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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-22

probably not tolerate the cession to
Great Britain of any land at the head
Of Lynn canal, but we believe that in
view of the great store Canadians have
set on free access to their Yukon
country, steps might properly be taken
to insure it, to them. At present Cam
adian customs representatives are ac-
corded such facilities at Skagway that
the traveller bound for the Yukon
practically enters Canadian territory
when he, leaves the steamer at Skag-
way. These courtesies should be con-
tinued. When the joint high commis-
sion attempted to settle the boundary
dispute, the Americans proposed to
make Pyramid .aesort of neutral port,
50 that the American customs would
have nothing whatever to doSEwith
shipments of, goods to the Canadian
hinterland. The British commission
ers refused this offer because the SOW
ereignty Of the port was to remain
in American hands,, What they in
sisted on was a, strip of British terri
tory reaching down to Lynn canal
AS the Canadians have now got less
than they then refused, new tender
Of a neutral port on American soil
might be gratefully received by them.
1t would have to- be : Skagway, of
course as that port is the terminus Of
the White Pass railway s.s
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THE LATE HENRY D.LLoYD


IN the same line of investfga ton as tha
which led: him to produce his strike of
Mllllona1res Against Miners" Mr.. Llovd
turned his attention to an inquiry into the
facts Of the methods Of the American
trusts and combina lions. AS the nroduct
or several, years hard work in document
rooms Of courts and legislatures he
brought out his great work, wealth
Against Commonwealth" declared bv Ed
ward Everett Hale to be as much an
ch-making book as :'Uncle Toms Cab
IN. 1t portrays with the hand of a lola
the cannibalism in which the. comm ercia
world still lives. So terrific is the mora
shock OF encOuntering it's disclosures that
many reader has thrown the book down
unable to finish. it from sheer agitation
1t IS as we'll known to the man in the
workshop as to the student in the library.
ana 1t has gone around the world nrint
ing on the minds of the people it's reyela
ZION or some phases of modern money
making. Aside from it's purpose it is a re-
markable piece of literature and iustifies
what Robert Louis Stevenson said Of Mr.
Lloyds work; to George lies in a letter
which, with a other letters of. Stevenson
MI. Lies has put in the library, of McC3ill
university. Wrote Stevenson: Il was ex-
ceed1fgly interested by, the articles of Mr..
Lloyd, who is certainly a very,scapab BILE
clever fellow; he writes the most work
manllke article of any man, known to me
IN america, unless it should be Parkman.
MOT a touch in Lloyd of the amateur:
land but James and Howells, and the
AFORESAID Farkman, I can't call to mind
one American writer who has not little
faint Of it, .' '-'72. '''@ -"
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Not Civilized Methods.

Shortly after leaving Minneapolis
MI. Kidd, vice president of the
American Federation Of Labor, was
organized capital did not stop its at
tempt to attach the savings of mem
bers Of trade unions to satisfy damages
Incurred by the boycott, the union men
would withdraw their savings
amounting, he said, to s300,OO0,0OO,
from the savings banks. This, he
thought would bring on a financial
panic. and the employers, he believed
would not wish to see this done. Of
course not.
The effort to attach, thru the courts,
the savings of members of trade unions
who impose a boycott upon the
product Of the manufacturer is an at
tempt to reimburse the manufacturers
for the loss sustained and to do it in
legal, constitutional way. 1t simply
makes the labor union liable for it's
acts. Labor unions have declined to
accept such responsibilities by refusing
to be incorporated bodies, but if the
courts should decide that the in
dividual members may be held liable
for the acts of the organization, the
question of incorporation of the labor
union is not SO important. t.
Whether the members of trade
unions would be willing deliberately
to do something which would bring on
a panic is exceedingly doubtful, not
withstanding. Mr.. Kidd's easy assump-
ton that it would be done. Labor or
CARNATIONS might bring on a panic and
paralyze the industry of the, country,
but if they did, who would be likely
to suffer on account Of it so much as
they? The probabilities are that Mr..
Kidd is nat duly authorized to make
this statement; for the fact is that
labor and capital, employe and en-
ployer, are all in the same box, so to
speak-all mutually interested in a
I fair deal all around. The strike and
the lockout, the boycott and the black
list, are weapons too savage and too
barbarous for civilized men to use.
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Timely Generositv,

