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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-16

and candidate for president of the United
States on the silver issue, now president
of the Charles y. Towne company and
engaged in the oil business; Franklin w.
McCutcheon, of the firm Of HornbloWer,
Byrne, Miller & Potter, lawyers; Charles
NJ Palmer, one-time proprietor OF the
Northwestern Miller, publisher of the
Minneapolis Tribune, and otherwise in
terested here. now New York publisher;
Don H. Bacon president of the Tennessee
Coal. Iron and Railroad company, and
William B. Keyser, cashier of the Mer
chants National bank, and treasurer of
the committee.
These. however, are only a few of the
men eminent in the financial, commercial,
legal and railroad circles of New York
who have at one time or another been
residents of this state and are entitled
to describe themselves as formerly Of
Minnesota
We feel rather proud of this Minnesota
crowd in Gotham where they seem to
stack up" we'll with the other western
men who run things there, but that they
should be guilty Of such a grievous Of
Tense as to describe themselves as Min
nesotians," will be natural source of re-
greet to all Mnnesotans.
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Trespasking Shortcuts.

To the Editor of The Journal:
Just at present the newspapers are paying
complimentary remarks to the children of our
world famed city for their work in beautify-
ing the parks and school grounds.
1t occurs to the writer that we have many
grown people who might, with credit to them,
take few elementary lessons from these lit
tie children and stop their destruction of
property. I refer to the needless and destruc-
tive habit of walking through private lawns
and vacant lots, which they neither live upon
nor own.
Minneapolis, like all cities and towns, has
streets and alleys sufficient to reach any part
of it without employing the destructive as
well as undignified habit of trespassing. The
distance these trespassers save is but a few
feet, and consequently quite unnecessary.
Suppose that each adult and child in Min
neapolis were. to get lawless as to the indi
vidual rights Of others property, and go
-tranlping through lawns, how would our city
look in a very short time? Nice lawns en-
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OTHER PEOPLES NOTIONS
The Philippine Situation.

To the Editor of The Journal:
In Thursday evenings urna you
headed Major Gardeners report as civil gov
ernor of the province of Tayahas in the island
of Luzor, Here's Food for 'Aunties' - And
in later date you have very thoughtful,
sensible and patriotic editorial on the "Signif-
!csnce of Major Gardeners Report, which you
conclude as follows: In the meantime the
government owes it to the public to keep it
we'll informed. The people are entitled Z,
know the whole truth regarding the Philip
pines, pleasant or unpleasant" If the food"
you mean Major Gardeners report was news
to'aunties" you mistake for most intelligent
"aunties' knew Of the facts set out in Major
Gardeners report months ago, but they got
their information from ether papers than thu
dailies of Minneapolis. But if you mean.
which is more likely, that the facts them
selves were "a delicious morsel,' you again
mistake. One Of the reasons, though not the
chief reason why most "aunties" are SO
radical in their opposition to our govern
ments Philippine policy is because they are
saddened by facts such as Major Gardener re-
lates and because they wish that our beloved
country should be saved from the disgrace
which attaches to conduct by our army, such
as Major Gardener mentions. Had T h e
our a and other newspaper supporters
Of the administration Philippine policy dur
Ing the laSC LnfGe years CONSIDERED 1t their
duty and acted on it, as T h J u.r n |
now says it is the duty of the government
to keep the people informed as to the facts
Of the Philippine situation, we would have
been spared the humiliation and disgrace of
having to read, as We do from the official
report of the governor of the province CT
Balangas, Luzon, that disease and famine
following in the wake of war in that province
have in the last year reduced the population
from 100000 to 100000 inhabitants
But since the purpose of our government to
acquire and keep the Philippines became
known, the newspaper and other supporters
of that policy, from the highest official of the
government down. have inlulged in an
amount of MISREPRESENTATION, suppression and
silence as to the facts of the Philippine situa-
ton, such as rarely if ever before, have
been employed in the support of any other
political policy in the history of the world
AS soon as the people know the facts they
will put an end to the infamy of the present
situation For the majority of the American
people mean to do right especially when, as
in this case, it does not pay financially to do
otherwise.
| trust T h e ] urnal will do what it
can to help the people to know the whole
truth regarding the Philippines, pleasant and
unpleasant. 1t can do not greater public
service Lewis r. Larson.
Minneapolis April -. 1902
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Copyright, 1902, by the S. S. Mcclure Com


