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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25

Of education for the women Of their on n
households and hearts. Indeed in all
ages those celebrated dangerous women
who have had so much to do with the
shaping Of history. who fascinated men at
the same time they led them to destruc-
ton, We're women Of superior intellectual
gifts and education. Generally these
qualities were united with physical beau
ty, but 1t was the woman superior intel
lectually. if inferior morally to their own
women, that captivated great men.
How much superior is our civilization
to that of the Greeks and Romans on this
score, of the development ofwomen, alone!
If there were nothing else in which we
could claim re-eminence over themthe ed
ucation Of our women. with it's attendant
prolongation of girlhood and it's embellish-
ment and betterment Of the whole life
of half the race, with It's inevitable ele-
waiting effects upon the other half, would
stamp our civilization as better than
theirs.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
THE COURSE OF BUSINESS

The recent fall of snow over the west
and northwest provides sufficient mois-
ture to carry the growing winter wheat
for some time Many bad reports had
been received and another week of con-
tinued dry weather would undoubtedly
have witnessed material damage. More
than the usual nervousness was felt over
the uncertainty Of the situation. Last
year drought cut the corn crop by nearly
one-half, and this corn shortage has been
the most important consideration in all
estimates as to future earnings of south
western railroads. Not so much in the
actual carriage of corn were railroad
tonnages expected to fall (since on some
roads the volume made up of corn is only
8 per cent of total TONNAGE, but in that
heavier tonnage which has corn for It's
indirect producing basis. The railroads
have yet to feel the full effect of smaller
live stock shipments from this cause. A
short winter wheat crop. therefore, aside
from it's generally bad effect would have
made the outlook for the maintenance of
railroad earnings especially poor. The
improved crop prospects brought feel
ing of thankfulness and renewed conf
denee, which was felt in some degree all
through the country.
In the stock market opportunity was
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25

Critics Of the tax bill suggest that the
bill he laid aside and that the constitu
tional amendments be adopted first in or
der that bill may be drawn which will
bear less heavily upon some interests
which are apprehensive Of the effects of
the proposed bill. The trouble with that
suggestion is that we have fixed ourselves
in this state so that we cannot adopt a
constitutional amendment unless the ne.
cessity Of it appeals strongly to a great
many people, and if these constitutional
amendments go before the people without
some such inducement as might be Of
fcrded by the trial of the proposed law
and are forced to meet the opposition of
the corporations whose franchises are to
be taxed, the amendments will never be
adopted. Our constitution cannot be
amended without favorable majority of
all votes cast at the election at which the
amendment was submitted. The rule is
that majority of the people pass by the
amendments and do not vote on them at
ALL and while majority Of those voting
on them may favor them. they fail for
lack of a majority of all votes cast, and
the probabilities are that these amend
ments would not be adopted for twenty
years without the inducement which an
i've general public interest would af-
ford. - ,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
OUR PRODUCTS EVERYWHERE

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Bread is baked in Palestine from -four made
in Minneapolis American windmills are
working east of the Jordan and in the land
of Bashan. Photographs are making con-
quest of all tongues. The chrysanth emum
banner Of Japan floats from the palace OF the
Mikado cn a flag staff cut from Washing
ton forest, as does the banner of st. George
from Windsor Castle. The American type
setting machines are used by foreign news
papers, and our cash registers keep accounts
for scores of nations. America makes sewing
machines for the world. Our bicycles are
standards Of excellence everywhere Our
typewriters are winning their way wherever
a written language is used. In all kinds of
electrical, appliances we have become the
foremost producer. In many European cities
American dynamos light streets and operate
railways. Much of the machinery that is to
electrfy London tram lines is now being
built in Pittsburg. The American shoe has
captured the favor of all Europe, and the
foreign makers are Fastening to import our
machinery that they may compete with our
makers. In the far east, in the capital OF
Korea, the hermit nation, there was recently
inaugurated, with noisy music and flying
banners, an electric railway, built Of Ameri-
can material, by San Francisco engineer.
and now it is operated by American motor
men.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25

