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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-27

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-27

ENTHUSIASTICALLY Golden Mouthed'
lecture by Frank H. Cooper tonight in
chapel of First Baptist church. The pub
lie invited. , NJ ~" a'7ss @t-@, o.. s.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
rHr srrNe of A hEE.

The Sacramento (Cal) Bee isn't much stuck on Kings, for 1t declares that any dolt. idiot hoodhufn. criminal or aplsh dude can be . King" But Is not that put ting It rather strongly? Or. at least The Bee did not properly weigh its words when it asserted that any of the charac- ters named could be a king. If they could. they would. and the supply would be much larger than the demand. The Bees remarks. however. were evidently directed at Petervitch, and while 1t is fings at American women. declaring:
 But If this same King Peter were free to wed tomorrow, and should come to the would would be presented Of Vs; Veiamorous sn women crazy to be the ot1e-a spectacle of shriek- ing. womanhood running. from Maine to California and fishting all the way.
 There Is a good deal more of the same sort, but this is enough to show that The Bee has very indifferent opinion of women in the aggregate. True. 1t admits that AL et, them would not join in the wild scramble for a dueenly crown. but it thinks there would be a sort of whole sale effort among the women to nab Pete before hs,could escape. Nor Is its opinion an altogether unfounded one. There have been cases sufficiently numerous in Amer lea where women have brazenly offered themselves in exchange for titles much below that of queen and there have been other cases where parents almost openly put their daughters on the block to be knocked otf to the one who could bid highest in the way of title. It may be humiliating. but the fact remains.
 1t is always e wonder to the ordinary American why any good woman should consent virtually to sell herself for a title. when, as is certainly true in many cases, the purchaser Is a disreputable apology for man, with literally nothing to recommend him except the title he bears. Of course not all foreign noble men are unworthy, nor do all American women who marry foreign noblemen get degenerate seoundrels for husbands, but it certainly does occur with more ire quency than is creditable to American womanhood, and the strange part of It is that in some of the cases the woman be- comes a party to the disgraceful trans action with her eyes open. She knows the kind of human she Is selling herself tr and takes him with all his faults and crimes. If the wlfsrin such a case should reap a crop Of misery. we don't know that she deserves any sympathy. how
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09

Washington. July s--A meeting of the Association of Manufacturers and DIS
 trfbutors of Food Products will be held
 at the Manhattan Hotel in New fork on the 18th of this .aonth for the par-
 pose of considering the method of oo-
 taining additional pure food legislation
 by Congress, An active campaign was
 wared before the 5Cth Congress toward
 this end and although 1t was found im-
 poesibIe to reconcile the diverging views of the advocates of the Mann and Cor liss Bills, the Hepburn Bill. whicn the late Representative Brosius, of Pennsyi- vania, originally fathered, was passed In the House but failed in the senate. Some af those interested maintained that the Department of Agriculture should be given the power to pass upon the purity of foods manufactured in the United States as well as those imported and to regulate interstate commerce in the same according to the law, but compromise was effected by which the Bureau oI Chemistry of the Department Of Agri- culture was authorized to analyze all brands of food imported into the United States and to decide which of sucn fooos should be denied entry because of adui- terations in their composition. The Bu- reau is also authorized to certify 10 tne purity of foods manufactured in this country and designed for the export trade, 1t being believed that such certin- cation will go far towards satisfying for eirn goyernments Interest in the gen eraI subject of pure food legislation has been stimulated by the fact that this law went into operation on the first of July and by the extensive experiments which have been conducted recently by Dr. Harvey w. Wiley. Chief or the bu- reau of Chemistry, at the government boarding house." for the purpose of deh- nitely ascertaining the effect of adulter- ants or preservatives in common use up on the human system. Consequently there is a lively curiosity as to the ef- feet of the operation of the new law
 and the steps which will be taken te
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
A CYNICAL POLITICIAN.
The Disgusting Speech of Depsw in
 Paris.