Our Toronto correspondent asserts
that since the Alaska commission has
formally announced it's award and it
is discovered that even the. entrance to.
Port Simpson is not fully controlled
by the islands awarded to Canada, a
wave of anti-American feeling has
swept over, the Dominion and all
classes. are now animated with de-
sire to use the tariff as means of
getting even with the United States
The program is said to be to push the
tariff up to such a point that it will
be prohibitive of American goods,
We suspect that this dispatch is
partly inspired by the anger of the
moment and partly by the influences
set at work by the Canadian Manufac-
turers' association. At the same time
there is no blinking the fact that there
is something of the same resentment
| In Canada over the award that there:
would have been had the United States
refused to adjudicate the dispute and
announced that it intended to hold by
force OF arms the territory it has so
long looked upon as it's own. The
antl-American party in Canada is talk
| ing advantage of the decision to stir
up feeling against us. The result NAV
be to postpone Indefinitely the negoi
t1atlon Of reciprocity treaty, tho we
~t.n hardly believe that the Canadians
are willing to injure themselves in the
hope that they may inflict a little
vengeful injury on the big republic.
I A correspondent writes to suggest
that now that the essential correctness
| of the American claim has been sus-
tanned by judicial process, the United
States should act generously with
Canada He proposes that we volun-
tarily cede to Canada the two islands
the award gives us off Port Simpson,
thus giving the Canadians complete
command Of that potentially impor-
Ftant port; He also suggests that we
present. Canada with the rocky hint
erland of the Lynn canal BY this we
suppose he means that Canada shall
have a strip of territory reaching
! down to the waters of the canal.
| Let us see about that. The Cana
| gift Of a substantial nature would go
far to. demonstrate that all we seek
is justice. Such a gift would dissi-
pate the hostile feeling towards us that
exists in some classes and parts of
Canada, and might smooth the way for
a reciprocity treaty . s.
| Except on the theory that we shall
some day be at'war with Great Britain
the two islands we hold at the mouth
Of Portland canal are of no use to u.s.
| Commercially they are of no import
ance. The danger Of war is so slight
that it may be disregarded. And in
the event of war there are places
enough at which to attack Canada
without controlling the entrance to
Port Simpson. On the other hand the
| islands are of no use to Canada except
inzthe event Sof war with the United
States, but it would be a littleamore
soothing to- national, or colonial pride
not to have the stars and stripes wav-
ing right in front, of the terminus Of
the much vaunted tall Canadian
transcontinental route
l American public opinion would
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WHEN MARY LED THE HYMN

/ used to go to church and sit.
Entranced, to hear the singing:
My soul upon the waves of it.
Seemed ever upward winging.
did not hear the organs peal,
The bass, or tenor slim;
The altos voice was but a squeai
When Mary led the hymn.
Her pure soprano, high and clear.
Seemed like q song-birdf thrilling,
1t fell on my ,enraptured ear.
My very heart strings thrilling.
4 The world and all its load of care.
= Seemed far away andSdim;
The pearly gates of heaven We're there.
When Mary led the hymn.
But now. wfer.. Mary. lifts her voice
70 lead, must dissemble,
The sound that made me once rejoice
Now sets me all a-tremble.
sometimes beg of her to cease;
She will not hear my pleading;
At such sad times I know no peace,
For LIN the. him" she's leading.
Brooklyn Eagle.
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CANADIAN PRESS ON The BOUND.
- 80 =, AIRY" DECISION. ,,2

