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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
The Vitality of Vice.

-YHILE that element of the community which
Nv stands for the best things is still rejoicing over
the closing of the Sunday saloon and before the shout
ing and the tunult dies it may be well for those who
would continue the present order to realize that the
Sunday saloon problem is only in the of being
solved Never was a moral issue more sharply drawn
in this city and was the action OF any mayor
in curbing an evil more warmly appauded than that
of Mayor Jones. But this is time when morahty
is militant Large bodies Of the reigiously inclined
have been gathered together and the mayors order
has possibly enthusiastically regarded the de-
sired finale as the conclusive triumph of virtue
vice.
There is, however, nothing ultimate or final about
Mayor Jones' order. It simply that 80 long as
he directs there shall be liquor sold Sunday 1t
is reform but from the circumstances of the case
1t cannot be permanent reform. 1t may be rather
a continuous reform This is the best that can be
expected achieved, so long as vice affords human
beings the Of livelihood.
The free exercise Of Woe means easy money easy
living and self denial to large element IN any
community. It has inherent strength thru the very
constitution of human nature and, in worldly way 1t
is usually profitable There is such thing as erad
eating vice. it be restricted and kept down, but
1t can It be killed. to stay dead until the millen-
nimum comes.
On the other hand it is an old saying that o virtue
is it's own reward.' While may make a good
living vicious pursuit. the professor OF virtue
must find other means for sef-support. From this
standpoint therefore, while the devoted to vice
has but one fight on his hands, his opposite has, in
addition to his struggle against evil, the fight for
existence 1t not to be wondered at that the forces
working for good sometimes break step and lose IN
effectiveness Just at present they at topnotch
efficiency but it will take than handclapping and
eommendatory resolutions to make the Sunday reform
continuous. They should remember that vice never
sleeps with more than eye shut, and that the
conflict between good and bad is always as imminent
in the community as it is in the individual. Once
in two wears comes the chance for test. The next
in the municipal election year hence, and
it is inevitable that law enforcement will be the
dominant issue. 1t is up to the good people of Min
neapos to maintain at high pitch the enthusiasm they
have shown the yclosng order and to work
and to vote harder and straigher than the vigorous
forces which will oppose them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

standards Of cynics and men Of low morality. When
the novelty wears off disgust follows
George Bernard Shaw the self-constituted leader Of
new thought who is perpetrating plays of French
atmosphere in England and America, is meeting the
same fate, but speedily than his Partisan proto
types. Shaw is pretending to show real life on the
STAGE and calls Americans provincial because they
object to his coarse and suggestive dialogue If it
provincial to believe in the holiness of the marriage
relation, then we are perfectly contented to remain
provincial Mr. Shaw's jibes will not hurt a par
ticle The trouble with Shaw is that he is trying to
educate public down to his moral level, and that
instead OF portraying life he is giving his own
distorted conception of life After the curiosity of
the public has been satisfied ennui and disgust follow
and Mr.. Shaw loses his audience That is the end
to which he is certainly tending. England is firing
of him, and America, with its .tsecondrate country
town civilization has had about enough of MI Shaw
His sheer at family ties will be heard by steadily
diminishing circle of hearers, whose conception of
''art'' is perverted life. ..a'=
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
What Did Hearst's Vote Mean?

