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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16
THE MAGAZINES

Independents Candidates. The lnde-
pendent for Dec. 10 has the presidential
broth well boiled down. For the repub-
lican party it picks Roosevelt. saying
this among other things: Mr.. Roosevelt,
of course, will be the candidate of the
republican party; not because last years
state convention called for his nominal
ton, but because the rank and file of
the party turnout the country now want to
vote for him in 1904, and will cause his
nomination by reclamation next summer.
1t is an open secret that he has had enc
mics in his party since he directed Attor-
ney General Knox to sue the Northern
Securities railroad trust For the demo-
Gratis the candidate will be either Parker
or German. An article that will be read
widely in the same number is --latest
Methods of Dealing with Consumption"
Tips for New Novel Wrters.-Those
who aspire to become novel writer's will
find few tips in The Writer for No
vember. published in Boston. They will
also find an editorial on metaphor mixing,
which may suggest to them valuable
line of study before beginning their
'.firSt'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16
1.-The Outlaw City.

Chicago has, perhaps, 100000 law
abiding citizens, and at the most not
more than $4,000 really vicious or
criminal persons within it's limits,
leaving out of consideration some hum
dreds Of thousands Of Workmen who
have become possessed Of the mis-
chievous idea that loyalty to the union
justifies disloyalty to the state.
Chicago spends millions of dollars
yearly to maintain a municipal gov
ernment, the first and paramount pur-
pose Of which is to enforce the laws,
maintain order and protect life and
property. There is no justification of
government which fails in this great
and chief function of government. Yet
the Chicago government has failed in
this respect to such an extent that 1t
has become known as "the outlaw
city," and persons avoid it when pos
sible as they would avoid {. village
stricken with smallpox. 1t is literally
| true that thousands Of persons stay
away from Chicago at all times be-
cause they feel that they are not safe
from robbery and violence while in
| that city of rampant crime.
Things have come to such a pass
that the citizens, in addition to bear
ing the great burden Of municipal
| government, which ought to protect
them and the stranger within the
gates, have to form a volunteer organ
ization and take up a subscription tc
endeavor to get that which they dc
not get from the municipal govern
ment, tho they pay for it.
This is pretty tough; but. after all
who is to blame for their, plight but
the citizens of Chicago? Their gov.
eminent, their police force, is VIVA
they make it or permit it to be. Ha6
they managed their city as they man.
age their business-and it is within
their power to do so--Chicago would
not be known to-day as the outlaw
city and a place where neither life
nor property are safe.
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a certain point as indicated on his maps.
But the lake--the wandering lake''-had
within five years shifted something like
twenty miles and got right in the way.
Being a lake of large extent it was a seri-
GUS obstacle to the caravans divisions.
The Dash of Lhasa.
After all the stories that have been told
about Tibet and the sacred city of Lhasa
and the hatred of the Tibetans for Euro
peans, the effort of the great Swedish ex-
plorer to break into the sacred city fur
nishes a chapter of unusual interest.
Complete outfits for pilgrims We're
bought in a way that it was thought
would not arouse suspicion, and the ser
vices of a lama were secured. Then.
when the caravan had approached the
borders Of Tibet. it was left behind and
! the trio set forward on a truly perilouS
undertaking. DR.. I1edin writes Of the
plan thus:
I fascinated by the idea of getting my
self involved in difficulties which would tax all
the powers of manhood in me to get out again
with whole skin; in fact. wanted to have a
good tussle with fate. ! wanted to pit my
alertnesS, my courage my resourcefulness and my
resolution against the strong hand of destiny. In
word it was adventures | sought for, more
than l sought to go TO Ihasa.
DR.. Hedin did not believe in the stories
! of fortunes suffered by young man who
| protested to have made a like attempt
! before. Still he did not know what lay
| before him. That he did not succeed is
| not because he did not try. One is
amused at the good nature with which
the governor Of a certain province tells
DR.. HELM that, if he tries to push on
off will come his head, emphasizing
| the point with a motion of his hant
across his throat like that used in conf,
operas. DR.. Hedin was not tortured, blu
was sent out of the country under escort
| n
Lord Curzon of Kedleston, viceroy of In
Ola, full Of photographs taken by DR.
Idedin and with many maps prepared b.
| himself are chiefly devoted to the stor
| of DR.. Hedin's travels. There is mucl
| information Of interest to the scentifi
caly inclined, but for the thoro scientis
other volumes are to be forthcoming
These certainly have seldom if ever beel
eXcelled in their interest as books of eX
plora ton.
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Helpless Among Friends.

