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The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

to head off the comforting Of sufficient
power upon the Interstate commerce
commission to make it an effective piece
of machinery. One objection repeatedly
urged is that the comforting Of the pow
er to make rates on the commission
would be unconstitutional. This mat
ter was presented in an interesting way
in yesterdays Washington dispatches
to T h e Journ a l., which contained an
extract from an opinion Of the supreme
court: from which there seemed to be a
fair inference at least that if the
commission were given power to say
what was a fair rate in place Of one
found to be unreasonable, the supreme
court would not regard that bestowal
of such authority as unconstitutional.
The distinction between the char
acter Of the act of declaring one rate
unreasonable, and that of declaring an
other reasonable, may exist in law, but
it is so fine and intangible discrimi-
nation as to powers and functions as not
to appeal very strongly to the layman.
If there is such a reasonable distinction
to be made it should be pointed out
more clearly than it has been up to this
time. In the meanwhile, the campaign
Of education goes on. The public is
finding out more and more as to what
it is entitled to and how to get it. r..
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
Saturday Evening,

field proposition with the affirmation
of the right and power Of congress to
establish rules to govern interstate COM
merce, right, indeed, as absolute, the
court says, as it would be if this coun-
try were single nation without sub
division into states. -
The very distinguished leader of the
{ 'Jeffersonian democracy (1S96-1904), +,
having committed himself to federal
control of interstate commerce by fran
chise or license properly conditioned,
his devoted followers ought to over
come, likewise, their objections to the
concentration of necessary power at
Washington. Step by step the urgent
national necessi tiles Of the country have
been strengthening the hands of the
federal government in the interest Of
the public good and convenience, and
the democratic particularism of ante
bellum days has been yielding to the
truth about the just authority of the
United States, until there is, today,
only dissolving view of the concep-
tion attributed to Jefferson on the
subject.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24

more than repaid blythe smoothness Of
her domestic machinery. 5
The successful business man deserves
and receives a great deal Of credit for
his energy and wisdom. The housewife
is no less. to be praised when she adjusts
her income and expenditures with the
same care and attention to system that
the merchant uses. To live within
one IS income is necessary. No one
doubts the wisdom of Micawber' $ cad
vice.:
2. "Annual income ego, annual expendi-
ture nineteen, nineteen six, result happi-
ness. Annual income $40, annual ex-
penditure $40 Cd, result misery. The
blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered,
the god of day goes down upon the
dreary scene, and-and in short, you are
forever foored.' ,.-s.I 3, b.
If the application Of Engel's law,
modified as seems best, will show fam
lily how to keep within the $40, then
Engel has made for happiness and that
is more than we have been accustomed
to ask of statistician. -.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
A Clear Road for the Millers.

The announcement that the attorney
general of the United States has de-
cided that the millers may mix I'M
ported wheat with American wheat and
receive drawback on the proportion
of the product that comes from the i'm
ported wheat will be good news to the
millers. It is consistent and logical
decision. In view of court decisions
and the fact that there is no essential
difference between milling imported
wheat by itself and mixing it with
American wheat when the product is to
be exported, no other decision was to
be expected. At the same time, by re-
ferring the matter to the attorney gen
eral Secretary Shaw has avoided the
criticism that he might be serving the
interests of one class in the community
at the expense Of another. He can now
assert that he is simply carrying out
the law, which is fact.
The Journal is convinced that
milling Canadian wheat under the
drawback is positive benefit to the
northwestern farmer rather than other
wise. Now that the millers are able to
obtain their raw material for export
flour as cheaply as their Canadian and
European competitors they will be able
to regain trade they have been rap
idly losing. They will be in position,
hereafter, to maintain their export
trade, whatever happens to the Ameri-
can wheat crop. That means that when
sufficient good wheat is produced IN the
United States the farmers Of the north
west will find an increased demand for
their wheat for home manufacture. The
demand of the great American mills
for wheat for milling at home has
always had tendency to keep up the
price of wheat somewhat above what
it would have been if only Liverpool
had hand in determining price. By
using Canadian wheat for the export
trade when that is the only way that
trade can be maintained, the home mar,
ket can be maintained at all times.
For some reason hard to understand
| the farmers have especially opposed the
mixing Of Canadian wheat with Ameri
can wheat. If the composition were
to be sold in the domestic market there
would be force in the objection; but
as the conditions are, it is hard to see
any ground for it. The use of Ca
madam wheat or flour made from Ca
madam wheat for mixing purposes
actually widens the market for Ameri
can wheat or -four made from it.
While it can thus be shown that al
least the utilization by the millers o1
the drawback privilege is not an in
jury to the farmers, it is obviously {
positive benefit to a great industry
and thru it to many other industries
The more flour the miller makes, th'
more freight for the railways, the more
barrels and sacks to be made, the mor'
men to be employed, the more busines
generally.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
Nothing Doing in the Anti
Cult.

