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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
Frank Eddy Cuts Loose.

Former Congressman Eddy has discov-
cred that being out Of office has its good
points. "A year or two ago Mr.. Eddy, like
most congressman, concealed his opinion
as much as possible. When venturing on
any new ground, he took care to have a
protected line of retreat back to political
orthodoxy. But now he finds that he can
talk fright out in meeting and more
over, he does. He has declared himself
in favor Of free trade with Canada and
tariff revision all along the line
Mr.. Eddy reached the climax of audaci-
ty and independence in his Fourth of
July Grafton at Dodge Center. Speaking
of the trusts he said: THE people know,
or at least they ought to know, that the
only way in the world monopoly can be
broken up is by competitions; that domes-
tic competition cannot exist In domestic
markets because the trust controls them.
and it is as absurd to think of a trust
competing with itself in its own market
as for man to run a foot race with him
self in his own yard. They also know that
In many cases outside competition is cut
off by a tariff. Not ten men In ten thou
sand believe in tariff on trust controlled
commodities. The people know, or at
least they ought to know, and I believe
they do know, that certain industries en-
joying the benefit of tariff sell their
wares In the market they are protected
against cheaper than they do in the home
market; they know and know full well
that where such conditions exist, the diff
ference between the foreign price and the
higher homo one is not protection to
American workingmen or to American
producers, but Is simply tribute to the
men who own and control the industry
After getting a good start on the trusts
and turning the f1ashlight on all the poIiti-
cal and social naladies Of the day, Mr..
Eddy declared that he had mo time for
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
Senator Clapp's Bad Break,

Mr.. Eddy is not the only Minnesota
statesman who has lately said about what
he pleased. Senator Moses E. Clapp it
seems, addressed a G. A. R. encampment
at Owatonna, and if some of his auditors
had not known that he was a republican
they would have thought that some popu-
list had taken advantage of the &C.
casion to promulgate his pessimsm and his
malice. According to the Owatonna
Chronicles account and comment the
senator declared that he had no use for
the nations small standing army, and
that no reliance could be placed upon
either standing army or a standing
navy, "but that the nations whole reli-
ance should rest upon the citizen volun-
teer." Then the Chronicle says:
1.-The Chronicle really never expected to
hear from the lips of Minnesota United
States senator such a mischievous mess
of states rights doctrine, distortions of
history and-well, instead of demagogery
let us say Clapp-trap-as Minnesota's
junior senator gave utterance to in de-
Tending these extreme statements. The
United States regular army soldier was
compared to the hired mercenaries of by
gone despotisms whose chief remunera ton
was loot and whose only occupation was
slaughter. A standing army of any kind
or size was to be regarded as a. possible
menace to the liberties Of the people, ETC.,
ad libitum.
The volunteer soldier has always done
the bulk of fighting in our wars, except
the Indian and Spanish wars, and he will
have to do the bulk Of it in the future,
simply because this nation does not be-
lieve that a large standing army is either
| desirable or necessary. But that is no
reason why the army we do deem it neces-
sary to maintain should be slandered be-
Titled and insulted The American regu-
| lar soldier is, after all, only volunteer
has fully justified himself. The fact is
! that when war has come we have always
| felt the need of more trained soldiers.
| The officers and soldiers Of the regular
army have behind them a. glorious history
and for the last five years they have been
doing quietly and unassumingly some of
| the toughest and hardest work that ever
fell to American soldiers. There is alb
solutely no excuse for Senator Clapp or
any one else to defame the regular army
| among the volunteers Of the great war
whom he was addressing he will find
little sympathy with his unjustifed and
unqualified denunciation of little army
that has many a time stood the nation in
good stead.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

The meeting Of the National Forestry
association in the twin cities next month
will doubtless do much to awaken popular
interest IN forest preservation. It takes
an occasional reference to figures to show
to what an extent the great timber sup
plies Of the country have been drawn
on. Mr.. r. L. Mccormick, president OF
the Mississippi Valley Lumbermen's asso-
citation, recently stated that the white
pine forests of Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota, originally had a stand Of about
$50, ooo, 100000 feet; Michigan having 15o,-
900, 900, 900; Wisconsin, 1870 ooo, 900, 900; Min
nesota, 70, 100000 Exclusive Of Sec
ond growth, there remains to-day in the
three states not more thar 30, 900, ooo, 900
feet Of merchandise timber. The lun,-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
Vitalizing the Law.

