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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
No Petitions, Please.

There is one feature Of Wisconsin g
new primary election law that will
hardly prove popular. Under the Wis
consin system candidates must be placed
on the primary ballot by petition, get
ting the signatures Of specified per-
tcentage of the voters.
{ Minneapolis tried the petition plan
In 1900 and had enough Of it. The
city was flooded with petitions. Every
\ barber shop and cigar store was petit
ton headquarters. Business men had
petitions thrust under their noses every
few minutes while at work. Gallons
Of ink and many hours Of more or less
Rvaluable time were wasted in signing
i these documents. The net result was
4 that every man who desired to run got
| the required number of names and be-
came candidate. It was rare indeed
for man to refuse to sign petition.
LAS an expression of the popular will it
was a farce. The candidate himself
started the ball rolling, and after an.
.noying the necessary number of citi
gems, he was able to show the county
3 auditor has right to h1e-
3, The Wisconsin law CRAFTS a new idea
on the petition feature, by requiring
1.-THE signer of petition to pledge him
4 self to vote for the candidate whose
name appears at the top. That will
make no difference. The average voter
ts a cheerful promiser. He sees moth
ing immoral in returning a candidate +
sHt jolly and then voting for the Other
fellow. In recent history a candidate
Received over $4,000 written pledge:
land got less than 5000 votes in the
roundup. Voters will Sign a petition
i or pledge rather than have an argu
1ment. 1t does not help the petition idea
any to; add the requirement. of a pledge
# Minneapolis, as remarked before, go
enough of petitions in 1900. When the
general primary law was passed i,
1901 the petition feature was cut out
and there were no regrets. !. The state
primary law is due for a liberal course
Of amending at the coming session d:
the Minnesota Legislature, and man,
l funny ideas will crop up before th'
winter is ended. So long as they ar,
new and interesting, no one, will com
\ plain, but this is no time for revamp
4 ing WORKOUT foolishness. If any mis-
4 guided member should propose return
ling to the petition plan, he would b.
l led gently but firmly out on the capito
steps and shown the way to the higl
bridge.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
THE Low RATE DID IT
Nebraska state Journal.

The movement Of 10000 people from the
twin cities to Chicago to attend the Min
nesota- Northw estern football game is
pronounced unthinkable by slow
going eastern newspaper. Such an inter-
est in football seems entirely out of pro-
portion to the place the sport ought to
hold in the affections Of the people. But
if the case is examined it will be found
that the real inducement was the low rate
for the round trip that the railroads made
thru huke Of management. The move
ment of 10000 people was under the cir
cumstances no more remarkable than the
excursion of 5000 or more that the North
Western carried to Minneapolis from Lin
coin three years ago. Everybody knows
that the attraction. on that occasions was
the round trip rate Of So and not the game
between Nebraska and Minnesota. stt If
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Duluth & Iron Range and the Duluth.
Missabe & Northern roads have let a 1,045,000
contract for steel cars for hauling ore.
The Great Northern opened forty miles Of its
Thief River extension yesterday to GreenbusE.
The branch will be built thru to Roseau in the
spring.
The Great Northern road has issued book
on towns reached by its Thief River Falls, La
kota-Edmore, Granville Mohau extensions and
Columbia Falls cutoff.
Minimum weights carloads of agricultural
implements shipped east of Chicago in the future
will be $4,000 instead of 1000 pounds. This
order will affect Minneapolis shippers little,
however. as most Of their goods go west.
Vice President Whyte of the Canadian Pacific
railway says contracts will be awarded at once
for tbs double tracking of the main line from
lakes.
An information bureau such as has been of
great use to travellers passing thru the St
Louis union station during the exposition, will
be established at the st. Paul union station.
Information regarding trains, hotels, etc., will be
furnished on application.
The Big Four and Michigan Central have put
In q new limited train to leave New York at
5:32 DIN. 1t will run over the Central to
Detroit. Grand Rapids and Chicago ard the
Big, -Four. to st. Louis and Cincinnati. The
Central train that formerly left Chicago at
5:20 pm. Will leave at 5 end lay over two hours
Ct Niagara Falls, reducing the excess fare from
81 to so. - =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
No inconsistency.

