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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

Of West Virginia concentration Of
ownership Is going on, n rapidly.
The railroads and the large auxiliary
mining corporations know that they
can pay this much of a tax and yet
make enormously within q few years
out of the rising value of land, when a
greater population makes a greater
demand for coal, and therefore for
coal-bearing lands.
Practically the same state Of facts
exists in Pennsylvania, in Ohio, in ev-
cry state of the Union with respect to
coal or other natural These
are permitted to be regarded
as private property, although they
were obviously made by the Creator
for the use of all men without distino-
ton. They are taxed but 81 lightly
as not to be felt. What the govern
ment should do is not to take these re-
sources into its own hands for opera
ton, but merely put a heavy tax upon
them, leaving their operation to whom
soever would undertake that labor. If
the tax should be heavy enough no
man would care to hold lan that he
could not use. This would force coal.
land to compete with coal land for both
laborers and coal purchasers. And that
would force h price Of coal to drop
and the wage of labor to rise. The
monopoly would be destroyed, but in
it's place the public would be benefited
in low-priced coal and the miners
would be benefited in higher wages.
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By Mrs. Theodore eJutro.

lecture, when the mood to study had
come upon her, it will prove a great
and lasting benefit, though there be no
motive at all at the start. A woman
has only to spend a few weeks in the
work to be supplied with no end of
motives for continuing her research.
To begin with, she will be surprised
to find how much better she will I'M
derstand her miscellaneous reading.
The number Of phrases and illusions
to be found in newspapers and periodi-
calls, relating to law and legal proceed
ings, Is very great. These, in some
mysterious fashion, men come to I'M
derstand; most men, however, alien to
law is their own vocation, have some
fairly accurate idea of legal terminol-
ogy, which they do not know how
they came by, any more than they I'M
derstand their own understanding of
machinery, and the process of build
ing and mining. But, just as nearly
all women are ignorant Of these last,
SO are they confronted with what is,
to all i~ntents. Greek indeed, when they
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

been blazed for them by the pioneer,
and all along its brilliant course are
earth's richest prizes waiting for the
coming of American %conquerors. To
the youth of America, who are to be
the masters of the industry, trade, and
finance of this new world, there are
offered opportunities for v%alorous
deeds such as never came to the most
puissant knights Of old.
But the young man who would win
a place among the leaders of the in
dustrial army, in this century-who
would be a directing captain instead
Of a private marching blindly in the
ranks-must equip himself for the bat
tie by a vigorous training. Unless he
has had a university education. or the
scientific training of a college Of n
cheering, he will find himself sadly
handicapped. The captains of indus
try of the last century rose from the
ranks, because IN engineering edu-
cation could only be had in the shops;
but, within a few years, technical edu-
cation, under wise government pat
ronage, has made great strides, and a
young man can learn, by the time he
attains his majority. more than his
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21
BIZ C. c. Mosher,

North Dakota and defending it's posi-
ton in the traffic of hat region. The
Milwaukee is completing a new line
which touches southern North Dakota
and which by agreement with the
Northern Pacific will give it access to
Bismarck.
In northern Minnesota there has
been little construction aside from a
few logging roads this year. Some Of
the older logging lines are being taken
over by the Great Northern and will
form a basis for more extensions in
the future. There has been consider
able development in the northern
counties and more roads are needed.
The Northern Pacific is planning on a
cut off through the White Earth res
ervation which may be begun under
the guise Of a logging road and be talk
en- over by that system later. In
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should The Government TAX Mnes7

