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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
LOOKING SOUTHWARK

The National Association of Manufac-
meeting yet, but has deferred it until
next April, when it will take place in
New Orleans, where special attention is
to be given to trade with Mexico, Central
America and South America and the West
Indies, from which countries there will
come representatives. This association,
at it's meeting last year, failed to stand
by it's promise of giving cordial indorse-
ment to the principle of commercial reci
procity, to carry out its previously
aroused championship of our export trade.
This was such a disappointment to some
Of the manufacturers that they have Or
ganized National Reciprocity League,
in which seventy or eighty manufacturing
concerns are represented and a campaign
Of educa ton as to the advant age of reci-
procity treaties in procuring markets
abroad, is in progress. 49,. ..G.s. ,<@%s
It is to be hoped that the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers, before the
New Orleans meeting, will have made up
! its mind that export trade cannot be con-
tinuously and largely promoted unless the
trading is mutual The association has
recently moved it's headquarters from
Philadelphia to New York, where it is in
closer touch with the members and with
representatives of foreign Industries and
domestic buyers. -
At the present time the United States
is taking from the five central American
republics not many more goods than we
took ten years ago-s10, 1888, 663. Last year
we exported to Mexico $36, ,475,S $50, as
compared with s14,29S ,s99 in 1892. Our
trade with South America has fallen off
during the last few. years, for the simple
reason that Germany and France are
showing more practical interest in work
ing up trade for themselves there than we
have, although transportation facilities
with those countries are fairly good.
!. The Hamburg American Steamship
company in it's agreement with the Nor
gan syndicate has reserved the right to
start new South American lines, and 8
new steamship service has been start ed
monthly between New York and north
ern Brazil under this direction. The Ger
man company has distinct line run.
4 ming between Hamburg and northern
Brazilian ports. If we are to increase
our trade in Sout b America our exporters
will have to be as enterprising as are
4 Germany and France and Great Britain.
IN the July number Of the Bulletin O
the International Bureau Of. the Ameri
can Republics will be found many sug
gest ions to the effect that, If we do no
q bestir ourselves, our European competit
s ors will soon leave us far behind. soutl
& American countries are taking pains t,
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IN A NUTS1ELI.....
5 Interesting Agricultural Statistics

