The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-15
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or on influences not closely related with poor
relief and benefcence. The doctor refers
deprecatngly to the political tendencies in
the administration of such relief, even state
boards being sometimes tainted. The doctor
discusses every phase of our pocr-relief sys-
tenn, or systems, and thinks our methods Of
dealing with tramps, cripples, pauper immi-
grants, the sick poor, might be improved,
and he lays bare, from state and urban re-
ports, many Of the weak points in ad-
ministration of poor relief. Another paper
of decided interest is Mrs. Simons' "Social
Assimilation''-the a1nalgamation of Indians
and negroes and of the foreign elements COM
ing to this country--in which she shows that
the Chinese are by reason of race conscious
ness and hostile legislation, Understandable;
that the other immigrants are assimilable,
and that the Indians, under the changed
treatment by our government is ultimately
assmilable, while the negro, on account of
strong racial sentiment against him, his gen
eral inferior capacity and his southern 'segre-
CATION is only partly assimilated He is ex-
cluded from desirable social, business and
political positions, and that is hindrance
to assimilation. The negro has shown his
capacity for intellectual culture and progress;
but, while intermarriage with whites is out
of the question as a solution, it is probable
that, when the negro becomes the intellectual
equal of the white man. race prejudice will
die out.
A very interesting, illustrated paper in The
Era is Mrs. Helen Wilson'S prehistoric
Ruins of Southern Colorado in which she
discloses the fascination of the study of this
phase of our American antiquities, revealing,
as it does, the fact Of the hoary past of civil
ization on this continent. Mr.. Mathews illus
trated paper on Jay Cooke and his career
as fnancier for our government during the
civil war, is feature of great interest. Jay
Cooke still resides in Philadelphia, the scene
Of his financial activity. Robert Morris and
Stephen Girard, the governments fiscal agents
in the revolutionary and the war Of 1872
respectively were also Philadelphians Cooke
secured subscriptions for the first great war
loan of 1862, $500 900, O0G, and more than was
called for, in less than a year. Then tho
loan of 1884, the 1910 bonds and 7-3O notes
and other loans were handled by Cooke and
he negotiated the last big war loan of $780,
OOO 900. He attributes his success in nego-
tiating loans largely to complete and liberal
system of advertising these loans. The last
big loan was all obtained in five months.
Gunton's records vigorous defense of Mr..
Hill and the Northern Securities company,
arguing that the consolidation of the Northern
| Pacific, the Great Northern and the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy will not breed monopoly
because the Union Pacific the Southern Pa
| c!ic and Canadian Pacific systems remain
strong competitors for through Pacific bust
! ness; but nothing is said about business not
j through" There is an interesting paper on
| the growth Of useful economics, showing that
| the moral betterment of the race must follow
4 the Improvement of the material condition OF
! the great mass Of the population. In paper
| on Prospects Of Domestic Sugar Produc-
| tion,'' Joseph Biddle Wilkinson reviews the
history of home sugar production and con.
I cludes that beet sugar producers have moth
j ing to fear from our dependencies and Their,
4 is nothing to fear from Euorpe so long a!
! there is a countervailng duty against tn,
4 bounty-fed sugars of the continent and the In
creasing home consumption, which is ra
s tional conclusion, indeed Professor Gunto,
4 himself discusses the sugar question, oppos
4 ing free Cuban sugar and advocating hal