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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-15
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

may have as large crop as last year.
But this is merely a temporary setback.
All western Canada has less than 10000
acres in wheat, whereas, notwithstand-
ing the decrease In wheat acreage in the
American spring-wheat states in the last
two or three years, there are nearly
10, 900, 900 acres in wheat in Minnesota and
the Dakotas. Western Canada has mill
lions and millions of unbroken land that
will produce wheat, while the northwestern
American ,spring-wheat area Is pretty well
occupied.
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the body polite, and like a good doctor.
he wishes to see his patient after he has
been restored to health.
1t is delightful to observe how insistent
the Filipinos are that Governor Taft shall
remain among them yet while longer.
He has tried to be their friend and is their
friend, and, what Is very important the
F1lipinos know it. ..- -.
If we can keep such men as Taft in the
Philippines government, there will be lit
tie trouble in those islands. The danger
is that one Of these days, a weak or cor
rupt governor, an American Warren Hast
ings, will turn up in Manila and plumber
right and left. But so far we have been
more fortunate In our COLONIAL officials
than in some of those at home. So far
only the American people have been
robbed and exploited. Neither the Gu
bans. the Porto Ricans, the Hawaiians or
the Filipinos have suffered at the hands
Of our grafters. ~ .--..
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The Business Situation.


week over the turn in the stock market
which is thought to mark the end of the
bear campaign, and the return of the
bulls to old time power. Where but a
week ago al Twas righteousness, and the
very air was blue, there has been bright
ening Of the sky, the shifting of the
heaviest and darkest clouds, and a. little
sunlight has been let in upon the street
Men who fortnight ago could see no good
in anything, and whose air of pessimism,
grown almost chronic, was a continued
encouragement to further aggressive
ness on the part Of the bears, are now
changing their tone, and are willing to
admit that the country is not going all
to the bad after all. The week has
passed without more failures, and a
financial heavyweight, a Rockefeller, has
spoken. ..
Of all favorable features Of the week-to
| the men who stood in fear Of manipulative
attacks this Rockefeller interview was
the most favorable. Not John D., the
much abused, but his brother, William the
| quiet, has said that stocks are too low
and that a change is due, and this the
eastern financial world has taken as
meaning nothing else than that the
mighty resources of the Standard Oil in
terests are against further Decline Nor
gan spoke long ago, and said stocks were
too low, and the bears fell unon the mar
ket and broke the best of them 20 points
more. But Morgan is maker, a manu-
| facturer. as it We're, Of securities He
has them in great blocks, to sell. It is
natural that with him the wish should
father the thought sufficiently to color his
views, and for this the trade made full
allowance. The Rockefellers and asso-
ciates are not of the Morgan category
| They represent rather the greatest aggre-
cation of capital our country has eve1
known, and it is true the Rockefeller mil
lions are now against the bears, manipu-
lative attacks on stocks are less likely tt
!, be witnessed. There is not the sightes1
doubt that the last 1O-point decline was
due purely to such attacks, to a concentra
ton of bear forces in raid on a par
, tcular stock or group Of stocks with {
! view to unsettling the whole market
. And these raids were usually successful
J, The bulls In the stock market have nov
} one great fear The corn crop is yer.
+ late, should the frosts cat CHI it,, grea
e damage would likely result and thi
would probably mean an immediate re
t vival of the bears and new bear cam
paign with particular pressure upon tn
corn roads. With good weather from nov
, on the bulls have much in their favor
! The west has trouble already owe
' freight congestion. Merchandise is NOV
p ing in increasing volume. Trade report
OH the whole are very favorable. The iro
business is brisk, and inquiry for fall mer
, chandise is reported heavy by easter
jobbers and manufacturers. Minneapo
lis has a good week to record. Local job
bers say collections are satisfactory an
: the outlook for sales for fall distribute
: is good. The volume Of business at pres
ent is averaging somewhat better than &
this time last year, with the promise
: new record sales little later on when th
country begins to buy more freely.
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We were some lesser lights, riding in a
private car to which were hitched the
rolling palaces of two mighty magnates.
They were Chauncey M Depew and his
host. We were invited back, and for a
considerable time sat at the feet of great
ness; and Mr.. Depew. he told stories.
One Of them related to a visit that he
and Cornelius Vanderbilt the second, once
paid to Cleveland. Ohio.
They were taken in charge, almost vi
ct arms, by a certain Mr. R., who was
rich, at least in his own estimation. They
were taken for a drive around the city.
Mr.. r. pointed out many a, valuable lot
and more valuable block of buildings, with
remarks to the same general effect:
"You see that lot?"
eyes" --..
''Well, that used to belong to me. !
bought it for so much, and sold it for SO
much more; making cool - thousand.
you see that block of buildings?'
yes"
"Well, that is mine. T bought the
ground for so much. The buildings cost
me much. That property is now worth
an even - thousand. I'm doing pretty
well for poor fellow
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BRAVE DESPITE HIS FEARS