An article in yesterdays j o urna
shows how easy it is for a man to
suffer and die surrounded by those
who would gladly help him if they
understood. A young man of good
appearance, well-dressed and with
money in his pocket, was near to
freezing to death in this great city
with its thousands of Warm-hearted
people because his circumstances
were not understood.
He was lost in a residence district
with the mercury at 20 degrees be-
low zero. He applied at a number
of private residences for permission
to enter and get warm, but he was,
quite naturally, viewed with suspicion
and shut out. When he finally found
a household that would admit him, he
was nearly overcome with cold. Yet,
there wasn't a single one of all the
houses he applied at to which he
would not have been cordially well
coined had the inmates believed his
StorN ~a.s. -
The man who is in danger of freez-
ing to death is not the only man that
is misunderstood or received with
chilly suspicion in this world. Every
day earnest strugglers in the battle
of life slip and fall, never to rise for
want Of the kind word, the slight as
sistance that would have been theirs
had their comrades understood and
believed.
At the approach of the Christmas
season it is good to spend a little
time trying to understand the man
with a hard luck story. Maybe he
is telling the truth. Maybe you car
help him. -
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High Schools and University.

At the recent meeting of the South
eastern Minnesota Educational asso-
citation at Red Wing, Mr.. w. F. Kunze,
superintendent of the Red Wing
schools, read a paper on "Modifca-
tons of the High School Course" IT
was q iudicious paper, free from par.
tizan zeal or animus against any. of
the states educational institutions. It
recognized that there is a place in the
states educational system for the
common schools. the high schools, the
normal schools and the university, and
advocated harmony between them.
MI. Kunze even gave his approval
to that articulation of the university
and the public schools which makes
the university the cap of the public
educational system of the state, SO
sional degree, the child Of the state
may seek and find his education thru
the state.
He opposed, however, articulation
in such a way that the high school
leaves off where the university begins.
He would rather have the university
begin where the high school leaves off.
| He thinks that if high school courses
| did not have to be shaped with regard
| to university entrance requirements,
| it would be easier to modify them SO
as to make them of more value to
those students whose formal educa-
| ton ends with the high school. Since
many high schools cannot provide two
general courses-one designed to ''tin-
! ish'' the student, the other to prepare
him for the university, Mr.. Kunze ar
CUES that it is the duty Of such schools
to provide a finishing course, and ask
! the university to adapt it's entrance
requirements to correspond. Indeed
as very few boys and girls can tell
/ when they enter the high school
whether they will go to college, Mr.
i Kunze thinks that the whole purpose
i of the high school should be to pre-.
i pare its students on the assumption
i that they are to have no more school
] ing.
4 Mr.. Kunze, we have no doubt, re.
fleets the prevailing opinion of most
/ superintendent in this state. They are
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16
Wants a Speedway.
+ba Edifor of The Journal