The Red Wing News, speaking Of
Governors Cummins and Van SAINT and
their stand in favor Of increased powers
for the Interstate commerce commission,
says: - ,.,. a. .
When. men like Van SAINT take an in
terest i'll such motions it is an encourag-
ing sign that the average man is awak-
eninS to the Importance Of it, For a long
time Van SAINT thought the essential thing
was to break up railroad monopoly and
that his suit against the merger was the
whole proceedings. This goes toward rec
ogniz1ng that the railroad business Is q
monopoly and must be controlled.
There 10 no conflict whatever between
these two proceedings, and no. reason
why campaign against mergers and
a. campaign for more effective rate
regulation should not be carried on
hand in hand. The one fight is
waged to preserve the principle of
competition in traffic. Competitions,
when it exists, keeps down rates, but
does not always result in a just dis
tribution Of traffic. Even with free
competition there are injustices which
the state must take cognizance Of,
When competition is hampered, as it is
now in this day Of traffic associations
and "business" agreements, there is
all the more reason for effective gov
eminent regulation. ,r..
The campaign against the merger was
stroke on. behalf Of the travelling and
shipping public. Its direct and indi.
rect results have been great. In ask
ing for increased powers for the inter
state commerce commission, Governor
Van SAINT is only taking logical step
in the same direction.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
A NEAT BOOK OF VIEWS
The Milwaukee Issues an Attractive
Work That Has Value.

COLORADO and California - is the title
Of a; new art advertising book issued by
the Milwaukee, road; Front and rear
types Of gorge views, and inside are
maps Of the two states. In the middle
Of the book is finely engraved map of
the entire system. The, descriptive mat
ter in the book is we'll written and at
tractively set in type. Along with the
reading goes a lot Of half-tone views
taken on the route. While designed
primarily to set the future traveller
right, the booklet will serve also well
as a souvenir Of trips to the seasoned
traveller. .4 ts
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
The Deepest Shame.

Whenever a community is brought
face to face with conditions of graft
or immortality, there is sure to be re-
sentiment in some quarters over the ex-
pose. The cry goes up that the city
is being slandered and that the reform
ers are giving it bad name abroad.
This is one of the things that makes
hi it unpleasant to be a reformer a
Header in exposing and furnishing cor
ruption. Usually, however, the better
elements of a community display good
sense and give moral support to the
movement. "
Hurley, Wis, has advertised itself
las a different sort Of a city entirely.
Conditions Of official rottenness were
recently disclosed in Hurley which led
Governor La Toilette to take summary
action, removing the sheriff and dis
Itrict attorney Of the county. The leader
in this movement was DR.. L.. P. L..
Geillardet, the local health officer, who
Rcted from no personal spite, but solely
In the interests Of the citizens. The
city council first showed it's gratitude
by removing him from the position Of
health officer, and the people Of Hur-
+ ley followed suit by boycott which
reduced the doctors formerly, lucra-
i tive practice to about 81 a month. I'M
able to make q living in Hurley, he
pulled up stakes and settled in Chippe-
WA Falls. ''r
Hurley has suffered more in the eyes
of the outside world by the boycott
of DIR. Geillardet than by the original
scandal. The people of the town have
demonstrated that they do not want a
clean city; that they prefer reeking
/ corruption to the process of cleaning
4 up. Like the scriptura1e animal, they
I return to their wallowing in the mire.
Few cities escape civic scandals. In
fact, the large municipality that goes
free attracts sort Of suspicion that
there Is something there suppressed
1 The city housekeeping is frst-rate
sign Of awakened civic conscience and
4 a guarantee Of improved conditions for
\ an indefinite future era. The city that
4 takes hold Of such crisis with firm
4 ness and rids itself of the evil comes
4 / out in the end with nothing but credit.
4 The BLACKLIST blot on the face Of com.
rnunity is cast when the people con.
done the exposed offenses and resent
4the exposure.
Minneapolis has no cause to fee
ashamed Of the city's course in the
Anes scandals, and the people are in
hnitely better off than if the officials
SAhad refused to break thru the crust
! and uncover the corruption. The state
Ilof Minnesota is already the gamer by
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
Will Bear Watching.