New York Times,
 We should say that the President must have read with some disgust the remarks treme sagacity of the President in an- tagonizing the white South by his ac- tion with, regard to the coiored raceC meaning his numerous aRpoinsmnenss Rpsn ss,,.a ot The Senator is reported as describing this action as "a marvellous political move, "the one thing that. more than any oth, election" Tn the North 1t had simply caused every negro voter. to practically worship the President and to rally WI the Republicans in the coming . consest; Sssts alone" he pointed out. amount to 5S0N MT. pepew is kind enough to say that ''the President took his firm stand Tor him the right thing to do," but he him self gioats with unconcealed glee over the smartness of the move.
 He does not affect to ignore the need Ieasiy. offensive manner In which the Preside-t'e action has been taken He points out that Mir. Mckinley made five
 times as many negro apPointdmenssa nd sas m Snf 5ne MT. McKinlev had away of making at the same time appointments wished for by the Democratic Senators and Con- gressmen in the region affected and thus preventing undue opposition or public re- sentiment. MT. Roosevelt, on the com trary." added the Senator. makes his aODOlHlm@hIS WltUOuL TCl6IcnCC SO lAA0 politicians and offers nothing to appease their probable wrath" It is to be noted that this wrath" appears to MT. Depew
 valuable S asset hsa snd psR Ieas done ne anything to prevent it. It might have cost the valuable 5000 colored mems votes in the doubtful State, of New York. He picion of entertaining any such low view of national duty and obligation as his own. but his own he avows with most
 ..st greeable hardihood.
 He even brags aeout the admission made to him by one Of the Democratic nlr'. a Southerner by birth, that the excitement the President had aroused by his course toward the negro office seekers had defeated a Dem ocratic scheme to divide the colored voters of the North" These cynical dis President in a most unfavorable light: Granting--as We would be very sorry not to grant-that Mir. Roosevelt sought no them and avoided them. They were clearly pointed out to him at the outset, not by those who thought them desir- able. as Nr: Depew thinks them but by itable and deplorable. MT. Roosevelt has done the negroes of the South no good. He has done them and the whole country great harm He has aroused a race hatred in all sections that was in the way of slowly dying out. The scheme of the Democrats to which MT. Depew al- Iuoes. setnsh as U was, was pouno to nave a good effect, since, so far as it was pushed, 1t would have tended to destroy race prejudice in politics. and 1t would to some extent have spread to the South where its influence would have been still more beneficent. At best the action of the President has stimulated mere office seeking and encouraged off1ce seekers among the negroes, while he has checked a movement that distinctly would have tended to peace and good feeling between the races. This MT, Depew crows over It should be a source of regret and shame. f+>,~'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09

each dollar made. This story went the rounds of the newspapers, and was De- lieved by most people.
 Thomas R. McManus, the Governments Secret Service operator here, whose bus
 mess 1t is to know all about counterfeit
 money, said:
 printed It was too ridiculous for se-
 rious attention by experts, it might be
 worth while to say that of every 10000 silver dollars in circulation not more than one is a counterfeit with any per centage of silver in it. It is true that man could make dollar with the same amount of silver in it that the Government puts in and make a good profit on it if he could pass it. and many people wonder why it is not done more than 1t is.
 "The reason is very simple. All Gev- ernment coins are stamped out of sheets of cold metal. This gives the coin clearness and sharpness of line that could never be approached in coin made of molten metal run In mould. An expert can tell at a glance coin that has been run in a mould. because the metal does not fill out the lines and
 corners. So. as a first proposition, your successful counterfeiter Of coins must first set up machinery that would stamp the coins out of cold metal.
 "A plant of this kind would cost so many thousands of dollars that no man with that much money would think of investing 1t in so risky business. That Is preventive No. I The second is that
 such machinery in operation. if located in a city, would shake the building and
 be so noisy that 1t would soon be dis covered. It would be out of the question
 to operate such a plant in the country. of course. Inquisitive country people
 would soon nose it out, and the Gov ernment's operators would soon bounce upon it. So, in brief, I've told you why the bank cashiers story was very silly one. You can add. to give it further effect, that an expert can detect coun- terfeit silver coin the moment he sees and touches It."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
How it Was Done.