ITnder the new turn in civil service Ia"
administration, which has the firm oach-
ing OF President Roosevelt. every govern
r,ent employe doing clerical work Is
placed under the classified service anu
removed from political influence. Inc
rural mail service is now included. Onoer
the new deal the fourth-class postmasters'
heretofore unclassified and within easy
reach of political influence, will be IN the
classified service, and they number over
1000 persons. When the civil service
law went into operation, 1t was the 1nten-
ton to kill off pernicious political activity
in the departments, but as Is the case Win
many other good intentions, persons VINO
had some claim on their congressman,
but who had no claim on the government
to be placed on the classified service,
either by law or personal qualifications
for positions. have been slipped into places
which they had no right to hold The
presidential postoffices. to which the
president appoints postmasters and are
not in the classified service, have been
the channel thru which many persons
W.
vice.
The civil service commission under the
new arrangement is given the determining
power as to who shall be identified with
the clerical force of the government,
whatever the heads. of the departments
may say about it. Logically there Is no
valid reason why the four or five thousand
postmasters appointed by the president
should not be placed under the civil SER
vice rules. All the classes Of postmasters
should be in the classified service. If the
new code is to include every government
employee doing clerical work, it will
sweep under the rules every one except
people in the consular service, who are
subject to special examination in the de-
partment Of state. This will be done, If
the politicians are not too fiercely insis-
tent upon having what they deem their
''traditional'' right to provide places for
their constituents.
The Indictment against Mr.. Machen of
the free delivery service covers a charge
of accepting brides and participating in
the profits of a ring in the New York post
office, which sold appointments and pro-
motions during a. period of seven years.
This incident shows the necessity of the
rigid maintenance Of the integrity of the
public service by literal and conscien-
tious application of the terms and require
ments of the civil service law. It is true
whatever spoilsmen may say Of their RICH:
to buy and sell places, that the public
service Is public, and not private business
for the profit of politicians The agita.
ton for civil service reform came moi
from the politicians, but from the bust.
ness public, who wanted the public bust
(, ness conducted economically and consci.
entiously in the interest of the public wal.
fare
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

While certain noises seem to be neces-
sary and proper there are others that
will bear cutting out. Take the strong
laboring man with three lungs who prac-
tees worn out airs on the cornet. After
a hard days work you might think he
would long for rest. Not so. He bitches
several lungs to the instrument and strong
men cry aloud in their despair. Tbs
Waconia paper recently gave striking
dictionary Of musical terms. Slightly
changed to suit this case they would APP
pear as follows:
plush the air.
pp-Push twice.
Forte
f-Eighty.
mp-Mighty poor.
mf-Mighty fine.
sf-Stamp feet keep time).
DECO get fresh start
The Uproar club may be good thing
from 6 a. m. to p. M, but before or
after these hours, the thoughtless baby
and the cornet annoyance are something
too much.'' ..-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

The MINNEAPOLIS Journal from January LIST to June lst
1908 carried 70 per cent more advertising than the
daily Tribune.
The Minneapolis Journal from January lst to June lst
1908 carried ID per want advertising than
the daily Tribune
The Minneapolis Journal from January LIST to June LIST,
1903 carried per cent more advertising than the
Sunday and Daily Tribune combined.
The MINNEAPOLIS Journal out of 6146 residences
vassed, had 1892 subscribers Evening Tribune
1275-the Morning Tribune 776.
The MINNEAPOLIS Journal in 80 apartment and flat build
ings canvassed, had 1858 subscribers Evening
Tribune 1885, and the Morning Tribune 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
COMEDY AT THE LYcEuM

