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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-12
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= The Journal admitted to its col
INN Of s.Other Peoples Notiens', on
Monday. a communication attacking the
theory Of vaccination which has brought
out from Health Commissioner Hall re-
Spouse that meets with our warm approx
al. While T he jour al has, from
time to time, printed communications
from the observation-disclosures, it must
frankly say as it has said before, that it
it in no degree shares their views New
ertheless they are entitledsto them.
Now, if they are as devoted to them, as
DR.. Hall is to the commonly accepted
theory of vaccination, they should not
hesitate to accept this proposition that
they supply him with two unvaccinat ed
members of their ranksRtos act as nurses
at the quarantine hospital. The prevail
ing type of this once deadly disease is
very mild and there issnot one chance in
a thousand that any person contra citing
it will die. DR.. Halls vaccinated attend
ants have never contracted the disease
and do not fear it. They have confidence
in vaccination. The anti-vaccinationist
maint ain that vaccination is no protection.
Here is an opportunity to make practi-
cal test and comparison. 1t may or may
not have a conclusive bearing. on the
question of vaccination, but it will test
the willingness of the 'anti-vaccination-
lists to try their theory in practice.
Whatever may be the arguments against
vaccination it is accepted by the over
whelming majority of reputable and we'll
informed physicians as being a very eff
fective preventive of smallpox. 1T is a
part of the accepted wisdom of the day.
We must always shape our acts in accord
ance with that wisdom. Until it can be
demonstrated that vaccination is folly in
stead of wisdom there is no other course
for sensible, prudent people than to accept
the view, of the experts and invoke vacci-
nation as protection against danger
Gus disease
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Copyright, 1902, by the s. S. Mcclure Co.

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Mrs. Ware cautiously turned the key in her
stateroom door. Secure from interruption,
she produced a packet of letters, tied tightly
with a russell shoe lace. For a moment she
hestated. Then quickly lest her resolution
fail, she tossed the package through the open
portfolio.
SIT is the safer way she thought, unlock
ing the door, ''and Hilda will thank me for it
when she's the Countess Won Grundmann. 1t
was sheer luck that his paper sent Dick
Forbes west for six weeks. I fancy it was
simply my adroit management of the stua-
ton that prevented his proposing to Iiilda
that night in Mrs. Schuyler's conservatory.
And I am certain that il he had Hilda would
have thrown away her chance of being a
countess and accepted him. y
A brisk northeast wind. with just enough
power in its elbow to send the long Atlantic
sweils in creamy smother against the Luca-
Mas bow, greeted Mrs. Ware as she came on
deck.
What a perfect morning. she said to her
self, taking deep breath. "Sea and sky look
as if they had been scrubbed. If Hilda has a
particle of sense, she'll pick up some spirits
On such morning
Mrs. Wares eyes searched diligently among
the scattered knots of people along the rail,
and presently she discovered the SLIM ulster
clad form of her niece standing by one of the
lifeboats, staring steadily over the heaging
brightness astern
Something in the pensive droop of the small
head intruded a sudden uncomfortable qualm
into Harriet Wares inner consciousness. The
firm, masculine penmanshiD tracing her
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and trade because Of her Hardness to in-g
troduce automatic machinery, due largely
to the opposition of labor unions ito
such machinery, on the sground that
it would displace labor. The ein-
ployes Off labor In England and the
sWeorkmen themselves are now becoming;
convinced that they have made "a mis-
take, and delegations Of British workinen
have, within the past year, visited this
country to investigate our methods in the
industries and acquire knowledge as to
greater and speediers production and,
celebrity In filling orders. 81
The industrial commission, in the opin-
ion Of The journal, Is not alto
gether correct in it's statement on price
fixing. 1t lays down the postulate that
foreign markets have not controlling
or serious influence asa price-determ1nlng
factor 'The home market says the
commission, "is the price determining rae
tor, rather than foreign markets" and
from the standpoint of the producers
advantage, the home market is always the
primary consideration in agricultural
policy This does not seem always to
have been the case in this county; for in
the single agricultural product, wheat,
our market is very decidedly governed by
the crop conditions in the other wheat
producing countries Of the world, as Rus
STA, Australia, Argentina, the leanness or
fairness Of whose wheat crops has a very
decided influence on our market prices.
Foreign demand has saved Germany from
bankruptcy during the past year or SO OF
very severe business depression and short
crops Of breadstuffs. Had it4not been
for the hold Germany has on foreign mar
,kets. the condition of about third OF
her population would have been p1tlable.
The manufacturers and merchants nave
been enabled to keep up, through the
steadiness of the foreign trade, while the
home market has been sadly demorallzed.
The home market in Germany has not tDeen
the price-determining factor in agrlcul-
tural products or anything else,
During the calendar year 1901, Germany
exported nearly ,$100000,0O0 worth of her
products to this country. A prominent
iron master in Germany is reported by
Consul General Mason of Berlin, as say
ing in petition to the government
against the threatened increase of gram
duties, that "our export trade. is the best,
last and only living thing that we nave
left The home market determined
nothing. It could determine nothing TOT
German agriculture but that there was a
shortage of great staples which had 10
be supplied by the United states anu
other countries. This, it may be said, IS
an exceptional case. Hardly SO.
If the Russian and Argentina wheat
crops both turn out very short, the price
of wheat would advance abroad ana tne
foreign situation would BE the price-de-
termining factor. 1t may be recalled now
often the attempt has been made IN TINS
country to fix the price Of wheat at
figure higher than is justified by the ; 1or-
e1gn demand, the result being ttne sus-
pension of buying for export.
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INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION POINTS