The concentration Of wealth in Ameri-
ca has been the subject Of much discus
sion of late,; and, many and widely va
RANT have been the views expressed as
to the ultimate effect Of the increasing
tendency towards combination and CO.
operation on the part Of the railroads
and the great financial institutions. In
our country, where there is no govern
mental bank as in England for instance,
there is no one institution that can
properly be designated as the central or
dominant power in American finance;
nevertheless there are institutions in
the United States that without govern
mental influence and in operation pure
ly as business affairs of a private ma
ture, control so much wealth as to make
them outrank some Of the greatest Eu-
ropean institutions.
The Wall Street Journal has recently
been looking into the directorate Of the
National City Bank Of New York, one
Of the greatest centers Of financial con-
centration Of power in the country, tho
by no means the only one. It is found
chat this bank has twenty-four directors
| who are also directors in $50 other
banks, trust companies, insurance com
panies, railroads, industrial or mercan
tile corporations.
The combined assets Of the banks and
insurance companies, and the railroad
and industrial capitalization so repre-
sented, aggregates the stupendous total
of 81, 040, 100000. The group of men
who sit around the directors board Of
this bank, therefore control directly OF
Indirectly financial power, probably
greater than any ever welded by a
group Of two dozen men in the world s
history.
There is food for deep thought In this
The socialistic reader will see in it the
steady working out Of concentration tx
the point where it will have become
intolerable and will result in govern
mental interference. This may be {
fair view of it. The concentration Of
power in few hands is unquestionablJ
one Of the factors for good or evil il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
NEWS or THE BOOK WORLD
THE UNEASY CHAIR

Compact with Nonsense. Carolyn Wells
has offered another contribution to the
gayety OF nations in Folly for the
Wise, collection Of sayings, rhymes
fables and other things 50, utterly fool
ish that it is impossible to refrain
from laughing att them. They arc
Enough to Know Folly When They Set
Her. "a
& The reader who can pass that test i'm.
mediately passes to the first department
that Of Com pound Zoology where he i:
terrified, for example, by the threatening
appearance Of Mint-Julepard-p possibly
But he is promptly informed.
Mint-Julepard flew at the throat
OF a man at French table d'hote;
Y Yet, strange to relate,
ri The man met his fate
With fortitude worthy of note. +.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
A Plea for eovernor-EIect Douglas.

10 the EDITOR OF the Journal. 80
Your editorial under the heading, i"Gov-
ernor Douglas Of Massa chusetts Has Been
Explaining" contains a Misrepresentation
Mr.. Douglas Isl, as you say, a large en-
ployer Of labor and is on record as paying
the highest wages for the grade of shoes
he makes Of any manufacturer in his
town. Furthermore he is the first man
'ufacturer to put his men on a nine-hou1
schedule while paying for ten hours day
He also gives his employees and their
families the services OF one, Of the best
Of Brocktons physicians free Of cost. Tie
has always been a; friend Of labor, as he
started from the. ranks himself Mr.
Douglas practices what he breaches
know what ], am talking about, as I have
been in his employ for a number Of years
and know him thoroly: Very respect
fully yours, =. q Thos. Feeley.
272S Emerson avenue S. 81 ~ ssf5,ss.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
SIOUX CITY FEASTs
Four Hundred Attend Banquet Celebrat-
ing the Armour Opening.
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal.
! Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 29.-Four hun
dred guests sat down to a banquet at
the&Hotel Mondamin last night in cele-
bration Of the opening Of the new
1,5O0,000 packing plant Of Armour &
Co. A.: +. Call Of Sioux City was toast
master, and toasts were given by Con-
gresham E. H. Hubbard, Sioux
City; NJ. D. Grover, general counsel for
Perkins, editor of the Sioux City Jour
nal. George j. Brine of Armour & Co. s
legal department, and others. j .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
lJnluue-VaudevilIe.

