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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09
A Costly Victory, Perhaps.

The result Of the recent elections,
particularly in Ohio, is being generally
interpreted as a victory for standpat-
ISM 1t is, hazardous thing to infer
anything from off-odd-year elections,
but it is possible that the Ohio result
the immensely of the republican ma
jority-can be taken as a demonstra-
ton Of the confidence of the people of
that state in an unchanging tariff.
The slump in the stock market, the
shutting down of number Of steel
mills, the reduction Of the force of en-
ployes by some railways and a slight
but general slackening in the business
pace came just at the right time to
make it easy to impress the Ohio peo-
pie that the high tariff has not yet
done it's work, and that it would be ex-
ceedingly dangerous to attempt to re-
wise it.
But the standpatters will make a
mistake if. they imagine that the cleo
tons give the republican party a man
date to keep the tariff sacred and UNI
touched. Yet that is substantially
their attitude. Already the word comes
from Washington that if there shall be
any revision it will be up instead OF
down. 1t is suggested that coffee and
tea, both Of which are now on the free
| list, ought to be taxed. The October
deficit in the treasury is pointed to
with alarm and we are told that he
time may not be far distant when the
government will require additional
sources Of revenue.
This talk is suggestive of the pride
that goes before a fall With an ag-
| gregate surplus of something like
$3.50, 100000 to draw on, there is no
occasion for alarm if in an occasional
month the treasury receipts fall below
the disbursements. 1t would be a very
dangerous undertaking for the repub-
| lican party to impose duties on tea and
Icoffee, instead of removing them from
or reducing them on other articles
AS a war tax such duties would be
willingly borne, but inssthese piping
times of peace the people will not toll.
crate an unnecessary tax on such nee.
essaries.
If the elections are to have the eff
feet of confirming the standpatters il
the error of their way and in rallying
to them the undecided, it would be bet
ter for the republican party if it ha6
lost in every one of the eleven states
that counted noses last Tuesday.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

Attic Bob Dunn never ties himself down with
promises. it is pretty safe to gamble that wien
lie gets to be governor Sam Johnsons career as
public examiner will come to sudden and
timely end. No Man in the state richly
deserves to be put out Of the way politically
than Johnson. No honest official in the state
is safe from outrageous Islander SO long as John
son has the power to hale him before 8 grand
jury. No more. mischievous man than Johnson
held office Of trust in Minnesota.--;3e-
mid il PiCncer,
Sam ought to be suppressed; he has
had the insolence to turn in to the state
treasurer s175,OOO in cold cash in the way
of lodged taxes that neither the auditor
nor the railroad commission were able OF
disposed to dig out. A man who will al
low himself to become SO perniciously ac-
tive ought,to be fired. The people of the
state will demand it. They don't like a
man in public office who earns his salary.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09
! ueeurn-oRrown,s in rown. !,

The first farce seen in many weeks at
the Lyceum would have been welcome for
that reason alone. But Mark Swans play
was happily chosen. 1t Is prodigiously
comical-many q line could scarcely be
heard above the laughter of a crowded
house-but 1t is also more natural by far
than is the customary exposition of fun.
for fun's sake.
Mr. Swan seldom takes advantage of
the farcemaker's license to introduce any
character in any fashion that may be
thought diverting. Except, indeed two
minor eccentrics, Brown and all his
friends might easily have lost themselves
in the maze of absurdity. Dick Preston,
a college student, having been cautioned
by his wealthy prejudiced father to avoid
woman. lnarries a pretty girl. AS Mr..
and Mrs. Brown they hide during the
summer at suburban cottage in terror
of the parental rage. Living on high
way close to the city where they are
well acquainted, they are discovered by
a girl friend of the wife's and by one of
her. former sweethearts. The girl friend
Suzanne-can be trusted; the jealous
sweetheart can't be- Deception must be-
gin. Suzanne is made Mrs Brown.
Dicks father comes out. having found
the location of the cottage in q note left
at his sons lodging for the benefit of a
servant. Further explanations" are made
necessary. Thus mistakes pile up quite
nationally until the very close Of the last
act. The fun is not improved by two
grotesque characters forced in needless
Iva German heiress with a grievance
and q weirdly Incredible dude.
The frankness and the engaging pres
ence Of A. Byron Beardsley fit him well
for the role OF Dick as Charles c. Burn
ham, whose old men are always OF the
irresistible type, falls easily into the part
OF Dicks father. William Murdoch. how
ever, has been a villain too often to free
the harmless rival sweetheart from an
unnecessary faint Of wickedness. As
sweet and ingenious as her smile is Miss
NIaude Gilbert In the character of Dicks
wife; and Miss, Maisie Cecil, one of the
most trustworthy members of the Ferris
stock company, makes her customary
good impression as Suzanne with half
husband. III B. Curry.
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BOUGHT ISLAND FOR 80 CENTS.

