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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
Lake Traffic Paralyzed.

Unless the lake carriers and the
masters and pilots can get together
soon this will be a most disastrous
year for business on the lakes. The
season was backward and navigation
late in opening. Now that the lakes
are open labor trouble is on. Seventy
four large vessels lie at Milwaukee
docks and about ITO are tied up in all
at lake ports. gag. .-....
The effect Is extremely bad. These
floating properties costing large sums
to build and continued expense to
maintain, would have to make the
most Of a short season in any case,
and every additional days delay
means so much greater loss. Mean
while the men who sail the lakes and
the army of men who find employ
ment about the docks and warehouses,
are earning little. In all no less than
100000 men are directly or indirectly
affected. ,s
To date it is deadlock. The Mas
tiers and Pilots association insists that
their wage compensation is not ade-
have had to face steadily increasing
cost Of operating, that this season the
ratio of operating expenses is higher
than ever and that they cannot grant
the concessions demanded.
The poor shipper Is in between the
millstones and is having a hard time
of it.
I One phase of the situation which
makes the case peculiar is that the
members of the Masters and Pilots
association hold government licenses
and no one may act as a pilot who is
not licensed. This makes it practically
impossible to fill their places. They
have a monopoly Of the business and
are supported in their monopoly by
the government license regulations
No trust in the country is more com
pletely protected in it's monopoly thar
this organization of masters anc
pilots by the license laws.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
BOOKS RECEIVED

THE ISSUES oF LIFE. By Mrs John Van
Worst. joint author Of 1.-THE Woman Who
Tolls New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
Minneapolis: n. Mccarthy. Price 81.
LITTLE GARDENS. How to Beautify City
Yards and Small Country Places. By Charles
NJ Skinner. author of Mature in City
Yard Flowers in the Pave" ETC. Illus
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THE sEIF-cURE OF CONSUMPTION WITH
OUT MEDICINE. With Chapter on the Pre-
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Charles H. Stanley Davis. NJ. D., Phi. D.. menu
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18

The story of the success Of the
United Drug Company illustrates the
wonderful possibilities Of brains, en-
ergy and newspaper advertising. The
company has been in existence less
than a year and a half, and yet it is
to-day recognized as one Of the lead
ing manufacturing drug concerns Of
the country, and it's products, all bear
ing the name of "Rexall," are known
from one end of the land to the other.
The Rexall plan is unique in many
ways. The organization Is composed
Of the leading retail druggists of the
country. Only one druggist in each
city is allowed to become a stock
holder, and he the most reliable and
enterprising.
The Rexall plan originated in the
brain of Louis K. Liggett, the chief
stakeholder and general manager of
the company. Mr.. Liggett was gen
eral manager of the Vinol company
and made a remarkable record in that
capacity. .~~
It is related that he sold $15,5Oo
worth of Vinol in three days, before
a dollars worth of advertising had
been done. The great drug store of
William B. Riker & Sons in New York
city, bought $4,000 of this amount
on Mr.. Liggett's representations, and
in the following two days he sold
S0,0UU III the same way IN
and Washington. Every dollars worth
of these goods, it is asserted, was sold
on regular terms, no concessions be-
ing made to secure these or any other
orders.
Within two months from the time
he first thought of the plan, Mr.. Lig-
gett had formed the largest and
strongest drug organization in the
United States-the United Drug Co.
Newspaper advertising is SO
valuable" he said, recently, that I
can see no sense in wasting time in
discussing the subject. It must be
used intelligently, but newspaper adj
vertising is as essential to the manu-
facture of proprietary article as food
is to the human body.
''Look at the work we have done on
one of our new remedies, Rexall
Mucu-Tone, and you will have an idea
of the possibilities of newspaper adj
vertising when it is judiciously
handled At the meeting Of our
stockholders on September 80, 1913,
I announced that we had just COM
pleted work on our new catarrh cure,
which we would call Mucu-Tone. Our
stockholders examined the remedy
and, being practical druggists, they in
stantlys saw that it was q meritorious
article. During that week our total
orders from our stockholders were
nearly $4,000, this breaking all the
worlds records for proprietary medi-
cine sales.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
NEWS OF TEE BOOK WORLD

