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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-23
The Journal
Goes Home.
Chance for a Strong Man.

There is chance for a big man in
Russia just now. If the car has in
him the elements of greatness, he now
has an opportunity to place his name
in Russian history by the side of that
Of Peter the Great. No one attributes
these elements to him.
A. monarchical form of government
has this superiority to a republican
form, that the rulers can be trained
from babyhood for the high positions
they are to fill; but that natural great
ness, without which no training can
make a really great ruler, cannot be
insured. In the hurlyburly Of a de-
mocracy it is more likely that born
leaders will rise to the top than that
the spark of genius will be voueh-
safed to the heir Of royalty. But even
in an absolute monarchy, in times of
stress, there is powerful tendency to
bring forward born leaders whose
spirit has not already been weakened
by the atmosphere of despotism.
Russia needs a great leader to-day
If ever country did. In Kuropatkin
she may have a great army COM
mander, but what is needed is a man
Of towering ability at ST. Petersburg
to hold the reins Of power that fall
from the feeble grasp of the car
whose spirit has been shaken by g
few naval reverses that should be as
nothing to a stalwart leader. Napo-
leon was less affected by the destruc.
ton. of Villeneuve's fleet by Nelson
than Nicholas by the loss Of few
ships at Port Arthur.
With disaffection in tortured Fin,
land, with the embers Of ancien
wrongs flaring up in Poland, with the
. nihilists arousing themselves from
their slumbers, with a score Of con
quered principalities recalling thei
almost forgotten independence - will
a fierce and active foe attacking il
the east with terrific and portentou
energy, the time has come for SOM
great man to make intensely interest
Ing history in Russia, to compose he
internal troubles, to confound the out
: ward enemy to rehabilitate and reviv
fly the empire.
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in the force, they are uniformed in
khaki, drilled and regulated after the
military custom and armed with car
bines, and 200 of them are or may be
mounted. Privates receive $3.50 a
year, which is a fabulous sum to the
natives Of Porto Rico.
These policemen must not be con-
founded with the Porto Rico provi-
sional regiment Of the regular army.
which it is intended to disband. The
people of the island, however, are very
proud Of the regiment, and desire to
have it retained as fixture Of the reg
ular army organization. Senator
Clapp, of Minnesota. has introduced q
bill to that effect. In view Of possible
complications In Panama and the
West Indies a regiment Of Porto Rican
soldiers might be very handy one OF
these days. All accounts agree that
Porto Ricans in this regiment have
made surprisingly good soldiers.
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HE COULDN'T AVOID BRIBERY

j II "a + y I i
BY way of illustrating how difficult it is
for a man to remain honest while in the
Ohio legislature Congressman Beidler tells
story. A sturdily upright member from
one Of the country districts was ap-
preached by lobbyist. who asked him
to vote for a certain bill. limiting at q
handsome money consideration. The indig
nant member, who was opposed to the
measure, began to voice his anger when
the lobbyist said the other side was spend
ing a good deal of money to defeat the
bill. The member at once said he should
not take sides at all, whereupon the lob
byist suggested that he stay away when
the vote was being taken. The country
legislator, thinking that was good idea.
did so. On his return the lobbyist handed
him $500 for absenting himself. Great
Scott!" said the astonished member, IFS
there no way for a man to be honest
here?" and then he pocketed the $500, just
like an oldrtimer.
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TUESDAY EVENING,