M. Gerente, senator of Algeria, was
made a hero in spite Of himself recently,
but he modestly placed the credit of the
enterprise where it belonged. He fol-
lowed the governor general of the North
African colony and General O'Connor to
Figuig on May 81, and was one of the last
persons to get away from the fire of the
Moors. While the bullets were flying
around the zenaga Pass, the senator, who
was astride fine fat mule, did not seem
to be inclined to escape the danger in a
hurry. He was seen from afar by M.
Jonnart and General O'Connor, covered
with his white headgear and his civilian
dust coat, apparently Indifferent to the
perils Of the situation At last he re-
turned to the official persons, who re-
marked to him that his conduct was most
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THE NONPARETI-. MAN

ming holes. Incidentally Mr. Nelson.
agreed to furnish sufficient ice cold water
melons to fill the 5000 hungry little stom-
achs. There is something about Mr.. Nell
son that We like Just as we like that
eloquent gesture which the teamster uses
when he dumps into the back yard Of
some poor widow with 1S small children
and one at the bottle the load Of coal or
wood sent by a thoughtful gentleman who
has more than he happens to want himself
just then.
When Main street and Second street
were entering on their sixth inning at
Mainstreeter popped up a fly with wiggles
on it. Both Einie Johnson and Van
Guider started to get under the little
stranger with a view to taking him into
camp when they collided in middiamond.
The shock was terrific. Eighteen or
twenty new considerations sprang into
view and the dead and down were lying
all about the field. A doctor with a cam
vas needle had to sew Van Guilders Inca
ments together and Johnson is still suffer-
ing from shock. The game quit right
there with score of IA to 10 in favor Of
Second street But the end is not yet.
A meaner man than the one who, on a
cold winter night, took the baby and
rubbed him along the cold sheets Of the
bed to warm the place where he himself
slept, has been found. This second
meaner man is described by a Kansas
paper as lying awake nights to invent
schemes to save money. He had six or
eight children and it cost good deal to
feed them. The old man evolved a scheme
to cut down these expenses. He would
say to his children in the evening, Now,
how many of you will take a nickel and
go to bed without supper?" They all
took nickels and went to bed hungry. The
next morning the old man would say:
'Now, children, you all look hungry.
How many Of you will give me nickel
for a nice, hot breakfast?" And, Of
course, they would all deliver, up their
nickels. If they didn't they got cold
breakfast. The old man simply saved the
cost of the children's supper. 1t is un-
necessary to add that he died rich and
respectfully some.
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The president will be living up to his
reputation for doing things" if he calls
an extra session of congress SO early as
Oct. 9 to deal with the financial prob
lem. There is a great diversity Of
opinion in and out of congress as to what
ought to be done to give us more elias
tic currency system, but the more the
problem is discussed the more remote
seems the possibility of public opinion
crystallizing on any one measure of re-
lief With only the Cuban question, now
about talked out, and the financial ques-
ton to deal with, a special session ought
to be able to agree on some step in re-
form. Not much more can be expected.
The circulation problem is one that will
be disposed of by easy steps.
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A Honicidal Nation.
ID tional crime is murder,

