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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23
IN A NUTSHELL.
How the Monroe Doctrine cameo Be Adopted and Promulgated


With all this talk about the Monroe Doctrine brought out
by the Venezuelan affair." 1t be interesting to of
the readers of to review briefly the facts
relating to the origin of that doctrine. 8i
rs The Monroe Doctrine promulgated by President
Monroe in his to in December 1928 The
particular propositions special interest first the
presidents statement that consider attempt
their (he Europe to extend their system
portion of this hemisphere
and safety and that the American continents by
Independent they
maintained hencefort considered places
for future colonization by any European power"
1t should be remembered that at this time there existed
combination between Russa Prussia and Aus
tra organized In 1915, and known as the Holy Alliance
the avowed of which alliance to maintain
Christian doctrine the sovereign rights of legitimacy In
line with the France undertook to and
ceeded in compelling Spain restore Ferdinand to his
clothed with his former despotic authority Spain had
control Of her South American Mexican possessions
independent republics had been In Of the
South American states 1t seemed to be- and doubt
the purpose the oy Alliance to compel restoration of
Spanish possessions to the Spanish to
make prey of them for other European monarihies
England viewed the Holy Alliance" with suspicion and
apprehension inclined to make friends with the
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Party" Miss Muffett is the Young. fady
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whom the story says was frightened
away by a spider. But it seems that that
Is not historically correct. At any rate.
according to this book, Miss Muffett did
not run away but made room for Mr.
Spider on the tuffet, told him she was
glad to see him and expressed the hope
that his family were well. Mr.. Spider and
Miss Mu}fett indeed became very friendly
and he suggested to Miss Muffett that she
have a Christmas party. Mr.. Spider as
sisted in issuing the invitations. These
Invitations were sent to a large number
Of very prominent people, there was Dear
Little Bo-Peep and Red Riding Hood, the
Reverend Swiss Robinson and family. the
Man in the Moon. Tiny Tim. The Rug
glesses, Prudy and Dotty Dimple, the Lit
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TO- The Little Old Woman Who Lived in
Shoe and great many others includ-
ing the Prince and the Princess and about
a hundred letters each addressed to A
Certain King. inviting each to bring with
him Certain Queen. 1t is related how
ever, that there were no giants invited
Miss Muffett and Mr.. Spider drew the
line at giants, although they invited the
Forty Thieves and some other queer peo-
pie. This party. of course. brings to-
gether a very mixed multitude, but they
have delightful time and the party is a
great success. The illustrations. which are
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LITERARY VALUES AND OTHER PAPERS.
BY John Burroughs. Boston: Houghton
Miffiin & CO. For sale by Mccarthy
John Burroughs is known as lover of
nature and a writer OH outdoor subjects.
His .Rfverby and Wake Robin and
other nature studies have proven delight
to many readers. The charm of his style
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entirely or even chiefly devoted to comedy
Romance sheds her rosy glamor over some
or the scenes and characters, wherein the
love passages are illustrated in song and
action with deft skill. Arthur Donaldson,
who plays the real prince cuts a dashing
hgure and sings in a rich, if somewhat
WayeriHg BARITONE, His flame is a pretty
flaxen haired daughter Of the brewer
lLliiian Coleman) whose dainty person
ana rich. clear mezzo voice quite justify
ms prSdilection. Their final duet, with
Its clever stage setting. is the musical hit
OF the production. Another dashing fellow
| IS Harold Crane as the American naval
lieutenant and his voice luckily blends
Wen with that of the coquettish .Vassar
girl (Anna Lichter) in their stunning
duet, The Message Of the Violet" Helen
Bertram appears as the frolicsome widow,
having succeeded Dorothy Morton in that
role. While she shows no Improvement
Nocaly, she evinces unsupported talents
as comedtenne and, moreover, contrives
10 exhibit a wonderful variety of gowns in
the course Of the evening. Her song of
the American cities, with ten yariantly
1pretty girls to illustrate the verses, makes
q wonderful hit. Then there is jeanette
Bageard as the French maid, who dances
with nlmble grace and sings a bit, too Nor
| must one forget Jimmy, the bell boy, in
the smart and jaunty little person of Ada
Browne. : :
Lhe emancipation or the chorus
girl from pink tights and Amazon
marches is now seemingly fact
accomplished. In the best produce
lions, such as this. she has become,
a. swell society girl who wears pretty
gowns, and wears them we'll She does
many other things that chorus girls were
never called on to do under the old svs
tenn, and her contribution to the success.
OF the production is no small one
+, The scenic environment is elaborate.
while the costumes are Kaleidoscope in,
variety. and original and effective in de-
! sign and color scheme.
The Prince in short, has an excel
| lent claim on primacy among the preten-
| tious musical comedies of the season. ID
ts& So w. B. Chamberlain ~
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United States Canning the head % the british foreign
office dinner party showed special Minister
Rush OF the United States Rush
to Neutrals This meant the United States and Great
Britain both having held aoof from attempt to
fere with the relations of the Spanish
the mother country Canning responded warmly andsoon
after made overtures Rush England
United States should together resisting
attempts of European to seize and
ritory of the Spanish American states
entered into virtual understanding to that
drew up statement OF the position Of these countries
at which, however Canning finally SHE'D Britain hest
tated to recognize the Independence Of the South American
states as had done The suggestion Of the
British statesman however, adopted by
ernment and although originating in the British foreign
flee, 1t became the most important declaration by
after the declaration Of Independence
brief that the United States regard hostile
to the United States if European attempt
under pretex to get possession
and hold for purposes of colonization
purpose. .s}. #88 @&f {S rf
When this doctrine promulgated the United States
contained scarcely than 100000 people
weak country compared with its strength popula
ton and resources and ability to maintain position
then assumed. Sz.".
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DAILY DIVERSION

