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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
WHAT oTHER PEOPLE THINK
The School Mems FIummerles.


To the Editor Of The Journal 's5 10.
I have been invited to attend the in
stallation services at Carleton college,
when the new president will be inducted
into his office. This is a Congregational
college. People of this denomination have
always stood for education, simplicity and
character. Therefore, was amazed that
my invitation read, 'Those having college
degrees will come dressed in gowns and
gave the address of a local costumer who.
for small fee, would furnish the DDS.
Ph.D.'s, L. L. DIS, etc., ETC., the dresses
needed. This is in order that there may
be a plain and easy way of differentlat1ng
these distinguished gentlemen from the
unlettered kinds-wfo may be asked for
money at some future time.
Heretofore ongregationalists have led
in efforts to bring about { the sense of
brotherhood and equality. They have bat
tied against artificial distinctions and in
sisted that character and not clothes gives
nobility to man. Real worth does not
need to bedeck itself in strange apparel
to proclaim the fact, and this dress parade
in monkish garb will be deplored by every
lover Of manly simplicity.
If all degrees were fairly earned it.
might be different, but some who write
these alphabetic frills after their names
are not scholars and have no claim to
such honors. When one understands the
methods used by some to obtain "a de-
gree those titular adornmerts cease to
have any real value. Henry Ward
Beecher, ore Of Americas greatest pulpit
orators, recognized this and refused to
allow these honorary titles to be conferred
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28

The supreme court has refused to come
to the rescue Of negroes who complain
that they are unjustly disfranchised by
the operations Of the new. Alabama con-
stitution. 1t begins to look as If the
southern negro were confronted by a con-
dition which can be changed only by the
efforts of himself and his white neigh
bors. He must help himself to whatever
ne gets. Apparently the north will no
longer fight his battles for him. Forty
years ego the liberty of the negro was
placed above a united nation. The north
was willing to risk disintegration of the
republic In it's zeal for the slave. To-
day harmonious nation is considered far
more important than the recognition of
the constitutional rights Of the southern
negroes. It is absolutely impossible to
think OF the north risking the chaos thai
would result in the south from an attempt
to, enforce the negro's rights at the: point
of the bayonet. It. feels that, it did enough
in freeing the negro He must now carve
out his own career. 80. .c,g4ss.s ss.s, ~
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
AT THE THEATERS
Murphy. In "The Car
petbagger."

. i pctOdS9CT..s 3
Melville GRANGE, in the role of Tim Muir
local admirers of spontaneous, unaffected
art. No other actor Of the present day,
indeed, could lose his personal identity
more completely in his role than does Mr..
Murphy in the name part Of 1.-THE Carpet
Dagger" Tranquil or excited cham
pagnely humorous or profanely angry, the
actor can never be detected beneath s,the
character. The twins are one flesh. Who
ever has seen the play on previous occa-
.sions may object that Mr.. Murphy is al
ways himself, that he has forced the
mountain to come to Mohammed. But
this is the traditional observation of the
farmer, who unwittingly pronounced the
highest praise when he objected, "That
feller don't never act at all!'' Altho the
part of the reconstruction governor was
prepared for Mr. Murphy, he must appear
nevertheless, in a series Of situations al
together foreign to his personal expert
ence; he must preserve that degree of his
trionic exaggeration without which this
"easy naturalness'' would disappear; and.
above all, he must clothe with consistent
probability a most irartistic, improbable
role. Mr.. Murphy must be the better
actor that Opie Read has proved so poor
a dramatist.
Yet, as in the case of Mr.. Reads latest
drama, "The Starbucks,'' "The Carpet
bagger,' is strikingly rich in ''atmos-
phere," in suggestive reproduction Of an
epoch peculiarly American, in realistic
glimpses of quaint character.
Miss Dorothy Sherrod no longer appears
as the governors daughter Nellie. She
utilizes even greater skill as the lobbyist
lady in crushed pink. Miss Louise Whit
field, as the daughter, is more exagger-
ated than her lines. Harold Selrnan the
Captain Roy, her companion in libel upon
the fngenuousness Of youth, might have
learned his Mississippi accent in Wiscon-
sin.
a .. H. B. Curry.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
A Hint From Canada.

