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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-23

The Detroit, Mich, Journal, publishes
Journal Junior. 1t has not hesitated to
adopt, as far as it was able to do so,
features of the Minneapolis Journal
Junior, without credit. But the parents
and teachers of Michigan are certainly
not very much interested in the publica-
ton or they would not submit to such
samples of English in childs newspaper
as the following which appeared in a re-
cent number of that paper:
For next week the editor has chosen an
easy subject and one that won't cause much
puZzling among the boys and girls who write
for The Journal Junior The subject is 81
Personal Description" and the description
| may be OF any man, woman or child the
writer may like to describe. 1t would be best,
of course, to take the very oldest person you
know-that is, the person most different from
all the other people of your acquaintance
| Describe their appearance and tell what it is
either about their looks or their character
! that makes them odd. If you know the person
! you describe, tell how you came to know them
| if you don't know the person, tell how you
| came to notice them, and how it is you think
| this particular person the oldest one yor
| know In either case it would be we'll, where
possible, to tell one or two stories Of some
! things the person has said or done, which
| will show wherein they are different from
other people These essays are due Oct. 20.
| 1t would be very unfortunate if the
children of the Michigan schools were tc
pattern their English after the mode
set by the editor of the Detroit Journal
! Junior.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-23

Senator Dolliver did not state the case
too strongly in his Des Moines address
yesterday, when he said the defects in our
tariff laws ought to be corrected and will
be ''unless we are compelled to admit
that congress has become helpless in the
presence of questions like these The
evident disposition of congress to Shy at
every proposition for tariff reform and tax
reduction indicates q condition of help
and is calculated to beget lack OF conf
Mence on the part Of the public In the
ability of the republican majority to dea
intelligently, vigorously, honestly ane
fearlessly with the issues before them.
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it IS able to show it carried during a
given period. 1t is to It's interest, how
ever, to carry as much as possible In order
that on readjustment of the proper
lions Of pooled earnings it may have a
larger share.
This is business-like and simple
remedy for the condition Of things which
have been exposed by the Investigations
Of the interstate commerce commission at
Chicago, but it has been opposed vigorous
ly by large shippers for many years.
Some day the small shipper and the public
at large will begin to understand. that
their interests are to be served by q
well-advised and honestly executed.pool
ing system, and that without it thereis nc
alternative short of ultimate government
control.
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE CORNERSTONE
REPORT

The report of the Interstate commerce
commission, submitted to-day, and sum-
married in another column, is an interest
ing contribution to the current discussion
of railroad rates and railroad manage
ment. The commission emphasiz in
vigorous language the enormity of the Of
lenses committed by railroad managers in
violating the law and destroying the
evidence of such violation. But the rec
ognize also the difficulties which the rail-
road manager contends with in protecting
the interests of his own property and
urge that the laws relating to railroad
operations be revised upon some correct
theory and some workable basis. They
think that if every illegal act Of the
| character suggested were to subject the
company itself to some substantial for
feiture instead of imposing a fine upon
its agent, the inducement to commit such
offenses would be greatly diminished.
1t points out, also, that this sys-
tenn of discrimination and secret rate
concessions is building up great trusts
and monopolies at the expense of smaller
| operators, while the managers of the
roads still maintain that the published
tariffs and those exacted of the smaller
| shippers are too low
The tendency of things seems to be
| rapidly in the direction of government
! control of all railroads. The singular
thing is that simple and effective cure
| for the whole system of secret rebates and
determinations has not been regarded
with more favor by the general public
That remedy is legalized pooling There
has, however, been prejudice in the MIND
Of the public against pooling, and the i'm
preston that it was something calculated
| to maintain high rates and destroy compe.
tition. It does destroy competition tc
some extent-competition which cuts
rates,-but it does not destroy competition
| in character Of facilities afforded, mol
does it diminish the eagerness of different
| lines to get business from each other
Reasonable rates having been established
under government supervision, all ship.
pers, big and little, are placed upon the
/! same footing. There is no inducement tt
| the transportation company to favor ont
| against the other, because 1t must turf
over to the pool earnings at the regula,
rates for the amount of business which
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BOG Fourth street Sc
OUT OF THE ORDINARY