Toronto World.The practical feature Of
the award is the commercial advantages
which, it.. confers, on ;the ! United States.
Canada has held the trade of the Yukon
by her enterprise and by. virtue of Gus
toms courtesies extended to us by the
United States government at skagwav
and Dyea. These customs facilities were
afforded solely for the reason that the
sovereignty of the ports was open to
doubt. Now that Skagway and Dyea have
been formally conceded to- the United
States, all kinds of customs barriers are
likely to be raised against us. Canada has
Only one instrumental protect her inter-
ests, and the government will not employ
It: That. instruments is the tariff. In no
other way can we obtain civil treatment
from the United States. ,r-s# = A
presidential election will beTiheld shortly
in the United States Did anyone sup
pose that President Theodore Roosevelt
would go. to the country burdened with a
milestone like the surrender, just or UNI
just, of the claims asserted by the United
States in Alaska 2 President Roosevelt
had no thought" of" THUS jeopardizing his
chances or he would have fulfilled the re-
quirements of the reference and would
have appointed to the board of arbitration
three jurists who Were entirely free, as
Canada's jurists were free, from political
entanglements. E''> '' - 80. ~
Winnipeg Tribune-That' Lord Aver
! stone was with the Americans seems to
| have been known from the outset, and
deny it as he may it will be difficult for
his 1ordship to remove the impression that
he did not let the Americans know in adj
vance how he was going to vote The
canadian commissioners seem to have
been treated with studied contempt. The
Americans and Lord Alverstone were the
whole push and they seem to have
settled things to suit themselves quite
regardless of the Canadian representatives.
Without knowing how Lord 1Alvers tone
was going it would have been Impossible
Tor the Americans to act as they did
There is certainly food for reflection in
connection with the whole ma tier
Manitoba Free Press-The decision will
not cause much surprise in Canada. Most
Canadians, who have followed the matter.
have been pessimistic over the prospects
since the composition Of the tribunal was
announced; nor did the splendid presenta :
ton OF Canada:s case by her counsel
change their impression that the verdict
would, in all probability, be hostile to the
claim put forward by this country
Toronto Star - AS to Canadians the
opinion may soon take hold upon US that
In any such dispute with the United
States our best course would be to ne
gotiate direct SO that we could trade the
fri1ges and margins of our territory which
We cannot keep for substantial advantages
to ourselves, rather than have Great Brit
ain trade 1t off for il!usory good will OH
the part of America towards herself This
country could do better for herself, I'M
derstanding as she does the spirit of dick
|ering as carried on from Washington
AT such a feast as that held in London
it was evident to Canada that two is COM
pany and three is none
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Tugging at the Bonds of Empire.

8Canadians both in London and at
home are expressing great indignation
at the, British government in conse-
auence of the Alaska boundary de-
cision. They feel now the limitations
of being a nation within an empire.
The talk of Canadians everywhere
| seems to indicate that the British bond
is dissolving. Here is Mr.. Aylesworth
one of the Canadian commissioners,
marks almost the parting of the ways
between England and Canada.
Here is another Canadian who de-
clares that Lord Alverstone was mere
~ the agent of the British govern
ment and asserts that the award of
the commission marks the most Sc
rious epoch in the relations between
Canada and the mother country.
Here is Raymond Prefontatne, Cam
adian minister of public works, talk
ing secession. Here are Canadian Of
Gals and members of parliament
saying that hereafter Canada will set
tie her disputes with the republic di-
rectly-and that would be rebellion
Here are the newspapers asserting
| from one end of Canada to the other
that Great Britain has sacrificed
Canada's interests as a sop to the big
republic. Il
We are really sorry for our Cana
dian friends. They have lately swelled
up with national pride and yet they
are not nation. They resent Great
Britain's handling of their case, and
yet they could not have done better
If they had stood alone. They find the
British connection CALLING, and yet in
dependence. would lead nowhere but
to union with the United , States
Writing in the North American Re-
view, Frank B. Tracy dwells on the
anomalous position of Canada COL
ony that thinks itself nation and
that is prejudiced against the nation
a part of which it is her destiny to be
in Gods own time. In view of the
fact that Mr.. Tracy wrote before the
Alaska commission announced it's de-
! cision, the present irritation in Canada
gives prophetic value to these words:
But this Alaskan boundary settlement
can not be final or sufficient. Canada can
not continue to be half-free. half slave:
half -nation and half-subject colony. The
intricacies into which her anomalous ex-
istence is leading her grow more labyrin-
thai day by day. 1t is idle for her states
men to talk and dream of growing to be
the greater half Of the continent" The
trend of history and precedent, aided as
in this case by the inertia of democracy,
cannot be checked. Canada belongs to the
United States, and by the will of her
people she must some day be a great.
proud ard welcome addition to the United
States.
The union Of the two countries is
not a live issue now, and the idea is
distinctly distasteful to the majority
of Canadians, but nature will find a
way.
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THE. MAGAZINES

