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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-27
Two College Types.

That fine element Of American COL
lege enrolment, the men who work
their own way in whole or in part thru
their course Of higher education, is
still strongly in evidence. Yale prob
ably approaches as near as any Of our
universities to being a fashionable re-
sort foR rich mems sons who take a
college course more for superficial
results than to gain power. It Is to
Yale that the foolish son of the foolish
rich man betakes himself with view
to having a good time under the pre-
tense of being a college man. But,
fortunately, the Woodworking youth
who grimly fights his way thru college
is still strongly in evidence at old Yale.
In the class of 1908, fifteen out of the
nineteen highest appointments at
graduation fell to men who had re-
ceived tuition scholarships"
No college man who was privileged
to attend a large university but can
recall distinctly the sharp division ex-
listing in college life between the
hustlers and the society and athletic
men. The former are in college to get
everything out Of it that they can. The
latter. asa class are in college be-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-27
2 Courthouse Parks.

To the Editor of The Journal.
Now, when the park board is out Of
debt and the outskirts Of our city are
amply supplied with parks and boulevards
that will suffice for years. would it be
out of place to ask that honorable body to
consider the suggestion made a year ago.
viz, ito purchase two squares for court
house parks. one facing the Fourth street
side ,of the building and the other on the
Firth street %side,~ and have them both con-
verified into modern parks, supplied with
monuments, fountains. beautiful flower
groups, etc.,. which every city up to date
is planning to haye.''
ST.. Paul IS to have beautiful park
around the capitol.
It has truthfully been said: when a
man can get outside of the built-up por-t
ton, Of the city, he is in no need of
parks It is also useless to put expensive
flower beds in parks in the outskirts as
those places are more for outings and pic
MICS, but the above suggested parks,
which are within the reach Of every one,
will without doubt at an times be of the
greatest delight to visitors and citizens
alike 2 What could be more delightful and
practical than the courthouse parks, which
would give the necessary space and
:groaf1a that are So necessary to give the
mag nlfeeht structure handsome. setting.
While there is means and opportunity
to have more breathing space at the
courthouse may we not hope that the park
board will concentrate means and energy.
at the present and get hold Of this prop
:epty for identifying the city?
What de other people think?
-Taxpayer
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-27
How to Choose Delegates.

"a The statement of the Minnesota re-
publican members Of congress, issued
thru Representative Stevens, will
doubtless dispose Of the suggestion
that district delegates to the republi-
can national convention from this
state shall be chosen at the same time
and place with the state convention to
elect the elegates-at-large It has
been suggested that time and expense
might be saved If the delegates repre-
senting each district in the state con-
vention should constitute themselves
Il district convention to elect district
delegates to the national convention.
ss This suggestion certainly has the
merit Of simplicity and the choice of
delegates in accordance with it could
be made in manner as truly repre-
sentative of the wishes ;of the repub-
ncans of the several districts as by
the customary separate conventions.
81 But Minnesota has no desire to'lose
its voice in the national convention, or
even to have the regularity Of its rep
Fascination questioned. The delegation
in congress has demonstrated that to
choose district delegates in any man
ner, except by separate district con-
Nentlons called for the purpose, would
be to incur the charge of irregularity
and, possibly, the loss Of representa-
tion in the convention. j. . g. ST.. 49,.
"a This is not the time for any Roose-
welt state to take chances. Apparent
II the president should be. nominated
by reclamation, but the plotters are
at work-and strange things have
happened in national conventions
where the game Of politics is played
for big stakes. .5fsSa =
AS for the question Of theFlocation Of
authority for calling the district con-
ventions, the delegation has sug-
gested the easiest and best. way; that
is that the congressional district cam
paign committees Of 1902 shall be des-
ignated by the state committee as the
converting authorities for their re-
spective districts. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-27