Paper Irvine stockings at cents pair are
the latest thing in hosiery.
A Kansas man has celebrated two silver
weddings, having lived twenty-five years
with each of his two wives.
wine cask which holds $4,000 gallons, and
is the largest ever built, may be seen at
Maltermora, Cal. The steel hoops around it
weigh 10000 pounds
The tail feathers of the feriwah, rare
member of the bird of paradise family, are
the most expensive known, and the only
tuft existing in England is valued at $50, :
Co.,
Debtors in Siam, when three months in
arrears, can be seized by the creditors and
compelled to work out their Indebtedness
Should debtor run away his father, his
wife or his children may be held in slavery
until the debt is Cancelled.
An Alton Qll.) woman has started q cru
SADIE against men who will not work and
support their families She wants an ordi-
! nance passed requiring such men to be ar
rested and put at work on the rock pile with
wages. The money she would turn over to
the family for their support
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-23
Our Trip to Europe.

Paris, Dec. 15.-We arrived in Paris day be-
fore yesterday and have pretty nearly seen
the whole town. 1t is nicely situated the
banks Of the river Seine, In which the people
standing knee deep in the water accus-
toned to, wash their clothes. The church
called Notre Dame is quite remarkable. It
was built in 1886 by Clovis King of the
Franks, and contains the tomb of NJ. de
Legardt and the crown OF the early kings.
The sexton is we'll informed gentleman,
who speaks French like native. The Hunch-
back of Notre Dame, quite noted character,
lived in this vicinity. He was immortalziei
by Victor Hugo in his celebrated romance,
La Vie de Boheme.''
We lunched at the Quirinal to-day The
gay French crowds, in pursuit OF pleasure and
without serious thought in life, were sit
ting at their little tables on the grass outside
the building. slipping wine and flirting with
the table girls. 1t was to us a sorroWful
scene as we thought Of America and all the
friends at home and the dear old flag of our
country.
We have been down in the wonderful sewers
| under the great city. They are elegantly
| upholstered and brilliantly lighted. Seats
are provided in them here and there, with
Fairgrounds for. the children. >..
| Visited the Louvre and saw the picture Of
| the unfortunate Queen Marie Antoinette and
Arc de Triomph. The latter is crumblins
| away under the touch of time and is now
| kept in glass case.
The Quai Orsay is also wonderful place
The Bots de Boulogne were playing base.
! ball there and made tremendous racket.
! We also called at the hypnotic hospital
called the Saltpeterie. Here we saw people
who thought they were three people. One
man had been split up into four mental parts
| by the celebrated operators and was know
| as Jean Baptiste Z, Jean Baptiste H., and 81
on He was able to play on four nusica
| instruments at once and has also been cas-
for four parts in Coquelin's new play, lie:
! Oisseau du Commercial pronounced Lay:
| Wosso dee Comgmongsahl
We are expecting to leave for Marseilles to-
night Are having glorious time and very
| instructive one. But we never forget the
old folks at home no matter how far we rove
| Lovingly. Lucille, Mary l.. and Margaret.
| Translated by A. ]. Russell.
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The DANISH ISLANDS