DISCUSSION has arisen as to whether New
4 n York is shown by the recent election to be in
favor Of municipal ownership. The fact is pointed
out by some persons that Mr.. Hearst, running an
ownership ticket, within few votes Of being
elected. Others equally certain that Mr.. Hearst
did not get his votes because he is in favor of
ship, but in spite Of that fact that his strength
protest against Tammany. . ~.
But if it is true that the people simply wanted to
protest against Murphy, why did they not vote for
Ivns who everybody conceded would make the best
mayor Of the three9 Because they also wanted to
rebuke the Ode machine, is the to this. But
the Odell machine not anywhere offensive
as the Murphy machine and besides Mr.. WINS had
given bonds to run the office himself if elected. 4
It may as well be admitted that Mr.. Hearst got
the votes of thousands who added hatred Of Murphy
love for the ownership idea They had right to
vote for Hearst too because all the other candidates
had dabbled less in ownership talk. McClel-
Ian was a mlk-and-water ownership man, and Mr..
Twins promised to confscate the gas companies imme
diatey when he into office. <z.,-=s
If it right for Mr.. Wins to advocate city gas
and Mayor Mcclellan to point with pride to the
achievement Of public ferries and municipal bridge
lighting plants Mr.. Hearst thought it but right that
he should appeal to the people with wholesale and
consistent plan Of doing up the monopolies He prom
Used them 55cent gas and subways built by the city.
He promised to restore the ownership and manage
ment Of the precious island OF Manhattan to the
'speepul,' - and they heard him.
Notwithstanding the dismal failure Of Mayor
Dunno Of Chicago to accomplish anything toward
municipal ownership Of any kind, the issue is one
which must be faced in American politics. It is
living and growing issue and it means much that
it deserves calm study. Whether public ownership is
practical and profitable is debatable question, but
there is doubt the pretty generally dis
gusted with the way they have been looted by
franchise corporations They will vote to knock the
corporation even when they are not SO sure they
would like to have the POLITICIANS take their
rights in the streets.
This is the unfortunate part Of the voting this
subject Much Of it is done in spirit Of bitterness
against individuals who may may not have treated
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
Dangers of Publicity.

Mr.. GEORGE B. COX, boss of Cincinnati and
l. l. in part Of Ohio, has ''retired.'' "Others, -
he says bear the burdens Of future campaigns
Some months ago, when Lincoln Stefens Of Nc
Clure's Magazine called this political dictator he
found him in little the Mecca saloon-"a
great hulk Of porting" over a newspaper His
account continues:
"Are you the boss of Cincinnati9'' asked
81 am - he grumbed in his hoarse, throaty voice.
F'Of course, you have a mayor and council,
and jvdges' ,, ,,++. 49, i. no;n+oa viii,
his thumb over his shoulder to the desk-'l nave
a telephone, too.'
When Mr.. steffens had finished his investigation
of the machine he the boss again.
''What do you think Of it9' he asked.
"Pretty good, said.
tPretty-l'' He was too disguised to finish ''Best
f'Wel, can t tell,'' said my criterion for
a graft Organization is, how few divide the graft
How many divide it herea'
"Aint no graft" he grumbled.
FThen it's a mighty poor thing"
He pondered a moment. Then, elbow many do
you say divides up here9'
''Three at least'' said. ''You and Garry Her
and Rud Hynicka' -
''Ugh!'' he grunted, scornfully, wagging one fin
ger slowly before my face. Theres only one divides
up here.''
They tell how once, in beer hall, when Herman
and H nicka and others talking quite
like free and independent men, Cox, who had been
porting his beer, broke in hoarsely, But when
whistle you dogs come out OF your holes don, yout
They still. "Don't you, Garry9" the master
repeated ttThat's right - said Garry. i. Il.
This interview read by nearly every voter
in Ohio, as Mr.. Cox took legal action against
Mcclure s., its publication must have had much to
do with the defeat of what was alleged to be ''the
machine' 49, ,. 4.
Publicity seems to be dangerous thing-to g ma
chines' that susceptible to light
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
Tapan's Test in Korea.

r APAN is making serious mistakes in Korea,
- according to George KEENAN, in the Outlook
J The veteran correspondent finds that the Kor-
becoming very bitter toward their masters,
and his observations have discovered some very
good for that feeling. ;
The trouble seems to be that Korea has been IN
vaded by bad element of commercial rascals, who
are exploiting the Koreans and their resources. The
JAPANESE says KEENAN,, should have known that the
most urgent need of the country justice. ''The
people everywhere being oppressed robbed and
impoverished by dishonest Korean officials and they
wanted first Of ALL adequate protection for their per-
sonal and property rights
Instead of righting administrative conditions,
the japanese first turned their attention to develop
ing the material resources Of the country. Their
first proposition to turn the untitled lands of the
empire to a wealthy Jap for fftyyear period, to
reclaim and cultivate them, brought such storm Of
protest from the natives that it was abandoned 1t
had served the purpose, however, Of raising suspi
cion against the Japs.
The islanders made the further mistake of allow
ing many thousands Of their people to swarm into
Korea without providing legal machinery to adjud
cate and settle disputes between immigrants and ma
tives. The newcomers many of them have shown
spectators and promoters anxious to get rich quick
no matter how, and whenever their business clashes
with the Koreans the fear Of the Japanese military
prevails and the natives powerless to get justice
They are sometimes i'll treated personally, and de-
prved of their property by force The Korean courts
have jurisdiction Japanese, and little can be
accomplished thru the Japanese consular courts Even
the Japanese authorities to have treated the
Koreans unfairly in many cases. At any rate, they
failed give the natives adequate protection,
and getting the blame for every wrong that is
committed.
Mr. KEENAN, believes Japan should not have at
tempted to control Korea while keeping up a SEM
blance Of national independence. 1t has led to in
justice and misunderstanding. Evidently the island
nation has problem its hands, in trying to bring
order, justice and prosperity among the childish
rupt and degenerate Koreans. The problem is made
if INSCRIPTIONS Japanese permitted to fat
ten off the weakness of the natives. Japan hopes
to become the leader and the civilizer Of eastern
Asia. To establish claim to that rule she must make
good in Korea. Failure there would weaken the
faith reposed in Japan by western nations and might
easily lead to to restrict Japanese influence
in China.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
How to Treat Your System.