Few vaudeville acts that have appeared
in Minneapolis are as wonderfully clever
as that given by the four Juggling MOI
tons. Their wonderfully dextrous hand
ling Of the clubs, their concert passing,
and adept unison Juggling is seldom
equaled. Such dexterity takes almost a
lifetime to master, in order to give such
an exhibition as this. quartet gives This
headliner, with Olvio, the unique charac-
ter contortion performer, makes the two
star acts Of the entertainment: at the
Unique theater this week, with three 9TH
er meritorious ones, and the. expensive
animated picture production, AN Inpos-
sible Journey" ~ 80.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
AFRAID OF FOURNIER
Dahl Murder Suspect Returns to His
So Claim Near Quiring.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal = = ---------- :
the, vicinity Of Curing are much dis
turbed by. the presence there Of Paul
Fournier, held SO long in Jail here for
the murder of the Dahls last fall, but
finally released for lack of evidence.
Since his release he has been living
quietly OIL his claim near During, but
his reputation and the fact that he
knows the people of During generally
the settlers feel that they are not safe
while he lives there, So
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29

Before he passes from the meragerie he
is given a few lessons in natural history
and how to know certain specimens that
he may meet in wild places: : .-'r': T.
If, when in India loafng round, p. $50
A noble wild beast meets you, 49,
With dark stripes on yellow ground
p. Just notice If he eats you. =
This simple, rule may help you learn y
The Bengal Tiger to discern. .
One Of the authors pets Is a suicidal
cat The story of this cat Is something
Of an epic, for it required nine distinct
suicidal acts to accomplish it's taking off,
the last Of which was the purchase Of an
automobile. '.'< ~,
= The author is long on crazy quilt wise
sayings from all literature. For example:
A fool and his money corrupt good manners.
= man is known by the loveletters he keeps:
Never put off till tomorrow what you can wear
tonight. : ..'.s,- IT, a..
Dead men sell no tales. -, t.", r..
Too many books spoil the trade: IT, J. -
Epigrams cover multitude Of sins.
A little sequel is dangerous thing. . -.
=, Don't look a gift book in the binding. =, .-
. !. The book is full Of things half sense and
half nonsense to make one laugh, folly
If you were not wise enough to- see 1t.
!, Bobbs-Merr Co., indianapolis. Iii.
Following the Birds In Wlnter.--The
sport, for such it is, is made easy when
one has such a guide as Bradford Torrey
and Natures Invitation. Half the fun OF
the sportsman, whether he uses: rod or
gun or fie1dglass as his weapon, IS found
il the hours by his xArSss1ia { where he
lives over ard ever again the trannps Of
E"thb good odd summer time" a pleasure
scarcely less intense is that.of going with
some other sportsman on trips he has re.
duced to print. To do that with Bradford
Torrey in his latest book one must travel
far, for he writes Of observations III New
Hampshire Florida Texas and Arizona
Just to let you see one of the things he
saw in the southwest, we quote this about
some acrobatic ravens:
Again and again, in the course of their doub-
lings and duckings, I saw the birds turn what
looked to be complete sidewise somersault.
1t may have been optical Illusion; probably
It was: but If so it was absolute. Sure am
that more than once | saw bird fat on bin
back in the str, and to all appearance, as say,
he did not turn back, but came up like a flash
on the other side. Fact or illusion, clean over
or halfway over, 1t was clever trick, and
could not wonder that the birds seemed to take
pleasure in its repetition. imagined they were
as proud of 1t as young gymnast ever was OF
his newly acquired back handspring. -. ~
Mr.. Torrey decided later that the birds
turned only half way over. ,..",.. @}4.|- F..
p, Mr.. Torrey is a close observer and has
a faculty Of telling clearly, what he sees
His new book Is one birdloyers will be
glad to add to their bird-book shelf. : -.
Houghton, Mifdin 6 Co., Boston. S1.10 net: :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
MAY GO THRU BUENA VISTA

HrOp0SeQs Line NOTCn OF BemlQp he
" :'~' urveyed-Grading Begun.
Special to The Journal. s..~@q 4,. ~.
Bemidii, Mimi, Nov. ga new sur
vey for the extension of the old Red
Lake railway to Bemidii has been made,
passing thru Buena Vista, and it is
possible that this survey will be adopt
ed instead Of the one, running about
three miles west Of Buena Vista. Buena
Vista is a thriving settlement, in the
hills, twelve miles north of Bemidii, at
point where the waters divide to flow
north to Hudson bay and south to the
Gulf Of Mexico. The surrounding coun-
try is "a heavily wooded section, with
rich. soil, where remarkable finds of red
brick clay and Of stone and oil have
been made. ~ -. -. - r. ,.-s.:-.
Work upon the grading of the right
of way is proceeding rapidly about five
miles north Of Bemidii, and new ship
ments Of road material and equipment
for grading are being received daily.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
! OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED

ELEMENTS OF BOTANY, Revised edition, with
key and fora. BY Joseph Y. Bergen, formerly
instructor in biology, English high school, Bos-
s1.45. '''E SsI ,..Gaa 49,.
ALIcE's ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.
By Lewis Carroll. New edition, with twelve
full-page Illustrations In color by NJ: Z. Kirk
and forty7two Illustrations by John Tenniel.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes. $3.50.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
An Increased Award.