An ottawa correspondent Of the New
York Evening Post trippingly, recites the
evidences of Canadas prosperity-foreign
trade, $42S,ooo,0oo; revenues, s5S,ooo, 900;
bank deposits, 1857, 200, 900. and so on.
Then he says: s>,-5- =. g -
All this should be pleasing to Arneri-
cans, since the increase of Canadian
wealth signifies more profitable trade for
Americans They sold to Canada in 1896
S53,629,390 worth, and in 1902 $l14, 744, ,696
Worth. Nearly so per cent Of the total
Canadian imports came from the states
IN 1902, and less than rs per cent from
Great Britain. Yet Great Britain took So
per cent and the states only SO per cent
OF the total Canadian export. The pro-
portions in favor of Uncle Sam will prob
ably continue to: increase with Canada's 8
advance in prosperity, unless the Domin z
Ions fiscal policy shall be radically
changed. 81
1t would, however, seem wisdom for the
republic to enhance by liberal arrange
ment for reciprocity the gains of so good
a customer. If this be not done the ex-
pert hnanciers Of Canada may vet con-
tr1ve some sure way Of lessening the ad.
vantage of the United States in Canadian
markets and increasing trade with Great
Britain. That is what they wish to do.
oUe az" " w IL WlluOuC hurting canada
Is the question. But for, the Mckinley
and Dingley tariffs the business of the
two countries would have been much more
extensively merged than now,\ and the
two peoples brought closer together. OF
tawa used to be as willing as Barkis.
Washington seemed persuaded that bull
doing would convert that willingness to
eagerness. The result has been directly
contrary. To deny everything possible
to free ee-dealing, prosperous, enterpris-
ing customer, thus putting him in a hu-
NOR to trade elsewhere as much as he
conveniently can, is out of accord with
the shrewdly generous give -and-take
principle on which I have observed
Americans to conduct their private busi-
ness. 49,
This is all too true. 4 We shall soon
know whether we have learned wisdom
Fof late. If the joint high commission is
unable to accomplish anything, the men
who are responsible for the attitude Of
the republican party on the question of
trade with Canada will have laid up for
themselves a large store of execration III
the years Of tariff reprisals by Canada.
that will certainly follow
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
The Thaw-Yarmouth Wedding.

If there is anything that will tempt q
sober, soft spoken American citizen to
wish for temporary control Of a plethoric
vocabulary of epithets and expletives it
is such an affair as that Yarmouth Thaw
wedding in Pittsburg last night.
Here is an American girl Of beauty,
wealth and good position who has madly
thrown herself away on a miserable scion
Of wornout and leached aristocracy, a
wretched parasite, dependent, unprin-
cipled, a low music hall singer, a greedy
dowry hunter, who for all his pauperism,
declined to marry the girl if she brought
him only 100000 a year.
There are ugly but quite believable re-
ports that this despicable matrimonial
fortune hunter who could not get his foot
into thousands Of American homes, ac-
tua]ly delayed the wedding for half an
hour while he haggled. over a few more
pieces of gold as the price of his consent
to marry the Thaw girl. The whole con-
temptible barter and sale is enough to
make every American blush.
The only bright side Of this revolt
ing affair is the reluctance of Miss Thaw's s
mother to consent to the accused al
lance, but that reluctance is blemished by
her final consent to add $4,000 year to
satisfy the greed of this misnamed noble
man who would not take the girl and $780,
900. t -: s
There is, however, this consolation:
Miss Thaw for. all her millions must be
an unworthy daughter OF America, II she
is willing to mate with such a, noble rem
nant as the Earl of Yarmouth. With his
$780, 600 a year the earl will probably take
her and himself out Of the United States
and stay out, and by that double rid
dance the country will be bettered.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
is getting ready for an industrial civil
Relieving the President Of Details.

81 Congressman Sibley suggests that the
president of the United States relieve him a
self of the task of appointing about Is 0005
persons to Office and spend more Of his
time considering national policies and di
recting the course Of the government
Mr.. Sibley's idea is that the president
should content himself with the appoint
ment of a few chief officials and give
them full authority and responsibility for
appointing all subordinates.
In this way the president would get rid
OF the opportunities of officeseekers and
their friends and all the calls from men,
would soon come to be understood, II the
president were a man Of will,
that it would be useless to see
him regarding appointments, and
presently the cabinet officers and
such other important officials as the
president might choose to give the ap->
pointing power would have to bear the
brunt Of the attack of the officeseekers.
We can see no reason why this could not
be done, and it is quite possible that Pres
ident Roosevelt will try it in his second
term.
The consideration of some means Of re-
lieving the president of so much petty
detail suggests the advisability OF giving
the vice president somethingato do be-
sides presiding over the senate and being:
ready to be president in case of the DEATH
removal or disability Of the man elected.
to that office. What is to keep a presi-.
dent from making vice president con-
fidential advisor and have him actively CO.
operate in the functions of the executive
office? It is true that there would be
no constitutional authority for such a
course, but neither Is there a constitu-
tional inhibition. And as for constitution
ality what can be found In the constitu-
tion about the cabinets The man who
may become president ought to be
thoroly informed as to the executive 8
performances and policies. OF course, the
realization Of this" idea Of making the vice
president do something would dependsupon
the personal relations of the president and
vice president. Very often they have
nothing in common, and, of course, cannot
pull together, the vice president being, in
no way dependent upon the president.
But they ought to be in harmony and able
! to move together.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
Board Of Control Takes Hold.


