The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-14
The MAGAZINES


The March Bookman has some very attract
i've features. Richard Garnett's $ Jane Austen
and Her Country is:3immedia attractive.
There is a portrait Aof this famous adthor,
with photos sof her home insiShawton village,
in Bath and elsewhere. In the series of
Great Newspapers of the United States by
Hutchins Hapgood and A. 3. Maurice, atten-
tion is given to the New York morning news
papers from the beginning of the civil war
to 1884 when fourished Bennett of the Her
ald Reid Of the Tribune, George Jones. sue
cessor of Raymond on the Times. Dana of
the Sun and Joe Pulitzer. who plunged into
New York from the west and injected start
ling innovations in New York journalism
when he bought the bankrupt World and pro-
ceeded to make a stunning success of it,
Facsimiles of the frstspages OF the four lead
ing papers ON important occasions and photos
of their buildings are given The text is
deeply interesting In "reminiscences. An at
tractiVe feature of the number iS Arthur Maui
rice's Thomas Mast and His Cartoons"
The Engineering Magazine contains a nota-
bic paper by George Fl, HUH on 1.-THE Mis-
chieyous Fallacy of Over-P Production" in
which he conYincingly argues that general
overproduction is an imDossibility and that
what is called overproduction in one OF more
articles is not ogerDroduction, but temporary
surplus production, which he thinks is natu-
raj and necessary to mans comfort and well
fare. He cites the case of fruit and other
perishable, farm products which formerly
came in vast quantities sometimes and forced
prices down below freight charges, and stuff
like fruit often went to decay. But this trou-
bile has been removed by the establishment of
fruit exchanges and cold storage warehouses,
whore fruit and other farm products can be
preserved in perfect condition for months,
making prices stable and the supply regular
at all seasons and increasing consumption
and profits. Temporary surplus production Of
imperishable articles like iron and copper
can be turned to profit by gathering reserve
stocks, which will sooner OF later be in strong
demand again. In 1900, iron had risen 165 per
cent in the market and people stopped buying
at the inflated prices and constructive work
was suspended. Then prices declined and
there began a red-hot demand for iron and
steel, and production has risen now to the
highest figures on record, but there is no
accumulation Of surplus stocks of the metal.
Mr.. Hull points to the blight to british indus
try caused chiefly by the trades unions in
that country compelling the manufacturers to
restrict production. Germany and our own
country have taken much of Britain's trade,
because they have kept on producing. Mr..
Hull argues well. There is a very interesting
paper on railway reorganization in the Trans
vaal, and Mr.. Longmuir's paper on Emotion
and Reason Among British Workmen'' is val
liable as coming from an Eng1ishman, In that
it diseloses the secret OF British backwardness
in keeping abreast theamechanical inventions
of the day, the British workman holding
firmly to the belief that it is Ia practical Inn
possibility that the Workmen of any other
nation could be tndustrially superior to him
and his methods.
Outing for March contains pleasing series
of literary contrasts in Its descriptions of
winter sports, arctic hunting expeditions life
in the warm cotton belt, pounding and DESC
lattng storms at sea, preservation of game
and the artistic blanket work Of Our Indians
Mr.. Adney's account of Indian moose and
caribou hunting in Alaska is very entertain.
ing and well illustrated, and there is a. good
description of the skating on Dutch canals,
where men, women and children glide about
on old-fashioned, clumsy skates which their
grandparents used. Everybody skates. All
the roads ARE ice,i the canals presenting the
mos convenient methods OF locomotion and
pleasurable exercise. go ~
The North American Review contains an
important paper on "Germany's Political
Turning Point by Wolf Won Schierbrand
for several years Berlin correspondent of the
Associated Press and well informed to
German affairs. He notes the decline of the
once potential liberal party, which, under
William I. and bismarck, was political fac
tor with which the great chancellor had to
reckon. At.spresent they hayeasno definite
vote with the ianperia1ists. The spirit Of sep
aratsm which threatened the symmetry Of
the empire in its earlier days isdying out,
and even. iBayartansi stand for "a United Ger
many. s. Socialism is stronger In Germany!
than elsewhere, as the party commands $780,
600 votes, as compared with their 49S, 900 votes
at the ,reichstag elections Of 1871 This sur
prising increase has been accomplished under
the most stringent kind SofssrepressiVe gag
laws. Socialism Is recruited from the poorer
classes and stands for their defense and for
Legislation for their betterment. Legislation in
Germany is chiefly class legislation. At pres
emit the government is bothered with trying
to satisfy the agrarian class. Won Schier-a
brand believes that Germany is becoming
more and more a homogeneous entity. Mr.
Miner, a teacher in the North China college,
Peking, discusses interestingly Russias de-
signs in Manchuria, showing how she has
siren thened her! hold on the province, Keep:
ing large force there and using the eighty
years railway concession as a FENCE. Mr..
Miner, says the other powers should Gust Rus
sia and prevent Chinese ddsintegration; but,
on the same grounds Germany and France,
Great Britain and Japan, should be ousted
from their stealings in China. ]. II. Walkers
paper on the banking and treasury system Of
the United States does not exaggerate the
deficiencies of our banking system, such as
the lack of protection of the treasury gold,
SoAAAcA
He would relieve the treasury of redemption
of amy form of paper money; devolye upon
the banks the obligation to maintain parity
between all kinds oiour money; allow banks
to issue currency against their general as
sets, as Is done in every other country, and
invite all the commercial banks in the coun-
try through the existing clearinghouse. in
g. solid union to maintain parity, through a
national clearinghouse leaving them indie
pendent, as now, for every other purpose.
Other papers of interest discuss the Philip
pines situation, the constitutional powers of
the senate and the tuberculosis problem.
Many readers will be interested in Professor
Brander Matthews paper. on ."rhe Question
of the Theaters1 in which he champions thea
tiers operated 6y subsidy paid to a manager,
equivalent to his rental. by a body of sub
scribers who will lay down the lines on which
he will conduct it and exact certain privileges
for themselves.
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