G IR FREDERICK TREVES, physician in ordinary to
- King Edward, announced his conversion to the
theory that disease is benevolent and protective rather
than malignant Its purpose has for ages been misun
derstood and it has suffered from constant msrepre
sentation cough not what you think it, nuisance.
1t Is nature effort to expel the bacteria which other
wise would eat you up The is of the sneeze
No sneeze no relief from the catarrhal affection
So scientists tell we have mistaken the function
of the micro organisms We off with the idea that
they are all fighting and that in order to be healthy
we must get them all out of system. AS matter
OF fact there IS furious struggle going between
them All have to do is to learn which are on our
side and supply them with proper food arm and drill
them to the point where they will kill off the enemy
There are in each of us billion two of cellues
called phagocytes. These gentlemen are the police
force OF your works. If you have cold in the head
it is because the phagocytes have laid down and let
the decadent globules in your blood have the floor.
The thing to do is to pay your phagocytes fair
wages, establish three shifts of eight hours each for
the day and observe the union scale. Care must be
taken to keep their work at gait. When you
throw four pounds Of steak into your stomach at
sitting and then 60 off to ball game expecting your
phagocytes to do the whole work Of reducing this
pulp and subtract from it all the microbes which
would make you sit up nights you likely produce
a strike. -
Many theories have been advanced on how to live to
be hundred years DID, It is insult to nature to set
the figures at hundred If you treat your phagocytes
as an American citizen should you will live all the time
. But science steps in and says well hardly. The
phagocytes like human beings, they are
greedy, don't know when they have done enough and
after having destroyed all the weak spots in your
inwards they are likely to go and nbble your
mucous membrane squat the southeast half Of
the southwest quarter of your liver producing effects
from which only your heirs will realize a benefit.
Science has yet to unravel the mysteries Of the
phagocytrian system. We know that they are
willing workers but we also know that they
times too willing. When have learned more about
them we shall be in better position to temper their
activities to personal needs. We know now that
heat renders them stronger and that cold and quinne
weaken them Some people believe that whisky tickes
them to death, but this is mistake. They thrive
better water than on either milk or alcohol.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
With the Long Bow
Wealth Beyond the Dreams Of Avarice In the Pur-
chase Of Rich Mining Stock with Gold Seals on
IIMean Trick Played by Shareholder in the
Bumper Ledge Gilt Edged and Pyrites Company.
Eye natures walks. shoot folly as It nies. .


WTELL, how's your mine coming onf We have
w ffty-ton concentrating mill already built running
night and day and turning out several trainloads Of
concentrates per month Dividends will begin to
flow in sby spring" After that all we have to do is
to buy silk hat raise whiskers and feel good right
along. ~
Perhaps you have noticed since the stock market
has quieted down and since real estate is resting
easily, preparing for the big spring trade, that the
mining people have found few shares that they are
willing to dole out to those whose money rustles un-
easily IN the old sock. Buying mining stock is one
of the easiest ways Of getting rich that the world
has The stuff is there, as we have before
remarked and all that it is necessary to do is to dig
it out ship it to the smeer and declare large divi-
dend. We once knew a man who got rich by not
buying mining stock-but think Of the glorious dreams
of wealth unparalleled that he missed on his passage
from earth to heaven
local shareholder played mean trick on his
friends last week. The president Of the company,
gentleman Of unimpeachable habits and church con-
nections that made his mine thing had hurried
to Colorado to if he couldn't hasten the first dvi
dend of the Bumper Ledge Gilt Edged Gold and
Pyrites Mining company. After he had been away
for few days this shareholder had slip
printed follows:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