presented for a rally, and good advances
would probably have resulted were it not
for the continued holding off tendency
and lack of public buying caused princi
pally by the uncertainty regarding the
pending legislation affecting the Northern
Securities company. Much money, ready
for investment, has been going on deposit
into the New York trust companies, there
to draw low interest, but to be ready for
shall have cleared.
In grains the effect of improved winter
wheat conditions was naturally weaken
ing. Wheat fell off about cents to start
the week and held the lower level but
wheat suffered the least, and corn and
oats made sharp declines. Wheat and
flour exports for the week equalled 4,320.-
OO5 bushels, compared with 4,036,0 S1 BUSH
els in the corresponding week year ago.
Great improvement is noted in the car
situation. especially in transportation of
iron, where conditions have been very
bad. More indications of heavy impor-
tations for this year are shown. The Pa
cifc coast roads will have to import most
of the rails needed and the Mexican Cen
trail railway has placed q large order
abroad. The books Of the steel rail mills
of this country show orders for 2.350,000
tons, nearly the entire capacity for a year.
In structural iron much the same condi-
tions are found. I'LL.
The northwest and especially the terri
tory tributary to Minneapolis, continues
to show relatively much better condi-
lions than the country at large. Total
bank clearings show an increase Of IL
per cent, while the Minneapolis clearings
are 45.5 per cent above last year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
and frequently is, propagated By its own

and frequently is. propagated by its own
filth.
= The filth theory assumes that most in
fectious diseases are directly and spe-
officially caused by germs or other subtle
emanations from decaying animal OF veg
.etable matter. So implicitly has the
theory been accepted that almost all Of
Of cities in the last hundred years has
been done for sanitary reasons. Doc
tors and health Commissioners every
where have taught that disease germs and
poisonous gases arose from filth. Ty-
phoid fever, diphtheria, cholera, malaria,
been attributed to filth.
The filth theory has been overthrow,
Dr. Chaplin argues, because it has been
proved that all Of the zymotic diseases
are purely contagious. The contagion
may, of course, come from the filth Of
fever may be transmitted through drink
ing water. But plain filth, garbage heaps,
sWeepings, decaying animal and vegetable
matter, sewer gas, etc, do not cause
disease.
But no matter how true it may be that
filth not contaminated by the germ
bearing filth OF disease is harmless there
is nothing in the passing Of the theory
Of the direct origin Of disease in filth to
encourage persons or cities to continue
to live in filth. The filthy person is pre-
cisely the one who does not take the pre-
cautions that prevent contagion. The filthy
city is the one that is likely to
have contaminated drinking water, that
does not isolate disease, that has no
jealous health officers and no official ma
chinery to prevent the spread Of con-
tagion. -
,slt is notorious that white men almost
altogether escape the bubonic plague ever
when living among populations that are
subject to it. The explanation is that
their precautions to eat clean food, wear
clean clothes and to avoid contact with
the iunclean reduce to a minimum their
chances of receiving the disease germs
This shows the practical. Importance OF
cleanliness even though the filth theory
Of the origin of disease be passe.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
WANTED

wanted-Ap intelligent and united op-
position.
This country is suffering to-day from
lack of an opposition party in congress
capable of putting the majority on it's
good behavior. .r.
1t is public misfortune that the demo-
cratic party displays neither ability nor
harmony, has no apparent plan of action,
represents no line Of public policy, stands
for nothing worth speaking of in the pub
lie economy. If the democratic party were
a united, intelligently lead and aggressive
force, it would quickly put the republi-
can majority upon the defensive. to
fit to ignore. There would be no indiffer-
ence to the Cuban question; no DISPOSE
ton to ignore the public demand for tax
reduction. There would be something of
which the republican party would be more
afraid than tariff revision. There would
stand and protect the public interest
against the aggressions Of trusts and
monopolies; less subserviency to dictation
from favored interests, and more regard
for the general welfare Of the people. But
the opposition is Intellectual and COM
mands neither the confidence of the pub
lie nor the fear Of the majority.
And so it happens that the majority
has grown Indifferent, unresponsive,
neglectful Of the popular will The in
dividual members of the majority in the
house of representatives seem to have
ceased to think for themselves. They
stumble along after a leadership which
has not earned and does not possess the
confidence Of the people generally, either
as to it's ability or it's good intentions.
Nothing would do the country more
good just now than an opposition in con-
gress thoroughly united and capable of
putting the majority on the rack.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAI.