The regents Of the university evidently
know when they have been defeated. The
legislature has adjourned scarcely q week,
but already they have surrendered to the
board OF control. There was nothing else
for them to do. They permitted the uni
versity's legislative representation to go
into an unholy alliance against the board
Of control; the alliance came to grief, and
the regents must now play the part Of the
conquered.
It is too bad, but the situation is made
worse by the realization that the straight
forward, clean cut contest for the inde-
pendence Of the university, a contest that
could have been made an impregnable
principle, would probably have won. In
deed. this probability Is now admitted by
men who counseled the course that was
taken.
All friends of the university must now
wish that the new way of managing the
that institution. Whether it does or not.
it will now be very difficult; to- shake OFF
the board of control The public will be
slow to take into account anything but
figures in judging the board of controls
stewardship Of the university. If it
makes a good financial showing, as it
probably win, the next legislature is like
ly to be satisfied. It will not go, deep
enough into the matter to consider the
untoward effects of diminishing the power
and authority of the regents, or the in
ternal friction that will Inevitably result
with one board with it's hands on the purse
strings and the other board in control of
what is accomplished by the 1oosening of
the strings. ..-- !
Just where does financial control begin
and end? Who can tell? We fear that
there viii be many a squabble before the
two boards are able: to delimit the COM
mon frontier. 71' 70 ~ &..,:... III,
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
LITERARY NOTES

The scribners. announce that Nine
waddington's Letters of a Diplomats
Wife, to be published April 25, will con-
tain four times as much matter as is
contained in the serial publication of the
letters. a III
Madame Waddington, author of Letters
Of a Diplomats Wife" is the daughter of
the late President Charles King of Col
umbia college, New York. She married
the distinguished French diplomat. M.
tWaddington, late French ambassador to
England and representative Of France at
the coronation of Nicholas II.
The Scribners announce 1.-THE Persian
Problem" by H. J. Whigham, who dis
cusses the efforts Of Great Britain, Rus
sia and Germany to control the Persian
gulf, control which means much for each
of these powers.
The new English edition Of can Eng
lishwoman's Love Letters in the pre-
face will contain the real name of the
Englishwoman''-Ester Marion Foley
who wrote the letters. So say Doubleday
Page & Co. The announcement is not as
sensational as 1t would have been last
year.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28

AAAA -. ASpn1 poAAs' zines. The serious
air pervading English periodical literature
Eis referred to with pride. as imparting a
higher literary flavor than is found in
our magazines. AS a matter of fact, it
has been the influence Of our illustrated
magazine literature, which has stimulated
the English publishers to. bring out peri
odicals in imitationsof it,. American mag
azines became 50 popular in England that
the publishers there had to try and meet
the growing taste for bright, Informing,
illustrated periodicals.. London boasts of
a notable American magazine as an Eng
lish publication, Whereassit is an English
edition Of the American magazine. The
Mail says that the heavy review is al
most unknown In America" which is true
$50 far as the heavy review, Of the Eng
lish type IS concerned d. The publication
OF reviews of the typ pc sof the: London
Quarterly and the Edinburgh Review
would not pay very well in this country
we have reviews, however, which amply
discuss great questions Of the day in an
attractive, informing and brilliant way
Heavy weight review reading in solid,
broad pages is not attractive to the ma
jority of American readers, when they can
get the same information in lighter form
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
upon him. The man is greater than the

upon him. The man is greater than the
degree.
busy west! We thought we were to have
q live young mans administrati ion at
Carleton, but behold! Are these arrayed
in Mother Hubbard gowns and dusting
caps such helpers as a wide-awake young
man would call around him? Such display
betokens spirit alien to the west and "a
progressive age. "A manly man will refuse
to wear the habit redolent with sugges-
tions of an outworn past, and will prefer
to stand with his fellows in the modern
garb OF the living present. Powdered
wigs, caps and gowns are well enough for
a stagnant civilization, but for business
people in. an era Of strenuous enterprise
such things are unbecoming and ridicu-
.lOus.
One who loves the manly simplicity OF
Congregationalism hopes that the new
administration may not be handicapped
by such an exhibition of folly.
- e. D., Ward.
Minneapolis, April 25.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
THE cow,THE PIG AND THE CITIZEN
Grand Forks Herald

-I|- OIdHu FOrKS Herald.
That community Is the most orderly.
the best governed and regulated, and the
most progressive in which the population
is the most stable and in which the great :
est percentage of the people are the own
ers of their homes. These conditions viii
prevail to the greatest extent where BY
reason Of the regularity OF the industries
1T is necessary to employ the smallest
proportion Of transient labor. land in agri-
cultural communities. these conditions are
to be found where farming is the most
widely diversified. Consequently, the COW.
the pig and the garden are promoters Of
good citizenship.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28

President Roosevelt gave the people Of
Omaha some good advice yesterday when
he recommended that they study the con
cluding part of the report Of the anthracite
coal commission. It is too much to ex-
pects that that advice will stave off a
deliberately planned test of the strength
of labor unions in Omaha, but it was
worth while for the president to make "a
peaceful suggestion. to q community that
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
A. FISHING STORY

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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
Gen. Miles Report.

