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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
AT THE THEATERs
.Lyceun-"Ihe Belle Of Richr1ond

lyceut,1--nsThe Belle OF Richmond =
The Belle of Richmond a new play
by Sydney s. Toler, leading man in one
of the New York stock theaters, received
Its first ;loca production at the .Lyceum
theater Sunday: evening. by the Ferris
stock company. The pfeces is a comedy
drama with occasional melodramatic mo-
ments. It is somewhat weak In sconstruc-
tion and interest in the story IS snot well
sustained, but it pleases, nevertheless, be-
cause Of its delicacy and n 4nsfslsa1 hess.
In this play Mr.. Teler has given to the
stage a villain who is made human
through his love for daughter of the old
Dominion. His is not self sacrificing
love and 1t brings him nothing but misery.
His repentance for wrong doing is of the
eleventh hour, but the audieneeais allowed
to believe that it is sincere. and the man
goes free, though his confederate is sent
The scenes of the play are laid in Rich.
mond and its environs. It's characters are
| members of the first families Of Virginia.
It's plot is story of love and financialsras-
cality. Its heroine is dainty southern
GIRL it's hero, young lawyer and it's viii
lain a man of unknown antecedents, who
| is received III Richmond society and whose
passion for wealth leads. him to embezzle-
ment Here we have the elements OF
what might be a strong drama, yet Mr.
Toler has fallen just short Of a pronounced
success. His plot is ingenious and it is his
own, but something is lacking In a word
the interest of the play is not cumulative
The Belle of Richmond has been wei
staged and with a careful attention to de
tail worthy of note in a stock production
| The first act is an exterior, with magnolia
groves in the background and when the
curtain arises the delicate perfume Of the
blossoms is waited out over the audience
The play does not require. an extensive
cast and, for the most part, the various
roles are in good hands. Miss Grace Hay
ward plays the belle, and W.:D. Corbett
as a Kentucky colonel and gives fine in
depreciation, of the role. Herbert Bren
non is deserving of credit for. his work a.
Silas Smart, q young New Yorker; an,
! w. II. Murdoch is effective as the villain
|G. G. Gunther is badly .oyerweighted witt
J, the part of Judge Mason.-J. s.. Lawrence
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
GOODWIN SMITHS VIEW =

Goldwin Smith in Toronto Sun.
The promoters of wholesale emigration
from England to this country will do we'll
to be cautious, and our emigration agents
will do well to bear in mind that not to
send population, but to send suitable pop
ulation, is their mission. Farm help is
suitable, and will be welcomed. The suit
ableness of the British farmer, with all
his high qualities, is more doubtful. He
is accustomed not to work himself, but
to set his laborers to work. He Is not
so familiar as the American or Canadian
with machines, nor used to do without
the help Of the mechanic, who in his own
country is always at hand, and for want
of whom at the critical moment in the
northwest he might lose.h his harvest. Still
more certain would be the failure Of a
crowd of unemployed from English cities.
Young English gentlemen have generally
failed on farms in the northwest, and not
a few of them went away in the contin-
gents. On the ranches they haye done
better than in the more plodding industry.
The immigrant American or repatriated
Canadian of Minnesota and Dakota seems
to be the right man, and no emigration
agency is needed to bring him. =.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
ONE OUT Of MANY.
Leader.


One fortunate effect Of the change in
the character; of the immigration from
Europe in the last few years, will be to
cause all foreign nationalities. in self-de-.
fense and for self interest. If for no other
reason. to unite as quickly as possible
with the great mass Of the American peo-
pie in all essential matters of government
and business. The new admixture of
races and nations in the great centers Of
population makes it hopeless for any sin
gle element to maintain special advantage
over the others, or obtain peculiar favors
from the public authorities The divisions
among the foreign born citizens are 50
numerous, and many of the various ma
tionalities represented are SO strong that
they check and defeat the efforts on the
part Of any to get what cannot be given
to all.
It is easy to see that 1.-The greater the
variety and the more equal the power of
the many nationalities we'll represented
in the American population of to-day the
more surely and quickly they will all be
welded into one solid. though complex,
people, the Americans of the future. In
/ this case divisions insure. unity by their
very number. and the radical nature Of
their differences. and the ultimate fusion
promises to be very complete.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
A New Gross Earnings Tax.