rs / : y Z II ! K n i y :
that the United States will soon scuttle
out of the archipelago
The democrats in house and senate are
practically harmonious on this subject,
both being bound by the Kansas City
platform, and yet the majority of the.
eastern democrats take the view that
Bryan has twice led the party to defeat
and silver is eliminated as party issue
and the only hope for democratic success
lies in the reorganization of the party.
Last nights caucus, however, binds the
house minority to Organism and all that
the term implies. The party will go into
the congressional elections next fall
tainted with the odor of the Kansas City
deliverance which to the nation at large
suggests the lingering presence Of the
mephitis mephitica.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25

Because II he Journ a spoke appre
ciatiyely of the United States Steel Cor
poration's treatment OF the engineers Of
it's lake vessels in the matter Of wages
the Alexandria Post-News remarks some
what disconnectedly:
1T is wonderful, anyway, how tender
Tt journal has always been Of the
great iron interests OF northern Mime
sofa. 1t never gets aw-enforcing hys-
terra where they are concerned
BY the same sign, because T b e o r.
n has, from time to time, spoken ap-
preciatively of some of the good things
J. ]. Hill has done for the northwest, 1t
is in favor of the merger. The Alexandria
Post News, now as ever, is longer on
ardor than reason.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
The Strnpholders, Club.

DO you remember when you were small
boy, a very small boy, and some kindly dis
FoSed workman, whom you were watching
sent you sdown to the store to get a lug Of
strap oil? The thought is painful one. but
that is the way small boys confidence in
human nature is destroyed that it may be re-
built in later life on a more substantial basis
IN order that you may not buy your real
estate, mining stock and oil we'll securities of
the wrong parties. : !
Inc scriptures refer to ''the oil of glad
ness. By this no reference is made ~
strap oil. Neither is strap oil nor the oil
OF g!adness secured by hanging to a stran
IN the street car at $50 p. M when 1902 other
impatient American business men and women
are desperately anxious to take the same car
On the Como-Harriet car the other EVENING
Shareholders Club was organized WITH
president, secretary and treasurer with the
aVoWed purpose Of buying an historic oil
painting of Messrs. Anderson and Douplas
to hang in the directors room Of the Twin
City Transit company Every strapholdar
IN the city will be assessed cent anieca
as the pupils in the public schools sometime,
arc. the fund to be used for the purpose men
toned Pay your penny and step up front
please. ,s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
The DEVELOPMENT OF GIRLH0OD

Girlhood, or young womanhood, which
is such delightful phase of human life
among the higner races, is unknown TO
the savage and barbarous races With
them the female child passes directly
from infancy to wifebood and maternity.
This is one reason why among such peo-
pies as we'll as those in the lower stages
why there are no beautiful old women or
evenly comely middle-aged women among
them. Early marriage is abetted in it's
mission of youth destruction by the hard
work imposed upon the female children of
such races. Henry T. Finck contributes
an admirable article on this subject to the
January number of Harper's.
It is astounding to learn from his pages
that among forty-six savage races the
average age at which the men Of the tribe
appropriate the girls to themselves is 12.2
years. The average age of marriage
for girls among forty-e1ght barbarian
races is IA. Such nations as the Chinese
and Japanese marry their girls at the
average age Of 1863. Among the working
GLASSES of Europe the average age of mar
riage is 1872 and among the upper classes
26.4. The figures for America are rot
procurable; but, though our foremothers
married at tender ages, the average age.
Of marriage among the more fortunate
classes has advanced many years within
the recollection of living persons Isl
Added to what our women gain from
having marriage deferred to late age,
and relief from stunting and dulling toll.
is the influence of education and culture.
The bright, educated mind lends charm to
girlhood, prolongs that fascinating period,
adds dignity and power to the matron,
gives attraction to old age and saves 1t
from dotage and responsiveness.
In respect to the education of our women
we are UNNECESSARILY ahead of even those.
intellectual races Of antiquity among
whom the women of the upper classes
were not subjected to excessive labor. 1t
was truism with the Greeks that the
beauty Of woman soon vanished, while a
man kept his strength and comeliness. 1t
tiquity who retained their charms were
the courtesans, and they were precisely
the women who enjoyed personal free
iom, a sor,. Of education and an oppor-1
tunity to use their minds. It would seen.
that the fascination these famous beau
sies had over the men Of their time would
have tau--sht the latter the golden lesson
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
A FOREST COMPROMISE

