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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-19
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INTELLECTUAL IMMIGRATION


Gustave Michaud. in his paper on the
coming race In America, in the March
Century seems to think our American
race Will so to..thH hoMwows unless we
exercise the extreme Of caution In pull
ing down the bars to the incoming for
eign nations. He would have needy for
efgners intending to emigrate bring proof
to inspectors on the other side that they
have somehow distinguished themselves
In the field of science, literature or art,
in order to get into. this country and then
such should be given free passage.
Michaud would conflne such migration to
the intellectual in order to properly quail
fy the mixture ofVraces5 In the United
States 1t looks as II this would be q
very difficult operation If we are to ad :
init only intellectual Europeans who have
accomplished something in science. art
and literature, the United States govern
Smeht would have to'set up examining COM
missions at the ports Of departure in
Europe and turn back the stalwart: mus
cular fellows who have always done SO
much to~buildSupfour territories and states
and whose children, as general thing,
grow up tossusefu1 citizenship and are
found numerously making good records
for themselves through. their own ex-
ertions and acceptance of. the many OPP
portunities for education in the arts and
sciences and literature. It is not desir-
able to restrict immigration save for the
purpose of barring out the insane. paupers,
criminals and professional loafers.
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WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
70 tbs Editor of The Journal:
Defends the Teachers.

To tbs Editor 81 The journal: 1.
Defends the Teachers. -
In yesterdays issue Of your paper I
noticed. a communication entitled, "A Plea
for Sweets Tempered Teachers and was
greatly surprised that any parent who
knows anything about the public schools
of this city should write such an article
and am inclined to believe he is rather
bigoted iii his views.
am junior in high school and can
truthfully say that in all the years OF my
school life have never met a teacher who
had an abusive and insulting manner
toward his or her scholars.
On the contrary, Minneapolis school
teachers, or those Of them with whom l
have come in contact, are capable. hon
orable men and women, ladies and gen
tlemen in every sense Of the word
To be sure, teachers often lose their
tempers, but who does not, under cir
cumstances far less trying than those Of
teachers. And, after all, they are human,
and would judge that the parent had
been thinking Of the Spanish inquisition
when he expressed his opinions in such
forcfble language as teachers take de-
light in torturing their pupils Indeed: it
would be more truthful to say that pupils
take a delight In torturing their teachers,
especially If they find one new to the
business. Even high school pupils, at an
age when they should act as young ladies
and gentlemen, often behaye in such a
way that they do not deserve to be treated
as such. This point of view the parent
seems to have entirely forgotten
His suggestion that teachers be tested
to give proof of their ability to keep their
tempers is absurd It would be just as
sensible to try to have the same kind Of
weather every day, and it will be- time
to try his experiment when parents see
that every occasion for teachers losing
their tempers is removed. ss..-ss<'
r. d. Mcclellan.
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To this Editor Of The journal: '@'-E" 4
The school fad question is raging strong
at present, it appears from the discussions
ins the press. The rule of. three advo-,
Gates attempt to give all other subjects a
black eye by first giving them a bad name
as fads. It appears to me that the fads
SO called should stand Or, fall on their
respective merit, I oppose some of them
myself for instance basket weaving, sloyd,
etc. But some Of them are OF the utmost
Importance, and are a necessary part of
our educational system and it would not
be complete with them. Music, drawing,
mechanical drawing, architectural draw
ing are to large: number Of scholars a
blessing that cannot be computed in
money. Leave the ''fads" out and educa-
ton is a farce. II you leave all the ''fads"
out then / say close your high schools
and your universities and hold your com
mon schools down to reading, writing,
spelling. grammar. history, geography and
arithmetic. six-year course. then, is
enough. That will reduce the public school
expenses by two thirds. This would un-
doubtedly please the "antifaddists'' and
certain individuals Of wealth who, lack
public spirit and patriotism. But by such
a course you take away from the sons and
daughters of the laboring classes and the
small business men all the advantages of
a complete education that Americans now
can boast are open to all classes. - = :
I was graduated from the North Side
high school in 1884, Some of the studies
that were of great benefit to others were
of but small use to me. I felt that I re-
ceived most benefit from our literary So
ciety Each high school . then had q
teacher of elocution. But the anti-faddists
have succeeded and now they have no such
teachers and the scholars must learn to
express themselves publicly outside Of the
public school. To- every member Of q
lodge, society, union, political worker OF
active man, to speak we'll Is an important
qualification for success or prominence -
/ To satisfy the wants of all classes It is
essential that our educational system be
complete. Progress in the arts, science
industry and invention makes more
courses :of, study necessary to our ssclloo
system. We should have 81 strictly bust.
ness course in the high school, and &
complete one Of four years, comprising
| bookkeeping, business methods, shorthand
I typewriting, etc. More education, no
| less, better and more complete courses O
| education. Progress should me the watch
| word of those who believe in our sys
| tenn of a free public school education
/ . = -: w. J. Gallagher. =
Minnea polls, Mimi; - -..:. =. - = ::
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Counting the Negro In and Out.