Furry Of Discussion Is Due with Regard
to Mrs. John Van Vorst's "The Issues Of
Life" Purpose Novel Involving the
"Race Suicide" QuestIon-cIub Women
Ridicule the Idea Of Such an oraanlza.
ton as That Which Enters Into Story
Other Books.
: Purpose novels are seldom enjoyable
reading and their literary claims are not
great, but they often prove storm centers
OF discussion that help to give them a wide
currency. The Issues of Life, by Mrs.
John Van Worst, by reason of its subject
and by reason of It's very faults of exag-
geration, is a novel that is likely to ere
ate furry Of discussion among club
women and advanced" women generally,
and especially among the critics of these.
The book is the outgrowth Of the famous
race suicide" letter of President Roose-
welt used as a preface to Mrs. Van vorst's
previous sociological study, 1.-The Woman
Who Tolls" Mrs. Van Worst is undoubted-
ly sincere in her interest in her problem,
but the reader cannot escape the impress
sion that she would never have written
this book, at least at this time, had not
the race suicide" phrase focused atten-
ton on this question in a way practically
to assure the success of q book dealing
with 1T. The result is that the whole APP
pears forced and not fully assimilated by
the writer
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
WEDNESDAY EVENING,

where more forcibly than in the field
of public morals. if it be conceded that
punishment and restraint are to be
regarded as really effective curative
measures.
Of course, it is not assumed that
this community is doing nothing to
remove the causes of crime. Nu-
merous agencies are at work in that
direction. But aside from what may
be credited to the public schools prac-
tically nothing is done at public ex-
pense. The Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children, the HUI
name Society, the Children's Aid So
ciety, the various church organiza-
tions, houses of refuge, ETC., are serv-
ing the purpose for which they are in
tended, and are doing it we'll, but with
the exception Of small contribution
to one Of these institutions out of the
public treasury, the entire burden is
borne by private subscription, and the
public has nothing to do with 1t.
Just here we venture to introduce
again the illustration offered by Judge
Tuthill in his recent address in this
city, where he raised the question
whether if the matter of restraint and
punishment of crime, now performed
by the state, were turned over to a
private individual on a contract, as a
business proposition, that individual
would not at once recognize the fact
that it would be economical and
profitable to him to adopt effective
measures to remove the causes Of
crime in order that he might be bur-
dened with less expense for the re-
straint and punishment Of criminals.
The point is we'll taken. The illus
tration is fair.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18

A glance at the state expenses shows
the enormous amount Of $6.OOO,0O0 IN
vested in asylums, orphanages, reforma-
tories and prisons, and another million lot
running expenses to which Minneapolis
contributes her full share-all this spent
in secondary work. We work with might
and main to redeem those already fallen,
and do nothing to save others from rail-
ing.
Truly, a never ending farce!
If it be true that the early years OF
our life make us-for good or bad-must
we not look for help to the nome ana
first school years, the two bulWarks OF
American civilization? Seventy per cent
Of juvenile offenders come from homes OF
disorder and confusion. nor are the par
ents greatly to be blamed; they are often
pitifully helpless T h e 0 urn a ] has
already pointed out the chasm that ex-
lists between the foreign born parent and
the American public school child educated
away from his parents. Add to this the
fact that 81 per cent of all children leaVe
school at IA years of age, and we see
the necessity of using every possible So
cial as we'll as intellectual power while
we have the child with us. For after
all the criminal Is only social misht-one
who objects to the accepted ideals OF law
and order.
We can help make the home a real
home by giving more attention to the
adult. Professor Edmund James of North
western university says: Every school
house should be the center of a system
of adult education as well as infantile
and youthful education. Every cit.
schoolhouse ought to contain a large, we'll
equipped, well-ventilated auditorium, able
to take in of an evening, for purposes
Of further education and instruction, the
parents Of the children who attend it ir
the day time
The city offers allurements in the way
of saloons, dance halls and gambling
rooms-highways to crime-but it offer:
| almost nothing in the way of clean amuse
ment. Is it not time to demand that a
least little Of the s311, 691 be turned ir
to this other channel? And certainly i
can be done in no easier or better way
than by cementing relation between the
home and the school, giving children ant
parents a higher ideal of social duty.
| g-E. Irene. Osgood
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
Two Ways of Treating Crime.

