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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

The house postoffice committee voted
last Friday to report favorably the post
check currency bill. It will now go upon
the house calendar, and it is hoped will
soon be taken up and passed by that body.
Equally favorable action is expected OF
the senate committee, but to take nc
chances, every person or business house
interested in the admirable measure should
write at once to congressman urging them
to do their best for the bill. Congress
has thought and stewed over this measure
too long for any excuse to omit to pass
it in the crush Of legislation in the last
hours of the session.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02
THE EFFECT OF TRANSLATION


1t is related that while in New York
Professor Lorenz one evening at dinner
was seated next to clergyman, who was
describing to the great Austrian how de-
plorable were moral conditions on the
East Side. Why. professor, said the
minister, Il heard an 11-year-old girl step
up to a boy of about her own age and say,
I'll lick hell out of YOU" DR.. Lorenz
looked puzzled. for he is not familiar with
American slang. Lick he said was
list dos lick p" why lick said the
clergyman. a little puzzled in return,
" lick is to kick out OF, to stamp out
from. to eradicate" ..Oh." said the pro-
fessor, land hell don't know hell I"
well, hell stands for all wickedness,
everything that is wicked. 'Yes. l see, y
slowly responded DR.. Lorenz: 1.-The leetle
girl said to the leetle boy she would
stamp out. eradicat e everything wicked
from him. But why should that be 30
bad:'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02
The Venezuelan Complication.

The compromise proposed as a solvent
Of the Venezuelan problem by a repre-
sentative Of the triple alliance, can hardly
be chara cterized as fair to the other claim
ants, especially the United States and
France, who have had their claims add
judicated and admitted and are entitled
to first consideration. There is, more
over, distinct disadvantage for the allies
If they are in accord and will take 30 per
cent of the customs at the two ports for
six months or year. They have, by the
blockade and commandments, practically
stopped business in Venezuela and i'm
poverished the merchants. SO they will not
be able to buy very extensively for some
time. After interruption Of this kind it
takes some time to restore commerce to
the normal condition, and the allies will
have reduced customs receipts from which
to extract their percentage Of 80 per cent.
If the proposition is not accepted by the
other claimants, the Venezuelan incident
arrives at what looks like an inpasse.
The 80 per cent proposition is designed to
''save the face Of the allies, so to speak,
for they do not want to take their chances
with the others, after all the silly bully
ling and cannonading they have done in
the past few months. Venezuela, so. far
as Castro can speak for her, desires the
equal treatment of all her creditors, and
this is right.
|. Under the existing conditions there is
!manifestly much uncertainty. War has
often resulted from milder compiled tions
than exist as to the Venezuelan imbroglio.
|With hot-headed Hohenzollern playing
Ia leading role in the comedy, comedy may,
by single, incautious move, be turned
into the tragedy of war. Last Saturday
there was an undercurrent OF war, talk
| at Washington. The remote possibility
that our government might be Involved
was admitted, as this nations dominant
. influence in West Indian waters is not tt
be displaced by any combination of Euro.
i pean powers.
! 1t is national duty, therefore, to be pre-.
pared for possible trouble. We are no.
| altogether in the prepared state. The
/ warships now building are from four tt
4 thirty six months behind time; there ar,
I not enough commissioned officers to mar
the warships in commission properly
4 which would be a bad handicap In cas-,
/ of sudden war. The secretary Of the nav,
4 called attention, in his last report, to tn,
4 teaching of experience that a modern nav.
! cannot be improvised during a war o
q the very threshold Of a war.
1 AS to the army, the house and senat
have only recently passed the militia bill
: designed to increase the efficiency an,
full preparedness at all times Of the organ
J lied militia of the country, and the gen
eral army staff bill, designed to keep tn
army as to morale, transportation, com
: |missary. equipment. etc. always prepare
!, for emergencies, and in the highest stat
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

paying for Improvements that now fall
wholly on private ownership. BY all means
let us be fair about this, as you suggest,
and in a broad gauge way ascertain who
should be the benefciaries of the distri-
button Of this fund. I have hoped for all
concerned that the increase in the rate
to per cent would go long way if not
all the way, toward releasing counties
from the necessity of levying tax for
state purposes, but it may be better after
all to make it a grab bag proposition;
only ask that those who have suffered
most be allowed to get up to the grab
bag early in the game. Let us be fair
about this, whatever may be done
w. r. ellis.
Bethel, Mimi. Jan. 26.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02
"LEWD FELLOWS" TURNED DOWN
New York Tribune