Now that the anti-imperialists and
General Miles friends have got General
Miles report on the Philippines we hope
they are happy. The bombshen does not
seem to have altered the aspect of Phil
ippines affairs in the least. It is fair
suspicion that Secretary Root was de-
lighted to- comply with the demand that
the report be made public. r: ..7#ss..
It Is a very weak document. There is
nothing in. it, with possibly one exception,
that the public has not heard of before.
Most Of the alleged atrocities cited by
General Miles have been made the sub
jects of investigations or fcourt-martial
1t is true that American, soldiers $and Of
hcers in, the Philippines have done
some things that make the coun-
try ashamed and cause officers to
blush for the honor Of the
army. But General Miles has done little
but to call public attention to them again.
FIe suggests no course of action. It is
true that Colonel Glenn was acquitted of
the murder Of seven scouts. 1t is equally
true that they were murdered. But the
country has long known that with a feel
ing of shame, and General Miles does not
even suggest how the Offenders are to be
apprehended and punished. Many Of the
offenses he refers to were committed by
officers and soldiers now out of the SER
vice. Besides, these crimes, inexcusable
as they were. grew out of condition of
war which always breeds crimes. 4 r.:
The war is over. There are no atroci-
ties now. OF what use for General Miles
to tell us over again what we know, are
ashamed Of and are trying to forget? If
the general has sought to harrass and
annoy the war department in revenge for
personal Sights. he has miserably failed.
Tom Johnson says his work Is cut out
for him in Ohio and that he will have
nothing to do with the presidency: Tom
is liable to disappointment. The kind of
work he is doing in Ohio is just the kind
that will make the radical democrats
banker after him as presidential candi-
date. s..-.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28

Lie SClliuly dlu tile
Atlantic Monthly "on
al footing with our
own blished insti-
tutions, such as Mac
millan's, tha Corn
hill. Blackwood's and
Chambers Journal"
calling attention to
the illustrative fea-
ture of our maga-
zines, almost entire
.ly absent from the
n1Incf or1fcL
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28

The winter wheat crop in the United
States now promises to be 100000, 900
bushels greater than last year. That is
one Of the reasons why the west is keep
ing its money at home,
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28

THE AACH1EhEY OEtsSAMAnAs. a Sem1-dlS-
toric Romance sof Russian Life by Henry
Iiowizi, Author Of sssEhe Weird Orient" Etc.
Philadelphia: Henty T Coates & Co. Price,
$1.50.
The author ddevotesl' this book chiefly to
the doingsS Of the Russian secret police
and the persecution Of the Jews, Incident
ally depicting the "details Of the fiendish
code which places the Jew under the ban
and, justifes the killing of a Jew as a
public benefit. The author writes from a
Polish standpoint and IS full of bitter pre-
judices, leading him, no doubt, to exag-
gerate some exceptional eases. Of Jew
batting into general application. He re-
CARDS Russia of to-day as far behind the
Russia Of Peter the Great, as to the spirit
of *assimilating reforms; indeed, far be-
hind China in humane administration, as
all gdissenters from the holy orthodox
Greek church are accounted dlsAoyaA aliens
and heretics. The reader. Of this story
will, no doubt, be convinced that If half
the statements about the Russian system
are true the czar had very good reason
for issuing his recent reform ukase. -
81 .TheSlove story of Isaiah Rubowitch en-
bodied In this book and the triumph of
his and Athalia's love, is finely and path
etically told. >, = %.<
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
ouTcLAssED BY MANkATo
Sioux City Jnurnal

Des Moines must take a back seat It's
glory has departed. Mankato, Mimi. a
town which has no state capitol and
which doesn't average murder a, year,
has heavier mayor than the Iowa capital.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
Books and Authors
ma. euyLL,s TASTE AND OURS

"a &C sga3ss 9a5.T-----5 ISss s9s8ssssEs6
Speaking ssof the difference Between
English and American magazines, the
London.s Mail places Harpet's, scribner's,
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
VAN, SAINTS DUsRsEMENr.

La Moure IN. d. Chronfcle.
Well, anyhow, the governor Of Mime
sofa received nice Endorsement IN the
merger decision. But then, he stood pat.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28

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