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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16

favor the scions Of noble houses who were
strongly boosted at the examinations for
promotion after serving the required term
in the lower grade. This law has been
modified under the present government.
It gave the youngsters very ripe chances
Of promotion. In this country promotion
comes quickly in time of war, but lags in
time Of peace, depending chiefly on the
retirement of the elder officers. The pres
ent movement to retire nearly all the Off
GERS holding rank under that Of brigadier
general who made meritorious record in
the civil war, will fill many colonelcies
with younger men who have waited long,
some of them, for coveted promotion.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
Let Us Have Good Roads.

There is still time for the legislature
to enact some good roads legislation that
we should have had several years ago.
Heretofore the pork Of the state road
and bridge fund has deferred legislatures
from doing their duty in giving the peo-
pie the state highway commission and
the one twentieth mill tax authorized by
a constitutional amendment. Thru the
failure of the legislature to provide good
method of sdisposng of the existing road
and bridge fund, it is often wasted.
Moreover, the money expended by local
authorities for roads is for the same rea-
son largely wasted. They don't know
how to make roads and they rarely seek
competent advice. The? money is spent,
more or less dirt: is shifted, some cul
verts and bridges are built, and the re-
suit is called a road. ! '->~.t s. 4-....
There is now before the senate a high
way commission bill drafted by the proper
committee, which ought to become a, law,
if the best interests of the state, especial
ly OF the agricultural districts are con-
suited. The bill provides for a commits
sion Of three to be appointed by the gov
ernor and to serve without pay. A. sum
of money is. appropriated for; their. ex-
penses and they are authorized to en-
gage an engineer at a salary Of not to
exceed $1,000. The commission is re-
quired to spend $4,000 "a year in road
building instruction. Provision is made
! for the levying of a etwentieth mill
| tax. The commission is to have charge
| of the expenditure of the whole road and
bridge fund, and it is to be used always
as a supplement to local appropriations.
| When the commission and the local au-
! thorities and inhabitants have agreed
upon a state road project the road is to
be built under the direction of the COM
mission, the state meeting third of
the cost, the county one-third and the
town one-third. In a general way the
above are the provisions Of the bill.
No more meritorous measure than this
has come before the present legislature
1t is impossible to advance substantial
objections to it. Later it may be ad-
visable to supplement it with further
legislation, but it makes an excellent be-
ginning.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
THURSDAY. EVENING,


pared with what will come few years
hence.
The. significance of the movement OF
Americans into western Canada isNnot in
its present proportions. great as they are,
but in what it will be-. When the move
ment has gathered such a momentum that
2Oo,0 900 to 1000 a year will be the figures,
there will be a rapid transformation In
western Canada. Such a movement could
not long keep up without the American
zation Of the country in everything ex-
cept its nominal political relation, and &
change in that would not be beyond the
realm of the possible. The United State:
could send yearly into western Canada
as many people as there are now betweer
Lake Superior and the Pacific and nevel
miss them at home. And one Of these
days, perhaps. it may be done.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
A DISTRESSING INCIDENT
BROOKLYN Eagle.


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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
A Possible Wave of Mipration.

The emigration Of Americans to Cana
ia continues to attract much attention in
the press Of the whole English-speaking
world. Yet there are some strange mis-
conceptions Of the nature Of the movement
even here in Minnesota For example,
the st. Paul Globe spoke Of it recently
as If 1t were largely made up Of re-
turning Canadians. The Globe falls into
this error probably because the Cana.
dian immigration officials have tried to
magnify the numbers Of returning
Canadians AS matter of fact,
scarcely more than tenth of
the settlers now going into
western Canada are repatriates. Most of
the Canadians settled in the United States
have made their stake and are firmly
bound to their homes. They are doing
well here, and do not think that they can
do much better across the line. It is the
men who are looking for new opportuni-
ties for themselves and their children who
are going into. the new country, just as
they always have gone into new countries
Some Of the Canadian papers under.
stand the situation better. They are won
dering what will be the consequences o1
this movement of the continued growth
of population in the United States. Says
the Toronto Mail and Empire:
One fact to be considered in connection
with the migration from the United State!
is the probable rapid increase Of pcpu
lation In that country. II we receive {
certain number of settlers as the overflow
OF $4,000, 900 people, what shall we rcceiv,
as the overflow Of 100000, 900, of $50, 600,
600, of 20O,0oO,0oo? The probability is tha
the stream of to-day is insignificant com
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
Good Times and Bad,

