The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-22

Everyone will see. at once that Mr.
Everetts fimsy excuses are very weak,
1t, must be acknowledged sorrowfully we
confess, that George Washington could tell
that which was not altho he was not &C.
customed to do So 1t is in this latter
clause that George differs so radically from
SO many of his countrymen.
The Sherburne Advance claims that Doc
Bixby gets a nice, fat bank account by
coming over into Minnesota and abusing
her climate in a series of lectures. Doc
and the man whose birthday we celebrate
to-day are unlike in this. The president
only lied once-and then not about the
climate.
Editor McGovern Of the Wabasha Herald
says that too many people eat pour passer
lie temps. We haven't had any Of that
since we were down to Uncle Georges.
Missouri papers are making note of n
new game that ought to be popular in
Minnesota and the Dakotas during these
long winter evenings This is the way it
Is played: A young man calls on his girl
and takes along small red apple. At the
proper time he losses the apple in the
air. If it comes down he kisses the girl:
if it stays up he doesn't.
The Russian ships that We're hurryins
to the east have turned back. That is
well if they did not want to look like thirty
kopecks.
The robin yesterday wet It's foot in its
bill and reached it across the Louisiana
line. It's coming!
1t is about time for some Latin-Amer-
lean state to bag it's president.
1t will not be many moons ere the
caterpillar with WhiskerS on it will bd
crawling on your neck.
The barons in the east state that coal
will not drop in price any next summer
We can believe that without straining
ourselves.
The optimist is one who believes in a
mascot. The pessimist believes in d
hoodoo.
The Eighth Ward Runts and the South
town Fifth Grade Giants will soon be at
it for the baseball championship
Susan B. Anthony, who was 81 years
of age on Feb. Is, and who has all of her
mental faculties unimpaired says that
there is still hope for man. Some people
uliSAL #ldhc ILLS 10 lUedl IlldI woman
was hopeless, but we do not think this
was Miss Anthony's idea. Yet it may be !.
true, as George Meredith makes one of /
his characters say that woman is the
last thing to be civilized by man. !!
When they begin issuing bulletins on
mans condition it is time for him to
think seriously about leading a better life. |
Snecia1 nisnetnh IN fha
Berlin, Feb 22.-The activity in tbs
British war office is we'll understood here,
and is answered by similar activity here
and at Vienna. I have exclusive informa-
ton from source very close to the en-
peror that there is a complete under
standing between Germany and Austria, i
and that these great Germanc empires
are on the point Of coalescing and becom-
ing one nation under the headship u
Emperor William.
Since the battles at Port Arthur RUS
sia's left wing has been clipped and she
is in no condition to make war against
the first maritime nation Of the earth.
Great Britain will persist in her investf. |
cation Of Tibet and in her manipulation
Of Persia. If this policy is taken as a
casus belli at ST. Petersburg and move
made against India, England proposes to
seal up the Baltic ports and to bottle up
or sink the Russian fleet there. The in.
vason of the Black sea by a British fleet
would follow in pretty short order. N
Turkey offered any impeachment to tho
passage Of the Dardenelles, no attention
would be paid to her, but the Austro-
German empire would at once seize the
Balkans states and sweep resistlessly on
to Constantinople. This policy would be
backed by England on an understanding
that England's Indian empire should be
guaranteed by the new Germany.
From that time on Germany and Eng
land would work in harmony. and the
German railroad would be pushed on to-
India via Constantinople and Asia Minor.
In this way the ground will be cut from
under Russia and the spread of autocratic
ideas held in check for another century.
asked a person very close to the en-
peror what the other powers, say Francs
and Italy. would do at the inception OF
such a serious disturbance of the BALANCED
of power in Europe. The person very
close to the emperor replied:
ANY power interfering with the plans
of England and Germany will be stepped
on. You will see at once that the Eng
lish and German fleets together could
sweep the sea.
1.-THE ultimate will, of course, be the
United States of, Europe, and the United
States of America is not going to inter-
fere in the establishment of her own
| ideals on this continent. For, after theI
| United States of Europe is well estab-i
| lished the result will be an alliance with
America and the establishment of thel
United States of the World, standing for
universal peace and complete freedom OF
| commerce in every sea.
'sYou see," added the person very close
| to the emperor, whose name am mott
| allowed to mention in this connections,
"you see that the issues involved In the
present situation are far reaching.
! "A. ]. r. J