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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
SUGAR TRUST
INVADES CANADA
CHEAP LANDS FOR PRODUCTION
OF RAW MATERIALS.
Expert Agent of the American Com
Germ Looks Over the FieId-Fear
that Canadian Refners May Become
Rivals-Grain Crop Failure in
Some Parts Owing to Drought.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Raymond, Alberta, Aug, 6.-Dr.
Hooker, one Of the expert agents of
the American Sugar trust, and George
Austin of the Utah Sugar company.
have been visiting that part of south
ern Alberta where the sugar beet is
cultivated, investigating the condition
and prospects of the industry. They
were very reticent, but their visit,
coming close upon that of Minnesota
capitalists who contemplate the cree
ton Of another sugar refinery near
Calgary, is taken as proof that the
sugar refiners of the United States
have keen interest in the possibili-
ties of Alberta as a sugar-growing
country.
The factories engaged in the re-
lining of beet sugar in the states find
difficulty in procuring the raw ma
terial, owing mainly to the fact that
the land suitable for the cultivation
Of the beet is held at high prices,
being often near big cities, where the
farmer has the choice Of going into
gardening.
Alberta is said to have thousands of
acres of suitable land that can be ac-
quired and put into beets for a few
dollars an acre.
! Another reason for the interest
which the American trust takes in
Canadian sugar is that it is the one
most likely to come in competition
with it's products. The cost of trans
| portation is such an element in the
price of sugar that Canadian refneries
| on the border of the middle western
| states would have a fair show to COM
pete in that market. Despite tariff
regulations, Canadian refineries have
been for the last few years selling
more refined sugar in the states than
those of any other foreign nation, and
if the refineries were to procure the
raw material near their doors they
would certainly be in still better
| position.
This possible competition is not
| ignored by the sugar trust, and it is
said that one of the immediate rea-
sons for the trip Of DR.. Hooker was
to come to a selling agreement with
the Canadian refineries. AS the crop
of sugar beets will be short in the
states this year, the agreement will
mean higher prices for sugar.
| While these hopes are kindled for
the Canadian sugar industry the
farmers south of Lethbridge, Medicine
Hat and Maple Creek have suffered
considerably from drought. 1t is said
that it all could be remedied by in
telligent irrigation, but the fact re-
mains that the grain crops will be a
failure in many of these places, and
some of the American farmers have
started to go back home, while others
are going further north, where there
has been no drought and crops are
fine.
The dry spell was broken last even.
ing and it has been raining all day
with snow in the foothills. Wheat i:
ready for cutting where it has sur
vived the dry weather.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
Employer, Employee and the
Public.

There is food for thought in the
question raised by Ernest Poole in
Worlds Work. He wonders if there
lic," and inclines to reply in the mega
tive, holding that it has been de-
stroyed by one or the other of the
two great economic classes into which
he thinks the country is rapidly di-
viding-the employers and the en-
ployed. The labor troubles in Chi
cago and the resultant organization
there Of the employers in an effort to
offset and cope successfully with la
boris demands are having the effect,
Mr.. Poole thinks, of giving concen-
tration and conference to this new
movement, and he fears that it is to
take possession Of the country.
Trades unionism is philosophically
sound Intended primarily to effect
the sharing. of money by giving the
toiler a larger wage, and thus to i'm
prove his condition and that Of his
family, it makes a, strong appeal to
| love Of fairness. 1t appeals with equal
force W llle MAN ana woman VINO
! love their country and want to see Its
citizenship uplifted and ennobled. II
| is inevitable that, in the working out
of SO serious a problem there should
| be mistakes. In the main, however
organized labor has been mighty
factor in the Improvement of the lo1
Of the wageworker. It has done more
than any other single agency to widen
| the gap between him and his Euro
pear brother. It still has important
work to do, and in the main it is try
| ingBto do that work we'll.
If we were to criticize organized
labor, it would be to say that it has
not always been wisely and honestly
led. The average sense and conscience
| Of the individual worker we believe
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
ANOTHER Won MoLTkE AT HEAD

Within few weeks a Won Moltke will
again figure as head of the general staff
of the Prussian army. Won Moltke II. is
the nephew Of the great strategist of the
later nineteenth century, to whom for
long years he acted as aided camp, and
will consequently be no stranger to the
palatial quarters of the Konigsplatz when
he enters them as chief. Count Heimuth
who bears the Christian name of his great
kinsman, is Sc years old, and has passed
the whole of his military career in staff
and court employment. He never COM
manded brigade or a division, much less
a corps. On the day of Count Won
Moltke's death he became aide de-camp tc
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
JAPANESE SOLDIERS WELL
EQUIPPED

