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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
UNFAIR NEWS SELECTION.

The Outlook criticiZes the Associated
Press and special correspondents for the
frivolous and unfair treatment given to
| reform movements by the press dis
patches and particularly cites the amaz-
Chicago election.
1t appears that the criticism is we'll
founded in this particular instance at
least. The meager reports sent out by the
Associated Press gave the people of the
country no adequate conception Of what
a victory for reform was won in Chicago.
They were largely taken up with an an
nouncement Of the reelection Of Bath
house John" Coughlin. Except that the
referendum votes were recorded, one
might have imagined that the whole re-
suit Of the Chicago elections was vic
tory for Coughlin.
In fact the election was a great victory
for reform, the voters league and the
people. OF thirty-six aldermanic candt-
dates Endorsed by the league twenty eight
were elected and only eight were defeat
ed. Seven gray wolves" were reelected
and six were defeated. If the dispatches
had been dealing with a sensational
Doodle story in the Chicago council they
would have given us all the pitiful de-
tails. but when the masses of a great
city vote overwhelmingly for better gov
eminent and declare by astounding ma
jorities in favor of municipal ownership
of public utilities we get few meager
lines and nothing more.
The Chicago election was epochal and
yet the Associated Press gave it less
room than it would prize fight in which
two-thirds of the average respectable
newspaper readers have no interest at
ALL
A similar criticism may be made in re-
gard to the public scandals in St. Louis
The Associated Press gave us the grand
jury's scathing attack on the aldermen,
but 1t has not followed it up with the
account of how the jury has brought in
indictments that show no respect for sta
t1on or fat purses, and that are likely
to result in trials that will make boodling
| unpopular in St. Louis for years to come.
The people of this country are not so
depraved that they consider that news is
| only accounts of criminal acts or exposes
of crime and scandal. They have their
proper place in the news calendar, but
the people like also to know of achieve
ments that are sensational in the manner
in which they make for good and are re-
freshing in the way in which they Offset
the chronicles of evil
The news noses Of many of the corre-
spondents are too much trained for crime
and scandal and business developments,
while lacking keenness for inspiring facts
that record social progress and inspire
hopes for better things.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
The BURNING BRITISH QUESTION.

1t is reported from London that King
Edward VII. has just decided a most mo-
mentous question touching the corona
ton pageant, viz, whether the peeresses
shall wear their coronets or modest gilt
circlets. He has determined, after long
wrestling with the important question,
that his original decree that these ladies
shall be content with inconspicuous cir
clets (and they only gilt shall be can
celed. and that they may wear their
coronets.
His majesty has sent Joy In delicious
thrills through the whole aggregation of
peeresses, who had become very melan-
choly under the original royal mandate, and
it is said that the change was brought about
chiefly through the irresistible insistence
of the peeresses Of American birth, who
would never be content unless they had
'the whole thing" so to speak, In the
costuming process at the coronation in
June.
Your American-born peeress is always
| the most inslstent upon acquiring and
enjoying all the honors incident to the
social position she has entered by marry
ing title. If she makes the change, she
wants everything she can possibly get
| out OF it. Let us not blame her. She
only wants her moneys worth.
The three Cation girls of Baltimore
the three graces,'' as they were called
set the example sixty or seventy years
ago of marrying English titles The
example has been sedulously followed
ever since. and the passion for titles
has been so strong that our American
| girls have married many German, French,
Italian, Spanish and even Russian titles.
However, that Is not closely relevant to
| the subject.
The dominant topic in England, to-day,
| is really that related to millinery, Dress
making and ornament. The Chinese ques-
ton, the South African war, the British
budget appear to be matters of secondary
Importance Even the Irish land and ten
ant business and agrarian outrages on the
Emerald Isle are dismissed from the royal
mind. King Edward is occupied with
the formulation of articles Of faith sar-
torial, after the manner OF the eminent
Professor Teufelsdrockh, whose Boswell
the late Thomas Carlyle became
| From early morn till dewy eve his
majesty has been for months devoting
himself to the details of the spectacular
rite in Westminster and Of the pageantry
Of the royal procession He recalls that
his neighbor, the Gear Nicholas. was
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
Cruelty in samar.