In bitter speech in thes senate yester-
day In which he called President Roosevelt
"the president OF the black belt" Senator
Money Of Mississippi laid down the doc
trine that no negro, whatever his quail
fications." should be appointed to office.
The negro, he said should be altogether
excluded from government.
While we question whether senator of
the Money type, who so far forgot himself
as to attempt to stab Washington
street car conductor, really holds a brief
for the south there can be little doubt
that he has expressed the prevailing opin-
ion Of the southern whites when he said
that the negro as a negro should be kept
out Of; Office It is only fair to add that
there is a strong minority @in the north.
that holds the same view, The Old race
prejudice, the historic contempt of the
English speaking for the dark skinned
races, seems well-nigh ineradicable. =
In the same speech Senator Money
talked about constitutional rights, with
no feeling of Inconsistency in advoca ting
them for the white people of Indianola and
in denying them to the entire negro pppu-
lation OF the south. 4 The constitution, the
declaration ofindependenceandal all the edl
fee Of American liberty are in Senator.
Money 81 opinion TO be taken as applying
only to the white people Of the United
the ante -;bellunl arg urnents that. the net
gros are mere animals hut main ms that:
they are and should be non-political pops
ulation; in any political application of the
word they should not be. counted as peo-,
pie, except, and this is a very important
exception, except as they may be count.
ed in determining representation in COM
gress. In that case not a negro should be,
missed, and no harm would be, done IT
some were counted two or three times =
"WouId you uncitizenize the negro as.
to voting e. asked Senator: Foraker. land
if So, should that be taken into account,
in fixing the representation In congress?"
THAT is another question: Money in
genuously replied though at the same
time lodging the question s.
1t is right here that the southern stand
on the race question detaches itself from
all sympathy in the north. There are
plenty of white people in the north who
do not care whether the negro is disfran-
chised or not, but they insist that if the
negro is not good enough to be admitted
to politics, he is not good enough to be
counted against them in representation in
congress. - In other words they insist
with irrefutable logic that half "a vote
in the south shall not count for as much
as whole vote in the north. If the ne
gro is not part Of the body polite, as the
south insists should be the case, the north
| demands that the south live up to its
theory, and not keep him in for represen.
tation in congress. and keep him out for
voting for that representation. When
the south shall squarely meet the logic
of the situation, it will be left to settle
| the negro question pretty much as II
| pleases. - =, :-,..,-. 49,. =.
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LITERARY NOTES

