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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
A SocIaIlstlc View.

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To the Editor Of The Journal.
Your editorial on 1.-THE Currency Confer
ence,' is clearing up many things.
In one place you say: Confidence must be
restored as soon as possible.
Why, my dear sir, I thought with the cleo
ton of Mckinley all confidence had been re-
stored for all time to come, at least for a
And then You say at the end: 'There is
even a gap to be filled in the gold standard
law -
press are stickers for rotten principles, even
if the frogs on the roadside call them rascals
Now there is going to be an extra session
That is, it wants to provide for way of
getting the peoples United States cash for
such securities as we see them hy1ng IN Inc
air in the stock markets now! ~. 49,
Will the people allow that steal?
If the United States treasury is allowed to
cover under-balances of stock gamblers, why
| can it not pass laws to, divide the surplus
| money in the banks. A treasury to give
| laboring men house and home and working
! capital so IS to put the business on sound
Why protect gamblers and not honest work.
| ers?
| ficient for our demands, why should some
people be allowed to create more values than
there is demand for, either through ma
| chinery or through speculation?
Why should there be a stringency of money
| at crop-moving time when billions of money
| are actually in existence? If our fnanciers
do not even show how to direct the money
| necessary for the purchase of the. most vita
! necessities of their existence to places where
it is required, after q year elapses then
| they cannot be styled fnanciers.
But the other fact is, that the money tc
move the crops is in the places required. and
| the stringency therefore does not come from
! that source at all 1t only comes from fc.
| ton in business. Values are created on pa
per- And this paper is held by people, who
have succeeded in mon0polizing everything 14
disturbers of confidence, nobody else.
| The mask is dropping off and shows tn!
capitalist as unworthy to be trusted will
/ public affairs.
AS J. ]. Hill realizes this fact and call
for big army. as Napoleon did,-he says
"Force is always the last arbiter'', perpetrat
ing crime herewith.
i. D. Parry of the American Manufactur
ers' association calls the union labor organs
"a mob organization in the face of the mill
ions of dead and crippled which the capital
istic Industrial world turns out and slay
every day.
, Bookkeeper johnson in Duluth is blame
for the failure of his bank; he is called al
embezzler How can man be an embezzle
4 il he inyents money in legitimate business
:, And II it is not legitimate, why blam
Johnson for it and not those who have tn
money which he lost.
Come out with your logic, with your phil
Look at Governor LaFollette of Wisconsi
and Judge Grosscup of Chicago, how fast the
Get in on the band-wagon!
S Yours truly,
Ed. Bosky.
s New Ulm. Minnesota.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
The Honorable David Bennett Hill de-

The Honorable David Bennett Hill de-
livered a speech yesterday at a democratic
picnic at Olcott Beach, N. Y, in which
he uttered a doleful Jeremiad over what
he called the fictitious prosperity" Of the
period. Mr.. Hill Is a believer in the
Hindoo Vedantic philosophy. He regards
all ideas of personality and of the sub
stantial and separate reality of the OBJ
jective world as begotten Of maya or
illusion. Something has an apparent ex-
istence, but it is only apparent, not real.
Thus Mr.. Hill denies that what is called
prosperity has any real existence. People
may delude themselves with the notion,
but it is only maya" illusion. We are
all deceiving ourselves.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

In the early days Of railroad building in
this country when the main thing was to
get an iron road between certain places,
nothing was thought Of frightening the
road in order to get around natural OBJ
stacles. But nowadays the railway man
ager is irritated by every unnecessary
mile. The Southern Pacific railway has
just spent s14,ooO,OoO to shorten its line
by two hours. After years Of work it has
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
! Hills Mistake.

