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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05
Republican Comment on Z
Fletcher.
Loren

Ii there are any Democratic voters
who are inclined to vote for} Loren
Fletcher for congress next TUESDAY.
it would pay them to read the COM
ment of leading Republicans\ on his
candidacy during tile campaign of
1902.
II am sorry to say, from mH stand
point as Republican,. Mr.. Fletcher is
and has been wrong for the last two
OIL three years on all. or nearly all.
public questions. Mr.. Fletcher has op-
posed and voted against re ciprocity
with Cuba. antagonizing his PARTY, the
administration of Roosevelt and nine
tenths of his constituents Senator
w. d. Washburn in Minneapolis Jour-
nal, September 13, 1902.
ut has been said by his opponent,
Mr.. Fletcher, that there was work for
Mr.. Fletcher vet to do in tcongress.
He has been trying to do itia great
many years; perhaps he Wilt have a
chance to complete it, but it Seems to
me that it is long while in rhaturing,
] if, after ten years of service he cannot
have accomplished something's that lie
can bring back to his constituents and
say it is well done. good anh faithful
servant ID. Percy Jones fin Mime
apolis Journal. Septemer 10, E19O2.
"In his entire career he has mot lifted
up his voice for reciprocity with Can
ada. Year after year he got acppropria
tons for adding to the postofflce, defer
ring indefinitely an appropriate ion for
new building. Eugene G. Hay IL
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

VIM. O'Neill of Currir is II candidate
for representative from the Fifteenth
legislative district. II the Murray
county man succeeds he'll be no drone
in the next house. He is capable has
way of his own of putting things
and will he heard from, that's certain,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

DIR. Arthur Young of Prescott. Wis.
died in that city recently ut the age of
IS years. DIR. Young was an honest.
conscientious gentleman who loved his
profession and stood high in it's colln-
sells. He was Il good man and had
the respect and confidence of his fcl-
bowman wherever he was known.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

1t is hard for Judge Parker to salts
fly the Republican press. \ few weeks
ago they were finding fault with him
because he said nothing. now they are
finding fault because lie is talking too
much.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

John Lind again demonstrated that
he was amply able to take care of HIM
We never considered that we lacked
in full appreciation of the worth of
Mr.. Lind, but we do think that Mr..
Peterson showed undue regard for Mr..
Lind by totally abandoning the subject
in hand in favor of discussion Of
Linds personality.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

People of all shades of political be-
lief are outspokcn in their support of
Frnnk G. Mcmillan for the school
board. Mr.. Mcmillan has served in
that capacity for many years and his
ability and fair dealing Is recognized.
Although OH the Democratic ballot,
Of Republican votes next Tuesday.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

Democrats should not forget that
there are two Democratic Judges up
for reelection. Judges Brooks and
Pond should both be elected and will
be, if the Democrats take the pains to
vote for them. There are thousands Of
Republicans who will vote for these
men just us there We're six years ago.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

w. A. Kennedy is again in the field
as Il candidate for treasurer Of lie
Sueur county Popular, painstaking
and obliging, Mr.. Kennedy ought, and
we believe will, succeed himself by an
increased majority.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

The registration in Minneapolis this
year is heavier by five thousand than
it was two years ago The total in the
city. in round numbers. foots up 49,
500 Added to this number 5000 more
from the outside towns in the county.
Hennepin has registered over 10000,
tered
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

At the primary election, held some
weeks ago the voter had until 8
O'Clock ut night to cast his ballot. At
tile general election next Tuesday the
polls will open ut the same hour. but
close two hours earlier. In other
words, the polls will open ut & II. M.
and close at p. m.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

Col. A. NJ. Flagg, looked upon as one
of the ablest newspaper. men in the
state, and for some time editor of the
Duluth News-Tribune, committed sui
eide by drowning in Lake Superior
last Tuesday. He had been i'll for
some time and the thought that his
physical and mental powers were fail
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05
Remember that the polls open ut 6
o'clock next Tuesday morning and
close in the evening at { O'clock.