Of farms increased 256 per cent in the last
decade,
the north central division Of the the increase
5wast35.3 percent. IA .& .-'
center of tho number of United States
10 miles by south of St. Louis Wayne county 1
nois. s *fs&
Indiana. 1-@
The of value of farm property hirtynine miles
west northwest of Springfield, III. 49,
The center of investment in manufactures is ynine
miles south southwest of Cleveland Ohio
The center of corn production is -four miles south
west Of Springfield, Ill. r$t'
The center Of wheat production west of
Des Moines, Iowa. - -
The of production Of thirtyfour miles
north by west Of Jackson, Miss So. -
The center of the number Of farms westward
faster than the center of population.
The greatest westward movement that wheat
whose center Of production has in fifty thirteen
degrees-from northeastern Ohio western Iowa
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revenues are not sufficient to meet the
ordinary expenses and pay interest on
the loan as provided in the Plat amend
ment -
Mr.. j. NJ. Ceballos, of the New York
banking firm Of Ceballos & Co., states that
while $4,000, 900 would seem to be more
than the present economic situation would
warrant, it is a comparatively small
amount as a national debt for a country
as naturally rich as Cuba, provided "a
market is assured for the islands
products in the United States through
reciprocal trade relations.
Thus, naturally, the but" and the 'if'
turn us to the procuring cause of exist
ing bad conditions. The Cubans conf
IDENTIFY awaited favorable and liberal ac-
tion by congress, which they had a full
right to expect but nothing of reciprocal
trade advantage was received, and, as
sugar can't be produced at profit under
present conditions, it will be a great
hardship for the tax payers to pay inter-
est on a loan and government expenses,
too.
A treaty Oh reClpTOclty Will CuOd 10
said to have been virtually completed,
and the opinion is entertained at Wash
ington that the president will call the
senate in extra session in November,
giving that body a month in which to dis
cuss and ratify that treaty before the
beginning Of the regular session in De-
cember. If he does not do that, Cuba 8
needs will undoubtedly come before con-
gress at the short session and there is
reason to believe that the opponents OF
Cuban reciprocity have learned so much
about the sentiment fthe country on
that subject that they will no longer re-
sist reasonable concessions as to recip-
rocal trade.
We have spent three years in getting
Cuba ready for self government, and as
we are not ready now to guarantee her
loans, we will deserve the i'll favor with
which we are viewed in. that country If
we continue to withhold from her such
| commercial opportunities as will enable
her to maintain her independence. 1t
must not be written against us that we
gave Cuba her freedom only to force her
! in her despair to throw herself into our
arms through the process of annexation.
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The Way of Man. BY Morley Rob-
erts. Author of 1.-The Colossus, Etc. New
York: D. Appleton & Co.
This is story of incessant and varied ac-
ton, and a really good study Of the nature Of
woman and man. Meta Cardew, % and as
white and red as a daisy, bronze hair, blue
eyes, faultless figure and straight pine,
trimming with energy and ideas, told her
lover Jack Lawrence, that she would never
marry him unless he showed himself a man
and left his brokerage business. She was in
sistent and nagged him until, in desperation.
he started off night with party in a
boat to rescue people from a big steamer
which had struck reef near the little vii
lage where Meta lived. The boat was lost
but Jack survived and was taken up by ship
bound for Central America. Meta didn't find
this out for some time. and then she started
after Jack, thinking she loved him very
much When she got to the republic OF Ma
tanzara, in Central America. she struck a
revolution, got right inside of it, so to speak,
and, what Is more. won the heart of Juan
Gutierrez, president Of the republic, who had
to put down desperate swashbuckler. Fon-
SEGA by name, Meta being between the two
fires What of Jack? He fought under Fon-
SEGA and constructively against Meta. and
when he came face to face with the bronze
haired girl they were both conscious that,
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The idea Of calling an, extra session of
the senate in November to discuss bill
of fare containing the one dish of Cuban
reciprocity is good one. AS between
the house and the senate. the onus of the
blame for the foul neglect of Cuba lies
with the senate. The house passed bill.
The senate did not even consider one.
Called in special session to consider rec
iprocity treaty, the various kinds of sugar
senators would simply have to get to-
gether and give Cuba reciprocity of some
kind. We hope the, president will call
the senate in special session and, then
leave it to do something with the con-
seriousness that the whole country will
be watching it with the conviction that it
is wholly "up to" the senate.
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although Jack had proved himself a man, hs
wasn't, after all, the kind of man Meta cared
about marrying. Meta was but dream to
Jack Jack was a negligible quantity to
Meta. Meta could have married dozen fell
lows, for they wanted her badly, but great is
the mystery of a woman's love! She cluns
to the vanquished swashbuckler president OF
Matanzara through shot and she'll and wounds
and blood. The reader will find most real-
istic description of a Central American revo-
luton and most excellent bit OF character
sketching in the American consul and hia
wife. And Jack swore that all women are
frauds.
Taylor on Golf. Impressions Com
ments and Hints. By J. H. Taylor, Eng
lish Professional and Open Champion, 1894,
1895 and 1900. New York: D. Appleton q
Co. Price, $1.60 net. Postage, Is cents ad-
ditional
Mr. Taylor Is a standard authority golf
in England and his enthusiasm is tempered
by sound judgment. He played his first pro-
fessional match in the season of 1891 in
Somersetshire. At that time golf had not tbs
vogue it has now. The present premier Of
England, Mr.. Balfour, was an enthusiast al
far back as 1890 and the game became fash
ionable in a year or two Mr.. Taylor says
a good word for the Irish and Welsh links;
extols the Scots and rather disparages the
continental playing; gives an account of his
championship playing and commends Ameri-
cans for their zest in the game, and regrets
that English newspapers do not begin to
devote the space to the game that American
newspapers do, the latter recognizing that
the public are deeply interested in it as is
shown by the fact that it is difficult to ind
town Of any Importance where there are not
located golf links, and in many places
palatial golf club houses are found The
game. Mr.. Taylor thinks, is especially adapted
or Ann ,hn xt1I -
business and golf gives the needed exercise
to every muscle in the body. Mr.. Taylor
gives the championship OF America to w. j.
Travis, who, although an Australian by birth,
learned everything he knows about golf in
| this country. He accords to Miss F. C. Gris-
| com the lady championship. The book Of
course, is mainly given to hints and instruc-
tions about the game which will proyef of deep
interest to the men and women who are
singularly enthusiastic on the subject of
putting small ball in hole four inches
deep and four and three quarter inches in
diameter, with the smallest number OF
strokes. Thele are forty -eight full-page illus
| trations. .,,>g
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed.


