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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10
ON YOUNGER PARDONs
Kansas City Journal.

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r. Ia nleasinr to note that the Minnesota
state board of pardons has done the right
thing in regard to the appeal OF the Younger
brothers Great clemency was shown these
ex-bandits when they r. ere given paroles with
the privilege of going where they pleased
within the borders Of Minnesota The board
decided, by a unanimous vote, that this free
dom should not be extended into an uncon-
ditional pardon. The pardon was asked be-
cause the Youngers desired to return to Mis-
souri, and ming!e again with their old time
acuuaintances. It was considered unWise to
grant them this privilege.
Missouri Is under obligations to the Min
nesota board of pardons for its decision, A
return Of the Youngers to this state would
be the signal for series of demonstrations
on the part of some Of our people that would
reflect anything but credit upon Missouri
While the large majority of our population
is wholly out of sympathy with outlaws of
this class, and would not countenance any
exhibition of lionizing them, there is an ele-
ment that undoubtedly would exert itself to
show them conspicuous honors. The people
who used to treat the James gang as heroes
are still alive, many, of them, and there is
no evidence that they have become any
healthier Of mind with the lapse of years
Such exhibitions in honor Of the returned
Youngers would again subject this state to
the criticism and contempt Of the nation.
Let the Youngers be content with their
good fortune in receiving even measurable
liberty. It is more than they deserved. Life
imprisonment was not unreasonable punish
ment for the black crimes they committed.
The fact that they have grown old has not
blotted out their record. Minnesota is a
large and fourishing state, with plenty Of
business opportunities. Freedom within it's
boundaries is not a hardship. IT is harder
on the people OF Minnesota to have such men
among them than 1t is on the ex-criminals.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10
PERMANENT TAX COMMISSION

A permanent tax commission is, desir-
able even if nothing more Is done by the
present. extra ordinary session Of the legis-
lature toward changing the taxation laws
than to submit the proposed amendments
to the constitution. Those amendments
will give the legislature power which
cannot be wisely used without the services
of an expert commission which shall study
the tax question and, from time to time,
make suggestions as to- legislative action.
1t is not easy or wise to change radically
a system of taxation that has been used in
a state for half a century. The amend
ments, If adopted, would give the legis-
lature power to make such an abrupt
change, but wisdom commends making
the aid and advice of permanent COM
mission the legislature would not be in a
position prudently to make gradual
changes. The creation OF a permanent
commission would be preparation for the
adoptionsof the constitutional amend
adopted there is much important work
that permanent commission can per-
form under the present system.
We have all discovered of late, if we
did not know it before, that the problem
of taxation is a hard one and not to be
solved in a moment. There should be in
the state government an authoritative
body charged with the study Of the prob
lem and fully Informed Of the facts, to
which the legislature can at any time turn
for advice on questions of taxation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10
The PANAMA LEASE

The draft of the treaty for American
control of the Panama canal has been
completed by Admiral Walker and DR..
Martinez-Silva, the Colombian minister
1t does not provide forlthe cession of the
state of Panama. Yet the terms Of the
lease are such that they open the way
for sovereignty. The lease is to run for
200 years, with the privilege of extern
sion, and covers strip of territory ten
miles wide, bat the city Of Panama Is ex-
cepted. The United States is to possess
police and judicial jurisdiction within the
limits of the leased sstrip, but guarantees
the sovereignty of the Colombian govern
ment over the state of Panama.
The lease comes very near to giving ac-
tual ownership of the canal strip. 1t will
insure law and order along the whole
length Of the canal and will have strong
pacific influence throughout Panama, if
not throughout Colombia. The price of
100000 a year seems to be rather ex-
cessive, but it may be that the Colombians
do not see how the canal will benefit them
greatly and that, having control of what
may be called a franchise that is Of great
value, to other nations, they feel that they
should see to it that they are we'll paid
for it's use.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10

