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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-12

Der from there for their mills which its
former forests, now nearly gone, built
UP. IT needs as free intercourse with its
neighbor on the north as it enjoys with
its neighbors on the east, west and SOUTH
Its farmers are beginning to learn that
wheat a'sh ealdasn ot7sbe their sole depen-
dence, but that their is virtue in di-
versity Of crops. Their naked pine lands
are now turning out cheap ore by the mil
lion tons for the protected steel maker
They want cheaper tools, agricultural i'm
aplements and cheaper nails. They want
tariff reduction. The sentiment in favor
of reduction of duties is as strong and
dominating as it has been supposed to be.
The politicians think that it Is dead;
that it has been scorched with the trifl-
ing antitrust. legislation of last winter.
The Iowa Idea.
Senator Allison thinks that he has put
the Iowa idea to rest forever. But the
interest of Minnesota lies in extended and
free commerce with the world. It lies III
the exercise of individual enterprise and
energy, and in the building up Of the
country with which the government has
had no so-called benef1cent relation. The
people who are cropping blindly for better
times are naturally inclined to ask aid
from the government, but just now they
have come to the concslusion that they
want also to take away from manufacture
ers the protective duties which are main
tanning prices to the American farmer,
altho they are reduced to foreign purchas-
ers. They are opposed to the policy OF
the republican party.
"They call themselves republicans, it is
true. They always vote the republican
ticket They have gone far ahead of the
party leaders, however, and seek to con-
| troll to limit, perhaps to destroy, wealth
which has been built up by the legislation
of their party, together with other wealth
that has been acquired by individual abil-
ity and exertion. They will continue to be
republicans, especially if Roosevelt is nom.
mated, for they look upon him as one Of
themselves They do not realize that hi
! is completely under the control of the
party leaders. They regard his election
as assuring good times to the socialstit
agitator, to the farmer who is striking a.
the great power which has made his farm
valuable and to the labor union which
seeks to manage the property Of its own
ers and their employees"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-12


It is "EI1awatha."s You hear it every
where, but generally have to buy two
cent songster to get the words. Bands
play it on excursion steamers and in res
taurants, and the crowds hum it. It Is
self-made song. It was written and pub
lished in the west, and won its way into
favor without the usual boost from
vaudeville or light opera celebrity. For
two or three years after it was published
it was comparatively unnoticed, and It
was not until the "loodlers' got hold Of
lit that 1t attracted wide attention. By
the time the people know the words so
that flooding will no longer be neces-
sary there will probably be a new ia
vorite to contest the field.
:. Ardent admirers Of the song usually
know the first lines and parts Of the
chorus. They choose a time when there is
lull in talk and laughter on boat or
trolley car, and then burst forth with:
Oh the moon is all agleam the stream
Where I dream here Of you, my pretty Indian
=; maid.
|; Here the leaders memories balk, and
the 'loodlers'' get in their fine work. 1t
may run 'loodling' on to the chorus, and
it may chance that the broken thread of
the song is passed from one to another,
if there happen to *be- persons who can
supplynthe words as each successive leader
falters In his burst of melody.
While rustling leaves singing high above us
overhead
In the glory of the bright summer night,
In the light and the shadows of the forest glade
waiting here to kiss your lips so red.
There's food Of melodies on the breeze
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-12
HOW THE ''HIAWATHA" SONG GOES

Express.
From the trees, and of you they breathe 30
tenderly,
While the woodlands all around are resounding
your
Oh. my all in life is you, only you.
Fond and true, and your own forevermore III be.
Hear then the song sing with lips afame.
in a popular summer song, the words are
rolled forth with gusto born of letter
perfect memory. Not SO with 'Hia-
Watha." And, yet the chorus Is not very
if9tricate:s .. Ii-09 . i5e.l&i-. -.<s AssAI-2
- - 49, ~e'~. @7a~ >tTE-tlci-z - --@s-7~-
I am you own, your Hiawatha brave, 49, y
Ny heart is yours, you know, dear one, love
you
Oh, Minnehaha, gentle maid decide.
Decide and say you'll be my Indian bride.
But that is not all. There is a second
verse just long the first. 1t winds
it's devious way thus:
In the tresses of your hair lies a snare,
And it's there where my heart a willing cap
| tive is,
Oh, my woodland queen, I pray you'll hold it
ever in your care:
In my little birch canoe, love, with you,
Just we two, down the stream of life in welded
bliss 1850
1 would drift, sweetheart. with you my lot to
share. - 90 So ~ ::
| When the birds upon the wingPin the spring.
Gayly sing of. the green and golden summer
time IS & r - -
When the SHOWS of early winter robe the wood
lands in white. : '-@
Then your Hiawatha free I will be;
And to thee every thought of mine will e'er
| Heed thou then the vows pledge to thee this
!
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Scofing at Macaroni.