Wealth Doesn't Measure Success.-That
wealth is no true measure of success is.
shown by Francis Bellamy in the Novem
Der number of Everybody's Magazine.
The prevailing opinion is quite to the
contrary. A leading lawyer voiced that
opinion not. long ago in these words:
brains may be more important than
money. but nowadays the best way to
convince the world that you have brains
is to make money This proposition is
refuted by Mr.. Bellamy There are still
a select few who have put ideals ahead
Of moneyzgetting. These are enlightened
and gifted people, too. Mr.. Bellamy points
out, too, the loss the money -getter often
sustains. tho he may not know it, He
quotes this comment upon a certain
wealthy young man: He Isl rich and
clever all in one line, but he is awfully
incomplete as q man." Everybody's table
OF contents is long and attractive.
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s 5{f4 + - n +! q (! T
pany's franchise expires six years
hence, they will utilize that to get a
liberal Whack at Uncle Sans gold.
The Colombians are gracious
enough, while indulging in dreams
about getting their hands in our
treasury, to say that the offer of any
other country to build the canal would
not be considered, for the reason that
the United States is .'about the only
one which would sticlsSto its treaty
after it made one. @,
The isthmian canal is a. commercial
necessity. The day, is coming when
the Pacific ocean will be, the arena of
very strong trade competitions, with
the United States. thru it's extensive
coast line thereon, and insular pos
sessions at intervals, reaching within
few hundred rnileslFo the Asiatic
coast, holding the preponderating in
fuence. Water as well as rail com
munication with our western coast is
a present necessity; The circuitous
water route roundlCape Horn does not
meet the modern necessity. The 18TH
milan canal will do so. The work has
been commenced and would be to-
day under rapid progress had not Co
lombian statesmen repudiated a treaty
negotiated by their own government
and blocked the enterprise by a mis-
erably selfish game Of extortion.
Columbia is a country OF many lrevo-
lutions, and it is always possible that
change of government may occur,
bringing a change of policies. Yet we
might wait ten Years for such a turn
in Colombian affairs which would lead
to acceptance Of thearejected treaty
That treaty has been pronounced as
embodying the ultimate concession OF
purchase money our government will
make. LET the Colombian government
and people be made to understand
that extortionate, demands for money
are utterly useless; that not dollar
more will be given, andeit is very like
| ~ that there will be a change of heart
at .Bogota.< ,....:-.-, ~. -. H.. -.
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NEWS OF BOOK WORLD
The Magic Of Books; From Babel to-
Woodland with Wave Of the Hand
"Life With the Bark on',--is Wealth
a Measure of Success? 8


a glowing crate fire, an easy chair, a
book I'm Babel, by George Ade). Il Soo1;
fire and easy chair are forgotten. and one
is away amid scenes not SO comfortable
as that he left in thought when he. opened
the book. But the beginnings of the
stories ofrBabel are Turing, and the reader
rushes on from one to another quite con
tent to forget his own restful quarters
IN order to see Babel thru Mr. AIDES eyes.
SO he exchanges the luxury Of the asso.
cia tons he has taken years to gather
about him to wander off where there is a
smell Of poverty. perhaps, and a gen
eral air of squalor- or. into
some dismal clearinghouse wearing the
name Narcissus, possibly, or again into
some family hotel where the women
have no employment except to investigate
the newcomers, and the head clerk is an
encyclopedia of scandal, and they move
the chairs out of the dining room every
two weeks: and have a grand hop" But
anywhere he goes there is the city sense,
that composite Of sights, sounds. tastes
smells and touches-touches, sometimes Of
two kinds-that comes with being i'm
mersed in the atmosphere of a great city
This Mr.. AIDE gives in his book of
sketches, first published in the Chicago
Record, now the Record Herald. Too
much of it stiles.
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EVEN WORSE THAN A GOLD BRICK

Russell Sage recently boarded a Sixth
avenue elevated train 1T Rector street
He carried under one arm a. samnle brick
wrapped in a newspaper. It was one that
the builder of the Emma Willard seminary
had taken to the financier's, office: sRe-
pairs to Sage hall are to be made. and Mr..
Sage wanted to- see the brick that is to
be used 1t was worth. perhaps cents
Al I"enty-elghth street a sporty-looking
youth, who evidently knew the great ma n
reached. down, seized the brick, dashed to
tn door and was downstairs and awav
before Mr.. Sage, much annoyed, could get
to the door and breathlessly explain to
the guard what had happened. = :s.eE..--..
Il felt sorry for him." said the witness,
when he told of the experience. He
looked real sad at losing that brick, but
Ia have given "a dollar, to see the face
OF the other fellow when he cut the
string" - - -
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