New York Mall and Expressive have no
sympathy for the sentimenta1ity which howls
because war brings inevitable hardships. Cod
ding an enemy and carrying on campaign
on the plan of a benevolent picnic will not
come into vogue until the millennium. which
has not yet arrived in the Philippines, South
Africa or China. But because We decline to
join in puerile and slanderous attacks upon
our soldiers, our condemnation Is all tho
stronger when real abuse or authority pre-
sents ITSELF It seems certain that ind :
fensble cruelty has existed in Samar. The
guilty man must be discovered. and whatever
his rank and past services, he must be made
to pay penalty commensurate in severity
with his ofense against American civiliza-
ton and the honor Of our army.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

The most ludicrous inconsist ency of the
beet sugar champions in congress is their
assertion that while opposing the slight
est reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar
they do not fear annexation and free
trade. They will lead, they argue, to di-
versification of Cuba's agriculture and a
consequent reduction in its sugar output.
Why won't good liberal reduction in
the tariff or free trade without annexa-
ton have the same effect?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
"OuT OF MOUTHS OF BABES" ETC

Men OF special knowledge or experience
are likely to be very sure that no per-
son not having similar training or ex-
perience to their own can ever give them
any valuable suggestions. Railroad men
are specially prominent in the public
view as class of men who are quite
sure that all knowledge and wisdom per-
tanning to railroads was born and will
die with them.
This sureness Is especially arrogant
and exasperating when question of traf-
fic' rates is involved. The layman must,
in the nature Of things. be SO hopelessly
incapable Of knowing anything about this
subject, and, much more, of coming to
an intelligent conclusion on any phase of
1t, that the omniscient railroad man
waves aside as puerile any suggestion he
may make.
Yet the distant view has advantages as
well as the close one. The telescope has
certain advantages over the microscope.
The microscope may show how many
microbes there are in a square MILL
meter, but it will never give the eye
above it a general knowledge of the
aspect of the world. So the man of special
knowledge, knowing every detail OF the
accepted wisdom of his business, may
sometimes lack the general view and it's
advantages. The outsider who knows lit
tie of the technical part of a business,
and is therefore not in bondage to rules
accepted without question by the initi-
ated, may sometimes have the temerity
to question them and the enterprise to
answer his question.
A case in point is the success of Mr..
Charles Bovey, one of the local millers,
in demonstrating the fallacy of railway
traffic managers traditional doctrine that
freight cars cannot be loaded to their
full capacity with -four. For that reason
they have imposed heavier freight rates
on export flour than on export wheat.
Although they have stubbornly opposed
all requests from the millers for conces-
sions. until recently, it has now been
demonstrated that they were taking a
position without any adequate knowledge
of the facts. It appears that they
weren't even aware that export flour is
largely packed in sacks instead of bar
rels. 1t is true that -four in barrels can
not be loaded as economically as wheat.
Mr.. Bovey, unawed by the accumulated
wisdom of railroad experience, simply
went to work and loaded car with -four
in sacks until 1t exceeded the registered
capacity of the car by 10000 pounds. The
railroad officials were afraid to haul the
car and sent it back to be lightened.
Aside from this particular graphic demon
stration. which was illustrated in T b e
] Journal yesterday, it is learned that
in the regular course of business the mill
ers have repeatedly loaded cars to their
full capacity. And yet the railroads keep
on charging discriminating rates. The
western railroad men have seen the light
from lay source, but as yet the eastern
men are still enjoying their blissful
ignorance. The despised outsiders will
now have to convert them to the truth.
Now that the British have given the
BOer leaders an oppOrtunity to confer and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

Missourians are more attached to their
mules than to the Beers. They were
ready to 'holler' for the Beers as long
as 1t didn't cost anything, but when there
is prospect that strict enforcement Of
neutrality may keep the British from
buying their mules they suddenly dis
cover that on the whole they never did
have much of an opinion of the Beers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
FRENCH EXPLORATION IN AFRICA.