Mr.. H. V. Jones, the wheat Authority"
seems to have a very poor opinion of mac
aroni wheat. He chooses not to call it
he has found so much of the new wheat
In the northwest this year that he has had
to take it into his account in estimating
.thescrop.~, He gives it AS his. opinion. that
not less than 100000 bushels Of mac
aroni and, perhaps, more will be raised in
Minnesota and the Dakotas this z@ year.
Counting it as wheat, which Mr.. Jones de-
clines to do, the total wheat yield Of the
three states becomes 1852, 900. 900 bushels
and upwards, according to Mr.. Jones' fig
ures.
If the semi arid portions Of the Dakotas,
as we'll as some that usually have enough
moisture, take to raising macaroni wheat
in the following years, as they have this
season, the crop ere long will be an i'm
mense one, and viii! cut into the ordinary
wheat area to such an extent that the
grain trade and the millers will have to
recognize it.
Mr. Jones wonders what the agriculture
department, which has been instrument
tai in introducing the new wheat, thinks
can be done with 100000 bushels of mac
aroni: yet the department has been count
| ing on yield of 10,00O,O0O There Is no
doubt that in these first years of mac
aruni wheat raising there will be some diff
| ficulty in finding a market, and 1t will
not be easy to establish trade channels
for it. Grain men who handled macaron
wheat last year found it rather diff
cult undertaking. Yet this scorned wheat
of to-day, which has the faculty of re.
turning handsome yields where its more
aristocratic relative, spring wheat, does
not thrive at all, 1t Is no more despiset
now than hard spring wheat was thirt,
years ago, when the millers were saying
that nothing could be done with It, and t
was selling at 10 to 20 cents busheI les
] than soft winter wheat.
The experiments of Mr.. Carleton, tn,
cerealist of the department Of agriculture
/ show that macaroni wheat flour mad
into such an excellent bread that TIN
bread experts Of the country were divide,
as to whether macaroni or hard wIea
bread were the best. This macaroni wl1ea
is, we believe, the common wheat of Rus
STA and it is familiar to all the European
nations that have imported wheat from
Russia.
At any rate, it is certain that a whea
that viii yield ten bushels more to TIL
acre than ordinary wheat is bound t
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r. - n n
: Henry Loomis Nelson keeps on vindicat.
ing himself. In a st. Paul letter to the
Boston Herald he proves to his own sat
tsfaction that Minnesota republicans are
populists, socialists, paternalists and
everything else that they should not be.
AS Mr.. Nelson made up his mind on these
matters before he saw Minnesota on this
trip, his case is hopeless. Mr.. Nelson's
theory is that republicanism is everywhere
degenerating into paternalism or social
ism on account Of the corroding effect OF
protection. Having formulated the theory
all he has to do is to get some facts on
which to hang it. And facts are numer-
Gus. You can take what you want and
leave the others when exploiting a pet
theory.
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Another View of Carnegie.

