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The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

the policies that caused them are still In
operation. The reelection Of Mr.. Mckinley
in 1900 was an Endorsement OF his nrst ad-
ministration. and President Roosevelts
first public declaration upon his accession
to the Office was that he should make 1t
the first and highest object OF his adminis-
tration to carry on the Mckinley policies
in an unbroken line These are the policies
that are In force to-day--the policies that
prevailed during Mr.. McKinley's first ad-
ministration and on which he was trium-
phantly reelected in 1900. Therefore. the
real question involved in the present cam
paign is whether those policies. twice in
dorsed by the people, and which have
brought the country unparalleled prosperi-
ty, shall be repudiated in favor of the
promises Of party that has never had con-
troll of public affairs without bringing dis
aster on the country. All other propositions
are either false issues or side issues Of
little consequence. The one real, para
mount, overshadowing issue is the exchange
of the policy of progress for that of re-
action and of lasting prosperity for certain
disaster. A vote for the Democratic ticket
in the coming election will be vote to re-
pudiate Mckinley policies. as much as
vote for Bryan In 1900 would have been.
Whoever does not see this must be very
forgetful of recent history or very credu-
lous as to the ability Of the Democratic
party to make its promises good.
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

Kansas City Journal.
: The Bible case at Topeka was brought
by a man who had son of fourteen years
in the public schools. This boy was on the
witness stand He testified that during the
school year he had been compelled to listen
to the reading of the Lords prayer every
morning. Can you repeat any of it?'.
asked the attorney. The boy could not.
He evidently hadn't absorbed very much
of the gospel pabulum which his father
thought so Objectionable.
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29
The Chrysanthemum.
Judge

Judge.
The chrysanthemum really belongs about
as much to the game of football as the
tiger lily belongs to the game of Tammany
politics. The curly cabbage, with all due
respect, would be more appropriate floral
consort for this most strenuous of all
strenuous games The chrysanthemum
would be about the thing for the game of
croquet if 1T would only qualify by indulg-
ing in a haircut that IL might look less like
a handful OF pendulous sauerkraut
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

Catholic Standard.
Female voice lover telephone)-I wanted to
have talk with your wife this afternoon.
Male voice-O yes. Mrs. Gaddie Well, she
said she going shopping this afternoon. but
/ asked her not to-
Female voce-Ah, then I'll be likely to catch
her.
Male voice-why. yes: IL you know where she
usually does her shopping.
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to vote. voluntarily abjures it and takes
his place among those who are disfran-
chlsed on account Of crime is worthless
cuss The country can stand many differ-
ent kinds of voters, but the fewer indiffer-
eut ones IL has the better.
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

New York Sun.
Cain had just been apprehended for the murder
OF Abel
"Ridiculous" he exclaimed I'VE simply got
into an argument over golf. and 1 raped him
one with my putter."
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

There is said to be a painful scarcity of
money to wager on the election of the DEM
ocratic candidate for Congress in this dis
trict. odds OF 4 to against him being Of
fered without takers If the Cleveland
Carlisle asset currency plan had prevailed
there would have been wildcat currency to
wager on any old event
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

The Republican who announces from
Denver that he will be here to vote, but
will return to his invalid wife in Colorado
as soon as he shall have voted is of the
right brand. II every Indiana Republican
were of his brand the Republican plurality
would exceed $1,000 next Tuesday
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

Philadelphia Press.
''see here!' said the hotel clerk. You'll have
to move on. We can't have any lettering around
this hall"
why" replied the offender. "the head waiter
told me to stay here till he came. I'm after a
Job as waiter"
20, beg your pardon. thought you were
only a guest"
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

When the free-trader demands free trade
on ali goods which large combinations
manufacture 1t is not the combination he
cares so much about as to open our mar
kets to free trade with all the world-the
academic idea brought to Indiana from
Eastern colleges ten or twenty years ago.
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

The local Democratic organ informs its
readers that victory, pronounced, reliable,
Is in reach of the Democrats of Indiana
All they have to do is to extend their
hands and grasp it," 1t will take mighty
long reach
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29
Anybody Might Know.

Brooklyn Life.
Farmer-Sce here, boy! What are you doing up
that apple tree?
Kid-Can't yer see nothin'? One of yer apples
fell or de tree an I'm tieing 1t againl
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

Chicago News
Grover Cleveland was saying Reform the
tariff when the lid was screwed down on
him back in 1895. Now that he has been
dug up again he says. Reform the tariii-
He believes in steady habits.
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

New York Commercial.

