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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
ROBBlNG THE EXPRESS.
BY M. Quad.

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that for the sharpest kind of crook when got sailed
wish explain that with the railroads those
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had nothing at all except the small iron safe which the the rs
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who going struck blow under the ear and laid laid me out He
the train
with the had been brought about get him i'm out the way
safe and wagon nothing express
readily complied and the vehicle drive off with me seated on the
piece
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officer: half start of us
by % Of an hour n before @ train ms He s had % G
the hind wheels and the ma pounded d. on
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the tire might ut Overhaul Owe haul them @ if my W wind ] hs out % half mile and ran
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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
Carry out the Contract.

It is commonly, understood that; Il the
legislative friends of the university and
the normal schools engaged themselves to
vote for extreme measures in the direc-
ton Of restricting the board Of controls
authority, ON condition that if all efforts
were unavailing and such measures failed
advocates Of them would at the last
support some such moderate measure
as the Comstock bill. y a.. ..- ~. 57f{;Ty..
Whatever may be the estimate, placed
upon the moral tone of contract Of that
sort, the fact remains that it is a con-
tract. It is also a fact that So far as
the Hennepin delegation is concerned, it
has fulfilled its part Of the contract.
Now will the other party to the contract
fulfil its obligations? ........ ... -.
If it does, the votes it commands, to-
gether with those friends Of the board OF
control who have always favored the sep.
arate classification Of the university and
the normal schools will be able to cast
should obtain victory for the Comstocl
BILL 49, ..s~ s....y.< ...,z ....r
Friends Of the university and the nor.
NAL schools should now vigorously insis
on this point. They haYe fulfilled theil
obligations, and they should demand thei
reward. ..ss'
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
President of All.

It was the president of all the people
that spoke at Milwaukee yesterday. The
trust problem gives the president a bet
ter opportunity to appear in his true light
as the head of the nation. instead Of the
representative of a class, than any other
topic he could take.
1.-THE law is not to be administered"
he said, "in the interest of the poor man
as such, or in the interest of the rich man
as such, but in the interest Of the law
abiding man, rich or poor. We are no
more against organizations Of capital than
against organizations of labor. We well
come both, demanding only that each
shall do right and shall remember its duty
to the republic
1t will probably take the perspective
Of a number Of years for the American
people to appreciate what a blessing it
has been to them to have such man as
Roosevelt in the presidential chair at this
time. AT a time when the anger Of the
masses was stirred by arrogance of the
great business organizations, when labor
organizations were attaining to solidar-
ity and audacity never before known,
when class hatreds were beginning to
seethe, destiny called Theodore Roosevelt
| to the highest office in the world Scarce
| ly a year of his administration has
passed, and already national harmony and
good will are re-establshed. Arrogant
capitalism, vainly imagining that no man
counts except as he has wealth, has been
cowed and driven back to its place; labor,
assured that a just man, is at the head
Of the republic, has become more reason
able: the masses Of the people feel sure
| that Tor all the show and noise and blus-
tering Of the kings" Of industry the
power CT the nation still dwarfs them and
could, II it wished, crush them as egg
shells.
o. the three groupings of the nation
mentioned above. capitalism only prob.
ably fails to appreciate the president a,
his full worth. But the time Is coming
| when. it. too, will understand that the
president was the right man for the time
and that the measures his administrator
has given us were in response to a gen
uiue national need, protecting the ma
ton from the greed Of organized capita
as we'll as protecting capital against it!
own mistakes.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
The Reindeer in Alaska.

