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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

General Jacob H. Smith admits that
he ordered the killing of all hostile na-
tives Of samar over 10. years of age. His
defense is the story Of Balangiga's awful
massacre. He was out for revenge. Fur
Their comment may be withheld till the
court martial is through with its work.
In the meantime it must be admitted
that 1t looks as If the fierce strife in
samar had given US q Weyler who out
Weylers Weyler. as if under our flag
there have been done in the Philippines
deeds worse than those which stirred our
people to righteous, wrath and drove the
Spaniards from Cuba.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
MINNESOTA. THE GAME STATE

The good things We have at home never
lock so bright to the home stayers as
the good things Of other places. We need
to have stranger tell Of our good for
tune now and: then. Such service has
Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., performed, in the
April Outing, for Minnesota as sports
mans state. In telling all the world
what a great state we have for the man
who loves the prairies and the tangled
forests, the rivers and the lakes, who
Wislds the road and carries the gun, who
would. rather: sleep in tent than in a
palace, Mr.. Hubbard has also reminded
Minnesotans Of the excellence Of their
own state.
The North Star state is, all things con-
sidered, the great game state Of the union.
It Is the bread-and- butter state, but the
game course Is conspicuous, too. On the
dome Of the eastern part of the continent
with its waters descending to the Mis-
souri,, the Mississippi, Hudson's Bay and
the great lakes, with the vast wilderness
OF middle Canada to its north, with its
prairies on the west and south, its own
great forest wildernesses, its labyrinth
of streams and It's multitude Of sparkling
lakes, it is the. game park Of the nation.
Moose and deer and caribou and bear and
grouse and water fowl and countless fish
are here to be found. ~.
Mr. Hubbard speaks hopefully OF the
prospect for wise game legislation and
the enforcement Of game laws in Mime
sofa. 81 He asserts that If the laws are
we'll enforced there need be no worry
about the determination Of game in Min
nesota's great forests, guarded by swamps
and defended by rocky f1lls5= '.
Such an article as Mr.. Hubbard's should
remind Minnesota people Of the wisdom
of preserving the wild herds and flocks
The state is now, a great free hunting
ground. Private preserves are almost un-
known. He who would hunt and camp
may freely do SO. To keep UP this ideal
condition 1t is we'll that the public owner
ship of lands be preserved here and there
and that places Of refuge for game be
established. The Morris bill by creating
a forest reservation of some 225,00O acres
may eventually be the means Of preserv-
/ Ing big game as well as big timber
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
AN ANEcDoTE OF WORDSWORTH

AN ANECDOTE OF WORDSWORTH
- The Spectator.
Your interesting article on 'Wastness and
Isolation recalls to my mind Wordsworth.s 8
own Interpretation Of the lines
Those obstinate questonings
OF sense and outward things,
Fallings from u.s. vanishings .
as reported to me by the late Professor Bon
amy Price. One day. as he was walking with
the poet in the Hills. he asked him what he
meant precisely by. the words, Fallings from
us, vanishings.' = Wordsworth's answer was
to this effect: Sometimes find myself in a
mood In which the whole material universe
seems to fall away; the sense OF outward
things is lost; nothing remains but an imma-
terial self. detached from all physical condi-
tions. IN order to get back into the known
world of consciousness l have to clutch at
ething so.' Here he grasped the bar Of
the gate on which they were leaning at the
moment. ! was much struck by the story at
the time. and made q note Of It. have since
mentioned It to several frien1s. but so far
as a am aware. It has net found It's way into
print
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
A SILVER SLUMP

Bar silver was quoted yesterday IN New
York at 51% cents an ounce, which shows
little advance over the descent recorded
last Monday Of what the silver men q few
years ago characterized "poor man o mon
ey," when the metal fell to 5Oh. This
was the lowest recorded price for silver
bullion The slump is credited largely to
the payment of the indemnity installments
by the Chinese government which buys ex-
change, selling it's silver accumulations
from taxation Of the people and settling
the indemnity payment in gold, q process
which has left the banks loaded down with
silver. which they are selling for what
they can get for it, The crop failures in
India and the plague there, have de-.
pressed business and minimized the de-
mand for silver and this is aprobable fac
tor Of the low price.
There is no probability Of any large ad-
vance in the price of silver, TOR the direc-
tor of the mint shows that our country
continues to lead all others In the pro-
duction of the metal, the output last year
being So, 100000 ounces, an amount not
surpassed since 1892, when the output wag
es,5oo, 900 ounces.
In this connection it is in order to In
quire why some of our statesmen in the
senate, who ought to know better. should
push a bill through that body providing
for free silver coinage In the Philippines
to produce coin labeled one dollar,
which contains silver bullion worth about
43 cents. This proposition to foist dis
honest dollar on the Filipinos, whose hap
.piness the senator's advocating this meas
ure profess to desire, is certainly dis
graceful and should be vetoed speedily by
the passage OF the house illswhich stands
for the honest dollar, giving the Filipinos
as good money as we have In the etates.
The slump in silver this week showe what
kind Of abominable money standard the
silver dollar" which 1t Is proposed to
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
CONGRESS NEEDS New RULES