Some exceedingly interesting figures
with regard to the money expended
upon the restraint and prosecution of
criminals by the city of Minneapolis,
appear in another column. These
figures are compiled by visitor for
the Associated Charities, and spe-
cialist in the treatment Of crime and
its attendant evils. The figures have
been prepared by the aid of city and
county officials and seem to represent
the facts.
The allotment of the entire expense
of the police force to the side Of re-
straint and prosecution or punishment
Of crime may be questioned, inasmuch
as the police serve some purposes
which may be regarded as not strictly
In the way Of restraining or Furnishing
crime, or even the protection of the
public against crime. We should
doubtless need some policemen, tho
not nearly as many, if we had no
thieves, burglars, footpads or murder
ers to punish. 1t is true, however,
that the police force has mainly to do
with the protection of the public
against the depredations Of the GRIM
inal class, and the argument from
these figures is that the first and wiser
thing to do is to remove as far as pos
sible those causes which produce the
criminal class =
This is a phase of the general sub
ject of criminology which Is coming to
attract more attention as we come to
be more practical in our methods of
government. We are beginning to
realize that it is more businesslike,
more economical, to say nothing of
any other considerations, to remove
those causes and conditions and in
fuences which produce the criminal
class than 1t is to allow them to oper-
ate without much restraint, devoting
our time and resources more energet-
ically to the punishment of crime after
it is committed. Not only special
students Of social conditions, but the
public generally. is coming to keener
realization of the truth that we have
been neglecting the most effective
measures for the elevation of public
morality and have expended our ener-
gies entirely too much upon dealing
with effects rather than causes.
We know better and do better in
most other things. 1t is time we were
doing better in this connection. And
as wideawake, progressive, intelli-
gent community it belongs to Minne-
8apolis to take account Of the facts sci
forth in the statement referred to and
proceed to act accordingly. The old
maxim that ian ounce of prevention
Ia worth a pound of cure applies no.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
Mr.. sPooNER's CLOTHES
New York Times.

''Who is that little senator with the
tousled hair and the sarcastic smile, with
his under lip stuck out?' asked a New
York woman visitor in the senate gallery
'.That is Mr.. Spooner of Wisconsin,
said the Washington woman who was
showing her around.
II thought So she commented. His
clothes show plainly that they couldn't
have been made anywhere but in Wis
consin.''
Back of them was sitting another
woman, who overheard the conversation.
She compressed her lips tightly, walked
out of the gallery with resolute air. pro-
ceeded to the marble room and summoned
Mr.. Spooner out of the senate.
John" she said, firmly, IT have just
overheard a conversation which I am go-
ing to repeat to you, because it proves
that am right. You know, have al
ways told you that you shouldn't have
your clothes made in New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
A STUPID WAY OF DOING THINGS
Hundreds Of Thousands Annually for Restraint Punishment Of
Criminals but Scarcely Dollar Of Public Money Removal
of the Causes Of Crime