Most Rev. William Henry Elder
Archbishop of Cincinnati, died in that
city on Monday last after an illness
of four days, aged SO years.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

The growth of Catholicity in America
is illustrated strikingly by the re-
port recently issued by the chancellor
of the diocese Of Chicago. The census
of the diocese shows that there are
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

The above rates include cost Of postage
TO any part Of the United States, Canada
or Mexico. To foreign countries the post
age will be Soc per year additional.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-05

Total electoral vote, 476; necessary
to elect. $50.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
FRIDAY EVENING,

laboring men that settle the thing.
They do not vote as they do to please
the men of wealth, but because they
know that their interests lie in the
same direction. It is a business propo-
ssition for the rich man, and business
for. the poor man, and each man de-
cides for himself. Even in questions
of taxation the poor man has the same
voice, and it is right that he should.
st. Paul's city campaign has furnished
a slogan, high taxes make high
rents, and that states the case ex-
actly. Indirectly the man with no
capital but his hands pays his share of
the taxes.
If wealth should control, then we
should have property qualification
for. voters. Few in this day will de-
fend such a proposition. It is out of
date, and un-American. The man and
not the dollar is the chief considera-
ton.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
The Gear Will Fight.

The official circular issued at st.
Petersburg, yesterday, would seem to
be a sufficient answer to the cars
neighbors who have been showing no
little solicitude as to the. war in Asia
and have made personal efforts TO lead
him to accept their mediatorial Offices
The Apostle Of Peace" announces
that he wants no mediation, and that
he will not allow the intervention Of
any power or powers .'in the Russo
Japanese negotiations after the war"
This is decisive language and in the
nature of crisp warning to the Euro
pean powers, who write their names
with big capital "P'' that they must
keep their hands off when settlement
day comes, and that they need not ex-
pect to repeat the game they played
in 1878.
Russia evidently is in no mood to
undergo such humiliation as she un-
derwent when after spending several
hundred millions fighting Turkey and
unfurlingSthe yellow imperial standard
with it's double-headed eagle in sight
of the dome of st. Sophia and Con-
stantinople, and by treaty annihilat-
ing, practically, the Turkish power in
Europe, she was halted by the inter-
vention of England, who rushed her
fleet thru the Dardanelles to save her
dear old Ottoman ally. At that time
England brought the powers together
in the Radzivill palace in Berlin,
where they annihilated Russia's ar
rangement with Turkey and secured
fat takes of Turkish territory for
themselves, leaving Russia only Bes-
| sarabia and bit of Armenia Russia
was not strong enough then after the
| exhaustion of a costly war, to resist
| this predatory intervention, but she
| is not disposed to be euchred out of
what she may consider the legitimate
| spoils of war, or whatever she may get
after the present fighting is over. This
| is on the assumption, of course, that
she gets something out of this war
besides defeat.
In announcing her determination tc
/ the powers touching mediation or in
PREVENTION, Russia declares that the
war was forced upon her'-a state
ment which the Apostle of Peace
and his counselors know to be abom-
inably false, as the Siberian railway
1 was constructed for the express pur-
pose Of facilitating the Russian ac.
QUESTION of territory in farther Asia
i The Boxer Instruction of 1900 (which
/ Russia took a hand in promoting
doubt1essl, opened for her the oppor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
What the Forestry Grant WILL Do