Roosevelt IS plurality in Minnesota is
raised by, the official count above any
of the unofficial reports and placed
at l61 ,464. The official count for the
whole country is also complete, now
that the laggards, Minnesota, North
Dakota and Washington, have compiled
their returns, and the presidents plu-
rality is 2,547,5 ,57S and his majority over
all 1,746,768. -. j:
No wonder, when they contemplate
such figures as these, that the presi-
dents policies are treated with more
respect than heretofore by congress
and by the corporations that have been
violating law. Those figures stand for
the most significant expression of con-
fdence ever given by the united coun-
try to any candidate for the presiden-
tial office. If you will think about it,
you will probably be able to recall as
having been uttered since the election
scarcely word of the ridiculous stuff
heard so much Of during the oompaign,
and for several years past, about the
menace to liberty in the imperious char
acter of this modern Cesar, as he has
been called. The overwhelming sense
of popular favor and confidence ex-
pressed at the polls, followed immedi.
ately by the announcement by the
president that he would not be a can,
didate to succeed himself, was a com
plete answer to all that Wattersonian
foolishness about the man on horseback
The Kentucky colonel and others who
echoed his rawlings about imperialism
may have believed at one time some OF
the things they said about the assump
tion of dictatorial powers by the pres
ident, but they have. either recovered
from an honest delusion or they dc
not dare, in the face Of the overwhelm
ing popular verdict in favor of Roose
velt, to indulge farther in their mis-
representations Of one in whom the
people SO. thoroly and generally be
live. The anti-imperialists are entirely
out of job; there's nothing doing il
the "anti'' cult. -
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
Democracy and Capitalization.

There are symptoms that the DEM
ocracy is getting ready for aggressive
antagonism toward the recommendation
of Commissioner Garfield to curb cor
porations doing interstate commerce by
the requirement of a federal franchise
or license.
The average "Jeffersonian demo-
crat is in the habit of denouncing such
PROPOSITIONS as indicative OF the repub-
lican intention to increase vastly the
legislative and administrative functions
of the federal government and encroach
upon the rights and prerogatives of the
states. But democrats of the 'Jetter-
sonian'' or other quality, may still re-
call that their beloved leader, Colonel
BRYAN. who for eight years was their
idolatrous objective, committed himself
In 1900, when "trusts' were very
much under discussion, in speech he
made at Chicago, to federal control OF
corporations and by method very SIM
liar to that proposed by Commissioner
Garfield. His proposition was that con-
gress should pass a law providing that
no corporation organized in any state
should do business outside the state in
which it is organized, until it receives
from some power created by congress
a license authorizing it to do business
outside it's own state. Bryan argued
that the license could be granted ON
such conditions as would prevent the
watering of stock; prevent monopoly
in any branch of business, and provide
ofS on
and business of corporations. He said
he didn It know whether this remedy
was constitutional or not, but it was a
good one, and, if it wasn't constitu-
tional, he would favor an amendment
to the constitution which would give
congress power to " destroy every trust
in the country"
This exponent Of "Jeffersonian prin-
ciples' further declared that the fed
eral government has, OF should have,
the right "to impose such restrictions
as congress may think necessary upon
any corporation which does business
ouside the state in which it is organ
ized,n while he would conserve the ex-
listing rights of the states to deal with
corporations, the federal license to COR
porations doing business in other states
being supplemental to the state remedy.
Practically and generally as to fed
eral license Bryan and Commissioner
Garfield are in agreement that the di-
verse state laws can never work the
reform needed, and that federal re-
straint and regulation by license, given
under proper conditions of control, is
essential.
The merger decision of the federal
supreme court stands back of the Gar
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
Another Senatorial Candidate.