OF course, having been yourself a boy, you
either away from home meditated do
ing so, and you know just how the boy rea-
sons the subject. Either there has been
an extra amount of wood to split or the
chores have borne down a little heavier than
usual and you can see nothing but tyranny
and abuse. The real fact, that the common
American boy has at home the cinch of the
universe, he cannot see until long afterward,
when distance has mellowed the perspecH i've.
Spot Maloney had to ''lug cord of wot y
into the shed one Saturday, and decided, a.
usual, to run away. After the wood was
''chucked in" he slipped out into the field,
across the pasture lot and into the woods.
Here he fooled2.aw the rest of the after
noon fighting mosquitoes and little black
flies, hunting birds nests and eating checker
berries and ground nuts. Towards shutdown
he was over the top Of the hill, horribly
lonesome, but well started on his trip away
from home forever.
Thunder! Wherein going to get supper?"
This was the first time he had thought Of
this difficulty. All the farmers near by knew
him and pride would never let him appeal, to
them for anything to eat The more he
thought of it, the less he liked the prospect.
"Guess I'll go home an run away some
other time"
1t didn't take ten seconds to settle on this
new line of action He was at the supper
table-a trife late, perhaps, but he had his
appetite with him-and he could afford to
overlook the remark of his father about being
latetat table.
Home Is pretty decent sort of place. even
If you do have to throw in a cord of wood
now and then.
"A. j. Russell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10
The Teacher.

To the Editor of The Journal:
A recent editorial on education was inter.
esting, not only to the body of teachers form
ing the subject treated, but also to the par.
ents whose children, for a larger share OF
their waking hours, are under the direct care
OF the teacher. 1t is often the case that
when a wrong is to be righted, or merely ex-
listing, conditions improved, it seems neces-
sary to inspect the entire system and recon.
struct on different basis, or make the appeal
which is the substratum and ultimatum OF
our own times for-n1ore money
The teachers are overworked. Yes; the
business man, the professional man, the
fathers the mothers are overworked. The
teacher is called upon to show the youne
idea, not so much how to grow but liter
ally, how to shoot All departments of life
breathe the same air Of experiment. Of fuyes-
ttgation, or organization, AND science propels
us at a bound from one decade to another
People were just as busy in the age of home
spun as now; but the mind was continually
rising higher than the common toll. Mat
thew Arnold, in writing of Englands asserted
greatness, deplored the machinery affecttne
every department of life, and says, should an
earthquake engulf England tomorrow, would
history pronounce our own age or that of
Queen Elizabeth greater? He did not hest
tate to declare in favor Of the Elizabethan
age. Perhaps you may not agree with him.
LII view VI Ine marVelS or scientific progress
but there can be but one answer for thos.
who count growth of the spirit superior to all
matters material. Right here is an applica
ton to instructors of our children, who stand
next to their parents in close relationship II
refer to women teachers); who do not shut
the child out Of thought with the closing nj
text book but If troublesome, bear him
your child or mine, seriously and anxiously
to the silence of ones own ROOM there to
discover, II possible, the vulnerable points of
tenderness and obedience, or to dwell with
pleasure on the pupil, your child or mine.
responsive with affectionate attention Both
mother and teacher know the WEAKNESS or the
relaxation that comes from this difference
and there should be, there is, common bond
between them. With all due regard for orr
able educational authority, and the heavy
burdens resting upon them, we would sug-
gest little less machinery, little more in
dependent time for natural growth, that the
teacher may be able to gather relaxation and
refreshment by the way, that instructor and
pupil, to both of whom we owe so much NAV
realize the full joy and healthiness of the art
OF living and of thinking, If it be possihle
this side the delectable mountains
Elizabeth G. Gale
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10