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, writing in the Ma
:tional Geographic Magazine predicts that
within thirty-f1ve years. the number of
reindeer in Alaska may reach 10000, 900
and that Alaska will then be shipping each
year, to the United States 100000 to 1,ooo,-
900 reindeer carcases and thousands Of
tons Of delicious hams and tongues. And
as if that were mot enough of shock to
the average mans ignorance about Alas
ka, Mr.. GrosVenor goes on toIssay:
At no distant day. it may ii be: safely pre-
dicted, long reindeer trains from arctic
and subarctic Alaska will roll into Seattle
cattle trains that now. every hour thun-
der into the yards Of Chicago,
This sounds like a gaudy romance--to
the man who doesn't know anything
about Alaska or reindeer-but Mr.. Gros-
venor gives reasons for the faith that is
in him. A large part OF Alaska, the
skeptics win say. is not only cold, but
barren.
There are 100000 square miles Of barren
tundra. Very well, but it is precisely in
the cold and ON the barern stundras that
the reindeer flourishes. He would Ian
guish and die ina mild climate with un
limited succulent grass for food. The tun
dra is covered with moss, and it is moss
the reindeer lives, on. The frozen tun
dra supports enough moss to maintain
10,0 900, 900 reindeer. SO, perhaps, after all,
Alaska, cold, barren Alaska, may yet be
an important source OF food supply for the
people of the United States; to say no.
thing Of what warmer and fertile Alaska
may do.
| When the Rev. Sheldon Jackson intro
lduced reindeer into Alaska he never
dreamed of such commercial possibilities
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
A TIMELY TOPIC

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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
"And It Will Be Enforced. ,

In his incisive speech at Milwaukee last
night, the president very perspicuously
explained and commented upon the legis-
lation enacted by the last congress to
regulate and supervise and control with
in reasonable limits the combinations and
concentrations Of industrial and transpor-
tation capital known as trusts" Re-
ferring to the Elkins' amendment to the
interstate commerce law, providing for
volving the continual discrimination
against the rights Of smaller shippers, the
president, with his customary emphasis,
parenthetically remarked, land it will be
enforced" .-..... 49,. ~. - So r.. a.
The affirmation applies, of course, to all
the phases Of the new legislat ton, the en-
forcement of which has been undertaken
by the attorney general of the United
States. Ever since the antitrust legis-
lation was enacted, the democratic organs
have been declaring in unison that the
mea sures will not be enforced and stand
only for political chicane and hypocrisy.
They assert that congress acted only
because cAlSSIC1eS ucHldHueuE re-
publican action; that the party was keen1y
aware that something must be done to
fulfill the pledge Of the president and his
party, as next year is a year of the ma
tional nominating conventions and the
presidential election.
I :. These comments by organs of party
which has lost it's hold upon national
sympathies. and which did not lift little
finger to enforce the antitrust legisla-
| tion Of 1890 under the Cleveland second
administration, are interesting. Soutlley
once said of Coleridge: The moment
anything assumed the shape of a duty
| Coleridge felt himself incapable of dis
charging IT, and SO it would seem is the
case Of the democracy. When they con.
trolled national legislation, and it became
| their duty under the law to effect some
anti trust legislation, they admitted tha,
I they were incapable of discharging tha
! duty. The democrats, indeed, have :
way Of going about treading upon tn,
: coat tails of Progress, and crying whoa
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
The .Nonpareil Man.
Casually Observed.

"baboon faced stage IRISH
nmi
and ennui
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The Automobile its Get Quick chufe
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Walking along Superior street Bryn Mw last the writer and friend
parallel there fringe Of the
small rifles killing birds the
through the
they "ho' or beg
thought that
quit
That is accidents The boy
unable and field into
people, life still to them the cyclone
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
TALKING AND EATING
New York preSs


I do not know how it is among canni-
balls, but in civilized communities, So
called. great takers are great eaters. Lung
exercise produces abnormal appetites The
hermit, speaking not at all, lives on a
crust. The sewing society woman, gos-
slipping SO fast and furiously. as to change
her breath every minute and a half, is a
gourmand. Two Newport bellies meet
Chirps one: 80 glad; SO aWfully glad
to see you What's the news2T Twitters
the other: "And Lam SO glawd 50 see
tyeow. Let's sit down some where arnd
talk a little scandal.'', After two hours
and a halfssIof innocent chatter they, car
eat as; much as a horse. Singers are
enormous eaters, their lung acrobatics ex.
hausting The carbon in the blood appre.
| ciably; expeling it : as; carbon dioff1id
leaves an aching Void; Besides. this, sing.
ers have less residual air at&other folk
owing to Its violent expulsion in the Voca
exercise. This superinduces hunger.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
JUSTICE TO THE RALD-HEADED.
PhilS delDhia Record.