The japanese soldiers are well equipped
for a cold campaign If their equipment
today is such as it was in the campaign
of 1894 Then, besides being furnished
with ordinary winter clothing, such as
they would wear in the milder climate OF
Japan, they were provided with a thick
fur hood, a thick fur-lined overcoat
flannel undershirt, knit nap-lined trou-
sers, paper undershirts and drawers, thick
nap-lined gloves and an additional blan-
ket, while during the severest part OF the
winter a larger blanket was supplied fol
each to wear or lie upon.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
Skinner WON

A good many members of congress be-
long to the order of the Mystic Shrine
and most of those who have crossed the
hot sands wear the button of the organi-
zation. Twenty or thirty of them went to
the races at Bennings track. near Wash
ington, one day last week and found that
a horse named Shrine was entered in the
principal event All the Shriners bet their
money on the animal named. 1t Won
and there was great rejoicing among the
dignified lawmakers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
A PRIEST WITH A BEARD

i The appointment Of Rev. Thomas F.
Cusack to be auxiliary bishop of New
York is one of the surprises of the present
pope's administration. Mr.. Cusack wears
beard, which shocks some good Cath
olics, altho the clean shaven face ts
rather convention than a requirement.
He wears it because of sensitive throat.
and as far as his influence Is concerned,
the beard seems to be valuable asset,
for he is the superior of the New York
apostolate, whose object is to fetch I'M
attached persons into the church. Mr..
Cusack has been efficient as parish priest,
as well as during his seven years labor
in the apostolate
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
AN EARLY BROWNING REVIEW

In the Life of Dean Farrar'' his son,
Reginald Farrar, has included many ex-
tracts from Men I Have Known for
example, the following story Of Browning
winch is worth recalling. John Stuart
Mill, happening upon a copy Of Bells and
Pomegranates, sent a request to Tait's
Magazine for permission to review it, The
editor answered that unfortunately, he
could not insert a review of Bells and
Pomegranates. as it had been reviewed
in the last number Mr. Browning had
the curiosity to see this review and
found the following:
Belis and Pomegranates," by Robert
Browning; Balderdash
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
a socIETYs Leaders SNAKE

Lady Eleanor Wickham. the London So
ciety leader, has craze for wearing lit
tie grass snakes for bracelets. She en-
times the reptiles to Irvine themselves
around her wrist, then she plunges her
hands and arms into icy cold water for
few moments. with the result that the
serpents become torpid and remain i'll a
more or less comatose state for some
hours. Thus she is able to preside at
afternoon tea with her arms covered with
living snake bracelets. Lady Eleanor
also possesses splendid collection Of In
dian and other toads.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
MISSION SOCIETY WANTS MONEY

The Swedish Mission Society Of Amer
lea is trying to secure share. In the
$1,30O,OOO of profits that have resulted
from a goldmine discovered in Alaska
by P. H. Andson, missionary sent there
by the society. The point is whether a
mission board is entitled to profits which
its missionaries make outside of their
calling.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
kEIFER IN POLITICS AGAIN

General r. w. Keifer of Ohio, whose
somewhat unfortunate experience as
speaker Of the national house will be re-
called, is trying to obtain the republican
nomination in the seventh Ohio congress
sional district, which would be equivalent
to an election. It is now twenty years
since he left congress.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06
oR. HALE,s PICTURE AS A TESTER

An Oregon newspaper man In Washing
ton is telling a good story about DR.. Hale.
He says he was once travelling In the
back country Of Oregon, and, going to
little inn for lodging, was surprised to
see large picture of DR.. Hale on the
wall The woman of the house explained
1t thus: well, you see, a good many
strangers come here and want me to
keep EN-, and don't know anything
about 'em, but If they know Edward Ev-
erett Hale's picture I know they're good
for something, and let EN- stay.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

In New York this year contracts for
asphalt pavement have been let as low
as $1.0S per square yard. The asphalt
people are finding out that there are other
paving materials.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

Word comes from Esopus that Judge
Parker has red hair. The support of the
Woodpecker club seems to be assured
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

There is a little something pathetic In
seeing q supreme judge doff his robes fol-
few months of presidential rainbow
chasing, after which must come private
life, solitude, and reflection on the folly
of it ALL But it is something to have
been a candidate for the highest office ir
the gift of the people, and Judge Parker
NAV feel that it is better to have run anc
lost, than never to have run at all.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