papers proposed during this m
ly oppressive strike: That the govern
ment step in, and, exercising the right
of eminent domain, take possession of
the mines, give fair compensation for
them. and work them.
The whole matter Sits down to this:
That because some men who are per-
mitted to call certain mineral fields in
the United States their private prop
erty, exercise the right Of doing as
they please with that property, and, in
the course of such exercise, choose to
shut up their mines, throw the labor
ers out of work n put the public
to great hardship for var Of the min
eral, it is thought necessary that The
public, through it's organized represen-
tatives, constituting the government,
should seize these mines and go into
the regular business of operating them.
Such a proposition is so big n Sc
rious as to cause all rejecting men to
pause. Already Jul governmental ma
chine is colossal. Are we to extend 1T
into the industrial field? If the opera
ton of the anthracite mines Of the
country is thought to be necessary to
the public veal, why should lot such
necessity seem to extend to the btu
minous fields Of the country whenever
a general strike may occur there?
AS in the coal fields, so in the oil and
natural gas regions-might not some
| arise by which the public,
being made to feel that the present
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of profit. This has placed all Of the
properties in a position to max i'm
provement and extensions. There is a
disposition on the part of all the roads
to make roadbeds and equipments as
good as possible and equal to the new
opportunities offered in increased traf-
fic. These expenditures a helped in
the general good times of the past year
and will be the same live factor In
the next twelve months.
st. Paul has ten railroads, the total
mileage of which is about $4,000. The
acquisition of the Rock Island through
the purchase of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern. gave it a third big
system tapping the middle west, with a
mileage of over $500. This Is an i'm
portant addition IN view of the fact
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

owners are exacting extortionate prices
or acting like dogs in the mango
should demand that these oil and gas
regions should be taken into general
possession and be operated by the
public?
Might not this policy be applied to
every kind of mining, to timber cut
ting and to agriculture and grazing?
Where is the line to be drawn? If we
have an anthracite coal combine, we
also have a bituminous coal combine;
we have gold and silver, quicksilver
and salt combines; we have iron, oil,
timber, fruit, farming and grazing
combines.
If the exercise of eminent domain Is
the solution of one of these evils, then
it must be the solution Of all. Where
upon we are compelled to ask if we
should not be going from frying pan to
fire in taking these huge natural re-
sources out of the hands Of private
individuals only to plunge the govern
ment into their operation? If our gov
ernmental machinery is now so vast as
to be beyond the vigilant inspection
of the public eye, and hence suscep-
tible of corruption, ,Nhow much less
would the public be capable of inspect
ing governmental operations in the
great industrial fields, and hence how
wide would become the area for rot
tennesS?
There are some business operations
which are Of necessity monopolies.
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which I gave in the beginning. A
woman should study it because she Is
a member of the human family; be-
cause that family is divided into. states
and governments, all formed md
guided as a result Of laws; and be-
cause, without a knowledge of what
these laws prescribe, she is not fitted
in%telligently to discharge her obliga-
tons toward others, to protect herself.
or to regard with sufficient charity
those who, through ignorance Of the
law, fail to discharge their obligations
toward herself
This brings me back once more to
the value of the study of law because
law is beautiful. The beauty of mu-
nicipal and national life, moving for
ward steadily and consistently, and al
most rhythmically, is not apparent to
a woman who has not studied law.
This great sense Of union and order,
which. pervades all life,and all its man
ifestations in its industries and It's
arts, is one Of the broadcast means pos
sible for attaining to true culture.
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ces. 1t is pre-eminently true of law,
which is so finely connected with ev-
cry branch Of human understanding.
The first and basic reason for the
study of law, the real reason, Of which
a woman student usually has no con-
ception when she begins her course, /
should formulate this way:
The study Of law is to a woman a
means of, culture, linking all the spe-
cial training of her education and eX-
perience, and teaching her to see I'M
suspected and beautiful relation and
harmony in the most alien phases Of
mental, spiritual and material life.
This understanding only m af-
ter her course in law is completed, and
is seldom a conscious reason for under
taking her work. However, / believe
that a blind intuition of all this is at
the back of the impulse to know jul
risprudence. 1t is difficult. therefore,
to make this great value comprehen-
sible to a layman, and to inspire him.
a priori, with an understanding which,
by It's very nature, only from
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21
Railways Plan Costly Improvements.