Ex-senator D. B. Hill sees In the pro-;
posed currency legislation to give the.
country currency more responsive to the
needs Of business, a dark conspiracy to
Tend the peoples money to corpora
tons" Mr.. Hill does not seem to be
aware that the government, under the
provision made by congress In section
5153 Of the revised statutes, has for many
years designated certain national banks
as repositories Of public money, under
regulations prescribed by the secretary Of
the treasury, they to give satisfactory
security to the secretary .by the deposit
of United States bonds and otherwise for
the safe keeping and prompt payment of
the public money deposited with them.'
| The suggested legislation proposes to
allow security for the government funds
of first class security other. than govern
ment bonds, as was permitted under the
existing statute last autumn by the sec.
rotary Of the treasury, to modify the
money stringency Of that period. There
is intimation, too, that customs receipts
be permitted among the government de.
posits with the nationals. Such provision
for meeting autumn money stringenc!
during crop-moving time will be welcomed
by the legitimate business Of the country
A calamity bowler like ex-senator Hil
does not know legitimate from illegiti
mate business. 1t may be remembered
that during the last two presidential cam
paigns it was exceedingly difficult, if no
impossible, to locate D. B. Hill financial
ly His low grade Of craftsmanship i
now distinctly visible in his return to tn
) policy Of preaching calamity and discon
tent and engendering class hatred.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

The Minneapolis Journal for the first six months OF the
wear 1903, carried 818 columns, over 81 per cent
more Foreign Display Advertising than the Daily
Tribune.
The Minneapolis Journal for the first six months OF the
wear 1908 carried 600 columns, or 70 per cent more
Want Advertising than the Daily Tribune
The Minneapolis Journal for the first six months OF the
wear 1903 carried 1868 columns of Real Estate adver-
Using, while the Daily Tribune carried none.
The Minneapolis Journal for the first six months OF the
year 1908 published 343 columns OF advertising
than for the period in 1902; while the Tribune
according to it's statement published July 18TH gained
only 754 this year, the Journals excess gam
over the Tribune being 589 columns, 78 per cent:
The MSnmeopolis Journal of 7037 residences can
vassed had 5,618 subscribers the Evening Tribune
g.. l,5O5-the Morning Tribune $780, -. q
The MINNEAPOLIS Journal in 80 apartment and fiat build
ngs canvassed, had 1,310 subscribers-the Evening
Tribune 203 and the Morning Tribune 1888
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
BENJAMIN Franklin Yoakum.

The Rock NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AIT
Line combination Directs public attention
to a railroad man who is entitled to a
seat in the same row with J.~J. Hill, II. II.
Hartman, A. j. Cassatt and one or two
others. . ,.- -e .-
He is Benjamin Franklin Yoakum, late
of Texas p s;~,s i
A few years%ago Mr.. Yoakum started
out with a IS bill in his pocket to build
railway, the San Antonio & Arkansas
Pass line. What he started to do he did,
and soon 6s7 miles Of his railway spread
out over the imperial state of Texas.
: He worked,slike. a convict under the
lash of his AMBITION says the Atlanta
Constitution, land suffered discourage
ments that would have made sysiphus
sit down to laugh at him, but his bull
| dog persistency won" -
| He saw the town of Yoakum built In his
honor, and he lived there in princely style
where in his early days he was hardly
| trusted for twenty -four hours provisions
| for his family. '.r..- .
Next Mr.. Yoakum became president of
the Frisco, and it wasn't long before the
papers were full of the news Of what the
Frisco was doing. He was figuring on a
great railway system to cover the south
west. Out of that figuring came the
combination Of the Frisco and the Rock
Island. ~ arg.~" ".
But not yet was Yoakum satisfied.
He saw that the south and west were
LolF fo,
the growth Of half a dozen great ports
between Galveston and New York. A
great railway system of the future would
be one connecting the interior of the con.
tinent with these ports, giving short line!
to the nearest ports for export or bulky
domestic commodities demanding long
haul by water when available. And 81
the seaboard Air Line was taken over
) and the dream was realized and more thar
realized, for the new combination cover
the west-north and south-the south an,
southeast. Two thousand miles the sys
tenn ramifies, east and west; 1900 mile
it sprawls, north and south. It is esti
mated that the value of the freight offere
every year in the country penetrated b.
the new combination is more than 50, 600,
D 900, O0O while the passenger travel is tina
4 Of 35, o0O, 900 people.
$ And to think that this is in large PAL
); the work Of q man who with IS in hi
t pocket set out to build little railway /
s Texas some years ago. It is the story
A J. J. Hill over again. There are thou
: sands and thousands Of such stories to b
y told in the United States. No wonde
k that the country has it's full share Of me
d who are living in the future, going shabb
g and hungry to-day while toiling unremi
If tingly for the realization of an idea.
Every city has men of this kind Ger
+ orally they are laughed at. So was Yos
10 KUN; so was Hill. Beware, lest yc
le laugh at a railway king, lumber baro
1T a financial colossus of the morrow.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