u
The man in the box office of the theater
was relieving his mind of few things.
ut is a mistake to imagine that the bald
headed men seek the front row. he said,
"although the men who write jokes have
worked this idea for years: On the con-
trary the bald headed men are too sensi-
ltive to make themselves so conspicuous:
/ have to deal with "a lot of them, and my
experience has been that if the house is
pretty we'll sold out and they have to
choose between the, front row or a. seat
away back under the balcony. they will
take the rear seat rather than become
conspicuous objects of the ribald remarks
of the gallery gods. If the attraction is q
musical comedy or something of that sort
with lot of pretty girls in it, you will
generally find the front row occupied by
callow college youth with football hair.
want to say. this in justice to the much
maligned bald-headed man, - = =
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

Massachusetts, is probably the most pro-
gressive state in the union in the matter
OF corporation and insurance law. It Is
hardly the sort Of state Minnesota should
undertake to sandbag into altering it's in
surance laws or regulations. If they are
found in Massachusetts, they are good
that is the presumption. At any rate,
Massachusetts, is entitled to lay down
certain general rules regarding life in
surance companies without being called
upon by Minnesota to change them at
peril of having Massachusetts companies
driven out of Minnesota by a vindictive
law.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
More Policel

The f1endish assault on young woman
in kenwood will serve to concentrate pub
lie opinion on the subject Of additional
police protection. This is the second
crime of the same brutal and dastardly
Kind in the same place. Minneapolis has
a smaller police force: in proportion to
population than any other large city In
the country. Moreover; Minneapolis is
Spread over a much larger area than most
cities Of it's size making one officer less
effective here than in : the compactiy
built cities. The need of more police
men has long been felt, and the time has
come; when we must have them The
people were, not disposed to give them to
Mayor -Ames, under whom the force So
dec dleegenerated> as to give us a lot of graft
ers, and two co operators with safe crack
ers,, but there is no reason why the board
Of tax levy should not give them to Mayo,
Haynes.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
WELCOME TO THE PRESIDENT

portant to the nation to the dangers which
are necessarily incurred. Doubtless, this
matter, has received duesconsfderatien by
the president. He is not one to take any
foolish risks nor yet issss1aes one to settle
down into arut in washington and hedge
himself about with conventfonalities and
the precautions of tinidity without op-
portunity to come in contact With the
people more freely and generally than his
residence there affords. ...'
He loves the people as they love him;
he loves contact with them, to be one of
them, and feel through personal inter-
course and sentiments and desires which
are uppermost in their minds and hearts.
; Theodore Roosevelt is the best mixer in
the country. He knows men and under
stands human nature thoroughly. This
trip will afford him the opportunity he
wants to study the sentiment Of the peo-
pie and learn by personal association
what they are doing, what they are think
ing about, what they expect of their pres
ident. 1t will afford him an opportunity
too, to submit to them his own views or
national questions, lay before them some
Of the plans, policies and aims of thi!
| administration.
= And he will talk not. only Of public pol
| icies, but the genuine manliness Of ou
president will come out in the practica
philosophy of life to which he will Civ
expression on many occasions.
| His visit among Fthe people cannot b.
otherwise than wholesome in its results
Strengthening that bond Of sympathy ant
mutual confidence which exists in a yer!
unusual degree between the; people an,
their president at the present time.
May his trip be free from every, un
pheasant possibility. We hope the pres1
dent will have a thoroughly good time an
return safely to the capital refreshed an
stimulated for the great work which ha
been given him to do.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