The old red brick mansion stood up primly,
It's harsh outlines OF uncompromising square
hess half hidden by riot of Gueder roses
that climbed and threw long green arms of
loneliness around the small diamond panes
OF the windows. straight box-bordered
path led down to the gate through an avenue
OF beeches, where the sunlight fell in lance
riffs down upon the blue grass fresh with
the green of May-Maytime in old Kentucky
In the year Of our Lord 1885, Beyond the
rustic gate broad, white road ran from
east to west.
Those We're strange professions that wound
along the great highroad. the artery of trade
from the east over the Alleghenies to Ken
lucky and the southern country that lay be-
yond in the gateway of the wilderness-long
trains of white covered wagons filled with
medley of women children household
goods with their escorts of stalwart men On
horseback. Already the hegira to the west
had commenced, often tribe of Choctaws
bound for the wigwam of the great father,
grim, dusk faces under nodding plumes, ami
mated bundles, with smaller bundles bound
to their backs, astride of the ponies, silent as
ghosts, and passing, always passing, up the
long white road.
Twice each day, with the long tan-tara- ra-
IA Of the bugles and the rattle of whip and
hocf, came the stage coach, a flash of color
from east to west, and again the quiet OF
earth and sky.
Over the hills, whose DIM blue line en-
comprised her world around the chld's heart
went each day with the dying echo of hoof
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-16
SPINACH AND SAND

''The French. who eat with their brains,
say that spinach is the broom of the stom-
ach. 1 wonder queries Victor Smith, gt'what
kind they have in ia Belle France? In New
York the weed we call spinach would consti-
tute the knife and fork of gallinaceous bipel
as well as its digestive apparatus. That is,
there is enough sand in basket of spinach
in the market to restock the craw and gizzard
Of a barnyard rooster. A miserable little
handful of this silicated, moth-eaten stuff is
sold for Is cents. When cooked it makes a
dab that will about fill an average sized
kitchen spoon To wash it requires the cook 5
entire afternoon: still it is gritty. Now, hers
is chance for an enterprising young man
to make a Rockefellerian fortune; let him
sell washed spinach to householders, guaran-
hteed free from sand and vermin. Make a
speciality of the product. In few years the
newspapers will dub him The Spinach King, ;
and his fame will endure.
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The way real estate in southeast MIN
neapolis is advancing is one of the most
remarkable features Of the present actlv-
ity in the real estate market-if the his
tory of the Islander piece is a good critic
rion. The price on this property was
marked up so rapidly that it was irpos-
sible to stop the elevating process long
enough to make a deal. Not long ago this
lot was held at $3.50. When the univer
sity wanted to buy it up it went to $4,000.
Before the regents could produce the
money it went to $4,000. Again the re-
gents put their hand in the university
pocket, but before they could extract it
the price had jumped to $4,000 The re-
gents made Wild effort to capture the lot
at that figure, but before they could close
the deal it had gone up to $5,000 with
notice that it was on It's way to $4,000.
What more conclusive proof could there
be of the lziting tendency of Minneapolis
real estate?
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Persecution in Free America,

To the Editor of The Journal:
While, passing along First avenue between
Washington and Third street. an individual
handed me red card on which was printed
in black letters the following words: ''This is
Chinese restaurant. Please keep
out and help organized labor 1t
seemed to me that l had gotten
into land of persecution. where the
people had never heard of constitution, nor
ever realized that we, the American people,
are supposed to and are in duty bound to do
justice to the humbest mortal within the
bounds of our domain. regardless u where
they may have been born OF how they may
have been educated or trained. If organized
labor seeks to gain sympathy in this way
they certainly make a very bad mistake, espe-
cially when they already have more work than
they can do at very good wages. It behoves
the authorities of the city to see that these
peoples rights are respected, remembering
that If the average American was treated in
such a manner somebody would be apt to re-
ceive a charge of duckshot in that part Of his
anatomy where it would be lkel? to do the
most good. Citizen
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nance the value of property and certainly
make tho surroundings beautiful and pleas
ant to the owIsr, tenant or passerby.
1t is certainly very discouraging to work
with the intent to make a lawn have SEM
blance of care and then have this work an
initiated by this trespassing habit 1t should
be the pride of every citizen to wish to see
lawns in as tasty order as possible, and re-
spect whatever work mas been done to put
them in the order they may be in by using
only the streets and alleys that have been
designed for travelling, and in which any
law abiding citizen has right Unsightly
Cow paths made by trespassers through
occupied or vacant property do not make a
city attractive, or recommend the people who
live in 1t to strangers, who are sure to notice
the lawless disorder of things Euclid avenue
in Cleveland is much talked of for it's beauty,
and Is admired by the passerby as we'll as the
owners; but this avenue would certainly not
be the mark of civilization it is, were lawless
people to tramp its beauty into the earth.
w. E.. Norton.
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PROMISES ARE CHEAP; ACTS COUNT