The settlement of the ceded Minnesota
Indian reservations question, as outlined
in somewhat indefinite dispatches from
Washington, is compromise that is sat
isfactory. Those interested in national
park should be satisfied with the reserva-
ton of the island in Cass Lake. the point
opposite Walker in Leech Lake, and other
areas, amounting to about 10000 acres.
The advocates of practical forestry get
a concession in that the cutting of the
timber is to be under the supervision of
the forestry division of the department
OF agriculture The business men get
practically all the timber, though not
quite SO rapidly as they had hoped to get
it. The Cass Lake townsite people will
get the advantages Of this cutting of the
timber as well as the opening of the agri-
cultural lands to settlement
1t is a great step in advance to secure
the cutting Of the pine under the direc-
tion OF the forestry bureau, especially
as the dispatches seem to imply that the
pine lands SO cut are to remain in gov
eminent ownership and that the small
percentage Of immature pine is not to be
cut, thus constituting the beginning of a
national forest. The compromise reported
to be agreed upon is substantially what
e Journal has contended for for
long time now The credit of originat-
ing it should we believe. be given to H.
H. Chapman, superintendent of the state
experiment farm at Grand Rapids, who
has long been keenly interested in seeing
practical forestry begun in Minnesota.
To sum up: For aesthetic, recreative
and health purposes certain lands on
islands or shores are to be preserved with
the timber substantially as it is. The
rest. of the timber lands are to be cut
over under the rules and regulations of
! the national forester, who will continue to
administer the timber lands and what i'm
mature pine IS not cut now. If the COM
promise is really what it is reported to
be it should prove to be one of the most
satisfactory compromises ever arranged
We are confident that it will be far better
for the local interests of the forest region
than their own first plan of unqualified
opening Of all the lands and immediate
cutting Of all the pine. At the same time,
legitimate public interests have been
handsomely subserved. ,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25

Now comes General Wheaton and says
that it will require an army of $4,000 men
in the Philippines for five years to make
them ready for stable government with
out so much force. AS between Governor
Taft's estimate of $4,000 men and General
Wheaton's estimate of $4,000, we prefer
the latter. 1t will be the cheaper in the
long run. We are convinced that the re-
duction of the force to $4,000 would mean
that the islands would soon be given over
to turmoil again and that an army Of
75, 900 or 100, 900 would be temporarily re-
uuired to undo what had been done, be-
cause OF the Inability of the $4,000 to cope
with the situation. If we are to hold the
Philippines we should hold them tight.
No half way measures, with continuous
sniping in the backwoods will do. Re-
sistance must be crushed by over
whelming numbers and force.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
The NonpareiI Man
Rubaiiat of Ole Yonson.

Rubaiiat of Ole Yonson.
Ae sett en- junior Deppo all vun dae ..
Ven Ae feerst kom f 'om Stockholm oudt dees
vac, ~~re1
En- ven Ae seen dees trains a-kommen in
Ae sac, ''By tal, desc ISIS dae yob for mae
Ae yoin da junior en- Ae sign mae card,
Ae go toe voerk eento da rellroad jard,
Ae gat two dollar femty cent, a day;
Io batter bat Ae bin a-voerkin hard.
Boot now Vim Hill en- Yay P. Morgan. too,
Ban maxim yum beeg rellroad out off two,
Bal yolly, Ole Yonson lose his yob
Eff Vim en- Yay do vat tae want to do
En- so Ae tank It at yoost vun ting vass eet-
Ae takka now off Svenske aquavlt-
Boot van Ae aten foot some ludefsk
Ae tank dae ludefisk vass alsso eet.
Ae tank dat Ae will yump mae yob en- gat
Mees Brita Olson cen dat styleesh hat
Wit Brita On mae fo'ty acre farm
A yug OF aquavit's all right, jou bat.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
BALLOON VS.. AUTOMOBILE