A new state park for Minnesota is
made possible by the forest reserve
bill, passed by congress yesterday,
thanks to the efforts Of Senator Mel
son and Congressman Volstead. The
/ bill gives the Minnesota forestry board
the right to select 10000 acres of gov
eminent land. The land must be
third or fourth-rate, which means
cut over or poorly timbered land, and
altho set aside for forestry purposes,
the bill requires that it shall always
be open to the people of the state for
recreation.
This clause does not permit the
making Of a second game preserve,
like Itasca park, where all hunting is
forbidden. It can only mean that the
tract selected will be open for hunt
ing and fishing, conformable to the
restrictions Of the state game law.
The bill does not, therefore, permit an
enlargement Of Itasca park, which is
30 much needed. However, it would
be worth something if the new park
could be in constant watch Of the
state employee deputized as a game
warden, so that this one spot would be
safe refuge for deer and other game
during the closed season. The for
estry experiments of the state should
have some one in attendance, and the
functions of a forester and game
warden might very we'll be combined,
as they are in other countries.
The grant Of 10000 acres does not
give the state such an enormous tract
Of land; only 31A square miles, OF
less than a township, but the action OF
congress sets valuable precedent
If the forestry board can make the
selection in one piece it will have room
to try the latest methods Of refor-
estation.
Another thing that this grant means
with this enlarged work, the for
estry board will justly claim some
thing more at the hands of the state
than a fund Of $4,000 year, from
which must be paid the chief ward
ems princely salary Of $1,000 a year
his travelling and office expenses.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
Money Does Not Rule.

Bishop Galloways address on "The
South and the Negro" at the educa-
tional conference in Birmingham,
Ala, has attracted attention as clear,
outspoken definition of the relations
between the races in the south. For
the most part his statements will go
uncontradicted, but one of them raises
question. The good bishop says
1.-THE political power of this section
will remain in present hands. Here,
as elsewhere, intelligence and wealth
will and should control. the admins
tration Of governmental affairs
TIL Journ a cannot believe that
this is a correct statement of condi-
tons in the south, or any other con-
siderable section of the United States.
Neither is it correct in theory. The
bishop has either expressed himself
very awl1wardly, or he has most
peculiar idea Of popular government.
Intelligence does control in our
governmental affairs, and it is both
natural and right that educated minds
should give shape to public thought.
But tho money is powerful, we are not
an aristocracy of wealth, ''plutoc-
racy' If you please. We are not ruled
by the money power" AS the social
list would have people believe. Bishop
Galloway seems to hold with the So
cialists in fact if not in theory.
The rest of us are not willing to
admit that money controls political
action Men of wealth do have greater
influence. as rule, but it is not be-
cause of the mere possession of
money. 1t is because the intelligence
and force of character that have made
the man successful in money matters
make him a natural leader of men.
1t is not the money that has influence;
1T is the man.
William r. Hearst's money cannot
buy him the presidency, no matter
how lavishly he distributes it among
hungry followers. Addicks has sown
the soil of Delaware with gold. but he
cannot buy his way into the United
States senate. These are concrete in
stances. Wealth does not control in
these cases, and Bishop Galloway
would not wish it to. The dollars OF
these men cannot buy the consciences
of the people, who think for them
selves. Campaign funds are powerful
but they cannot overcome right prin-
ciples grounded in the hearts of the
people.
Pubic questions like the tariff and
4 coinage are matters of business. Mer
Of wealth have their views on these
questions, and they frequently prevail
but it is the deliberate Judgment OF
merchants, mechanics. farmers and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
DRESSED APPROPRIATELY

Senator Hopkins of Illinois walked into
the senate on Tuesday wearing one low
and one high shoe. His colleagues cast
curious glances at his discordant foot
wear. and finally Senator Foraker in
CURED: Hopkins, is there any political
significance in the pedal accoutrement of
yours?"
The Illinois senator looked down at his
feet with surprise. It was the first time
he had noticed that there was anything
wrong with his apparel. But his presence
of mind did not desert him.
You see. Foraker. he explained,
March q is the dividing line between
winter and spring. When I dressed this
morning I thought it was the 21st. and
so decided to dress appropriately
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
MET FORTUNE AND DEATH

Edward NJ. Sturgeon, who died suddenly
IN FL Paso, Tex. last week, met for
tune and death together. For twenty
years he had searched in vain for gold
and had travelled from British Columbia
to Mexico in his endeavor. short time
ago he found the great Eltigre mine in
Mexico. It was sold, but before he could
enjoy the fruits of the discovery he
passed away.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
ABSENCE

