Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-06-25
ANOTHER POLAR DASH.

Commander Peary will have the stars and
stripes waving from the north pole one of these
days. says the Minneapolis Times. Undismayed
by previous failures, he will start out again
next summer and expects to make the most
strenuous effort of his life to reach his goal.
He regards the discovery of the pole as the
greatest geographical exploit yet to be accom-
plished and he has full faith that it will be,
though prehaps not by himself.
| He will make the north coast of Grant
Land his first objective point and that is SO de-
grees north or within one degree aud seventeen
minutes of the highest latitude he has reached
by ship and sledge. If unable to reach the
mediterranean point of Grant Land the first
season he will winter wherever he is and in
the summer of 1906 continue to his objective
point, spend another winter there and in Feb
ruary follow his sledge journey to the pole
which he confidently expects to reach in 1907
Some of may give forth nutterings
about the useessness of these polar expedi-
tons, which cannot by any possibility add to
material wealth of the world or provide home
for a single family and have caused the sacri-
flee of many lives, but even the grumblers can
not repress feeling of admiration tor the men
who have the pluck to make the venture, and
there is not one of them who would not feel a
pang of disappointment if some other nation
should send the first successful expedition to
the atop of the EARTH"
Commander Peary's daring and persever-
ance are admirable and there is no doubt that
he will receive the support of geographical and
scientific societies generally.
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Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, is he nomi-
nee of t he Republican patty for the vicepresi-
dency. Fairbanks is in the presid 1itial class,
and it is good thing to have men ct that stamp
in the vice-presidency. With healthy young
man like Roosevelt in the presidency, he will
probably serve all his four years as vice-presi-
dent, but in 1908, he will hyve strong claim
on the presidential nomination.
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Representative of the Standard Oil Co. has
that the "non-exposive" gasoline is a fake. He
showed that gasoline would explode under GER
tain conditions aud that under others it would
not, and it made difference whether it had
been treated with preventative not.
Gasoline will not explode unless it is mixed
with six parts of air. Mixed with less it burns
like ordinary oil. A burning cigar can be put
into gasoline without igniting the latter. These
facts known to sellers of preventative,
and they use them skillfu11y to sell their wares.
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Theodore Roosevelt was this week
nominated for the presidency by the Repub1i-
can party. His election is practically assured,
and he will thus be the first vice-president to
be elected to the presidency since the days of
Adams. That he should thus break precedent
of century is not accident, but is due to
the fact that he is a tower of strength. Roose-
welt is a man of force, but he used his force IN
building up and not tearing down. He is an
educated man, and yet he is not pedantic or
scholastic. He is natural leader, but he leads
where the people wish to be lead. He is man
of some wealth, yet could be de-
Above all he is honest, straight for
ward and gifted with large fund of common
sense.
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An almost incredible incident of the present
remarkable war is the report from Moscow, the
ancient capital of Russia, that Japan's recent
bod for Tha|