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The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
The year seems to be going out like gentleman.

and things, the author is ever on his
quest Yet what he finds is exceedingly
meager; so meager that one might almost
say he has lost his way and found moth
ing; not likely to satisfy the hopeful spirit,
nor need we assume that it satisfies him.
Speaking of his point of view as pastor
Of South Place chapel, London, position
held by him for tWenty-one years, he
says: -,..---.
2 looked on all of the camps as equally strug-
Cling for error, and could weigh without bias the
value of each for human happiness. For as the
ness in this world became Paramount 1 could
idealize any idol not worshiped by human sac
rifces. . ~,.s--- ....
And then he quotes from Omar Khay
yam lines which end with this: ..
Resign thyself. then, make what little para
disc thou canst here below; for, as for that be-
yond, thou shalt arrive there-or thou shalt
not. stgaE. +. (. t...-ar .-a.s-. .-.-- .,..
.! Lack Of Capacity for Faith. .
One is impressed by all Of this with the
feeling that Mr.. Conway is lacking in a
capacity for faith, and that, coupled with
this, there is a personal inability to see
in the discoveries of science any basis for
belief. in a larger life than this live
here. One cannot doubt that he has been
sincere in his quest. Yet he has aban,
>doned the larger for the smaller hope, and
except on absolutely sure. ground that Is
failure. However, a failure in SO impor-
tant a search 50 earnestly prosecuted has
an interest of it's own, and that added to
the interest Mr.. Conway's book holds thru
it's wealth of material, SO lucidly and so
kindly presented. relating to men, who
have permanent place ic the history OF
their time and the hearts of the race,
gives to this autobiography value such
as works df the kind seldom hold.
Houghton, Mifhin & CO., Boston. Two
= Vols. Sc net.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
Saturday Evening,

element in the suffrage. The corrupt
bic element is a minority, but fright
fully audaeious and aggressive. 1t re-
CARDS the ballot, not as of moral, but
as Of commercial and partizan value,
and with the corrupt use Of the ballot
comes the lapse of fealty for the prin-
ciples of republican form Of govern
ment, and waning Of faith in the bal
lot as it's safeguard and support. Cor
ruption of elections is robbery and law
lessness of the most abominable kind
and mordant of public virtue. ..,.'
A full disclosure of the Colorado
frauds, under eunimpeachable judicial
investigation, no matter who is hit and
wounded by the process, would vastly
renew the courage and aggressiveness
Of the protagonists Of righteous citi-
zenship and untainted politics and
elections.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
Minneapolis Ought to Have a New
Union Depot.

This ia an era Of railroad terminal
Improvement in a large way, and during
the coming year millions will be spent
upon enlarged facilities for handling
passenger traffic in tho cities. First,
the Pennsylvania system began the STU
pendous undertaking Of tunneling the
Hudson river and entering tho heart OF
New York city, plan involving pre-
liminary expenditure Of almost $6O,OOO,-
900. The New York Central later went
TO work upon plan, recently made
public, for the enlargement Of its Forty
second street station in New York, at
great expense. Following close upon this
came the announcement of great union
depot for Buffalo, to cover acres, and
cost millions. Last Of all, the Pennsyl-
vania proposes to expend $50, 100000 IN
providing new terminals in Chicago. St.
Louis has at present tho finest union
passenger station in America, but it will
probably be surpassed before long. Kan
sas City has another great depot, in some
respects even superior to St. Louis.
There is probably no city in the
United States Of equal size and COM
mercial Importance that makes the poor
showing Minneapolis does in this re-
spect. Small stations, ranging from
fairly presentable down to positively
bad, widely scattered and in no way in
keeping with the size of the traffic han
died or the accommodations due to the
public, mark the city in no favorable
way.
If the trend Of terminal Improvement
could be made to sweep this way, it
would be a splendid thing for the city
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31