t heNorthwest have bettered the terri
tory in which st. Paul distributes
goods. Western North Dakota has been
the scene Of much of the railway
building this year, the 500 and North
ern Pacific having completed import
ant extensions. While no program for
the coming "a has been laid, out by
any of the roads, officials are confident
that there will be1much building oc-
casioned by the populatipg of
sections of the country. The 500 road
has a wonderful opportunity to
strengthen itself by new extensions in
the Northwest, particularly In North
Dakota The Great Northern's terri
tory in that state has been filling up
fast and two important branches will
probably be built within a short time.
The Northern Pacific is paying atten-
ton to the Missouri river country in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

they are all exceedingly practical and
unitarian. To be able to converse in
diligently with their husbands or
fathers or brothers who are lawyers;
to be able to listen in%telligently andn
feel hat their advent has broken UP
a legal discussion among their US
bands men guests; to understand legal
phrases and terms in general reading;
to be able to manage property for
themselves or their children,-all these
I have repeatedly heard given as rea-
sons for ~plunging into calf-bound
tones. Indeed, I nav heard several
women quite openly declare that they
began the study of law from sheer
pique at being baf1ed by rows and
cows Of musty law books of whose
contents they had not the least con-
ception.
Now, all these are worthy motives;
and, ever If the study is begun, as 1
have known it in one or two cases to
be, simply as a pastime, where, except
ing accident, the law student might
have chosen china-painting or archl-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

sumo and operate them, and SO go
headlong into the Industrial field.
Much might be said to show that
while the government should destroy
the private railroad, telegraph and tel
ephone ~monopolies by making them
departments of the governmental ma
chinery, 1t should destroy these other
form of monopoly in some way other
than by including them among the
functions of government.
But how, it will be asked, could this
be done? The exercise of the right Of
eminent domain would obviously lead
to evils as great as, If not very mush
greater than, the present crying ills.
Yet if these natural are to be
left in private hands how can there be
hope Of change of policy? Some sug-
gest governmental regulation, but all
our experience shows that where that
is undertaken it is the monopoly that
regulates the government, not the gov
eminent hat regulates the monopoly.
Then what is the remedy? Plainly
there is just one thing, but that is all
potent. 1t Is to be found in taxation.
I found during a recent trip to West
Virginia that the taxes on the coal
lands Of one Of the richest of h coal
mining corporations there amounted to
less than one-ffteenth of n per cent
Of their ommon market value. OF
course, such a tax burden is no burden
at all. It does not discourage idle coal
lands. Indeed, everywhere In the state
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21
By Robert II. Turston.
Director Jibey College. Cornell University

work Of training engineers, scientific
cally for industrial vocations, espe-
cially manufacturing industries, 1t was
difficult to secure from an employer
the slightest consideration for an edu-
Gated PROFESSIONAL; while the so-called
practical man. was attempting to
lead, as general, the industrial armies
of the nation. Today the industries Of
the country are being rapidly trans
ferred to the direction of technically
educated leaders, the product Of the
work Of science-teachers and engineer
ing schools With a thousand passing
out into business each year, the de-
mand still exceeds the supply, and the
leading schools and colleges of engi-
neering are compelled to reply to the
applications of manufacturers, or other
proposing employers, mot a man I'M
engaged" Educated men, once abused
as conceited, helpless and useless, are
now found to be precisely the men
for the work, Inc the efficient training
In shops and laboratories, supplement-
ing their general education and SCI
entifc requirements, is discovered to
be exactly adapted to their advance
from the ranks to positions as COM
handing officers in all departments.
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come upon an allusion to chooses in
action" Easements or servitudes,"
"appurtenances and herfditaments," or
"commissio de lunatico inquirendo."
Indeed, I really believe that the aver
age woman, or even the woman who
has a fair knowledge of Latin, doesn't
accurately know what habeas corpus
proceedings really are!
To the woman who has property to
manage, a certain amount Of legal
knowledge rs a necessity, but nearly
all women are without it. They do
not know at what moment they may
be involved in lawsuits, and the at
tempt of one to grasp all the points of
a case, SO she may enter into some
sort of intelligent conference with her
lawyer, is productive of results pathet-
ic indeed, and most wearing on the
harassed counselor she has retained.
Aside from these special considera-
tons, however, for women in various
branches of industry, there is another
aso for studying law which Is a
part of the broader and deeper reason
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21
Editor Of the st. Paul II ade Journal.