planning to take censuses Of their own.
and In these instances, too, the field
will be covered but once for both pur-
poses.
AS most Of the states also take their
own census Of population in the fifth
year of the decade, lit would seem as
if there were room for the federal
census bureau to arrange for unlfor-
nifty between them, so that results
may be compared in the different
states, and also with the regular de-
cennial federal censuses.
tits now said that Professor Trlggs was
disconnected with Chicago university
salary because of his Ruskinian socialism,
John D. Rockefeller desiring that all the
corporation and collectivism in the coun-
try especially the collectivism, be limited
to the Standard Oil company and similar
uplifting agencies.
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Shortly after Governor Van SAINT of Min
nesota had been assigned to a room In
the New York hotel where he stopped
during his recent visit east former resi-
dent of Minnesota called and found the
governor gazing with gloomy countenance
at his trunk. After an exchange Of saluta-
tions Mr.. Van SAINT said: John, I'm In 2
devil of a fix. I want suit of clothes out
of that trunk. Oh. yes, I've got the key
all right, but my wife packed the trunk
She vas to come along. but was prevented
at the last moment. To my certain knowl-4
edge she put in enough to fill three trunks
the way man would pack them. u |
open it the things will boil all over the
room and could never get half of them
back. Now, what I'm wondering about
is whether it would be cheaper to gos out
and buy a new suit OF clothes or two adj
sditional trunks, .E.... .a..ls.-z-ss.
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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

to take shape. Then came spopullSIn,san ana
finally the democratic party marched bod
Hy into the populist camp. Free silver
was the battle cryssof these aggressive
and discordant elements, for the moment
united into one seething mass. The east
became frightened. Us 1t classed Iowa with
some of her delirious neighbors, and be-
gan to call It's money home. Things
looked blue for Shaw and the Shaw bank.
He resorted to heroic measures and en-
tered politics, talking sound money Wher-
ever he could find an audience in his
state His fight was a good one. It at
tracted attention and carried conviction,
and in due time he became governor. 1t
was as governor, with this record back
Of him. that he first met Roosevelt, then
a candidate for the vice presidency.
Neither of the twain" says Mr.. Leupp,
could look into the future far enough to
see what was in store for the other Each
cherished the hope that the highest place
In the gift of the people might one day
be his, and each had set 1904 as the date
for their contest sof strength.
Then came the Blu ff alp tragedy. From
the moment Of sMcKinleN 81 eath5 Shaw be-
came a Roosevelt man. fayOring him for
the nomination in 1904 His own aspira-
tions were shattered by the bullet which
| laid Mckinley low. 70 quote again from
! "Roosevelt the Man:
| When Mr.. Gage retired, President
| RooseVelt's first thought turned to the
hero of the Iowa gold standard cam
paign. He reasoned that the man who
was not afraid to make such a fight for
honest money as a state issue would not
fail when the need came for self assertion
in a national crisis"
After relating the story of how Mr.
Shaw, as secretary of the treasury, drew
| down sharp criticism on his head on &C.
count of his plan for providing for ar
elastic currency by placing on existing
laws a construction entirely different from
4 that placed on them by financiers from
the time Of the laws enactment, Mr.
Leupp says:
Whatever doubts the president may a
Il first have entertained of the secretary
breadth were long ago resolved by the
l discovery of his sharpness. Mr.. Roose
welt likes man who wastes no time eX
planning why he cannot do a thing, bu
does it.; who, if he lacks the most suit
! able tools, seizes those which lie neares
his hand and goes to work. Such maj
. he seems to have found in Leslie M. Shaw
thanks to an instinct which guided hin
straight when elaborate. reasoning woul
probably have carried him in another di
rection:'' w. w. Jermane.
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NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
New Life Of Edward FITZGERALD, with
Much New Materlaltin ia Story OF
Life Where People Don't Quarrel, but
Flght-The Poetry Of the Russo Jap
War Has Begun to Be Made.

! ! Is { - i
A life of Edward FITZGERALD. and a
life with something new on almost every
page, Is a book that is sure to attract
attention. It is announced as having just
been imported by the Scribners. The au-
thor is Thomas Wright, who went to his
work fresh from his successful life Of
William Cowper, convinced that a man
SO distinguished as FitzGerald and dead
only twenty years must have left more
biographical and literary remains than the
little commonly believed to be available.
The result of his earnest and sympathetic
labors was little less than astonishing,
two most interesting volumes In addi-
ton to his discovery Of the origin Of Eu-
phranor,' and of the circumstances at
tending its writing, there are here first
published more than a hundred interesting
and illuminating letters by FITZGERALD;
also many extracts from an unpublished
manuscript containing word pictures OF
Tennyson, Thackeray, w. Kenworthy
Browne and many other of his friends.
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Grover Cleveland S Advice.

