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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-22
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oniztng the commanding general will have
to go. Military clerks will have to take
back seats as military clerks and perform
the duties of military clerks. The chief
Of the proposed general staff will perform
the duties of commanding general A po-
sition on the general staff will have such
honor attached to it that every officer de-
voted to his profession will have an ann
bition to enter it. Directors to the propo-
sition for general staff urge that gem
eral stats are dangerous, because Ger
many ana France have them. That is a
very. childish reason. Might as well plead
that we ought not to have a postal serv-
ice because Germany and France have
such service. The general staff means
efficiency Of our military service and
preparation for every emergency. 1t
means that crude and unbusiness-l like
methods and conditions will yield to
strictly scientific and business-like meth
DDS. If anybody can present valid ar
gument against the proposed change it
has not been forthcoming as yet.
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And Still Another.

To the Editor Of The Journal:
On the fourth page of your issue of the
18th is letter signed "An English-Born
American" letter so vile and extravagant
in its vituperation of the English people that
am surprised you should allow it space.
But, having published it, let me ask that
you allow me to demand of this man that,
under penalty of being branded a coward and
liar by refusing, he publish his name, where
born and OF whom.
dare assert in advance that, though born
in England, he was never but an alen or,
at best, "a mongrel. Either this or traitor.
Even his present claim to American fails
to cover him decently, for a man who is
false to his own (?) country is never true
credit to any other Fl.
Before so furiously denying everything the
Belfast manufacturer said, this self-styled
Anglo-American should have remembered that
the first british flag raised over Pretoria had
the shamrock embroidered on it. Also, that
the present commander.in-chief is Irish
That Colonel French and other leaders who
have most vigorously upheld the British
cause are Irish.
AS to the ''malgn influence of this most
despicable empire let him read the leading
article in the same issue as that containing
his letter, and again, on the ninth page, that
On irrigation in Egypt, and then, if he can,
put two and two together. Jas. Gunner
1908 Talmage avenue.
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HARDLY A "STAB IN THE BACK

Here Is current criticism of the presl-
dents course in instructing the attorney
general to proceed against the Northern
Securities company:
1t is unfortunate that the government took
this action without giving legitimate inves-
tors in railroad securities some warning. To
take the great investment interests OF the
country by surprse-a stab in the back over
nights indefensible, matter what the
issue may be. The strong men OF Wall street
can protect themselves, even at loss; put
the estate the widow and the small investor,
who have bought securities in good faith, are
obliged to suffer loss by such unprecedented
and unnecessary action. III.
From the moment the merger was
launched there has been plenty OF init
nations that it would have to be tested IN
the courts. 1t developed early in the day
that the state of Minnesota would proceed
against it, and from the very beginning
every well-informed man has realized
that there was a possibility that the fed
eral government would act. 1t was wen
known more than a month ago that the
president had instructed the attorney
general to examine into the subject. The
investment lulGISSIS AdFO At@o AAAoN v
warning than they usually have OF such
developments in matters affecting tnelr
business. Any man who has put cent
into the merger of his own initiative mas
done so with his eyes closed to posslbll-
tiles. The promoters Of the merger began
and continued their labors, we'll knowing
that they were likely to be brought into
the courts. If there had been as much
warning that the government would not
intervene as there has been that 1t would
the Northern Securities would be boom
ing speculative proposition to-day. 1t IS
we'll known that many sensible people
have held back while waiting to see what
the courts would say. The president con-
sidered the stock market in announcing
his decision before the supreme court
passed on the Minnesota case. Moreover
the announcement was made in the even
ing to avoid the jolt that would have been
given the market had the news come out
during the day.
ga stab in the back over night" is
pretty strong phrase to apply to action
taken with so much deliberation, and eau
ton.
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What "The Man" Saws.

To the Editor of the Journal
Regarding the arrest Of man in his own
house as a suspected burglar, related in yes
terdays j o n a l. the facts in the case
are these: The man in question has, for
reasons of his own, with which the public
have no concern, been rOoming down town
few blocks away, for a couple of weeks.
The evening. named he had been at the hous.
at a late hour to get some articles of cloth
ing and had, of course, seen his WIFE After
he had returned to his room he remembered
that he wanted another garment which was
hanging In the basement He returned to
the house and finding everyone gone to bed,
the doors locked and the lights out he en-
tered the basement by window and hunted
it up. He also found a little gasolene in
can, about teacupful, and used it cleaning
up some spots in the garment. While he
was thus engaged some unknown parties out
side notified the police and the officer re-
sponded. They were not there two hours
the report states. They were there but a
few minutes The man was in there not over
thirty minutes himself When ne was con-
fronted by the officers he explained the stu
alton and that was the end of it as
they went&up and explained it to his wife.
All the rest of the account of this trifing
matter was without foundation.
The Man.
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ORDER OUT OF CHAOS