Seeing the liberal offer of Mr. Lowry
towards the establishment of a public
park, 1 would like to make a suggestion.
which appears to me practicable and feas-
ible.
First city can not have too many pub
lie parks. They are an important factor
of modern civilization and municipal de-
velopment. The tract of land in question,
at present is a waste, unsightly, unSal-
able with no immediate prospects of i'm
proyement. It's location is especially
adapted for park purposes.
1t appears to me in connection with this
park there might be a speedway estab-
lished, that would not conflict with its
beauty, it's general outlines, or mar the
approach or exit to the same. We have
a great many excellent horses, as good as
any city in the entire country. We have
a great many men who are devotees of the
driving horse, men who have invested
thousands of dollars in horses, and We
never have had suitable speedway. in
fact none whatever. where these gentle
men could develop or speed their charges.
horse is not like an automobile. In or
der to keep a blooded horse. who is bred
in speed lines, in shape and improve him,
it is absolutely necessary to start him up
occasionally Under present conditions
one can not speed without violating the
city law which prohibits speeding In
any part of the city. 1t constantly forces
men to take advantage of our laws. Think
of it. when man wants to start along
little bit. he has to go to st. Paul. a
city of this size. should of itself, in order
! to foster an industry that brings money
and taxes within it's Jurisdiction, estab-
lish a suitable place where the thousands
of dollars worth of good horses may be
improved and shown.
If sufficient land were purchased 10
make a park one-half or hree-fourths of
a mile long, why could not a speedway be
established on the north side, running its
entire length? On this side it would not
interfere with the driving along the Ken
wood boulevard. or mutiate the harmony,
scenery. or dignity of park system.
Lake of the Isles Driving club. what can
YOU do along these lines? Perhaps there
are horsemen who would contribute to the
city or park board funds to help construct
such a course. If it is possible to secure
this land it will be serious mistake. il
provisions are not made for this long felt
want, and which a growing industry just
ly demands. L. T. Lincoln.
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The Difference.

The second and last installment of
arguments before the supreme court
in the Northern Securities case fully
brought out the main difference be-
tween the governments position and
that of the company.
The government looks to the rela-
ton of the effect Of the merger to the
spirit of the antitrust law. The COM
pany dwells on the superficial aspect
Of the corporation known as the
Northern Securities company as it re-
lates to the letter of the law. The
government is attempting to carry out
the will Of congress and refuses to
be led astray by arguments that have
more logic than common sense. The
company is attempting to foil the will
Of congress, and rests it's case upon
the theory that since the antitrust law
does not forbid such a company as
the Northern Securities to purchase
the stock Of two railways, the mer-
ger is perfectly legal and proper, the
effect of the common ownership being
neglected as Of no account.
IL Is Tie oIu CollleSI soI llleidt Id"
against justice, Of formal compliance
with the law and genuine obedience
thereto. Like the St. Louis boodlers,
the Northern Securities hopes to es-
cape on technicality. It's uphold
ers say, with smugly righteous counte-
nance, I'VE have not violated any law,
we have not consolidated railways,
we have not restrained interstate
| commerce; we have merely bought a
majority Of the stock in two railways.
Who will say that a company organ
lied to buy stock cannot buy it?'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16
Roosevelt Inpregnable.