In the house they iammed the Cuban
reciprocity bill through with brief de-
bate. In the senate they may talk it to
death. In the house they could not talk
1t to death In the senate they could
not jam it through.
Therein Is the difference between the
most important rules of the house and
those Of the senate. Those of the senate
allow unlimited debate those OF the
house allow scarcely any. The house
which is supposed to be the radical, pop
ular body, directly representing the peo-
pie, has become a conglomerate of COM
mittees, ruled by the speaker whom all
fear. Free speech is unknown to it's
floors. No member of the house can ex-
eTclse by his own authority the right of
a legislator. He can not speak unless
the speaker chooses to let him do so. He
can not call UP bill unless the speaker
is willing All bills are reported through
committees. Only the speakers friends
have any chance in legislation or debate.
That Congressman Cushman of Wash
1ngton did not exaggerate the facts when
he made his telling criticism of the abb
solutism of the house organization, when
speaking on the Cuban question the other
day, is shown by the statement of Former
senator j. M. Thursto1, that the house
organization is one-man power pure and
simple He says that the theory that the
people leglslate on equal terms in the
house of representatives through their
CHOSEN representatives is to-day myth.
Inere Is, in fact, to-day no such despotism
Oh the majority over the minority of the few
over the many, of the one over the whole
as is exercised in the American house ot
representatives under its present rules
precedents and usages
The evils of unlimited debate in the
senate are oalpable, but the people have
become so thoroughly disgusted with rhe
gag-law and one-man rule Of the speaker
OF the mouse that they prefer to see an
important measure talked to death rather
than cEoked to death. The former process
OF executing q bill may be instructive:
the latter is only eXasperating.
Senator Thurston suggests that both
houses might we'll recede from extremes
and harmonic their rules The senate
majority ought to have some means OF
ending debate after reasonable time
the house ought to have some means OF
getting a reasonable discussion before
voting.
A further suggestion by Senator Thurs
ton is that the appointment of committees
be taken out of the hands of the speaker
as 1T is in the senat, and that the speaker
should be deprived of the authority to re-
fuse recognition to a member rising for
any purpose not unparliamentary Any
member should have the right to move the
consideration of bill. and the house
itself shuld determine whether it should
be taken w or not.
The refreshing Independence of the beet
sugar insurgents gives hope that the ref
ormation of the house is not far off, ana
yet when we recall that it was ninety
years ago that the house began on the
path that has led it SO far from the sens
ate, we have our misgivings. The latte,
does not yet recognize the previous ques.
tion in any form. The house adopted il
in the first decade of the nineteenth cen
tury. g
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
TEE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

pressing and absorbing affairs Of the day.
At the core the people are sound. And,
Withal, government is more efficient In the
United States to-day than ever. education
Is more general, knowledge more general
" Infused, culture more widespread. in
tense effort more general. We are going
to school to materialism, but the magnih-
cent 1p expansion of Americanism, for which
that school has paved the way, is soon to
broaden our horizon, purify our politics
ennoble our public life and strengthen
our patriotism.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
LONGING FOR COUNTRY LIFE

