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DORFLINCER'S
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ICE CREAM AND SODA WATER.

Notions and Stationery, Confectionery ard Sweet Cream. Cigars ard Tobsc co, Crockery.
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loving kindness, cooperating with
wisdom and justice.
Men of affairs are to come to you
with their deposits and their paper.
They must make you their confdant;
to you they must unfold their secrets;
perforce they must trust you not to
take advantage of their hard wrought
plans, or turn them to your own ac-
count. To you must come the young
business man, who with his limited
experience and, in all probability, more
limited means, but with unbounded
ambition and confidence in the future,
to lay his plans before you. Wise
council, financial assistance, or both
are necessary. He may become Ma
poleon Of finance in the next genera
ton.
The young but aspiring man, just at
the morn of life, hope, ambition, laud-
able pride, but with humble means,
comes to you for advice and guidance.
Likewise, the widow, who must scrimp
and plan to stretch her little pittance
of an income to cover the necessities
of herself and orphan children. This
endless procession of humanity must
come to your private office, and why?
Because you have set yourself apart,
as a self-elected arbitrator of their
financial affairs-those affairs of life
so interviewer with the innermost Sc
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both might advantageously be toned
down somewhat, as even the original
yellow papers are discovering. You
must not lay too much stress on deli
cate taste. You must not be afraid to
shout instead of speaking in gentle
manly undertones. You must not hes
itate to criticise corporations and mil
lionaires when they do things opposed
to public interests. When there is a.
strike, you must not instantly assume
that the strikers are wrong and sum-
mon the governor to call out the mill
tia. What you may do in the way Of
Improvement is to refrain from print
ing story until you know 1t is true,
to make accuracy instead of record
breaking celebrity the supreme require
ment in yours news room, to give
somewhat less prominence to the dark
er and more to the brighter side Of
life, and to refrain from dragging
family skeletons into light unless there
is some public reason for the exposure.
These things will not impair the
popularity of your paper, and If, with
them all, you could convince the
masses that you were honestly con-
cerned about their interests, you might
manage to make the reformed yellow
journal pay it's way-the only test OF
genuine success.
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ton; the employee has to exercise dis
erection in protecting and furthering
your business interests; therefore treat
him as though you had an interest in
him and in his affairs.
Remember, that with obligations.
come opportunities; your opportunity
should be used just as conscientiously
as your obligation Is discharged. You
do not neglect your opportunity to
make money-it is your duty to take
all honest advantage of such oppor-
tunity, but it is equally your duty to
take broad, unselfish view of all pub
lie questions.
Money making is necessary in life,
but alone it is often a curse. Young
man, If you cannot measure up to the
moral and heart standard, stay out OF
the banking business. Modern banking
has no place for Shylocks; the world
has advanced and "Shylocl1's bond"
still exists, but the stern justice which
would allow him to demand "his pound
of flesh" is now ruled and controlled
by that sweetest CT all monarchs, Mer-
cy, who sits on the worlds throne and
rules the universe with the scepter OF
brotherly love. You are your broth
er's keeper" BY just that degree that
we recognize this fact, we will be sue
cessful and happy. No man can know
happiness il he alone Is prosperous.
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Some Suggestive Figures-During
the Fifteen years in which improve
ments were being made on the River
Elbe, in Bohemia, the river traffic, as
a natural result of the deepening of it's
channels, increased five-fold. But the
traffic on the competing railways in
creased still more largely. and the divi-
dends on the main line, from Teplitz
to Aussig, rose to 16 per cent per an
mum. i know holders of American
railway stocks who would be glad of a
dividend half as great as that.
Facilities Create Traf1ic-One-s sided
views are always wrong views, and the
railway managers who look only at the
traffic which would would be taken
away from their lines by a waterway,
and not at all at that which would be
brought to them by the waterway, are
as wrong and short-sighted as the
mobs that destroyed power looms or
harvesting machinery with the idea
that fewer men would be employed.