s wv. Hamilton Gibson, author of popular
nature books began life as an insurance
agent and was induced to. make a svoca
ton Eof art by seeing a. workman making
a, draWing onsa lockwood block. Then he
tried 1t himself with success. t-:%3 i,
Houghton, Mifflins& Co. announce 1.-THE
Lieutenant Governor, by Guy Wetmore
Carryl.
The Macmillan Company. New York
announce History Of American Political
Theories" by Edmund G. Merriam. {,
John Lane announces a series of="Conn-
try Handbooks,'' edited by Harry Roberts.
Professor Emory r. Johnson will con-
tribute to Appleton's Business Series a
volume on American railway Transports
| ton.
Professor Cairns of the University cot
Wisconsin is preparing a brief History
of American Literature. (Which the Put
mans Will publish.
/ The library OF the late Emil lola is to
be sold Monday, at the. Hotel Drouot In
Paris. There are 5000, volumes, includ-
ing a manuscript breviary Of the fifteenth
century, in German binding of the seven
teenth century. i - 49,
The Macmillan Company announce Ro-
man Private Law by FL: ]. Roby of St
Johns college, Cambridge, England.
| Houghton Mifflin & Co.. have published
DR.. Holmes popular novel. Elsie Ven
ner' in convenient, inexpensive form.
A.. j.. Holman & Co.. Philadelphia, have
/ published Explorations in Bible Lands
During the Nineteenth Century, by Pro
.tfessor III. ". Hilprecht, assisted by four
noted German scholars. The professor
was connected with the University Of
/ Pennsylvania2s four Babylonian expedi
tions. $3.50
s'In the Land Of Fancy is a volume Of
Everse by Mrs. Libby &c. Baer New York
IF. Tenneyson Nicely, ia Fifth avenue)
whose recitations, chiefly for Memorial
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and a genuine patriotism which popular
the Wotnan's Relief Corps and in the
lpoen1, f"Our Boy-Our Hero" she pours
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4 the son who was killed In the war witt
4 Spain, and her strong self sacrif1cing de
i votion to her country.
Black Evan. A Tale Of Forty-flve
I Is "a story told In verse by Julia Ditto
EYoung, author of .Glynn's Wife, The
Initial story is O.. tale of timid wooins
4 and there Is q strong Scottish fayoring t.
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4 Passing of Bess,'' s"Culloden, in all %
I which Black Evan figures as an adheren
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"A. Daughter of the Pit is story O
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q jackson, an EnglishWo oman. now the wifi
i OF a. New York physician. This is he
4 first novel, announced by Houghton
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a Lesson From Baltimore.

l# Now In the closing weeks of four years
experience, am prepared to support my
pledges and to state as an absolute fact
that the affairs Of Baltimore city are con-
Quoted on az rigid business lines as any
corporation in the world. We have ban
fshed graft and grafters from the city
government, and we have made commits
sions and rake-offs and lobbying inpos-
sihle.-Mayor Thomas G. Hayes of Ball
timore.
The machinery Of this regeneration Of
Baltimore, Mr. Hayes explains, was fur
nished by new charter which gives the
mayor very large powers, as alsos to two
boards, and much reduces the powers of
the council, making It q purely legislative
body, and taking away the administrative
functions most councils have; even its
power to appropriate money is very closes
" limited, and some OF the powers that
seem to be peculiarly those OF. the council
are transferable the two boards.
Mayor Hayes devotes much attention to
the machinery of Baltimores government,
but after. all he recognizes that men
are, more important than organiza-
tions. We would not be1ittle the
Importance Of good municipal gov
eminent machinery but all that Mayor
Hayes writes abotit the remarkable
conversion Of Baltimore from being the
victim OF unscrupulous politicians into a
business corporation, only drives home the
conclusion that with the right sort of
men in public office almost any system
can be made to yield good results. Bal
timore, along with Its new charter, has
been fortunate in having an honest and
able mayor, and he has appointed honest
and able men to the boards. and admins
tratiye offices, :, Their power is such that
a corrupt city council is inpotent, but
II they were corrupt all the skill with
which the charter has been framed would
amount to nothing. Mayor Hayes prac-
tically comedies as much when he says in
{ the closing paragraph Of his article in
the Saturday Evening Post:s,a*.s .
lNSsIn Baltimore we are about to enter
1upon the installation Of a great sewerage
Isystem, of the. building or more school
houses, and of other public improvements
| which will give the city the best equip
| ment that skill and money can provide.
| The qualification is that with the honest
| methods which are now in vogue the work
| will be done without serious losses to the
| tatipa yers-always, Of course, provided
that firm man Is in the mayors chair
and is surrounded by good men who will
do their duty singly for the. public good
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His Alleged Ambition.