Assaults upon the president as
candidate for the republican nominal
ton to the presidency are futile.
Whether made in the open by such
papers as the Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune or in the dark and under
cover by such Wall street agencies as
our Washington correspondent de-
scribed on Tuesday, they all fall fiat.
They no more stop the presidents adj
vance to a second term than the foam
at the prov of an ocean liner retards
the majestic progress Of the great
ship.
Such elements of opposition as have
been discovered merely strengthen the
confidence of the masses in the pres
ident. The conviction daily grows that
it would be a. national catastrophe
not to have Roosevelt for another
term. In his second term in the Of
flee, with freedom from the hobbies
of political expediency. which must be
considered by the strongest and purest
president who desires to succeed him.
self; with no further honors to aspire
to; with no further need for conciI-
iating the selfish politicians, Theodore
Roosevelt will be in position to ac-
complish great things for his country.
Some of the strongest tributes are
paid to the president by men who have
not always been on his side of public
questions. For example, there is Sem
ator 0. H. Plat Of Connecticut who,
;,,fo
York Tribune on Dec. 7, said regard
! ing the prospects of the president be-
ing nominated:
I have no doubt of it. I regard that
as settled, and settled it ought to be.
am for him first last and all the time, and
| / believe the great ma jority of the repub-
lcans in the country feel that way. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is a great man. He does
what he thinks is right without fear or
! favor, and the people want just such a
man for president. The murmurs which
1--WE hear come from politicians, capitalists
spectators and labor agitators who can
not control him. | do not believe there
will be any other candidate for the nom
/ lnatlon, and II 1T were possible for. Inv
other candidate to wrest the nomination
from President Roosevelt, I believe hi
would be defeated at the polls .
| Inc ldsL sentence SHOWS the pOllt.
zeal necessity Of nominating the pres
ident, and also reveals his politica
strength. He has secured such a hole
on the people that he is even stronge,
than his party. He is SO beloved O
the people that millions of earnest re
publicans would Indignantly spur
their party if it's convention SHOULD
fail to nominate Theodore Roosevelt
: for second term in the White House
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16
ON HIS BIRTHDAY.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of
youth,
Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth
year.
My hasting days fly on with full career
But my late spring no bud or blossom
shoWeth.
Perhaps my semblance might deceive the
truth,
That to manhood am arrived so near
And inward ripeness doth much less ap-
pear
That some more timely happy spirits in
dueth.
Yet be it less or more. or soon or slow,
1t shall be still in strictest measure even
To that same lot however mean or high,
Toward which time leads me and the will
of heaven,
All is. if / have grace t use it SO.
AS ever in my great taskmaker's eye.
Milton
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16
COLONEL McCLURE'S NEW JOB

Colonel Alexander Mcclure, who has
been appointed prothonotary of the SUI
preme court for the eastern district Of
Pennsylvania, will receive between S12, 900
and sis, 900 year. The colonel, who will
be Is years old next January. lost heavily
in the decline of Lake Superior stock some
manths ago, suffering to the extent OF
about s125,O00,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16

The capitol at Washington being dry
the saloons in the immediate
vicinity do a thriving business The sa :
loon. nearest to the capitol on Pennsyl-
vania avenue now displays sign which
reads, from the capitol side: First
Chance" On the side which one sees on
approaching the capitol is the legend:
Last Chance"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16

Congressman John Lind took a strong
cred In the house of representatives on
Monday. AS he says, the time for fooling
with general theories about free trade or
protection in this country is past. The
country is committed to the principle of
protection, and the revision Of duties must
be made with a view to promoting the
general good and removing acknowledged
excuses of protective duties. The trouble
with the standpatters is that they do not
desire any revision of any sort. Stand
patism is Bourbonism of the worst kind.
The danger to the country from their con-
tinued control will be that in the reaction
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WEDNESDAY, EVENING,

ton. The worst immediate result of
standpatism is that the opportune time for
realizing reciprocity with Canada is rapid
ly passing away.
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WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK

People who have things TO say to the pub
lie that ought to be said, are invited to
use this column. But the space is linn
tied, and all communications must be
"boIled down" as much as possible.
Three hundreds words is a safe limit.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16