The announcement that the treaty with
Denmark, providing for the sale of the
Danish West Indian islands, St. Thomas,
st. l1roix and St. John, to our govern
ment, will be signed this week at Wash
ington, suggests that the beet sugar peo
pie will have to do additional work in
their efforts to keep out sugar from Unit
ed States aDDurtenant territory. For
over thirty years, or since Mr.. Seward
effected a trade with Denmark for St.
Thomas and st. John for 81 $780, 900 which
was rejected by the United States senate,
the subject Of the purchase of the islands
has been coming Up every now and then
and has been brought to head now,
after some delay on the part of Denmark,
the price, as understood, for the three
islands being about s4,OOO,OoO.
The products of the islands are sugar,
coffee and indigo chiefly, and the popula-
ton OF the group is about 10000, st. Croix
having the largest population. Our gov
ernments main purpose in securing these
islands is to have the advantage of the
splendid harbor OF st. Thomas upon which
a clean and healthful and we'll built town,
lying along the slopes Of the mountains.
The Larbor is deep and broad and land
locked and offers perfect protection from
the tropical storms to vessels of the larg-
est size and draft. Business has been
dropping for some time on the islands for
the 1eason that the price Of sugar has
fallen and Europe affords no market now,
owing to the excessive production of beet
sugar there.
The contention of one party in Denmark
is that 1t is foolish to sell the islands to
the United States just as the isthmian
canal is going to be built, when the fact
that they contain the very best harbor in
the West Indies is considered, and on the
other hand, there is an element contend
ing that the sugar interest on the islands
cam only get market by the sale of the
islands to the United States.
Now that it is reported that the sale is
about to be contaminated, it is evident
that the Danish, French and American
sugar planters on the islands expect ia
turn into the United States the product
of their sugar fields. .......
The Danish islands naturally would be
expected to occupy the same trade rela-
lions with the United States that Porto
Rico does and enjoy free trade with this
country. While they are small in area
and the production of those islands is
comparatively unimportant, the acquisi.
ton Of the islands adds another reason
for liberal treatment Of the Cuban plant.
ers and would seem to emphasize the fac
that the American beet sugar people il
resisting all concessions to Cuba are only
fastening the time when Cuba hersel
will be brought into the same relation O.
free trade by annexation. Reciprocity
on the other hand, and moderate conces
sions, which there is reason to believe the
sugar men can afford to make, will de-
lay for time at least the annexation O
Cuba. And the beet sugar men tell IL.
that what they want is time, time IL
which to put their industry on it's feet.
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ADJUSTMENTS
Foyer Chat.

jefferson De Angels appears to have scored
O big success in his new operate comedy, ~
Royal Rogue now in its second season, and
the many admirers of this clever comic opera
comedian will welcome him in his new piece
during his engagement of four nights and
matinee at the Metropolitan, starting tonight
and closing Sunday evening. "A Royal
Rogue was written by Charles Klein, the
author of Gel CAPTAIN and the music, by
William T. Francis, is of a superior char
acter. .-
Isodore Witmark has furnished over score
Of musical numbers for the new operate
comedy, The Chaperons," in which Frank
L. Perley's immense organization will be seen
here at the Metropolitan for the entire week
beginning next Monday evening. Among the
most popular hits may be mentioned I'm My
Official Capacity by Harry Conor, the jovlal
comedian, so many years with the late
Charles H. Hoyt's musical farces; Somehow
1t Made Him Think of Home" by the inim-
liable Walter Jones; "My Low CO. by the
great buffo basso, Joseph C. Miron; "Milli-
merry Mary" by Marie Cahill; the artistic
comedienne; 'My Sambo," by the little SOU
brette, Eva Tanguay; 1--WE Are All Good
Fellows" a rousing number, by Harold Blake
and male chorus; and 1.-The Little Maid That
Couldn't Say No." by Nellie Follis. One OF
the comedy numbers making pronounced hit
is trio entitled 1.-THE Man Behind the
Scenes sung by Messrs. Conor and Miron
and Miss Cahill. 1t illustrates the mishaps
that sometimes occur behind the scenes to
mar stage performance.
"At the Old Cross Roads" the play to be
presented at the Bijou next week under the
direction of Arthur c. Aston, is a drama OF
southern life. The curse Of miscegenation is
its motif. 1t is said that the plot never al
lows the interest to flag, and that every ACT
closes with a thrilling climax.
Lost in the Desert, with it's picturesque
scenery, ingenious mechanical effects, star
thing climaxes and performing Arabs, is thrill
ing the patrons of the Bijou this week.
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The NonpareiL Man
Casually Observed.