Within a few years there has been a
refreshing revival OF attachment to the
country. The longing for a spacious,
comfortable country home. surrounded by
: broad acres. has succeeded in the money
making mans heart the dream of a mar
BILE palace fronting on the sidewalk with
the passersby not ten feet from his
parlor.
The poor man is turning away in dis
gust from his crowded tenement, and hop
ing that he may be able to buy d lot in
some easily accessible suburb and build
thereon a comfortable little cottage OF
his own.
More and more men of means who spend
their business hours in the city are max
Ing their real homes in the country
There they build their fine houses and
there they set up their lares and penates
II they spend the seyerer winter months
IN town 1t is not as permanent residents
unless they be layishly wealthy, but as
hotel guests.
Half the men OF moderate means and
family have day dreams Of comfortable
cottage and a few acres OF land, with
fruit trees and bushes, with green yege-
table gardens, bit of pasture for the
COW and horse, a little patch of woodland
murmuring brook. Continuing the day
dream the busy man imagines himself
e"chopping off" at 8 p. M, reaching his
suburban home at 4, with two hours OF
pleasant work in the garden before hin,
and a long sweet, leisurely evening to
follow.
The longing for country life is we'll
illustrated by Minneapolis millionaire's
conception of the ideal life.' He is not
living up to it himself, but he hasa large
farm thirty miles from the city where he
spends every day he can steal away from
business. Happiness said this man. sis
the state OF mind enjoyed by a man who
has forty acres under profitable cultiya-
tion. the land paid for and also the com
Portable home, who can, when even comes
and the honest, productive days labor is
done, sit down in his shirt sleeves on the
front, porch, put his feet on the rail, tilt
his chair back. light his pipe and 4nedi-
tate on his glorious Independence
The extensions of electric transit lines
along country roads will make it possible
In the near future for thousands to real
ize the dream Of country life while retain.
ing the business advantages of the, city
The hundreds of small houses, some in
tended for permanent residence, some onl,
for the summer, that are being buil1
around the suburban lakes and streams
near1the terminals of existing city stree,
railways, point the way to what. will be
done when the lines are extended into til.
country 1t may be expected then tha1
every highway with car line Will be
fanked for miles with country homes
placed on generous lots, instead OF ths
stingy little twenty five foot lots OF th,
city Thousands of workmen who nov
live In unsanitary, inconvenient, eramped
depressing tenements, will have their lit.
tie homes in the country They will f,ay,
all the good that nature can do for then
and will yet retain the progressiyeness
the inspiration the incentive of the city
/ The country. has for a century beer
moving into the city. The city now ,pur.
poses to move into the country
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
II has forgotten what the Judge -fenem-
bers. III

6 Governor Aycock Of North Carolina
came out at the educational conference at
Athens Georgia. yesterday for he aeduca Z
tion Of all the children Of his state. black
or white. Good for Governor Aycock.
Education is what the south needs to day
above all else; good, practical, character,
making education It will eliminate the
sassy Niger" and the pore white
trash"
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

Mr.. w. w. Jermane, he Jour n ais
Washington correspondent, says that the
Minnesota congressman are quite willing
to come home and make the fight for re-
nomination and election on the Cuban
tariff. The congressman having had a
taste Of blood, are now eager for the fray
They will be cooler later. When they are
lenges. Probably they will. not recall
them 1t is true that the people of Min
nesota we're divided between their desire
to see Justice done to- Cuba and their ad
niration for the refreshing. bravery. In,
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

mint in the Philippines, Is Shall we have
the gold. standard in the United States
and .sset Sup the silver standard as San
American progressive idea in the Philip
pines? From the business standpoint the
proposition is execrable. From the stand
point Of national honor 1t would be dis
grace.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

Two men were knocked out at a frater-
nal orders smoke. social in Minneapolis
last night. Mayor Ames, being a mem.
ber of the order, cannot, of course, be
blamed for not interfering. Does Cover
nor Van SAINT belong, TOP?
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

Congressman Eddy has got as near to
his district as the 500" It may. as
well be frankly said that the people of
his district as well as the state OF Min
nesota are highly displeased with his Sc,
cret departure from Washington for sixty
days On a mission that was neither for
the state nor for the nation, but a private
business venture. Congressman are not
elected to spend half session in Europe.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

The senate committee purposes to find
out who owns the Cuban sugar crop-the
planters or the trust. A thorough investi-
cation. will dispel favorite insurgent
bogey, but in the meantime what good
does the planter get from it.? It will delay
legislation long enough to keep him from
getting the benefit of the tariff reduction
on this years crop. Perhaps that's all it
is intended to do.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
The Morning Summons


And the promise the sprngime All
leapins life
Bood
s.
into
brings the
May AuanH
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

Business men OF. lower Nicollet avenue
don't like to haves fake auction shops
running next door They should turn
back to Mayor Ames recent pronuncia- :
mento and read, that a business admins
tratton is one in which all kinds OF busi-
ness prosper.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