Senator John e. Fox Of. Harrisburg.
Pa, owns an island in the suscuehanna
river, opposite Harrisburg. which was pur-
chased for 80 cents. The island was
formed by the gradual accumulation Of
acre and forty-four perches Senator Fox
filed formal claim for it. and. the in
ternal affairs department decided the
property was his. The price paid under
the law was the regulation 80 cents. The
senator will shortly take steps to make
extensive improvements on his new build
ingS 1854 49, = =. ~ .Na -Ett
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09
Misuse OF Prominent Names.

The use of the names Of prominent per-
sons as directors and promoters of fake
investment schemes cannot be too sew
erely condemned, and those who allow
their names. to- be, THUS used should st,e
held responsible for losses incurred by in
nocent investors. Several, years ago one
of the guaranty loan fakes of Minneapolis
swept in thousands of investors by the
use of prominent names and a recent oil
company which has failed for millions car
ried prominent St. Paul names as directors
or references. OF course, the right thing
to do with all these get-rich- quick
schemes is to turn them down, no matter
what names accompany them.
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MONDAY EVENING,

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respectito Panama. The charge (dem-
ocratic in origin) that our government
has in any way secretly worked to
bring about the Panama revolution
is made without a scintilla of evidence.
The administration is no doubt ready
to submit the most penetrating inves-
tigation.
Meantime. Colombia is reported to
be sending General Reyes to Panama
as a peace commissioner to persuade
the Panama government to restore the
federal connection with Bogota, but
he is not likely to succeed. AS Banau-
Vanilla, the Panama representative at
Washington says: ITO the isthmian
government the canal is the corner
stone OF it's future existence" Co
lombia denied her the canal. and she
naturally turns to the United States
which stands ready to make the canal
great, accomplished fact in the CIV
ilized world.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09
nHE THAT DoETH THE WILL

From all vain pomps and shows,
From the pride that overhows.,
And the false conceits of men;
From all the narrow rules
And subtleties OF schools,
And the craft Of tongue and pen:
Bewildered in its search,
Bewildered with the cry:
Lo. here! TO. there the Church!
Poor, sad humanity.
Thru all the dust and heat
Turns back WITH bleeding feet,
BY the weary, road it came,
Unto the simple thought
BY the Great Master taught.
And that remaineth still;
Not he that repeatetlr the name,
But he that doeth the viii!
III. w. Lonsfellow.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

{ Clifford sifton, Canadian minister OF the
interior, who was counsel for Canada be-
fore the Alaska boundary tribunal, now
says that Canada could hardly have hoped
to get possession OF Lynn canal in view Of
Great Britain's acauiescence In American
possession thru many years. AS the aues-
ton Of the ownership of the head of this
has been taking an expensive ten to one
shot.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