exist, thinks our business men will be de-
lighted to. devote their energies to defeat a
tax bill which will make the twin city whole
salers pay taxes on what they have.
The twin city grain interests are appealing
to the Otter Tail county farmers to oppose the
bill on the ground that 1t will injure the
grain interests Of Minneapolis and Duluth and
thus destroy their home market" Has Min
neapolis forgotten that with st. Paul 1T is
responsible for fastening upon the state the
board Of control law, which destroyed for
Otter Tail county farmers a market for six
hundred cattle yearly and that the money
which these farmers pay as taxes Is being
sent to Chicago to pay for beef which they are
ready and anxious to supply?
Do Minneapolis and st. Paul know that
under the operation of this board OF control
law, introduced and champoned by Senator
Snyder of Minneapolis that the butter which
fifteen hundred persons supported by the
state have spread upon their bread has been
bought Of the great Armour Packing COM
pany?
Home market is a fine sounding phrase
but 1T depends where home is and who has
got the market. 1t would be fine piece
of strategy if Minneapolis and st. Paul
can keep the people of the inland towns
spending their time circulating petitions
against the proposed tax law, while the big
twins are using their influence to deny us
proper freight rates and are depriving us Of
what little home market we have.
Elmer E. Adams.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10

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The proposition for a constitutional con-
yention is worthy of consideration at this
time, when it is the order of the day that
every suggestion regarding taxation, made
in good faith, shall have full and fair
hearing. If the proposed amendments
should be dropped in favor of a conven-
ton. tax reform would be delayed some
what. 1t is generally admitted that a
revision of the constitution would be
wise. Possibly both the amendments and
the question of constitutional revision
might be submitted to the people at the
same time. 1t is true that the adoption
Of the amendments would make unneces-
sary a constitutional convention so far as
taxation is concerned On the other hand,
the, voters might favor the tax amend
ments and not favor convention.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10
"THE CLoAKROOM KIcKnpy
Chicago News

Chicago News.
Representative Mann and Renresentativo
Morris of Minnesota were discussing one Of
their colleagues in the house restaurant the
other day.
Oh, he is a cloakroom Kicker said Mr.
Morris, in polishing off the absent indiyidnal
BY that term the Minnesota legislator meant
that the member did his kicking in the c1oa,,.
room and failed to make public his obiection
to the plans Of the leaders in congress on tba
floor OF the house, where they would have
official and political weight
There are number of cloakroom htclers ,.
explained Mr.. Mann to companion ..wbo
are famous for the vehemence OF their nro.
tests made in the cloakroom against the way
things are going. 1 have never seen . man
who talks right out In the cloakroom who had
anything to say in the same line on the t,oor
have one member in mind whom I have
heard deliver a half hours dissertation in
the cloakroom and then walk directly to his
seat secure the recognition Of the sneaker
and make an address of similar length IN ey.
actly the opposite side of the question. some
OF the cioakroom speeches Of conpressno an
would make interesting reading for their con
stituents Y they could be recorded and
printed. ss 80, -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10

Abe you warm?' said Mrs. Karl as he
Joined her on the veranda.
Am I warm? Well!' reaching eagerly for
the ice water on the table beside her.
'No," she commanded. go change your
clothes. Not cold plunge, remember-just
rub and dry linen.''
He laughed, but obeyed
When he returned, she handed him a glass
OF water, then nicely pared peach
Uh!' he grunted. "This beats tenns.''
Il think so,' she said.
They chatted for some time. Then he asked
suddenly:
Why haven't you married again?''
The usual reason" she answered
"A beautiful woman, with twenty Thousand
year, ought to find Mr.. Right surely"
Madison" she said softly 81 never loved
Robert. Now-well, 1 must be sure of my
self and him.
robert was good man. he said gravely
eyes," she repeated. "Yet 1 hated him at
times because l could not love him.
''But you married him."
yes, and I deserved to be more unhappy
than was. He was 49, %; he rich, 1 poor
he ready to settle down. I ready to have a
fling with life Somehow, Madison, 1 think
he ought to have known better than to have
asked me. He ought to have known
couldn't love him.
why not?'' His voice was constrained
youth loves youth. Much as Robert loye6
me, think the first few years were equally
disappointing to both. was ready for nv
fling and had it. I know now how bored he
was with it all. It's glorious to do stunts
when one Is colt, but afterward"- She
laughed merrily and handed him the peach
she had been pairing. ..----
but afterward?" he repeated
zone wants to jog along" she continued
1.-The normal woman just 35 can say what she
may, but the excitement and strength taking
amusements that she reveled in during her
teens and twenties-ah, they're not worth the
price!'
His answering smile quickly disappeared
as she went into the house. He was Is, Cleya
Culloh %; he rich, she poor; he had had his
fling, she just ready for hers He had &C
copied Lorene Karl's invitation to spend the
month Of August at her country home because
Cleya was to be there He had determined
the latter should be his promised wife before
they left, but
He slept little that night. A picture of
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10
THE REVOLVER IN WAR