The Rock Islands latest acquisitions
give it a total mileage of 1886, or about
50 per cent more than its next nearest
rival in mileage, the Canadian Pacific,
which has total mileage Of 10,410. It is
a question tho, whether the various groups
Of the Rock Island system are any more
one system than the Northern Securities
roads, which have between them a larger
mileage than the Rock Island ,combina-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
An error in the types yesterday made

An error in the types yesterday made
Mr.. Eugene G.. Hay give rather para
doxical definition of socialism. AS it was
printed he said: "A socialist is one who
believes in or advocates socialism that
does not embrace within its meaning de-
struction of competition AS it was writ
ten this sentence read: "a socialist is
one who believes in or advocates social
ISM, and I know of no definition of So
cialism that does not embrace within its
meaning destruction of competition
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

The fate of the Chinese editor who was
recently beaten to death with bamboo
switches because he had made some COM
ment displeasing to the empress only
makes it clearer to his American con-
temporaries that it is better to be pro-
tected by fool libel law than to be at
the mercy Of an ignorant old woman.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

The south is strange mixture of aris-
tocracy and democracy. In the way of
aristocracy, there is the race line, which
amounts almost to caste line, and the
pride OF the old families. In the way OF
democracy, there is a certain familiarity
between strangers, mixed up with good
deal of dignity that is very interesting.
This phase is well illustrated by the COM
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
at last conquered Salt Lake and built q
road bed and bridge across the northern
Her Own Fault.

It Is a pity that Mrs. Kate T. Woolsey
has lived abroad So long that she sees
At to pour out the Walls Of her Wretched
discontent upon American readers In the
nages OF the North American Review In
a paper entitled .''Woman's Inferior Posi-
ton in a Republic Mrs. Woolsey de-
clares that the position Of women In our
beloved country Is really inferior to that
of woman in Russia. She is sorrowful be-
cause the wife Of the president is polite
ally .inferiory3to the most ignorant voter
and almost goes into Mysteries of admira,
ton over the superior advantages OF the
women Of Russia, who, she declares, are
infinitely better off than American women.
It is astonishing that Mrs. Woolsey does
not go and live in that dclectable country
where the masses of the Russian women
Of the rural communes can't get a change
Of linen year and the Jewish women
of the fifteen provinces Of the pale"
can't get means to buy chemise per
| family and the heroism Of the women is
chiefly exploited In starving to, death, or,
| like Vera Sasulitch, counting death by
! pASS
against the czar.
| Fortunately Mrs. Woolsey is a type OF
a comparatively small class Of American
women. who are not willing to admit that
to be citizen of the.republic- Is q matter
they care about being congratulated upon
These women. to. ;be honest, will have to
admit that If a woman occupies an sin
ferior position In this republic, it is al
together her .own fault. She certainly has
opportunities enough to gain distinction
certainly a place Of a substantial charac'
ter, In business, art, science, education
literature, the professions, and, If she viii
achieve the high honors Of highly in,
fiuential maternity, be grouped with the
l mothers Of the nation! The American
woman who proclaims to the world tina
our republic withholds recognition from
woman and holds her down to an inferior
position is unworthy the heritage Of lib
erty which she enjoys.
Mrs. Woolsey appears to be afflicted
; with the megrims, because so many Of he
sex are content to be without the exercise
of the suffrage. This is entirely their owl
fault If the women Of this country reall!
wanted to vote at all elections, they could
They do not care about the suffrage AM
they do; not have it in consequence, ex
cept in the few states where they hav
chosen to exert themselves to get it. Tha
is the trouble. If Mrs. Woolsey regard
that as an inferior position in the re
public" it is~a position Of womans ow
making. She stultifies herself by tryin
to lay, the blame on men.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

FDohertys taking everything in tennis and
the British golfers beating all Corners,
the Yanks ought to have something this
year besides the Palma rifle trophy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

Those Balkan boys may be all right, but
somehow they remind us of the little
American boy who started to open the box
of dynamite with a Ratchet.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
CASUALLY Observed.