New YORK commercial.
Clarence B. Burleigh. editor of the Ken
nebec Journal. at Augusta. Is one of the
best stump orators In Maine. He Is called
upon to go out in the interest of his party
during many campaigns and has always
done effective work. During the campaign
OF 1900 he was invited by the Republican
York. He accepted the Invitation and
passed several weeks campaigning there
He waa In zIoail country town one
night vherp he had been advertised - the
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

The spirit which prevailed at the coal
commission meeting on Monday was very
different from that at the White House con-
ference a few weeks ago. The operators
were much less arrogant and more concilia-
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29
Brother MilIsnp Not to Blame.

Chicago Tribune.
Sister Durham-well, you've read the list OF
conference appointments How do you think you
like Brother Millsap. the young man that is to
preach for your church the coming year?
Sister Middleton-Fve got nothing against
Brother Millsap. but don't like the bishop for
sending him TO US.
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

Kansas City Journal.

kansas City journal.
Recommending the use Of cornstalks for
fuel. as a substitute for coal. Is tho most
sensible advice Edward Atkinson has given
the American people for long time. And
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Kansas City Journal
Mr.. Cleveland says that political war
fare ought to be regarded as continuous"
Inasmuch as 1t is continuous and always
has been. We do not see hcy Mr.. Cleve-
lands sage observation can well be re-
futed
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

Indiana Republicans ought not to be sat
isfied with merely carrying the State this
year. They should make the majority as
large as possible.
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

From all accounts many Democratic
business men in this city who want the
district to be properly represented in Con-
gress will vote for Mr.. Overstreet
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29

Baltimore American.
Mary MacLane instead OF attending col
lege win 20 back to Butte. Sweet are the
uses Of advertising. especially free adversis-
inG-
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Cleveland Leader.
An old circus man says no show would
pay If the performance on the inside gave
everything that was promised on the bills.
Every circus is regarded by the people as
more or less of humbug. That is proba-
bly, why nobody thinks Boss Johnson is
sineere
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The Democratic party never had chance
10 use the argument. Let well enough
alone"
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-29
COAL STRIKE LOSSES.
Miners Cannot Make Good I'm . Dosen
Years.
New York Commercial.

New York Commercial.
Now that it is practically all over the
tremendous cost of the big coal strike dur
ing the twenty-five weeks Of its duration
ought to serve as fresh object lesson and
a warning to wage earners who fancy that
there is great advantage and profit to them
In idleness and living off of the hard
earned contributions of their fellow-labor-
ers One Of the most conservative ssti-
mates of the loss that we have seen comes
from Wilkesbarre, one Of the great centers
of the disturbance, and is as follows:
Loss to operators in price of coal. $54500, 900
Loss to strikers In wages. 29000,0O0
Loss to employees other than strik-
Loss to railroads in earnings. 1880, ,00e
LOSS to business men In the re-
gfOnS loVU,uO
region NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. s,oo,oOo
police ........................ $500. 900
Cost of maintaining nonunion men 10000
Cost of troops in the region ....... 100000
Damage to mines and machinery. 6,500,000
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .$146, $40 600
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THE HUMORISTS.
A Doubtful Compliment.

Punch.
IT intend to come and see your wife this after
noon. haven't been able to sooner?'
Thank zee kindly. Miss. Itu be like a bottle
o. physic to her
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-11

by the inability Of the railroads to move
rapidly the immense tonnage offered
them.
The government report out yesterday
afternoon says the three states, Minneso-
ia, North and South Dakota, have aver
aged 1871 bushels per acre in spring
wheat. The movement Of wheat to mar
ket has been increasing. yet is light by
comparison with last year. Minneapolis
flour mills are doing good business and
there is the promise of it's continuance for
some time to come. The speculative
wheat market showed fair degree Of
strength but there Is a lack of outside in
terest. Meanwhile we are doing a salts
factory export business in wheat and hav-
ing shipped out $4,000 bushels in the
week previous we followed it up this past
week with 5.646, 900 bushels, making a
very satisfactory total for the period.
Since July we are far behind last year,
having exported 73.13O,492 bushels against
9,567. S44 bushels; but we are far ahead Of
1900. when in the same period wheat ex-
ports were 81, 505, 522. If the present rate
Of export continues it will not be long be-
fore the quantity available for export this
year will be lightened materially.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-11
The State Song Contest.