Grover Cleveland, tho in retirement,
manages to attract his full share Of
public attention. Perhaps it should be
shrewd Philadelphia publisher rather
than Mr. Cleveland's. But whoever
should have the credit, the manage
ment is able and effective, not only
from the standpoint Of the publishers
balance sheet, but from that OF the.
political profit andloss sheet in Gro
yer Cleveland's political leader.
In the last issue Of the Saturday
Evening Post Mr.. Cleveland had an
article on 1.-The Democracy's Oppor-
tunity" which has called forth COM
ment from one end of the country to
the other which can have no other eff
feet than to make him more than ever
regarded as the one and only Moses
Of lost and wandering democracy.
Mr.. Cleveland lays down these as the
essential democratic planks to be put
forward in the approaching presiden-
tial battle:
Tariff reform.
Retrenchment in national expenditures.
The back-track on expansion.
An apology to Colombia for our course
in regard to Panama.
| With such issues, Mr.. Cleveland says,
must go a leader thus described:
| At such a time as this the democratic
party cannot with honor undertake the
| battle of the people except under leader
that not only represents it's best traditions
and purposes, but fully realizes what is
meant by the tremendous. issues of the
| conflict; and his selection should not de-
| pend upon so small consideration as the
locality from whence he comes.
The issues are Cleveland issues, and
the leader is Cleveland. Who doubts
that Cleveland would demand tariff
| reform? Who doubts, remembering
Paramount Blount, that cleveland
would take the back-track on ex'
pansion. He says we should apollo
gize to Colombia and, therefore. we
will if he gets the chance to direct
policy. And as to retrenchment, ne
/ would retrench if his party in CON
gress would let him.
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Life where they don't quarrel, but fight;
where the bark Of the rifle takes the
place Of words; where every man is his
own dlstiller, and yet where d very sturdy
sort of manhood exists-it is Of that life
that Sons of Vengeance, a Tale of the
Cumberland Highlanders, by Joseph S.
Malone, treats. The author has hardly
done justice to his wealth of dramatic
material. He has not the necessary skill
in the development of strong situations.
However, his picture of the life in the
Cumberland mountains in southeastern
Kentucky is one that the reader follows
with interest for the most part and is
one that will persist in the memory.
By far the most interesting portion of
the book is the first portion. which deals
with the birth. progress and death of the
Stokes-Mack feud. John Mack's hogs got
into Jim Stokes cornfield Stokes pro-
tested, but Mack only told him he would
better keep his fences up. Stokes
set his dog upon Mack's hogs, Mack
shot the dog. and Stokes in turn shot
Mack's hogs, and the war was on. The
relatives of the two men ranged them
selves on either side and thereafter until
the feud was settledeno member of either
side exposed himself for a moment unnec-
essarily; he knew he would be shot on
sight in the back from ambush, without q
moments warning or the slightest chance
to defend himself Stokes and Mack nat
urally were the first to try for human
blood. 1t was a duel Of unerring marks
men from behind trees. J Mack was the
man of the less self-control, and in his
Impotence exposed his head '"Nhen as
If by magic, with the same unerring ain
which sent a bullet into the heart of {
fleeing deer or a flying eagle, the leader
messenger of death crushed thru the skull
of Mack, and dead man lay on the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-23
Thanks from Iowa.

To the Editor of The Journal.
The friends of Governor Cummins thru-
out the territory in which your paper cir
culates take great pleasure in noting the
fairness of treatment which he receives at
your hands. In view Of the fact that the
attack made against the governor is
chiefly along the line Of his tariff ideas
and his ideas regarding reciprocity with
Canada, we think that the resolutions.
adopted Saturday by a convention OF
farmers held at this place would be OF
interest to your readers at this time.
This does not look very much as tho the
farmers were afraid of an interchange OF
products with Canada, and it seems to US
as the best possible answer, coming as 1t
does from purely agricultural commun-
ity, to those opponents Of the Iowa idea,
who have endeavored to enlist the SYM
pathy of the farmer in their opposition
to Governor Cummins.
George c. Howard.
Forest City. Iowa, Feb. %, 1904.
!. u /. = --sIS sax@
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The State Censuses.