Whether these piping times of COM
mercial and industrial activity are good
times for any particular individual can be
income now and twelve years ago and the
price of commodities now and then. The
year 1890 is taken for comparison with
the present, for. it was a year of great
national prosperity.
The March bulletin of the department
of labor supplies the data as to the cost
Of living, so far as it is governed by what
people use for food, clothing, shelter, fuel,
implements and medicine. From this
bulletin 1t appears that the various items
that make up those products as a whole
cost In 1902 precisely what they did in
1900. Farm products, on relative price
scale Of 100, were 80 points higher in
1902 than in 1890, food was about one
point lower, clothing was lis points
lower, fuel was 20 points higher, metals
and implements were two points lower,
lumber and building materials were seven
points higher, drugs and chemical four
points higher, drugs and chemicals four
nlg1er, ana miscellaneous SO l1Sher. In1S
comparison IS based on the relative
wholesale price of about 26O different arti-
cles. The retail price, it is true, does
not always f1uctuate with the wholesale
price, but from year to year it will fol-
low the wholesale price in about the same
way.
For the man with a fixed income, good
times or bad, the year 1897 was the best
Of the last twelve. Prices were then the
lowest, being down to 1877 in the relative
scale, as compared with 1923 now.
Taken as a whole, raw commodities are
! now much more expensive than in 1890
while manufactured commodities are a
! little less costly. These facts would seen
| to justify the inference that the producer
of raw materials is getting more out o1
these good times than the manufacturer
If wages have generally gone up in pro
portion to the increase in the cost of liv.
ing, it is pertinent to ask: What do goot
| times mean to the employe? They NEAR
less worry about stability Of occupation
to multitudes, and they mean employ
ment for hundreds Of thousands as com
! pared with no employment.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
The Minnesota.

The minnesota" the first of Mr.. Hill s
great ships for the Pacific freight and pas
senger trade, was launched at New Lon
don to-day. There are only two other
ships afioat as large as this one, the Gel
tic and the Cedric"
The building Of this great vessel is a
triumph for the American ship yards and
marks a new advance in the constructio /
of commercial vessels. This immense
ship will have speed of IA knots an hour,
fast enough for satisfactory passenger
service, while the capacity of the ship for
freight traffic is 10000 tons.
The ship is so constructed as to carry
immense packages OF bulky freight: It is
even said that a locomotive or freight
car might be lowered into the hold intact
The vessel Is equipped with the latest
machinery and the most improved devices
for propulsion and the loading and dis
charge of cargoes.
The construction Of so large a ship Is
Justified only by the possibilities Of heavy
traffic. 1t will take so much freight to
make profitable cargo for this immense
vessel that it presupposes the existence OF
heavy movement Of freight to be taken
care of. This fact IS significant Of the
estimate Mr.. Hill places upon the volume
of traffic to be built up between our Pa.
cifc shores and the ports Of the Orient
Mr.. Hill has reputation for conservative
economic, management as a traffic man
he must, therefore. see in the future i'm.
mense possibilities to justify the construc.
tion Of ships Of this grade for his trans
Pacific business. This is another evidence
Of the strength Of his faith in the import
ance and extent Of the oriental trade, a:
well as Of its rapid and early development
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16


furious. When Dickens was a reporter
he. had a temporary craze to be an
actor, but overcarne it. In his ma
turer years he was not averse
to appearing in amateur theatric-
ais and. he once arranged a performance
of Ben Jonson's Every Man in His HUI
mor,'s he taking: the part of Bobadill. The
amateur troupe, including Dickens, played
mo So Bad AS We Seem" on a tour in
the rural districts where they had to ap-
pear on one occasion in a building which
had been pronounced unsafe and Dickens
had quite palpitation of the heart. Once
in London, when Dickens went to see the
staging of one of his books, he was sc
disgusted that he laid down on the floor
of his box and refuses to look at the pre-.
sentation. Had Dickens stuck to his early
inclination to be an actor, the world o,
literature would have been sadly impover.
ished and the mimic stage would have
gained another mediocre actor.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
The Army Promotion Scheme