& Cent Per Cent remarks that Mexico and
Canada are American commercial terri
tory. Do their best to ignore It tho they
may, Mexico and Canada; cannot overcome
the effects of contiguity to THE greatest
industrial nation in the. world. So, 1T is
not surprising that we sell to Canada two
and-a-half times as much as Great Britain
and that we sell Mexico go per. cent Of all
her. imports and take 80 per: cent Of all her
exports.
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use this column. But the space Is lin
tied, and all communications must be
"bolied down" as much as possible.
Three hundred words is safe limit. &
Not "verlty;" Only "Vasary."
To the Editor of The Journal.
( 1 beg leave to refer briefly to the letter
of Rev w. B. Riley which appeared in
Fridays Journal
Mr.. Riley says: REV Thomas e. Gull,
len correctly quotes from my volume,
'Vagaries' and Verities.' Evangelist Hou-
ser wrote with his own hand the letter
published in that volume, and said it
was an exact copy of what Bishop Ire
land sent him when he decided to give up
the priesthood for which he was preparing
and enter the Protestant ministry. I
have in my possession this letter
Mr.. Riley ought not to have been sat-
isfied with copy. He should have de-
manded from Evangelist Houser the orig
inal letter said to have been written by
Bishop Ireland The matter was too seri-
Gus not to have suggested going to first
50 easily accessible.
For his own honor Mr.. Riley must in
the future be on his guard against Evan
gelist Houser. When Evangelist Houser
wrote that he was giving an exact cory
of what Bishop Ireland had sent him. he
was guilty VI d StOSS ctHu NSllDCldlc lc1iSCt
hood. Let Mr.. Houser bring forward
Bishop Ireland's original letter, or be
branded before the public as a wilful
falsifier and caIuminator.
But who is this Evangelist Houser that
gave up the Catholic priesthood to enter
the Protestant ministry? 1 crave informa-
ton from Rev.. Mr.. Riley. Evangelist
Houser is somewhat of a mystery. Care
full inquiry brings to light the fact that
never was there within the jurisdiction
| of Bishop Ireland priest or candidate
for the priesthood whose name was Hou-
SER The so-called Bishop Ireland's letter
| to Evangelist Houser Is a dream, for this
reason If for no other, that there was
never Mr.. Houser to whom the bishop.
even if disposed to do so, could have
1 written. III :
/ To say the least, Evangelist Houser,
whoever he is or wherever he operates, is
| a caution. Mr.. Riley should shun him.
unless 1T be that Mr. Riley is IN earnest
search of vagaries for a second volume Of
and Verities,'' In which, as in
| the first, the tvagaries'' will be far move
numerous than the ..veritiess'
Thomas q. Cullen.
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THE MAGAZINES

The Caste System in England.-The
British monarchy has been indicted. In
the North American Review for the cur
rent month the true bill is printed in full
as drawn by Anglo American" The
charge in brief is that 1.-THE Monarchy.
initiates Against National Efficiency,
By the monarchy is meant the crown
not its wearer, but what it stands for.
and one of the chief things it stands for
is the caste system in consequence of
which Tin every British ministry YOU find
disproportionate number Of places re-
served for the aristocracy.'' Anglo
American believes that, pushed to de-
tails, the hopelessness and servility bred
by the system are responsible for perhaps
half the commercial inefficiency and I'M
progressiveness Of England, r. p. Rob
I'm, premier OF Manitoba, says in the same
number of the Review that western Can
ada is "rallying to the support of Mr..
chamberlain as the man most fitted to
cope with the grave situation in which
Great Britain finds herself Henry Mich
elsen calls attention to errors in an ar
tlcle in the August Review on Aggressive
Forest Reservation" The danger Of ira
chonla to the eyes of the nation are
pointed out by Frances Weston Carruth,
President Merrill of Colgate university
raises the question Is Football Good
Sport?' and gives some good reasons whv
80 good.
Need OF Revlval.-The independents
for Nov. contains an editorial ..Wanted
"A Revival of Religion This emnha-
sizes the need Of a revival but mo mad
ness OF emotionalism, no running after
lne strange gods OF faith -healing or of
Mysticism will achieve this supreme worl,
Ihere must be revival of that religion
which has dwelt as the spirit of love and
OF truth OF aspiration and of power in
All OF the worlds great faiths. The
same number contains an interesting a,.ti-
Gle on the Manufacture of a Religion. /,
which 1t Is well worth while to read
Was Jesus carpenter?- Ernest eros
by IN The Craftsman for November asks
the question 10y Was Jesus Carpenter!''
/ His conclusion is that he was not, despite
1.-The recorded question, Is not this the
carpenter, the son of Mary p. His tone
Of argument Is not convincing. however.
The Art of Frederick Law OImsted,n BY
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09
HIS SUBLIME FAITH
cbica 90 Trjbun

