for clean municipal administra-
tion. Their methods were, If not secret.
at least private, and the politicians paid
the new organization the passing COM
ment of a sneer, and promptly forgot about
1t until they suddenly awoke to the fact
that there were some $4,000 young voters
in~ = ity wearing the acorn button. Now
the professional politicians would give
something to know what the Acorns intend
to do. Ostensibly they have no candidate;
they are neither republican nor demo-
cratic, and they are pledged to nothing.
But there are several points about this
swift-grown faction that seem to indicate
the careful planning and knack Of or
ganization of William r. Hearst, pro-
prietor of the New York Journal. 1t is an
open secret that the Acorns favored Con-
troller Coler for the mayoralty nomination.
Hearst is Coler man and has been op-
posing the interests that are fighting
Coler. Hearst is politically ambitious.
He is young man, and this is young
mems party. 1t is being handled on the
same lines as the Hearst League of Young
Mems Bryan clubs. If the editor Of the
Journal could assume control of it, he
would acquire support that he greatly
needs. now that the attacks on yellow
journalism are cutting into his circula-
tion and his influence. Finally, the or
ganizer and leading spirit of the Acorns
Is Joseph Johnson, reporter on the Jour-
nal, who organized the Bryan clubs in the
last presidential campaign. 1t looks very
much as if, when the nutting season is on,
Mr.. Hearst would come out and gather
his crop Of Acorns.
Waring a True Prophet.
The late Colonel Waring in 1895 prophe-
sled that within ten years only the very
rich and the very poor would live on Man
haitian Island, and that within another
forty years the poulation would consist
entirely Of janitors, millionaires and hotel
guests. 1t looks as if the forecast hegira
had begun this fall. At this season. when
there should be a mighty flood of return
ing exiles Of summer, the tide Is flowing
in the other direction. Every road out of
New York toward the suburbs is a channel
where flows a stream of moving vans
transferring the fragments of households
from the region of fats to the region Of
detached houses. That depressing exotic,
the ITO Let" sign, sprouts and spreads on
Mania ttan island like a climbing weed
Urban real estate dealers are tearing
their hair, and trimming their rents with
an ak. Suburban owners are jubilant. In
many of the more attractive towns it is i'm
possible to rent houses; sale outright Is
the only thing considered. There are
many real estate experts who predict that
this Is the beginning of an exodus which
will drain Manhattan island, due to the
prospects Of rapid transit and the in
creased railroad facilities; that next year
will see much greater outpouring; and
that thereafter there will be a geometrical
progression of evacuation, until the War
ing prophecy is fulfilled.
Roosevelt a Book Hunter.
2 A few days before President Mckinley
was shot I was looking over some books
in Twenty-third street store, when
somewhat strident and very emphatic
voice attracted my attention. The speak
er's back was turned toward me, but the
voice, the slouch hat, and the theatrical
shoulders were not to be mistaken. Mr..
Roosevelt was engaged in the pastinSe,
which is his favorite one next to hunting
wild beasts, that is hunting books on
hunting wild beasts.
"But want something specifically about
wild goat hunting in India,'' ne was saying
to the salesman. These books are too
general"
From a closed drawer the man brought
out large and handsome volume which
he handed to Mr.. Roosevelt. The keen
eyes frightened behind the glasses, as the
vice president eagerly ran through the
pages.
That's it; that's it," he cried with
characteristic enthusiasm, and turning to
Mrs. Roosevelt he began to expatiate en-
Enthusiastically upon the subject.
She was as much interested as he, and
the matter ended in his taking the book
at figure which must have cost him some
misgivings, for the Roosevelts are far
from rich and live simply. large part
of Mr.. Rosevelts income goes for books
almost entirely histories, and books on
animals, sports and hunting. His collec-
tion of volumes on wild animals consti-
tutes one Of the finest Libraries of the
kind in the country. Duane.