The younger officers of the army will
have chance Of promotion, if the plan
now receiving the attention of the war de-
partment is carried out.
An effort was made during the consid-
Grafton Of the army reorganization bill,
at the last session Of congress, to provide
for the retirement Of all the civil war vet
Grams with records this year, with the
next higher grade to that now held by
them, and to promote likewise the officers
on the retired list who have civil war
records. The latter proposition, however,
has not any substantial promise Of sue
cess. The promotion and retirement of
those veterans now in active service will
open promotion to the younger officers, as
their retirement removes from the active
list nearly all the colonels who saw serv-
ice during the civil war. These officers
have all record of not less than forty
years active service. In times of$peace
promotion In the army is in a somewhat
stagnant condition. During war honors
are frequent in brevets or promotion to
higher grade with pay and command. The
death or retirement Of the elder officers
opens the way for the promotion Of the
younger men, and, under our system, re-
tirement is compulsory in the navy at
sixty-two years and in the army it is dis
cretionary with the president at the same
age. An officer is not necessarily in
capaciated for service at that age, for
military history shows that officers over
that age have been great military experts
afield, but the military experience of Eu-
rope and this country shows that the best
regimental commanders, at least are
found between the ages of thirty and
forty five, and in England fifty-ive has
been made the superior limit, In the war
with Mexico the leading genrals were un-
der 62. except Taylor, who was463. Wood
was 5s; WORTH, SO; Harney, AZ; Quitrnan,
49,; and Scott 81. In the civil, war the
average age of twenty; ;of: our army CON-
n1anders was Al, while the average age
of7144 regular officers Of the regular army
who became general officers ,f5syolun-
teers, was under thirty nine. AZ the close
Of the War of the Revolution, Washington
was 81; Gates was IS; Morgan. 47; Greene
| Al; Wayne, So; and Alexander Hamilton,
| &C.. The unsuccessful commanders in the
war Of 1912 were Hull. aged 60; Dearborn,
64; Hampton, go; and Wilkinson. So. The
heroes were jackson, As; Harrison, ~;
| Brown, 40; and Scott, 29. The odds are
| in favor of the younger men SO far as
actual records go. Other cases might
| be cited, as those Of Decatur, Bainbridge
Perry, Worden, Paul Jones.
Under the French law Of 1882. the quail
flying service for promotion In the differ
ent grades was fixed at two years for a
second lieutenant; two years for a first
lieutenant; four years for a captain; three
years for major; three years for lieu.
nt-colonel, and three years for col
orel and grades above. Thus, a mar
could become a colonel after fourteen
years service and a brigadier-gener
i after seventeen. This law was abused by
promotions Of incompetent men through
] fayoriti ism, and It desigahe t
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
Population and Food.

Great as has been the growth of the
population of the United :: States
during the last fifty years, the
it. Urban and food producing popu-
lation has gained vastly on the rural
population, but every farmer is several
times as good a producer as fifty years
ago. A recent bulletin of the depart
ment of agriculture gives some interesting
foodstuffs in the United States In 1900
and in 1850. In the middle of the last
century the United States produced 4.33
bushels Of wheat for each infabitant; now
it produces 3.66 bushels. It produces
more potatoes, more barley, more Indian
rye, sweet potatoes, sugar, syrup and mo-
lasses, pulse, cattle, swine and sheep.
The bulletin remarks that the greater
part of the United States has now
passed or is passing from the old scheme
of cultivation to the new. When land was
cheap and population sparse, the object
was to get as much as possible from the
labor of a man or team; the number OF
| units Of land was Of little consequences
Now the object is to get as much as pos
sible from each unit Of land, land being
high and labor relatively cheaper. We
may expect, therefore, that from now or
the productivity Of American farms will
be greatly increased, and that the tota
production will increase much faster thar
| the increased acreage would Of itself war.
rant. T. IL a.. =:
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
THE OPTIMISTIC OBSERVER.
Farm Machinery Does Not Do Away With Farm Hands Nor
Do Automobiles Destroy the Market for Oats.

used rene said Mr. 5mson ve time heard Of another invention
have been living working on the farms But can't sees made
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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
JURY COMPROMISING.
Grand Forks Herald.

There appears to have been another in
stance of a jury compromising with itself
in the Tanke case at st. James, MINI. Il
the accused was guilty of anything he was
guilty Of deliberate, cold-blooded and
brutal murder. There has evidently been
a doubt in the mind of one Or more Of the
jury as to whether he was guilty or inno-
cent, and this being the case, the jury
has done as good many other juries do
compromised on a verdict Of guilty Of a
lesser crime.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
The, Evening Paper.