New York Tribune
The moral idiots who imagine that a
city must be drunken and lecherous to at
tract visitors, sometimes get control in
the management Of our great fairs and
expositions. A coterie of such lewd fell
lows were responsible for the Chicago
Midway and the same class is strug-
Cling nervously to debauch the st. Louis
fair in the same way. Nothing could more
commend the fair to popular favor and
support than an assurance that it is to
be in all parts clean and decent and fit
to be visited by self respecting men and
women. The Midway orgies are con-
ceived in obscenity and brought forth in
sheer deviltry. Such debaucheries may
exist in the under world of our great cities
where Sodomic vices prevail, and where
modern Sodomites resort; but it is an
awful impudence, it is monstrous, to make
them part Of an annex to great fair
supported by national and state bdelnties
and held to exhibit the worlds progress
in arts and industries.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02
Average daily circulation of
The Journal for Dec, 1902.
57,O93
Relief for the Famine-Stricken.

T. Famine stalks throuh Finland, Sweden
and Norway. All parts Of the United
States are enjoying measure of pros
nation of prosperity Shall we be deaf
to the call for help that comes from those
lands which have sent so many hundreds
OF thousands Of people to become excel
lent citizens Of the republic?
Governor Van SAINT has acted wisely
and well"in issuing proclamation to the
people Of Minnesota, urging them to con-
tribute to the relief of the desperately un-
fortunate dwellers of those portions of
Norway, Finland and Sweden that lie near
or within the arctic circle. The failure
Of the crops has reduced $4,000 independ~
ent people in the north of Sweden to the
verge of starvation; and for the same rea-
son 100000 men, women and children of
the brave Finnish race are in the midst of
great suffering and in the shadow of death
by starvation. In Norway the temporary
destruction Of the fisheries by the inroads
Of the seals has removed the usual means
Of support Of a considerable population.
The press dispatches state that in Swe.
den (and we suppose the case to be the
same In F'inland) it is not only the dan
ger of present starvation that confronts
the people, but the destruction of the
hardy race OF cattle adapted to northern
climates and the enforced consumption Of
the acclimated seed grain. If the herds
die for lack Of fodder and there is no seed
grain, it will become necessary to aban-
don considerable areas of land that in or
binary years support their frugal popula-
tions in plain comfort.
The number of the famine sufferers in
Sweden and Norway, who are now living
on the barks Of trees and other equally un :
suitable food is said to be $4,000, and the
royal Swedish relief commission an
nounces that it will require s30O0,0 900 to
bring the people and their herds safely
through the winter and in condition to
prepare this years crop. The total num-
Der Of famine-s stricken people in Fin
land is placed by the Finland famine fun i
announcement Of the New York Christian
Herald at 100000, out of a total popula-
ton of 100000. All Finland Is poor, and
: the regions that did not lose their crops
. have little or nothing to give to their SUI
fering countrymen. The Russian govern
ment is unequal to the situation or is
willing to see these brave people cowet
by hunger, and no assistance can be ex
rected from it. But it will take man,
millions of dollars to care for the poo
people as they should be cared for In thi.
hour Of trial. They are worth saving, i
merely as future immigrants to the United
: States. AS an indication Of the grade o
these people it may be said that out o
= 100000 children Of school age, A4S,0 ar
actually in school,
The Swedish government seems to b
doing much for its own people. Alread
1900 carloads Of provisions have bee
shipped north from Stockholm, and til
relief work is we'll organized. There
no doubt that funds contributed by Amer
leans will be well spent. Up to a fey
days ago the contributions amounted t
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02
Distribute Gross Earnings Tax.

10 CHe EQlLOT OIL Inc JOURNAL.
noticed your editorial in Til e Jour
n a Of Friday last anent the injustice
of the gross earnings system of taxation
to abutting land owners when improve
ments are made that benefit railroad and
private property both and the whole cost
must fall on private property. OF course
it is unjust. The whole system based
on gross earnings taxation is wrong and
unjust. No one knows this better than
those who have had to tax themselves
to build roads and schoolhouses and sup.
port schools in localities where one-half
to two thirds of the land is exempt from
taxation on account Of the gross earnings
tax system. By all means make things
even and in doing SO don't forget the set
tier on the frontier who must tax himself
double because the land all around him
pays nothing for local improvements
Nothing would benefit the state half as
much. especially in the northern portion
as the making of things even as you sug-
gest by applying a portion of the pro-
ceeds from the gross earnings tax to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

The railways are said to- be almost at
the point of sending abroad for engines.
American engine makers are a year be-
hind in their orders, though they are turn
ing out the iron horses more rapidly than
at any previous time. The freight con-
gestion will keep. up, it is said. until
there are more engines in service. The
Canadian Pacific has already gone to
Scotland for engines, but though Scotch
made, the engines were built on tn.
American model. y, The dinky little en-
gines Of Europe would not be Of much
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