Til 9 J urnal S Washington CORE
spondent to-day calls attention to a fact
that has been too much overlooked-that
the Dingley law duties were placed so
high because it was expected that the
reciprocity treaties, reducing those duties
20 per cent, which the law itself aut hor-
ICES, would soon be negotiated. Five years
have gone by, the treaties are still I'M
ratified and the American people are
standing the heaviest tariffs in their his
tory, many of them now archaic as pro-
tective duties.
Senator Hanna says that such has al
ways been his understanding of the law
Representative GrOsvenor takes the same
view and il was probably President Nc
Kinley's view.
Still the senate does nothing and the
house is having terrible struggle, even
to pass the special act for Cuba.
Apropos of Cuba, it is noteworthy that
Senator Hanna says that on the way to
Buffalo the late president told him that
under profound moral legations to es-
tabli5h trade relations with Cuba that
would be highly advantageous to our
leland ward. The assassin's bullet GER
tainly spared Mr.. Mckinley a great
grief. 1t saved him the spectacle of a
congress. in the new era OF reciprocal
trade which he SO gladly welcomed al
Buffalo, utterly failing to measure up to
its duties.
How much longer will the country fail
to get up to the plane of craftsmanship
the late president had reached? The talk
is all about doing something in the next
congress, or, possibly, in the short SEES
sion of the present congress. But why
not now?
Belated efforts to carry out reciprocity
promises in the short session will not
keep the country from going democratic
this fall. II it does go democratic, the
republicans will have no chance to revise
the tariffs in the next congress. 1t will
then be in the hands Of it's enemies.
What is wanted is action now.
At least let the senate have the politi-
cal sagacty, il. nothing more, to adopt
the reciprocity treaties
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AS OTHERS PRETEND TO SEE U.s.

One of the arguments in use by Cana
dian immigration officials, who are doing
their best to attract settlers to the broad
prairies of their west, is that Canada is
-eminently land OF law and order.
and the possible settler is pretty broadly
given to understand that the chances for
preserving life and property in the Ca
madam west are much better than across
the line.
From some of these arguments one
might infer that the whole of the United
States was a region in which the criminal
law had broken down, where anarchy
reigned and whence the people We're flee
ing in the fear of violence.
The same conception Of civil disorder
in the United States exists in ENGLAND.
An Englishnnan now residing in Mime
arOliS says that when he left England he
was compelled at first to settle in Canada
through the fears of his wife, who was
certain that, being a man of quick tenn
per, he would soon be shot in such a dis
orderly country as the United States.
United States the wife has lost somewhat
of her absurd notions.
The foundation for this exaggerated
claim by the Canadians is to be found in
the admittedly superior manner in which
in mining communities and new regions
the Canadians have preserved the peace.
In the United States a period of disorder
and a reign Of crime have been accepted
as the inevitable. concomitants of new
mining community. In Canada splendid or
der has been preserved. in the newest
and most distant regions. This difference
is due to The fact that in the newest
regions the Dominion government takes
upon itself the duty of preserving Or
der and Utilities for that purpose the
Northwest Mounted Police, superb body
OF men. In this country everything, eX
cept martial law be proclaimed, is left
TO the local authorities, who are nat
urally not very likely to be efficient in a
new and raw community. In the southern
states We have, of course, the undeniable
crimes by and against negroes, which can
not be explained away.
But it is to the inhabitants of such
states as Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri Kansas and Nebraska that the
Canadians look for most of their settlers.
In those stat es order is as well preserved
and life and property are as secure as
even where the mounted police are SUI
preme. In fact, now, throughout the
whole of the United States, excepting some
Of the southern states, where the race
problem is a serious one-even in distant
Nome-order is as we'll maintained as in
Canada. Violent crimes occur in all ma
tions. 1t is not the exception, but the
rule, that interests us. Recently there
have been some particularly atrocious
murders committed in Manitoba. They are
no more a reflection On the spirit of law
and order that obtains in that province
than is an occasional murder in Minneapo-
lis an indication that this is not a good
city to live in. ...
For the Canadians to continue to talk
about their superior administration of
justice does them 10 good, for the Ameri-
can farmer knows what full meas sure of
protection he enjoys, and it merely serves
to keep alive an unjust generalization.
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Mr.. Rosing is very pleasant gentle
man, but if he finds himself regarded as
merger candidate for governor in the
approaching campaign he can blame his
Jefferson day banquet speech for it in
part His Indulgence in wholesale and
contemptuous denunciation of the head Of
the present administration is incompat-
ible with any theory except that Mr.
Rosing is out Of sympathy with Governor
Van SAINTS antimerger policy and if the
people of the state get that notion Mr.,
Rosing will have trouble in even getting
the nomination of his party although he
may succeed to that extent under certain
conditions
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traordinary demands on the treasury have
as the beginning Of preferential sys-
tenn whereby the products of British
colonies will be given assistance in the
British markets. 1t would not. be sur
prising to see the tariff remain as against
the non British world, while completely
removed in favor of the parts of the en-
plre. Once experience has proved to-
British statesmen that the people of the
United Kingdom will endure tariff on
all wheat and -four, they will probably
be quite willing to experiment with an
imperial policy which will call upon them
to stand tax on only apart of their
imlortations of that kind.
This view is taken on the assumption
that the imperial feeling will outweigh
the business is business idea which has
so long dominated English economic
legislation. The Englishman is patriotic
enough, but for sixty years now he has
felt that he has an indefeasible right to
buy in the cheapest market without the
interference of tariff of any kind. 1t
e
posed is too small to be essentially pro-
tective, yet in the discrimination in favor
of wheat it is undoubtedly designed to
be protective tc the English miller. and
it provides the foundations upon which
may be reared political system that will
involve the protective or discriminative
idea in the creation and regulation OF
tariffs. Itdmay be that the spirit of Cob
den and John Bright is still strong enough
to open the door again, but it is to be
feared that England, no longer the
worlds manufacturing monopolist. con
fronted by hostile tariffs everywhere, may
decide to take a hand at the game.
The Importance Of such policy to
Americans is shown by the eagerness with
which our millers inquired as to whether
the new tariff applies to all the world or
only to the non British countries
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The NonpareiL Man
Casually Observed.