Delaware is having It, annual gaseous
time, for Addicks, the gas man, is out for
Senator Bells term, which will expire in
March, The present session of the 'legis-
will soon merge into the regular session,
and Immediately thereafter the caucus
will take up the question Of the senator
ship. Addicks is understood to be five
votes short. of the number necessary to
elect, and if his opponents on the republi-
he will fail. But some legislators today,
like some other people, need the money,
and you can never be sure of the result
until after the vote. If the country has
trouble in stomaching Smoot what would
be it's fix with Addicks? -.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
NEWsOF THE BOOK WORLD
THE UNEASY CHAIR

A Mans Search for Truth, as Seen by
Himself; His Association with Other
Searchers; the Autobiography Of Moncure
D. ConWay.-From youthful doubt to tho
Methodist ministry, from Methodism to
Unitarianism and from Unitarianism to
free thinking and free e-doubting-there is
the chart that shows the life, course of
Moncure D. Conway, whose rarely inter-
esting and highly valuable Autobiography,
Memories and Experiences has just been
published. The chart is drawn on the
smallest possible scale, however; it shows
truth has travelled, Of the great and
small he has approached in his quest, Of
the many works he has done to help his
fellowmen as he has journeyed toward
the ever-receding goal, or Of the state Of
his belief or unbelief now that the quest
approaches it's end, or else (who knows? p
is about to be renewed with unsealed
eyes, from new hilltop, thru a clearer
air, to broader horizons.
Tracing the short and devious line of
this chart thru the larger picture of Mr..
Conway's book, one finds a wealth of alb
sorbingly interesting material, such an
outlook as is seldom come upon in a book.
Mr.. Conway has lived in stirring times
and has been a part of great events, hav-
ing been born March II, 1882, and having
participated in an important religious
movement as we'll as in that series of
events which resulted in the freeing of
the slaves. He is of unOrthOdoX fore
bears and slave holding Virginians, tho
his father saw early that slavery was a
doomed institution" @ &.
Break from Methcdlsm.
With Mr.. Conways growth in years
came his break from Methodism, which he
had embraced after his father, as a cir
cult preacher, and then his. hostility to
slavery, against Which he continued tc
wage war, as he could see his way most
| effectively to do 50, until the institution
waS abolished. 1t was thru both his re.
ligious development and his antislavery
work that he came in contact with great
numbers of eminent men and women anc
| it is in these associations, of which Mr.
| Conway writes in the most simple anL
direct and unprejudiced way. that tho
reader finds his chief interest.
| Emerson's Influence. :.
Emerson exercised a great influence
over Mr.. Conway as a young man. 1t wa:
Emerson's influence, indeed, that sent the
| young man into the Methodist ministry
tho it was in part the same influence tina
drew him out of that work after a time
| He had been having spiritual struggle
with himself. He had studied law ant
| was ready to be admitted to the bar, he
had also obtained good position in jour
nalism in Richmond, yet he suddenly
amazed his family and friends by an
nouncing his intention of entering the
ministry. He says: ''Why then this sud
den resolution to become Methodist min
! lister? 1t was long a mystery to myself
but Emerson was at the bottom of it,
For Emerson's later influence the othel
way, no doubt, some will condemn the
sage, differing from Father Taylor o
the Seamans Bethel Of Boston, who said
1T may be that Emerson is going to hell
but Of one thing l am certain; he will
change the climate there, and emigration
will set the other way"
n
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
An Educational Campaign.