The national crime is murder.
| One would come to that conclusion from
! reading the daily press, but remembering
that the press covers the news OF S0.O0O,OoO
neople spread over half continent, he
might be wrong. But the cold figures
show that he Is right. Judge w. H.
Thomas of Alabama, in recent charge
| to a grand jury, summarized recent statis-
| tics to show how careless we are OF hu-
| man life
In three years the American railways
killed 21,s47 persons
In the same period the number of hom-
icides in the United States was 1885.
Our railways are the most reckless OF
life and the most prolific Of accident OF
any in the world, but in three years they
have been able to kill only two-thirds as
many persons as were wilfuliy killed by
others.
The total loss Of life in the British
army during the South African war, from
all causes wounds and disease, was only
| 1000. The South African war lasted al
most three years.
| The Outlook argues from these figures
that lynching is not so much disease as
the symptom of a disease. The Amer
lean people hold life cheap, and there is
a widespread Willingness to assert individ-
uality at the expense Of society. Their
willingness to take the law into their own
hands instead of invoking public law In
dictates both contempt for law and a
lack of restraint of passions. The Out
look thinks that the trouble with this
nation is that liberty has degenerated into
license, that in the endeavor to make
every man as free as. possible we have
made him tyrant. i
It seems to us that the Outlook has
gone too far. The trouble is not that the
people have lost respect for law and order,
but that In the mad absorption of the
whole nation In commercialism the
agencies Of law and order have for a
time been neglected. Everybody has time
for everything except public duties. The
easy-going business man, who loafs about
half his time at the club, systematically
neglects all sorts of public business be-
cause he has mot the time" to attend
to it.
j, Out Of this individual neglect of in
dividual duty to the state there has come
a weakening of law in many respects
, Corruption abounds in high and low
Z places, and there is almost total lack
: Of that fine old quality of unselfish de.
: votion to the republic and It's ideals
Lynch law has asserted itself simply be-
cause disorder always asserts itself wher
the defenses of order are weakened. The
: nation has fallen into a sort Of stupol
from which 1t will have to be awakened
by the sound Of firearms shooting dowr
2 mobs. The sleeper has begun to awaken
l at the sounds from Evansville and Dan
Q vile. But it will take more such blood,
: news to wake him up.
3 There Is hope Jett and White were
9 sentenced to life Imprisonment at Cynthi
!. ana yesterday They should be hanged, blu
life imprisonment IS good beginning IL
!, a region that has permitted more thai
thirty murders to go unpublished
: If other portions of the country will
v make good gain as this in six months
o. the present reign of spasmodic anarch,
IL will soon come to an end. =
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A CASE OF AGGRAVATED CONSUMPTION