/ The correspondents for the present have
Laid aside King Edwards cancer and are de-
voting themselves to his trousers and weskit.
Illinois prohibitionists are talking OF con-
vening at Peoria, where the distillery is. MIR.
Bryan's party will yet meet in a gold mine.
Some of the undertakes have grievance,
claiming that the city hospital diverts trade
in certain channels. They demand the abol-
ton Of the morgue. What is the matter
with the morgue eleven playing the under
takers eleven for the championship, thus
settling all rivalries? .@
When the doctor told Eugene Carter, the
biliardist, who died in Chicago last week,
that he could not live forty Eight hours, Mr..
Carter, who was sport TO the last, offered
to bet the doctor that he could. The. physi-
clan took the bet, and Mr.. Carter held on
sturdily and managed to live forty-nine hours.
The doctor felt very much depressed over his
bad luck, but it will certainly teach him a
sood lesson of the folly of betting.
THAT Tired Feeling is a game PCT up on
you. II you fall in with it and discuss it, it
will throw you down.
King Alexander of Servia may abdicate in
favor Of Prince Alexis Karageorgevich, who
sounds like the filing of a saw.
This is the time of year for the joyous
observance Of taxpayers day. Great is the
delight Of the man who catches "a $50 sewer
tax trailing its Shiny length across his tax
statement. 49,.
| The new labor mayor of Frisco instituted
| searching investigations into the conduct Of
several municipal officers, with the result
| that sweeping removals are being made. Ever
| the old lightning-proof officials are wearing
| rubber gloves. ..-
Sir Robert Ball, astronomer royal, stands
! in with the coal man and predicts another
glacial age. 1t may take several Thousand
years, however, and by that time we will keeI
warm by electricity manufactured by the
| government
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Elk President Cleveland strongly

Ex-President Cleveland strongly in
dorses the position of President Roosevelt
with regard to Cuba. Mr.. Cleveland is
not the only one who feels that the presi-
dent was right in recognizing the moral
obligation which this nation owes to the
people Of Cuba to afford them favorable
opportunities for trade with this country.
And, furthermore, those who are resisting
the establishment of moderate and rea-
sonable reciprocal trade relation are only
Fastening the day of Cuban annexation,
when free trade will be the condition OF
things
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could have reached out and touched the hem
OF her dress.
Poor little girl!' the nurse said sooth-
ingly.
"Gladys want mama!'
"Oh, mamma is asleep, dearie. Baby
wouldn't wake mama"
Mama, mama!'' pleaded the child AS
if in answer, from down the hail low sweet
voice called softly:
'Mama's coming, pet
In moment woman entered the room
and crossed quickly to the bedside. Reaching
| over. she kissed the feverish lips and fore
head. .
| "Mama's here, darling" The little arms
! reached up and were clasped about her neck
'Gladys loves mama" whispered the child.
Mama stay with baby?'
Yes, darling, mama will stay" She
| folded the babe in her arms and hushed her
| to sleep. Then she crossed the room to
| where the nurse sitting in silence.
! They whispered together in low tones The
figure beneath the bed was eagerly straining
| to catch every word.
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agery and all the government has done
for him has been wasted. It does not fol-
low that If the boy does not go back to
paint long hair and blankets, he will
profit by his education. But if he is not OF
the old Indians in these matters there will
be tendency for him to be not of them
in other matters.
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THE GERMAN SUGAR TRUST