Some journals in this country are in
sisting that Germany has a settled purpose
Of getting into a fight with the United
States in six or seven years, when she
will have doubled her naval strength and
thinks she is strong enough to compel our
government to abandon the Monroe doc
trine and consent that Central and South
America shall be sliced up into European
spheres" and colonies. That stalwart
American, Poultney Bigelow, is quoted as
declaring that. in an armed conflict. with
the kaiser's dogs, of war, -. the United
States would be badly whipped =. -,
Still, neither the kaiser nor Bigelow
can decide our fate. The kaiser is having
desperately hard work extracting money
from the German taxpayers to pay for the
big navy he is constructing. Money is
not raised in Germany as easily as it is
raised In this country, and just now there
are apparently more Germans leaving
Germany than there are Germans going
into that country. In January 49, 4s4 emf
grants left the ports of Hamburg and
Bremen and Of these 80 per cent directed
their course to the United States. Most
Of these emigrants were Germans. They
did not go to the German colonies In
Africa or China, where the kaiser wants
them to go. They went where they were
pretty certain of lettering their condition
| Times are "hard" in Germany. The i'm
perial German statistical bureau recently
reported about 10000 cases Of bankruptcy
entered in the bankruptcy 4 courts, the
largest number being in Saxony the chief
manufacturing state in the empire. The
| Bremen chamber OF commerce, In it's re-
port for last year, refers to the depressed
4 condition Of the shipping Interests, notably
unsatisfactory traffic with eastern Asia
"accentuated by the steady growth Of
American competition in manufactured
articles which is acutely felt by Ger
many's traffic.
| Before the kaiser attempts the job of
whipping the United States it would be
4 well for him to put his empire in con-
Edition to stand a war, for Germany does
mot raise enough food to supply her own
people and the latter age leaving father
land for more satisfactory quarters, in
| large numbers.
Senator Tillman being on. his way to
| oli- 1oft
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THE IMPORTANCE OF PUNCTUATION
Detroit Tribune:

Punctuation is not difficult until a
writer makes 1t so. Many q, young chap,
unfamiliar with expressing his thoughts
in black and white, is often heard to re-
mark that uniform punctuation is an i'm
possibility, and that there is very little
use for it anyway. The average reader
pays absolutely no attention to the marks
lin fact, knows nothing Of 'en-he says
But he doesn't know. imagine Shakespeare
wrongly punetuated! Worse yet, suppose
it We're not punctuated at all. Even a
scholar would have to pause and ponder
over many of the passages Strange as
1t may seem, a person may not understand
how to punctuate, but every one who reads
understands punctuation-in fact, is en-
tirely guided--unconsciously--by these
puissant marks. tsE
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AS resulttsof his visit to Minneapolis
yesterday ."de Bob'',of ST. Paul assures
q ST Paul paper that Doc will never be
convicted. that DOC will have no diff
Guilty in securing bonds and that he didn't
meet a man in Minneap polls who didn't
sympathize with the returning ex-mayor
OF the city. No doubt there is a great deal
OF sympathy here for Ames, as there
would be for any old man in sickness and
distress; but Minneapolis is not guilty Of
pity for Ames because he is called to &C.
count for his official acts. Mayor Smith
says also: And as for the working
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HOW NE cor TO HADEs
! Cleveland plain Dealer

"a SEQ 74--g@:7 OIeYeIHEu FIaIH DeaIef.
I. There was a crowd about st. Peter and
some little confusion. All was going well,
however. when rasping voice from the
rear OF the group suddenly cried out:
step forward, please.
The good saint frowned.
Here, William" he sharply called to his
nimble. attendant, step. back and drop
that street car conductor down the nearest
chute. = S..
Then the procession rnovsd on.
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THURSDAY EVENING,

classes, they can't say too much for him
(Ames). Let the working classes speak
for themselves. When they want to be
regarded as being sympathetic with
the sort Of thing we have had here under
the Ames regime they can say so for
themselves
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BOWSER'S HARD CIDER.


