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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK



To the Editor of The Journal.
The question whether Lake street shall
be given to the street railway company
In perpetutty, Is not a local but public
one. It is one that concerns every pres
ent and future resident of the city,
whether he owns property AUDITING on
Lake street or not, whether he rides in a.
public or private conveyance or walks
The proposed line is not strictly "cross
town. line for the convenience Of the pub
lie. Mr.. Held in recent public utter
ance has said that the street railway COM
pany is opposed to such because they are
not profitable; it is a trunk" line as
stated by him, for the convenience and
profit Of the company itself. ..s5.
The emissaries Of the company are ap-
pealing TO the cupidity of few inter-
ested property owners by saying that it
will increase business; even If this were
true, it should not outweigh the other
and more important considerations. But
it is not true. The business of Lake street
is local, Independent Of car line, and
always will be so from the very nature OF
things. One taking a car to shop will go
to the business center and not to differ
| ent points on that thorofare
| Lake street with it's boulevard was In
| tended to be a part Of our magnificent
park system. Connecting as it does the
| two great cities Of the northwest with
| the lake system its possibilities for future
development are infinite. Once given over
| its like cannot be found. There is no
other street for the public to take or use.
TO keep it forever for the public is q
duty we owe to ourselves and posterity.
| The street railway has declared ut is
Lake street or nothing; and that must
be the battle cry Of those who have no
tprivate interest to serve, but look only
| to the preservation of Lake street as pub
He property which once parted with
nothing can replace &C. e. Purdy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04
Better or Worse?

Are We getting better or worse, po-
litically? Optimistically inclined,
most of us are apt to say that we are
either getting better or, at least, that
we shall begin soon to improve. To
one in this frame of mind, Lincoln
Steffens' article on Enemies Of the
Republic in the April McClure's will
come as a blow in the face.
Heretofore Mr.. Steffens has dealt
with municipal corruption, but this
time he takes UP corruption that af-
fects a state-Missouri- reaches
even to Washington. 1t reaches even
farther for it's trail runs from
politics into business, and we see how
corruption in politics is nothing but
good business on another side.
Who that has ever had any person.
al experience or close touch with
politics does not realize that what is
true of the Missouri Legislature is
also true of many other states? In
our day, business and politics have
come close together. From board
OF town supervisors up to congress,
there is not one of the countless legis-
lative bodies in the nation that cam
not enact legislation that will affect
business. Business is business-suc-
cess is it's password. Whatever
legislatures can do that fortune
builders need, must be done-never
mind the means or price. q" ~
Such a commonplace has this be-
come that nine men out of ten stand
ready to exterminate or, at most
mildly reprove men and corporations
that corrupt legislatures. In every
community there are corporate agents
who are known to be cor
ruptionists of the worst kind, yet
they are held respectable in the
community and no man treats them
with that contempt their ignoble trade
deserves. One of the st. Loui:
bribe-givers still holds his place or
the worlds fair commission and the
attorney of the trust that bought the
Missouri legislature is now United
States senator from that state.
Is it not, true that our politicians
are corrupt because our business
methods are often INSCRIPTIONS, ant
our people cynical and Indifferent?
In contrast with Mr.. Steffens' darl
picture there is a cheerful editorial IL
the April Century, from which the fol
lowing is taken:
In order to gather instances in supper
Of the argument to which we lately re
ferred as to a general Improvement {
conditions in our day and generation b
way of the upward spiral, notwithstand
ing the too notorious evidences of moder
evil and corruption. one has only to loo
back over the history Of the city Of Ne,
York for a space of time not exceeding til
lives of thousands now actually engage
in affairs. The occurrence of the days
the Tweed ring is well nigh impossible.
: the old Five Points squalor; Of the plug
, uglies, of the fire riots. =, A6
vance has, indeed, been made in Ne
York all along the line-in the cas-
Y of the dependent poor, Of the GRIN
!. inal, of the sick. *** There al
| occasional disheartening relapsas in tt
matter of administration. but eve
t the trend of that is upward. There
!, abundant ground for good hope in Il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04

Two Kinds of Congressmen.