History, New York city, going to some
obscure corner Of the world each year
to get new birds, photographs and in
formation, he is also a most delightful
literary writer and lecturer on the sub
ject,i finding time, with it all, to edit a
magazine about birds-the illustrated
Bird-Lore. His private collection Of
photographs Of American birds in their
natural haunts is the largest and most
remarkable. in the world.
Ray Stannard Bakers Boys Second
Book OF Inventions is, like his volume for
boys on German inventions, irresistible
to most boys. Mr.. Baker has the excel
lent gift of perspicuity, and he discusses
such new discoveries as radium and it's
qualities, so far as known, and wireless
telegraphy, in a way ait once fascinating
and informing. Nothing could be more
interesting than his account of the Won
derfuI white powder, radium worth about
million dollars "a pound, which, If gath
cred in a mass of a pound or two, would
kill every one coming within it's influence.
Even very small quantities badly burn
experimenters and produce ulcers. A dan
gerous substance, indeed, but one which
will one day be- l1arnessed in the service
Of man. . Mr., Bakers, stories Of the new
est electric light, the new lighthouse con-
structioI1, s>the fixing. of. nitrogen, and
others, make UP a most attractive book.
The volume rs .prefusely Illustrated.
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ATTITUDE OF THE MEReERITEs
Grand Forks Herald.

1t IS a peculiar fact that while the adj
vocates OF the merger with one breath
deny that there has been any consolida-
ton of the roads affected Or that such con-
solidation was attempted OF expected
with the next breath they describe the
benefits which the consolidation Of inter
ests and the elimination of +cut- throat
competition" will confer on the people of
the northwest This popularity has been
noticed ever since the beginning Of the
controversy, and has been strongly in
evidence in all the important speeches
which have been made and the newspaper
articles which have been written on that
side Of the controversy. It would be graft
flying If the advocates of this plan would
take one side Of the discussion or the
other. The merger tends to interfere with
competition or it does not. Competition
is a good thing or it is not. II the argu-
ment is that while. competition is a good
thing, the merger does nothing to inter
fere with it. that is one proposition. If we
are to understand that competition is bad.
and that the mergers in destroying it IL
doing good thing. that is another propo.
sftion, 80 ~. x III - -
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Speaking Of Minnesota livestock, what's.
the matter with our wolves? SO
SENTIMENT MIGHT CHANGEsTHE
.s .. VOTE
Pioneer Press.


The Minneapolis Journal speaks OF a
vote having been taken in a small group
of people in that city, made up principally
Of old soldiers, on the question whether
those present would favor. armed inter-
vention by the United States to protect
our commercial rights in China in case
they were denied by Russia The major
ity seems to have been large against such
intervention. The old soldiers .'had seen
a good deal of war, they knew what it
meant, and they%did not think a mere
questionfof commercial priyilegeyor right
should be allowed to involve this country
in a war with Russia" x itlA ~
The soldiers were undoubtedly right,
and on such presentation of the ques-
ton they would undoubtedly have the sup
port of the country at large. But sup
pose that, in addition: to the commercial
motive for intervention, some strong SEN,
tinental motive is presented, such as
years ago prompted the acceptance of
Texas proposal of annexation, at the cost
of a war with Mexico, or again such as
moved the United States to intervention:
in behalf Of Cuba. Suppose our protege,
Japan, is at the point Of subjugation by
Russia, and, taking g. look into the future,
we see that such subjugation will mean,
not, only the loss Of our Commercial
rights in China, but. in Japan likewise;'
and Furthermore that Russian domination
in China-adding 400, 100000 people to the
millions already owning the, sway of the
czaI-will create an invincible power
inimicaI to civilization everywhere and
especially inimica1 to that type of civili-
cation found under the American flag?
Would not those old soldiers in Mime
apolis, and a great many others, see that
there was something more than a, mere.
commercial ething indeed
where a failure on the part Of the United
States to intervene might be construed as.
L ol,s IL s.,~s ~f o11i,, 1,,fx
Of treachery to the ideals Of our republic?
The idea that our government must inter-
vene for the right only when the power at
tackled is feeble, as in the case of Cuba,
does not comport with our claim to
leadership in the family Of nations.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING,

