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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
EMPLOYERS Act,

The action Of the board Of governors of
the Building Trades Employers associa-
ton Of New York, yesterday, looking to
the protection of their interests by pro-
viding means to enable them and their
employees to prosecute business without
unnecessary interruption, financial loss or
humiliation" is within their legal rights.
The builders have contracted with par
ties for the erection of buildings this sea-
son, but, by reason Of strikes, sympathet-
ic and otherwise, they have been obstruc-
ted, and there are hundreds of unfinished
buildings here and there in the city, some
in the incipient stage Of construction and
others more or less advanced but work is
abruptly stopped to the great loss of the
builders The worlingmen, by striking
in sympathy or otherwise, have lost over
$12,000.0O0 in wages, and the builders have
lost much more. Many new schoolhouses,
which are urgently needed to relieve the
congested condition Of the old buildings,
have been left unfinished, and, if. the
I strike continues, thousands of children
will have school accommodations when
the school year begins in September. The
Il employers ASSOCIATION proposes to en-
deavor to avert sympathetic strikes and
8 attacks upon individual firms and corpor-
ations, settle all questions of jurisdiction
.of trades, and, notably, to establish proper
courts of arbitration to adjust all ques-
,tions between employers and employed
before the tension reaches the rupture
\ point This course of action is most
commemorate. It involves directly the
adoption of the wholesome device of con-
ference, cool, friendly and dispassionate
If mutual consent to the setting up OF
courts Of arbitration is realized, the VIC
tory is half won.
n There is one matter which ought to be
settled because the interests Of both en-
ployer and employee are concerned in such
settlement in the proper way. In New Eng
land the attitude of the unions has ham
pered the millmen in so many ways thai
the question will have. to be determined
once for all, whether the owners and man
ayers of the mills shall run them Of
whether they shall be under the direc,
4 ton Of the officers Of the unions. The
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02

It is estimated in Seattle that the if
teen ocean going steamers and dozen
sailing vessels in the Alaska trade will
carry to Nome this season not less than
5000 passengers and 100. 900 tons Of freight.
This is expected to be Nome's greatest
year in gold output. When one district
in Alaska takes SO much freight what
may we expect when the whole of it is
opened up? A French expert who is
pushing the idea of railway from Paris
to New York, declares that Alaska is the
richest mineral region in the world, to say
nothing of its abundant agricultural, fish
cry and forest resources.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
Kansas City's, Double Grief.

Sorrows rarely come s1ngly, but prefer
to alight in a gloomy group. Witness
Kansas City, which is at the same time
struggling with an unprecedented flood
and a rise in the price of chicken sand
wiches from 10 to Is cents. The sellers
of sandwiches explain that poultry has
risen rather faster than the Kaw and the
Missouri with the result that the old
price level Of 10 cents has been flooded,
and that it will be necessary to build on
another story before they can see financial
daylight. With some sorts of provender
it is possible to maintain the conventional
price Notwithstanding the rise of the cost
Of their ingredients, by making second
class material serve where formerly only
the best was used. But the anatomy of
a chicken sandwich is too frank to per-
purports to be. The sagacious consumer
Of sandwiches always removes the upper
lid Of the combination and inspects it
before planting his teeth therein. If the
chicken were not No. 1 he would soon
know it. &c
1NSNC1 Il1SiSoo sItlo pOpuldCt ISluSSS&f "
be comforted. Since time immemorial, in
periods of prosperity and periods of de-
preston, the price of chicken sandwiches
has been 10 cents. Whence it follows that
any change at this late day is a great
evil, and another evidence that the ten
tacle Of the dread octopus is upon US.
The New York Post muses. at length on
the news from Kansas City and comments
on the fact that it Is only sharp changes
| in conventional prices that are usually
determined without regard to the fuctu-
atoms Of the market that irritate the
consumer. A half cent per pound added
to his meat, hundredth part of a mill
to his sugar pound, do not make him
mediate at length on the increased cost
| of living though he may buy twenty
pounds Of meat a week and only one
chicken sandwich. He is accustomed to
slight fluctuations in meat, but when
one of the stable facts of the economic
world, such as the conventional price OF
chicken sandwiches advances SO per
cent, then indeed does he understand that
the times are out of joint and that the
government ought to do something.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
THE MAGAZINES