The Journal is in receipt Of a
number of inquiries from poets who are
striving to put into an almost condition
less state song contest some sort of con-
ditions For the benefit of these and
others we make the following statements:
The suggested limit of about thirty
lines was in no way rigid song must
not be very long If it is to become pop
ular. No one who keeps that fact in mind
will be prejudiced by the fact that his
poem is twenty or forty lines.
A state song ought to breathe the his
tory and scenic characteristics Of this
state. This does not mean a history or a
description of the state.-
The contest is not limited to Minnesota
poets, though few others are contesting.
One writer can submit more than one
song.
If your first poem was not returned to
you it has been kept for further consider
alton in the re-opened contest or else you
failed to enclose stamps for its return.
With each poem there must be at least
the name Of an air to which it can be
sung.
When the song is copyrighted the name
Of the writer will be included in the title.
The committe of award includes DR..
J. K. Hosmer, Professor Willard Patten
and Mrs. T. G. Winter, all Of Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-11
Equal Justice.

H. There is lesson in. the anthracite coal
strike for the corporations :that break
laws, as well as for the men who create
a reign of terror because they choose not
to work The lesson is that every per
son or corporation that calls for protec-
ton from the sSiolators of law ought to
have clean hands. ~
Some of The Journals readers,s as
is evident from the contributions to
'tOther Peoples Notions are greatly 3ag-
.itated over the violence of. the strikers in
the anthracite felds.fE That2is perfectly
proper - he J.eurn all would like to
see the. president put the whole United
States army into the field to- protect.st the
men who wish to work, Il the Pennsyl-
vania national guard is not equal to the
task. But it will be- As strikes go, this
one, considering the number and scharac-
ter of part Of the men involved has been
remarkably orderly. Most of the strikers
do not require troops to compel them to
keep the peace. Ten thousand soldiers
can easily deal with theaminority that is
foolishly lighting with arson and murder.
But most Of what the mining companies
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-11
IN. A NUTSHELI-..... M.
. he London

London has largely disappeared but ovecrowded
London remains During the last ten the population
London by million, which has
suited in backward step in housing Rentals have risen
In the prolearian districts and the
cuped family has There in London
100000 eneents Of and 1000 these contain
inmates more than living id2,000 rooms
Is fact when gasped to give all needed mportanceo the
housing problem Of enforced by
the fact that whole million Of population living
conditions which confessedy insanitar Fathers
doomed under these conditions children in
fected with disease and contaminated by indecencies.
The round Of life for these millions, working from six
living monotonous and end
indescribably dull Lack of good
systems the of industry
responsible this overcrowding to better
conditions by public private while excel
they have only touched nges Of the
improving the status thousands while
millions unaffected The nuncpa government has de-
stroyed whole districts of old houses built new
promise Of the situation is uplifting
agencies work private public which
will make of Workingman
better. = :n.M&.. :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-11

The st. Paul Globe, which claims all the
credit Of the recently reduced grain rates
for j. J. Hill, wants to know why if Gov
ernor Van SAINT had anything to do with it,
he reduced rates in North Dakota from
three to five times as much as they were
reduced in Minnesota Assuming that
Mr.. Hill is entitled to all the credit for
the reduction he is certainly due to re-
ceive a loud protest from the Minnesota
farmers who live in the state that fur
n1shes his road with the major part of it's
earnings. Governor Van SAINT had this
to do with grain rate reductions: He
stirred up such hornets nest around
merger ears that Mr.. Hill had to do some
thing to offset the widespread fear that
his power would be used to the detriment
OF the people living along his lines. =,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-11

Every in awhile there goes the rounds OF the
effect that about 1907 900 of Lon
that several hundred thousand
always the border line OF starvation Recently
1t stated that Of the British people never
enough though the British Empire and much
of the world besides continually its wealth into the
tight little island %~E * & 81 u
1t is quite different picture that Waiter A. Wyckof,
author of 1.-The Workers. is drawing in Scribners
Magazine According to him this England that has been
represented lettering decadence. trembling be-
fore the American invasion readng the downward path
Of old while America and Germany stride the
ms of achievement empre is enjoying the great
prosperity has had in several centuries the we'll
being Of the common people pronounced
The great unemployed class Of other has
petel disappeared in the abundance Of employment that
prosperity provides. =~"F
Mr. Wyckoff that the competitor who counts upon
Englands weakness will have rude awakening. She is
weather. than before. She be falling behind in
the relatively but absolutely she is herself
The standard Of living Is rapidly rising in crowded
The degradation of working population
crne and black ignorance in foul conditions of
istence in life purely animal forsaen of God and man.
Is longer common it The insanitary and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-11
Stand by the Schools.