A correspondent writes to ask why Alder
man Peter, Power, who is running for mayor
on the antimerger ticket. has fled to Montreal.
Can't tell. unless he found the temperature
too high just now.
Winona democrat has been found who
has "an aversion to Office This sentiment
has never been detected in our gallant young
leader from Nebraska @ -- @-1-@
Some Of the morning papers are horribly
worried over Chief Waite's appointment.
Never mind. They are open all day and till
midnight. anyhow. s"+s
The Kansas City real estate men fingered
lovingly in the ''hot room of the Turkish
bath last night. There's no place like
home"
Mr. Taylor would have been much sur
prised if he had been told that his falls were
to be used to light the stores and houses of
Minneapolis.
Towns around Chicago trying the smoke
plan on mosquitoes. It has worked pretty
will on the Charles. ....
| Mr.. 'Schoen thinks that the attorney general
did not act in diplomatic nor dignifed man.
ner. Possibly the gentemans memory of the
passage at arms is slightly blurred.
Several scientific gentlemen having proved
| by figures that it is impossible to make
flying machine, it is now about time for the
new aerial ship to appear. Just before the
! locomotive came forward, 1t was proved tha
! the thing was impossible. The same expert
ence was true of ocean navigation. 1T can
be done" is the cry, and then somebody goe:
| and does 1t.
Jones' report on wheat, predicting a smallel
crop than the average when everybody il
| expecting "a whale" is shock to the trade
| who Is trying to depress prices, but it makes
glorious reading to the farmer who has
little of the stuff in his bin waiting TO-
higher prices.
People who are too sick with tuberculos
to care what happens will be delighted t.
| learn Of the new Balloon Cure recommends,
by the faculty at Paris. All it is necessar.
to do is to place the sick party on his coucl
In a new family balloon costing say $50, 90
and, with good, tried aeronaut in charge
to rise to All altitude Of 10000 feet. Here tn
aeronaut drags his foot over the side AM
stops the balloon and the invalid takes tn
air, of which there is plenty in the vicinit,
that is quite rare. the welldone air OF tn
lower attitudes not being recommended. Ever.
sick person should be provided with a para
chute, so that in case of too great disturbanc
In the upper air currents it will be possible
for the invalid to unhook his parachute AM
drop gracefully down again to his sick cham
ber To take this cure good sturdy invalid
are required, and it might he we'll for tn
copsunptive to take a course at the gymna
sium on the flying rings as q preparation TO
tho strenuous balloon cure. At present, how
ever, the matter is all up in the air. but as 4
measure of precaution it might be well t.
have the upper air currents thoroughly sterll
lied and disinfected before their use.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
Record of advertising Of
Minneapolis papers tor
July, 1902. COILS:
Journal, Il issues 944
Tribune, 81 issues gil
Times, 81 issues .. III
HARD TO PLEASE ALL

