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Sound Money and Sound Stocks.

J. Adam Bede, congressman elect from
the ninth district, has some ideas of hand
ling the trusts which he expressed effec-
lively before a Minneapolis literary and
social club a few days ago., Mr.. Bede
calls attention to the fact that six years
ago We had a great political battle in this
state over the integrity Of our currency
One party insisted that every dollar should
contain one hundred cents Of value and
that 50-cent dollars or dollars of any other
value could not be tolerated. why not,
asked Mr.. Bede, apply this rule to corpo-
ration stocks and require that every share
Of stock issued shall represent actual
value, and that every share sold shall be
sold at par? In other words, make your
shares Of stock like your bank notes and
treasury notes, stand for 100 cents on the
dollar.
The demand that we shall treat securi-
ties of this kind as we treat forms of
money Is not a new idea, but Mr.. Bede
has an effective way of putting it. I'm
doubtedly such requirement with regard
to the stocks and the great AtrustsSwould
wipe out in a large measure the evils COM
planned of. Such a requirement, for in
stance. would have made it unnecessary
for Attorney General Knox to criticise
the great Northern Securities Company
for the issue of two hundred million Of
water. When the water is squeezed out
of all thes trust stocks 1t will
be much easier to prevent abuses
of their privileges by these great
chartered institutions. Earnings can
no longer be collected upon fictitious
capitalization and the promoting Of mo-
nopoly will lose much Of its charm for
promoter and speculator Sound money
and sound stocks should go together. We
have secured the one; why not have the
other?
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THANksGi,yiNG


We thank Thee, Father, for this land
where man Il a.:
Is man for what he wills and what he can;
Where thought and word, as plow or pen.
are free, t;F
And brother he WHO brother Wills to be.
We thank Thee for the unmeasured depth
: - Of sky, i
Where eagles soar@@and little sparrows fly:
For lakes and forests and the inviting
Wherein = Thy sons, from over mount and
Build freems;n's homes and gather from
The due rewards of thought. and honest
toll.
We thank Thee for the plow, the up
turned sod,
And for the worm, that works the plan
Of God.
We thank Thee for the lowly cottage and
it's rest
Where peace, contentment, song and
mirth are blest;
Where love with mingled prayer and sim
pie ways
Give surest riches, faith and length Of
days.
For; homes Of wealth. we thank, for gems
Where beauty dwells with purity of heart.
We thank Thee for the dawn of golden
light,
And for the sheltering mantle of the
night;
For midday glory and the strengthening
T. morn, $3.50
And for the grain, the grass, the rose, the
thorn;
For pain and care that teach the soul to
And seek its solace on the better shore.
We thank for peace, for love of man, Of
God;
We thank for war, when war is but a rod
To right the wrong and pave the path to
peace
And teach to man that war from greed
must cease.
For love Of truth, we thank, for truth to
love
Whose fruit shall ripen in. the home above.
Peter Hendrickson.
Donnybrook, N. d. ":'%s =; .-~'@
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mot Yeti"