This is the day when half of your wood
and half of your hay should be left if it
is going to carry you through the winter.
80 8E1 sEl-- -
Have you tried the Cero-Doormat break
fast food yet? ,s8f}s1G
Our set in New York no longer pro-
vides butter for the bread The use of the
lubricant is that way IS no longer .sde
rigger:' Considering s'vaue we do not
WONDER
An Iowa paper prints a memorial poem
seventeen, stanzas long. One Of the STAN
zasEreads as follows: So
i "She was there for choir practice,
Taking part in every song;
During mission, forty hours, 8
Her sweet voice rang clear and strong
Have; you felt. any excitement over
Judge Parker's@ presidential boom vet?
If the legislature does its duty the puff
puff cart will not be allowed to exceed
twenty-five miles minute within the
city limits.
A correspondent at Marquette, Mich.
tells OF a travelling mans sample trunk
that reached that town recently It was
about the size of a small cottage and on
one side of it some humorous railroad
official had pasted the following printed
lines:
30, little sample case, don't you cry,
You'll be a box car by and by.'
A HouShton, Mich, brewery recently
put on a new wagon driver whose duty
it, was to deliver beer by the case and
to take orders. Not knowing the route
very we'll the driver tried nearly every
house in his way. Among them was that
of well known minister who was a
strong temperance advocate. The driver
went to the door and asked the preacher
wife, who responded to his ring, whether
she desired any of his goods. She was
Mortified and gave him an emphatic mega
tive. The driver then concluded to make
the round of the neighborhood on foot to
take orders. In the meantime he left his
team and wagon standing directly in front
of the minister's door, The minister him
self was not at home, and for some time
his wife was in a state of CONSERVATION
and chagrin as she noticed people who
were passing, stop, take in the situation
and then smile knowingly to themselves
as they walked away. She finally sent
for her husband, who came a-running,
rounded up the driver and, had tho team
removed to another location. Since then
the pastor has had to do considerable
explaining-and with gestures.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02
$3.50, 900, of which about $4,000 had come

$350,000, of which about $40, 900 had come
from Swedish-Americans.
The men Governor Van SAINT has ap-
pointed In each county to receive funds
given for the relief of the famine-strick
people Of Norway, Sweden and Finland,
should take hold of their task with will,
and the public should make it duty to
give something out Of its full purse. Both
money and time are important now that
the severity Of an arctic winter is upon
the sufferers. What is given should be
given quickly and promptly forwarded
We hope and believe that Minnesota will
make a handsome showing in this noble
work.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

The jefferson Memorial association is
be raised to the great Virginian:s Now
watch subscriptionszfailt to roll in, Jeffer-
son died a long time. ago, and even the
Mckinley and Grant memorial funds were
not bowling: successes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

1t will look as If the sword were might
Ter than the pen if the English and Ger
man bluff diverts revenues from the
recognized French claims, now being
peacefully paid, to those fired at Vene-
zuela from the guns Of warships. .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

b: A reader or L n e ) o u n / and a
patron Of the library writes to protest
against the proposed reduction Of salaries
at the public library. The protest is not
without reason. There is too much of
disposition in certain quarters to under
estimate the kind of preparation and ex-
perience that is necessary for satisfactory
service as a library attendant. It doesn't
require very much preparation or train
ing to know how to pass out books by
number, as some one has suggested, but
that it should be suggested at all is
evidence of some very deplorably errone-
librarian and his assistants is. The pub
lie would not long put up with the kind
Of service that such a standard Of
qualification would supply, as Patron Of
the Library" says, it takes special train
ing and lots of it to make good library
attendant, and it is an easily established
fact that members Of our library staff
have given great deal Of time and ex-
pense to general and special study and
prepare ton for their work, so that they
might be able to to the public the
kind Of service it is entitled to. In these
days Of generally increasing salaries,
made necessary, in part. by increased
cost of living, it would be very easy to
thoroughly demoralize the work Of the
library by undertaking to get it done for
less than it is worth. 1t is not as
sumed that the board will attempt any
thing Of that kind, but patrons of the
library naturally feel nervous about il
when they hear the library board talking
of reducing salaries when they are ad.
vancing in nearly every other department
of the public service, as well as in private
business
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02
AN INVITATION

Is extended to all readers of T h e J o u r.
n a to visit it's Press Room, which is the
finest in the west. The battery of presses
consists Of three four deck Goss Presses
with a total capacity of 144,0 900 eight-page
ournals an hour, printed, folded and
counted.
The best time to call is from S:15 to 1880
p. m. .=.. .---..
Inquire at the. business office and be
directed to the visitors gallery of the
press room.
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1t Pleased Him.