The surface roads in New York city
desperately opposed the elevated roads,
fearing that their traffic would be
ruined thereby. But the surface roads
are more profitable than before the
elevated lines were built, and the lat
ter possess an enormous and profitable
traffic which it would have been utter
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1T is said, that drives the hard-pressed
customer to despair, the cup, or the
suicides grave.
sometimes, it is the opinion Of the
banker that his obligation begins with
himself and ends only when he has
squeezed the last drop of blood from
more or less helpless community. His
idea is that he is the beginning and the
end of knowledge, that his autocratic
power must not be disputed, that when
he condescends to give advice, it
should always be followed, either by
the individual or the community as the
case may be. He forgets that he
and his self-interests are but an atom
in this great world-that the brother
hood of man has claims on him; his
neighbours suffering, sorrows and cares
are to this man but another opportu-
nifty for extortion and gain. / heard
this man say that never did he make
SO much money as when the distress
of the panic years drove TIE financially
purdened and careworn to his counter,
willing to pay any rate of interest or
bonus for the help which they must
have in order to avoid suffering or
ship wreck of fortune.
When the customer comes to this
mans counter, he must come with an
humble and pleading manner. and be
duly thankful If this autocrat OF
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By ,Jamuel 6. MoNeh.

across Africa quarter Of a century
ago. There were similar opportunities
during the siege of the legations in
Pekin. A determined correspondent
with unlimited credit could have found
a way to open communication with the
beleaguered diplomats and relieve the
anxiety of the world, but the papers of
all tints preferred the cheaper course
Of relying upon the picturesque ro-
mancers of Shanghai.
No doubt the growing Discrimination
of the newspapers to indulge in ex-
pensive strokes of enterprise is due to
the shifting of power from the edi-
torial to the business offices. Formerly
the editor directed the policy Of the
paper. He conceived brilliant scheme
and he urged it upon the proprietor,
if he did not happen to be the propri-
etor himself. He was constitutionally
indisposed to bother about petty COM
mercial details. In the presence OF a
pet idea, his impulse was to "hang
the expense"
Now every serious proposition has
to be submitted to the business man
ager whose attitude toward anything
involving expense is always critical.
His first question is: "Is this thing
worth doing at all?" His second is:
IF it is to be done, how can it be
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ceded by every one who has given the
slightest attention to the subject. This
control arises from the fact that the
carriage of freight by water costs so
much less than carriage by rail-the
average rate per ton-mile on the great
lakes, for instance, being about one
tenth of the corresponding rate on the
railways of the United States. AS the
isthmian canal would affect a greater
volume of railway traffic than any 9TH
er waterway ever constructed or pro-
posed-with the possible exception OF
a ship canal from the great lakes to
the Hudson riVer-it becomes matter
of the utmost Importance to determine,
so far as this can be done beforehand,
just what effect will be produced there
by. While the controlling effect of
competing waterways on railway rates
has been generally recognized, another
effect, of equal or greater Importance,
has been almost completely overlooked.
For, paradoXical as it seems, water
ways are not only the most powerful
possible regulators of railway rates,
but are also the most powerful pos
sible promoters of the prosperity Of
railways with which they compete.
The best thing that could happen to
every railway in the United States-or
elsewhere, for that matter--Would be
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The Truth Rbout fellow Journalism.

In intemperance of discussion, it is left
far behind by most Of the political or
gans of the last century. In exploita-
tons of crimes and scandals, it has
never equaled papers like the Cincin-
natl Enquirer and the old Chicago
Times. On the other hand, it's vaunt-
ed enterprise has never achieved such
feats as were common a generation
ago. No representative of the latest
Journalism that acts has ever. ac-
complished anything like the discov-
cry of Livingstone, or the exploration
of the Congo. or the equipment of the
Jeanette" Arctic expedition, or the
contribution Of 100000 to the Irish
famine fund. There has seldom been
anything to match even the old Daily
Graphic's attempt to send a balloon
across the Atlantic in 1873.