The Journal has heretofore
commented on the fact that congress
men have to put in so much Of their
time acting as attorneys and errand
boys for their constituents. that their
roles as statesmen are quite obscured.
This eclipse of proper congressional
duties by the minor calls upon a. con-
CHEESEMAN'S time have led one con-
gresham to suggest that the time has
come. when every district. should be
represented in congress by two per-
sons, one to act as a legislator and
the other as a general errand boy for
his district.
MANY of the members" he says,
"spend apparently about half the time
in congressional work, and the rest Of
it Logging from one department to an
other trying to get a pension here, a
promotion there. a transfer yonder,
and an increase Of allowance some
where else. This business is simply
detestable. The government would
gain in efficiency and perhaps save
money if two members were elected
from each district, one as it's rep
resentative in the making Of laws, and
the other as it's representative in. do
| ing chores
Perhaps it might be we'll for each
| state to have a sort Of commissioner at
Washington with well equipped staff
! to look after the chores that are now
| attended to by congressman, who are
commonly supposed to be shaping
legislation of the first Importance. and
to be dealing with great questions Of
national policy and management.
The Merchants association of Sar
Francisco is said to be arranging fol
the maintenance of a business agent OF
that city in Washington. He will
have no official standing, of course
| but he will be effective no doubt ir
| advancing the interests of that impor
| tant Pacific coast port. The British
colonies maintain high commissioners
in the capital Of the empire. To b,
sure the colonies have no representa-
tives in the parliament that makes
law for the empire, but certainly Their
is wide difference between the dutie
congressman perform as legislator
and those they perform as errand boy
and solicitors at the departments. w
could have commissioners to attend t
these matters and leave the congress
men free to legislate and think.
But then craftsmanship in congress
has gone, out Of c,fs fashion tGt,e Senate
Hoar is the last Of the statesmen, q
the elder day, and most congressme
, would rather work the department
| than think.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04
Iverson and Timber Trespass.

State Auditor Iverson is to be COM
mended for his firm stand against the
pirates of the forest. Public opinion
will back Mr.. Iverson in taking ex-
treme measures to end this practice
of rifling the state school fund, the
state university and other state insti-
tutions. It Is impossible to catch the
trespasser in all cases, and when he
In able to compound with the state
for the bare value of what he has
taken, he is pretty sure to go and do
It again. He stands chance Of not
having to pay at ALL and if he is
caught it Is no hardship to pay a fair
value. It is rather a startling COM
mentary on public morality to find
ninety different cases of trespass run
down in fourteen months, involving
100000 feet Of logs. The practice
has grown up for so many years that
there seems to be a distinct moral
code applying to trespass. 1t is
smart to take state timber and not
get caught. If you are caught, the
joke Is on you and you will pay for
1t, hoping for better luck next time.
Mr.. Iverson takes a different view,
and one that appeals to people who
have not come under the spell of this
forest freebooting. He is using every
means at his command to make the
practice improbable, and citizens and
taxpayers of the state will wish more
power to his arm He is enforcing
the law, which is ample in it's pro-
visions. Under the law he can assess
the trespasser twice the value Of the
timber unless the trespass is wilful
If the trespasser knows he is taking
from state land, he is liable to Grim
inal proceedings and must pay three
times the value Of what he has taken
& 1t may be hard for the state to prove
the wilful trespass, but woodsmen gen,
orally know where they are cuttins
and will seldom make a mistake The
record Of the past year shows tina
the 1umbermen who have settled tres
pass cases have lost money. If thi
had always been true, there would
not be so many cases to settle, and i
Is to be regretted that the same rigit
q practlce mas not always OBTAINED I'm
. der previous occupants Of the auditor
office.
There is another side to the case
where 1t touches on the great prob
lem of practical forestry. State tim
Der lands are supposed to be admin
istered on forestry principles. Stump
age is not to be sold unless the tim
Der is liable to damage from fire be
cause of windfalls, etc. BY strict oh
servance of this rule the state ca
preserve large forest tracts indefinite
ly, for the state can afford Ito carr
them and give the returns to anothe
generation.
The state is entitled to the be:
guardianship Of its forest wealth
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04
GOOD NIGHT. MY LOVE