The industrial commissions report is
one of the most interesting of the many
reports in recent years made by vari-
Gus commissions to congress. For in
stance, they differ from many labor agi-
tators and others in their estimate of the
effect of automatic machinery upon labor
interests. Their Investigations 4led them
to the conclusion that the more complete
ly labor and brain are combined in pro-
duction, and wastes are kept down to the
minimum, the greater the accumulation of
the worlds or the nations wealth; the
more effectively manual labor is aided
by the brain labor, the higher is it's
efficiency; that the more automatic ma
chinery can be made to reinforce pro-
ducers and. distributors of wealth. the
higher the efficiency of wealth production.
These conclusions are justified by the
accomplished facts in this country, which
has arrived at higher efficiency in the
invention and use of automatic machinery,
than any other nation in the world.
Great Britain, once supreme in the
use of machinery Of elder day kind.
has fallen somewhat in her productivity
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nieces name and address on every one of the
vanished letters rose before her minds eye
accusingly, like a veritable writing the
WALL She took her conscience resolutely by
the throat
1--we made Hilda believe Mr.. Forbes Tilted
her because of that absurd rumor about the
loss Of her fortune. I'll take care she con-
tinues to think so until it is too late to make
any difference"
Mrs. Ware found her steamer chair.
There's Won Grundmann speaking to Hilda
now she meditated. 81 imagine can expe-
dite. matters much better if flock by myself
for while, Six days of shipboard companions
ship and maybe a moonlight evening or two
ought 10 bring about satisfactory conclusion
and effectually dispose of Mr.. Richard Forbes.
wouldn't like to meet him, though, > with a
little SILVER, when he reads that note I per-
suaded Hildar to leave for him
She opened her magazine and dismissed
from her thoughts the haDless Forbes. No
prophetic vision was vouchsafed her of a
, luckless, ewild-eyed young man who the eve
ming previous had thrown himself bodily on
the platform of the moving Pullman at the
Boston terminal to, the terror of the porter
and with wrath, dismay and outraged love
seething in his heart, had spent the hours OF
his journey in alternately gazing at his watch
and reading over and over again a stray para
graph half way down the first page Of the
Boston Mercury. - H. 80
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IsTHMIAN CANAL HEADWINDs