All classes and conditions Of Minneapolis
citizens are now settling down and get
ting a good ready to express their
opinion of Mayor Jones' administration
by the time it. is few days old-say
week after Mr.. Waite, the new chief OF
police, is inducted into office. This is
something like snap judgment, but the
masses always delight in snap judg-
ments. They can revise them at their
leisure, but the earlier some sort Of a
conclusion is expressed the better.
The people who think that city should
be run about as Ames ran this one, which
was to give the vicious classes unlimited
privileges, the criminal classes special op-
portunities and the legal but dangerous
businesses a free field, will set up a
howl about Puritanism and New England
villages the moment the new administra-
tion begins to tighten the reins and apply
the curbs. The local weekly organ of
the Ames political estate is already TAX
ing that tack.
Doubtless they will have plenty Of op-
portunity to howl. 1t is safe to predict
accomplish anything else, Minneapolis
will be made an outwardly clean city.
Crooks of all kinds will be driven to
cover and kept there; "big mitt" men will
be unknown; evil resorts will be closely
;policed: gamblers will not be privileged
citizens; saloons will be forced to obey
police regulations. In general way, we
ortf tom
of evil that have lately been SO rank be-
cause Of absence or laxity of police regu-
lation, will promptly be repressed.
The ordinary home-staying~ citizen Of
Minneapolis little knows how much there
is to be done along these lines. A com.
petent observer, who is now making {
tour Of American cities to study socia
conditions, informs T e jour- a
that the environment of vice and tempta
tion which Minneapolis offers to stranger!
who drift into the worse parts of the cit!
surpasses anything that New York AM
Chicago or any other city he has visited
have to offer. Vice and It's boldness de
velop like lush weeds under such ia
vorable conditions as the constituencies
depraved Ames administration gave us.
But we suppose that no matter hoy
much Mr.. Jones accomplishes along thes
lines, he will get small thanks for it fror
some of our citizens, who will look sharp
ly to see whether any saloon is open O
Sunday Of whether any saloon closes a
1901 instead of IL, who will be more in
terested in Mr.. Jones' enforcement of Ger
tain laws than in the general salutary re
suits attained by his administration.
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Copyright, 1902, by McClure's Newspaper Syn
dicate. .-@t =.
The Thurstons were out in the hayloft re-
hearsing scene from "Bluebeard." Sud-
denly Molly exclaimed, Here comes father!
And quite If that was his cue to appear
Rev. Frank Thurston's head appeared in the
doorway. -..
Children" he said, "I wish you would &c
and see how poor Mrs. Smithers is to-day
I have to go in the other direction. There
is a poor woman who came to town last nigh
very i'll, with young child. She died be.
fore morning and left word for the English
priest to find good home for her child
She went to the Davis family, who had known
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her in the old country, but they are too poor
and have too many of their own to keep the
child. So I must attend to the matter at
once"
20. couldn't we take the child, daddy?"
said Polly.
I'm afraid not" said the Rev. Thurston.
''for the same reason that the Davses can't.
But don't forget to see how poor Mrs. Smith
ers is.''
I'VE won't Well all CO., said Molly. So
the busy parson went his way and his six
olive branches soon started up the road to-
ward Mrs Smithers
II suppose the reason daddy wants to know
how poor Mrs. Smithers is is because he
wants to know If she can afford to take the
poor little child" said Dummy Dee after a
season of thought.
why, Of course said Polly, stopping to
kiss him. "You dear child, to think about
that! I've been worrying about it myself,
but that's the very place, that great, big,
clean, shiny house, and just Mrs. Smithers
in it, of course "' r-*- --: 49,
"IIush!'' said Molly. Here we are. Won't
that dear little orphan have beautiful times
playing in the yard?" she continued, gazing
around the Immaculate lawn, that looked as
| though it had been washed and ironed, il
! was so smooth.
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The old city hall proposition affords. an
opportunity for some public-spirited citi
zen to come to the front and do a hand
some thing for Minneapolis by taking that
property off the hands of the city and
converting it into public bathhouse. A
bathhouse in that locality would be a
better investment than a church, a school
or library, and the man who establishes
it will be a benefactor with big "B.'
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
They Read. the Budget, Too,

Bede's Budget.
La Toilette won out in Wisconsin, as we
thought he would. The stalwarts started in
to do up Pompadour Bob by securing con-
troll Of the leading papers of the state They
overlooked the fact that the people Of north.
ern Wisconsin, read the twin city papers, and
the people of southern Wisconsin get most
of their reading matter from Chicago. And
the outside papers were solidly for Bob. He
is loved for the enemies he has made. and
for the laws he is trying to enact. Let the
good work 60 on IN / Its4r! ~
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12

One advantage Of being on the financial
easy street, as the Minnesota state gov
ernment always is, is that the schools of
the state can always get loans, at a low
rate of interest and without bowling down
has just issued statement showing that
state loans made to public schools nov
amount to s1.722,ooo. These loans are
doubtless responsible for. an Improvement
in the material equipment of our: public
schools that would have been absolutely
impossible without them.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12

The Columbia Heights Monte Carlo
may be beyond the reach Of the authori
ties of Hennepin county and the city of
Minneapolis, but to assume that it is to
be continued undisturbed is to charge
the officers of Anoka county with that
sort of thing which has been pretty we'll
rooted out of Minneapolis during the last
three months, and which can be rooted
out Of Anoka county If the governor finds
| it necessary to take a hand. =
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negotiate commercial treaties with Eu-
rope, We have recently commit ed the
very bad blunder of refusing to effect
reciprocity treaty with Cuba to give her he
very small advantage of a discount of 20
per cent on our duty on raw sugar. 1t
was piece of un-American stupidity.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
u.MA,s sL1PpER NEEDED
indianapolis News.