The bill prepared by Secretary Root for
establishing head for our army by or
ganizing general staff and consolidating
the supply departments, the lieutenant
general to be the Responsible head OF the
general staff, has been introduced in con-
gress and is already under the fire Of
the newspapers which see, In every step
taken to increase the efficiency Of our
army, another elbow at American Lbs
critics." The same element said that same
thing when a million men were called out
to preserve the union. The same element,
after calling for the Spanish war with
great vigor, and blaming the president
for trying TO effect peaceful removal
by Spain Of her tyranny over the Cubans,
declared that it was the purpose of the
administration to proclaim an empire and
establish despotism on the ruins of the
American>republic when the army was in
creased to $4,000 men through the abso-
lutte necessity Of holding the insular ac-
uuisitions ofzthe war and for maintaining
order in Cuba until we had laid the foun-
dations of the insular independence
The attacks on the Root Dill Will prob
ably not deter congress from effecting one
of the greatest and most sorely needed
national reforms. The absences of the
war department in 1898, when we en-
barked into a serious war without our
war machinery in working order and sup
ply departments at loggerheads and un-
der inefficient direction, equivalent to no
direction, was a sufficient object lesson
to stimulate reform. What the new
measure calls for is definite system and
order and an intelligent general staff and
head, which shall plan defensive service
and see that every department is fully
prepared for any emergency Such absurdi-
ties as clashes between the secretary Of
war and the commanding general and the
assumption by the adjutant generals de-
|partment of dictatorial power and antag-
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Overest1mates Explained.
the Editor of The Innrnal.


l am in receipt of a letter from Louis Pc
terson of Darcy, N. D., in regard to my
communication in T h e J ournal of the
18th inst. The reason given by Mr.. Peter
son for the erroneous wheat estimates is the
same as was given by me in the last para
graph of my communication, but which was
omitted by T he ourn al, presumably
through an inadvertence. I have never in
vested dollar in options or futures The
inclosed is the letter received by me:
Darcy, N. D., Feb. 15.-P. Herbrandrson, Cal
edonia, N. D.-Dear Sir: Your article in
The Minneapolis Journal of Feb 10 I read
with interest. You may be long or bull
on wheat, but, whether you are or not, you
did not give any reason why the 'Pv'' Grain
company oVerestimated wheat remaining in
farmers hands, saying their estimate was IS
per cent: But l will give you. my reason
why 1t is an oVerestnate. The reason is
this: About Jan. l of each year the ele-
vator companies send out circulars to all
agents asking their agents to give an esti-
mate Of the crop remaining in farmers hands,
for a cut in salary about Jan. 1 land if not
then, they expect big cut in salary about
April 1, or closed house,, and as a general
rule tho average wheat buyer thinks the
more wheat he can make it appear in farm
ers' hands the longer his house will be kept
open, wanting for this big surplus to come
in. ! have been employed at elevator agent
for the past ten years, and l have found
my competitors, as a rule, overestimate the
crop remaining in farmers hands on this
account; not that have done it, as my COM
pany keeps all its houses open all the year
round, with full pay.
pnfa
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be steadily employed, and prosperous COM

be steadily employed, and prosperous con-
ditions continue. The danger is In the
probability that &C mpetitiye bidding and
the offering OF premiums for prompt de-
livery may lead to abnormal advances.
This means big profits followed by gem
eral Generalization when the down turn
comes from the top figure and this Is what
the iron trade leaders will prevent If they
can.
The stock market suffered a severe
shock on Thursday through the announce
ment that Attorney General Knox will
begin suit against the Northern Sc
curities company. In the stocks I'M
mediately affected declines of to
67a points were made, and in sympathy
with this the whole market became I'M
settled and losses were the rule. For ten
gossip had been that in the opinion of
financial leaders, decision denying juris-
diction in the Minnesota case was
to be expected from the supreme
court, following which a bull mar
ket was to be looked for. The new turn
of affairs has weakened public confidence
in the Judgment of the market leaders in
this matter. Whatever may follow as
result of this further setback to the pro-
motors of the Northern Securities conf
pany no general uneettling Of confidence
need be feared. The effect has been to
increase cautiousness on the part OF in
vestors but it will have NO lasting effect
! tha npi0 of IOH I'll
railroad stocks.
Prices of nearly all staple commodities
have been tending upward. Mercantile
lines show satisfactory conditions and
jobbers report continued good volume OF
trade. Storms in the east held down traf-
fic sufficiently to bring a decrease of 3.5
in railway earnings to date which slight
falling off therefore has no special sig
nificance. Bank clearings were $780,
42O, O9I, Of which Si60,S21 ,0O5 was outside
New York. Minneapolis led all leading
centers with an increase of 31.2 per cent
for the week compared with an increase of
Go per cent for the country outside, and
5S per cent decrease in New York.
The wheat market continues dull within
narrow limits. Bearish news was re-
ceived every day. Writer wheat prospects
are excellent, Manitoba wheat continues
in competition in the export markets, and
there is the further depressing influence
of light flour demand. Against this
wheat prices have held up. The range is
now closer to an export basis than for
some time and this with the near advent
of the season for crop scares tends to
bring out support on any heavy pressure.
For the week the wheat and -four export
equaled 100000 Bushels, compared with
3,175, 900 bushels in the previous week, and
| 3,424, COO bushels year ago. ...-
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OTHER PEOPLES NOTIONS,
To the Editor of The Journal.