There are now three railway taxation
measures before the legislature, not count
ing the Hugo bill for refunding to local
governments a certain part of railway
taxes. 49,. -.. y -. ~ -. +.
Senator Wilson of Minneapolis yester-
day brought forward the latest and sim
plest measure. It is especially notable be-
cause 1t adopts a new method of com
putting the gross earnings tax. It pro-
vides that the railways shall pay gross
earnings taxes to the Minnesota treasury
on that portion of the total incomes of
their systems represented by the proper.
tion their Minnesota mileage bears to
their total mileage. Senator Wilson be-
lieves that the courts will sustain such
a law. It's simplicity and ease of compu-
tation, and the difficulty of evading or
misconstruing it are such, it seems to
us, that, if constitutional, it should be
preferred to other plans. -. Z:
| So far as the method of computation Of
gross earnings IS concerned, the =Fryberger
and johnson bills agree with the existing
law, or rather the way in which 1t IS
applied. That u.s. all earnings from busi-
ness wholly within the state, and that
portion of interstate earnings beginning,
ending in or passing through Minnesota,
represented by the proportion the Min
nesota share of the haul bears to the
whole haul. !. ~ -.
The plan the people voted on last fall.
but tailed to adopt, taxes all purely
state business. and all interstate business
touching Minnesota in the proportion the
Minnesota mileage bears to the total mile
age Of the system. ~
! Under both these plans. it will be OBJ
served, the state has nothing to do with
4 earnings that. do not have a territorial
1 connection with Minnesota. Now come S
Senator Wilson and proposes that 1t shall
be assumed that Minnesota's share OF
gross earnings for purposes Of taxation
is such part of the whole as the Mime
sofa mileage is part Of the whole mileage.
All of the measures provide for increas-
ing the rate Of taxation from to per
lcent. The Wilson method would II
| adopted probably give a much larger reve-
nue. than the others. -
It has on It's side, then, larger revenue
and simplicity.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
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The Tribune Dss Ds''{ y,:s:. :ss ssees, 1907
The Times D1,!y ;n! and Sunday. 788
Characteristic of the President.

President Roosevelt so often speaks out
in meeting that it is not surprising that
his enemies have ometimes affected to
look upon him as loud talker, a mere
blusterer, a chronic buffer. In view of
the way he stands pat on his southern
appointments, and his prompt summons Of
yesterday for the senate to meet In extra
session, it will hardly be possible hence
forth to refer to the president as a blus-
terer.
The president notified the senate that
failure to attend to such important public
business as the Cuban reciprocity treaty
and the Panama canal treaty would force
an extra session Of the senate. By yes
terday it had become evident that the
senate would fail to dispose of the two
treaties.
Promptly. tersely, the president launches
call for an extra session of the senate
Immediately following adjournment of the
fifty seventh congress, and without time
to wipe their fevered brows the sena.
tors find themselves plunged into another
round of debate and legislation. OF course
some Of the senator's are complaining tina
1T was unconstitutional and contrary t
precedent for the president to call spe
cial session while a regular session wa!
still on That is pucrile. The senate ha!
too many precedents. The call that prac
tically makes the present session of tn,
senate continuous is a pressing reminde
to the senators and the people that legis
iation OF the first magnitude has beer
neglected and must be attended to- s,
powerful and insistent is public opinion
upon the subject of reciprocity with Cub,
and upon the isthmian canal matter, tina
the senators held in Washington and cage
to get home will doubtless act favorabl,
Upon both measures. ,..-, >,.,- r-
When presidents get more in the habi
of calling extra sessions when public bust
ness Is neglected, there will be a pro
nounced decline in the quantity of sucl
neglect. s.r- -
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
The Australian Government Telegraph and
..r Its Low Rates. z.:--.
Review of Reviews for March.