At low estimate Minneapolis, during
1903, spent $311,691 for the care and prose-
cution of criminals-$256,6 95 being the
city's current expenses for that purpose
and $54,996 Mr.. Condit's estimate of the
city's share of the county expenses for the
same object. This amount represents only
the current expenses for the year. It
neither takes into account the valuation
of property, such as police stations work
house. Jail and permanent repairs upon
them. nor does it include yearly interest
on the bonds.
In addition Superintendent Barton esti-
mates one-third of the expenses of the
city poor department and the city poor
farm might be charged up to expense on
account Of crime.
The current expense of the public
schools for 1903 was 1884 ,4O7. Aside from
this the only amount the city pays greater
than that expended because of crime is
1855, 900 for the support of the fire depart
ment. Hence, crime costs the city an
amount very nearly second to the cost
for education. A more liberal and none
the less accurate estimate would raise it
to hrst place below the school expenses.
Here we have $311.691. paid every year
to punish a man after he has committed
the crime.
So much for punishment Now what
Tor prevention? The public school is the
only agency supported by the state that
can De called preventive, and that there
is any direct relation between crime and
education is seriously questioned by many
So far education is partial to the intel
lectual side. Some one has said the
schools are formal, dusty routine OF
dried usefulness which is a boy-forsaken
country, bounded on the north by the
long vacation and on the south by half
holidays; on the east by tardy marks and
on the west by the truant officer We
may well ask is the city fair to it's citi-
zens to expend such sums in punishment
at one end and and so little prevention
at the other? Experience plainly has
taught us that punishment is but the
slightest deterrent of crime We may
sweep away the spider webs, but until the
spider is killed he spins merrily on
| Is II not the first duty of the city
! to do its utmost to remove causes from
which crime springs -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
EXPERIENCE
81
WlMN

Little sister If told you OF the way
Wherein my feet went straying yesterday.
If warned you of the pitfalls and the snares.
Would you straight forego your Maying for my
prayers
And, lest you, too might wander, pause and
stay?
Nay, not So
Where other feet have gone, your feet must 60.
Little sister, If I showed my heart to you.
with too much loving bruised and broken thru.
Would you keep your own white and hidden
From that strange JOY whose end is sorrowingf
Would you take my scars for sign this thing 10
true?
Nay. not So
Your heart must learn what wiser women know.
-Theodosia Garrison.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
AT THE THEATRES
Foyer Chat.

Foyer Chat.
The matinee performance of ''The Great
Unknown at the Metropolitan this after
noon showed a gratifying increase in at
tendance. '"The, Great Unknown" will run
the week out Tomorrow morning the
sale of seats will open for the production
next week Of the new Japanese play 20
Kiku San
That Uncle Toms Cabin" is still a
strong drawing card. is being demonstrat-
ed by the big audiences at the Bijou this
week.
Ben Hendricks, the Swedish dialect
comedian and Northland singer. comes to
the Bijou next week, presenting Sidney r.
Ellis new romantic play, ERIK Of swe-
den.'
The Bon Tons. now playing an engage
ment at the Dewey theater, offer many
new features in the vaudeville line. The
chorus is also a large and well-drilled ag-
gregation Of pretty show girls. There will
be the usual ladies' matinee Friday.
Two large audiences saw the Ferris
Stock company production Of DIR. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde" at the Lyceum yesterday.
The midweek matinee will be given to-
morrow. For the coming week the Ferris
company, including Miss Alison Skip
worth, the new leading lady, will be seen
in "a COntented Woman"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18

A rush order from Japan for fifteen
locomotives to be shipped to Kobe has
been entered by Philadelphia firm Here
goes slice off the credit Japan estab
lished in America when she negotiated her
$50, 1000, 900 loan. Estimates are that ia
pan has about $15,0OO,O0o to her credit in
our country, but at the rate she is buying
it will not last long, and another loan
will be in order
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18

It is said that the men on one of the
street car lines have agreed that hereafter
they will offer their seats to ladies only
when in their Judgment the lady Is older
than the man who makes the offer. That
looks like bright idea, but it may make
trouble
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
RICH MAN TURNED HERMIT

a dugout near Pueblo, Col, for six years.
Formerly he was a we'll resident OF
Brooklyn. In 1898, while cruising in his
yacht, he met and fell in love with q
young woman. She married another man,
whereupon Alderman left his home and
took up his abode in his present quarters;
where he has lived a hermit's life ever
since, s. sssssssss5 -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18