When the distinguished Augustine,
bishop of Hippo Africa, was a young man
of the Roman fast and smart set, very
perilous suburra, he heard a sermon
which, with the memory of his mothers
early teaching, led him to pause in his
fatuous career and seek reformation by
returning to his early parental teaching.
But, while praying for divine aid, he
would weakly end his appeals for deliver
ance from the false choices of his metro
politan career with Not yet, O Lord!
Not YETI He didn't want to apply the
knife and cut loose from his illusions and
decisions. 800 - $500"
Very like the Fabian inclination Of the
hesitant Augustine is the position of those
who, while not in sympathy with the ele-
ment of extremists whose watchword is
Don't touch the tariff" are free: to ex-
press their conviction that tariff revision
in several, schedules is absolute neces-
sity, but conclude such rational admission
a matter Of sound business policy and real
national benefit and an urgent necessity,
they yet declare that the work must not
be attempted yet; it must be adjourned to
some future date, unnamed, for, say they
eff you push needed tariff revision now
you will ruinously disturb business, and
this must not be attempted"
Well, if this is not a favorable time to
perform this national duty; if, when the
country is prosperous and business is ex-
panding in both the domestic and foreign
fields, the country will be "ruined' if
some unnecessary apd 'exorbitant duties
are reduced or abolished, when, in the
name Of common business sense, do these
persons want tariff revision to take place?
r 'Wait until after the presidential cleo
ton. of 1904" say they. Well, suppose
revision waits. Is there any assurance
that, if the republican party, on whom the
duty of revision devolves, is continued in
power for another four years, we should
not hear the old cries: Don't touch-the-
tariff and mot yet; not yet! You will
ruin the country? -. -..... 50
The public has become familiar with
Torrance Of an obvious national duty
They. loyal to the principle of protection
and its recognition in tariff making after
the scientific method, the only equitable
method, cannot be disturbed by the cry
Of Free trade!' applied. to revisioncor to
concessions in the making of reciprocity
treaties with the trading nations of the
world It is, said that the president and
his advisers, with respect to the tariff
commission plan, only wish to reach a sci
entif1c basis for revision through the wis
dom Of the commission. The scientific
method is well known-levying duty on
the foreign imported product equal to the
sum of the difference between the cost Of
it's production abroad and the cost Of it's
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here, Perfect wreck of her old self. Used
to know her here in Green Lake years
ago." -
That was ALL Then she escaped unnO-
ticed through the nearest doorway.
Wreck, Of, her old self" Truly that de-
scrihed her, she thought. -.
She rem en1bered, with a, dull ache. how
it had been in those years ago when she
was sweet and 20, when Warren Heath
cote had called her "Eglantine'' and talked
delicious nonsense about the pink in her
cheek that rivaied the tint of the sweet
brier she had so loved to wear in her hair.
All, the sweetbrer pink had gone from
her cheek along with it's soft contour.
For Jacks sake and for IIelen's.' she
sighed. land who cares now? Jack has
forgotten me for the new wife. and Helen
soon will forget for the fair new mother.
All. no. not Helen. my little girl. my pre-
cious baby. who has grown. dearer and
dearera to me with each succeeding year.
To be parted from her now ~, =. .
And then a choke III her throat sent
Miss Lands i'll blind haste to her trunk.
where she hunted with sort of fury for
a wrap. Il must get out-out under the
blue and the stars. What a mountain of
seltishness L am: With Helen we'll and
Jacks broken life complete I ought to be
happy But down in her heart under
all her brave words remained the bitter
thought that, her beloved brother. for
whose sake she had given up her youth
and her love, had left her utterly out Of
his plans for the establishment of his
home.
Forlornly she wandered down one Of the
darkling paths that lay like molten silver
in the moonlight; and there the voice from
the ballroom. sounded again in her ears.
And Jack is married again, you say?"
another voice questioned.
Emily Lands felt her heart leap within
her. Was it, could it be Warren Heath
cote whom she heard-Warren, who had
vanished from her life as completely as
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erence Of the whole matter to the powers.
was recognized by the English, American
and German consular representatives.
"Then Admiral Kautz arrived, a would
be Dewey, who prccipitately Cancelled the
existing nodus viVendi.~~ Mataafa must
be put in the wrong, and that quickly.
otherwise Gin view of the German Consul
General Roses assurance about the proto-
cols) the powers would be certain to
maintain him rs king, Kautz thereupon
ordered Mataafa to leave Merlenu, the
seat of government, and installed Tanu in
his place.
Hostilities again began between the two
parties, and KautZ, we'll satisfied imme-
diately sieNed the Mataafa people wher-
ever found.
His generalship was on par with his
humanity; he Contrived to get us badly
beaten at the battle of Vailele, and has
blUndered away precious American lives
His only. successful engagement has
been the COMPARTMENT of villages full
OF women and children. One might think
him ,ayenging some~terrible wrong. Admit
cal Kautz and William NJ. >Chambers-on
the heads of these two must the guilt be.
But on US all the money damages. These
should set us all wishing our representa-
tives were less open to "entangling alli-
ances,' and our carriers of the gospel to
the hea then less eager to lean on 1.-THE
arm Of the f1esh.'' Martin Mahoney.
Hopkins, MINI. -. r..
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The interesting spectacle was seen yes
terday of three members Of the Hennepin
house delegation trying their level best
to secure the election of an anti-adminis-
tratiou candidate for the office of speaker.
Armstrong and Fryberger went all the
way to Crookston to help nominate the
Great Eorthern's candidate for speaker,
and Mr.. Stevenson spent the day at Man
kato for the same purpose. The question
is, how do the constituents of these repre-
sentatives regard the ''pernicious activity
Of their representatives against the adj
ninistration. While representative is
undoubtedly the custodian of his own
vote in matters of that kind, it is safe to
say that not one Of these gentlemen could
be elected to the house on the under
standing that he was to take the position
Of the speakership which he has assumed
Mr.. Nolan, who has exhibited signs of be-
ing a ':knocker' has been notified by his
constituents that they expect him to op-
pose DR.. Babcock for the speakership
Nolan is professional jester, but is likely
to learn that the demand of his constitu-
ents is no joke.
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your comments on this incident, and wish
they might be often repeated. They hold
the sum and substance of argument
against strong drink and in favor of total
abstainng from its use. Let us say it
again with slight variation, .e-.-.-
while strong drink does stupefy and
benumb. it is probable that we do not
drink because we are alert and energetic
as much as that we are alert and ener-
getic' because we do not drink.
1.-The man who drinks to excess, ana
sometimes the man who drinks even a
little, cannot keep up with the man who
doesn't drink The pace Of American life
is too swift for the drinker.'
Good very good. - d.
And where is the drunken man wantedf
The railroads do not want him. No, in
deed. and they will not have him. Can
he fill any good place in any one OF the
professions. Do people accept the SerV-
ices of a drinking doctor. a drinking law
YER or one Of this sort through the entire
list of people called to serve their fellow
men in any capacity whatever? All
through the ages since the day of Noahs
debauch and shame. it has been fully DEM
onstrated that a drunken being is de-
based. disheartened and deplorably un-
done creature. both in soul and body
Think of the many. many. sad, heart
sickening demonstra tons. And should
we not be devoutly thankful to learn
that in this great and powerful nation
humanity is really ''come to itself sufti-
GENTLY to discern: the wisdom OF leaving
strong drink alone? K .- zsss.
Now. in the name of all the good sense
of this ration, why should shops be open
and traffic be maintained in a material
that contributes wholly and alone to de-
struction of every power Of mind and
body Of which a human being is pos
sessed? The, animals in our menaseries
are-better protected. Let us hope for
day of clear. conviction relative to the
tolerated and licensed sale Of strong drink
throughout the length and breadth of our
fair land. ~. : > ---t-.s 4. N-4.
Minneapolis, Nov, 20. 1902. -
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The Nonpareil Man