Got Back at AdyertIsers-When he had
been only a few days in this country, Sir
Philip Burne-J Jones, the artist had a taste
Of American progressiveness in advertis-
Ing.
Just before leaving for a visit to Wash
ington, Sir Philip received circular let
ter from firm engaged In the sale of
dried fruit inviting him to compete for
a prize to be given for the best design to
be used in advertising their wares Only
one prize. the circular stated, was to be
given, and all successful drawings were
to become the property of the firm After
reading the circular, and not to be out
done by the audacious request Sir Philip
sat down and wrote the following reply:
Manager Dried Fruit Company:
Dear Sfr--I am offering a prize of so
cents for the best specimen Of dried
fruit, and should be glad to have you take
part In the competition. Twelve dozen
boxes of each kind of fruit should be sent
for examination, and all fruit that is not
adjudged worthy of the prize will remain
the property of the undersigned 1t is also
required that the charges on the fruit so
forwarded be paid by the sender. Yours
very truly,
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Spectral Voting.

Some of the points made by Judge En-
DRY Speer Of Georgia in his address be-
fore the Independent Club Of Buffalo, re-
mind us Of that North Carolina noun
taineer who is reported to be still voting
for Andrew Jackson. Judge speer says
that the people of the south are voting
against a specter-that Of negro domino
ton. There is no danger of negro domi.
nation in the south now, no more than
there is a chance that Andrew jackson
will ever again be president of the United
States, but every election day the voters
of that region go to the polls and vote on
"the niger question" instead Of the live
issues. IT,
The result is that while the brains Of
the south are in large measure on the side
of the republican policies Of protection and
expansion and. are convinced that those
policies are Indispensable to the develop
ment of the south, the possessors Of those
brains go regularly and laughably to the
polls and enroll themselves in. the ranks Of
the party that opposes both policies.
We need not dwell on the menace to the
nation of the withdrawal from active
politics of SO large a portion of the electer-
ate nor the injuries sustained by that
portion in SO withdrawing. ..rs' "
Judge speer thinks that the remedy is in
the enactment of impartial laws which
will exclude from the franchise the venal
the ignorant and the worthless, white or
black. Under such laws there ought not
even to be a shade of a specter to trouble
the bosey-fearing southerners. The
trouble is in getting such impartial laws,
No one would find fault with the south if
its recent notifications Of its franchise
laws were impartial or were impart1ally
administered. They perpetuate the fric-
ton between the races by making no dis
t1nct1on between the worthless black and
the valuable black or between the literate
white and the illiterate white. The mans
individual qualifications, not the color OF
his skin should govern his access tn the
polls. rs
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The New York Commercial and Financial

The New York Commercial and Financial
Chronicle calls attention to the immense
financial power of some Of the great rail-
way companies. The Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul carries over s2o,o00,0o0 in cash;
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. $21,-
100000; the Canadian Pacific, SIS, 900, 900;
the New York Central, s15,0o0,O00; the
Baltimore & Ohio, s16,0Oo,oOo; the North
ern Pacific, ss,ooo,ooo the Burlington,
ss,ooosooo and the. Great Northern $4,000
900. But all of these vast cash sums
dWindle in comparison with the United
States Steel connpany's, which, on Nov. go,
had 55,o0O,0o0 in cash. A comparison
OF those figures gives pretty good idea
Of the colossal greatness of the steel
trust.
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The "Ren hurv Sale.