The federal census of manufac-
lures is to be taken next year. This
census will be marked by unusual co.
operation between the federal and
state authorities. Michigan is to take
a state census of manufactures this
year, and by special act Of congress-.
the director of the federal census was
authorized to accept the state results
Of 1904 as an equivalent for the fed
eral inquiry of 1905. Several states,
including Massachusetts, Iowa, Flori-
da, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, are
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-23
HOT FROM THE MAGAZINES

Poetry of the Wharf.-The poetry of the.
war is already being made. The earliest
product TO come to the notice Of this col
umn is that Of Clinton Scollard in Har-
per's Weekly for Feb. 20, headed, '.War in
the East:
The sable again for thine affairs,
o Goddess of Peace!
Once more the red demon is 1oosened,
Deaths hounds have release!
All. the sorrow untold, alb, the anguish, :
Ere conflict shall cease!
Will the dove and the bough of the olive
Ne'er ne'er be supreme?
Is goodwill but pitiful by-word,
A diplomats theme?
And the time of the Nazarene's vision,
Is that but dream?
The same number Of the Weekly con-.
tains an eight-page war supplement be-
sides much other interesting war ma
terial.
The Meaning Of the War-F'rom the
meaning of the war to the meaning of
Lent, from the possible meaning Of whole
sale bloodshed to civilization to the mean
ing of a period Of quiet meditation to the
human soul, is a far flight, yet 1t is one
which the editor of The Outlook takes in
contiguous editorials in The Outlook for
Feb 20. Speaking of the meaning of the
war he says: whether the yellow peril
is real or imaginary it is not necessary
+ here to consider 1t is certain that it is
to be met and overcome not by sixteenth
century but by nineteenth century meth
DDS; not by repression. but by noble in
spiration and wise guidance; not by force
operating from without, but by life devel-
oped from within; not by being chained by
Russia, but by being set free by Japan.
~ - Russia may dominate but can
not WITTY her and will not civilize her;
t for civilization must always be the product
of a force working from Within
| In emphasizing the meaning Of Lent. the
| hearing the voice of God as in the open
church on the crowded thorofare at the
/ rushing noontide.
The number contains much interesting
material about the war and Japan, an ar
! ticle about .tThe Education of Lincoln
| 1.-THE Woman from College, and other
/ timely papers.
Trolley civ!Ization--ls there going ,tc
| be movement from the suburbs back
to points within walking distance o.
| cities? Is a question raised by 1.-THE Point
4 of View Man.. in Scrlhner's Magazine fol
March. I'VE seem" he says. ito be com
i ing to the curious result that the very
] order Of persons for whom suburban life
i seemed especially fitted, may soon be
wanting, in growing numbers, to deser
i it. Men whose mental life is of impor.
i lance to them know that the most electric
i mental enthusiasm will not always bt
1 proof against the stupefying tedium o
i crowded public cOnveyances = I
4 would be interesting if the solution
II proved to be a centripeta1 motion TOWARD
the heart Of cities on their part, while al
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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 tIoss Presses, with total capacity OF
ia 900 eight-page Journals an hour, printed,
Alb TO 4: 80 D. NJ Inquire at the business office
and be directed to the visitors gallery Il
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How much longer will the people Of
themselves thru their water supply? At
any rate the children should be protected
in the schools.
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The weather man says spring will be
late. Then, will he please tell us how to
interpret the arrival of wild geese?
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A morning paper says that the street
cars are to be provided with device to
."assist the carmen in finding out if all
passengers have left or are on the car
The need Of this device probably arises
from the fact that in giving an imitation
of a sardine canning establishment peo-
pie are sometimes crowded under seats
and left for dead.
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A Portrait Of the Pope-The frontispiece
Of the March Century will be a full-page
portrait Of the pope in color. Some one
who, no one knoWs-made a snapshot of
Plus X when he was patriarch of Venice
as he passed in the procession Of Corpus
Christi. From this small photograph
George T. Tobin has made a large draw
ing
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Russia will have to protest again. Any
BODY can see that it was a dirty trick for
the japanese to use Russian signal lights
in order to entrap. lure, capture and con-
fiscate four Russian torpedo boats.
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BOOKS RECEIVED

SONS OF VENGEANCE, a Tale of the Cnmber-
land Highlanders BY Joseph S. Malone.
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Co. Minneapo-
lis: N. Mccarthy
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EGes-AcILY.