JOQu raul 6dUCOCk III OuIluS.
In his recent review of the art Of WAR, -
Sir Charles Dixie expresses doubt whether
in future wars" it will be possible ito en-
ploy cavalry the field of battle,'' and
thereby implies doubt Of the usefulness of
the pistol The automatic pistol invented by
Colt and now proven to be an effective weapon
at 500 yards, firing shot a second, with
smokeless powder, must be taken into ac-
count in the wars of the future. No artil-
lery battery need fear a rush by either
cavalry or infantry if individually armed with
these automatics. For infantry and cavalry
officers sidearms, the new piece seems as
long step ahead as the Colt Dragon" six
shooter was in the Indian fights in Texas
over the SINGLE arreled percussion cap side
arm Of the Lowmoor type Yet the Colt arms.
in all their varieties. have actually marked
the successive developments Of small arms
in the United States, for half century, with
a patient skill and clever initiative which
have not yet received the scientific recogni-
ton they deserve. OF all the machines de-
vised by American ingenuity, the revolver is
one Of the most perfect. 1t is the most COM
pact least likely to get out Of order and
most useful of all the small mechanisms.
There is no other that can be compared to it.
Even the Red men in the frontier wars
learned how to improvise or duplicate the
parts of a Colt, not to speak o. their adroit-
ness in using it from the back OF a mustang!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10
No REDUCTION OF REPRESENTATION

Washington reports indicate that the
present session Of congress will not
adopt the .CrumDacker resolution or do
anything else tending toward reduction
of representation in congress Of those
states that restrict manhood suffrage.
There is no hope for any bill or resolu-
tion which has for it's object the enforce
ment of the fourteenth amendment to
the constitution. In pure justice. vote
in Minnesota ought not to be less in in
fiuence than vote in Louisiana. 1t was
certainly the intention Of this amend
ment to the constitution to make rep
resentation proportionate to the political
population instead Of the whole mass of
human beings. Yet the failure of con-
gress to enact legislation that will eff
feet the constitutional purpose entirely
nulliflee :,,e constitution as to this
matter r.
It would besa waste of space to go over
the familiar figures showing how few
persons really vote in some of the south
ern states or how few can vote under the
state constitutional provisions relating
to the franchise recently adopted In some
Of those states. The result is great
inequality Of representation, so much so
that many southern congressional dis
tricts are comparable to the rotten bur-
roughs Of England hundred years ago.
Yet no one seriously expected that any
thing would come Of the Crumpacker or
any other resolution relating to this sub
ject This attitude of the people is due
to an intense WEAKNESS with everything
relating to the political side of the negro
problem. 1t is matter that always
causes bad feeling between the sections
whenever touched upon by congress. Peo-
pie have become apathetic about the po-
litical phase of, thesnegro. problem. They
are willing to let the white people Of the
south determine the manner of settling
the question and they are ready to help
them. - 40 If, ....'.. .-... ..
Nevertheless, there is pronounced
feeling in the north that the south ought
with good grace, to submit to the con-
stitution. But the south as political
section has become SO Insignificant as
compared with the north that 1t is impos-
sible to infuse vitality into the question
especially In these days when there are
! some hopes that, with the negro out OF
politics, the white voters of the south
will align themselves politically accord
ing to their actual political sympathles,
instead of their racial antagonism.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10