1.-THE Toronto Daughters of the Empire"
propose to protest to the British autnorl.
Ties against the admission Of statue Of
George Washington to st. Paul's cathe-
dral. Oh, now, girls!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

The excited Short who runs the mar.
ket up on himself is as valuable an asse
in the speculative trade as the e-legget
man is to the boot blacking business.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
NOT TAXING GOOD ADVICE
Aberdeen Is. ID News.

Aberdeen Is. Do News.
Rev Sam Jones advises the democrats
to save time and whisky by holding no
national convention next year. But who
ever knew the democrats to take good
advice? &
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
BETTER ADVERTISING COLUMNS,
Wahpeton,. N. D., Globe.

Wahpeton, NJ d., Globe.
The Minneapolis Journal--the favoEite
daily newspaper with Wahpeton readers
has larger circulation in Richland
county than all other twin city dailies
combined. Why IS, it?: Because T h e
J ournalp pays more attention to North
Dakota news than any other paper and
gives our affairs due prominence. The
Journals advertising patronage Is larger
than that Of any other paper in the north
west. and this is valuable feature to
those who have occasion to make pur-
chases in the city.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

Ethelinda has returned from New York
and the east. She has put in a busy
summer, but as the result Of her industry
she is able to tell the various Vanderbilts
apart. Ethelinda is about ready to come
ont -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

Mr.. Allen of Boston, believing that
Providence would care for the thirty or
forty sick or superannuated Methodist
minister's, took their $4,000 and fed
hence, probably to South America. Mr..
Aliens faith in Providence was justified.
An unknown" stepped in and gave s1,5oD
so that. these destitute people could have
their quarterly relief. ~. 49,. sd.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

We can remember the time when they
used horses to drag a carriage around.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

AN INVITATION is extended to all 70 visit
the Press Room, which IL the finest y tne Msa us
Goss Presses, with a total capacity OF sl4A; 9o9
eight-page 0 u al an hour. printed toaas1
and counted. The best time to call IS from Oily
to 4:8O D. m. Inquire at the business oaice ana
be directed to the visitors gallery. or the fssS'
Room.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

, The farmers are all getting curvature Of
the meek looking for that dollar mark on
wheat. ~ .e
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

The deficit on the cable from Canada
to Australia is already more than mil
lion dollars. AS Canadians send only about
forty messages "a month. over the cable
1t is estimated that each message costs
the Canadian taxpayers about $4o0, as
the governments share Of the deficit will
be about 100000. But4in Canada they are
used to that sort of thing, so long have
the people been paying taxes for sub
Sides t
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20


Miss Laura Gregg, the woman suffra-
gist, and DR.. Bixby, the Nebraska State
Journal cusser and discusser, have been
putting up a joint debate before several
Junior normal schools In western Ne
braska on the question, "Shall Women
Vote?", Miss Laura stating that "they
shall'' and the doctor insisting that "they
shan't." The Adams County (Neb.)
Democrat says that Laura walloped the
doctor good and plenty and that he en-
joyed 1t, taking great delight in stirring
up the lady to the point of evaporation
where she came out with a holler that
could be heard for two blocks. Docs
strong point or one Of them, is in getting
the other party mad so that he ''rares
| up and makes show of himself by
foaming at the mouth, waving his arms
about like a windmill and calling Doc
names. y, This the Daily Drift man enjoys
hugely. It's a good idea in an argument
to let the other fellow get mad. Then
! the crowd goes over to you, because a
| man who is angry, or a woman, is not
an engaging spectac le.s. .3..-s .--.-. --~. ...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
SOLUTION OF A SCIENTIFIC PROB
Memphis CONNER

Memphis Commercial.
If you don't believe that the flea Is the
bacillus of unrest, ask your dog.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
The New Northumberland.