General Reyes, delegate from: Colon
bia to the Pan-American congress and a
candidate for the presidency Of that re-
public. said yesterday that Colombia will
give the United States full control Of the
canal territory and a guaranteed title, and
is ready to duplicate any concessions Mic
aragua can make. There is no doubt
that the United States Of Colombia wants
that canal and wants it very badly. There
is also no dosbt that Colombia may be
induced to grant the right of way and
control of the territory for deal less
than a million dollars year which has
been suggested. Colombia wants the
money, but she would lower her price on
sober second thought. that thought being
the security from diurnal revolutions in
the state of Panama, which would behalf
fairs of the past with the United States
in absolute control of the territory
Such control is worth very much more
than million dollars to. Colombia in the
relief she would have from the activities
of her tumultuary citizens. That can all
be arranged very easily, il congress de-
cides to go ahead with due celebrity to. or
der the ship canal built according to the
recommendation of the Walker commits
sion. eli
And here comes in a remarkable inA
stance Of the eccent1icities OF. the Amer
lean congress. Congress has appropriated
a million dollars for the use of COM
mission of engineering earerts, appointed
by the president for the purpose OF max
ing an expert examination of all the pos
sibly available canal routes from Hondu-
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.F1GHr1NG FOR THE RIGHT,

John. :Brisbin Walker in The Cosmopolitan.
It is probable, however, as already stated,
that the solution will come from the side of
.capital-capital tired of accommodating money
and, anxious for new intellectual worlds to
conquer. Capital has the brains and the
power to solve this, the most fascinating
problem that ever engaged the human in
tellect In comparison, all other occupations
are stupid and on low plane.
Roosevelt has uttered cry which must go
on revegberating through time until better
takes its place: ST
Aggressive fighting for the right is the
greatest sport the world knows,
The mere accumulation Of money, the most
intricate problem in organization, the most
difficult in finance, is as child's play. COM
pared with the intellectual opportunities Of
fered5 by the problem of distribution. The
Pierpont Morgan who solves twill truly be
engaged in the greatest sport the. world has
ever known. "
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AZ Dax Near Mars, Hiu.

Athens, Jan. I've spent a day and half
arts. visited the Acropolis, where the Par,
thenon stands, and made a flying trip to
Mars Hill, where G. l.. Morrill, Numbered
last year and where Paul spoke several cen
turtles ago. The people seem to remember
the aforementioned occurrence, and when
asked about it, the interpreter said: -'"Ah!
Re ate wad pastorr! He spik on re Mars
Heel. Heem roar like Helicon." And we
looked at one another and said, 1.-The very
samea' sssss
After all, the most interesting thing about
the city is the Acropols. Here the tempera-
ture is always at the freeing point, due to
it's wonderful frieze. In hot weather hum
dreds Of. people stand around it to- get the
advantage of the GOODNESS. The architecture
of the building is severely plain and is said
to verge on the classical. It gives the i'm
preston of having been put up to stay for
some time, and, although several earthquakes
have taken shake at it, and the Turks once
tried to lombard it, ittstill defes the tooth
of Time-the false tooth, five may so speak,
since Kant has declared that there is, no
reality in time.
The population of the city is about 400, 900,
Pof whom 379, 900 make their living by selling
statuary. There are more than, eight million
antiquities sold yearly and where they all
come from would be something of a mystery
had not a Greek gentleman we met at the
Piraeus given US hisjcarth reading: 90
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lNDIANA's EXPERIENCE