AT this time the outlook for an immense
harvest throughout the west from Texas
to North Dakota is splendid. Kansas Is
counting 100000 bushels Of wheat,
though the grain is now still young and
green; Oklahoma is talking 4o,0o0,0Oo, and
Nebraska suggests 6O,o0o,O0o. In Mime
sofa and the Dakotas the seed is not yet
in the ground, but the conditions are au-
spicious. Already the labor problem is
beginning to worry the farmers In
South Dakota s25 to s35 a month and
kept" doesn't seem to be much Of an in
ducement. Life on the farm does not
seem to be attractive to the young man
who must earn his living with his hands,
and yet there is greater need for willing
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

The president tof the United States is
the guest of the people of Minneapolis
to-day. 1;
He is most heartily welcome.
We are all glad to see him. "
If it were possible, every citizen of Min
neapolis would be glad to take him by the
hand and express to him the warmth of
welcome we feel and the, pleasure which
his visit brings to all of us; the sincere
regret that his stay is to be so brief
Mr.. Roosevelt is welcome as president
of the United States. We should have the
proper regard for, the office-suffcient ap-
probation of it's dignity and Importance
to treat any occupant of that office who
happened to be our guest with distin-
guished courtesy and consideration. But
we welcome Theodore Roosevelt with no
perfunctory hospitality We rejoice to see
him not alone or chiefly because he is
president, but because; being president
he comes so near to our ideal of the true
| American; because, to such al eminent
degree as to command our willing ,admira'
ton, he is an embodiment of all that is
able, diligent, educated, prepared, coura:
geous, achieving man, clean In thought
and life, thoroughly democratic in his
sympathies, uncontrolled by selfish ambi
tion-a man of the people in the bes
sense, appreciative of his great opportuni
ties, conscientious in the presence Of hi:
high responsibilities and resolved to MAKE
| of fo,, n
the people whom he serves. ,
The president is just beginning a lont
journey. 1t is stated that his tour, LASTING
until the early days of June, including hi
rest in Montana, will cover $4,000 miles
Such a journey is unavoidably ATTENDED
by some risks under the most favorabl
conditions, and there are those who: crit
icize the president for exposing the safet
Of one whose life and health are so i'm
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

But already the deer are doing all that
he expected of them and much more, too.
His purpose was merely TO save the ma
the sealer were exterminating the food
and. indirectly, the clothing supply Of the
natives. DR.. Jackson saw that the gov
ernment would have to let these natives,
10000 OF them, starve, or else feed them.
To feed them directly would be process
expensive to the government and demoral-
izing to the Eskimo.
Then DR.. jackson bethought him that
the Siberans, just across the water, un-
der similar conditions, supported them
selves very we'll with the help of their
reindeer herds. Why not import some Of
these reindeer for the Eskimo? To make
long and interesting story short, Mr.
Jackson raised by private subscription
in 1891 $4,000, and in that year the first
deer were brought from Siberia to Alas
ka. In 1894 the government became in
terested in the undertaking, and is now
spending $4,000 a year on reindeer inn
porting and breeding; altogether it has
P-SosVoOs
has to show 5000 head of thriving rein-
deer, which will probably increase to
100000 within ten years. The govern
ment turns it's deer over to the various
missions for care, paying for the same by
giving the missions the increase. OF the
sixty individual owners of reindeer in
Alaska now, forty are Eskimo Already
Har ietyS -
full grown animal is worth from $50 to
500 for meat and from $1O0 to $3.50 if
trained to harness .
The introduction of the reindeer makes
possible the development of Alaska, on a
scale that would otherwise have been i'm
possible. They will supply meat and milk
in bleakest Alaska; in winter they afford
a. method of rapid transit as drawers of
slcdges; in summer they are efficient pack
animals. With the help of the reindeer
the remotest Alaska mining camp can
| have access to the world in the severest
| winter; and in the summer the prospector
with string of ten of these animals can
go anywhere. No fodder or feed need be
carried for them. They will dig through
the deepest snow to their favorite moss
Without them 400 American sailors, or
eight whaling ships imprisoned in the Arc.
tic Ice, would have starved to death ir
! the spring of 1897. .-. =
Sheldon Jackson evidently builded bet
ter than he knew, when he set out to save
10000 Eskimo from starving. He ha:
made possible the develop Rent Of barre,
Alaska. What irrigation is to the arid
west the reindeer will be to the Alaska
of the tundra, NJ
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
A CHOICE OF PERiLS
Youths Companion.