McClure's for June in new cover of
light blue with tasteful design in white,
captures any art-loving reader at once by
John La Farge's illustrated paper on
"The Barlizon School, devoted to those
distinguished painters, Diaz, Delacroix
and Decamps. The Illustrations, showing
examples of their work, are in tint.
Henry Harland begins his new serial
story, MY Friend Prospers,'' which
promises we'll, and there is deep
ly-interesting illustrated paper by P.
G. McGrath on the many wrecks and
rescues in what is called the ocean
graveyard off. Cape Race, Newfound-
land, where human heroism is at its
best. S. M. Jones discloses some Of the
curious answers given by civil service
applicants to questions asked and Ray
Stannard Baker tells of the genius
Of Peter Cooper's grandson, p. c.
Hewitt, shown in his great achievements
in electrical science. Miss Ida Tar
bell brings her disclosures about the
Standard Oil company up to the
definite signing of the trust agree.
ment in 1882, which was the parent Of
| all the trusts thereafter. It was an in
nocent looking agreement, but it embodied
a menace to the public.
Harpers for June contains nine very at.
tractive stories and is In every respect q
! most readable and seasonable number
Unusually attractive illustrative feature.
are the reproductions Of old portraits ii
Mr.. Gosse's The Patron In the Eigh'
teenth Century, the reproductions ii
color Of Andrew Castaignes's paintings ii
the Shackleton's story. "a Lochinvar O.
st. Cloud the illustrations OF Miss
Reese's story, "Cornelia's Birthday,
Lester Ralph's drawings, illustrate
Julian Ralph's Our Appalachian
Americans; the paintings Of Loeb repro;
| duced in tint, illustrating Israel ZanquilT.
! AN Italian Fantasy and others. Johr
Burroughs contributes a fine poem, 1.-THE
/ Blue Bird and very notable papers are
Carl Snyder's 1.-THE World Beyond oul
Senses" and The Royal Mother Of Ants,
an illustrated natural history study, b,
/ DR.. IL. G.. McCook.
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"a NATURAL DIPLOMAT.

Lord sPlunkett,s another Irish peer, and
private secretary tof the viceroy Of Ire
land, who has been appointed a royal COM
missioner to the. st. Louis exhibition, en-
joys an altogether ,inmerited reputation
for mendacity. a son of that archbishop,
Lord Plunkett, who was primate Of Ire
land for so many years, it is on record
that the prelate was found one day
plunged in deep distress. My son Willie
has told lie. What shall do with
him?" Then an inspiration dawned on
him. willie shall be a. diplomatist." The
boy eventually did enter the diplomatic
service and married the late Lord Duff
FERNS youngest daughter. He is a nephew
of Lord Ardilaun, the millionaire
Dublin brewer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
The Flood Problem.

The floods that are now devastating
Iowa. Nebras ska, Kansas, Missouri and to
some extent Minnesota, Illinois and Wis
consin, are not in the same class with
the great floods that almost annually i'm
peril life and property on the lower Mis-
sissippi. These northern floods are ex-
ceptional Never before has such a flood
as the present been known at Topeka, and
the water at Kansas City is somewhat
twenty-five years ago. These floods are
caused by heavy rains in regions where
they rarely come. The dispatches an
nounce that in places in Kansas fifteen
inches Of rain have fallen in tWenty-four
hours When such a phenomenon occurs
in a state that has less than thirty inches
Of annual rainfall on the average and
probably not over ten to fifteen in the
western part, it is obvious that the drain
age channels that meet ordinary condi-
tons must be temporarily taxed beyond
their limits; with the result that all the
low Lying land along creeks and rivers is
temporarily covered with water.
Floods or this eccentric nature e are
harder to deal with than those of the
lower Mississippi. There, with the assur-
ance that they may look for threatening
floods every year, the inhabitants of the
valley carry on a perpetual war against
the river, and have now bound it to its
course for hundreds of miles with levees
or artificial banks, designed to confne the
food waters to the channel. However un-
satisfactory the levees may be in the long
| run, they are certainly far better than
| nothing and do protect large areas every
spring. Moreover. there is no doubt that,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02

II the funds were provided, modern en-
gineering science would devise a system Of
reservoirs that would have the effect Of
maintaining the Mississippi at much tho
same level the year around, doing away
with both floods and low water: protecting
the farmers on the one, hand and as
sisting navigation on the other. Then
again, the regularity Of the lower Missis-
sippi floods make it absolutely necessary
protection from the river, II millions Of
acres Of the richest lands In the valley are
to be cultivated.
But what are you going to do to pro-
tect a large portion Of the drainage sys-
tenn of the west against floods that come
on. a. really formidable scale only once
in twenty ,years?. That Is a long time,
and 1t is hard to get such rapid living
people as the Americans to make pro-
vision against something that may not
happen again for twenty years and, per-
haps, never. They will think it cheaper
to stand an occasional food loss with It's
inconvenience and suffering than to spend
a vast SUN VI money on protective WORKS
that may never be used. Buff flood pro.
lection can be united with the daily de.
mands Of irrigation, the problem is ar
easier one. The data are not at hand tt
show what proportion Of the present
deluge Of waters in Kansas and Nebraska
has fallen in the arid and semi -arid part.
Of those states. If it Is large, it Is pos
sible that in time vast irrigating reser
voirs or lakes may catch and store ever
such volume Of water as that nov
troubling the people of those states. Blu
| if the principal part of the flood water
| come from the humid portions of the sui
fering states, 1t is probable that they mus
count on such an occasiona
flood as one of the condition
of life. Perhaps such city as Topeka
may find some means Of local protection
that will not be too costly, to be erecte
on the chance that there may be some us
for it some day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
How It Would Affect Us.