They dug the bruised and battered form
of the inventor out from under the ruins
OF his flying machine.
a want to say he whispered hoarsely,
"that my invention is going to me a mag
niticent success. l have found out just
what ails it,
Waving the surgeons away he continued
to talk. to the reporters.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

Story by Joe" BIethen.-"Joe' Blethen,
as he was, known in Minneapolis, has a
very good story Of life In the far west
In The Pilgrim for November. 1t is called
THE Wolf Of Coyote Hollow and is the
story of the reclaiming Of an S,00O-acre
tract OF arid land by hustling young
easterner who meets strenuous opposition
from cattlemen, but wins.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

tons and sweeping laws The people
are not yet aroused on this subject, but
the time is. coming when they will es-.s
TEEN the counterfeiter Of foods as
worse than the countefeiter of money.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

After all, Colombia may get Panama,
back, on condition that we get the canal.
There is more than one way to Skin a
cat.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

A Wall street publication says the coun-
try is recovering from its period of in
digestion. Will it ever tackle those tough
securities again? Well, it is rare that the
man who has suffered from pancakes does
not go back to them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

The Michigan football eleven couldn't
tell what was the matter with 1t last
Saturday in the game with Ohio state
university. Too much Minnesota, we sus-
pect. Chicago had the same thing three
years ago. 50 .a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

The negroes of Boston have srepudiated
Booker Washington. This is no discredit
to Mr.. Washington, but not as much can
be said for the Boston negroes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09
MEXICO HAS FEW WORKERS.

pie in Mexico do not work. Counting
out the children and aged there remain
3.774.14S possible producers who produce
nothing absolutely. Fhen--and here is an
astounding ffgure--tl1ere are in domestic
service 1,4sS,024, MS against 10000 of
dienified salary earners
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09
ALFONSO GOING WIFE HUNTING.

King Alfonso of Spain is about to start
on a tour of Europe, visiting all the prin-
cipal courts on the continent. It is said the
itinerary is undertaken with the purpose
Of finding wife to adorn his palace.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

Attic Mr.. Higgins book To California
and Back, on California and New Mexico,
Colorado and Arizona is something par
taking of the advertising nature, it is SO
full Of information, attractively presented,
that tourists will naturally take to it as
they would to Baedeker when travelling in
Europe. The volume is profusely illus
trated. The appendix contains much de-
sirable information concerning numerous
side trips Of interest, in the region ira
versed. aH
a very delightful book is Ebert Hub
bard's Little Journeys to the Homes of
Great Musicians. Within the covers Of
this handsomely printed and bound volume
there is entertaining converse about Mo-
Fart Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Verdi,
Paganini List, Chopin, Wagner, Handel,
Mendelssohn and Brahms. PREDATORY to
each talk is an impressive extract from the
musicians letters or diary. The author
begins with Wagner. Mr.. Hubbard says:
"All that is gone-his mistakes have been
washed in the blood Of time-only the
good survives will not say that Wagner
was; he. ISL A very fine criticism of Choe
pin is given. but it is probable few
will agree to the assertion of Mr.. Hubbard
that stephen Crane was the reincarnation
of Frederick Chopin Surely Chopin s
sobbing minors and. the tremolo of despair
and sadness which pervades all his music
with a. strange, inexplicable charm, are
not characteristics of Stephen Cranes
published words. Chopin made George
Sand weep thru his music. It is a pity
those: tears brought them into less COM
mendable. relationship. The astonishing
thing is that Chopin seems to have died
Of a broken. heart because Sand discarded
him. There is charming reading in the
talks about Liszt, Beethoven, Verdi, and
indeed Of all the others named above.
The famous, tlost waters" Of Rome play
an important part in Marion Crawford S
latest novel, THE Heart of Rome These
mysterious waters, ice cold and crystal
clear, traverse the underground portions
of the city, and they appear in various
places, coming no one knows whence, and
flowing with equal rapidity no one knows
whittier. Utter mystery has always sur
rounded them; and in times of siege they
were precious indeed to the occupants
Of Renaissance and Renaissance pal
aces. ~
People who have an inclination to detec-
tive stories will be deeply interested in
Richard Dallas A Master Hand; The Story
of Crime. 1t is a plain unadorned tale
of a mysterious tragedy, but because with
out profuse rhetorical ornamentation, it is
all the more interesting. The crime was
apparently fastened irremovably upon a
cousin Of the murdered man by a chain
of eircumstantial evidence and the story
successfully demonstrates the insufficient
cy. generally, of such evidence The sur
prise comes in the discovery Of the real
murderer, the man no one suspected.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09
THE FALL OPENING
Philadelphia Press