Dothan Siftings.
 The way we worked 1t all out" was by beginning early in life, when the lad s wearing apparel consisted solely of that familiar old time garment-of which the venerable editor of The Advertiser Is not perhaps wholly ignorant himself-and under which garment the "skeeter" had freq access to the patient both day and night, ad fnem ct ad gslstum. when the writer's abode was on the banks of the Chocta whatchie River, where there were more "skeetsrs" than Eiisha's and Noah g their neighbors and their neighbors' neighbors Now there may be difference in ''skeeters" just as there is difference In folk. but those skeeters we used to meet in combat pnnctured us quite pro- mIscously, but some how we knew not disease, but to the contrary have attained in avoidupois 225 pounds--have outgrown the shirt, but not big enough to parade Wall Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09

From The Milwaukee Free Press we copy the following item. and the paper says 1t gets its information from one of the Chicago newspapers:
 Negro peonage in Alabama Is said to De well matched at the South Chicago steel mills, where hundreds of foreigners are brought every year and introduced to a condition of virtual slavery 1t Is said that men are Kept At work there for two and three years without any pay beyond their living and the clothes they wear.
 We suspect that if such an investiga. tion as is now being made In Alabama could he made throughout the Union something really worsA than Alabama peonags would be exposed in various re. gions where speakers and newspapers are holding up their hands in horror at the new slavery in Alabama" Would the brethren throughout the North like tc see 1t tried? ..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
WOMAN TRAPS RATTLERs.
Mrs. Dutro Finds Plain House Traps
 Just Right for strangling Snakes. Helena CMont) Dispatch to St. Paul

Mrs. Dutro E1ndS Ela1n AouSe AEaPs
 Just Right for Struggling Snakes. Helena (Mont) Dispatch to St. Paul Pioneer Press.
 The problem of how to catch ana ois- pose of the rattlesnakes at Ten Mile Point, near here. has been solved by Mrs. Dantel Dutro, wife of a small farmer. Instead of going hunting for the reptiles, and run ming the risk of being bitten by them, this woman uses a mouse trap, and thus far has been eminently successful in her undertaking.
 Ten Mile Point has often been called Rattlesnake Point. on account of the large number of rattlers that thrive in that vicinity. Not a season goes by that sev- eIal cattle are not killed by them, and now and then a human victim is claimed. Mike Dutro and Jack Cornwall, the lat ter a noted snake catcher, have for a | long time been trying to clear the place of reptiles. but without success. Finally they sought the aid of Mrs. Dutro. Nothing more simple" said the wo- man. as she smiled in a superior sort of way.
 Instead of unfolding her plans to the men and thus allowing them to gain all the glory, she secured number of com mon circular mouse traps which she bait ed and set around in various places. Then she retired to her own room to sleep the sleep of the just. When she entered the kitchen in the morning she found that each trap was filled. In each hole was a snake, which had been attracted by the bait. and which had been choked to death when the trap was sprung All the other traps, which had been set in various places about the farm. contained snakes. and on counting the kill it was found that sixteen had been captured. The
 
 in length, while the largest was four feet and had eight rattles. If the supply of traps holds out. Mrs. Dutro expects to rid the Point of snakes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
,xI1ossip from WashinSton