There was a superb opportunity a
few months ago for a display of gen.
uine newspaper enterprise. One of the
diplomatic and detective experts at
tached to every yellow staff, with $780,
900 to spend, could have rescued Miss
Stone within month after her cap
ture. But no newspaper rose to the
occasion. No proprietor was willing
to buy fame at half the price paid by
the New York Herald and the London
Telegraph for Stanley's expedition
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cost of transportation, that is the true
commercial measure of distance" the
continent will shrink until it's Eastern
and Western coasts are commercially
but half as far apart, while yet no sim
gle acre of it's wide expanse is lost.
Manila, Yokohama and Hongkong will
be brought close to New York, Boston
and New Orleans, while San Francisco,
Portland and Seattle will become
neighbors of Liverpool, Antwerp and
Hamburg. Mines will be opened, des-
erts made to blossom as the rose be-
meath the magic touch of irrigation,
towns and cities will spring up, and
the Western commemorative grow
populous and great, while the manu-
featuring cities of the Eastern states,
the cotton planters OF the South, and
the grain growers of the Middle West
will find new and enlarged markets
for their products. I can think of no
portion Of the United States which
would not share in the benefits show
cred abroad by the construction of an
isthmian canal, but if were asked to
point out the interest which would re-
ceive the most abundant share of the
benefits which would certainly accrue,
I should, without an instant's hesita-
ton, name-the railroads of the West
ern states.
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Effect Of k)aterWays on Railway Transportation.
By 5. ri: Thompson.

ly impossible for the surface roads to
develop. The tonnage which goes
around the Cape of Good Hope is as
large now as before the construction Of
the Suez canal, which means that the
traffic of 100000 tons a year passing
through that waterway has been Gre
ated thereby.
Not a 1.-THE Of the truth is told by
the figures which have been given
showing the increased tonnage on the
Mayence-Frankfort railways since the
canalization of the River Main, be-
cause those figures do not show the
fact that this tonnage is of a higher
grade and pays a much higher freight
rate, and make no mention of the
greatly increased revenues from pas
sengers, express matter and mails.
The first locks at st. Mary's Falls
were opened in 1856, in which year
the registered tonnage was 106,29
tons. The half-million mark was reach
ed in 1868, and the million ton
mark was passed in 1873. In 1881, ex-
actly coincident with the opening of a
much larger lock, the Northwest began
to grow by leaps and bounds and the
tonnage of the canal rose from 2,000,-
900 tons in 1882 to 100000 in 1890 and
to 100000 in 1896. During the past
five years, two more enormous locks
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of Washington, the National Gazette of
Philadelphia or the Argus Of Albany. But
we annex one condition to an exchange
with country paperS-editorS must fur
nish their columns with something orig
inal and good to get an exchange with the
Herald. A Groll story, a wonderful acct
dent, tale of the mountains or rivers,
a prodigious growth, a horrible murder, a
curious marriage, or such like tit-bitS.
There you have the very essence of
yellow journalism. Job type, art de-
partments and octuple color presses
were not known in the days of the
Elder Bennett, but in essentials the
programme he laid down for his coun-
try exchanges was programme that
would appeal to the newest of the new
editors today.
The De Young brothers founded the
San Francisco Chronicle-at first the
Dramatic Chronicle-on yellow lines in
1868. All the offensive features of
yellow journalism were glazing in the
Chicago Times under Wilbur F. Storey
and in the Cincinnati Enquirer Of
twenty years ago. Indeed, the old En-
quirer probably came nearer to real
izing what the respectable critics i'm
agine a yellow journal to be than any
other paper of general circulation that
has ever existed in the United States.
Neither the delinquencies nor the
merits Of yellow journalism are new.