Casually Observed.
1t Is Huron. South Dakoty, that wears a
knife concealed.
And the merchantmen of Mitchell are
claiming they are "heeled,"
But Pierre Is watching night and day and
sy totes gun about
For the Removalists will get her if she
Don't
Watch
Some Of the stuff that is turned out for
the holiday trade and labeled "books"
would make Gutenberg regret that he
ever found out how. .r
Kansas City after tremendous moral
upheaval managed to get its Thanksgiv-
ing bull fight stopped. -.
Secretary Shaw has issued an order
clerks in the treasury de-
partment from playing the races. Then
the secretary ought TO set the example
and keep out Of Wall street.
No wonder wheat was tired the other
day. Mr.. Armour dropped 100000 pack
ages of Sawdustino breakfast cereal.
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A thousand dollars head for dead train
robbers may shock the sensibilities Of some
people, but the determination of the rail-
roads to protect their trains and the peo-
pie who ride upon them from train rob-
bers, has not been reached any too soon.
The wonder has been that the rewards
offered now of $4,000 for the arrest and
conviction of train robbers and the quiet
intimation that dead train robbers would
be worth $1,000 apiece, were not heard of
before. A train robber is entitled to no
more consideration than 4 wild beast, and
apparently nothing short of the same kind
of treatment usually accorded to mad
dogs will thoroughly discourage that in
dustry.
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DAILY DIVERSIONS

5ieree' Supplied the Want-Ambrose
blerce' WINE. out in San Francisco re-
Gently, visited the new house of an old
friend, a gentleman of Irish extraction.
Inc hostess evidently took great pride in
the house, the furnishings of which were
new and beautiful and gave every evil
dence of taste and refinement Mr.. Bierce.
VINO has an eye for the beautiful, gave un-
'stinted praise to everything he saw. -
" But. he said, II am sorry to see that
your house, beautiful as it is: lacks one
ornament which no Irish house should he
without" $3.50
re-. what is that she asked unsuspi-
,ciously. ':...',asr '.,.'. - e.. ~. : =,
- "A pig replied Mr.. Bierce, with a
satisfied chuckle.
The hostess's eye sparkled.'
. 1T did, she said. Indignantly 'but you
have supplied the want"
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Protect the Babies.