fsecure supplemental legislation at the coming sesion of Congress will be fol- lowed closely and with much interest. The manufacturers contend that at present they have great difficulty in labelling and branding their products to conform to the various state laws. So great, indeed, Is this difficulty that pr. Harvey Wiley has jokingly declared that it required the services of first class lawyer to draft the labels and to see that the laws were complied with in affixing them to the goods Pennsyi- yania has a law that all food products which are not made of pure goods shall be labeled compound" Ohio and Massa- chusetts stipulate that a composite
 formula label" shall be employed show ing exactly what ingredients were used 1 in the preparation of the product. In Minnesota any goods containing adulter- ations have to be branded in large let ters "adulterated mixture" while Illinois Is satisfied with the use of the word limitation"
 | The manufacturers say they have no objection whatever to labelling their goods compound" "adulterated." or In | any other manner to suit the taste Of 1 Congress but they are very anxious to have a law which will permit the use of one label in all states so they will not constantly be in hot water with the different state health authorities. They believe that if Congress would
 enact the Hepburn Bill or one similar to | it, they could then persuade the various state legislatures to legislate in con- | formity to to the national law and uni | formity of food laws could thus be se- cured.
 l An effort will be made to harmonize the different interests concerned to se- | cure united action next session. At the l last session there was quite little con | test between the National Retail Grocers Association and the Jobbers and Whele-
 salers of Chicago with their Western al | lies on the one hand and the Association | of Manufacturers and Distributors o1 food products on the other.
 | R. H. Watkins.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
People Who Don't rntermarry.

The Mirdites. a Christian clan in North ern Albania, to this day religiously re- frain from intermarrying with their own tribe, but as a general rule they carry or wives from among the Mohammedan neighbors. Consequently a Mirdite we'd ding as often as not is preceded by a series of funerals For. although the Mo- hammedan maid may In some eases have no unconquerable aversion 10 being ab- ducted. it frequently happens that her kinsmen consider it a point of honor to defend her in grim earnest and lives are lost in consequence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
SOME ROBUST LYING.

It could hardly be expected that The Leavenworth Times could get anything correct when writing about Alabama af- fairs. In 8, recent editorial 1t comments the action of the Federal court In con- yicting and punishing persons guilty of peonage, and winds up with this charac- teristic niisstatement: .
 If left to the courts of Alabama 1t Is hardly probable that any action looking be taken, from the fact that the district judges depend upon the votes of their constituents. all of whom are practically in favor Of the system, for their retention in office.
 Now we have no such officials as Dis trict Judges in Alabama, but possibly The Times could not be expected to know that. Perhaps we might also say that 1t could not be expected to know that 1t was telling falsehood when 1t charges that all the people of Kia6arna are practically in favor ofRthes SxstEmFSf peonage. Per haps, further, it could not be expected to know that it was also telling a falsehood when it charges that our Circuit Courts will not punish persons guilty of the of- fences charged because the Judges of those courts depend upon the votes of their constituents.'
 These charges. whether made directly or by insinuation, are unjust unfair and untrue. There is but one circuit in which peonage has been shown to exist, and more than one judge has made earnest and conscientious efforts to break it up That the effort failed is simply because AN9 1a 1k ecute the law and aid the efforts of the judges. At the same time 1t is grossly unjust and untrue to assert that the peo- pie. even of the community where the wrongs existed, "are practically in favor of the system" They are nothing of the kind. A very large proportion of them are not in sympathy with the criminals and did not even know that anything ot the kind was going on in the community.
 This peonage matter has proven 6 wei come diversion to certain extra good peo- pie and newspapers up North, because 1t has given them new theme for abuse of the South. They reveiled in accounts of lynchings down here until the disease broke out all over the North and forced them to close their lips from very shame. Then "peonage in Alabama" came to their rescue, and it was ''as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land" for 1t gave them something new to talk about and to lie about It is useless even to make an effort to observe the courtesies in speaking of very much that has been written and published in Northern papers on this subject There Is so much abso- lute and wilful lying in it that no other words properly express 1t. and one might as well speak of things as they exist. II these self-righteous Pharisees had made an effort to get at the facts before delib- erately maligning the people of a whole State, we could have some patience with them. but they failed to do so and The Times is fair specimen of their breed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
Qiute a Difference.