10 the fGdftOf or Inc journal.
Such an erroneous impression has gone
abroad in the press concerning the stand
taken by those who oppose compulsory vac
cination that I beg leave to correct it.. I
have never yet known the claim to be made
by any person that SMALLPOX is not eonta-
gious, which Health Commissioner Hall and
others have stated Is the theory of the anti
vaccinationists and DR.. Halls so-called chal-
lenge TO the ants was issued apparently on
that superstition. But he should first have
informed himself of the facts. We believe
that we are likely TO take smallpox as
any other persons, but from statistics at hand
and some of them of recent occurrence and
very close at hand too-we feel that have
less to fear from the disease than from it's
alleged preventive. Smallpox may have slain
its thousands, hut vaccination has slain
or tainted for life with loathsome diseases,
its tens of thousands. Any scientific physi-
clan will tell that person who is in
perfect health is proof against disease in any
form, contagious otherwise: but there is
not one person in thousand who is in
perfect health. Also, every physician who
underst ands the human system and it's ails
and ills he should. knows that to intro
duce the vaccine virus into the blood of per-
sons afflicted with tuberculosis, or who have
scrofulos tendency. means almost certain
speedy death. and advise many OF their pa
tents to take their chances with smallpox
rather than be vaccnated.
We have no quarrel with DR.. Hall except
as he represents the executive power of an
obnoxious statute, and seems bent upon en-
forcing it when the conditions requiring its
enforcement do not exist. We simply ask
him to be fair in any controversy that may
arise between him anG those of us who OPP
pose compulsory vaccination because we be-
leye that not only does it not prevent small
pox, but it menaces the lives of ourselves and
families and friends and also deals a blow at
the rights of the individual: and the law
is Therefore declared unconstitutional The
question is briefly this: If we refuse to be
poisoned ourselves or to allow our helpless
children to be poisoned, shall our only refuge
be the felon's cell?
Feb. Is. Mrs G. E. Stephens.
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doesn't go to college. Also he has I'M
questionably last four years Of prac-
teal experience at the very time Of life
When men are most receptive mentally
and most likely to establish good business
habits. The question Is whether his col
lege education has given him general
training and equipment that will in the
course of a few years offset or more than
offset the advantages Of experience and
business acquaintance and friendship
gained during four years by his fellow
workers.
Probably in many lines Of business it
never will; perhaps In most subordinate
positions it never will But if he gets
good start, learns the business and
climbs to the top the chances are that
he will be more successful for having
had a college education. 1t is certainly
splendid tribute to college education
to have so many business men testify
that 1t does Just what believers in a col
lege education say it should do-give the
graduate mental training that enables
him to use his mind. generally speaking,
to better advantage than the man without
such an education
outside OF pure business there is little
tendency to dispute the value of COL
lege education. While only one man in
hundred is a college man, the majority
OF the leading men Of the country to-day
are college men. who's Who in Amer
lea, contains the names of 8, al persons,
now prominent in all parts of American
life. OF these 5,4S6 are collegians. Pier
pont Morgan is a college man; y. J. Hill
mad an academic education; our presi-
dents are generally college men, so are
members of the cabinet, justices of the
supreme court, our ablest foreign min
listers and ambassadors; also ne7third
OF the members Of congress. In public
life the college man has thirty times the
opportunity to succeed that the nom
graduate has
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Questions Answered


Does the law of Russia allow naturaiize1
American citizen who, when q. escaped to
America to avoid Russian military service,
to return to that country for visit?-An
American citizen is entitled to the protection
of the American government wherever he
goes Such person You describe would
run the risk of being arrested If he returned
to Russia II he were able to get the atten-
ton of the American ambassador called to
his case he would eventually be released.
Similar cases have repeatedly occurred in
Germany If he were not arrested he would
probably be ordered out of the country as
soon as his identity became known. We sup
pos. that Russia permits naturalized Amerl-
can citizen to live in Russia as much as she
permits a native-born American citizen to live
there provided she has no special complaint
against him. as she would have against
man who had fed to escape military service
For further information write to the state
department at Washington.
S. B. Beatty, Brownton, Minn.-What kind
of weather did we have in February, 1871? L
contend that it was the warmest February l
ever saw in this state, and ! have been here
since 1851 Four others claim that 1t was
cold-You are right except that, according to
Fort Smelling records, February. 1873, was
Just as warm. The mean temperature tor
February of both Of those years was 50 above
The average for seyenty-fve years, as kept
at the fort, IS 16 above.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-22
COURSE OF BUSINESS