A rather novel match between balloon and
an automobile occurred not long ago in the
neighborhoodN of Paris. The Alliance. bal
loon of 1900 cubic yards, started from the gas
works at Reuil, in the suburbs, having on
board Maurice Farnan and George Legs, tue
well-known chauffeur. At the same time
s12-horse power Panhard automobile, piloted
by Marcel Cohen, with four other persons,
started to give chase to the balloon. 1t was
thought at first that this would be an easy
matter, but the balloon was carried about In
so many directions by the air-currents that
the pursuit became difficult. After covering
nearly 120 miles, the automobile party ar
rived at the station Of La Brosse, but founo
that the balloon had landed shorty oeiore
ihern and that the aeronauts had already
taken the train for Paris. quite satisfied at
having won the match.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
DEMOCRATIC "PoLIcY"

The democrats of the house met in eau
Gus for the third time this session last
night to determine the policy Of the mi
nority. They concluded that they had no
power to make declaration of principles
or policies but were inextricaby tied to
the Kansas City platform OF 1900. The
party as represented in the house. there
fore. stands committed to Bryan and the
miscellaneous vagaries of the Kansas City
deliverance, including free silver.
The party has already taken the posi-
ton, so far as the democratic senators are
concerned, that it is the duty OF the
United States government to relinquish
all claim to sovereignty over the Phillip
pine archipelago after a little season of
preparation on the part of the Filipinos;
they to set up a stable government and
promise to carry out all the obligations of
our government under treaty to Spain.
1t is the purpose of the democrats to re-
open the whole Philippine business and
they begin by disinterring the Bryan
proposition put forth in the last presiden-
tial campaign.
1t matters not to the democrats that
the question Of scuttling out Of the Phil
ippines has bene emphatically settled and
the nation has written NO" in great
capitals opposite the proposition.
1t matters not to them that, in two
great presidential campaigns, the nation
has repudiated the congeries of heresies
and fallacies embodied in the Chicago and
Kansas City platforms. They propose, if
they can, to take advantage Of the sem.
ate's lack of cloture provision, and delay.
public business several weeks exploiting
their folly and giving the few remaining
insurgents in the Philippines q false hope
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
EXPENSIVE SEASON TICKETS
London Tit-Bit.

What are perhaps the most expensive sea-
son tickets are issued by the Congo Railway
company. The frst-class single fare Tor a
journey of about 25O miles is ego. Latterly.
this company has issued season tickets, avail
able for one year, at the following rates:
For four return journeys, eS5; for eight
return journeys. G1S3; and for twelve return
ELL. Naturally, the issue OF
these tickets Is rery limited. so far only four
having been delivered, but application for
fifth has been made They are not printed
but written out on a piece Of cardboard, 4x6
inches, folded in two; one one side the date
and name Of holder are inserted, and the
other is divided in squares, where the be-
ginning and end Of each journey is filed in by
the stationmasters at the time it is performed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
hoy BABIES IN DEMAND
Modern Society.

The ways OF providence have been specially
inscrutable this year in the distribution OF
royal babies, and in three cases, where male
heir was desperately wanted, great disap-
monument has been felt. The Duchess OF
Sparta. Crown Princess of Greece, has been
blessed with another boy, though the mother
already Of two nice little sons-and a daugh-
ter. The Hellenic throne also boasts as sup
porters the Duke of Sparta's younger broth
ers, sons Of King George. II the new BABY
had been a girl it might have received an
equal welcome, for princesses are scarce u
the little kingdom.