There remain but three performances
of the Ferris Stock company's clever 5nro-
duction of John Stapleton's great lauehinp
success, "A Bachelors Honeymoon. tos
night tomorrow afternoon and to-mor
row evening. For the coming week
opening Sunday evening, the company will
be seen in a double bill, J. S. Lawrence
Of T h Journa has written ., pretty
little one-act comedy, and it will be used
as curtain raiser. The play has no
name as yet The audience will be asked
to name 1t. To the one who selects the
most appropriate title will be given a
box for the following week The other
part OF the bill will be Nat G. Goodwin's
comedy success, Turned I'm, go
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
PEER cLockMAkER
Tid-Rifs,

Lord Grinthorpe, VINO was 81 the other
Gay, mas the double distinction of being
King Edward oldest counsel and orr on11,
peer clockmaker. He spends most Of his
time at Batch Wood, near st. Adams. in
q workshop fitted up with mechanical an
planes known in the clockmaker's trade
He is designer Of Big Ben at west
minister, and personally superintendent the
great clocks construction, giving a guar
antee that 1t should never vary more than
sixty seconds in week.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
KANSAS MANS DANDELloN AN.
MOVER
Des Moines Register and Leader.

Des Moines Register and Leader
We might have known it would be
Kansas man who would finally devise
successful method for getting rid of dan
delions. The editor of the Jewell, Kan,
Republic says: Marry a woman who
grabs her sunbonnet and a butcherknife
every time she sees bloom on the lawn
that's the way we got rid of oure"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
PARTY MISTAKES VS.. DEEDS
Governor Cummins in His Speech of A

Governor Cummins in His Speech of Ac
ceptance.
l. account it very great privilege to be
commissioned by you to stand as one of
the humble agencies in the work of the re-
publican party. It. is the only political or
ganization that in fifty years has done
any thing for humanity or for good gov
eminent Every other political organiza-
ton has either shriveled up under the
deadly paralysis of conservatism, or blown
up under the deadly imitation of imprac-
tlcable and iEdefensible theories AS T
said last year, this party of ours in the
last half century has done more for good
laws, has enforced more wise policies than
any other political organization that ever
influenced human affairs. 1t has made
mistakes. as was SO beautifully stated by
your distinguished chairman, but let me
state to you, as he said, and repeat it
only In naraphrase, that the mistakes of
the republican party can be written on the
same page with the worthy deeds of any
other political organization and there will
be still room for other Inscriptions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
CHOOSING ONES COMPANY

Fargo Call
Several respectable governments, includ-
ing our own, have not recognized the new
Servian dynasty or manifested any in
clination to do so. Even a government
must be careful Of the company it keeps.
OF course, there are individuals who send
flowers to murderer, but government
ought not to adopt similar policy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

herman has cut down 265, 900. 100000 feet
and hres have destroyed the rest. Much
OF the land this timber grew on is more
suitable to lumber production than to
anything else. How to put the forests
back on it is the question the next gen
GRAFTON will have to solve. It is likely
that 1t can be done only thru state aid
on a large scale.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
OR THE PAVEMENT ON HENNEPlN

Sioux Falls Press.
If those unpleasant people who are en-
deavoring to accomplish the end Of the
world on dates of their own selection
would come together in an agreement for
final mundane dissolution on the day Of
the completion Of the Sioux Falls Carnegie
library, every body would feel that there
was a long lease of life ahead.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

Just why the council committee on
taxes and ways and means should vote in
favor of giving to taxpayers a rebate of
an increased assessment to make the as
sessment correspond with the actual cost
Of improvements is something that is be-
yond our reasoning
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
WHERE THE DIPLOMATS SHINE
Grand Forks Herald,