Review of Reviews for March. I
The statistics on which the Australian
postmaster general founded his telegraph
rates showed conclusively two things
that the facilities already supplied In Aus
tralia to the public for the use bott. of
telegraph and telephone far exceeded
those supplied, either by governments or by
private enterprise, in any country OF Eu-
rope or America in proportion to the mum
ber of the population; and further, that the
charges for these services were much low
er in Australia than in any Of those coun-
tries. They showed that both in post
offices and telegraph stations the people
Of the young commonwealth were far bet
ter provided for than either in England or
America and, apparently as consequence
that they made more use of the convent
ences, enabling all telegraph rates to be
reduced to a point far below those charged
elsewhere without any loss to the revenue.
The new comm onwea1th rates provided for
in the act Illustrate the truth of his boast.
For city messages. which includes sub
urban area Of radius Of ten miles beyond
the city limits. the rate of II cents Tor
messages of ten words and the address,;
for messages of the same length to H
point within the same state-and the
states are generally very much larger
than any American state. the charge is Is
cents, while for similar messages to any
station within the con1monWeal th-and
from Rockhampton, in Queens land, to
Perth. in West Australia the distance. of
wire is more than 4,5o0 miles-the uni
form charge is "a cents. 1t is calculated, !,
on the basis Of past experience. that these
rates will return a revenue sufficient to
pay operating expense Of every. kind, in
cluding the cost of maintenance, and in
addition thereto interest on the original
expense of construction, amounting to
I fully sS.O0O,0O0 This apparent anomaly,
when compared with American experience.
lis at least in part explained by the fact
| that Australians send more than twice as
many messages over the lines at the lower
rates as Americans do. at the present
| charges. and. that where every postoffice
1 is also q telegraph station. and every
country postmaster a telegraph operator.
the cost is greatly reduced.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
Porto Rican PROGRESS.

The treasury bureau of statistics has
compiled some interesting statistics as to-
the trade between the United States and
Porto Rico during 1902 compared with the
trade Of the previous year. 1t may be re-
membered that there We're many se1f-ap-
pointed prophets who predicted that the
Porto Fsican trade would amount to little
or nothing, but it is shown that Porto
Rico, last year, shipped to the United
States merchandise of the value Of 1884,
176. as compared with 81 .943,2 ,251 in 1897,
previous to the transfer of the island to
our government. In 1902 the United
States shipped to Porto Rico merchandise
valued at $685. .297, as compared with
$2,o23,751 in 1897. The growth Of this
trade has been steady and persistent. SUI
gar, tobacco and fruits are the chief
the shipments from the United States to
Porto Rico are chiefly rice, cotton cloths,
iron and steel manufactures, provisions,
breadstuffs, wood manufacture and boots
and shoes. The growth of our Porto Rican
trade has been much greater than our
trade with Cuba which has been handi-
capped by tariff distractions, which the
Cuban reciprocity treaty proposes to re-
move. Under that treaty our trade would
advance rapidly in volume, as it's terms
give the United States preference ovel
European competitors in Cuba s. trade
Cuba needs what Porto Rica needs
chiefly. In the items of -four alone. tn.
United States sold It last year to Port,
Ricosef the value q sl.a4s, 1sossa as com
pared with ssSs, ,o46 sold there the previous
ysar. 81. OF wool manufactures We sols
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
Books and Authors
NEW BOOKS.

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- tha nsd Erontiar ~ EIand ans strotenarer
a,.thor ~ "Amsriran Rows, IJSa nf yyilIiam |
Mckinley illustrated. Boston; Lee s shep. |
ard
Mr. Stra+emeyer is an widely known .
q s,,ccessf,,1 writer, for the you1g that his
na mo cnmmands anv hook no writes This
story Ia of thai interesting neriod when
the Ohio river valley and the west were
menaced by the French and their India \
allies. directing their attention also to the
settlements further east in New york
Pennsylyania and Virginia. The heroes
of this storv the Morris consins taka
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03

The house got in its work and cut out
the senate appropriation of $50, 900 to meet
the exepnses Of a session of the interna-
tional joint high commission. That means
that there will be no meeting of the COM
mission this summer. Once more is reci-
procity between the United States and
Canada delayed by the incomprehensible
shortness Of vision Of congressman. In
less events in Canada suddenly veer their
course, this needless delay will be costly
to American interests.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
Another Correction. .