* Tourists in Switzerland will soon have
a choice of sensational experiences. If
they dc, not care to climb Mont Blanc.
they may make q Submerged excursion" !"
in a submarine boat in Lake Geneva. The
boat. will travel twenty-five miles under
water and a mile and half on the sur
face tickets for the trip will cost .$25, and
each passenger will receive a life insur-
ailce policy for $1,000. The guaranty of
insurance is not, perhaps, so reassuring as
1T was meant to be- but as, a whole the
proposition conveys a pleasing suggestion
that submarine voyages are ceasing to be
experimental and becoming safe. .s&
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
SATURDAY EVENING,

advance in stocks for some time to come,
while yet believing implicitly III the fu-
ture Of our great country.
Outside the financial center there Is a
brilliant showing. Spring trade Is active
and many country buyers are reported IN
creasing their first orders. Iron, steel
and lumber, are the industries reporting
the greatest activity, being affected by the
demand for structural material now be-
coming more general. immigration is
pouring in. Navigation is practically
open. The railroads continue burdened
with traffic. Spring trade In the north
west is above the good showing Of last
year in volume, and Minneapolis shows it
In an increase Of Is per cent in bank
clearings.
The one great element Of doubt Is the
labor situation. SO far there is no more
than the usual spring trouble. but disaf-
fection covers wide area and the gem
eral agitation for wage advances is start
ing little earlier than usual From any
thing now in sight there Is not much to
fear, and there Is hope that nothing more
serious win develop.
The wheat market has been a little firm
er this week. For the flrst time In months
the news from abroad was unfavorable.
In our own country the winter wheat crop
propect is brilliant, whole Argentine is
shipping heavily, almost 100000 bushels
going out last week. These factors re
main as great influences for price de-
preston, but light stocks in the northwest
have been a counter influence for strength
and now that the European crop news is
tion to go slower on the selling side.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

The Seattle Post-1ntelligencer rushes to
the defense Of Mayor Humes Of that city,
chiefly on the ground that r Ii e Jour-
n q made the mistake of referring to him
as Mayor Hayes, T h e ] o urna is not
the only paper that made that mistake,
but we don't see the connection between
the error and the comments based on
Mayor Humes' declaration that the people
of Seattle got just the sort Of mayor they
wanted -. : = 8.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04
TEE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

tion with each other. on the contrary,
the poor. deluded people are doing their
best to keep up the rivalry. They enter
tain the idea that it is good thing for
Minnesota. Dakota, and Manitoba to get
all the railways they can. They are even
SO approximately crazy that they some-
times ask themselves whether it isn't q
good thing for the northwest to have
road operating in merger territory that
Is independent OF the merger
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

A writer in Worlds Work asserts that
it requires 1000 acres of tended forest
to supply a 5,000mile railway with ties.
At that rate it will take 100000 acres of
tended forests to supply all the railways
of the United States. It looks as if man
who began. tending a forest now would
have pretty tie revenue in the near flu
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

hands on the farm than in the factory.
If the grand army of immigrants. $50, 900
strong, now landing at our ocean ports
could only be directed into the country in
stead OF congesting in the cities the farm
labor problem and the immigration PROB
lem would be simultaneously solved.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

The United States has SO far said the
last word In the debate with Germany on
the question, Resolved, That my navy Is
better than yourn.'' The tars of the bat
tleship Indiana said it yesterday when
they established a new worlds record for
practice with 1S-inch guns.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

Suppose, when western Canada fills up
with Americans, they should demand the
right to vote without giving up their
American citizenship. Preposterous? Well,
that is not far from what the Uitlanders
demanded of the Transvaal.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-04

When Professor Jacques succeeds in
making it commercially practicable to ex-
tract energy directly from coal, North Da-
kota~ will be mentioned among ''those
present" Thirty thousand square miles
Of Ignite will make Niagara look insignif-
cant as a power producer. : { 49,