Away off in the eastern end of the TAX
a-,nakan desert were found these ruins.
They consisted Of clay towers and the
fallen timbers of wooden. or wooden and
clay brick, structures. The wood that was
left was so heavily charged with sand
that on being placed in water it sank"
Among the ruins was portion of what
was once a Buddhist temple. Here were
found specimens of elaborate carving in
wood. "One ornamental device consisted
of a fish surrounded by leaves and scroll
work-a strange thing to find in a desert
such as that
The thing wanted. tho, was an inscrip-
ton, and one was found. 1t was a wood
en- tablet containing characters that We're
neither Arabic, Chinese. Monaghan nor
Tibetan. Encouraged by this find the
hunt went on, and presently in what APP
peared to be an ancient rubbish heap were
found over 200 strips of paper and forty
two tablets Of wood containing writing.
These fragmentary documents, wrote
DIR. Hedin at the time. would now put
the crown upon my toilsome investga-
tions, the object of my study and atten-
ton for SO many years They would tell
him when the lake that had plainly ex-
listed in what was now a desert as waste
as the moon had watered the land from
which the people Of Lop-nor gained sub
sistence.
Preliminary TRANSACTIONS of the strips
and tablets tell that Lou-lan was inhab
tied in the third century A. D. 1t was
made habtable by irrigation on an ex
tensive scale. But even irrigation had be-
come impossible because the rivers that
fed the reservoirs had changed their
courses. The lakes had dried up, doubt
less somewhat suddenly, and the people
had fled.
a Wandering Lake.
1t seems however, that not only rivers
but lakes in that strange land fit about in
| a marvellous manner. DR.. Hedin devotes
a long chapter to "a Wandering Lake.
And the wanderings of that lake almost
brought disaster upon his whole enter
prise. He had been over the ground on
his previous trip and had carefully mapped
| the country. In making this second
journey he found it necessary to divide his
caravan The divisions were to meet ut
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16
Only 2-CENT Daily in Minneapolis
The Respectable" Gamblers.

Secretary Cortelyou says in his re-
port that he has not, as yet, put in
place all the necessary machinery of
his department of commerce, and he
needs some additional appropriations
to carry out the intention of the law.
The law does not provide for the use
of compulsion by the department to
get at the disclosures of the inner
machinery of the trusts, and the
bureau IS very little better off than the
interstate commerce commission has
been in the matter Of compelling
obedience to its determinations.
The shipbuilding trust is an example
of the use of fraud and rascality by
men who claim to be respectable bust
ness men. The former president Of
the United States Steel corporation,
having bought the Bethlehem steel
works for $7,O0O,0O0, got the ship
building trust to take it for 3O,OOO,-
00O-$1O,O 900 in bonds, SO, 100000
in preferred stock and 100000 in
common. stock. The enterprising
promoter then prevailed upon the
shipbuilding trust to keep out Of the
market the other securities it had,
while he unloaded the stock he had
obtained from the transfer of the steel
works to the trust. This unloading,
he proposed to do at the rate of $65
for preferred and $25 for common.
But Schwab was a little late and had
not realized the extent to which the
public had their eyes opened, by the
increasing disclosures of the true in
wardness OF the process of gambling
in heavily watered securities issued
gambling demand.
This kind of business is bold. I'M
nitigated swindling, which ought tc
send the swindlers to the penitentiary
The case of the shipbulding trust is
one of the worst on the record Of the
big promotions of industrial trusts
during the last five years. A few mil
lions Of real property and improve
ments are made the basis for the ISSUE
of from five to ten times it's value ii
stocks which for a. time the publ,
takes as the gam bier buys chips or bet
on color in rouge ct noir.
This past year is memora BILE for tn.
breaking up, temporarily at least, 0
this delirious rage for speculation il
f1imsy stock certificates. If tn
bureau of corporations were strong
enough to destroy this business, so in
furious to the public morality, /
would be among the most valuable
reformatory features of our govern
ment AS yet it is an office for tn
collection of corporation data.
The government broke up tn
louisiana lottery on the ground tina
it was antagonistic to public morality
The exploitation of gambling materia
by certain trusts and their swindlin
promotions of worthless stocks ar
equally antagonistic to the mainten
ance of public morality. No NOR
mercy should be shown to the trust
organized and conducted on a swind
ling basis than is shown by the govern
ment to the lottery business.
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Attorney General Knox still persists in
holding that there is more or less water
in Northern Securities stock. What a
skeptical person he is! Long ago MI. Hill
explained that there was no water in the
stock
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-16

A Chicago labor union that happened
to be Incorporated was fined $1,000 for the
performance of an illegal act. More than
ever will the unions oppose incorporation.
And yet they would hate to say that they
wish to avoid the consequences of illegal
acts.