II turn about Is fair play speaking of the
it not be proper for a lot of men to riot
around and try to kiss Miss Stone after her
lecture on 'Brigands Have Met"
The avaricious man can now sell his new
house at profit and remain in drifting
turniture-packing, uncomfortable state for
several years.
Chile has ordered two s5,ooo,OoO battleships
OF 12,O0G tons each When the time comes
Chile will be able to use silver polish on her
old friend Argentine
politicians are now playing ping pong with
the Philippine facts, in which it is claimed
that the quality of mercy referred to by
cur everlasting poet, is slightly strained.
The Missouri mule dealers, foreseeing the
wars end, are staggering humanity by ad
vancing mule prices with steady hand and
an intieXible purpose.
Senator DepeW, needing a little exercise,
asked the southern senators what they meant
by cheating the negro out of his vote. The
roar that arose kept the Defender of the
American Girl busy for several sessions OF
wasted time.
Butte paper roasts Ralph Wheelock for
calling Butte an "unholy city Yet any
one who called it a holy city would be called
down, too. 1t is hard to satisfy everybody.
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A FAITHFUL CHANGE OF Policy

The action OF the British ministry in
per hundred on wheat and Of five pence
per hundred on flour is of tremendous
import to Americans. It makes us hear
part of the burden of the Boer war and
IL looks like the thin edge of the wedge
that is to change the historic economic
policy of the United Kingdom, which has
now been in force since thatsudden reyo-
luton in British politics when Sir Robert
Peel, elected to sustain the duties on
corn, decided to sweep them away.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson gives
it as his opinion that at least half the
duty On -four and wheat will come out of
the American producer in the form of a
lower price for wheat. If that be true
it is equivalent to making the American
farmer pay part of the bill incurred by
the British in subjugating the farmers Of
South Africa. Throughout this war the
United States has been the base of sup
plies for the British army American
meat and American flour have fed the
British army, American mules and Amer
lean wagons have hauled its supplies and
hardy American horses have enabled
Kitchener to mount his men and chase
the Beers with speed equal to their own.
For all these supplies flood of British
gold has poured into the country and it
has protited us much. Now, through the
new tariff, we may be compelled to re-
turn to the British part Of our gains
But Of deeper significance to Americans
Ii this is the fact that conceal it as
Sir Michael Hicks Beach may, the foun-
tectiye system. It may be many long
year before the tariff on wheat and flour
will be removed. When the present ex-
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BOUND TO SHOW HER AUTHORITY

"nhe badge of authority, when vested in a
woman, seems to possess her whole SOUL -
sad a ell-knoWn Philadelphia man, who re-
turned the other day from a sketching tour
through Mexico. During my stay in the
City of Mexico. I went out one Sunday to see
a bull fight. It's the proper thing to do, you
know. All the American tourists go. Seated
very near me i'm the raised benches of the
amphithester was a Philadelphia woman,
whom l know by sight as an enthusiastic
member of tho Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals. She is one of those who
insist upon showing a badge every time a.
driver uses a whip on a balky horse, and de-
manding his arrest. Well she had her little
badge on all right, and when the fight be-
tween the bull and the picadors became pretty
hot, she jumped UP in her seat and demanded
that it be stopped. Stop this at once!' she
shouted. waving her arms. sit down, Maude;
and don't make q id fool of yourself ex-
claimed her husband. But she insisted upon
having her own way. 4 ann a member of the
PENNSYLVANIA Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals! she declared waving the
lapel of her coat that contained the button.
4 demand that this butchery shall cease.
Everybody laughed at her, ard. after "a while,
she went out, taking her husband with her. -