Wasn't it Mark Twain who declared
that polygamy was forbidden by that pas
sage in the scriptures that says no man
can serve two masters? Let US be pre-
gument.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18

AN INVITATION is extended to all to visit
The battery Of presses consists OF three four.
deck Goss Presses, with a total capacity Of
ia, 900 etght-page Journals hour. printed,
FOLDED and counted. The best time to call 10
from 3:15 to 4:30 p Inquire at the bus-
Less office and be directed to the visitors gal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18

Kuropatkin Is reported to have skipped
to Hardin, leaving Alexieff at Liao-yang.
Alex seems to be playing the part Of the
sop thrown to the hungry pursuers to
divert their attention long enough to en-
able the real thing to get away. q
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18

The Illinois republican convention has
brought out one interesting feature Of the
politics of Illinois are no longer controlled
from Washington. Senator Cullom, SEN
ator Hopkins and a large number of the
congressman favor Lowden for governor
and have been trying to induce the dele
gates to nominate him, but the delegates
seem to take the view that they are the
people who make senators and congress
mate whom they please without any in
structjons from Washington.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18

along. 1t should ever be remembered.
however, that such a book cannot take
the place of a physician of high standing
and character The Uneasy Chair.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18

The Wisconsin democrats declare for
free trade. Well, they might as we'll go
to the Wall on that issue as on any other.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-18
Directors Supposed to Direct.

to-day brings the announcement
that the Western Union Telegraph
company will withdraw its service
from the poolrooms. The district at.
torney threatens to attack the COM
pany in the New York courts, and
the Commercial Photographers Union
Of America has been considering
making an attack upon the company's
charter, on the ground that the COM
pany has conspired to evade the, law.
This airing Of the connections be-
tween the telegraph company and the
poolroorns is only one incident of the
general fight upon graft in New Y ork,
but it is the feature of leading inter-
est to the commercial world, because
it involves a great corporation known
to every one.
Perhaps the telegraph company
should not be judged too harshly. It's
president justly says that the COM
pany is obliged by law to transmit
messages, and may not discriminate.
Nevertheless, the evidence would in
dictate that in this case the company,
or at least the company's employees,
have gone beyond this and have fos-
tered and allotted the poolroom bust
ness. ~ra 4
The result Of it all may be to give
rise to more definite ideas concern
ing the duties of a corporate director.
The odium of this affair has stirred
up the directors, and one of them, no
less a parsonage than Chauncey M.
Depew, says:
| 1t has been year since I attended a
meeting Of the board of directors Of the
Western Union, and I am not Mt all in
formed on the charges which have been
! brought against the company in connec-
| ton with the operation of pOOlroOms in
| New York.
Furthermore, Senator Depew says
he will not permit his name to re-
main on the board of any corporation
standing for anything tainted with
Illegally, and that unless the compa-
ny does differently, he will resign.
This is high ground, but it is taken
rather late. The public may we'll
| wonder what director is for If not
prominence, whose name gives weight
| to any company he may be connected
with, who is a member Of the board
Of a 500, 100000 corporation, and
frankly admits that he knows nothing
about it's affairs.
This is all wrong. 1t is just this
sort of thing that has enabled unscru-
pulous promoters too often to obtain
the names Of prominent men to head
companies that have proved swindles
and in which many innocent investors
have lost money. The Western Union
Is a great, sound company, engaged
in serving the public, but if it's di-
rectors know no more of its manage
ment than Senator Depew knows, how
may we be sure that any prom
nent name really means anything
when attached to corporation board ?
The Illinois republican convention has
brought out one interesting feature Of the
situation in that state and that is that the