Good night, my love: s,s~ -
hear the tender turtle dove
Cooling a sleep lullaby
In yonder Towering apple tree.
Twice hast thou yawned and called me Sir,
From which cannot but infer
In fact 1t is quite evidently
That I should long ago have went.
Good night, my love
Pardon me, I have lost glove,
Methinks that 1t must yonder be
Where you and I, in ecstacy,
Sat on the sofas brink
And nectared kisses paused to drink.
Yes, here it Is Am a bore?
Pray let me stay five minutes more,
Sit down, dear-kiss me once again
Before say with longing vain,
Good night, my love-"
Good night, my love
Stay, have lost the other glove,
Its lucky that CHANGED to miss y.
1t ere went-sweet one more kiss!
Hark! Fathers footstep on the stair!
It's Willie to the open air.
GOOD NIGHT. MY LOVE!
Byron Aber Knit in Milwaukee Sentinel,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04

In proof of the assertion that irrespon-
sibility is the stuff the book is made of,
take this, condensed out of the books very
heart:
IN tell you what let's do said Ethel
Lets go on plcnic.''
II hate picnics,'' said Jimmy, calmly settling
himself in the hammock.
what dear you are,' said Ethel, 'to fall
right III with my plans so kindly. Let's get the
things together and start right off, Where's
Grace?'
Jimmy didn't move. "Mrs. Gordon (Grace),
he said told me that nothing in the world
would induce her to do anything to-day-specially
picnics. She's going to stay in the house all
day and read st. Elmo "
Grace came down the hall singing. "What do
you people say to picnic?'' she said.
springing up ''i've just been suggesting to
Miss Martin (Ethel) that we have picnic, but
she says they're, stupid things =,
'Oh. nonsense, Ethel" said Grace. cit would
be lovely. Come on
"Will Mr.. Havens goa" asked Ethel tentative
"Must you always have Stewart Havens?''
| And that kind Of banter with few OBJ
servations by Cap'n Haskins, who encour-
ages the port horse" of his barge" tc
busted old snails," and with some homely
philosophy" by Aunt Zip, who says
''rhey amt nothin' that wins but win.
nin'," which might almost convict her o.
plagiarism, give a fair taste of what Is
in The Gordon Elopement.
/ APRIL.
The swallows circle, the robin calls;
! The lark's song RISES faints and falls:
The peach boughs blush with rosiest bloom:
j Like ghosts in the twilight, the pear trees loom
The maple glow and the daffodls
4 Wear the same hue that the west sky fills;
The moons young crescent, thin and bright,
Shines in the blue of the early night;
! And over ALL thru all, April bears
Il A hope that smiles at the winters fears
Sara Andrew Shafer in the Outlook,
1.-THE Uneasy Chair finds for uneasines
in the fact that few days ago it labeled tn
picture of and spoke of Mary Johnston, tn
author of ''Sr Mortimer (Harper & Brothers
as Mrs The mistake was one growing no
out Of too much Johnston, but out of NOR
Johnstonian matrimonial and non ma trmonial re
lations than the chat: had cataloged the MRS.
of Annie Fellows Johnston thereby getting mis-
placed. The author of 'Sir Mortimer bein
in Sicily, the chairs unea siness is less than
might be otherwise.
The Uneasy Chair.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04
HEAVY DEMAND FOR ROOT

Elihu Root served as secretary Of war at
a great pecuniary sacrifice. His salary as
q government official was mere drop in
the bucket compared to what his income as
a corporation lawyer would have been. AS
soon as It was announced about two
months ago that Mr.. Root would leave the
war department on Feb. 1, letters began
to pour In asking for his legal services.
Retaining fees were forced on him before
he even had a chance to talk with persons
who sought to engage him. This thing
kept up to the day he left the war depart
5ment. He was obliged to turn down many
of the offers he received, and it is safe to
say that he could have taken on enough
work that came unsolicited to keep him
busy for the next two or three years.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04