Every time Growers name is mentioned
Uncle Hank Watterson goes out and bites
grass. $3.50
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

The brand of reform put in effect in
Macedonia is cross between Breathitt
county and southern exposure of hades
in summer time. "" ..s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

mon use Of the abbreviated form Of given
names in. the south. Joseph is always
Joe, not only among famil liars. but in the;
newspapers and in common usage. Samuel,
Is never Samuel, but Sam. Even II a.
man is entitled to a handle to his name,
he Is still Rev. Sam, or Colonel Bill"l
or General joe
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20

After YOU have put in a good 3-hour
and run out and cut the weeds for eight
or ten miles along. the highway.
Vice Chancellor Pitney's statements as
to trust promotion, made from the bench
at Newark, N. j., Saturday, is unusual
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-20
LESSER OF TWO EVILS
Ortonville Herald-S ts

New Ulm. Mime
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
No False Claims.

The proprietors. of Foley's Honey
and Tar do not advertise this as Assure
cure for consumption" They do not
claim it will cure this dread complaint
in advanced cases, but do positively
asert that it will cure in the earlier
stages and never fails to give comfort
and relief in the worst cases. Foley's
Honey and Tar is without doubt the
greatest throat and lung remedy. Re.
fuse Substitutes.
-. Green A1 Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
News of Good Town Scissored
From the Gazette.

Lacey Moore left Monday for Bux-
ton where he has accepted position
as stenographer with the Consolida-
ton Coal. Co.
Mrs, S. r. Canon and Miss Marga.
ret Canon left Tuesday for Colfax
where they will stay for couple OF
weeks at the famous Iowa summer
resort
Rev. c. l. Tenant, of this city,and
Rev. H. r. Gilbert, of Cedar, are in
Moravia this week attending the dis
trict conference of the M. T.. church.
Last Saturday Caves & Bennett
sold the A. +. Smith farm Of 95
acres near Keosauqua to Austin wy
more, of Hedrick. The price paid
was $50 an acre.
Elihu White was a caller at this of.
flee Tuesday. This is the farthest
he has been away from home since
his recent illness but he gets along
fairly well with the aid of crutch
Miss Pearl Helm, who has been
making her home in Denver the past
year and a half, arrived in Fremont
Wednesday night for an indefinite
stay with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Scion Helm.
Work on the school building has
been delayed this week on account OF
the inability of the contractor to Sc,
cure brick. The walls are up one
story high now and weeks more
work would finish them.
H. G. Moore, VINO is one of the best
farmers around Cedar, sent us a
bunch of timothy heads that for size
and length will be hard to beat. They
ranged from nine to fourteen inches
in length and are we'll filled.
Ernie Lyon, of Cedar, left Tuesday
for Sioux Falls, S. D., with the follow
ing party of investors and home seek
ers: Herman Pike, James Coleman
Jake Sisco and Chas. Pickens, all o.
Cedar, and w. H. McMaines, OF
Mauch Chunk.
D. T. Mills will next week begin
the erection of new residence on
his farm northwest of town. Albert
White will do the mason work and
VIM. Lynch the carpenter work. The
new building will be a modern cot
tage and will cost about $3.50.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. w
c. Mcdowell, whom we mentioned
last week as being so i'll, and who
has been lying at the Joint of death
the past week, rallied somewhat
Tuesday night and has shown some
improvement since. Hopes are now
entertained for his recovery.
Leonard Woods, of Oskaloosa, has
ten year old boy, who has been Wis
iting at the Chas. Howell home, north
of town. Saturday tie boy fell from
a wagon and sustained a severe frac'
ture of the left arm. A Fremont
doctor was called, who at once set
the broken bones and the boy is get
ting along all right.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-08-13
viii Reside in ST. Louis.

Ed Elridge and wife, who have
been visiting at the homes of friends
and relatives here for the past few
days departed yesterday via the Cen
trail for ST. Louis, where they win
make their future home.