The big tonnage which will roll
money into the railroad hopper during
the coming year will put the north
western ines on the best foundation
in their history. All but one of the
systems serving st. Paul are on the
dividend list and that me could pay
dividends this year If it desired to sac
rifice a portion of It's opportunity for
improving it's position by important
extensions. Those lines which tap the
Of necessity make large expenditures
in improving the shipping facilities at
many points, building new side tracks
and in some cases equipping new sta
tons. Railroad pay rolls will increase
and all Of this money viii go to swell
the volume Of northwest trade In which
st. Paul business institutions are
largely interested.
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Uhy Oomen Study Eaw.

experience in the actual field. Still,
a oma who has, as a personal pos
session, skill in any art or science, will
see what this value is of which l write.
For the woman who plays a musical
instrument, or paints, or writes, knows
that the end and aim Of her work and
it's truest value to her are not in play
ing or painting or writing; she knows
that the meaning Of her art to her is
that 1t opens the door to great truth
and beauty, and enables her better to
understand how to live. This is quite
the same in law, excepting that it is
broader and deeper in its significance
thar in any of the three examples I
have chosen, for law in it's broadcast
sense is the basis Of all three, and in
deed Of every art and science and of
life itself. When I have discussed the
more apparent reasons for studying
law, and the special values resulting,
I shall be able, perhaps, to make this
clearer.
The very first reasons which prompt
women to study law are various, and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

southern Minnesota the North West
ern will have its new line from Evan
to Marshall completed late in the year.
The Milwaukee expects to have it's
Observation-Disclosures extension ready
by November. The Rock Island is
hurrying it's construction into Mime
apolis.
With the 500 and Omaha active in
western Wisconsin some extensions
will be made in that territory which
will be a direct benefit to Minneapolis.
Wisconsin andS are more highly ap-
preciated than ever before and a
steady immigration into that region is
on. The Milwaukee plans a big ex-
tension in western South Dakota to
cover the range country near the river
and tap some grain districts which
have yielded remarkably well this
year.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

drew Carnegie although a shop-trained
captain Of industry, will give a large
part of his fortune to founding a tech
meal school in Pittsburg, Pa.
Founded as a "land-grant college,"
to promote the liberal and practical
education of the industrial classes"
Cornell has rapidly grown to be one
Of the worlds great universities, as
broad in it's organization as Ezra Cor
nell would have it when, he made his
famous declaration, IT would found an
institution where any person may End
instruction in any study In the early
years of the university, a college grad
uate was considered as a man who
might make his way in the world de-
spite his higher education-the popular
idea being that a college education vas
only a luxury that the w~ell-to-do
might have. The colleges were not
keeping pace with the country's
growth. Even in very recent years
there have been discussions, in which
men Of prominence have Joined, as to
the relative merits of the college-bred
man and his fellow who took up life's
serious work on leaving the common
school,.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21
By George 3. Haryey.