of several states. for the sake of the
registration fee and annual tax payments
which enhance revenue, granting charters
for corporate organiZat ions, authorizing
them to do business in other states, which
they do not permit their own corporations
to do. This is what New Jersey has been
doing for many years, thus doing away
with very large percentage Of state tax
alton. Minnesota is menaced by the
Northern Securities company, for in
stance, through the ''liberaiity' of New
Jerseys charter system
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10
JUSTICE TO [NsULAR INTERESTS

Senator Foraker has come to the cOnclu
sion that the United States can stand
reduction Of SO per cent of the Dingley
tariff rates on Philippine products. The
house declined to make any reduction, but
the senate committee thought Is per cent
off would be about right, but Senator
Foraker has been thinking the matter over
and has arrived at the liberal conclusion
indicated, and may be able to impress his
discovery upon the senate. The civil gov
eminent Of the Philippines has suggested
so per cent off the Dingley duties, and the
business element go little farther and
would have rs per cent reduction. They
would be reconciled with the so per cent
reduction, no doubt.
The senate committee, in concluding
that American interests could stand a 25
per cent reduction at least, showed their
tendency to liberality toward insular in
terests. They will, no doubt, be willing
to show equal liberality to Cuba and prob
ably more than this. The beet sugar men
declared to the house ways and means
committee that their industry would ego
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granted, but they were unable to furnish
any proof that, even If so per cent Of the
duties on Cuban products was knocked off
they would suffer particle.
The rationale of Cuban tariff reduction
was shown recently by Mr.. Louis Place, of
Havana. Cuban merchant and economic
expert who is in Washington. Last year
the Cubans imported $66, 0O0,O 600 of goods,
of which the United States imported only
S28, 900, 900 worth, while Europe is gaining
ground continually. For instance, of cot
ton goods, we furnished last year s447,-
sol worth, as compared with Europe's
S., 637,12e of shoes we furnished 1919, 1s0
furnished $3Os, 1856 against $1,916, 043 from
foreign countries, which also furnished
Sc, 091, 6S8 worth Of cattle against our
81, ESQ, ITS worth. And so the record goes
as to carpets, cordage, fish and paper, etc.
Mr.. Place, speaking for business men in
be for Cuba to reduce her tariff, when the
government is organized, so per cent on
all American products imported on Ameri-
can and Cuban ships for five years, while
our government would reduce the tariff on
Cuban products 40 per cent for five years,
each government to free-list certain ma!
tive products Of the other and the immi-
grafton laws of the United States are to
be enforced in Cuba. Mr.. Place shows
that so per cent reduction on Cuban prod
ucts will enable Cubans to live and buy
what the United States produces and
manufactures.
We can, in other words, by a liberal poll
icy, secure the whole Of Cuban trade
which last year aggregated s66. 0OO, 900 in
goods and will greatly increase under the
stimulus OF commercial activity which
will follow the adoption Of such policy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10

Grover Cleveland still retains control
of that impressive, though ponderous,
style of his, and he uses it to good advan-
tage in the following paragraph In be4
half of Cuba:
The arguments used in opposition to the
tariff concessions she implores. based upon
our material interests, are fallacous, mis-.
taken and misleading, while their source and
the agencies of their propagation and spread
cannot fail to be recognized by every honest,
patriotic citizen with shame and humiliation
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-10

A suggestion worthy of consideration
is that if the legislature finally votes to
create permanent tax commission, pro-
vision be made that at least one member
shall be a business man. 1t is maintained,
and with reason, that commission made
up exclusively Of lawyers will not get
all the points of view that SO important a
body should have. AS the temporary
commission has drafted the provision re-
lating to the creation of a permanent
commission, it leaves the composition of
the commission entirely to the governor.