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done most cheaply?" If Livingstone
were going to Africa now it would be
more prudent for him to make his
preparations for a permanent residence
there than to depend upon a modern
business manager to hunt for him.
The business manager would always
rather spend money on posters telling
what the paper is going to do than on
doing it. 1h
Many good people, looking with envy
upon the power Of reaching the masses
given to the yellow journals by their
enormous circulation, ask themselves
whether it is not possible to produce
a paper that shall have the popularity
of the yellow journal without it's
faults. I believe that such thing is
possible, but not on the lines which
the respectable thinkers have generally
been inclined to follow. You cannot
print paper with small headlines and
no pictures, have it speak respectfully
Of the Northern Securities merger and
severely of the arrogance of labor
unions, and expect to circulate it
largely on the East side because it
sells for a cent. Your respectable pa
per, If 1T is to reach the masses, must
be yellow in so far as yellowness is
not disreputable. 1t must not be afraid
or big headlines or pictures, although
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finance shall condescend to allow him
to do business with his bank. You all
know the type of which speak-of
course, there are no such men among
the craft in this state-at least If
there are, they are not members of the
Minnesota State Bankers association,
are they? n
This type Of man behind the bank
counter is curse to any community
better by far there be- no bank in the
whole county than to have, the field
pre- empted by a man who, while he
keeps others out, Is himself but a leech,
wrapt in his own selfish motives and
avaricious desires. He can see no good
in any one, or anything, unless 1t is
first plain to him that there Is a per-
sonal profit for himself, regardless Of
whom 1t may benefit orIinjure.
Autocratic self-love and greed Is an
offense anywhere it is met, but behind
the bank counter, 1t Is magnified and is
not only offensive, but 1t becomes dam
gerous and a menace to the whole
community. The banker, by reason of
his position, is an autocrat, not neces-
sarily an offensive one, but he should
be one whose heart is full of the milk
of human kindness. His greatest mo-
tive in life should be to lift up his fell
low men, build up his community and
set an example before the people Of
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to have a waterway paralleling every
mile of it's track, and the deeper the
waterway, within reasonable limits,
the greater would be the benefit de-
rived by the railway. If the managers
of the transcontinental American rail-
ways were really awake to their own
interests, instead of opposing an 18TH
milan canal they would use all their
influence in it's favor. Nay more; if
congress should fail to act, the capt.
talists who control the transcontinen-
tai railway lines ought to underwrite
a sufficient amount of bonds to secure
the construction of an isthmian canal,
and to get it built at the earliest date,
and this not as matter of sentiment
or patriotism, but as a cold blooded
business proposition. This opinion is
based upon the fact that many in
stances can be shown in which the
construction or improvement of a wa
terway has resulted in great benefit to
competing railways, while not a single
instance has come to my knowledge,
in the course of study of the subject
covering many years, in which the re-
suit has been otherwise than beneficial.
But as the unsupported opinion can
have little or no weight, it will be in
order to offer the incredulous reader a
few facts upon which it is based.
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crets and thoughts Of humanity, that
you, the banker, become at once the
greatest power for good or evil; you
become the business and financial ora
Gle to the young of your whole COM
munity, the social and moral pattern,
and to those in your immediate en-
ploy, you are the hand of destiny. Are
you living up to your obligation and
privilege? Is your personal example
such as to elevate the moral tone of
your community?
Is your hand ever ready and your
heart ever full of sympathy for those
who come to you in their distress? Do
the young man, the poor man, the
small depositor, the widow and en-
ploye each receive from you that spon-
taneous word Of sympathy and encour-
agement that they are so much in need
of? Do you fully realize that to all of
these classes, your attention and con-
sideration means hope, your assistance
and advice means encouragement, sue
cess and life, while for you to frown
on or ignore them means discourage
ment, failure and ofttimes death; death
financially, morally or physically, or
all Of them.