Governor Van SAINT has announced
himself as candidate for the United
States senate. His Hastings speech
was regarded as shrewd political
move, clever way Of notifying the pub
lie that there was man to be had who
stood for certain things if they wanted
him; but it included no formal an
nouncement Of candidacy. In that at
titude the governor was regarded as an
interesting possibility, waiting to take
advantage of the situation as it might
develop.
The insinuations made in connection
with the Haskell story of attempted
bribery-that the offers made to him
were supposed to be in the interest of
Governor Van Sant-provoked the gov
ernor extremely, and the more he
thought of it the more intensely he felt
on the subject. Finally he concluded
that there was nothing for him to do
but to declare himself a candidate.
Just what logical connection there was
between the insinuations complained OF
and the declaration Of his candidacy
for the senate it may not be necessary
to define. It is sufficient that the gov
ernor recognizes such connection and
feels that he has been forced to take
the field.
There are now three candidates an
nounced where a few months ago there
seemed to be an opening for only one.
How many more may enter the lists be-
fore the starters bell rings remains to
be seen. All the signs point to a SEN
sational campaign. It is safe to say
that there are powerful interests in the
state which will not agree to the cleo,
tion Of Governor Van SAINT if it can be
prevented. ..-7 ..>-y, 49,
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
Wlth the Long Boau.
Z -, 80. Eye NATURES folly fHe.
Eye NATURES walks. sht

English schooleacher is not gentleman
That's why we like to hold her little hand
There barnaees on the snow shovel
Georgia has cfew idea that innovation demand
made that the bell shall for the coming home of married rather
than of the children This with
Whenever you say awson to one of these old line life insurance
the latter goes right into the air like shell exploding
This is grand time Of to burn DID, dirty
Mr. Lwson life this fall has been that Of the saleady
at the 400 counter. .*..>.'
Congress would for ball the national capitol
What the matter with holding the ball the Washington that
it may go down in history as the high bal9 ~#=
mnacng popular thought corporate
abuses? Talk with almost and later find
ions This without
izng itself action The feeling like rolling SNOWFALL Whether
fakr Mr. Lawson certainly struck the psychological
launch his attack Watch things and keep finger from
the triphammer!
you dongs
Grossmh butler did about the family he served Mr. Gros.
smiths butler who had with nearly twenty
% ] 1 we" sv @ h % h a h WAS % @ do h d M % h gu @
complained Surely Ihave right why wish ea "We
s' said the but Gas insist but don't The fact
you your famiy''
In the Of years likely
pentety applying his old job After Chmasess
how gladly the stocking chimney
again. -. -.
The first Christmas the writer remember made memorable by
book the first bound
full crushed called the Life Adventures
Gen. Tom Thumb There this book in those days, and it
the introduction world
There grandmother handy aloud and she had read
secutivey until kid
giants menacing
with regularity small boy armed with mighty than
The mortality remarkable
If could only old points there would
interesting Christmas AS it unless be
small boy and shine reflected gi Christmas the holiday
good deal of hollow mocey We all getting sophisticated Per-
haps
will notice that God love little children They continually
being brought the world old continually
out of it. j. R.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
The Business Outlook.

With the new year SO close at hand
that only five more business days OF
1904 remain, it is possible, even from
incomplete reports, to gather some idea
of what Minneapolis has done in the
way Of advancement. Already it IS
evident that showing in bank clear
ings but little short of phenomenal will
be made, and that the city has in
creased it's prestige greatly and is due
to move higher up among the impor-
tant American financial centers. In
the year 1902 the total Of bank clear
ings reached $720,752,331.57. The 1908
twelvemonth recorded $74l ,049, ,34S.O3,
a gain of $20,297, ,016.46. This year,
with one weekly report yet to come,
the figures show $S42, 2,826,573.SS, a gain
of $1O1, TIT, ,225.s5. The total increase
for the year should be around $l2l,-
100000.
More money came into the northwest
this year than ever before, and Mime
apolis financed an early crop movement
that not only ran heavy, but embraced
a range Of prices unusually high. With
this, general business was active, job
bers, manufacturers and retailers all
sharing. While the wonderful gain in
clearings is due principally to high
grain prices, the city would have made
a very healthy increase IN any case,
as a glance at the comparisons, for
months in which this was not princi-
pal cause, in the table appearing else
where in T h e Journa will show.
To set down all the new factors OF
the wear making for the increasing
financial Importance of the city would
require much space. Some recent de
velopments, not perhaps generally
thought Of as Of great influence, but
reaching in effect, are, the tendency
Of local banks to strengthen, and secure
for themselves moro commodious anc
imposing homes, the opening of the Soc
line extension to Winnipeg, and the ar
rangements just perfected for the mill
ing of Canadian wheat in Minneapolis
mills.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
Applied Economics.