In this fair strangers eyes Of gray
Thine eyes, my love, see.
SILVER, for the passing day
Had borne me far from thee.
This is the curse of life, that not
nobler, calmer train
OF wiser thoughts and feelings blot
Our passions from our brain;
But each day brings its petty dust
Our soOn-choked souls to fill.
And we forget because we must
And not because we will.
struggle toward the light; and ye
Once-longed-for storms of love,
II with the light re cannot be,
bear that ye remove.
Il struggle toward the 1ight-but oh,
While vet the night is chill.
Upon times barren. stormy flow.
Stay with me, Marguerite. still.
Matthew Arnold
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
The Woman in Public Affairs.

s The woman in business is an old
story She has been there now for a
good many years. She has invaded
nearly all branches Of commercial and
professional activity. She not only
serves as clerk, but manages and owns
important business enterprises Of va
rious kinds. She practices law and
medicine, and serves the government
in various capacities. The woman in
business has made her place and
seems destined to keep it
A later arrival is the woman in pub
lie affairs. OF course, there have been
agitatcrs for woman suffrage, advo-
eating the participation Of women in
political life for many years. But this
is not the woman we have in mind.
The woman in public affairs is the
woman who, without waiting for the
ballot, or bothering about her politi-
cal qualifications, organizes for the
purpose Of creating or shaping public
opinion and accomplishing results.
Having made up her mind as to what
she wants, she gets together in i'm
provement leagues and in other forms
of associate effort and brings pressure
to bear upon the public officer. The
public officer may resist for a time,
but If the woman of affairs Is right,
and she generally is, he finds resis-
lance an exceedingly hard thing to
maintain.
Nobody can marshal public senti-
ment more effectively than the woman
in public affairs. We have had a good
illustration Of this recently in the
movement for pure water in the public
schools. We are likely to have an
other in the movement for damp
| sweeping in the public schoolroom.
The women who are back of this idea
have Investigated the matter thoroly,
have accumulated an overwhelming
mass of evidence in support of their
proposition, and conscious of their
rights as advocates of sanitary
| measure, We haven't any other idea
than that they will compel either this
school board or some other to adopt
more sanitary and clearly methods OF
| caring for the schoolrooms than have
been in vogue heretofore.
And our judgment is that the
woman in public affairs is probably
a good deal more of a force without
the ballot than she would be with it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
New Phase of Lake Street Question.

oAAS "
Property owners on Lake street still
adhere to their determination to prevent
the use of the street by the street car
company. A case recently decided by the
supreme court of Wisconsin has put a
new phase upon the entire question. The
case is entitled Younl1in ct AL VS.. Milwau-
kee Light, Heat and Traction company.
reported in 50 N w. Rep, -217, and was
handed down Feb 2 last
The syllabus is as follows: ''An cleo
trio street railway operating passenger
cars from one city thru the streets of an
other city and to a point beyond is an
additional burden on the lands Of abuttin.s
owners on the streets of the second city
thru which the line passes" In this case
the street car company put into oper-
alton a. line running from Milwaukee to
Waukesha, thru Waukesha on one Of
| the city streets, and then beyond about
six miles to Waukesha Beach. summer
resort. 1t operated in Waukesha under
a franchise granted by the city council.
| No compensation was made to the abut-
| ting property owners.
| After the line had commenced opera
ton an action was instituted by twenty
six Of the abutting land owners joining
| as plaintiffs to restrain the running of the
| cars. The lower court held for the de-
PENDANT, but was reversed by the supreme
court. which stated the law to be as above
| quoted. AN order was entered restrain
| ing the company from running its inter-
urban cars on the street in Waukesha, no
compensation having been made to the
property owners.
The case is an important one as bear
| ing on the new and changing conditions
| in passenger transportation. 1t shows
| that the courts are disposed to meet the
| questions that arise in the light Of pres
| ent-day conditions, and not be governed
|
| electric car transportation was known.
The property owners on Lake street
| take the position that the resolution
passed by the city council, and which con-
| stitutes a contract with the street car
company, not only contemplates but re-
quires the running of interurban cars as
soon as possible. The manager Of the
company stated at one of the meetings
held that it was the intention of the COM
| pany eventually to run cars from st. Paul
| thru to Lake Minnetonka. 1t is not at
| all improbable also, to expect that in a
| few years the line would be extended to
various other places. In the running of
| interurban cars or trains the main object
| is to carry passengers from one town to
another, and the picking up of passengers
to be carried simply within the city limits
! is merely incidental. Such being the
case, the line ceases to be city street
railway line and becomes a commercial
railway line The whole question is a
very. interesting and important one. The
people on Lake street propose to make
| the most of this new phase Of the mat
! ter, and are confident of winning out in
| the contest.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29