No man, the saying Is, is great to MS
valet. Probably few men are great to
their private secretaries; sometimes the
secretary is unauestionabay the greater
man of the two, and often the world $
great man must confess to himself that
he is hiring his superior. Chance and
circumstances play too large part in the
game of life to make it certain that all
men draw the cards their skill deserves.
! The Anglican catechism admonishes
the child to be content with the station
in life to which it has pleased God to call
him That instruction does not please the
democratic American youth who is taught
from his childhood that it is his duty not
to be content with the station in life
which the catechism alleges 1t has pleased
God to call him. Nevertheless, little
fatalism Of that sort Is the chief solace for
the big man out of place; 1t is the only
means by which he can get some happi-
ness out of a misft life.
All this philosophizing is suggested by
the reviews Of James Howard Bridges
.'History of the Carnegie Steel Company, y
WnlCn mas given w dill StlceC d. ueClueu oSil
cation Mr. Bridge was once Mr.. Carne-
gie,s private secretary, and to him the
great man is very minute potatoes, in.
deed In telling Of his search for materia
for the book. Mr.. Bridge says that he
found Andrew Carneg1e's own narrative
the least trustworthy Of all. To further
show his estimate of Mr.. Carnegie, Mr.
Bridge dedicates the book to the men wht
founded the Carnegie company, saved i
from early disaster and won its first sue
cess; but leaves Carnegie's name out o
the list.
mo great business" writes Mr.. Bridge
In his introduction" has been built up o.
the beatitudes, and it is not all cynicisn
that condenses q negative decalogue int
a positive exhortaton to be successfu
somehow"
, And Mr.. Bridge comedies that Mr.. Car
negie was "successful somehow"
!; Doubtless Mr.. Bridge has a private a
to grind in this book He hates the iron
master, and he is looking for oppor
tunity to punish him. Still, private sec
rotary has an excellent chance to see tn
mean and petty and even vicious side {
his employers nature, and perhaps. ate
all, there are chapters in Mr.. Carnegie
life that do not give him pleasure whe
recalled. f. -
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The OrtonvilIe Journal says that a dep
uty game warden at LIE Sueur received a
tip that some one was shooting quails
every morning a short distance from
town. He went out in his auto to round
up the culprit. He was much surprised
to find that it was Rev. Henry Rifforty.
a local pastor, who, on being discovered.
fled. But the benZine buggy overlook
him and he had to explain to his honor.
The physical scientists have been taking
another knock at the old ideas Of matter
Recent suspicious, which appear almost
like discoveries when radium Is consid-
cred, suspicious that atoms are not in
destructble and indivisible, but that. on
the contrary, they are made up of things
Indefinitely smaller than themselves, make
the dream Of the old alchemists appear to
have had an element Of reality after all.
If a man knew something about how to
effect these constituents, the changing Of
water into wine would not be unbe-
! lievable. Nor would the changing of sill
yer or lead into gold. The latter problem,
| by the way, a number of chemists are at
work on now. When they get to PERFORM
| ing this miracle those $40 gold pieces that
| look so gorgeous to us to-day will begin
| to look like 80 cents We intend to quit
boarding them right now.
Kansas is complaining Of the students
| shipped out there to help get the wheat
stacked. A good many Of the boys fur
nished draft for the little white nails with
| the violent odor and their wind was not
good and there was a tendency to hunt for
the shady side Of something when the
sun was warming up a bit. Then at night,
after eating up the value of their days
services, such is one Kansas farmers
wall, instead of going to bed like honest
men, they picked mandolins or Rugged the
hired girl and kept everybody awake by
sitting out on the porch and tee-heeing
until after 10 p. M"
AS girl amuser or guitar sharp the
eastern student is a distinct success but
when it comes to going against the wheat
harvest he is a dismal frost and is about
as useful to the farmer as a one-legged
tramp at dinner time.
| 49,. "A. J. R.
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or course, Governor Taft cannot be kept
in the Philippines, and about
the best way to face the inevita BILE is to
make him secretary of war, since that
department head corresponds in our sys-
tenn of administering non contiguous ter
ritory to the English secretary for the
colonies. AS secretary of war, Governor
Taft will remain in close touch with the
Philippine situation and could continue
for several years to work for their vel.
fare almost as effectively as If he were II
Manila n Mia In fact If his coonflrere, Luke
Wright Is made governor to succeed Taft
the two can, between Washington ant
Manila, do more. for the 4Filipinos thar
thew can at present.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-12
Chautauuua's Mob Conference.