travasated, thus MANNED and sucked
dry, it would be cheaper and saner to
abdicate all r%esiduary functions Of self
government, and sink to the level of
a province in the centralized and uni
fed French Republic.
AS the party which from it's birth
has been indissolubly welded to the
maintenance of state rights, the Dem
ocracy cannot decline the challenge
which Mr.. Roosevelt has put forward.
1t will not commit an act of self-stul-
LITIGATION and of suicide. But 1t may
be asked, is 1t certain that the coming
campaign will turn on the question
whether the reserved rights Of the
states shall be invaded in a vital par
ticular? Is it not possible that the
Republican organization will repudiate
the constitutional amendment advocat-
ed by Mr. Roosevelt? We answer that
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

the undergraduates perform valuable
commercial services in testing the eff
cheney Of steam plants, electric rail-
ways, power stations, and the like.
Every year a party of Sibley students
goes on a tour of investigation to some
industrial region. This spring blast
furnaces, steel works, rolling mills and
machine shops were the features of the
tours. The students studied steel and
malleable iron casting, the develop
ment of electric power, and paper, pulp
and carborundum making, in and
around Niagara Falls, and locomotive
building in Dunkirk, New York. They
spent two days in Pittsburg and
Johnstown, Pa, in the locomotive and
car shops, the blast furnaces, the steel
works, the rolling mills, and the cleo
trio, air-brake, and machine shops.
Near the Horseshoe Curve, the young
men went up to a mining village on
a coal train, and inspected a mine. An
other day was spent in the locomo-
tive and car shops in Altoona, Pa The
professor in charge Of the tour, the
head Of the railway engineering school,
gave an almost continuous field lecture
on the various industries inspected.
In 1871, when I first undertook the
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father could have hoped to master
in years of practice.
Whatever you would have appear
in a nations life, hat you must put
into its schools" says an old German
motto, and 1t was Germany that proved
to the world the inestimable value of
training young men for industrial ca
reers. Even the rich mobiles nc longer
look upon labor as degrading, and, as
everyone knows, every Hohenzollern
learns a trade. The germ of the engi-
neering school only appeared with the
foundation of the famed Ecole Poly
technique in Paris, a century ago.
Every great nation now has a system
of technical education, and America,
with characteristic vigor, has taken
the lead, and the system of engineer
ing education, as developed at Cor
nell university, is now the model for
the world. Not only are we training
our own young men for engineering
careers, but the bright young men of
all other progressive nations are com
ing to America to be educated. The
proposed French technical school in
America is an indication of the foreign
estimate Of the American system. An
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

battles in the future will be fought out
in the southwest.
One gratifying feature Of the pres
ent business era Is the financial prog
ress Of the 500 and Minneapolis & St.
Louis roads. Fol the commercial adj
vancement Of the Twin Cities these
roads have done much. The Mime
apolis & st. Louis crossing Chicago
lines in the south and southwest has
been instrumental in bringing much
grain to the cities and carrying back
merchandise, which before the roads
construction and recent extension went
to Chicago. The 500 road furnishes
an outlet for st. Paul products direct
into choice territory both east and
west. The securities of these lines,
which at one time dragged at low fig
ures, are now rated high.
Extensions made in Various parts Of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

electoral vote but one. That funda-
mental issue is the question whether
the powers reserved by the constitu-
ton to the constituent states shall be
invaded by the federal government in
a way so trenchant and so vital that
a states jurisdiction yer the private
rights and personal interests of it's
citizens would be Jeopardized, If, not
extinguished.
That question has been thrust upon
the country, and driven home to the
brain and conscience of every voter,
by President Roosevelt's advocacy of a
constitutional amendment, giving to
congress absolute control of corporat-
tons, O only with regard to the
transportation Of their products from
one state to another, but with refer
ence to the creation of their products,
the management of their property, and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21
By David .. Pierce.

well as wealth, as did the greater por-
ton of the Red River valley.
What was once an attractive fea-
ture in North Dakota-the bonanza
wheat farm-has been transferred
farther north and west in the Dominion
Of Canada Land there is still cheap
and capital Is rapidly absorbing 1t.
Great farms will then come into tx
istence as they did in former days in
North Dakota and the history of ag-
riculture will again repeat itself. Can
ada, too, may become crowded in time