Boston, Mass, Is called the city Of
notions, from the amount of Yankee
notions manufactured there. The city
was first called the Hub Of the Uni
verse by Oliver Wendell Holmes, who
wished to convey the idea that the
world moved around that city. It is
also called the tri-mountain city,
from the three hills upon which it was
originally built.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
THE NEvERMoRE

Been;
am also called No More, Too Late Fare
we'll:
Unto thine ear hold the dead seashell
Cast up thy Lifes foam-crested feet between.
Unto thine eyes the glass where that is seen
Which had Iife's form and Loves, but by
my spell
Is now a shaken shadow intolerable,
OF ultimate things unuttered the frail screen.
Mark me- how still am! But should there
dart
One moment thru my soul the soft surprise
OF that winged Peace which lulls the breath
of signs.
Then shaIts@thou smile, and turn apart
Thy yisage to mine ambush at thy heart
Sleepleys with cold commemorative eyes.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
tunity to enter vigorously upon the
absorption Of Manchuria, with the

tunity to enter vigorously upon the
absorption OF Manchuria, with the
ultimate design OF acquiring Korea.
Even while the allied powers were
celebrating with the late Ii Hung
Chang upon the terms Of indemnity
for losses during the Boxer nassacres
and rapine, Russia was expediting her
Manchurian railway connections with
the Siberian railroad and making a
Gibraltar of Port Arthur, acquired
from China In 1898. The present war,
instead of being forced upon Rus
STA, was the direct result OF her oc-
cupation of Chinese territory and her
march, in aggressive lighting order,
eastward, practically challenging
Japan to mobilize her sea and land
forces in self-defense.
According to an Associated Press tele-
gram from ST. Petersburg, more than 1000
political prisoners, men and women, have
been sent into exile in Siberia. More than
We're mere boys and girls of Is. Their
offense in most cases was the reading
of revolutionary books and papers. The
nomads or haif-savage people in whose
huts the prisoners were CHARTERED on the
way to Siberia were authorized to kill
any who tried to- escape. How can we
sympathize very strongly with country
which suppresses freedom of opinion Sc
ruthlessly?
You may not know it and you may not
tunity when the country wasn't looking
Yesterday and adjourned
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29

rat show was held in Cheltenham
England, the other day as sort of fore
runner Of an effort ito popularize the ra,
as a table dainty The people Of China
think highly Of the rodent in this respect
Why he IS more offensive to the western
mind than the squirrel or the COW is diff
ficult to state. Rat meat is certainly the
product of greater intelligence than COW
meat The cow is not bright and quick
She does not scurry thru your house be-
hind the lathing and does not have intel
ligence enough to gnaw a hole into your
larder and take, a bite Of cheese wher
hunger presses.
For the present. however, we say;
"Stand up for the cow A. J. r,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-29
PREJUDICE AGAINST INTERMAR.
RAGE

The will Of Alfred L. Cohen, who re-
Gently died in London leaving fortune of
SITS, 750. says, in bequeathing to his son,
George Alfred Cohen. his house and
stables and their contents and $500, 900 in
trust: II make the foregoing bequest OF
the contents of my house and stables to
my son in absolute confidence that he
will maintain his promise to me that
when he n1arries he will marry a girl of
the Jewish creed and race, worthy to pre-
side in his house and maintain the tradi-
tons of my family