The New York Central has Just re-
ceived notice that the Superior Jury of
Awards, after hearing an argument on
the subject. has raised the award first
given the New York Central on it's ex-
bibit at the Universal Exposition at st.
I.ouis, from the grade Of Gold Medal to
that of Grand Prize.
This is very gratifying indeed, and
more so from the fact that the passen.
ger train which the New York Central
Express trains taken from the service,
and not one that had been built ex-
p1essly for this exhibit.
No higher commentator of the pas
senger service Of the New York Central
Lines could well be given. and this
award emphasizes the opinion expressed
that the New York Central Lines form
The Great Central Railway System Of
America.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
SHOVELS FOR PANAMA:
First of Fourteen Made in Milwaukee
~. Is in Operation.
Special to The Journal.

milwaukee,, Wis, Nov. 2s:-Thiree Of
Bucyrus company Of South Milwaukee
contracted to furnish the government
for work on the Panama canal are be-
ing erected on the isthmus under the di-
rection Of B. Fl. Gabriel, a Milwaukee
civil engineer.
Last week the first shovel was put
in operation. This was one of the three
made by the South Milwaukee company.
The rest will be put in operation as fast
as there. is demand for. them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
Tuesday Evening,

the persistent, unsparing work Of the
public examiner in exposing methods
in the state landoffce, and the people
as whole have no sympathy with the
partizans who have condemned and
abused him for doing an unpleasant
duty.
We are not in the Hurley class, it il
pleasing to say.
The. St. Paul city assembly killed ar
antifree-luneh ordinance The assem- bly,
men do not propose to cut OFF favoritt
source Of supply.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29

waste because shoppers and railroads
combined to depress prices and keep up
railroad rates and because the .cooperage
trust and the coopers' union kept down
the supply of barrels. sornezday the con
sumer, who is not now considered, will
begin to take UP these matters. *
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
A MARVEL!

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Washington Post is inclined to be-
lieve the assertions Of the good people of
Dayton that Dayton is the best-governed
city in the United States. Dayton is a
real nice town, but if the Post wants to
see city we'll governed and continuing
to be we'll governed. with improvements
on all hands and a reducing tax rateIOok
to Cincinnati. TEEs,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29

,, Secretary Shaw recently appointed; a
young fellow to office with this remark:
"My boy, I'll make your salary $500 a
month. to start on. If you behave your
self you can live comfortably on that, and
If you don't behave yourself you oughtn t
to have any more - =
In this case it would seem that whether
he behaves himself or not the young fell
low will never get "raise." -. .1:s--'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29

There is an editor at ST.. Vincent who
says he will not quit fighting till Dunn is
elected governor. Sort Of reminds zone 81
the man who vowed not to cut his hair
till Henry Clay was elected president.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
. a HuRRY.uP coNTRAcT
Kansas City journal.

Kansas City Journal. q
The term of the governor of Massachu-
sets IS only one year. Mr.. Douglas will
have to develop. statesmanship very fast
# he makes a record that viii 90 resound-
ing down the corridors Of time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29
La Crosse Road Extension.

La Crosse, Wis, Nov. 29. THE La
Crosse & Southeastern railroad has
transferred its boarding cars from Stod-
dard to Chaseburg, where they will re-
main some time. The train was run
to within two miles Of Coon Valley
and the grading and construction Of
bridges has been completed. Steel rails
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-29

Rev. Isaac selby of San francisco shot
at Judge Hebbard Of the superior bench
because the judges rulings did not suit
him, The pastor eafterward expressed res
gret that he assaervousz and rnisssea his
honor. Rev. Mr.. selby wiilSsbe sTnores Of
an ornament to thesjail han to- TIA sacred
desk 1%iiF- ~