In the sugar cartel the German empire
enjoys a trust that is more powerful than
any in the United States and, perhaps,
more ruthless. No American trust has
ever been so successful as has this Ger
man trust in holding the price of Its prod
uct far above that which free market con-
ditions would fix. .-
The people of Germany have to pay the
cartel 7k to 81 cents per pound for SUI
gar, or nearly three times what is charged
in England for the same grade of German
made sugar. This in spite Of the fact
that the visible supply of sugar in the
world is now 1926, 921 tons, against 1,407,-
1888 tons year ago. Frank H. Mason,
United States consul general at Berlin
has made highly interesting report on
the organization and the workings of the
cartel, which is able to keep up the price
of sugar in a time when such a price i'm
Germany, in view of the profound BUSH
ness depression and diminished wages. At
the same time, in view of the large stocks
on hand and the competition of Cuba,
Porto Rco the United States and Hawaii,
the price of raw sugar would naturally be
so low that 1.-The whole producing interest
would be desperate were it not for the
cartel" ...-..
This cartel is a secret working combi-
nation between the raw sugar factories
and the refineries by which high prices
are maintained for all sugar consumed in
Germany the profits from which, added
to the government bounty paid on exports
! enable the factories to pay proportion
ately high rates for beets, and at the
same time to sell their exported product
in foreign markets at prices with which
other nations find 1t difficult to compete.
The cartel is substantially a cdmbina-
tion of the entire sugar producing inter-
ests of Germany, from the beet raiser to
| the sugar refner, to force the consumer
| to maintain the profits of an overdone in
| dustry, which, in a free field, would be
| ruined. The combination of cartel and
| bounty has practically ruined the cane
sugar producing interests of the world
| No unaided industry can stand against
| such combination. AS long as the people
of Germany are willing to stand the ex-
pense of providing the rest of the world
with sugar at less than cost the sugar
makers of other countries, except as they
are defended by protective tariffs or
| bounties that will enable them to enjoy
their home markets, will have a desperate
time Of it. That is why Cuban sugar de-
mands preferential tariff from the
/, United States and why the English West
Indies are crying out to the imperial gov
eminent to defend them against the gov
ernment-aided sugars Of the continent OF
| Europe.
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There will be JOY on the Indian reserva-
lions when it is learned that Indian Com
missioner Jones order regarding the cut
ting of hair and the eschewing of paint
is intended to apply chiefly to the grad
yates of Indian schools. The Indian
school boy who goes back to blankets,
paint and long hair goes back to saw
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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

Meanwhile they must be taught the les
sons which prepare for the responsibilities
of enlightened self government, either as
a part of the union or as an independent
people.
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hut You Gan Wait ana See.
Red Lake Falls Gazet

The Minneapolis Journal says there is
deep laid plot to do up Governor Van SAINT
for denomination, and that Heatwole and
Dunn are into it. But you can't believe
everything you read in The Journal,
even though it is on the right side of the
merger proposition, and generally with the
people.
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CIRCUlATlON
OF THE-
MINNEAPOLIS
JOURNAL
Average for Eq Do
December. oss%a Az

The above is a true and correct statement
Of the circulation of The Minneapolis Journal
for dates mentioned.
KINGSLEY T. BOARDMAN,
Manager Circulation.
Sworn and subscribed to before thia
18th day Of January, 1902.
c. A. FULLER,
Notary Public, Hennepin County.
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RELIGIOUS BODIES OF THE UNITED
- STATES

The Rev. DIR. H. X. Carroll has compiled
some instructive figures affecting the reli-
gious statistics of the United States. Particu-
larly important is the following table showing
the growth during the past'yea Of the lead
ing churches in this country:
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Subscribers win please notify the
oHico In every case where their pa
pers are not Delivered Promptly,
or when the collections are not
promptly made.
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President Schurmann of Cornell uni
versity and member Of the original
Philippine commission, takes the ground
that the Philippines must ultimately
have national independence. Most per-
sons who have studied, the question will
agree to this OF else hold that ultimately
the possibility OF statehood must be open
to the Philippines. When they are pre-
pared for it they must be either sepa-
rate free people or a part of the Ameri-
can free people. But that's in the future.
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