To the Editor Of The Journal: -
There is about as much connection be-
tween an English quarter cwt and
quarter Of wheat as between the hind
wheel of a wagon and front leg of a
horse. A quarter is eight bushels, and is
one quarter of the old Saxon measure of
a chaldron, / believe, cquAl IN turn to
the Jewish measure of laNer., or. accord
in gto. the late Piazzi Smith. if my mem
.ory is correct. the contents of the Golfer
in the chamber Of the great Pyramid.
Thirty bushels per acre is. q common crop
on an English farm. 4a j b. ,
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03

In the Delaware compromise as to the
United States sena torships from that state,
It will be observed that the Addicks man
was given the long term, while the anti
Addicks man, DR.. Ball, drew the short
term. Addicks hopes to succeed Ball. VIII
he do It? We begin to think that there
is possibility of forever keeping Addicks
out Of the senate. .-,~ -:
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03

We wonder how sixth district parents
uho have sons who would like to compete
for admission to West Point like Con-
.o,,r-essn,a an Buckman's act of appointing his
son in violation Of the excellent ana uni
yersally established custom OF appoint
ing the winner in a competitive examina-
tion. But what else could they expect Of
Buckman?
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03

Fifty-fours years ago to-day the terri
tory Of Minnesota was organized. It then
had almost no white population. Now it
has 100000. What win be our popula-
tion fftyfour years hence? Not less than
5000, ,o00 ~+@
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
DER GERMAN COBBLER
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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
ONE EVIDENCE OF AcuTENEss.
Des MOineS Caioital

An Omaha lawyer has been found fro-
zen to death. When even members of the
legal profession cannot obtain plenty OF
coal 1t must be admitted that the fuel
question Is getting acute.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
cHARAcTERIsTicS or THE SEXES
PittsbuFK Dispat teha. ssa

Woman is the weaker5vess filled with
tears.-New York Press. s,5
And man dock for schooners filled
with beers. 4
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
Minnea polls, Feb. .25."rss., 49,

We are obliged to Mr.. Russell for this
correction as to the English quarter But
as to England's peril from short food
supply. he should not LETT his very evident
attachment to his native country keep
him from knowledge Of the facts. He
should know that the matter is of very
great concern: to. the British people and
has just been the subject of official in
quiry with very distressing discoveries.
Our correspondent can figure it out for
himself that, 5000, 900 quarters of wheat
will not supply 4O,0oO,oO0 people. If it
could Great Britain would not have inn
ported last year eS,947,747 worth of wheat,
meal and flour and G27,058,049 worth of
wheat in the kernel. These are official
British figures. In 1901 the British wheat
crop was 55,5S1.000 bushels, or almost
100000 quarters. The imports Of wheat
from the United States alone are more
than the whole British production. to say
nothing of between 100000 and 1O,ooO,000
barrels of American flour. equivalent, say,
to about 10000, 900 bushels of. wheat. The
total British wheat production is less than
one-t third Of the total wheat and wheat
flour importation, these being, roughly,
100000 and 25,ooo,oOo quarters, respect
ively.-Ed Journal.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
The English "Quarter.