I The French seem to be about as much
in the van in exploring tropical Africa
| as they were in penetrating the American
| wilderness. France probably has to-day
in the field more dauntless and determined
explorers of the dark continent than any
other nation. No obstacle is too great
for them, no native tribe is too powerful
for them to beard, neither the terrors Of
the climate nor the hardships of the
jungles and deserts are able to stop their
progress Soldiers and men Of science
| march and fight and explore and investi-
gate together. At this moment latitude
and longitude are determined with the
instruments and the next moment there is
| a wild melee with the Touaregs.
In the April number Of the National
Geographic Magazine Charles Rabot tells
the intensely interesting story of some
of these recent explorations, from the
wonderful crossing of Africa by Major
Marchand of Fashoda fame. to the most
| recent exploits. Though the Marchand
expedition was a political failure, it was
! a magnificent success from geographi-
cal point of view and a glorious addition
to the roll OF great achievements in the
face of the most disheartening Difficult
ties. Only a man of iron could have done
what Marchand did, and though 1t was de-
MED to him to cut the British empire
of Africa in twain, he will still have q
bright page in history. In dragging to
the very heart of Africa the boats re-
quired for the trip on the Nile, Marchand
and his party accomplished the seemingly
impossible. They passed through great
regions where white men had never been
before, and Lieutenant Commander Dye.
the astronomer Of the expedition, do
termined the position Of rs points between
Bangui in the Congo basin and Jibuu on
the Red sea.
While Marchand was toiling In the basin
of the Nile, Fernand Foureau. escorted
by 285 Algerian soldiers. set out to cross
the Sahara from French Algeria to French
Soudan. After a year and half of con-
slant struggle with the desert and the
Touaregs, and the loss Of most of his sup
plies and the thousand camels he set out
with, Foureau reached Finder, the ex-
IRENE eastern French post in the soudan.
Proceeding east from Finder to Lake
Tehad, Foureau there met expeditions
under the command, of Lieutenant Joal-
| land and M. Gentil, the one from the
west, the other. from the south The
| union Of these three parties established
French control over the Tchad region.
| Seven hundred strong. the united expe-
ditions attacked Sultan Rabah. who had
1000 men, 1000 armed with modern
rifles. and completely defeated him.
| During December, 1899. and January
and February. 1900, the scientist NJ.
Flamand explored the oasis OF Tibikelt,
Isouth Of Algeria, The wild Arabs at
tackled him, but with the aid Of his hun
dred Algerian Arabs Flamand routed them
and won the oasis for France. In West
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
THE sANDPIPER
/ watch him as he skins along
,Uttering his sweet and mournful q

q watch MIN as ne sklms along ~
Uttering his sweet and mournful cry;
He starts not at my ftful song,
+ Nor fash of huttering drapery.
He has no thought Of any wrong;
y He scans me with q fearless eye
Stanch friends are we, well-trted and strong
& The little sandpiper and I.
Conrade, where wilt thou be tonight
When thel loosed storm breaks furiously?
My sdriftwood Are: will burn SO bright!
To what warm shelter canst thou ny9
u do not fear TOR thee. though wroth
The tempest rushes through the sky;
For are ne not Gods children both,
Thou. littls5 ipsss md -
e: Gala ThaxtsC.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
CURRENT COMMENT
The Sugar War.

New York Times-There is nothing at all
unlikely in the alleged purchases of paying
sugar beet plants in Colorado by the sugar
trust. It would simply show that the sugar
trust, on investigation, had found that the
representations Of Messrs. Oxnard and Bay
ard Cutting as to the profits in the beet
sugar business were approximately true II
any one can make money out of this industry,
the Havemeyers may be expected to do SO.
and they may confidently be counted on not
to go into It unless they can make money
out OF it
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
The Autocrat Of the Back yard.