We have heard no reply from the uni
versity to the protest from the high
school authorities against the withdrawal
of university restrictions as to rushing,
high school pupils by the Greek fraternity
men Of the university. Perhaps the uni-
versity authorities have not had an OPP.
portunity; perhaps they do not think any
response is in order; probably it is not to
he expected. Nevertheless, the feeling is
justified, it seems ito us, that university
authorities have, only looked at one side
of this question, and have not properly
considered the interests of the high school
students and the wishes of their parents.
The resumption of rushing" has complete
~ spoiled the last week or ten days for a
considerab BILE number of high school boys
and girls, and has provoked not a little,
hostility and antagonism among the par
ents of these children. $50
r., We are quite unable to understand why
the rule against "rushing'' should have
eenTrevoked. 1t was good rule; it
seems to have been working we'll and
needed nothing more, apparentlyH than
more positive and emphatic assertion by
the university authorities. 1t would seem
to have been quite within the power of
the university to enforce this, rule
1t would seem to be one about
which there need be no particular contro-
versy. In fact, it seems as If the mat
ter might have been brought before the
university men in such way; that they
would themselves have been sticklers for
It's observance. The rushing of high
school pupils has been carried to ridi-
culous extreme, and it has seemed as if
the pupils Of the primary grades were yet
to be attacked by the ''rushers," This.
business is no credit to the :fraternities
and those that display the most activity
and zeal in the pledging of boys in knee
breeches and girls in short dresses, are
lowering the standard and dignity of their
fraternites below the point which they
ought 10 MAINTAIN. q aSsH9@ q
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Copyright, 1902, by T. c. Mcclure.

Emily Lands drifted into the gay ball
room like some small brown leaf blown
into a bed Of flaming peoples. She stood
hidden by. the swirling draperies of a bevy
of bright girls and drew short breath
almost, of alarm.
She had reached Green Lake in the late
afternoon. longing for it unutterably as
the one place where she might rest-rest
and dream over again those golden dreams
of her happy girlhood. And she had
wanted to come down to the ballroom, yet
now that she had followed her inclination
how frightened and out of place she felt!
Ten long years since her own twinkling
feet had flown over this polished floor, and
those years had metamorphosed a merry
girl whose steps seemed tapping their ma
tive heath into a worn, sad-eyed woman,
absolutely out of her element and anxious
only to get back to the quiet Of her own
room. - g.. ~ b..
AS she turned to slip away the sound
of her own name brought her to an in
voluntary stop.
That Miss Lands whose brother was
so brilliantly married a month ago. Yes;
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Old General Gomez, the Cuban patriot,
rendered his country a service yesterday
when he told the strikers that if they did
not refrain from violence in Havana. the
war veterans stood ready to take up arms
in the support of the government and
for the mainta nance Of order. The result
is, things are quiet in Havana to-day, and
are likely to stay so. The street riots in
cident t. the strike, have already resulted
in several deaths, number Of people
were seriously rounded, and the situation
looked dangerously like the incipiency of
another Cuban revolution.
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production at home. That is genuine pro-
lection and it is ample. AS for running
the country. even the revision Of the
denomination tariff of 1928 failed to
ruin" the country, and no ruin followed
the reduction OF the duties embodied in
the Morrill, war tariff. The country is
industrially a thousand times stronger and
more deeply rooted aud self-poised than
it was in 1888, when the commission tariff
with 80 per cent average duties was en-
acted. 1t is simply childish to talk of in
dustrial ruin resulting from revision,
which will obviously stimulate commerce.
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Give It Up.