The hardest blow that reciprocity has
sustained is the support it is receiving
from The Minneapolis Journal. The con-
nection between the editorial compart-
ments and the counting-room is too ap-
parent, they say.-Northfield News. =:
That is quite too much honor. We yield
the place of distinguished support to
Blaine and Mckinley, whom the News
used to follow before it became stand
natter" -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04

the giving OF railroad pass, or any kind
Ct free transportation, or any special rate,
70 any state officer or, county or city Off
GER Ger, or delegate to any political conven-
ton, and forbade the railroads to permit
any such person tosride free or transport
any property without paying the regular
rate But the bill was placed on its pas
sage after the following parenthesis was
inserted in the middle Of the section pro-
hlbit1ng free transportation: Where there
is evidence to show that the pass is given
to corrupt or influence state officer in
his official capa city, The second section
prohibits any officer from soliciting or re-
ceiving any favor in the nature of trans
portation, with the proviso, eff he has rea-
son to believe that his official action may
be improperly or .unduly influenced there
by Of eourse,,the bill was killed wher
it was put on its final passage. The legis-
lature Of Iowa could-not stand for a piece
Of demagogy so cheapsa as that.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04
MAGAZINE TID-BlTS

An Argument for a National Marriage
Law.-Rev. John r. Tuohy, LII. D., In the
Globe Quarterly Review for March, draws
lessons from conditions as revealed in the
senate Investigation Of the Smoot case, in
favor Of marriage reform. He says:
Yet the evil, If the people of the United
States regard it-and If they do not 1t Is
not a proper subject for congressional interior
fully suppressed. Nothing is necessary but the
adoption of constitutional amendment subject
ing marriage and divorce to national regulation
we say the eyil.if the people Of the United
Utah, one state, is founded on polygamy, forty
four other states tolerate successive poygamy
thru divorce, which, to use the words Of the
Jesuit Father Sherman, speaking before the
knights of Columbus in the Auditorium at Chi
cago Ill.,, IFS worse than simultaneous polyg-
amy. because 1t gives no fixed status to women y
Other features Of the number are 1.-THE
Chamberlain Balfour Bluff" and 1.-THE
War in the Far East
The Silent Devotion of the Japanese
Writing on Japan at War;" special cor
respondent Of The outIook's April Maya
zine number, says:
The Japanese glory in their country and their
emperor. They glory In their army and navy, and
| do it in such a whole-souled, devoted way that
| the Individual is entirely submerged. To-day in
one of the northern provinces Of the island there
lives (unless he has died within year or two).
|
war with China, in 1894, performed an act of
heroic daring hardly eoualed in military annals.
Across the deadly fire zone between his own force
| and the enemy's walls he carried quantity OF
guncotton to deposit 1t at the gate which the
| Japanese were bombarding. The attempt sue
| eeeded and he came out unhurt-anw now, by
| his own people at least, he and his deed are
| forgotten. He belongs to no Legion Of Honor
he received no Victoria cross or distinguished
service order, and Of course he got no pension
or berth in the customs postoffce. r.
| That kind of devotion is all but universal ir
the Japanese army and navy, and will carry then
far in the war that has now begun.
There is worlds fair material In thu
number also and an article on 1.-THE Lum
Der Jack and His job -..
About Southern caIfornIa.-souther,
! California, the Italy Of America, is tn,
subject Of special feature in the curren
Harper's Weekly. The story Of the state
remarkable development, It's resources
and It's recent progress are comprehen
tsively told. Four pages Of photographs O
Ewar scenes in the far east, an interestin,
Illustrated article on Everyday Life Il
Japan" by Onoto Watanna, and sum
mary Of the weeks war news are othe
timely features s
Worlds Fair ArchItecture.-One of tn
most complete reviews Of the architecture
Of the ST. Louis exposition is that in TIL
Architectural Record for April by Fran
K. Winkler. Mr.. Winkler's views are IA
vorable. He says at the outset: 9Th
architecture Of the Louisiana Purchas
exposition will be much better than mos
Ipeop1e, and particularly than most arcfi
fleets, suppose" The article Is illustrate
Iby very fine ha1ftones
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04