3 Such assemblies as usually gather at
Chautauqua. N. Y, to discuss public
questions Of a sociological and generally
educative kind, are not generally so toll
Grant of revolutionary propositions as they
were yesterday when John Temple
Graves Of Atlanta Georgia, hotly advo-
Gated the continuance Of mob law in its
most viruent and revolving forms, a
continuous remedy for the crime of rape,
with an ultimate revolutionary move
inent, looking to the concentration of the
negroes in a distinctively black state and
disfranchising all outside that special ter
ritory.
:: Mr.. Graves assumption that lynching
presents remedy at all, effective against
this particular. crime, is purely gratui-
tous and is fatty refuted by the great in
crease of such crimes under the rapid in
crease of the lynching punishment with
the most inhuman variations. Is II
fact that, as Mr.. Graves says: "As a
sheer, cold fact, the mob stands to-day
the most potential bulwark between the
woman of the south and such a. carniva
precipitate the annihila ton Of the negro
race" go. .Sr '-ss
& Mob law is no 'bulwark' at all. It ap
pears to be rather a stimulus to the com
mission of the crime: paradoxical as i
may seem. Mr.. Graves is himself in ;
condition of incertitude on the subject
After dwelling upon the efficacy of mol
law. he changes front and says statute
are utterly futile and the black and whit
races must be separated, and the negro
inferiority, in law and society is .estab
1ished.' We are to take 100000 o
negroes more or less, and cram them int
atspecified territory and compel them t
live there under laws which will insur
their degradation and inferiority. w
are to hedge them in, as it were, and tur
the dials. Of progress backward. TIL
negro is supposed to submit to this ar
rangement without movement of resist
ance.
We are to legitimize the crime of mo
law on the theory that, when rattle
4 snake and a copperhead snake are turne
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make way for itself. Possibly in time
it may be the aristocrat instead Of the
churl Of the wheat world.

That caucus of republican members Of
the city council brought forth good and
evil. It is decidedly, discouraging to see
a campaign for an improved form of city
government denied such an important ele-
ment at the start as separate elections.
The aldermen are evidently thinking more
about the party than the city. On the
other hand, the caucus showed good sense
in voting in favor Of putting the crena-
tory on DR.. Halls island.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-12

The great success Secretary Root has
made Of his administration of the war
department is striking Illustration of the
fact that there is abundant executive abil-
ity lying around loose in this country, and
that there is no excuse and no reason, ex-
cept the pressure Of practical politics, why
any president should ever put men Of in
ferior talents in great places. If the con-
spicuous politicians lack the ability and
perhaps, the fidelity to public interest, that
go to make a good public servant, the
president has only to toss stone into
q group of the conspicuous business and
professional men Of any part of the coun-
| try, and pick the man it hits, to get a
faithful and able official. Owing to the
democracy Of our business life, the able
men, as a rule, rapidly become the con-
sptcuous men; and while success in pri-
waite business does not always presage
success in public business, it Is fairly
reliable criterion. - h
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-12

The idea that Judge Cray or any other
judge is a lawmaker Is entirely erroneous.
Because Judge Cray issued an injunction
restraining certain persons from doing
certain things with regard to certain other
persons or corporations, it does not follow
that he has enacted a law governing all
strikers. His course, however, indicates
the relief: other employers may get, if
they choose to follow the example Of those
at whose instance the injunction was
granted, and shall ask for injunctions in
their particular cases. .-...
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THE BAY PSALM BOOK
The Book Lover.

The Book Lover.
A year after the first printing press was
established in Cambridge, Mass, or in
1910, an American book was issued from
it .(being the first published in what are
now the United States), which was soon
after reprinted in England where 1t
passed thru no less than eighteen editions,
the last being issued in 1854, thus main
tanning q hold on English popularity for
ia years. This was the BAY Psalm
Book It passed thru twenty-five edi-
lions in Scotland, where it was extensive
ly known, the last bearing date 1859; and
itw reprinted without the compiler en-
joying pecuniary benefit from its sale, we
have irrefutable proof that England
pirated the first American book, being In
reality the original aggressor in this line
The first American work enjoyed a more
lasting reputati and had wider cir
culation than any volume since OF Ameri-
can origin, having passed in all thru sew.
enty editions, a very remarkable number
for the age in which 1t fourished.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-12
THIS WAS ON MAX O'RELL