The educating influence Of a senate
rial contest is wonderful. This obser->
vation is prompted by the letter writ
ten to Representative Hammergren of
St. Paul by Senator Moses =. Clapp.
It contains the senator's first explicit
Endorsement of the Quarles- Cooper bill,
increasing the powers Of the Interstate
commerce commission. This bill has
been sleeping for over year in the,
senate committee Of which Senator
Clapp is a member, and this is the first
time the Minnesota member has made
an unqualified declaration on the meas
ure.
It was not for lack Of opportunity
that the senator kept silent. He was
repeatedly solicited for statement
and the replies given disclose the pro-
gressive working of the problem IN the
senatorial mind. 1t is interesting to
review its development.
Aug. 81 of this year the editor OF
the Cannon Falls Beacon wrote to learn
Senator Clapp's attitude. He replied
on Oct. 10, saying: ...
w nile l. CduuOG ctuC1S1poCO AOS, AoAe'
ton, nor say what additional legisla-
tion may be necessary in the matter of
discriminating rates, you may be as
sured that it will receive, like all other
subjects, the most careful considera-
tion.'
This did not satisfy the advocates of
the legislation, and the senator was
repeatedly quizzed by the newspapers,
without avail. Dec. s, just before start
ing to Washington, The Journa a
asked him for statement of his posi-
tion, which he declined to give, saying
he "didn't care to go on record.' Dec.
6 President Roosevelt went on record
most emphatically in his message, speci-
fying the measures Of the pending bill
as the proper ones to adopt. The next
day, Dec. 7, Senator Clapp gave
Journal an interview, saying he was
Gin hearty accord with the policy and
purposes of the president, but had
waited to speak out of Difference to the
president. However, he could not say
what form the legislation would take,
as some amendments would be proposed.
He was still unwilling to indorse the
Quarles. Cooper bill. Meanwhile it de-
! veloped that there was a genuine fight
| on hand for the senatorial succession.
Dec. % the senator arrived home and
gave out another interview, in which
he repeated substantially the presi-
dent g language, but still avoided di-
rect Endorsement of the Quarles-C Cooper
bill. These indefinite statements had
caused direct bolt by a member from
Senator Clapp's own county, and as a
final move to bring. him in line, the
senator wrote Mr.. Hammergren yester.
day, declaring in plain language for
the Quarles- Cooper bill and for its early
passage.
Some will criticize Mr.. Clapp because
he did not make this statement in the
first instance. They overlook the fact
| that senatorial minds move slowly to
| their conclusions. and that the stress
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
The Business Outlook Locally and
in General.

The year closing today started in de-
preston, and business forged ahead
thru the first quarter with many diff
culties in the way.
The second quarter saw greater i'm
provement.
The last half Of the year has been
period Of upward trend in business in
general, and as the new year comes
into view there is a prospect better by
far than was to be expected earlier.
There is everything to indicate that
1905 will be record-breaker in many
lines; that Minneapolis will make a
showing in building, financial progress,
and the starting of new ventures that
will pass anything in it's history. AL
ready there is enough Improvement
work in sight to warrant the expecta-
ton. r.:
The recent exhibit of the agricultural
resources Of the country in the annual
report of. the department Of agriculture
is broad basis on which to build sub
stantial hope. The farmers have pro-
duced immense wealth, only part OF
which has yet found it's way to market.
Activity is assured for the railroads
for months to come.
A favorable sign is the tendency to-
wards Improvement and betterment on
the part of the railroads. Millions will
| be spent upon extensions, new rolling
stock and improvement Of terminals.
Nothing could speak louder than this of
the general belief in prosperity to
come.
Early in the year conditions were the
reverse, and reports were mainly of lay
ing off employees and lighter traffic
Today the roads in some parts OF the
country are hard put to it to handle the
business offered.
Financially the country is sound
Not a cloud appears in the financial
sky. There is some danger OF q
speculative wave in January that may
carry prices high enough to bring dis
astrous reaction in the speculative mar
ket, but even in that field there IS
stronger tone of conservatism than rulet
year ago.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
Off again,
f On again,
Gone again,
Hammerpren.
Standards of Self-Government.