A young college woman using her
husband $ pocketbook for the first
Christmas has solved to her own satis-
faction the problem as to how the fam
lily income should be apportioned to the
various family expenses. She turned
Hbook learning' to practical account
and by the use of Engel's law, made
out a table of percentages for the vari-
Gus household funds.
According to Engel's well-known
law the percentages of income paid out
for clothing, rent, fuel and lights re-
main the same, while the percentage
spent for food grows less as the in
come increases, thus leaving larger
percentage for health, education, COM
fort and amusement.
The average family Of five, with an
income of $1,000, has been found to
spend per month, quoting from the sew
enth annual report Of the United States
department Of labor, for rent $14.47,
fuel $4.9O, light 81, food $42.25, cloth
ing $l5.26 and for all other purposes
$22.12. i ..
Adapting this to the exigencies Of her
case the young housewife made out the
following table for family Of two.
Rent and fuel 20 per cent, lighting 1,
clothing Is, food 25, servants wages 8,
insurance 10, savings 3, carfare 4,
church and charity 5, gifts 2, all other
expenses, including health, education,
travel, amusements, ETC., per cent.
Clothing does not take all of the Is
per cent allowed, nor does food require
the entire 25 per cent. All saved from
these is added to the fund for incident.
ais
This computation is, at least, suggest.
i've to the thoughtful housekeeper.
There should be some method in the
distribution of the family funds The
details after necessities are provided
will be worked out differently, accord
ing to individual tastes and incomes
But some such table applied to all sala.
ried incomes would save countless ,wor:
ries. For one thing, the wife would
not need to ask her husband daily if
she could afford to make such and such
purchases. She could tell as well as
he. If 2 per cent is allowed for gifts
and the income is $500 a year, then
there are only $50 for the year gift
making, and there will be weddings and
birthdays during the year, SO that. $40
is as much as ought to be used fol-
Christmas. Small enough, of course, in
this day of much giving. But if more
is used from such a salary other wants
must 90 unsatisfed. - E*.,''@
The easy-going will never adopt any
such arrangement. It is simpler to
spend, while there is money, to run ac.
counts, if possible, when there ism It, and
to have no thought for the final reckon.
ing. Of course, it is lot of bother to
keep accounts, but a business man who
failed to keep them would not last long
in the business world.
Every housewife is at the head of a
business establishment and the trouble
and pains she puts herself to in adjust
ing the family expenditures will be
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
WHAT FOOTBALL DID FOR ONE IN.
DIAM
Toledo Blade.

), Does football ever help a mansto a good
position in after years?t Walking along
the side lines of the Ohio State Carlisle
game there was a stockily built little
man who bore every mark Of being red
skin. He was gentlemanly' in his appear
ance and neatly dressed. This little man
was none other than Hudson, the famous
quarterback Of the Carlisle eleven Of the
latter 9o's. Hudson has been heard Of in
every nook of the land for his strategy
in running football teams and for his
wonderful drop kicking ability. Scarcely
an eastern eleven but has had her goad
line crossed by this method when he ran
the team. Hudson has been somewhat
forgotten of late, A little inquiry. brought
out the fact that he is trusted employee
Of large Pittsburg bank, where he is a
teller. That is what Hudson, the Indian,
did, and what his notoriety as a football
player also helped him to do thru fame
secured in this manner.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
A Campaign Of Education.

The author of the Cooper bill is
stated in the Washington dispatches to
look with favor upon Secretary Nor
ton IS legalized railway pooling idea,
and as willing to incorporate that in
his measure. He says it does not make
any difference to him what the rail
roads do with their earnings, providing
the earnings are made upon rates that
are fair and reasonable and do not dis
criminate. He thinks that the pooling
arrangement might contribute to fair
ness and aid in preventing discrimin-
alton.
Mr.. Bacon, however, the authorized
representative of the shippers, and the
father of the Cooper bill, still stands
by that bill. He knows what he wants,
and is not to be turned aside with ease
by compromises or substitutes. The
Cooper bill gives the interstate COM
merce commission the power, when it
has found a rate to be unfair, to say
what fair rate in that case would be.
Nobody asks that the commission be
authorized to make initial rates, so to
speak. That is in the hands Of the rail-
road managers. When they make a
rate which the shipper finds to be op-
pressive-and the shipper is not likely
to make a complaint until it is oppress-
Tive-there is a hearing. The railroad
people are on hand to defend their rate.
They know how to do it, too. The bur-
den of proof is on the shipper. The
whole question is canvassed. The COM
missioners are, or ought to be, fairly
intelligent lot, and it does not seem as
if it ought to be impossible for them,
having on hand all the Information that
the railroad manager and the shipper
can furnish, to be able to decide how
far the initial rate is, removed from a
fair charge for the service performed.
AS rule there will be found something
unfair about the rate complained Of,
and particularly some discrimination
against the complaining shipper, or he
would charge upon the excess Of cost
above a reasonable amount to the con-
sumer and let it go: at that.
There are all kinds of remedies and So
lutions proposed in Washington in place
of this provision of the Cooper bill,
and intended solely, in some instances,
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-24
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