=. bye B Lewis.
must be hard cider had letter long last fall from old friend
county and that he limited sending
S ptG here cider. nd "a 1 aths % t than z "
BoTssr got away With his sesona s1a Within e
al. s.s The ism eeh.
Climbing ss Ss"s s 's UNI v But ts had aps s
vs. {: ten s's's: q; KIN %
after the x s re sss x % s % forty and
s. % % % I s an: s s: ss % how :s sss sss
' the a an" Ct st is this s. 's ss our old cat
s:s -: app: s1
s
went xss 'e%s , that little red school house beyond " bridge where We
I tell youth torn
~ @ rn and put sw m T
There vhsre-where."
and
Hadn't the lounge for hour so she suggested
mrs govss what kind Of.
yo ss Of fG my '1 1e1e NE you DO not s :
ing vas s' about ss al hs s17s
nu.a Mr. ' Berss
a @ Ta e aaae a t m sp
s s
tfor owe sr.z
but don't think you'd better to bed
j wenD youk
the end Of
made wood yard the spot' How could they
10 it & 8
,,s s help think you had better to "
old
wouldn't
started down the
sppahize
there With your nt OF stone and tho
with but II
of his
he
he
0 yes she replied
Bowae isn't 1t?
leaned up against the wall
! #s
himself
odoak
received Of hard cider rom ehenun county TO-
.# 5. :
sampled
added Mr. Bowsers :, 80,
haved to bed soon
.N4hus
That dear old hue
lberyswa n told you $. ~
interrupted she pointed at the stars. a
zen minutes unconscious of the world
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Mr.. HAYS Optimistic Forecast.

This is good news that Mr.. Eugene Hay
brings back from Ottawa, where he went
to study the prospects for reciprocity in
ency. He was agreeably surprised by the
cordially of the Dominfon's statesmen
toward the big republic, and came away
convinced that Sir Wilfrid Laurier's gov
eminent favors reciprocity.
OF course, such personal intercourse be-
tween. citizens of friendly nations as Mr.
Hay has just. been enjoying is often as
deceptive as the ELUSIVE speeches at Britt
h-American or Franco American din-
ners, which often give the irnpre ssion that
the two countries represented are rushing
into each others arms, whereas the fact
may be that each has q knife UP Its sleeve.
Men rarely say in private or social inter
say in public speeches. A Canadian may
get up in parliament and, roast the
Yankees up and down. the line, as did
Mr.. Bourassa year ago, but he would
hardly repeat the sumo speech or echo
it's sentiments in a talk. with a Yankee
an hour afterwards. On the other hand,
it is true that speeches in parliament and
congress are not wholly sincere, and the
maker of a rabfd speech is often far less
| rabids than his words. So ~ ~
We have 10 doubt that. Mr.. Hay has
made. due allowance for these conditions.
! When, therefore, he says that reciprocity
| with Canada As possible within two or
three years 1t is highly encouraging
| though in his published interview yester-
day he left out of consideration the very
| powerful following Of what is called II
Canada the national policy. Mr.. Hay
pointed out that the Alaska boundary
question is now out Of the way, and thai
American special interests opposed te
reciprocity are not SO formidable as they
were when: the joint high commission was
in session. four years ago.
But what about the Canadian specia
interests which have grown Justify during
4 the past few years? Will they not be able
4 to throw great obstacles In the way Of {
reasonable reciprocity treaty.? We fea
they will, but If when the commission
! meets again next fall, the American mem
bers are prepared to grant liberal con
cessions and make a fair trade, the nov
latent but potent desire in Canada 70
1 better trade relations with the Unitet
States will be aroused to new life and will
sweep away the opposition of the ultra
protectionists. Is ,.s e III &se
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