To the Editor of The Journal
I have been asked why is 1t that our
brick pavements cost SO much? And as
an explanation my attention has been
called to a block Of brick pavement on
Nicollet avenue, between Thirteenth and
Grant streets that has just been COM
pleted. Through incompetency or mis-
calculation a great pile Of brick, some
one hundred feet long. three or four feet
wide and five feet high, were purchased.
hauled and piled on the sidewalk in this
block for this particular purpose that were
not needed. In other words, about 80 per.
cent more brick were purchased, hauled
and piled in this block than were needed.
The brick are all Of the same size and
the number of square feet of pavement an
ascertainable fact Is the extra cost of
these unused brick, the cost of hauling
them there and hauling them away again
taxed against the owners of the abutting
property? Who pays for this loss and
whose fault is it due to:
.-,5ss "A sTaxpayer
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IN A NUTSHELL.....
Some Compare Figures on airoE ipment

The Interstate Commerce Commission gives
terestng comparisons in the Of railroad
in 1901 1897 During
Increases ofS9S locomotives 2S43
freight These figures, however do not adequately
the increase in capacity Of the
much those of construction much larger than the
old ones. Something be inferred to the heavier
traffic and greater demand the equipment of the
roads compared with 1897 the fact is taken
account that in 1901 the number Of tons OF freight carried
locomotive 1885 in 1897. On this
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was a surprising development OF yester-
day. Just what has happened nobody
seems to know outside Of Mr.. Morgan's
office force and his railroad lieutenants.
They seem to have suddenly changed
their minds, and they did it so quickly
that even Mr.: MacVeagh, their attorney.
who arranged for the conference and
brought Mr.. Mitchell to Washington, was
not advised, of the change until it had
been made.
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The failure Of the big beef packing trust
to materalize is said to have cost some
body about $50, 100000 The capitaliza-
ton was to have been $500, 900, 900. Mr..
Morgan notified Mr.. Armour and others
that the financing Of the beef trust was
going to take SO much money that it
would interfere seriously with some plans
that he had on hand, and that If they did
not want to get into trouble, and bring
on panic in the money market they had
better let their beef packing combine wait
a while. His advice seems to have been
acted upon, although to do that is said to
have cost the promoters the handsome
sum above named.
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u 4 The II Minnesota football team has been
eornpei1ed, pr 7s tesgive up outdoor
praotice<eat Mount Clemens, for fear OF
spies acting in the interest of the Michi-
gan team: This is not the, first time that
the charge has been made about one team
or it, friends spying upon the play
ing of a rival team. but it: suggests how
much football yet lacks Of being conducted
upon "a sportsmanlike plane where rivals
do not deign to take unfair advantage of
each other, 80 e sSs4a l4s$&&fs ".* -
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OFFICE BOYS SONNET

Samuel Ellsworth Kiser's amusing
''Love Sonnets of an Office Boy which
first appeared from time to time in Mr..
Kiser's column in the Chicago Record
Herald, have been collected and published
in a little book, with Illustration by John
r.. McCutcheon. Here IS one that the
office boy wrote to the typewriter girl:
Yesterday I stood behind your chair
" When you was kind of bendin down to write,
y And !: could see your, neck. 50 soft and white,
And notice where: the poker singed your hair,
And then you looked around and seen me there,
And kind of smiled: and could seem to feel
A sudden empty snkish feelin' where
I'm all filed up when I've just ct meal.
Dear frankie, where your soft, sweet finger
~ tips
Hit on the keys I often touch my lips.
And wunst kissed your little overshoe,
And have got hairpin that you wore
One day I found it on the office floor
I'D throw up my job If they fred you.
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With, the aid of a looking glass and
slight exercise Of the imagination, Reddy
Cohen might be able to see good imita-
ton Of a parrot
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: .#9- 1897.
Locomotives 1000 miles, 202 1876
Passenger 1000 miles 1874 1873
Freight 1000 miles.
Passengers passenger locomotive 5963 1851
Passenger miles locomotive 1928 GA
carried per freight locomotive. 36,362
miles freight locomotive. 397S6 4664135
Passenger per 1000 900 passengers 50 So
Freight 1000 tons freight
Number Of locomotives 3O,5S4 1886
Number Of passenger service
freight 1221,73O