He was fond of speaking, and did not
hesitate to ask Mr.. Brownlow for fifteen
minutes time, before the Kentuckian be-
gan. Mr.. Brownlow conferred with the
latter, who readily agreed to give the
time.
The general commenced, and had pro-
ceeded but few moments when his eye
rested upon the glass, and he took sip
of the contents, supposing it to be water.
Next to his love of speaking he was fond
of spirituous beverages He felt stimu-
lated at once; spoke more vigorously, and
slipped frequently. Gradually the slipping
became more regular than the speaking.
The fifteen minutes that he had asked for
expanded to forty-fve. Then the Ken
tuckian became impatient. He leaned
over and whispered to Brownlow: Stop
the - old scoundrel He's not only con-
Stunning all of my time but he's a-drink-
| in up all of my liquor!'
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Comfort.
During a. heated campaign in Tennessee
one of the most brilliant Of Kentucky
orators was engaged to "spellbind" for
season.
At Knoxville Congressman Walter P.
Brownow was master of ceremonies for
the evening of the Kentuckian's engage
ment. He notified Mr.. Brownlow IN ad-
vance that his throat had become unre-
liable, and said that the best thing he had
tried was apple brandy. He wanted some
to sip when he felt the irritation coming
on.
"You can just put glass OF it on the
stand,' said he, "and nobody'll notice but
that it's water-they look SO much alike. .
Brownlow procured a large soda glass
full, and placed it in proper position
Just before the hour Of commencement
General NJ. a prominent politician anc
eloquent speaker, unexpectedly arrived
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Next Thursday afternoon the sensible
people who believe in good roads are 60
ing to meet with members of the city
council and try to persuade them that
they ought to, do something to supply a
connecting link between the good county
roads and the passable city pavements.
The worst roads in Hennepin county to-
day are between the end of the paving
Of macadam of Minneapolis STREETS and
the, city limits. It is, really, an agree
able surprise to travel thru the country
and find how greatly the roads have been
improved in the last five years. But the
contrast between the good country roads
and the poor city roads is discouraging
to the farmer, who finds his last two or
three miles the worst of all. The wagon
road trade Of the country tributary to
Minneapolis is no small item and the
various commercial bodies and interests
of the city to say nothing Of those who
drive in carriages or ride in automobiles
for pleasure, ought to be we'll represented
at the conference with the aldermen. y
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The Minneapolis osnal for the first six months OF the
wear 1908 carried 818 columns, 81 per cent
more Foreign Display Advertising than the DAILY
Tribune
The Minneapolis Journal for the first six months OF the
wear 1903 carried 500 columns, 70 per cent more
Want Advertising than the Daily Tribune.
The Minneapolis Journal, for the first SIX months OF the
year 1908 carried 1868 columns of Real Estate adver-
Using while the Daily Tribune carried none.
The Minneapolis JOURNAL for the first six months OF the
year 1908 published 1,343 columns of advertising
than for the period in 1902; while the Tribune
according to it's statement published July 18TH gained
only 754 columns this year, the Journals excess gam
over the Tribune being 589 columns, or 70 per cent
The Minneapolis Journal out of $3.50 residences can
vassed, had 5,543 subscrbers-the Evening Tribune
1466-the Morning Tribune 824.
The MINNEAPOLIS Journal 80 apartment and flat build
ings canvassed had 1910 subscribers Evening
Tribune 2o3 and the Morning Tribune l83
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MIR. EUCLID AND THE AVENUE

ort.
Now, if there is anything that Mr..
Vanderbilt dislikes Is a bad break said
Mr.. Depew, but 1 finally got tired and
determined to make one a whatever cost.
We drove into that splendid street, Euclid
avenue. I looked up and down it and
said, Why, this is a fine street, Mr.. r.?
What do. you call it?'
" This? Why, this is Euclid avenue.
They say it's the finest street in the
country, if not in the world
We'll, sir. have travelled quite good
deal, and I must confess that this is one
of the finest streets I ever saw. Who was
this Mr.. Euclid? Was he prominently
identified with the early history of the
city?'
'Mr. r. seemed embarrassed He
hemmed and hawed. but finally owned up:
I declare, Mr.. Depew, 1 don't know.
have lived in Cleveland forty years or
more, but never heard anything about
the man.. I have no idea who he was
"Then," continued Mr.. Depew. Van
derbilt leaned back and laughed until
thought he'd fall out of the carriage.
When we were alone he told me, conf
dentially, that for once he had enjoyed
a thoroly bad break"
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courageous under fire, but that he had I'M
doubtedly been rather rash, especially as
he was non-combatant. and had no rife
or sword with which to protect himself.
The senator smiled in sickly manner as
he listened to the remarks made, and then
said in a somewhat husky voice: You
need not congratulate me. 1t was my
mule that did it. I hammered him with
all my might and dug my heels into his
sides, in order to make him gallop after
you, but he wouldn't do it. He preferred
to amble slowly and, to certain extent,
gracefully along. Accordingly have to
admit, in spite of myself, that the obsti-
nate animal had courage enough for the
two of u.s. M. Gerente added that he
was very glad that his muleride from the
! laws Of death was over.
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estranged. Could he do nothing?

estranged. Could he do nothing?
At first icy reserve greeted his inquiries.
Finally there was softening. Then came
one of Mrs. Davis charming Thursday
afternoons. To be historically correct it
was Jan. 10, 1899. Mrs. Merriam dropped
in with Ali Ferrouh Bey. Mrs. Davis
received her graciousy in the presence OF
great throng.
The feud was ended. In a short time
General Merriam was appointed director
OF the census of 1900. He was con-
frmed the same day.
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Is He Right :?