10 the EolLOr OF Inc y J0urndi:.<-
In, an article of The Journals
Wednesday edition, ina the = editorial
column, under: heading, ~ Cues
ton Of Sustenance;' the writer
gives quite an array of figures, the
intent apparently being to throw a
scare into Great Britain in regard to Eng
lands food supply. Somebody once said
that figures don't lie, but how this might
be made applicable in this case may be
quite another question The writer gives
a given years wheat crop of England as
being 16,427,0 900 quarters. This / presume
to be correct. This would give that years
(1S55) crop to be 131, ,416,000 bushels, but
You will observe, MI. Editor; that the
writer has given 2S pounds or one-half
bushel as the weight or measure of a
quarter Of Wheat his figures; thus making
the crop for that year butt 8;213, 500 bushls,
thereby making an actual discrepancy of
123, ,202.500 bushels Or 3,050,O00 tons. To
what extent the other figures are mislead-
ing I have not troubled to figure out: The
serious mistake made by the writer of
the article has apparently been made
through his not being conversant with
Englands system Of weights and meas
ures. Accor ding to his figuring, he has it
that Is pounds is the weight of a quarter
Of wheat, whereas if he will look it. UP
he will find that a quarter: Of wheat in
England is a standards measure of eight
UuSilclS Vi $40 nc pOuHQ
quarter that the; writerfhas figured on is
the quarter of the hundredweight of fls
pounds, go Of which cote make the Eng
lish ton of 224D pounds. Discrepancies of
a similar nature are often making the
rounds of this countrys press, undoubt-
l,edly -unintentfonala but realizing lin this
case that great numbers of your readers
may be but'poorly Informed eons England s
system of weights and measutes,t I, on
this account have written this expose OF
the discrepancy: in the article referred to
1t would: seem by the discrepancy made
| by the writer of the article in question:
that his dream ON the question of ssus-
f'tenance as set forth in the article has but
t a very:frail foundation, and it'll may be the
more and the better the writer Of: the
article became informed on the conditions
! Of atlle, United Kingdom the more he
would find it so. and the less need for him
to worry over the subject matter of his
article. BE-. : ri r ! -
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
The h: e
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February

During the month just passed The
Journal. in it's "a issues, carried
more columns of advertising than
any other newspaper in the Twin
Cities - daily and Sunday COM
bined-28 issues. The Journals
nearest competitor was passed by
more than $50 columns. Here are
the February totals for the Mime
apolis papers:
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03

MARCHING ON NIAGARA, or tile Soldier Boys
Of the Old Frontier. BY Edward Stratemeyer,
author OF American Boys Life of William
Mckinley illustrated. Boston: Lee s. Shep.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Genuine imported beer on draught. Et
Maurer's, 1905 Farnam street.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
President Roosevelt in Omaha
The Strenuous President of This Great
Republic Is a Guest of the
Commonwealth.
HE SPEAKS AT THE COLISEUM
And VIII BE Greeted by One of the
Great Audiences for which the
Ak-sar-Ben Den IL
Famous.

When President Roosevelt was forced last
year to abandon his visit to Omaha by rea-
son of a trolley accident in New England,
he promised at as early q day as practic-
able to see and speak TO the people. He
comes now with the city in spring dress.
The glory of the Ak Festival will
not greet him as he drives through our
wide streets, but the
WELCOME IS EQUALLY CORDIAL
and the hospitality we shall extend quite
as generous. Coming from the wilds of
the west and recuperated by his mountain
outing, the president will enjoy the recep-
tion he is promised. As he lie escorted
through the city and views the substantial
growth OF Omaha, his attention may be
directed to our factories. our packing
houses, our jobbing establishments, our
railroad shops and the general air Of pros
perity. He cannot be permitted 20 over
look
THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE.
which he will find snugly housed in it's
home office in the McCague building. Some
public spirited Omahan cannot fail TO re-
mind the distinguished visitor that this ag-
gressive young life insurance company is
forging forward at q pace which surprises
it's alien competitors as much as II pleases
those loyal people who believe In building .
GREAT JUDICIARY INSTITUTION
here in the central west which shall take
rank with the monster companies com
blned now into the Life Insurance Trust.
Although so young, the Bankers Reserve
Life association. against the most male
violent, persistent and united antagonism
OF the trust has placed upon its books
more than $1,000. 900 Of the best risks ever
written by q life company.
h. II. robson, PRESIDENT
Of this company promises that this Ne
braska organization shall have $40, 600. 600
at risk before the year closes and he be,
lieves before Theodore Roosevelt's second
term is concluded the s25, 0O0. 900 marx
will have been reached and this will be
one Of the greatest as II is now one Of
the safest life corporations in America.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

There's only one s%toneoypher. BE prinis
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Frederick, halter. new location. I5O4 Far
nam