The Journal publishes to-day a
letter from it's Indianapolis correspond
ent which discusses the Indiana tax law
and its workings. The people of Indiana
became interested In tax reform more
than a decade ago, and in 1891 passed a
law that was designed to secure the &C
tual assessment of all property at It's
true value. Prior to that time the state
revenues were in bad way and there
was a pressing need of increased revenue.
The information contained in our corre-
spondents article shows that the law mas
been successful in swelling the states
revenues. The Indiana state government
is now on "easy street. But the aim OF
securing a Authorization assessment has
not been attained. The state auditor puts
his estimate of the proportion of assessed
valuation to real valuation at 60 to 70
per cent, and that is not considered a low
estimate.
1t will be observed that the law did
have the effect Of increasing the total
assessed valuation of the state about 20
per cent. Contrary to what were, prob
ably, the expectations of the people, the
increase came more largely out of real
(45 per cent?, than personal property 20
per cent?. While personal property in
creased about $50 100000 the first year of
the new law the value of lands and i'm
provements increased $152 900, 900 and of
lots and Improvements $4,000, 900. These
increases gained during the, first year of
1ror hnw
and slowly enlarged. AS the state tax
levy has increased it is easy to under
stand how, from the standpoint of the
state revenues the law is a pronounced
success. -..
AS to the average tax rate for the state
the correspondent neglects to say whether
1t is higher or, lower now than twelve
years ago, though he does say that some
counties, Immediately after an increase
in assessment amounting to about 40 per
cent, kept the rate just where it was
before it being their purpose to take ad-
vantage of the opportunity to pay off local
debts and make public improvements.
It is not surprising, in view of the poor
success Indiana has had in making per-
SO0al property UGal lLo IuSOlCCiCdl oldi {
of the tax burden under the existing laws
that the state auditor, in line with mod
ern ideas, predicts that the personal prop
erty tax will have to be dispensed with
some day and all revenues raised from 9
tax on real estate, franchise tax and an
income tax.
The experience of Indiana in raising
and keeping up the assessment supports
that of Michigan in showing that a cen
trail taxation authority, such as a com
mission, can make the old tax system
yield better results than when admins.
tration is left to local authorities en-
tirely The Indiana tax commissioners
succeeded in increasing the assessment
of the railroads sos, 1000, 900 above wha
local assessors had made it before thu
law of 1891 was passed. This was an in
crease Of $50 per cent and undoubtedl.
tended to equalize the distribution of tn
burden of taxation.
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The Book Is DELAYED.

[Arthur Upson and George Norton NorthroI
Of the state university are getting out a book
of poems.-News Motel
What means this eager, anxious throng
That moves with busy haste along,
These wond rous rumors, day by day;
What means this strange conlmotion, pray?
In accents hushed the bookmen say
''Arthur and George are busy to-day,
And all this crowd, so we should guess,
Are after their poems, now in press
Of ''rippling waters, "murm'rous pines,''
OF 'twindtorn clouds and trailing vines"
The printer has at least "a peck;
He's buried in them to his neck. 49,
Yet Arthur and George call daily to say,
"Do &think our book will be- out to- day?''
Till the printer swears the paper is late
And he will have to postpone the date.
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THE GIFT OF HEALING

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That healing gift he lends to them
Who use it in his name;
The power that filled his garments hem
Is .eve1more the same.
For, 10! in human hearts unseen
The Healer dwelleth STILL y.
And they who make his temples clean
The best subserve his will.
The hottest task by heaven decreed,
An errand all divine,
The burden of our common need
To render less is thine.
The paths of pain are thine. Go forth
With patience, trust and hope;
The suffering of a sim sick earth
Shall give thee ample scope.
Beside the unveiled mysteries
OF life and death go stand,
With guarded lips and reverent eyes
And pure of heart and hand.
So shalt thou be with power endued
From Him who went about
The Syrian hillsides doing good
And casting demons out.
! The good Physician liveth yet
Thy friend and guide to be;
{ The Healer of Gennesaret
{. Shall walk the rounds with thee.
u. G. Whittier.
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The democrats are planning to make
present session. They will make some IL
no legislation is had. But if the legis-
lature Drudently adopts as much of the
tax commissions work as promises to i'm
prove our taxation system and contains
no menace to any great business interest,
the capital the democrats will make will
not be so large that they will have diff
Guilty in preserving it from political moths.
rust or thieves
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London Times,

One Of the most surprising incidents Of the
present war is reported in the case Of the
death Of Private Herbert Harold Hughes,
First Kings Dragon guards, whose widow
lives at Dover. The affair occurred at Ore
byfontein, near Harrisnlith, Orange River
Colony, on Nov. 9, 1901, Captain E. A. Will
liams, First Kings dragon guards being
among those who lost their lives. The small
force was Diminishing when Boer boy,
afterward found to be only years OF age,
walked up to Private Hughes and when close
to him deliberately shot. him in the abdomen
with revolver he had concealed, the wound
proving fatal on Nov. 10.
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The Nonparsil Man
Casually Obseryed.s

