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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-15
And English Literature. Too

The English papers are still comment ,
Ing upon the American invasion" Some
OF them are very cross about it; Others
are becoming reconciled and even optim Z
istic. The London Mail says:
The invasion OF the English market
oy American authors is an entirely new
feature In the publishing world. and one
which few years since would have been
ridiculed as Uncomfortable. But a twelve
month sufffces across the water to effect
a revolution. and the last decade has
seen one. The change may be referred
In the first instance, to the copyright act.
which. by the irony Of fortune, has sub
merged the people it was intended to
benefit There Is this season scarcely 4
day In which one publisher or another
does not dish up for us some American
writer Ten or twelve years ago this was
unknown. Not content with capturing
our tubes and our shipping, America
has designs upon our literature
That is to say. American authors are
more and more capturing English readers,
who may be now numbered by the hun
dred thousand, although Sydney Smith in
his day asked: In the four quarters Of
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-15

money for all legitimate purposes, and
Minneapolis rates We're, even a shade lower
during the week. There is good business
in the jobbing lines. in lumber, and in
retail trade, although colder weather is
desirable for the latter. The trouble
brewing on the western railroads has sub
sided. The Burlington granted an in.
crease in wages. In the east the great
Pennsylvania system announced an ad-
vance Of 10 per cent that will affect 10000
employees.
There is the old story Of lack of fuel
In places and car shortage in general.
Minneapolis feels the car shortage less
than other western centers, and while the
local mills recently broke every record by
the production of 44S. 10 barrels Of flour in
a week and the. volume OF outgoing freight
every day IS ,enoromus, there is not much
complaint heard Of inability to secure
prompt service.
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thirty years ago entered the field to over
come free competition and actualize their
theory Of combination and monopoly, or
ganizing what has since turned out to be
the most perfectly organized trust and
monopoly-promoting machine in the
world, all others being imitators- of Stand
ard Oil company's methods. 1t is Miss
Tarbell's purpose to write a complete
history of the process by which this COM
pany has rooted itself irremovably, appar-
emily, in this country as monopoly, and
is extending its operations abroad, in
spite Of the most strenuous and contin-
uous assaults by legislatures, political
parties and courts. Miss Tarbell bases
her statements upon a mass of documen-
tary material touching long investiga-
tons of the Standard and her story will
bring out, doubtless, all the most inter-
esting details of the most desperate strug-
gle ever made between the principles OF
competition and combination and be
most valuable contribution to our litera-
ture of economics. az
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IN a NUTSHEIL.....


Dispatches from have indicated that the Cubans
consider themselves much less dependent the United
states this than they last because of the
creased OF this of this
affairs some pto-dae estimates interesting
These are furnished In the Of Henry W. Diederch
United States consul at Bremen. r. r.. -
Gieseker the noted Belgian statistician the
first to issue estimate this He the
sugar crop at 5,S500O0 tons distributed as follows:
Germany 1880 600 TONS Austria 900; France $50
Russia 900: Belgium, 2150Oo; Holland 100000
countries, 100000. '''&i' Z Is &. s%&%
If GeseAer is right, the sugar 1908 will
tons less than last years and the smallest
crop since 1S98-99, when it little than
tons But Gieseker is generally considered
and the estimates of Otto Leich the veteran
satistician, considered
puts this years worlds beet
roundy. million less than last
1S99-1900 1t is thought however, that the
be considerably than either
at The decline in production is cool,
wet and also to the deliberately
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-15
Off With the Old, On With the New.