IN BABEL, STORIES OF CHICAGO. nv
George AIDE. New York: Mcclure Phillips
s. Co Minneapolis N. Mccarthy.
THE CLERK oF THE WOODS. By bradford
Torrey. author of Footing 1t il franconia. J
Birds in the Bush = "a World Of Green
Hills Boston: .Honghton, NIiffin & CO.
Minneapolis: n. Mccarthy. s110 net
THE RED KEGGERs.s BIZ Eugene fhwing,
Illustrated q. New York The, Book lover
$3.50. ~ 80,
EARTH'S ENIGMAs. By Charles e. b. Rob
erts. author of .'The KindSed of the wild"
etc. Illustrated. Boston Z. G. Page Is
4 Co. Price 81. 3d. X f# $50
THE BOOK OF sHRUBs. BY George Gordon.
V. NJ e., editor of the Gardeners Magazine.
John Lane, The Bodley Head New York
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LOVES YOUNG DREAM.

Columbus Junction 1owa) Safeguard:
w. D. MCGEE, the night operator at this
station, went away with the intention of
Joining mis- fortunes with Missouri girl,
who was to meet him at Burlington He
was to have entered into the state of
matrimony {also MissourD a week ago,
but the heartless corporation for which he
works would not relieve him. In this state
OF affairs he was justified in not return
ing Tuesday night as. agreed. As nearly
as we can lear1r the name Of the. FORUM
ate young lady is Abby Carpne1l If we
have married him to the wrong, girl, we
are willing to be forgiven. ~ I 81 s.
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TWENTY-FIVE. YEARS AGO

h o u r would be Glad to re-
ceive by mall, or otherwise, the names Of
all persons who were readers and sub
scrbers to this paper when 1t started,
twenty-five years ago this fall, or who
became subscribers during the first year
OF its existence, and their present ad-
dresses. .
o u ri a would also be pleased
to have the names of men living who
were newsboys In Minneapolis twenty five
years ago, and their present addresses.
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MR.. PEAsE,s "HoT TIME"
AnOka Union.

II - AnOka Union.
Brother Dare OF the Elk River sStaE-News
wants to know what it cost the Union
man to visit the state fairs Something
like sixteen, but if he had met Brother D.
it would have cost from quarter to a
half more-for soft drinks. Items. ho-
tel, $3.50; meals, $3.50; care fare, roc: ci-
gars, $1.00; admissions. s2.05; treats, So. so;
balloon, "10c; peanuts, 10c; buttermilk, zoe;
fruit, csc; shines. soc; gum, l5c. 49,
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MIR. Elliott, the new president Of the
Northern Pacific, came. up from the ranks
on merit. j He pursued the policy of al.
ways doing just: a little, more than he
was actually required to do and of doing
it well. No boy who adopts that policy
will. have to. hunt for a job; the jobs
will always be hunting him. j.
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Just as was foreseen, the color line has
been; raised in the army's maneuvers
The Tenth cavalry (negro) and a white
Texas. regiment can't get along at Fort
Riley: This case shows that there is
such: a thing as drawing the color line
too much. -, 49, a; -.
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The new reorganized Consolidated Lake
Superior company will be capitalized for
$4O,0000OO. The old company's capital
ization was s115, OOoO 900. There is water
enough squeezed out to raise Lake Huron,
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This is not such bad world after all
Not only the public; but the well to- dc
grandfather and uncle Of the Peacocl;
children have come to their assistance.
and the uncle has answered the prayer 81
the little children that. they be kept to.
gether by announcing that he will take
them all to his farm il; Manitoba. That's
the kind Of an uncle to have.
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THURSDAY EVENING,

these remarks may be that Minnesota
does not always let Mr.. Hill do Its think
ing and that he has no railways in west
ern Canada at present.
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Wall street reports that the public which
was timidy: peepingz intort the. street again
has been. scared away blythe shipbuilding
merger scandal! ntWhatfa! foolish public to
be scared by .saeh = - y. o'