1t is not their mere imposition OF tarlrs
on foodstuffs at British ports that is the
menacing aspect of Mr.. Chamberlain
new tariff policy for the British, empire.
1t is the preferential trade with the col
{onies side of the plan that arouses our
interest A level tariff against all the
world might tend to reduce the total I'M
ports of Great Britain, but It would not
seriously affect us. But If our foodstutfs
are to be taxed when exported to Great
Britain and Ireland. while those OF the
British colonies are to go free, the change
j is one that is likely to affect us profound
ly Indeed, it may work a fundamental
change in the internal, economy of the
: United States.
d At present Great Britain takes more
than fifty per cent of our agricultural ex-
ports, the principal items being cattle,
sheep, wheat, flour, corn and oats. Assum-
ing that the other colonies are not able, ex-
cept as to sheep, to do much more in the
j way of supplying the British market. then
at present, it is worth while to consider
what Canada might do under the stimulus
& of a stiff preferential tariff, in displacing
our agricultural products in the British
market. Eventually she ought to be able
to raise enough cattle and hogs to feed
the British people. She ought some time
to be able to raise enough wheat and to
make enough flour to displace ours in the
British markets, and so with oats. Our
corn trade would not be greatly affected.
One Of the first consequences Of a fail
4 ing British market would be to concen-
trate American energy and capital in
opening up new markets in South America
and Asia for our foodstuffs. The j. j.
Hill idea of making Cinnamon eat wheat
flour would become at once foremost ma
tional policy. Another consequence would
be the cheapening of living in the United
States thru the effort that would be made
to market our surplus products at home.
The farmer would suffer keenly thru low
prices, and many country people would
flock to the cities, providing manufacture
ers with cheaper labor. The result would
fbe great stimulation Of American manu-
featuring, and the British manufacturer
Having to pay higher wages than formerly
because of the tariff on foods, would fine
himself confronted by a hercer competi-
ton than he had ever known before, not
only in the markets Of the world, but ever
Yin his colonies, notwithstanding colonia
preferences for British goods.
If the old channels of trade were to be
Z so altered and Great Britain should cease
to be our principal customer and become
the cause Of an industrial revolution il
the United States, with its attendan
economic distress. international relation!
in the political sense might be seriously
affected. The friendship Of commerce
would no longer tie us to Great Britain
while the en1nity of disappointed trade
would tend to make us oppose her. The
British empire would appear to American
eyes as the one great rival for control O
the worlds trade, and from this rivalr,
might flow endless trouble between thu
empire and the republic.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
TUESDAY EVENING.

question Of ownership and control set
tied, 1t remains for employer and employee
to act within the lines which mark their
respective legal ranges Of action. II the
employer chooses, he can accord the en-
ploye share in the profits. as the United
States Steel corporation has done. to the
advantage of both parties.
In New South Wales, where an indus
trial arbitration court is in successful
operation, unquestionable advantages have
been secured. This tribunal Is presided
over by a judge Of the supreme court, Sc
lected by the government. It can, on the
complaint of a miners union, bring the
mine-owners of the district before 1t by
summons, as any other court Of equity
can. and enjoin them against shutting
down the. mines or Diminishing any Of the
miners concerned, until the case shall
have been heard and decided. The court
has power to summon and compel the
attendance of witnesses and the produc-
ton Of books and papers throwing light
on the situation, and, when a decision is
given, no appeal can be taken to any
other court This tribunal can only take
action if one Of the parties to the dispute
makes a complaint before it. The court
cannot of its own motion enter upon pro-
ceedings. which become compulsory only
when one party wishes. There is objec-
| ton in this country on the part OF many
unions to compulsory arbitration, but the
New South Wales law is no more compul.
sorry than the system adopted in the an.
| thracite coal region Of Pennsylvania by
| the miners, on the recommendation of the
strike commission and binding for three
years. The tendency in this country is tt
the general adoption Of some such mean.
to secure industrial peace, that bushes.
may be prosecuted without unnecessar,
loss and interruption. Some Of the mos
important Of the unions are working t,
| this end.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02

If Great Britain is to have preferential
trade with her colonies all around the
globe, the United States may have to Gull
tivate preferential trade with all the other
countries. In other words, If England
puts tariffs on her trade we may have
to take some off Of ours. Thus the Eng
lish return to a protective policy may
tend to drive us toward a. freer trade
policy. But anyway, the world will be
some years older before the tariff policy
of the United Kingdom is changed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
BLIND CHILDREN.