t It was we'll to make the last council
meeting in the old city, hall a memorial
meeting The "reminiscences. the history
do much to give the younger generation
an uplifting view OF the work of the
founders OF the metropolis Of the north
west. The greatest lack of q new city
is the absence of city history and tradi-
lions. of standard of past achievement
that must be measured up to by the pres
ent generation, Of a fair name that all
sons and daughters Of the city feel must
suffer nothing by their deeds. --
Even the most scientific historian likes
to use milestones in history, and in the
imagination of the people history Is moth
ing but such marks, Some day the aban-
donment of the old city hall will be looked
upon as the end of the first era in Min
neapolis history, and the occupancy Of the
new city hall as the beginning Of a second
era. The change from the old to the new
comes only two years after the city passed
the 200, 900 population mark. and from
being one Of the medium sized cities Of
the country entered the rank Of the great
cities. -
The difference in the two municipal
buildings more than graphically presents
the change. The old city hall was built
when the most sanguine hardly expected
a population Of $4,000 by the end Of the
nineteenth century, yet it was made to
do service when the city was approaching
a quarter Ola million inha bitants. There
It stood, the, same little gray limestone
building, anchored o.tile city, past, as it
We're While the center OF business de-
serted itsand moved to the west and the
city expanded and grew until what had
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DAILY DIVERSION

No OH In Ex-senator Daniel of Virginia
was at one time counsel for small south
ern railroad. At point on the line where
it crossed a prominent highway they had
an old negro Waterman, whose duties con-
sisted In warning travellers of the approach
Of trains. One night a farmers wagon
was struck causing bad accident. The
railroad company was of course sued for
damages, and at the trial the old darky
was the chief witness for his employers.
He answered the questions put to him In
a clear direct manner Among them was
the query as to whether he surely swung
his lantern across the road when he saw
the train coming, to which he replied:
2: Deed I did, Sah."
The railroad company won the suit and
Mr.. Daniel took occasion later to compli-
ment his witness on his excellent testi-
mony. The old fellow was profuse in
thanks, but before they parted bluntly
said:
1.ordy, Marse John, sho' was skeered
when dat lawyer gin ak me bout de Ian
tern. I was afeared he was goin' to ak
II 1t was lit or not, cause de oil in it done
give out some time before de axident',
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The Irish Discomfort.

A London cable announces that King
Edward, who has been studying Mr.
Wyndham's Irish land bill with some as
stduity and does not altogether like it, will
visit Ireland himself next spring and take
some observations Of Irish conditions.
Perhaps If the king began his short-range
studies now at close range, on 1.-The old
folly of enforcing the coercion act that
he would use his royal influence upon the
parliamentary majority's leaders to drop
the coercion policy, which has been bru-
tally tried for centuries, revise the Wynd-.
ham land bill literally, and cease trying
to make Englishmen Of Irishmen, cease
in the. full light of the twentieth century,
essaYing Russian methods in a Kingdom
which Is said to be- superlatively blessed
with British constitutional liberty The
king has the opportunity Of his life to
immortalize himself
Just now the cable brings news Of a
fresh attempt by the government to de-
stroy the United Irish, League by arresting
and failing Irish nationalists on the
charge. OF disturbing and intimidating the
public nind.,' gSSs Us. IS So #
England, since the, landing of Strong
bow on the Irish coast to conquer it for
the crown, has sought to govern ireland,
by coercion. The Irish retaliation in
agitation for home rule, not always judi.
cious, but persistent Is likely to con-
tinue until the land question, not settled
blythe acts Of 1870: and 4 ss1, and adminis-
trative reform, only partly accomplished,
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Letters to Goo Goo,