Good sense was to the fore at last nights
meeting of the city council. Notwithstand-
ing some reckless demands that the council
Notwithstanding some remarkable perver-
sions of figures by those opposing the
needed enlargement OF the public school
plant, the council unanimously voted to
give the people an opportunity to vote on
an issue Of 100000 of bonds to be used
The fact that this was done after the
mistaken impression had got abroad that
the levy Of 5.5, or 6.5 mills, including the
tax imposed by the state for local school
benefit, provided for 100000 for new
buildings during 1903 is splendid" ex-
preston Of the councils confidence in the
board Of education, and a singing rebuke
to those who have tried so hard to mis-
represent and humiliate and belittle the
school, board. In this list we include I'm
Gle Joshua Rogers, the city controller,
who seems to have gone daft Oh this sub
ject. We are also surprised to see such
an excellent alderman as Mr.. Merrill make
such mess of figures in discussing the
boards estimate. Although the slightest
study of the figures should show what a
mistake he was making, Mr.. Merrill insist
ed to the last that the board had some
thing like $4,000 for new buildings in the
tax levy. He failed to see that the cost
of maintenance for 1903 will be almost
equal to that cost for 1902 plus $104, 900
spent for new buildings and the liquida-
ton of deficit. The total revenue in
sight for the school year ending Jtne 3d.
1903, including q balance of $4,000, is
sS9s,237, or only $4,000 more than the ac
tual expense Of maintenance, which is
offset, except $4,000, by the money to be
spent in the completion Of the Mckinley
building, some $4,000. This leaves only
$4,000 for new buildings. Mr. Merrill or
any one else who can correctly come to a
different conclusion is an extraordinary
mathematical genius
If the bonds are not voted no building
can be done during 1903, With the Sep
TENDER enrolment of the schools showing
an increase of 2,155 above the increase of
September, 1901, it was the plain duty of
the council to submit the boud proposition
to the people. If the people do not vote
the bonds, the responsibility will be placed
where it ought to be.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-11

higher than Is per cent Certainly that
Is low enough. r
At least three OF the amendments Of
fered to the people this year should be
adopted. That the careless or lazy voter
may not have a good excuse to neglect
them. they are to be printed In, con-
densed form at the head Of the ballot. 1t
is really of more Importance to the people
of the state that these amendments be
adopted than that this or that man
should be elected to office. The most
practical and selfish voter, the man with
no interest at all in general state govern
ment and policies, cannot afford to over
look the one increasing the rate Of taxa
ton of railway gross incomes. 1t means
money saved to him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-11
Municipal Beggars.

A magazine writer suggests that the
American people are being reduced to a
sort Of public beggary by the large num-
Der of libraries, educational institutions,
town halls, statues parks, ETC., that are
being showered on them by men Of money.
He argues that, whereas, formerly when
the village or the little city needed any
thing for public service or Improvement
|, Everybody "chipped in through some
voluntary measure, OR else taxes were i'm :
posed. Now a. committee is appointed to
'see" some one In either of the old ways
the people got for themselves what they
wanted by. the expenditure of their, own
money or their own efforts. Z ) II - -
An amazing instance of fear of loss of
the sturdy spirit of self help was afford
ed some time ago by a little New York
village, which declined the gift of a pub
lie library from some trust magnates who
had gone forth from the village to win
fortune and -renown. The people voted
not to accept the gift because they thought
it would tend to discourage self-reliance.
They wanted library, but they proposed
TO go without one Until lAeyE coulu uuHu
it themselves. We venture to say that
there are few villages that would have
pursued the same course. Most persons
who noticed the incident at the time
probably smiled contemptuously at the
villagers who were too simple to know
good thing when they had It..
But when we recollect what a lot of
municipal beggars Andrew Carnegie has
made, we don't know but that there is
something In the criticism. Towns that
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-11

by the board of tax levy that $4,000 of
the board of education's income for this
school year should be spent for increased
salaries. When the board adjourned the
impression was that nothing had been
allowed either for new school buildings
or increased salary rates for some teach
ers:. But it is now certain that there
is $4,000 to be added to the salaries of
teachers, aside from $4,000 that goes for
salaries Of additions to the teaching force.
With the cost of living from Is to 20 per
cent higher than it was it is not gener-
osity but an approximation of justice to
increase the salaries of the teachers in
the lower grades. -