Max O'Rell used to tell a story about his
first experience with a Chicago newspaper
reporter. The genial Frenchman had just
arrived at the Grand Pacific hotel and
had retired to his room to rest after a
fatiguing journey. In order to get the
most possible out Of the short siesta he
took off his clothes and got into bed. The
day was a hot one, and for better circula-
ton of air he left the door slightly ajar,
placing a chair against it for security.
Shortly afterward he was awakened from
his nap by knock at his door, and he
drowisly inquired who was there.
'Mr. Blank of the Daily So-and-So," re-
piled the reporter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-12

The railway postoffice clerks want the
government to insist on postal cars being
built with steel frames. In view Of the
fact that the government pays an annual
rental for each car about equal to- It's
original cost, the appeal ought to be
needed at once. If congress can not make
up it's mind to put an end to this disgra ce-
full railway. graft, it certainly ought to In
sist on the best there is going in the way
of cars.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-12

loose. one OF them Is very, apt to hurt the
other, the theory taking into no account
the possible career Of the survivor, how
ever. The Graves theory win not work.
It will never be tried because it is fore
doomed. We are not 80 hopelessly law
less in this country that we shall set the
seal of legitimacy unon hideous crime
under the delusion that such process will
produce a reign of law.
The growth of lawlessness among the
negroes may be clearly marked as a
growth. It did not develop spontane-
ously. White lawlessness and negro
scourgings, reckless white disregard for
law, authority and rights, reputation OF
obligations, environed the. negro in his
relations to humanity. Graves talks Of
"crimes against women" Aye! there
were Grimes against women" before the
civil war. Negro fathers and mothers
saw their daughters taken as the concu.
bines Of their masters and their masters
sons and the resultant progeny throngine
plantations from half castles to octoroons
and visitors not infreqnently saw exclusiv,
strains of ancient southern blood sold of
to the highest bidder on the slave block.
Crime against women indeed It wa
a continual and damnable crime. lie
those without sin cast the first stone!'
The hoarys sins Of the abominable slav
system trail and track u generation
| unborn. r. -.x
But we are going to enforce the law an
make the crime Of rape so terrible thr
the prompt processes Of the law, that i
shall one day be phenomenally rare.
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A SEASIDE CHAT.
Judge.

Judge - ~.
''How do you do?" said the man-o'-war
as he sailed in past the lightship Ara
bella B. -
'sWhy howdydo, Mr.. Newsarge?" re-
piled the lady lightship, waving her bow
at him.
''How are you enjoying light house
keeping?" asked the man war, con-
tinuing his progress up the channel.
pretty WE'LL" she answered; 'but it is
so hard to keep my buoys behaving prop
erly I think two or three of them ran
away last night. If you see any Of them
playing about the channel please tell
them to hurry home, won't you?"
"Oh don't be too severe with them, -
urged the man-o'war. 1--WE older fell
lows can get along all right, even If they
do try to play pranks on us. Remember
that buoys will be buoys."
And he bade her farewell as he turned
to salute the fortress calamity.
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With a new skipper yesterday, Ironde-
quot, the American challenger for the
Canada cup, beat the Canada defender,
the strathcona, in easy fashion. With
two races to the credit Of the strathcona
and one to the credit Of the Irondequot,
the fourth race will. be intensely interest
ing. And If the Irondequoit win, the
fifth race will attract the attention Of the
whole country. There is no reason why
the contests Of these forty Hooters should
not be about as interesting to the public
as those Of the ninety Hooters Of the ocean
Every lake city ought to strive for the
honor of being represented in these races
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THE JOURNAL NOT AN ORGAN
La Moure, N. D., Chronicle

La Moure, n. D., Chronicle.
The Mimi apolis ournal is
like the Chronicle in one respect-the more
you read It the better you like it. There
is something about r h J our n a that
takes right hold Of it's Understanding
Of western breeziness and up-to- dateness
and a spirit Of sturdy independence. There
is nothing Of the sycophant about T h e
urnal; it is not a political organ a
corporation organ, nor any other kind Of
an organ. It is progressive newspaper
with well-deflned convictions and the
courage and ability to express them. OF
course, its general news service is unsur-
passed, and it's irculation-which leads
that Of any Of It's competitors-tells the
story Of it's popularity. :