At a. m. tomorrow morning the ad-
vance sale for the engagement of Ben
Hur' will open at the Lyceum theater
box office. The engagement is for one
week. commencing Monday evening, (Sun-
day being omitte6 and matinees are for
Wednesday, New Years Day and Satur-
day. An unusual interest is manifested
locally and it is likely that the receipts
during the. engagement here will exceed
any previous record reached in Minne-
apolis theater for a single week This
fact is. true in every city Ben Hur'' has
played, as it appeals to- a class of people
who seldom attend theater, as well as
the habitual patron Of the playhouse.
Seats will be placed on sale tomorrow
seats. including those lin the gallery, will
be sold with reserved seat coupons.
Every precaution will be taken against
SPECTATORS
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Copyright, 1902, by ri c. Mcclure.

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1t was three days before Christmas,
Rodney Burke separated his dimiputive
frame from the seething crowd of human
ity that pressed along the street and
paused before a, plate glass window which
above all others attracted him. This was
not department store OF candy store or
a bakeshop. Inside there were neither
teys nor slcds nor good Things to eat, but
It held those things upon which Rodney
Burke had Toasted his small eyes for many
days. And now he looked, with his whole
soul in his giance-he looked and looked
and looked. He shifted the air and imaE-
1ned to himself that already he was en-
Joying the good things within.
For 1t was cigar store, store OF
the better class, full OF pipes and tobac-
co and cigarets and chewing tobacco and
everything that ends In smoke.
In the front of the window Immediately
under the olfactory nerves Of Mr.. Rodney
Burke was a pipe-not an expensive one
but one of just the make and pattern
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23
LITERARY NOTES.

Harper's Magazine in 1903 will contain
papers by Israel zangwill descriptive Of
his travel in out-of-the-way places in
Italy. with Illustrations.
Ralph Connors" Rev. c.. W. Gordon)
books have been sold. to the extent OF
three quarters Of a million copies.
The Century Company announces Sc
ries OF letters written by Poe to DR..
Thomas Chivers OF Georgia, to be pub
hshed In THE Century,"
Kate Douglas Virgins, 1.-THE Birds
Christmas Carol has sold to the extent OF
300. 600 copies since the first publication
sixteen years ago.
Houghton. Mifflin & Co announces
American Diplomacy in the Orient by
John w. Foster, the distinguished d.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23

and the delicious freshness of his thought
have provided a place for his essays and
sketches in every well-selected library. In
this book we have him rather as the lite
rary critic. Some notion of the purpose
Of this volume may be derived from the
opening page. where he says: THE day
inevitably comes to every writer when he
must take his place among the silent
throng of the past, when no new work
from his pen can call. attention to him
afresh. when the partially of his friends
no longer counts, when his friends and
admirers are themselves gathered to the
same silent throng and the spirit of the
day in which he wrote has given place to
the spirit of another and a different day.
How. oh. how would it fare with him
then? How is 1t going to fare with Lowell
and Longfeilow and Whittier and Elmer
son, and all the rest of them?.' This is a
solemn thought to begin q book with. but
nevertheless an interesting one 1t starts
the business Of speculation. which is car
ried along by Mr. Burroughs while he
gives Us in a suggestive sort of way his
own conception of literary values. meas
uring up by the standard that "only an
honest book can live. only absolute sin
certify can stand the test of time Some
Of these essays are taken from the Attain
tic and the Century, others appear here
for the first time.
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CONTEMPT of Law.