Now and then some man neglects to
make good and as a punishment his love
letters are read aloud in court and sent
all over the country by telegraph. II
there is anything that takes the molasses
out Of an old love letter it is the public
reading in the presence Of the court.
Even the man who thought it was liter
airy gem when he first penned it to little
Goo-goo Brighteyes, fails to see the liter
airy finish in it when the opposition lawyer
hee-haws It out in the courtroom in the
presence of six or eight horse-hair law
yers made out OF whalebone and india
rubber. and a dusty judge with about as
much emotion in his soul as fried egg.
Decidedly the wrong place for tootsie-
wootsieism is the dingy old courtroom
with no flowers and no brio -a-brac ex-
cept the spittoons with the date 1872 en-
bossed on them.
If every man who is to-day ling to
Goo-goo would read it aloud with a
crowded and joyous courtroom in his
minds eye, he would take the advice of
Mr.. Weller and "chuck it,
Tell her all about tin the twilight if
necessary-but if any stenographer at
tempts to get your language down on pa
per, reach for the ak.
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trust.
The worlds estimated at 900 TONS
against 3362605 tons for last the column
with $4,000 tons compared with 3 the preceding
The American mainland (Iouisianal third
with 425o0o tons. Java being with 725,0O0
Hawaii fourth with 34O 900. FYa a.f.s s. ffz1: &.
The stock Of hand Sept. was 10000
Adding these to this seasons beet crop
and the s47oo 900
put at 111200O0 tons The worlds consumption Of sugar
last 685 TONS
that Of the previous Taking years
100000 TONS the total consumption will be about
tons. leaving surplus Of about million
The worlds production has increased eight
in sixty years. ..a
The British are the largest capita of
taking 916 pounds annually
next with 684 pounds per capita and then switzer
land Norway Denwark and Sweden each
consumption of either Germany European
nation with the smallest capita consumption Italy,
with 81 pounds: .,-
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A Preventive Of Disgrace.

II. P. Hall is always interesting. That
Is one reason why T h J O u r n a gives
so much space to-day to long commune
cation, from him on the subject Of an in
terurban auditorium, geological garden,
playground, public baths, etc. But this
is not the only reason. Hall says that he
may be like Columbus little ahead of
the times-but he observes that the Amer
lean people have made good" on Chris
topher's advanced notions, and he thinks
that the people Of Minneapolis and ST.
Paul will some day make good the sug-
gestion which he offers. However, he
does not favor leaving the matter to too
remote posterity because of the difficulty
Of our realizing upon the suggestion,
since, as he says, we can't leave our ad-9
dress. %
But H. P. HAIL lis not joshing this time;
at least we are inclined to take him seri-.
ously and to believe that this grand prof.:
ect, so Interestingly: outlined In his COM
nunication to this issue Of T h e Jour-
n a is seriously proposed. And why not?
There are certainly many considera lions
in it's fovar. All that he suggested is
desirable and could be carried out and
more might be done to add to the value Of
such an institution to the two cities.
One minor detail OF. the problem, which
Mr.. Hall has not attempted to solve, is
the raising of the money. How shall the
million dollars be obtained for this pur-
pose? His suggestion probably points to
private; benehcence, and the project might
we'll commend itself to those who, to use
Mr.. Carnegie's phrase. "are likely to dis
grace themselves by dying rich" Mr.
Halls project certainly suggests a way in
which that disgrace may be wiped out, in
part at least. n. 80,
But while, we have no very great con-
fidence in the idea that this scheme will
be- realized at an early date, we like to
! print the suggestion and put it on record
as coming originally from a man who has
always ben more public spirited than he
| could afford to be, 50 that, in the future,
when. the idea is realized. he shall be
known as the daddy and due credit may
be accorded to a far-seeing and enter
prising man.
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once been an important and imposing
building, was an insignificant structure
lost in the forest Of structures that have
arisen around it and municipal palace
of granite had arisen to take Its place.
We hope that in some way the old
building may be preserved to remind the
future Of the modest beginnings Of the
city. Within those old walls much Of
the history of Minneapolis for the last
thirty years has been made. Through its
portals the men who made Minneapolis,
that mighty elder generation of stalwart
pioneers, came and went, planning and
scheming and building. Already we begin
to look back upon them as men Of a more
virile, more energetic, more civic-spirited
time. The old hail. IL preserved, will be
a monument to their memory, perpetual
reminder of their work.
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He Kept the Watch.