has, in a majority Of Instances, been
better and truer than those of the
official leaders, and yet the demands
Of discipline have frequently brought
about compliance when something in
the way Of resistance would have been
more desirable.
Public sentiment has been quick to
appreciate the justice OF labor's de-
mands, and here, too, mistakes have
been made. Labor has too frequently
strained that sympathy almost to the
breaking point by the lawlessness and
crime which have been committed in
Its name. Public sentiment quickly
grows callous, and we have wondered
that labor was not more quick to I'M
derstand that fact. If the public ever
turns against organized labor, the re-
suits will be deplorable. This is why
T he urnal has always coun-
seled moderation and respect for law
and property rights during great
strikes. In proportion as these pre-
vail labor will hasten the final and
happy solution of its problems.
The trend toward organization of
employers has been the direct result
of the unfairness and intolerance of
the average strike, and 1t ought to oc-
casion no surprise, save that it did
not come earlier. In the light of the
conditions which too frequently have
prevailed during strike periods, or
ganization Of the employers is philo-
sophically sound. Both sides have
rights, and those rights should be re-
spected. 1t is too bad that this re
spect should ever need to be secured
by the exercise of brute force.
We doubt if Mr.. Poole is right in
suggesting that the "great American
public" has been swallowed up in the
union organizations on the one hand
and the employers organizations or
the other. Outside of these two great
| classes abides the controlling factor
| in public sentiment. That factor will
| in the end, we believe, operate to re-
| lieve the present high tension. The
pendulum has now been travelling full
long in one direction, and the time
at hand. The reaction which we be-
lieve public sentiment will eventually
accomplish will not work any harm
| to labor On the other hand, it viii
help dignity and uplift it. Nor will
this reaction turn against the en-
ployers as such. It will help bring
both to some proper feeling Of respon
sibility to the people as whole
When that feeling shall have take1
possession Of labor and capital, thu
labor problem will be solved ant
strikes will be no more. The princi
/ pal lesson of the present hour for boil
sides is that neither is above the law
and that is the lesson which publ
sentiment will enforce. Failure t
learn it has been at the bottom of al
the serious labor trouble the countr,
! has had
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

Weeds are growing in some of the
streets in st. Paul, and the good citizens
are insisting on paving that is weed-proof.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

King Menelik has sent a gift Of several
young lions to his great and good friend,
President Roosevelt. They will make
cheerful playmates for the Roosevelt boys.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

the jury merely takes the word Of the
prosecutor, and that he exercises the
power without the responsibility.
When he has to bear the brunt Of 1t
all, he will exercise greater care and
discretion.
These and other questions must be
answered satisfactorily, before the
| issue is finally determined.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

When John Sharp Williams reached
Yazoo City, Miss. his home, after his
triumphs at the st. Louis convention, he
fully expected to be escorted up the street
by band playing Hail to the Chief"
But there wasn't a soul to meet him and
the streets were deserted. Everybody was
at the ball game This brings up an
awful thought. What if football inter-
feres with the election?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

The Parker balloon is being relieved of
excess ballast, in the hope that 1t will fly
to victory. The judge has handed In his
resignation as chief justice of the supreme
court of appeals. Now If he could only
throw Hill, McCarren and a few Of that
tribe overheard his chances would be ma
teria1Iy innroyed y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

The democrats Of West Virginia, at
their recent state convention, wanted to
make a race issue for that state, but de-
ferred action for fear a negro platform
would embarrass the ParSsr-DaVis pres1-
Dental ticket in other states We doubt
if the negroes of the Ohio valley can be
caught with such chair. The democrats
have already made the negro an issue in
this campaign. and the failure OF the west
Virginia branch to take a decisive stand
doesn't improve the. situation. Having
made the issue, it seems strange that
the democrats should prepare for an
organized attempt to capture the negro
vote of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Yet
that is Just what they are doing.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

AN INVITATION is extended to all to visit
the Press Room which is the finest in the west.
The battery of presses consists Of three four
deck Goss Presses, with total capacity Of
LA, 900 eight -page Journals an hour, printed,
folded and counted The best time to call is
from 3:15 to 430 pm Inquire at the bust
office and lie directed to the visitors gal
lery.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

Is giving popular
delighted thousands
Rochester Lester Prairie this
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

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kilograms sent of this Bureau and the
same will be forwarded to them or held for
their arrival.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

Mrs. Burgadine, an Illinois woman
went to the White House to warn the
president Of danger to him, revealed to
her thru a vision. Mrs. Burgadine is the
mother of fourteen children.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

operated Seeing Minneapolis Car since May Offering four
trips douto
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

Congressman Tawney, who is in the
twin cities today, will leave tomorrow
evening for New York city to confer with
Senator Scott, chairman of the eastern
| speakers bureau. They will arrange a
schedule for the principal speakers Mr.
Tawney says that Indiana will be the
most hotly contested state in his dis
trict, which runs from Pennsylvania west
to the Pacific. Senators Nelson and Clapp
are both to be used there for a week,
Senator Clapp's dates beginning Oct. 8.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