The furnace like the morning papers edi-
torial force, usually goes OUT late at might
Or early In the morning. but not for the same
reason. The furnace doesn't blow of the
froth and come back again. It stays out.
And then the weather changes and gets cold
around the edges, which curl up, and it Is
necessary for somebody to get UP and start
the furnace early-say at 5: 80 tot q. m.
One OF the best ways to start the fire is
to shoulder an ak and go out all over the
block looking for dead ond down timber.
The Peewee Association allows this practice
under bylaw regarding exercise II you
go out after exercise and an appetite, Incl
dentally you are allowed to bring in a little
timber. In the Bankers Association the only
exercises allowed under the bylaw are golf
and walking leisurely down town after break
fast. But the Peewee Association does not
draw the line quite SO tight 1t is allowable
to rake the lawn, cut the grass, gather wood.
and, In addition to this, the whole Peewee
Association rides down town on bicycles. The
care Of the furnace also comes under the by
law.
Having secured several dead and downs,
and having sawed them up-and down, too,
for that matter; in fact having sawed them
in both directions-the ashes are pried out
from the frebox, which is then filled with
old mining stock, government reports and
piu0 WOOuy e1LlU lu0 SHa00 IUuSuSu Oh. Ou
know the rest-how the house gets full Of
smoke etc., etc..
There is a good deal to be said in favor of
saving dead oak wood with the old wood file
| that goes with the house when it Is sold.
This old file is by courtesy called saw,
sometimes buck saw. It was sharpeped
in 1868 and has been in steady use since that
date, barring the year 1868, when grand
father died. The boys sawed up the fence
with 1t in 1872 and ran 1t upon several spikes
and through number of smaller nails before
they found out what made it run SO hard
The boys also used to grease 1t with bacon
rind to make 1t run easier. Dear old saw!
How it recalls the days that are past!
To attempt to saw an oak log with the
family file is crime against nature, an in
suit to civilization, q wrench to mans higher
faculties. But there are men in full possess
sion Of their senses in all other ways. who
try just such feats as this. Instead of reor-
ganizing railroads or developing city proper
ty. there they are but using up their facu-
ties on an old log of wood and a barrel hoop
with notches in it called saw. By the time
they are dead they have saved at least 76c
worth Of wood. Well, that's something.
And here we have been talking all this time,
and the furnace Ia out again.
I'D "a ], Russell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

The tailors have decided that hereafter
the wearing OF good clothes shall be
prlma facie evidence that the wearer pays
his bills. because no others will be al
lowed to have them That ought to give
quite stimulus to the tailoring business.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North
ern was granted terminal concessions by
the council last night. Well, that's all
right. It's been a long time since Min
neapolis could play bluff hand with any
degree of success.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

Even on the issue OF sympathy with
gether. Louisiana and Missouri will
never permit any political issue to strike
a blow at the sacred trade in mules.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

Disorders in Russia, Belgium and Spain
seem to show that unrest in Europe is
once again becoming formidable. In
Europe progress comes largely through
revolution. 1t may be time for another
step forward
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

The president has picked out for pen
sion commissioner one of 'them d-n
literary fellers." Like the old man in
Riley's poem, Mr.. Roosevelt seems to
have been
"Clean captured, like, with them air Rhymes
of that air 1ronquill''
And perhaps he relies upon ''them air
rhymes of that air IronquilI' to ':cap-
ture" the old soldier boys when they
begin to feel as they sometimes do, that
the pension department is not quite as
friendly to them as 1t ought to be. No
telling what Evans might have done If
he had been able to turn out
"A crop of songs as glorious as
Rhymes Of Ironquill.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

The Pioneer Press still speaks of st.
Paul as the commercial metropolis of
the northwest" It sounds funny, but If
1t makes the people down the river feel
better to hang on to the notion that St.
Paul is still the metropolis Of anything
more than Ramsey county, perhaps they:
ought to be allowed to indulge. in the
pleasant delusion. d
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
A NORTHERN SECURITIES DIsAPPOINT
MENT