one OF these smart men who are ION
to their job bet $40 with friend on a
Milwaukee train in South Dakota the 9TH
er day, that a granger sitting in seat
ahead wouldn't give him $40 for his $3.50
gold watch. The Groton, S. D., Herald
posed on, and says he lives in Randall
township and wears jeans trousers. The
Herald tells the story like this:
After some hesitation the stakes were
put up, and followed by two Of the party
the trick-worker proceeded to follow up
our friend.
The supposed Reuben was resting one
cow hide over the other scanning a paper
he had just bought from the news
butcher.
my friend,' began the trickster with
a bland, seductive air, Il have met mis-
fortune, and am obliged to-"
"Hain't got any money to give away
interrupted" the farmer:
Il do not ask charity. I have a fine
watch here, which wish to dispose of for
cash to relieve my temporary embarrass-
ment."
Don't want any watch"
But let me explain. Here is a ane
timepiece, worth $3.50, which I will sell
for $40. Take it and look it over"
The farmer hesitated a moment, then
took the time engine in his horny paw.
L don't claim to be the sharpest man
In the world he said at last "but I do
hate to be taken for a hayseed."
MY dear fellow, who takes you for a
hayseed? I simply want to sell you my
$3.50 watch~for $1O.'' - s~-.~ 5i;.5..c'l
."oh, that's all, is IT.? Wall, guess I'll
take you" -
He dropped the watch in his pocket,
fished up greasy $40 and continued:
f Half the wheels may be gone when I
come to examine it, but fellow must
take some chances in this worId''
Then 1.-The young jollier turned red.
white, blue and green in almost a second.
He suffered, stammered and said that
it was all a joke, but the "havseed''
smiled and read on calmly and-kept the
watch.
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the globe who reads an American book?''
Since then we have made immense gains.
The copyright, law, which requires an
English author to have his book set up
and published here, favors American
authors, and the law stopped the issue
of piratical editions of foreign works.
The result is that a strong taste
for American authors has been developed
and American talent has brought forth
the novels which are. bought and read
by the hundred thousand and are Of such
a good quality that English publishers
have to reproduce them for English read
ers. An English author, to get an Amer
lean reading, must now be far above the
average writer. sa 49,
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The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed.

Children at the Andrew Jackson school
in Chicago, presided over by man,
struck because they said teachers legs
were too long" There is need in Chicago
Of the artistic work Of a good, stout lath
Will Colonel Butler, the st. Louis mil
lionaire, serve the three years in the peni-
tertiary to which the jury has sentenced
him p An appeal has already been taken.
We hold our breath pending decision.
Senator Elkins says that If anyone tries
to take the protection of 81 a thousand off
of his lumber he is going to make horri-
bic fight. Why do we Cypress our mil
lionaires with threats OF putting them on
an equality with the rest Of us? It's
cruel. So
Professor Loeb's experiments seem to
indicate that 1t may be- unnecessary to
die. The majority, Of people would Ger
tainly prefer to get along without do
ing SO. *, -. r.
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That Permanent Tariff Commission