cause it is "the thing" because they
wish the distinction of athletics or the
pleasures Of the peculiar college social
life. Their purpose is to get thru the
course or to spend a year or two with
a minimum Of study. In other words
they make a minor part Of their coll
lege life OF the thing for which the
college primarily exists. They acquire
but little knowledge and get practical
hard, daily mental exercise.
AS faras appearances go the hustlers
are at a discount. Their trousers are
usually some minutes behind the lat
est mode and FAIL their clothes. are
worn longer than they should be, Shav-
ing a due regard to the aesthetics Of
dress. Their manners are often far
from debonair and they are i'll at ease
in company. On the other hand, they
do not usually participate in those fol-
lies which have the effect Of making
the average citizen look upon the col
lege man as nuisance.
They are not the college boys the
the colleges own tests Of fitness, and
later in life they are found wearing
good clothes, living in good style and
putting up just as good a. front as the
man who seemed more fortunate in
undergraduate days. They get good
garments with success. The other
fellows sometimes lose even their at
tractive raiment and miss success.
With these, life Is in full bloom in the
sophomore days; with the others it is
only in the bud.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-27
.c>rsMAGAZINE. IDEAS

Where Unonism Is supreme.-It is in
San Francisco, says Ray Stannard Baker
in Mcc4ure's for February. In San Fran
cisco we have a new kind OF, industrial
peace--a condition, perhaps, without prec-
edent-in which the ancient master, the
employer, has been hopelessly defeated
and unionism reigns supreme" Such a
condition, is described by Mr.. Baker in
"A Corner in Labor s,,-
Miriam Nicholson has story, prince
Roseleaf, and a Girl from Kansas in the
same number. The girl from Kansas is
as breezy as Kansas prairie, and Prince
RQseleaf loses his, heart to her in follow
ing a-%nlan from. Cooks thru Europe, a
position he was forced to assume because
pa pa IN New York Shut down on his re-
mlttances. There are seven or eight more
stories, ins the magazine, including one
by Booth Harrington, besides other in
forming and entertaining reading.
The BLACK Cats Monthly Meow.--The
Black Cat for February with its. usual
number.U yarns is out.
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THEN YOU'LL REMEMHER:ME

When other lips and, other hearts <e,
Their tales Of love shall tell,
In language whose excess imparts LIZ
The pow'r they feel so well,
There may perhaps in such scene,
Some recollection be.
Of days that have as happy been,
And you'll remember me.
And you'll remember, you'll remember
me-
When coldness or deceit shall slight,
The beauty now they prize,
And deem it but faded light -1.: Fl E
Which beams within your eyes,
When hollow hearts shall wear a mask
Twill break your own to see,
In such moment but ask
That you'll remember me-
That you'll remember, you'll remember
me. -Balfe. q
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-27
MIzNES 0TA POLITICS
ondltlops Have Changed In the Third
! District pEunn Men RldIcuIe Martins.
D Presufnption In Claiming Votes for
4 Collins HsSls Considered as Poachlng
4 nsPriyat es Preserves-NIcoIIet County
q Tied Up tosDunn by Davis, Regardless
of Blocks Interests. 80 s 8