Philadelphia Press.
s'that my invention is going to be mag
wreck! What's the matter with your"
Fall opening =
What you don't mean to say YOU went
into a crush of female shoppers like
mo, coal hole. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09
THE NONPARElL NAN
Casually Observed.


Simple but impressive ceremonies"
were held at Panama and Colon.
When Swift Eagle arrived at Indian col
ony at the st. Louis fair, he was SO laded {
down with firewater that he had to be /;
carried. Swift Eagles fight i5 little
rapid for SO early in the game.
The Colombians showed that they were
pretty airshippy in not accepting lib
eral proposition.
We old soldiers are glad to hear that
Mcclellan has marched to victory at last.
The telephone line between Chaska and
Waco1lia Is SO bad that it is said to sound
like q. dialect story in an eastern magazine.
People who want to telephone now take
the train. It's quicker.
In the northern part Of the state farm
ers quite generally are raising and buying
white cattle. If red calves are born they
are slaughtered or shipped out and white
cattle are imported in their places. The
cause of this is the prevalence of sports
men in the north. Each white COW is
marked with red paint in large letters on
her sides,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

Andy Carnegie took no Steel common
stock in his. He took bords-which are
more digestible.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

A. Floyd Byrd. commonwealth attorney
of Breathitt county. Kentucky, who is
with having brought about q
revolution of law and order in that county,
has decided not to remain there because
he fears assassination. We are afraid that
revolution did not revolye.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

AN INVITATION Is extended to all to visit
the Press Room. which is the finest IN the west.
Goss Presses. with total capacity OF 1i4,opo
eight-page ] a l 8 an hour. printed. folded
and counted. The best time to call is from ":l5
tot4:3O p. Inquire at the business office and
be directed TO the visitors gallery OF the Press
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Arthur Spencer, is given the leading place
In the number, and with 1t are some beau
tifula halftones. In the way Of artistic
decorations are shown and described some
effects secured In an ordinary room.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-09

st. Louis has an improvement league
that improves. Since March Of this year it
has established six free open air play
grounds and a junior school Of horticulture
and has made progress In q campaign
against offensive bill boards, has got the
city to put up rubbish boxes, has awarded
cured the appointment of women sanitary
inspectors, has arranged for the erection
of five historical tablets, has studied the
garbage problem, has promoted tree plant
ing. has prevented overcharges by cab
men, and has succeeded in getting an anti
splitting ordinance. If the league keeps on
ST. Louis will be a pleasant place in which
to spend a few days next year. @
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VERY POPULAR

Chicago News.
Why was it the bad men out here sud-
deTly took up religion?'' asked the tender
foot.
They discovered there was more chance
to scrap about it than, anything else re-
sponded Amber Pete.