William J. Bryan is still finding
diversion in an academic discussion of
the Philippine problem. In recent ar
ticle he takes the ground that the Cen
tightening influence of self-govern-
ment'' would do more to uplift the
people of the islands than our present
policy of gradual education in self
government.
No doubt immediate government
would be enlightening to the Fill
pinos. The child left alone with edged
tools soon finds enlightenment as to
their uses and dangers. Free rein to
warning tribes Of the islands for five
years would bring them to a state of
enlightenment fit to make civilization
shudder. England's course in India,
chargeable as it is with many crimes
that never have and never will sully
America g conduct in the Philippines,
has made infinitely for peace, comfort
and enlightenment of the people. Tho
higher in the intellectual scale than the
Filipinos, the Hindoos admit that they
have been benefited by English rule.
The anti-imperialist tune, which Mr..
Bryan has been left almost alone to
sing, lends itself to some beautiful
platitudes. For instance, the Commoner
says: =
The moment we assert that some peo-
pie are capable of self-government and
some people incapable, that moment we
not only destroy the foundation upon
which sl If free goyernment sann IT, rests, but we
Of the Creator. - E..
1t is not necessary to criticise the
divine plan in order to say that some
countries are peopled with child-like
races, to whom liberty means only
license and a relapse to barbarism. If
Mr.. Bryan IS reasoning is applied to the
fullest extent, he must admit that the
American Indians, who were busily ex-
terminating each other when our fore
fathers settled on the Atlantic shores,
were at that time capable of self-gov-
ernment. Government they had, Of a
certain kind. So have the herds of the
| field and the fowls Of the air. The civ
| ilized standard Of self government,
however, requires that it be stable and
efficient as a protector of the individ-
ual. Bloodshed, disorder and rapine,
which flourish in the Moro provinces
whenever Uncle Sam s back is turned,
are not guarantees of a people fit to
govern themselves. Without supervi-
sion the Philippines would be split into
a hundred warning states, with no con-
ception Of federal or international re.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
The Colorado Spectacle.

The supreme. court of Colorado has
very properly ordered a sweeping inves-
tigation of the election methods in that
state during the recent cam
paign, notably in the Denver
district. This appears to be neces-
sary in order to substitute for the
confusion Of partizan claims and the
examinations and recriminations Of par
tizan investigators, who have succeeded
In plowing up fraudulent returns in
dicating the existence of that most
damnable form Of criminality in
frightful degree, in order to substitute
for this judicial inquiry, in whose
processes the creatures of master poll
ticians and adopts in all corrupt and
corrupting political action cannot in
termeddle. The attorneys Of the re-
publican and democratic parties have re-
quested that the order of the court as to
its investigation may be made to in
clude the widest field Of inquiry, so that
nothing can escape the most rigid ex-
amination in connection with the cleo
tfon.
Such an inquiry, under such auspices,
ought to be conducted without sus-
Ypicion Of any taint and end with the
presentation to the Colorado voters Of
nnerring proof of the extent Of the false
registration, the measure of the bal
aot-box stuffng and related frauds,
which have dishonored the state, and
show where the gubernatorial candi
dates and other postulants for office in
the state stand, when stripped Of the
fraudulent votes cast for them. Gov
ernor Peabody, who claims reelection
over Adams, the democratic guberna-
torial candidate, expresses himself as
pleased with the action Of the supreme
court, as the investigation will take the
matter out Of politics and bring it with
in the scrutiny, cold and merciless, Of
the judiciary. Peabody would have
the investigation and scrutiny Of the
ballot-boxes not only applied to the city
and county of Denver, but to the whole
state. Denver was the favorite field
of the fraudulent operations, and it is
claimed by the republicans that over
twenty thousand fraudulent democratic
votes were cast there for Adams, while
countercharges by the democrats are
strenuously made, and the storm RACES
over the legislative elections also.
The multiplicity Of registration frauds
developing in Colorado suggests that,
in spite of all the provisions made to
maintain the purity Of elections, the
knaves, dupes and tools Of political
knaves, utilize the very safeguards
themselves, to corrupt the suffrage.
Fraud is perpetrated just 50 far as it
Z cannot be successfully hindered, and
the reflection is not calculated to ap.
peal to civic pride. On the other hand
the Colorado spectacle is depressing
Revealing the adhesive power of the
corruptible element in the suffrage, it
suggests that election laws of the most
stringent kind will not automatically
operate, as a clock will number and
strike the hours if it is regulated and
wound up. Such laws require the
ceaseless guardianship of the honest
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
In the Interest Of Clearness and
Accuracy.