i. Editor Ed Miller Of the st. Peter Free
Press says: -
PAS The Free Press has. always entertained
Ethe highest respect for JudgeaC Collins and
at one time would have been much
pleased had he been chosen as guberna-
tprial candidates by the republican party
But existing conditions have changed con-
siderably and what then appeared desir-
able and perhaps good policy would hard
ly answer the needs of the party to-day.
What we need now is a gubernaterial cam
didate of distinct personality, capable, abb
solutely honest and with the courage Of
his convictions. Such man is Robert c..
Dunn, whose record as legislator and as
state auditor is ample proof that he has
all the elements in him that go to. make
first-class executive"
Just what the changing conditions are
that Editor Miller refers to do not appear
from the article but it seems probable
that he means the conditions IN ST. Peter
Since he favored Collins for governor Mic
ollet county has been shifted to the third
distinct; e. r; Davis-anas been elected con
gresham and lieutenant to Joel Heat
wole, and H.$C: Miller has been appointed
postmaster at st. Peter, thus becoming a
cog in the famous machine. This may not
be the explanation. butfit is>certainly one
phase of the Changing conditions
N-Ett 80 49,
The Dunn supporters treat with scorn
the idea that Judge Collins will get any
delegates from the third district. Is not
the third q suburb Of Mortified carried, in
the, vest pocket of the. potentate from that
village? Is not political control of the third
district one Of the. good. will assets of
the Mortified NeWs. and will not the dire
vengeance Of It's praptietor be visited upon
the third and fourth generations of the
man who dares to support Collins and live
in the third" district?& Collins get votes in
the third district? Absurd. .,s.r.~-. !.
While there is considerable mystery Still
about, the relations between, Heatwole and
Congressman Davis they seem to be
working together, to- the extent that both
are plugging for Bob Dunn The st.
Peter congressman has passed the word
around that Dunn is the man the third
wants, and has agreed to deliver his own
county Of Nicollet.&Ase Nicollet-is the homo
Of Julius Block, it is somewhat embar-
RAISING to the genial treasurer to- have
this matter taken outrof his hands. It
puts him in an attitude OF tying up tic
Dunn. when he is$doing his best to keep
free from. entanglement.a +. But then, that
is one ef,.the misfortunessef living in st.
Peter, the city of statesmen.. ,,,-.
Charles b Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-27
Temperance Movements in France
and Germany IS
rohibition in GermanyI

Prohibition in Germany! NJ,
1t sounds visionary, doesn't it? But
it is possible. For more than twenty
years now there has been a growing
agitation of the desirability of alb
stinence from alcoholic liquors. With
in a quarter of a century more than
a thousand different books have been
published in Germany dealing with
the dangers Of alcoholism. A Berlin
paper says:
The evidence is clear that the people
of Germany have taken up the alcohol
question with an energy excelled by; no
other people on the fact of the earth. Good
Templar lodges are multiplying every year.
| The Blue Cross has spread all over the
empire.
| Germany has passed the first stage of
reform-that Of moderation. Abstinence
is now the general cry and with a decided
squint toward legislation, both remedial
and preventive. At the present swift. rate,
the reform may have complete prohibition
forts watchword in ten more years.
At the late Bremen congress 1900
delegates sat for four days discuss
ing the drink peril.
The consumption of alcohol per
capita in Germany is 2.44 gallons
annually. If, then, Germany feels
| the need of reform, how much more
is it needed in France, where the
consumption per capita is 4.S1t gall
Ions. Drinkers of light wines, but
| long considered a most abstemious
people, the French have rapidly be-
| come the leaders of the nations in
alcoholic excuses. And the serious
minded men of France recognize the
peril. An ant1-alcoholic convention
was held in Paris in October, and
strong resolutions b urging govern
mental restrictions were adopted.
Both France and Germany can
check the evil if they are really de-
termined to do it. The history of
certain nations shows that. In 1929
the Swedes consumed GIT gallons of
pure spirits per capita. Now the
consumption has fallen to less than
1.31 gallons. In 1850 the Firms con-
sumed 5.2s gallons per capita; now
the consumption lis a fraction over
half a gallon 49, ...-,
1t has long been understood that
in private life the prizes are for the
sober men. Statesmen are beginning
to understand that the sober nations
will be the only world powers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-27
Woman Suffrage and Woman Progress.

10 the Ed1I0i. OF Inc journal s.
The first Organization Of women In the
United States was that formed by, woman
suffragists: The. first college graduates,
the first women speakers, the first .peti-
TONERS to legislatures for better law for
women. were woman suffragists.
When Ernestine i. Rose, in 1895, wished
to- petition the New York legislature to
give married women the right to control
their own property, she could find in the
whole state but five women to join with,
her.
A half-century has rolled BY and the
results of this movement are soscomplete,
that many a woman grasps the privileges
and liberties of to-day without the slight
est thought that other women bore the
brunt of cruel worlds bitterest con-
demnation, that she might possess them.
She takes her college degree, forgetful
that when this movement began the world
honestly believed that women did not
possess physical healthsor mental strength
sufficient to master ae,coliege course. She
freely speaks in public. forgetful tina. other
women were mobhed and rotten egged'''
before stie public would tolerate such Lbs
lerty. She enters business and professions,
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Doland, S. D., Jan. IS, 1901. y
The Splitter and the Gambler.