+ The January number of McClure's Mag
azine has an exceedingly significant note
at the end of the contributed articles. This
note is suggested by three articles which
appear in this number. The first is enti-
tied ''The Shame of Minneapolis the sec
ond is the current chapter of Miss Tar
bells "History of the Standard Oil Com
pany," and the third is Roy Stannard Ba-
ker's "The Right to Work. an account of
the prosecutions and violence inflicted
upon the union men who saw fit to
continue at their work during the strike
in the anthracite regions. @s~ - 80. "a !
The editor Of McClure's calls attention
to the fact that one heading might have
been applied with equal propriety to each
one of these three articles, namely 1.-THE
American Contempt of Law Miss Tar
bell shows capitalists :conspiring to break
the law and abusing the privileges which it
confers by running others who stand in
the way of their success. Mr.. Baker pre-
sents + story Of prosecutions and
crimes against individual liberty, and Mr.
Steffens; in 1.-THE Shame of Minneapolis
exposes the disgrace Of a,-nuncipal adj
ministration, a conspiracy with criminals
to- commit crimes for the profit of elected
officials, while citizens mildly deplore and
complacently fail to do anything to pre-
vent the commission Of these crimes.
With; Ca pitalists, oworkingme politi-
clans and citizens all breaking the law or
allowing it to be broken the editor Of
McClure's asks: Who is left to uphold it?
Not the lawyers, he says, because some of
the best:of them are hired to devise meth
DDS of evading the law; as for the judges,
some Of them have so much respect for
some error or technicality that they re-
store to liberty men convicted on testi-
to the lay mind. Nor, says this editor,
can we rely upon the churches, for even
the church has been compelled by a Tam
many oficeholder. to put its tenements in
a sanitary condition. -" I
The incident Of the publicat ton Of these
three articles at the same time iii one of
the leading magazines, with the lessons
which they teach is certainly significant,
Indeed, the tendency which they reveal
toward contempt of law by: capital, by or
ganized labor and by elected officials is
an alarming fact. When contempt Of law
has produced It's natural and logical con-
ditions, where Is the safety for capital,
where is the liberty of the workingnan,
how shall the state be maintained? Here
in Minneapolis. courageous, intelligent ac-
tion of citizens has corrected the contempt
of law by elected officials. Minneapolis
has been redeemed for the time being, at
least. What of organized capital and OF
ganized labor? Shall they be permitted
to continue their disregard of law until
the time has come when there
is no longer. any protection in
the law for capital Or any surety
ual?- BY as much as it behooves the citi-
zen to maintain respect for law and f1del-
ity in it's enforcement on the part of
elected officials, by SO much it >behooves
capital to render obedience to iawj and
organized labor to respect in others the
liberty which it claims for itself. Without
this there is anarchy
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23

Interest in the western Ontario gold
fields seems to be reviving,. especially In
Lake of the Woods and Wabigoon dis
tricts. Much fresh capital is going into
those regions, chiefly from the eastern
part of the United States. Our Minnesota
people seem to have got about all Of the
gold mines in that part Of the country
that they care for. Yet their fate may
be that Of so many Of the pioneers in min
ing. The country they discovered may yet
yield much to their successors.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23
Books and Authors
Twelve Best Novels.

- The London Academy has announced the
result of it's "plebiscite'' or open voting
upon the best novels of the year While
it is said that genius has no nationality
1t will be matter of patriotic pride to
many Americans that in an election where
voting was limited to British readers the
work Of a daughter of Boston has carried
: The order in which the books were
placed by the voters follows: Love and
the Soul Hunters, The Vultures, Temporal
Power, The Intrusions of Peggy. Fuel of
Fire, The Lady Paramount, The Hound of
the Ba skerTilles, Audrey Love with
Honor. The River, Scarlet and Hyssop.
The Sea Lady. "
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23

States act as debt collector for them
in South America. They have, found the
task of collecting their claims themselves,
so unpleasant that they are quite willing
to pass it on to the United States. The
president should leave them alone to fry
in their own fat. 1t is bad enough for us
to tolerate the national collection Of priv
vate European claims in South America,
without taking a hand in the same bust
ness by proxy. ..s"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23

Houghton, Miflin & Co. announce linn
tied edition (525 copies) OF Lowell,s anti
slavery papers. which are among the most
forceful and eloquent papers OF the period
OF anti-slavery agitation. This Arm have
recently issued "A Primer of. Right and
Wrong, by J. N. Larned for the use OF
young people. @
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23

All the nations of Europe seem to be hot
three little fellows and France which, by
the way; has as much at stake as any Of
them. Why doesn't France get busy?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23

What a difference between the meaning
Of the word Venezuela to US, now and
seven years ago. Then we were ready to
fight at the drop of the hat, for the little
republic;. now we are leaving her alone to
the worrying of Germany and England.
The difference is the difference between
being mad and being Indifferent
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23

The latest American peril discovered by
an Englishman Is that there are too few
children In the United States. He fears
the approach of a time when a handful
of Americans will be lost on great con-
tlnent, as the Indians were before them,
Our population Increased $4,000, 900 in the
last decade .;.st 49,. -. ;..,.- =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23

Milwaukee suffers from the inevitable pen
atty of it's greatness. But can we not
sympathize? Have we not suffered on
account Of the tradition that Minneapolis
pulpits shun texts from ST. Paul and in
| other ways? -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-23

It is estimated that the Transvaal gold
mines will be exhausted within. twenty
years. Had they been exhausted four
years ago there would have been no South
African war. 40