..How sharper than serpent's TOOTH, etc.
the old axotation comes naturally to mind
when one reads Of Alfonso of Spain's attitude
toward his mother. The Dowager Queen Ma
ria ruled over the boys country for him;
"a reeuarded his interests and cherished him
with all love, and now the youngster has got
safely into power, he is talking of dismissine
his mother from the palace. What Alfonso re-
ally needs Is q spanking.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12

Opponents of the primary. election sys-
tenn still chortle and chuckle over the
Ames scandal and collapse as product
Of that system. They conveniently forget
that Ames was three time mayor of Min
neapolis before the primary election sys-
tenn was dreamed Of. Why do they not
remember, too, the various unfaithful
sheriffs and city treasurers the old city
system of convention nomination gave us
with their $5OO,OOO Of wasted and squan-
dered and embezzled public money?
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-12
DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY OF TARIFF


The growing numbers of republicans who
believe that the existing tariff must be
revised may not have their ardor cooled,
but they probably will have their i'm
petuosity checked by such matter as the
Walter Wellman interview with mem
ber of the cabinet. "
No doubt the task of securing revision
of the tariff by the republican party is
a mighty one. AS party lines are drawn
to-day, 80 per cent, probably, of the capi-
tai that would be affected by tariff
change is owned by members Of the re-
publican party. Self-interest is a great
power in politics as we'll as elsewhere.
Nothing but a tremendous moral feeling
can beat it.
AS Mr.. Wellmans cabinet member
points out, the interests that prevented
the incidental alteration of the tarff
through reciprocity treaties ought to be
powerful enough to prevent straight re-
vision, without any compensating advan-
| tages in foreign markets. Yet this point
suggests that it is by the way of rec
| iprocity rather than direct revision that
| we must expect tariff alterations to come
| through the instrumentality of the repub-
| lican party. But not even in that. way
will we get the desirable end If no section
| or interest is prepared to sacrifice any
part Of it's own petty advantages under
the present tariff The theory of rec
iprocity Is that it secures general com
mercial advantage that profits the country
as a whole even if the dolls eyes indus
try is knocked into a cooked hat in the
process. ~. :.~
Our Iowa friends, for example, ough
to be prepared to take "a reduction in the
duty on live stock when they talk tariff re
duction, being confident that broadenet
foreign markets will compensate them fo1
a little added competition in the home
market. Es.>
But the fact that tariff revision AM
reciprocity may be difficult is not sufh
cient reason why it; should not be under
taken carefully and in good faith. Tha
way lies the continuation of Commercial
growth. 1--WE must not repose in fan
cied security that we can forever sci
everything and buy little or nothing,
said Mr. Mckinley, and the truth Of hi
admonition is not dimmed by the tre
mendous difficulties which stupid an.
blind selfishness may interpose
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The Minneapolis assessment has been
raised "a per cent. Now let the board of
tax levy raise the levy tenth part of a
MILL if 1t dare. The rate got all the rails
ing it is entitled to year ago. A little
lowering will be in order.
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couldn't repair the roof when it rained.
Mr.. Mcconnell proposes to have improve
ments made now. In the name of all low
ers of clean milk and cream we wish him
success
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We are glad to see that State Dairy
Commissioner Mcconnell doesn't propose
to let the twin city dairymen work the
Arkansas traveller see-saw on him any
longer. It seems that when the atten-
tion of the dairymen is called in the sum
mer time to the necessity for improve
ments S in the barns and grounds they don't
make them because they are not immedi-
ately ,needed-just as the Arkansas ma
tive didn't mend his roof when the sun
was shining, because he didn't need to.
In the winter when his attention is
called to the necessity of improvements
the dilatory dairyman points out that the
ground is frozen and he cannot make the
ichanges,just as the Arkansas native