To the Editor of The Journal, -: = ~.s@% Y
The writer has. been waiting since last
Easters for the Knight Templars to send
some valiant knight to battle against the
dragon which has been Staying the young
men, and women Of our city as was In
Dictated in the sermon at, that time, but he
has. concluded that the same spirit Of
coWardly fear has ruled in the commando
cries of the present that oreder the knights
of old ito let the dragon alone. There
is net "a Observation-Disclosures g. green one on
the force-but knows that the wineroon1,
the gambling room, and the various man
traps are running just as vigorously. as
under the Ames regime. The police are
working under orders, however, and there
fore must not see the violations by :gamb-
lerss But any country boy who! splits on
Washington avenue must. be ruin in i'm
ediate1y. s Hence the writer has been
waiting for some noble knight to come
forth to battle with the dragon in the form
Of modern.Wice and iniquity. The churches
are just as valiant as the noble knights.
The preachers with : few exceptions are
afraid to take hold of anything dirty.
The Christians would rather listen to
executed anthems, and attenuated doc
trines than to engage in hand to hand con-
f1ict with such institutions as the Column
bia and such like places, are said to be.
These men who run them are. few in num-
Der, are not nearly SO well educated, are
detested BY the ,respec blespeople, and yet
from mayor to bishcp,f rom chief Of police
to doctors of divinity, they are feared,
denounced-and Iet alone. z
Z To use a common expression, ''Why
don't somebody clean them out?'' Are the
citizens afraid? What is the grand jury
doing? To- what fund are the gamblers
and ;Wineroorn proprietors contributing
now? Who holds the funds? These things
do not exist for naught. Is graft fattening
again in the high places? Would that
same brave young Diendonne de sozon
would come forth and STAY our dragon
AL an odd man can do is to sit and wait
for action, Will not some one strike
blow for virtue? Yours respectfully,
10y Ss5s &5f;. 80 II Fl. DsHENVard
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The Great Daily
.,,..r..-.t .h.ar E.-t.aa.a... ,..
the = E .......
Great Northwest
A Record for 1908
that. Counts. j..

THE JOURNAL in 1903 carried
1893, 756 inches of advertising Or
so, 1854 inches more than in 1902,
an increase of about 20 per cent.
THE JOURNAL in 1908 carried
over 10000 inches more in it's
daily issues than any other Min
neapolis or St. Paul paper carried
in its daily or daily and Sunday
issues combined.
The Journals Circulation
for December averaged 81, OO5
copies, which goes directly to the
homes. -'-~.1~
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st. Paul always resented the name Of
Pigs Eye" but that is better than one
which might be suggested, but won't be
applied here, by the incident on the in
terurban car yesterday, when passen-
ger dehed a Minneapolis health inspector
who would have interfered to prevent
the defiling of the car floor by splitting.
The passenger declared that he was not
in Minneapolis; that st. Paul had no reg
ulations about splitting on the floor of
public conveyances, and that. he would
spit on the floor as much as he pleased.
He pleased to do a lot Of it, thanks to
the Indifference Of the st. Paul health
department. &c.,.
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y WiIIstt,s Lecture.
'FT's
- The Journal.

To the - he Journal.
:. So ia. - seen no comment on DR..
Wilett's au.D.fable lecture Tuesday even
ing at the Y. M. G. Al. and it seems it
should" not pass unnoticed.
It is to be regretted that the lecture was
not more widely advertised: saw only a
few window posters and one small read
ing notice in a: Sunday paper. And had /
not just happened to see that should
have missed attending lecture that I
had been planning all winter to attend.
However, to those of us who did hear
the lecture, "NeweContinents,' it will be
an occasion long remembered for the good
things we received. and will be so valu-
able in helping us to rightly choose and
follow the new paths ahead clearing our
vision for the new continents before Us.
Surely those who heard the lecture will
say with me that those not there missed
one of the best things Of the season.
y. Reader of The Journal.