Messages of congratulation to King Pc
ter of Servia, should be carefully worded
If they contain anything in the nature Of
regret at the incidents of last week, this
would be a reflection on the means by
which the king was elevated to the throne,
and if those events are referred to in a
congratulatory tone it would seem like an
encouragement of methods which may
lead to Peter being succeeded by some one
else.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

Expenditures for diamonds ought to be
a pretty good measure of country's
prosperity. BY such a measure the ifs
cal year just closed was the best the
United States ever had, the total impor-
tation of diamonds and precious stones
amounting to 100000, 900.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

Myself, when young, had found a JOY to
take
Wide strolls beside the waters Of the lake
found rapture on the open road;
found repose whereinto none could
break.
But now a terror waits for me and you;
And wheresoeer we flee it doth pursue.
+ 1t passes with a stench of burning gas
And hoo-choo-c hoo,"' 1t says, and "choo-
choo-choo.
Behind an oak ensconced, I forward leaned
And looked far UP the road that inter-
vened
'Twixt me and something cleaving the
thin airs.
It passed me with a hiss, and twas the
Fiend.
The wild Mad Mullah, Vengeance breath
ing Thing,
That you and me into the lake can fling
A Demon, which, but let It pass this
way,
An hundred sorrows in its wake twill
bring.
Two things are free from this f1end's
power to slay;
Creation else is periled, night and day:
The lark that scars thru heaven, and
the crab
That meath the wave pursues its watery
way. zss,a- 49, Y
willard Dillman in Minnetoka. Record. /.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

The Salvation Army is going to invade
Kentucky. Perhaps Commander Booth
does not realize that these same homicidal
mountaineers are very religious. But
with conduct
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

1t takes long time and some pretty
severe lessons for some persons to ac-
quire confidence in banks and lose con-
fdence in some hiding place as a reposi-
tory OF money. Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Greenwood, who live on farm near Grand
Forks, have just paid s2,s3o to lose con-
ddence In mattress as a bank.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
"LAFE" is SEVERE.
nas Ma,nas "a a.+a1

Des MoInes Capital.
The fellow who wrote to family IN
Marshalltown and told them that their
son was dead-just for a joke-would
probably have to pad thimble in order
to make 1t fit his head for g. hat.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
THE --LATEST DoGBERRY
New York Press.

The decision of Brooklyn magistrate
that for one woman to call another an
old maid is a serious case Of disorderly
conduct increases the swelling ranks of
our Dogberrys by one shining member.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
JACK HADN'T Caught ON"
Chicago News.

Chicago News.
Edyth-Is it true that you are engaged
to Jack?
Mayme-Yes, but you are not to men
ton 1t. I'm not quite sure that Jack
knows 1t as yet.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
RECKLESS PEOPLE
Kansas CITY Journal

Kansas City Journal
A roll of bills stopped a bullet which
struck Chicago man in the breast, thus
saving his life. Yet there are reckless
people who will go right ahead day after
day without roll Of bills on their per-
sorS. IS p. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
a PROSPERITY INDlcAToR
Aberdeen. 8. D. News

Aberdeen, 8. D., News. N
Postal receipts are good indication Of
business prosperity and the fact that
twenty mine postmasters In South Dakota
have received an increase Of salary Is an
encouraging indication OF the splendid
prosperity this safe Is enjoying.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
INCURAB LIE.
Aberdeen. Is. D.