Mr. Carnegie lectures the business men
Of New York city for their hostility to
President Roosevelt. He reminds them
that if it*shadn't been for Roosevelt they
would have rushed straight into a panic;
that the presidents course in upholding
the law has been. of incalculable benefit
to the business interests of the country.
This has been said before, but not by
anybody who has as much at stake as Mr..
Carnegie, and stoprove that he believes
what he says, Mr.. Carnegie says he will
subscribe half d million to the Roosevelt
campaign fund; and double it if neces-
sary, 49, *ej,55..>s5s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04
Separate" Schools in Canada.

The public school question in Cam
ada with reference to religious con-
troll is a far more complex one than
in the United States. Here, we appear
to have adopted for all time the prin-'
clple that all public moneys appro-
priated for school purposes shall be
spent only on strictly nonsectarian
schools In Canada, however, sep
arate schools are recognized, at least
in some provinces. In Ontario, for
example, separate Roman Catholic
schools are recognized by the state,
and the school taxes of Catholics,
where they desire to maintain sep
support of such schools. They have
their own school boards and admin
lister the schools themselves.
Lately much interest has been
aroused in Ontario by the course of
the public school board Of Sturgeon
school taxes payable by the Imperial
Paper Mills company, and supported
by a bill passed by the legislature.
| Under the law each citizen has abso-
| lutte control Of his school taxes, and
can pay them into the funds of the
general or the separate. board as he
pleases. The taxes Of the paper mills
in Sturgeon Falls amount to $1,000 a
year. In the natural course all OF
this money would have been paid to
the public school board, but that
board made an agreement with the
company whereby half its taxes We're
to go to the separate schools. It is
charged that the company was un.
willingly compelled to make this
agreement, every shareholder being g
Protestant, and every one wanted his
taxes to go to the public schools. The
government Of Ontario has put thr,
a bill approving of this agreement
In the meantime a new. school board
has come into office, ed the Protest
ants of Sturgeon Falls have asked tn,
lieutenant governor of Ontario to dis
allow the bill. ne ~
The opponents. Of the bill argue tina
it creates a very dangerous precedent
which may lead to a struggle in ever.
community where the separate school
are maintained, to secure an equa
division of the taxes paid by, corpora
tons and persons who may feel tina
they are compelled to accede to TIL
, wishes of the school board in tn
, matter.
We are saved from such trouble
: in the United States by our simpl
' rule Of public moneys for publ
? schools, but in Canada the religion
E, and racial history and tendencies ar
+ such that for the present and 70
: many years to come a more compli
; Gated system will have to prevail, an
. it is likely to be the cause of NOR
: or less friction.
|
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04

Oh no. The Great Northern is not for
Dunn. That is absurd, of course. But
as they understand 1t in Roseau county
they can have railroad if the county
sends Dunn delegates to the convention.
If it doesn't the road will go no further
than Marshall county. That may be good
political argument but it Is not good bust
ness. The road will be built if there is
business to justify it, and the people of
Roseau should not be bulldozed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04
TIE MINlNEsAPOIIs JOURNAL

fight for better civic conditions in the.
metropolis and other American cities
y It is probable that the first squar-,
ter of the twentieth century will be not :,
able in the. history Of America for growth
of civic spirit and progress in the honest
and effective government of our citiess
Nav it be sol 60. 80 L-I-. Vi
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-04

Mr.. Cleveland says with much show OF
indignation that Tom Watson should be
ashamed of the persistence with which he
sticks: TO his false statements with re-
gard to the entertainment OF negroes al
the White House during the Cleveland
presidency, and should be- particularly
ashamed Of the spirit, with which this
charge is repeated. How about the spirit
in which Mr.. Cleveland denies it?