EstE OssbuulIy ODASrVeu.sgs
{ When Georgiet Frlsbie Hoar IS a.1agood boy
ne is allowed to go over and play for half an
hour with the little democrat boys across the
hall.
that You do not have to look like Chief Crazy
Hoss
!. There was a fire in the Eagle Pants Manu-
factory last night. What will the eagle do in
this kind of weather?
rich Chicago man put $4,000 into a cow
MOST people would prefer safety deposit
box but there is no accounting for million
aires. gas sss
A Kansas paper fears that congress will
yet investigate General Funston for having
stuck a pin into Aguinaldo or some such
recklessness. Congress is SO busy now that
1t is leaving everything Of that nature to the
surgeons.
Those scientists whose mouths watered
When that Brooklyn doctor offered himself
for vivisect1on are themselves much cut up
at his backdown after he got his picture in
the paper. g4&lr.
A correspondent wants the opinion of the
Nonpareil column on the tariff. Not your
life This column has had its salary docked
for fooling with mighty problems.
Prince Henry is going to blow the froth off
OF Milwaukee after ALL
Professor Small of the Chicago university
has announced that there are no trusts. Then
what is it that is wearing away our young
life?~ ~. - s3s
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MINNESOTA POLITICS

X, 'srsAs.
Senator G. c. Mccarthy of Grand Rapids
scouts the idea of his being candidate for
congress. He says he has never had any such
thought.
People of our district are very we'll salts
fed with Page Norris says the senator,
'and do not believe he will have serious
opposition. He has made splendid con-
gressman." u -
ton MOTTO return ID the legislature. Since
he made this announcement two candidates
for the senate have appeared in. the dis
trict. They are Warren Potter of Aitkin and
A. L. Cole of Walker
A. G.. Volstead of Granite Falls has begun
his congressional campaign, and declares that
he is. going to tour the entire district in
Guiding Frank Eddys own territory. The
seventh now has four active candidates for
the: republican nomination, and the fur will
surely fly next summer. ,%
Republicans Of the fifty-seventh district
are hoping that Senator F. j. Jones will re-
consider his determination, and consent to
serve another term. The senator's associates
in the legislature are Of the same mind.
Senator Jones is a hard-headed business man,
who seldom says anything on the floor, but
always displays sound judgment.
There is a hot postoffice fight in New Ulm.
The term of ]. H. Weddendorf, the present
postmaster, expires in April. He desires re-
appointment. but there are two other can
didates, and Congressman McCleary has an
other vexatiouss problem on his hands. Colt:
lieb Schmidt, who had the spostof1ce under
President Harrison, would like to get back,
and the third candidate is no less a person
than Philip I.iesch, publisher of the Volks-
blatt and the Brown County Journa1s Mr..
Liesch went into New Ulm when it had five
democratic papers and no republican organ
He acquired the VoksbIatt and later the
journal, and has fought the parry battles
ever since without substantial reward His
friends maintain that it is time to do some
thing for Liesch.
Thomas H. GirAng is the first Minneapolis
man to declare his legislative aspirations
Present members Of the legislature seem If
no hurry to file their affidavits.
Charles B. Cheney
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It is not surprising that the army board
should decide against Fort Smelling as
one of the four large permanent train
ing posts The decision on that point had
been discounted. However the fort is to
be a more important military center than
it has been in the past. The, choice of
Crookston Mimi, as the site Of a new
post for a battalion of infantry came
without any warning whatever. It will be
good news to the people Of Crookston and
the northern part of the state generally.
A glance at the map shows why Crookston
was chosen. 1t is. railroad center Of i'm
portance. 1t is not far from the frontier
and it is in close transportation connec-
tion with the Indian reservations.
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81 . ~ 81 80
Gentlemen in charge of the South At
rican Sufferers fund continue to make ap-
peals for money to be used in relieving the
sufferings of women and children in Lord
Kitcheners so-called refugee" camps.
There is no denying that the conditions in
these camps are appalling. The total
death rate in the camps is 2S4 per thou
sand, and 47O per Thousand for the chill
dren, as compared with a normal death
rate of 10 per thousand. To improve the
sanitary condition Of these camps and
give their occupants proper food and
meet with approval of both pro and anti
Beers. E. Reeve Merritt, Z East Fifty
third street, New York, is treasurer Of the
fund. -