Laughing, the blind boys
Run round their college lawn,
s Playing such games of buff
Over its dappled grass.
See the blind frolicsome
& Girls in blue pinafores
Turning their skipping ropes.
How. full and rich world
Theirs to inhabit is
Sweet scent Of grass and bloom,
Playmates' glad symphony.
Cool touch of western wind.
+ Sunshine's divine caress.
How should they know or feel
They are in darkness?
But, oh, the miracle!
II Redeemer came,
Laid finger on their eyes
One touch, and what world,
New born in loneliness!
Spaces Of green and sky.
Hulls of white cloud adrift,
Ivy-grown college walls,
Shining loved faces.
What a dark worldwide knows?-
Ours to inhabit Is!
One touch, and what strange
Glory might burst on us,
What hid universe!
Do we sport carelessly,
Blindly upon the verge
OF an Apocalypse7
-Israel zanswill.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02

The discovery Of a system Of peonage by
the federal grand jury at Montgo mery,
Ala, will raise the question in. some
minds as to what degree it is true that
the southern white is the. negro's best
friend. But it will hardly be fair to draw
conclusions from an isolated case.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02

According to the st. Louis grand jury
corruption has been the usual and &C
copied thing in Missouri legislation for the
carry our blessed civilization all over the
world
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
A Burning Question.
Newf york sEyening Sun

pa said little Morris, why did the
man put his light under bushel?"
II don't know answered Pa, after some
reflection; .fbuts.I suppose that the bushel
was very heavily insured"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
70 Complete His Educatlo,

Where's your boy going after he leaves
the model SCHOOL,"
ITO some school that amt model, I
guess, to learn reading, writing and fig-
es.'-Judge.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
w. B. Chamberlain
Eover CHAT,

E. j. Carpenters FOR Her Sake"
staged in an admirable manner and pre-
sented by a good company, will be the
attraction for the closing week of the
season at the Bijou. The story Of this
melodrama depicts Russian and Siberian
life.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02

City CouiCi CiioI LIEU JoSio 10 - sie.Pf,O.-
tax of s25 on the right to sell kerosene
Oil in Pleasant Hill. The octopus never
even smiled. A check for the amount was
promptly RENTED from Standard Oil
headquarters, accompanied by instruc-
tions to the company's local agent to
raise the price of oil in Pleasant Hill 2
cents per gallon Thus, this tax of SIS
per year will, it is estimated cost the
people of Pleasant Hill $500 per year. Be-
fore kicking an octopus it is well to see
that it is muzzled and tied to post.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02

The Ferris Stock company's produc-
ton Of "Quo vadis'' at the Lyceum is
proving great Drawing card. Opening
next Sunday, and continuing all the week
the Ferris company at the Lyceum will
be seen In that exceedingly funny farce,
'.All the Comforts of Home. ]"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02

.Over Niagara Falls the current at
traction at the Bijou, has a wealth of gor-
geous scenery, electrical effects and Won
derful mechanisms, and lovers of melo-
drama will find much to enjoy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
The Nonpareil Man.
DON'T KICK THE OCTOPUS.

ILL., Mo-, thought they knew thing
altwing Rockefeers octopus The
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
Casually Observed.

Bee sting for rheumatism is again
advocated by German medical authors
ties. It may be good for rheumatism but
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-27
ENJOYS OUTDOOR LIFE.
Julia MarIOwe, Queen of American
Stage, Spends Much of Her Time
in the Open Air.

Miss Julia Marlowe's outdoor diver
sions are golf, driving and AUTOMOBILE
ing. She does prodigious amount Of
walking all the year round. Her love
of nature is almost primitive in its in
tensity. Asked once what was her
greatest ambition, she said it was to
lead such a normal life that can get
up every morning in time to see the
sun rise" Often she will dismiss her
carriage and reyel in facing wind and
weather on foot. An acquaintance ac-
companied her from her hotel to the
theater one March night in the teeth
of a driving storm. The sidewalk was