Aberdeen (s. d. News
Carrie Nation says that II she ever mar
ries again people may know she Is insane.
How about the man who would marry the
Ratchet reformer?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

b AN INVITATION Is extended to all to visit
the Press Room, which is the finest In the west.
Goss Presses, with a total capacity OF Ia, oO0
eight-page journals an hour. printed ed foadee
to 4:9O p. m. Inquire Mt the business onice ana
be directed to the visitors gallery. OF the Press
4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
MlssouRrs CHINESE wALL

Kansas City Journal.
Every boodler in Missouri should thank
God for technicalities. They stand be-
tween him and justice like a Chinese wall.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

Minneota and Tyler have been having
trouble with a Weary William with a
wooden leg. Altho denuded of limb, the
tramp showed himself very husky child
When full Of beer he gave the police great
eXertion. At Tyler it took an alderman
and an attorney in addition to the
marshal to subdue him. Balanced on ma
lures remaining prop, he dubbed his as
sailants with the wooden peg, exhibiting
a dcXterity in the use of this artificial
member which would have done credit to
a circus acrobat. He was escorted out of
town and warned that a return was sure
bath. He never came back.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

The lack of help to cut the wheat having
been exploited, the cry that there will not
be cars enough to move the crop is now
due.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

William e. Curtis, the Chicago Record
Herald correspondent is having trouble.
He reported the Iowa state convention and
the linotype made him say:
R. II. Spence, chairman Of the state committee,
slender gentleman with a pin head, who prac-
tees law at Mt. Ayr pounded the table with
a mallet and announced that the convention had
assembled and would commence business with
music.
Mr.. Curtis, however, denies that he
said anything of the kind. In a letter
he explains:
When you write that a friend has "a fine
head, and the printer makes it read ga pin
head,' do not know what you should do
say. I suppose such inexcusable blunders are
punished somehow and time. The tele.
graph operator who sent my report of the Des
Moines convention, the operator at Chicago
who received it, or the printer who set the type,
or the proofreader who overlooked it, may be in
dividually or collectively to blame, but it is very
exasperating. I said that R. H. Spence, chair
man of the republican state committee, was a
| slender gentleman with a fine head and it read
pin head' in the paper for which make the
most humble apologies to the gracious gentleman
named.
Mr.. Spence had been breathing hard for
| several days but is feeling better.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
MAY BE THE EXCEPTION
Dakota. Huronite.

Governor Herreid has just spoiled an 18-
year old boy of WATERFOWL by appointing
him a member of his personal staff with
the rank Of colonel.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

Governor Beckham of Kentucky is very
much incensed, by Cad, sab, at the prom
inence given his state. and particularly
Breathitt county, in the northern press.
He thinks the northern press should get
excited over its own slaughters and let the
southern people do their killing in their
own way. The right of the American
people to call attention to the delinquen-
cies of their neighbors cannot be abridged
by any little 2x4 governor
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10
HISTORY TO REPEAT ITSELF
Dakota Huronite.

Dakota zHuronite.
"A farmer In Minnehaha county has Just
sold his farm for $50 an acre Ten years
ago SIS an acre would have been consid-
cred fabulous price for this farm What
the past ten years has done in Minnehaha
county land values, the next ten years
will accomplish in Beadle.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

The Bushnell, ILL.,. Democrat says
DR.. J. A. James fell from q cherrystree Friday
aud was very badly shaken up. A limb broke
The Democrat leaves it in the dark
whether the tree or doc was the sufferer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

It may be little warm, but the air is
SO dry in the northwest that you do not
feel 1t.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

How can you tell when a mutimillion-
aire has gained the whole world and lost
his own appreciation Of things? When he
doesn't get any fun out Of going in SWIM
ming.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

The Fathers and the Bachelors of Bala-
ton, Mimi, had a hot ball game last week
the Paternal Relatives carrying off the
honors of the diamond by a score of 8
to 6. The paters were so dead sure of VIC
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

New York has an Uproar club, composed
of people whose business is noisy and
who believe that noise in a city is a good
thing. If you keep a city too quiet, they
argue, strangers have an idea that there
is nothing doing and are inclined to so
where the hustle of traffic makes itself
heard. The infant sympathizes in the
idea of an Uproar club and is not at all
backward in adding its feeble note to the
mighty refrain that beats against the sky.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-10

The scientists are questioning about
what is the fastest moving matter. It is
the office boy at SOL p. m.