The first and second districts furnished
some notable veterans on the republican
electoral ticket, which will cast the state S
vote next winter for Roosevelt and Fair
banks. Thomas Simpson Of Winona is
one of the old warehouses; of republican
ism, whose principles date from the birth
Of the party, and Basil Smout of Wells
cast his first vote for John c. Fremont,
voting for every republican candidate for
president on the long roll since 1856. The
convention did wisely in honoring such
men,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

o. H. Myran, former state senator,
comes In for hard roast at the hands
of his home paper, the Ada Index, be
cause he has been writing letters criti-
Ching the action Of the recent state con-
ventioE. Senator Myran is spending most
of his time in California on account of
his health, but is now in Minnesota, and
was an ardent supporter of his old leader
Frank M. Eddy, for governor. Since the
convention he has freely expressed his
opinion of the methods used by, the win
ming faction. It will be interesting to see
his reply to the structures of the index.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

by daylight and moonlight down
the lakes nominal prices All largely attended
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

A Celebrated Nebraska Cow Authority
Reports That the Kansas State Agrlcul-
turai School Anti-FIy Mixture ] 8 Sod
den and Dismal FaIlure-Essay on the
DeEsornIng, DemIkIne and Defylng OF
Cows and Other Farm Critters.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

Several members Of the last house have
filed for denomination this week Among
them are George R. Perley of Moorhead,
who was a leading member, altho mex
perienced; Frank A. Carlson of Itch
field, another republican new member who
paid close attention to business and made
& good record; M. Walz, the Perham
banker of the Otter Tail delegation, and
John Deegan of Prior Lake, democratic
member from Scott county, who took an
active part in questions having to do with
county officers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

No fall of Port Arthur is genuine I'M
less it has Toxic blown in the bottle.
These Chi-fu and Shanghai falls, of
which we have been getting so many,
are not even stumbles. Aut Toxic aut
nit, is our motto.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-06

The Chaska Herald says:
The city dailies assert that strong pressure is
being brought to bear upon e. II. Hobe of st
Paul by friends who want him to become can
didate for the democratic nomination for COVER
nor In common with a few democrats in this
nest Of the woods, we would like to know who
is Mr.. Hobe? When this is cleared up we may
see our way clear to support him.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1904-04-12
ANOTHER MURDER
Reported From South Christian
and Murderer Escapes.
RObt. Lewis Shoots Down Jim
Kelly on Steger Brothers
Farm.

Another of the periodical negro
Killings in South Christian occurred
Saturday morning at the farm of
Jas. and Ed Steger, six miles
south of town.
Robt. Lewis shot and instantly
killed Jim Kelly, as they were on
their way TO the field to work about
sunrise. They were both hands on
the farm and had been working to-.
gether for three years. Their wives
had lately been quarreling and the
killing was due to this domestic dis.
cord. Just what had transpired
recently is not known, but the muir.
der Itself was a cold-blooded affair
and will call for a fine of at least
$500, if the scale of fines established
for murders IN circuit court last
month is to be continued.
Kelly was walking along a path
leading a mule and Lewis was rid
ing another mule behind him. Sud-
denly Lewis jumped down from his
mule and running up to Kelly said
'Jim I'm going to kill you right
now, Kelly threw back his head
in his establishment, but before he
could turn to run, the murderer
showed pistol under his chin and
fired, the ball coming out in the top
of his head. He fell like an OK. 1t
was not necessary to fire again.
Lewis ran away and has not
been captured
The coroner held an inquest and
rendered a verdict Of murder.
Kelly was - years old and re-
garded as a peaceable man and
d good hand on the farm. Lewis is
| p years old and has not been re-
garded as a negro of bad character
The killing was unprovoked and
is but another outgrowth of the far
cical failures to punish homicides
IN the courts. We may expect to
have many of these bloody affairs
until the law demonstrates its abil-
| ity and disposition to punish crime.
The farce of fnIng a man in the
same section of the county $500 for
killing another has borne its bloody
fruit in less than sixty days.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1904-04-12
SECOND WEEK
Of the Ham Revival Opens
With Two Great Crowds.
Meetings Growing In Interest
and Sermons Increasing In
Strength.

The Ham Revival closed the first
week with every indication of
very successful meeting. The
crowds Sunday afternoon and
night were the largest yet and that
at night especially taxed the cap.
acity of both floors of the big Tab.
ernacle. Mr.. Ham is gro wing on
the people of Hopkinsville wonder
fully. His sermons are stronger
and his delivery is earnest and
forcetul.
He attacked the immortality of
the modern society circles Sunday
night and used very plain lam
guage in denouncing the modern
dance especially. The services
again yesterday afternoon and
last night were largely attended
and a good many people asked for
prayer,
The morning prayer-meetings at
the Christian church will be kept
up, as they are productive OF great
good.
Mr.. Ham talked to the Sunday
school at the Christian church
Sunday morning, but did not preach
at any church. Yesterday morn.
ing he made d round of the saloons
and talked to the bartenders. He
was politely treated at all of them.
He urged the liquor men to come
out to his meetings and advised
them to quit the liquor business.
The meeting will continue al
this week at the usual hours, 10 a
N. at the Christian church and
and 100 p m. at the Tabernacle.