There seems to be at leaet one Ameri-
can Judge in Manila who knows his busi-
ness. In reply to the prosecuting attor-
neys in the Manila freedom sedition case,
who had audaciously y structed the court
to do what the civil government wanted
done, the Judge replied that he wanted the
attorney to understand that individuals
have rights asswell as governments. The
attitude of the Philippine government to-
wards newspapers seems to indicate that
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

The city council isstaking lessons from
the congress Of the United States. What
difference does 1t make what kind of paw
ing Hennepin avenue taxpayers want? All
they have got to do in that connection is
to pay for 1t.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

4, When we annex England shall we con-
TIME royalty and nobility for our diver
sion or shall we abolish IT., or leave the
question to the. state governments we
shall establish over there? It depends
upon Morgan.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
COMPLAINTS

Subscribers will please notify the
office in every case where their pa
pers arc not Delivered Promptly,
or when the collections are. not
promptly made.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

Governor Van SAINT is to make the Me-
mortal Day address at Northfeld this
year. It is understood that this arrange
nent is at the special request of Mr..
Heatwole.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
The Nonpareil Man
The Eloquent Gestsre

pupil who wrote on Hsnnibsl said:
Hannibal stood with one foot Oh spsil
while With the other he beckoned IA sfhs
troops 8.
When the Missouri Hannibal, viz, the mpls,
beckons with his foot, something usually
gives way. p S
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
WRONG Kind Of Government owner.
shin.
Nebraska state dourns

The people OF Manitoba. according to a
Winnipeg paper. are paying dearly FOR q little
experiment in the government ownerghip OF
the railroads They bought 400 miles OF rail
road and assumed q lot of bonds. and now,
they are paying about $4,000 a year more
than they formerly did on fruit freights alone
Since the Northern Pacific ceased to operate
a3through line between Minneapolis and Win.
nipeg the rate on fruit has gone about $50
higher than the old figures.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

Mr. Rosing seems to have been one Of
those sufferers from an "over-heated
conscience" when he made that Mime
apolis speech
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

depend denss and excel lsnf pIrlt theJss
congressman, But when it comes to get
ting, votes the congressman will do vel
SO say much about their independence ar,
little about their opposition to reciprocit,
for Cuba.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

|Ssnses were s.7so:ooo bushsiss compared
With 4, 900 in the previous week and
,2S2,0o0 year ago.a In corn there is Of
curse a bad showing, the week falling of
materially and the figures tosdate,. from
Jnly /, 1901 showing only 25, 400, 1856 bush-.
als compared with 153.o61, siSs last year.
u the large acreage being plant ed to corn
urns out well, our countrylfwill regain
It's prestige in corn exports next year.
Business concerns to the number OF ls1
we're in financial trouble. This compares
with 1913 in the previous week, and ia
in the same week in 1901. 8
Iron prices still tend upward, but on the
advances the volume Of new business IS
lighter. The action Of the southern.
foundrymen in combining to hold prices
down is commended by the trade and they
are credited with having maintained the
market in it's present state Of comparative
stability. But, despite all efforts, prices
are rising. The United States Steel corr
poration Increased its earnings for April
by $4.5oo,ooo, the figures for the month
showing earnings Of s11 100000.
1t will not do to make light of Senator
McCumber's speech in behalf of the pure
food bill for the District of Columbia, the
territories and interstate commerce. It
is cause for righteous indignation to learn
that the American people buy annually
$4,000, ,OOO, 900 worth Of foodst,iffs that are
not what they purport to beFand that of
this amount $1,17ooOO, 900 is deleterious.
1t is too bad that congress hasn't the con-
stitutional power to handle the whole
food question. Uncle Sam has machinery
and facilities for enforcing such a law
that the states have not. However, If any
one imagines that the making of adul-
terated and deleterious foods is to be
permitted to flourish indefinitely he is not
| aware of the degree to which people are
becoming worked up on this question.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

Money talks!"s According to the re-
ports from Washington, Money sometimes
talks like a fool.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

The Fat boys who ran the butter corner col-
lided with the same .dimculty that threw
old Mr.. Letters child over the fence.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

Now trat the rain is over, it is per-
missible for the Pioneer Press to remark
editorially, what every body knows with
out suggestien--that it is "a good thing.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
CASUALLY Obseryed. /.

Adam Bede ought to go to congress. Yst
they, do say that the beads usually get II u
the neck.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26
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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

Killing man, no matter what the prove
cation. Is unpleasant and dangerous business.
1t ought to be discouraged.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-26

Isn't it wonderful how the rain almost ai-
ways si1ows up when II Il badly needed! The
farmer must carry rabbits foot.