Two disturbing events marked the
course of the week in the business world.
The first was the carly purchase by the
steel corporation OF 5000 tons of Besse-
mer iron for delivery in the third quar-
ter of the year. the second the action of
the president in directing the attorney
general to bring suit to test the legality
OF the Northern Securities company.
The significance of this purchase of iron
lies in the fact that it implies the ex-
hausting Of producing capacity for five
months to come, and the tendency to an
ticipate a possible later scarcity by con-
tracing into the third quarter. The
effect upon buyers in general has not been
reassuring AN the energies Of the pro-
ducers are now being directed towards al
laying nervousness and combating the
rapidly increasing fear of a famine The
leaders in the trade are working together
to prevent boom. Stability is necessary
for continued activity. and to this end
every effort is being made to keep prices
within bounds. That seller of pig iron
should have refused to advance his prices.
when from existing conditions it was evil
dent that by holding firm better figures
could have been forced, seems from a SUI
xperfcial viewpoint. almost absurd, get
this was the recent action of leading
southern producer The bittet experience
OF 1900, when prices, having been gradual
ly worked uo to an extraordinary height
through the preceding year, fell back
quickly with disastrous results, is fresh
in the minds of the trade.
With continuation of reasonable price
basis, the mills and foundries may run
probably for an indefinite time, labor will
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-22
MAY STOP COMING
Washington Correspondence Brooklyn E

Washington Correspondence Brooklyn Eagle.
Director Roberts believes that it would be
a good thing if the government were to de-
eide to stop the coinage of silver dollars as
full legal tender. In this view he Is in ae-
cord with Chairman Hill of the house COM
1nittee on coinage, weights and measures, as
well as the other members of that commit
tee. The committee has gone on record to
the effect that it would be wiser to change
the bullion now in the treasury into coins
which the people want and will keep in cir
culation, rather than into dollars which are
to be added to the tons of that coin
now stored away in the vaults. Director Rob-
erts has prepared a statement giving the
stocks of moneys of other nations on Jan.
/, 1901. This shows that the United States
has not only the larger per capita stock of
full legal tender, but smaller per capita
of subsidiary coin than most Of the principal
gold standard countries Of the world Aus
tria, Great Britain. Japan, Russia, Norway,
Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Egypt.
Denmark, Cuba and other countries report
no full legal tender silver at all. while the
United States carries the enormous amount
OF $56s,OG 900. During the past year AUS
tria changed SOC, 100000 and Germany $42,-
900, 600 into subsidiary coin.
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HENRY Wills HAT
London Morning Post.


Among the many articles OF historic inter-
est that will figure in the forthcoming ex-
hibition Of The Monarchs Of England at the
New Gallery few are likely to attract more
attention than the hat of Henry VIII. and
the shoes of Anne Boleyn, which have been
lent by Mrs. Ames of Ayot St. Lawrence,
Herts The hat and shoes are in themselves
notable relics, but their chief interest lies in
the fact that they are the title deeds of the
estate of Ayot st. Lawrence They were given
by Henry VIII. to an ancestor OF the late
Colonel Ames in singular circumstances. The
story goes that when the king was riding
through Hertfordshire with Anne Boleyn and
company of attendants he passed by Ayot
St. Lawrence and inquired to whom the place
belonged. It was in reality a royal pos
session, and this was explained to Henry by
one Of his courtiers (the ancestor mentioned)
who added that he wished that the estate be.
longed to himself instead. "And SO it shall, -
said the king; and the estate was then and
there handed over to the courter, who how
ever, craved some token of its surrender. The
king gave his hat and made Anne Boleyn
part with her shoes, and the three articles
have remained ever since in the possession
of the family.
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THEORY AS TO RIZZIo
london Chronicle

+ 1; there be any truth in the latest discovery
reported from the Vatican library, the unend-
ing controversy about Mary, Queen of Scots,
will be provided with a very unexpected sup
ply of fresh material. 1t is said that letters
have been found in the Dapal storehouse of
historical documents which make it clear that
Rizzio was not professional musician, but
priest who had adopted a disguise that he
might say mass and otherwise minister in
safety to the queen and her Roman Catholic
attendants To believe in Mary's all-round
Innocence of the charges against her, it would
obviously be of enormous advantage to have
the Rizzio accusation disDroved. Some even
of the least sympathetic of her critics have
refused to accept the suggestion that Rizzio
was her lover; but it would be a distinctly
new light to discover that, instead of must
sian, or even a secretary for foreign corre-