Lincoln (Neb.) Daily Star.
Korea is about as big as. Nebraska, but
we wouldn't swap our poultry interests
for the whole country.
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its atmosphere" Will it be that Of I'm
Mizzouri'?
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Judge Collins and Bob Dunn are fighting
hard for Golden Valley. Is it, "As Golden
Valley goes, so goes the state?''
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The university has press club. Was it
organized to break into Journalism?
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TRAVELLERS ABROAD

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Foyer Chat.


Paulton and Jakobowski, authors of
'Erminie, wrote the musical play which
comes to the Metropolitan next week.
''Winsome Winnie which will introduce
Paula Edwardes, long identified with the
DAILY musical productions. as full fedged
star. Miss Edwardes, who is singing SOU
brette of rare magnetism, has most
congenial role in the name part-an Amer
| lean actress stranded in Turkey. Miss
Edwardes has been surrounded by bril-
| liant singing company, including Madison
Smith. Evelyn Carter, William E. Philip,
and Miss Isobe1 Hall, and such comedians
as Alexander Clark. Joseph c. Miron, and
| Dick Temple.
Two large audiences were in attendance
at the Bfjou yesterday to see the pictur-
lesque melodrama, From Rags to Riches. .
| in which Master Joseph Santley, the boy
actor, plays the principal part.
| The Orpheum Show is the attraction al
the Bijou next week. The company is
still headed by Mcintyre & Heath the
veteran minstrel men, acknowledged lead
ers in their line, and includes Elizabeth
/ Murray, Merians Dogs, Victor Moore &
Co., Ed F. Reynard, the Melani Trio, anc
Albertus & Milar
/ The Ferris production of 'sIn Mizzouri,'
Augustus Thomas comedy drama made
famous by Nat Goodwin, improves rapid,
at the I,yceum. Two large houses saw i
yesterday.
I The great demand for seats for mex
weeks big production of "Parsifal' at tn
. Lyceum. indicates unusual interest in tn
characterization of Wagner's famous work
The advance sale opened with rush. Dicl
4 Ferris activity in being the second man
ager In America to produce tParsifap bid
fair to be rewarded by excellent results.
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Forest City, Iowa. Feb. %, 1904.
MRS. VAN SAINT AS a PACKER

*The resolution will be found on an
other page.
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other elements were executing a centri-
fugal evolution toward the country"
There won't be any sstupefying te-
dunn when every man has his own flying
machine.
Scribner's for March is an inviting num-
Der, with an unusually interesting section
from Robert Grants "Undercurrent, =
some charming, girlishly interesting
"TIone Sketches by Elizabeth Hale Gill
man; s'Music and Life sketches by How
ard Chandler Christy and other interest,"
ing features
Short Time Railroad Loans-They are a
feature of the recent financial movement,
says The Manual of Statistics supplement
for February:
The intention is obvious in all cases that the
short-term notes shall be replaced at their ma
turity, either by stock issues or by bonds bear
ing a lower rate Of interest. In fact railroad
fnanciers appear to be confident that easy money,
low rates of interest and abundant supplies of
capital will make B u per cent and per cent
bonds of companies in good credit desirable
investment in few years. The financial mar
ket itself shares in these ideas. and it is GER
tainy worthy of note that, despite the steady
emissions of such obligations, coupled with the
come on the market since the autumn of 1908.
| there is perfect readiness to absorb such obi
cations.
The February number Of The Manual
is complete and interesting conspectus
Of the financial and industrial situation in
| the United States at the present time.