To the Editor of The Journal
L have read your editorial. in Satur-
days Journal, in relation to the
private soldier in the regular army. You
hit the nail on the head, and 1 feel like
throwing bouquet at you. Every word
is too true. AS to the present congress,
they are a f1ddlfng while Rome is burning.
There is a Judgment day approaching.
&C. S. Branch.
Alexandria, Mimi, Feb. l.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

It is a good guess that our warships
will not be taking any shots at the
Dominican forts to collect that Cylde line
steamship bill. We have too recently
gone on record as to our opinion Of that
way of collecting an international bill:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

The United States is little more pop
ular in Venezuela than it was during the
war with Spain. Even Argentina and
saucy Chile begin to love us a little. They
would even like to sell US the warships
they have agreed between themselves not
to use, though ordered built in England.
The higher the price, the more they would
love us. ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

It is possible that the army and navy
press agents are working up this war
scare for it's effect in loosening the con-
gressional hold on the national money
bags. s'.',@ IS
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

President Castro fears that world
war will result from the dispute over the
Venezuelan claims. How bad he would
feel! So
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

The Ferris company in the hilarious
Man From Mexico seem in for busy
week at the Lyceum. The performance
will be reviewed tomorrow.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

emily wen much attention to the mar
tial Side of the character. Before the final
battle of Bosworth Field he is shown as
a general giving his last orders and be-
slowing his forces The difficult battle
scenes are also handled with no little
skill, the confusion and din Of the con
flict being reproduced with realism. And
yet the Whiteside Richard is himself not
much of soldier. He lacks in aggressive
virility. This is shown not less through
out the play than in the final combat with
Richmond, where the sword play is disap-
pointingly tame.
Mr.. Whiteside speaks his lines now as
always with Illuminating clarity of ex-
preston. He makes their meaning as
plain as a pikestaff, no matter how
archaic the words or constructions. In this
/ achievement he is greatly indebted to his
wonderful voice. which, naturally fine, has
| been skilfully trained.
4 The play has seldom been put on witt
| such regal trappings and with such schol.
arly attention to accuracy of scene ane
costume. The version used is still the
| Colley Cibber one with such un-Shaks
perean but effective lines as "Chop off hi:
head-so much for Buckingham" re
tanned. Some of the final scenes in thu
third part Of Henry VIZ are used for al
introduction and the play proper is great
| ly curtailed. Yet the waits were so Ion,
4 last night, on account Of the elaborate
nature or the production, that the ma
curtain was very late.
The supporting company is in most re
spects an excellent one. The Bucking
ham of Mr.. Evart was notably effective
Mr.. Sears realized sympathetically tn
royal martyr, Henry VI, In the opening
scenes, but Mr.. Clifford's Richmond wa
disappointing. Miss Wolstan appeared a
Anne and acquitted herself well in the diff
ficult WoOing scene. The tragic role Q
Queen Elizabeth lost nothing of it's i'm
pressive grief at the hands of Miss Morse
while the young Prince of Wales was i'm
personated with youthful dignity by Mis-
l Keyes. Little Master Williams is to
' young and small for the Duke Of York
E Mr.. Tracy's Lord Stanley was an excel
lent piece of work and the Catesby Of MI
: Chagnon, while rather colorless, is salts
:. factory. The cast is a long one and make
l demands on the company that are We
met. w. B. Chamberlain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

Starting next Sunday evening the Fer
rls Stock company at the Lyceum will be
seen in new semireligious drama en-
titled "Tlle Prince of the World,' intro
ducing in one of the acts a den of real
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

In case of war with Germany the only
place we can attack will be Milwaukee,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

use in breaking up the American freight
congestion.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

Kyrle Bellew, one Of the best actors of
England, commences a brief engagement
at the Metropolitan next Sunday evening.
He will present Harriet Ford's dramatic
alton of Weymans wonderful novel, "A
Gentleman of France" 3
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

Annie Blancke in 1.-THE Little Outcast, "
was welcomed cordially at the Bijou yes
terday. The play will be reviewed in this
column Tomorrow.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-02

"The Gay Lord Quex," one Of the most
notable productions of the last London
season, is to be presented at the Metro
politan the last half of next week by
Sylvia Lyndon and company.
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CONTINUED.

All papers are continued until an expli-
cit order is received for discontinuance,
and until all arrearages are paid.
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Foyer Chat,

David Warf1eld, who will make his
stellar appearance at the Metropolitan the
last half Of this week, is famed the coun-
try over for his clever portrayals of Jew
ish character He will be seen in 1.-THE
Auctioneer" ---
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The NonpareiI Man
Casually tsObserved.

This is the day when half of your wood
and half of your hay should be left if it
is going to carry you through the winter.