Dothan Siftings.
 There Is quite difference in a mans state of life. We have all along observed 1t from the temper of our exchanges. For instance let man be young and un- married and he speaks of things in a soft, tender way as though this old world were good to him. let him get married and have a half dozen or more boys and girls about the homestead. and his words are more serious. He has no sentiment to waste.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
The Better Plan.
Mobile Herald.

MObIIe FfefdIu.
 But better plan yet to stop forever the illegal putting to death of negro rapists, for which the negroes are clamor- ing so vociferously, is to put an end to the commission of the crime. When will no longer be negro rapists lynched. That Is the solution--the natural, logical one. and. seemingly. the only one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
Abolish the Jungle.
Mobile Register.

MODlle Register
 Right on the heels of A volume of preachment against mob violence. comes this horrible affair in. Evansville. Is the world growing worse instead of bet ter? Is all preaching In vain2 Some will say so. To us it appears that the natural man is reasserting himself when suddenly confronted with conditions of the jungle. The preaching does not reach him. What we have to do is to abolish the jungle. But that Is easier said than done,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
Will Get Out.
BirminRham Lledger.

BIFmlnBham LeU8eFs
 Postmaster General Payne is to get out of the cabinet. Hts department is shown to be so shamefully corrupt that this is necessary. The President has caused the investigations to be checked a little so that he can get bad health enough to retire upon, but the world knows that Mir Roosevelt has no idea of going into the next campaign with this scandal to carry.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
Continues to Harp.
Birmingham News.

The New York Evening Post continues to harp on peonage in Alabama. notwith- standing that there is not now a single case in existence in tho State. When the present editor succeeded to the position what he lacked in ability when compared to his predecessors he made up in malignancy. and ever since his accession the columns of The Post once a respect ed newspaper, have teemed with islander and misrepresentation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
A Generous Impulse.

Washington Star.
 ''Suppose you succeed in owning the earth'iF said the abrupt man, what good
 tWen." answered the trust promoter I'm naturally man of hospitable in- sttncts There will be a kind of satisfac- ton in feeling that I am permitting other people to inhabit this globe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
Two Views.

Philadelphia Press. with my automobile now. What I know about road racing would fill an interest ing book"
 What you don't know about it." re- For sO0n."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09

If all our Northern contemporaries would take the same view that The Brooklyn Eagle does. there would be much less cause of complaint from this side the line. Discussing certain acts it says:
 The Eagle has here and now In mind no intent of criticism of the crime which In the South is dreaded with reason and terribly punished without legal forms. Given the same conditions. given the same circumstances given the same crime, Eortherners would do what Soutnerners tihcatinn. but 1t prescribes charity and a hushandry of surprise or censure.
 This we believe. and The Eagle might have made the comparison much stronger by an allusion to the Wilmington affair. as that conclusively proves that like causes produce like effects in the North as well as the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
seanning His Motive.

You can't be dead sure that young man is saving to get married just because he stops smoking cigars and begins to
 No, he may be smoking the pipe to got even with the neighbors. Cleveland plaiu nealer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09

If the grand jury at Jefferson city re- mains in session till the Missouri Legis- lature assemblies again. 1t Is safe to say that the members of the latter body will be a trihe more careful about boodling than they were before.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09

Most of our contemporaries refuse to believe that the Boston women 'showered warm kisses" on the Liberty Bell when 1t visited that city. The impression ap- pears to be that Boston kisses are never of the warm brand. We really don't know.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09

In the estimation of The Hartford (Conn) Times it Is "a noteworthy fact that five white men have been arrested tn Alabama for participating in lynchins and not one in Wilmington, Del. or Ev- Rnsville. Ind. If the esteemed Times will keep its eyes skinned. it will find many other noteworthy facts in connection with the race question, North and South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09

The charge that Postmaster General Payne has fits shouldn't disturb anybody. The affairs recently brought to light in his department would give 'em to any. body.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09
With Mitigation.

Chicago Journal
 Jenkins-Then you mean to tell me have told a lie?
 Chambers-WelI, no: don't wish to be quite so rude as that, but I will say this you'd make very good weather proph-