A Minneapolis morning paper, which
has indulged in some criticism Of its
contemporaries in their treatment Of
the much discussed drawback privilege
has story from Washington today in
which this statement appears: d.. ss
1t is well understood that the Pills,
bury-Washburn company has bonded
two of it's mills and is turning out
something like 5000 barrels of flour
daily under the drawback plan. =:
Nothing further is necessary for
those who understand what this draw
back privilege is, to demonstrate how
little this writer knows Of what he is
talking about. A mill need not be
bonded in order to grind -four under the
drawback plan. Bonding and grinding
under the drawback plan are two very
different things, altho our contempor-
ary's correspondent does not seem to
be aware of the fact.
The American miller may grind Can.
adian wheat by putting his mill under
bond. In that case he does not have to
pay the duty, but his mill is under gov.
ernment supervision and regulation, and
all the flour and all the by-products
made from Canadian wheat must be
exported. None of them can be sold
in the United States. The minute an
attempt is made to sell these products
or any part Of them, in the United
States, the whole amount of wheat i'm
ported becomes dutiable.
I'M h
miller need not bond his mill, but he
may bring in Canadian wheat, paying
the duty at 25 cents bushel, and upor
the expectation of the flour made from
this imported wheat, the government
will allow him a drawback correspond
ing substantially with the duty pai6
| on the imported wheat.
But this is not all that the miller de-
| sires to do, and neither of these are
questions, under consideration. Up tt
this point there is no dispute. What
the millers want beyond this is to bt
| allowed to mix the Canadian whea,
with the American and get a drawback
| the amount of Canadian wheat: con
tanned in that -four.
| This is done in other. lines of manu-
facture. Imported dutiable articles ar,
mixed with domestic articles in manu-
facture, and the manufactured articl,
is exported, the manufacturer being al
lowed a drawback corresponding to th
amount Of imported raw material used
This is all the millers ask in the man
ufacture Of flour. They are asking sim
ply that to the miller be applied tn
same principle that is in operation il
other . industries. Secretary SHAY
thinks they ought to have that priv
lege, but inasmuch as there appears t.
be some legal question involved, h
has referred the legal phase of it to tn
attorney general. ~ ... . ..,.
The morning paper referred to ha
already represented the attorney gen
eral as having settled this question il
favor of the millers. The attorney gen
| eral, however, is not aware Of the fact
1t appears this matter was discusse
at the cabinet meeting yesterday, an
a decision in favor of the millers is es
: pected, but it has not yet been giver
This much is offered to untangle tn
confusion which may exist in the min d
OF some people thru the inaccurat
statements Of our uninformed conten
| DOrary
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
DAY OF POLITICAL JUDGMENT
New York Post.

...s. New York Post
The enemies, then, which our great
financial institutions, our railways, our
insurance companies, and our banks have
chiefly to fear are, so to speak, oe their
own households. When the Huns and
Vandals threaten descent upon our
vested interests their most terrible
weapons will be drawn from the armories
Of New York, Boston and Philadelphia.
The men who have promoted the vast and
bottomless undertakings into which a
credu1ous public has poured it's dollars are
the real begetters of the Populistic and
socialistic parties. From the victims Of
their rapine, when the day Of political
Judgment dawns, they may expect no
quarter.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
A SCIENTIFIC TARIFF
COngrega tionaliSt.

COngregat t1QnaIlSt.
Taxation is a matter not for selfish in
terests to determine by a process at
Washington. which makes for the survival
of the strongest competitor with the deep
est purse and most unprincipaled officials
and lobbyists, but should be settled by eX-
perts in the art and science Of revenue
production, viewing the country's inter-
ests as a whole and the welfare Of the
largest number of citizens. Hence, when
tariff revision is undertaken it should be
by congress under the guidance of disi1l-
terested competent experts. IL.