In an address before a Lutheran as
.sembly at Dixon, Ill, yesterday, Judge
Peter S. Grosscup of the United States
circuit court, reiterated his belief that
the enormous accumulation Of funds in
the savings banks is a bad sign.
He may be right.
1t is notable that while the west has
been having just as much prosperity of
late years as the east, the savings banks
out here are not increasing their depos-
its SO rapidly as in the east. Is this not
because the savers of the west are invest
ing their money for themselves instead
of turning it over to savings banks at a
small rate of interest?
If that Is true, it goes a long way to-
ward sustaining Judge Grosscup's the
DRY, which is that under modern condi-
tons of business the opportunities fo1
individual investment Of money in profit
able enterprises have become so restricted
that the provident have had to put their
money in savings banks for lack Of bet
ter place, thus giving to others the adj
vantages Of their capital. In the west
there are, still, more opportunities thar
In the east, still more chance for the man
with small capital and large nerve. The
big corporations have not yet taken every
good thing in sight in the west.
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THE GREATER SOCIAL PERIL.
Atlanta Constitution

The time when the lynching Of a Ger.
tain breed of brutes could be winked at
because of satisfaction that punishment
came to him quickly and to the utter
most, has given way to a time when the
greater peril of society is the mob itself
that does the work Of vengeance. Against
the growth of that evil the best sense OF
the nation needs to combine and enforce
an adequate protection.
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The esteemed Pioneer Press INDUCES in
a leading editorial this morning that will
certainly make the natives stare. The
argument is made that Frank M. Eddy
will not do for governor because he is
so homely and because he is negligent of
his attire; and this, NOT on general prin-
ciples. but because the next governor will
be ensconced in the magnificent new state
capitol If this is an attempt at pure
humor it is in bad taste In the brutality
Of its account of Mr.. Eddy's appearance.
If an attempt was made to oppose Mr..
Eddy's candidacy under the gulse OF
humor, because Of his facial contour and
his neglect Of his apparel the shot fell
short, because that sort of ridicule is
never effective in politics.
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According to the sta tement of an Amer
lean immigration commissioner at VIM
nipeg, between 5000 and 10000 european
immigrants entering Canada nave crossed
the line to find homessii the United States.
AS the dominion govPrnment pays the
steamship companies bounty of IS for
every immigrant brought into the coun-
try, it has wasted about $780, 600. The
bounty is good for ttf shipping compa-
MES, but it does not seem to help much
In populating Canada.
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A number of banks have failed recently
not because of hard times, but because
Of hard knocks from trusted officials. A
bank can stand hard times, but it can't
stand hard knocks from It's own officials
and employees. ...
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One or two punches of dollars have
been exchanged for an equal number of
bushels: Of wheat. May there be many
such exchanges, and may it be a dollar
net to the farmer.
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The Canadian west seems to have Jared
about the same as the American in re-
speet to wheat crops. Manitoba, with a
greatly increased acreage, will not pro-
duce as much wheat as last year. The
reports from the territories, especially
Assinihoia, are more satisfactory. and they
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AN INVITATION is extended to all to visit
the Press Room. which is the finest In the west.
Goss PRESSES, with total capacity of Ia; 00o
eight-page o II n a ! an hour. printed, foideo
to 4:30 D. M. Inquire at the business Office ana
be directed to the visitors gallery. OF the Press
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The Jones wheat estimate is improving
with age. Those who didn't like it a
few days ago now consider 1t very
satisfactory piece of figuring.