We confess that one of the most reas-
surfing incidents Of Northern Securities
company litigation has been the surpris-
ing respect for the courts shown by merg-
er officials. friends, champions, attorneys,
and clients. With an air of sanctity
one and all of them, from Mr.. Hill down
to smallest servitor, have expressed their
satisfaction that the opposition to their
company was to be settled in the courts;
adding, by way of postscript, something to
the effect that the truth is mighty and
will prevail Is it not known Of all men.
they said in substance, that courts are the
medium of Justice? Wherefore, then,
should we fear that our just company, in
tended for the protection of the in
vested savings Of the poor widow and
orphan and number of men of advanced
years-"abCut 85"-should be injured by
the courts? Rather do we welcome the
scrutiny of the courts, for thus may we be
indicated beyond all reproach.
But again has our childlike trust in
human nature been disappointed. We be-
gin to fear that the promoters spoke fair
but false words. There is not that cor
roboration of their words by their acts
that we would, with our poor weak reason.
expect to see. 1t grieves us to admit It,
but we cannot deny that this company
after it's fine and touching protestations Of
confidence in the courts has stubbornly
resisted all efforts to get the case into
court. 1t opposed jurisdiction by the
United States supreme court in the case
brought before that tribunal by the state
of Minnesota. 1t is opposing jurisdiction
in the case brought before the same court
by the state Of Washington, and it Is
finally opposing the jurisdiction of the
state courts In the case brought by the
state in the Minnesota courts.
1t may be that these facts in some way
belle the company's intentions. We don't
know how, but our faith in its protesta-
lions was so strong that we still have a
hope that somehow in its own good time
the company will re-establish its reputa-
ton and return to the odor. of sanctity.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed.

Casually Observed.
A new song is out called II Love You Just
Because Do.''iThis is amuch better rea-
son than those usually presented. ~ IS
After all this fuss, Cecil Rhodes estate
will pan out barely a paltry SIS, 0O0. 000i The
derisiye laughter of Roc.5efeler, Morgan and
Carnegie will be heard when they think of
a little fellow like. Rhodes trying toibutt In S.
The method of trying to make dishonest
men honest by sending them TO the city
council is good deal like purifying the water
supply by running the sewage into the Mis-
sissippt river.
Captain John Fichette is valuable man
to the administration because he is an au-
thority on Holsters.
The Seattle Times says that Minneapolis
never tries an Ames administration twice run
ming. This seems to indicate the necessity
Of time for recovery.
Texas strawberries are bringing back some
OF the soil that the Mississippi has taken
down to the gulf.
Puget sound was heard for several blocks
when Blanche Walsh carelessly leaned on It,
II the farmers OF Indiana and Illinois know
their business, they will stand out in their
fields each with his ak and knock over every
seventeen year locust as he comes out his
hole
Louisville's health officer, who barred lin
burger cheese, is now prosecuting dealers in
secondhand goods who do not fuanigate their
stock. The city contains about as Disguised
set of microbes as ever nested in = water
supply.
Every time the waves rise high In watered
stock, somebody says Its Morgan's."
K. Y. q. has broken out again and is run
ming Colonel Hicks of Missouri close sec
ond. on weather guesses So far Colonel
Hicks is one lap ahead. having predicted
"grasshoppers
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

porarily closed one-half their grinding
capacity, owing principally to slow flour
demand and unsatisfactory freight rates,
but in some degree also to the relatively
higher prices for cash wheat here as COM
pared with other markets. For the week
the exports of wheat and -four were light
er, showing 2,S4s,0O0 bushels, compared
with 4,446,0O0 bushels in the previous
week and 4,976, 900 last year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
APRIL

April, April.
Laugh thy giriish laughter.
Then. the moment after.
Weep thy girlish tears!
April, that mine ears
Like lover greetest,
II ! tell thee. sweetest,
All my hopes and fears. 4
April, April,
Laugh thy golden laughtsA
But, the moment after,
Weep thy golden tears!
Wiliiam wskson,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

Now that the British have given the
Boer leaders an opportunity to confer and
arrange another plan Of campaign the
war will go on again.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

. The following Is significant from the
Crookston Times. an Independent paper with
sleeningn: