The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-08

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the most conspicuous figure in American pub
lie life, and his doctrine OF ..squatter SOW
ereignty'' had solidifed the south and had
stimulated the growth Of the republican par
ty. Mr.. Brown thinks Lincoln lacked the
many brilliant qualities of his rival, but out
reached him in the twin gifts of huanor and
brooding melancholy. With him .'high and
low things were mated, and aWkWardness
and ungainliness and uncouthness were JUS
lessons which Douglas had never found need
of learning; had insight into human nature
and deep devotion to the right, as against
Douglas loyalty to party platforms, and the
core of his nature was truth. Douglas won
this fight, but Lincoln, less than two years
later, was nominated to the presidency and
was elected at the ensuing election. There
is h9e paper on Victor Hugo by George
Mclean Harper, and D. G. Mason's 1.-TWO
Tendencies Of Modern Music" is a most read
able discussion Of the relative merits of the
classcism of the school of Brahms and the
emotionalism Of the school Of Tschaikowsky.
To the International Monthly, Sidney Webb
of London, contributes a paper on TRUSTS,
Trades Unions and the National Minimum y
in which he describes the characteristics COM
mon to British and American trusts and the
important differences between them. In Eng
land there is a minimum standard recognized
by employers and Workingmen and sustained
by public opinion, from which no employer
can break away The collective rule controls
the greatest corporations. In the United
States the organized labor has no real
may be bought of by increased wages ana
capitalist corporations may do as they please
with their own, and are practically omnipot-
ent The end of this condition, Mr.. Webb
thinks, will be class war, the most terrible
the world has seen, putting back American
civilization several generations. The only
escape is In the adoption of the policy of the
national minimum, i. e., national minimum
of wages national minimum Of leisure and
recreation for every citizen a national mimi
mum of sanitation end of education. It this
policy is not adopted, Mr.. Webb thinks the
United States will go tc the demniticn bow
vows. There Is very earnest paper by
Archag Tchobanian, embodying plea for
Europe to take up the American question and
end the hideous attempt by the sultan to
annihilate a noble historic people. Other
papers Of interest are Hamilton Mabie's 1.-The
Poetry of the South" In which he insists that
there are other southern poets than Poe to re-
ceive adequate attention from students OF
American Literature, and he writes apprecia-
lively Of Henry Timrod. Paul Hamilton
Hayne, Sidney Lanier and Father Ryan,
whose "Song Of the Mystic alone, through
its exquisite beauty, places him in the choirs
Of the American poets.
The Boekman contains several very inter-
estlng features, as the Hapgood- Maurice
illustrated paper on 1.-THE Great Newspapers
of the United States" rich in "reminiscences
OF Bennett, the leader in the newspaper revo-
luton, Greeley and Raymond with portraits
and facsimiles Of first numbers Of the Sun,
the Times and the Tribune Of New York, and
pictures Of their first buildings. The story
Of Benefits enterprise and fights with
Greeley is we'll told. Interesting, too, are the
installment If "Balzac aud Nine. Hanska, !"
with supplementary sketch OF Ine FER
sonal Balzac," who, wrote under the IN
spiration of strong coffee and would work
three weeks on a book by it's perilous aid,
night and day. Mr.. Hagers story OF Bohem-
ian London in the seventies is excellent read
ing and Rose1le Merciers narrative Of per-
sonal experience of would-be writer with
the editors is full Of humor and incisive
satire.
The North American Review contains some
very good papers,. Most interesting is the
paper on the establishment of civil gov
eminent in Porto Rico, by Governor Allen,
the first civil governor Of the island, VINO
shows the exc ellencies Of the Hollander law
under which Porto Rico is increasingly
peaceful. contented and prosperous. Mr. Pen
fields paper, why Not Own the Panama
Isthmus," emEodies the suggestion that the
United States would do well to buy from
have untrammeled control of the whole
region adjacent to the ship canal.
if it is built on that route. no
ticeabIe paper is Colonel Chittenden's on
government construction of reservoirs in the
arid regions, in which he shows that millions
have been thrown away trying to improve
such rivers as the Missouri and make them
navigable, which might have been profta5ly
spent on great canals distributing the sur
plus water OF such streams into arid or
semi arid regions to transform sterility into
fruitfulnesy and wealth. A rather severe ar
alignment Of the senate under the heading,
1.-THE oligarchy OF the Senate, !" Is contri-
buted by Mr.. Maurice Low, who is not far
out OF the way In his structures. Prince Au-
gustin Iturbide, grandson of the Emperor
It1rbide, who was shot BY his tumultuary
Mexican subjects in 1892, Contributes pa
rtr opposing b Pan American uIton, which
obody seriously contempIatss and writing
hard things about the aIleged hunger for