Your employee is as necessary to your
success as you are to him. Do you
treat him as an accountable being? A
machine Is a poor reliance for discre-
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have been in operation, one of them
on the Canadian side of the river, and
in this short time the tonnage of the
canal has leaped up to nearly 28,500,-
600 tons. This colossal tonnage is
simply a manifestation of the develop
ment which has taken place in the
Northwest, along with which has come
the building Of thousands of miles of
railroad, including two lines from the
head of Lake Superior to the Pacific
coast. If by some cataclysm of nature
the great lakes should be dried up, the
enormous traffic now carried on their
waters would not be divided among
the railroads.&c. would simply cease
to exist. The whole galaxy of cities
from Buffalo to Chicago and Duluth
would be overwhelmed in hopeless, ir-
retrievable ruin, and the railroads
could in no wise escape the general
disaster.
A Glimps Ahead-The development
Of the Northwest, which has come
chiefly in consequence of the building
of the locks at the outlet of Lake Su-
perior, marvellous though it is, is but
q faint and shadowy image of the de-
velopment similar, but multiplied a
thousand fold. which will follow fast
upon the completion of an isthmian
canal. Since it is mot mileage, but
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tic and discriminating abuse heaped
upon the yellow press by so many of
its critics tends merely to exasperate
it's readers and blind them to the great
and oblivious faulta which undeniably
do exist. These faults are realized by
none more keenly than by the men who
make the yellow newspapers.
And first, what is yellow journalism
and when did it make its appearance?
Most people will say that it began
when Joseph Pulitzer bought the New
York World, and reached it's maturity
when w. r. Hearst took charge of the
New York Journal. But every essen
tial characteristic, of yellow journalism
was known long before either of these
epochs. There were very yellow fea-
lures in the Aurora and other papers
of Washington's day. The New York
Herald, founded by the elder Bennett
in 1885, was yellow journal from it's
first number.
If you turn back over the faded files
of the Herald, you will find in it's
eighteenth number, for May 20, 1885,
this revelation of its views on the OBJ
jects to be sought by a newspaper.
Numerous country editors are sending
us their papers with a request to ex-
change. We are not very sullxy or sui
len in this respect-not near so much so
as the Globe, Telegraph and 1ntelligencer
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The fmerican Bankers Obligation.

completely analysed the whole ques-
ton, andy the standard which the
particular line will require-taken his
own measure in full detail.
The deepest obligation man owes is
that of the heart. 1t cannot be proven
in court; no statute defines 1t; no writ
ten contract calls for 1t and no de-
cisions lay down it's rules. Individual
conscience alone fixes the standard and
defines its. limits. and blessed indeed
is he whose heart and mind is quick
and true to the promptings Of that lit
tie monitor. Woe to the community
whose banker has allowed selfish greed
or sordid cupidity to deaden and be-
numb his conscience or hush it's still
small voice. Happy and thrice blessed
are the people whose bankers are men
of noble impulse. not only obeying the
letter of the law, but whose hearts and
consciences put their obligations ahead
of and above those Of a monetary ma
ture.
The bankers obligation is as wide as
the needs Of the human race is varied.
| 1t is not the mo- which has to be
spoken, that does the damage, but it is
| the tone of voice, the manner in which
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same principle, when the car sends
the advocates of personal freedom or
constitutional government to Siberia
it is for the good of the empire. AS
well might Secretary Carlisle have
contributed a million to the campaign
fund for the reelection of Cleveland,
for the good of the republic.
All this is very bad business; it Is
in violation of every principle of high,
honest administration; it is the worst
form of the doctrine that the end JUS
titles the means. Of course, it is not
supposed that President Roosevelt au-
thorized either Woods misuse of the
public funds for political purposes in
this tariff war; or his purchase of Gen.
Gomez's political influence in Cuba;
but the facts remain. 1t is for the
president to say whether he will stand
for that, and for the methods such
acts represent, or will do the only oth-
er thing left, ask Mr.. Root to resign.