II go home on the elevated train
and read my paper en- route. There
are at least fifty people in the same
car; half Of them are reading the
evening paper. 1t takes twenty-five
minutes to reach the end Of the line,
and on looking thru the empty train
there is not a paper left behind unless
1t is a sporting extra of a particularly
sensational sheet. Every man and
woman on board take the paper home
for the benefit OF other members Of
the family. y."-Extract from an article
in Ma hin's Magazine.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16

Those are high toned arguments the
lake strikers are using in their negotia-
tions with the employers. 1t helps, their
case so much to assault non-union men,
and so elevates the standing of unions in
public onniou -.---.n- =.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
5'7,965

The best circulation in the North
west, as 1t is almost entirely one edi-
tion 49, AN EVENING EDITION
which goes directly to the homes
when people have time to read.
THE JOURNAL is the only 2.cent
daily in Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16

present .tnem at
matinees. During
Dickens life time,
his ! books were
dramatized, some
times against his
will. Nicholas
Nickleby," accord
ing to a writer in
the London Mail,
was cut down by
an enterprising
dramatist and pro-
!: duced at the Adel-
3 phi without saying
so much as "by
your. leave" to
-
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
WHEN THE WORM TURNED.
Des Moines Capital.

The Chicago alderman who brazenIy
told the people if they did not like the
smoke nuisance to move, was a candidate
for reelection Tuesday. The voters
didn't do a thing to him. When the re-
turns came in it was discovered that he
was about the most completely: smoked
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16

Aguinaldo is not often referred to these
days as the George Washington of the
Philippines. Such references will be still
fewer, now that it Is known that he au-
thorized certain patriots to assassinate
General Otis.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16

That is particularly convincing adver-
tisement Joplin, Mo-, gets in to-day's S
papers. Just watch the population and
capital rush into a town that was given
over to a wild mob for a whole night
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
AT THE THEATERS
Foyer Chat.

TOycT SnaI.
"The Chaperons,'' merry, musical
piece which obtained much favor in Min
neapolis last season, returns to the Metro
politan for a brief engagement comnenc-
ing this evening. It is famous for it's
catchy songs There are "Sambo,'' Eva;
Tanquay's inimitable coon song. "A: Cen
tie Touch, Talk, Talk, Talk HE
Winked at Me-" "The Little Girl Who
Couldn't Say No. and numbers Of others:
strongly to the popular taste is the ro,,s-
ing solo and chorus, We Are All Good
"Ghosts'' will be the offering of the
Metropolitan for the first half of next
week beginning Sunday evening. The
play is replete with not only perfect
technique Of situation, but absorbing pro-
fundity Of expression and thought. It will
be presented by Miss Mary Shaw and the
same company seen in her support during
the run in New York. %
"The Manxman," the offering at the
Metropolitan the last half of next wesk,
by James O'Neill and company, tells a
thrilling story, of love. heroism and de =.
votion. Mr.. O'Nein impersonates Pete
Quillian' q role suited alike to his talents
and his personality. ~
AT Cripple Creek" at the Bijou this
| week is entertaining good sized audiences
with its many exciting scenes and situa-
tions. - ....- 60
| Unstintcd applause. has been bestowed
on the new romantic play, "a Prince OF
Tatters." IN which Al H. Wilson. popular
German dialect comedian, is touring. It
was written by Sidney r. Ellis and with
it's touches Of pathos and bright comedy,
IS proving an excellent vehicle for SO bril-
liant a player. Mr.. Wilson will begin q
weeks engagement at the Bjjou Sunday
Large audiences are enjoying the Ferris
great drama, wife for Wife" at the
Lyceunn. Dick Ferris will return to the
cast next week in the character Of A
Keene Shaver in the funny comedy IN,
Friend From India
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
a THRUST AT WHITE.

The decision in the merger suit having
been handed down, the newspapers are at
present awaiting a loud .,urst of hilarity
from the governors offiee. The pause
preceding the outburst may Sc somewhat
,protracted. s ~ s3,
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16

Now that he has been asked to think it
over General Baldwin concludes that ne
groes and Filipinos make about as good
soldiers as can be found ~tE~ -"
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
Books and Authors
STAGING DICKENS.

Stage adaptations of Dickens novels are
advertised by many London theaters, and
syndicates of actors have been formed to
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
MoRoAN's LOVE TAP.
Tacoma. Ledger

Tacoma Ledger.
Mr. Morgan says that the decision is
not a blow. II he can construe :, into a
love tap he has this privilege, of course.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16

s4 NORTH DAKOTA. AND 1904. s :,
Sioux City Tribune,
The vote for the opponent OF Roosevelt
in North Dakota, in 1904 win look like a
cipher wittNthe rim knocked of.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16

"At Cripple Creek at the Bijou this
week is entertaining good sized audiences
with its many exciting scenes and situa-
tions. r. - ...:- 80
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-16
that would spread

To the doorways Of the West Wind
To the portals of the Sunset
To the earth's remotest border
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