mat permanent Tariff Commission.
Since President Roosevelt in one of his
Indiana speeches advocated commission
Of tariff experts as a means for taking the
tariff out of politics., the subject has hard
ly been adequately discussed. but enough
opinion has been expressed to show that
while the proposition, which is not a new
one, has been largely and warmly ap-
proved, there are people who fatty op-
pose it and others, who declare that con-
gress will never give up its function Of
preparing tariff schedules.
The fact is, however, that the commit
tee which prepares new tariff in the
house, depends upon information it gath
ers with much hard work from manufac-
turers and treasury experts in tariff mat
tiers. 1t Is not proposed by the president
that the permanent tariff commission
shall be endowed with any function save
that of investigation, ascertainment and
weighing Of facts and recommendation
in a conservative, strictly business way,
of either free listing or the modification
OF duties or levying Of duties in accord
according an industry, needing protection
from foreign competition, the ADVANTAGE
of a duty levied on the foreign-made ar
t1cle equal to the difference between the
cost of production at home and abroad,
The proposed commission would act in an
advisory capacity only, and. as it has to he
authorized by congress after the presi-
oene recommends 1t In his message, there
will be strong desire on the part of the
mere politicians, who since the first tariff
Dill was. enacted, have depended more or
less on tariff fights to advance their own
interests, to defeat it. The senate fights
the proposition to elect senator's by popu-
lar vote because that body prefers the
present system, and there will be manv
congressman who will fight against a SIR
render of even the preliminary work ~
tariff construction to a permanent COM
mission. 80
After all, however, men sent to congress-
have to defer to public opinion and II
puollc opinion is massed in favor of TAX
ing the tariff out of politics and treating
tariff as a purely business matter to he
dealt with conservatively and in the pub
lie interest and not in the exclusive in
terest OF particular group Of citizens,
then congress will have to yield.
1t cannot be overlooked, however, that
the gentlemen who are opposed to anv
tariff changes and would not alter sin
gle schedule, are the most obdurate e,e-
ment to convince of the ADVANTAGE Of re-
moving the tariff from politics. But, even
Senator Cullom, who opposes tariff re-
vlson by congreiss at the present time. de-
ciares that the matter should be placed in
the hands of experts, able, after inves+i-
cation to show where it is proper and
necessary to modify the schedules. and
report to congress-. The senator believes
congress can ultimately be induced. from
the convenience of the process, to accent
the Judgment Of a permanent commission
1t certainly would seem so. -; -
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will have - -. at least, as successfully
dealt with as in Scotland and Wales.
Scotland, of course, was, never conquered
by England. She united with the latter
of her own accord and gave monarchs to
wear the English crown. 1t Is evident
that an Irish policy as to Scotland would
have alienated that country permanently
from England.
That the British government, after the
Irish parliament had been annihilated by
Lord Corvallis bribery operations,
which were followed by the act Of union
in 1901, adopted a liberal, civilized policy
In Ireland and promoted agriculture and
manufactures and swept away absentee
landlordism and the vicious irish form of
landlordism itself, and sold the land to
the people on long credits, the virus of
militant Irish discomfort would have been
modified to harmlessness .. A.
Lord Rosebery once said that the Irish
question had never passed into history
because it had never passed out of poll
tics, It is as much in British politics to-
day as it was when O'Connell Numbered
for the repeal Of the act OF union and
Parnell led the tumultuary band Of Irish
obstructionists in parliament and ad-
vanced the cause of Ireland another
stadium. D. &c.,. >. .~-.,.
Tho present, agitation will bring fur
Their betterment. Even the conservative
party of England has been compelled to
extend the franchise and local autonomy
In the Irish counties. Wyndham's land
purchase bill is concession, substituting
land purchase for judicial rents under
some limitations.
The Irish party is absolutely firm in
demanding compulsory sale of Irish es-
tates to the people and legislature for
local affairs and an executive government
subject to the legislature. They want
larger farms for the people instead Of
small patches which do not produce
enough food for the families occupying
them. There is land enough, but SO
much is used for grazing purposes by
comparatively few owners that the area
for small holdings is greatly limited. Had
the British government spent half the
cost Of the Boer war buying out Irish
landlords of big estates and sold the land
on long terms to the people, the problem
would have been solved. The land prob
lem solved. Irish manufacturing indus
tries would have been stimulated and
new channels of active employment
opened to divert the people from exclu-
sive attention to. agriculture
The late Lord Beaconsfleld said that the
way to settle the Irish problem is to &C
complish by legislation for Ireland all
that can be accomplished by a revolution.
"Dizzy's" view is certainly worth the at
tention of the Irish nationalists.
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ONE ON TAWNEY

ceipt of the following effective little poem
regarding himself and the election of 1902
1t was sent to him by Ira H. Meckles Of
OWatonna:
All our farmers brave and brawny
Cast their votes for James A. Tawney;
Paid no heed to Peters mutter:.
Voted straight for honest butter.''
Said that there were any number
Who were able to buy lumber
And build houses new, and nice
Since their cream checks brought the
price.
Tawney is the mar We'll vote for,
Tawney is the man we'll tote for;
Dietrich, Patrick. Nels and Johnny
Cast their votes for James A. TaWney.