Ben Greet and his players are invading New York's
east side with shaksperean plays During their New
York engagement the company will appear night
each week at the East Side settlement, under the
auspices of the Educational Alliance, and will present
''Henry w. 'Merchant Of Venice, - Much Ado
About Nothing,' ''Macbeth' and 'Julius Caesar
The hope is to educate the taste of theater-goers
New York slum district, and check the tendency for
sensational melodramas It looks like an effective
sort Of missionary work.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
Editorial Section.

his grievance. If his honor cannot convince him that
he is wrong that Cleveland is not place for DEATH
but for fe then he may go his way in peace but first
let him give the mayor fair chance Suicides will
be received at the office Tuesdays from to r.
Those who be argued out Of their
to quit the world will receive certificate that they
have been labored with, but in vain Perhaps the
mayor may tender them the free us Of municipality
owned pistol. @
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

Herman Menu Of Detroit has shocked the feelings
of the community by erecting statue to the devil.
It is not pretty statue and if it has any effect at
all it will be to people to avoid any closer
acquaintance with the original Nobody who has
the Menu statue devil will think any of the devil
of Mr.. Menu. It was not handsome act and he
is not g. handsome devil.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
BUMPER LEDGE BUBBLE BURST
Gross 1ntoxication Of J. L. BIinkins on the
Streets of Colorado Springs

Gross Intodcation Of ]. L, Blnkins on the
Streets of Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs, Col, Nov Hon. J. L.
Blnkins, prominent citizen of Minneapolis
and president Of the celebrated Bumper
Ledge Mining company, arrested last
night for gross intoxication the public
streets. When the policeman stopped him he
waved the of his hat in the air and re-
markell
3Bingi'
Mr.. Blinkins was given fine of $40 before
Judge johnson today.
1t seemed that the of Mr.. Blinkins'
sad fall was the pnching out of the ore vein
Of the Bumper Ledge Gilt Edged and Pyrites
Company. This leaves the shareholders Of the
company in the lurch.
This excerpt the mean shareholder had carefully
pasted over the columns of Denver paper which he
proceeded to exhibit to his friends who had money
in the mine.'' It nearly caused heart failure and
collapse In several instances, not much because Of
the presumed loss of the money, but because of
fall by the waysde Of the honorable president of tho
company.
The same old, fierce, sanguinary cries yesterda,
afternoon, the blood hunger in the eye the
Perhaps you think referring to football
Not So 1t is too popular. What we had in mind was
the at Kishinef, Kieff and Odessa. There
seems to be minor latent public opinion against
them.
The Window Citizen tells of farmer who found
auto horn in the road last summer and took it
homo and taught his chickens to recognize its honk
their feed call. Instead Of calling them in the
oldfashioned way, the farmer his wife would let
off the auto horn. One day automobiles passed
the farm going fifteen miles hour and footing his
horn The chickens the house took out after
the auto and fourteen hens and three roosters ran
themselves to death trying to get near enough to
peck something.
Presidents Eliot Of Harvard, Hadley Of Yale,
Faunce of Brown Tucker Of Dartmouth and Hopkins
Of Williams have been holding secret conferences Of
late, and the football people stirring uneasily
and trying to guess whether the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Preces is going to order lockout against
Intercollegiate Roughhouse Union "A. R. J.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

the public unfairly. This is scarcely the question.
The question is whether for the future it is better
to make advantageous contracts with private persons
to manage public utilities to take the duties
OF public ownership and management.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
ALTOGETHER UNNECESSARY
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City Journal
Why does the postoice department 60 al the way to
California to break up guessing contest when the
weather bureau is doing business right under its
in Washington
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

The American Hardware Manufactured associa-
ton in national convention at Washington Friday
Endorsed the presidents railroad rate legislation policy
by vote Of 40 to T. The railroads must have over
looked that convention. "
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

\ We understand that Vested Rights is opposed to
Mr. Hearst succeeding to the mayoralty of New York
We do not know what possible sympathy Vested Rights
can have with Tammany unless he stole the vest.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

The New York World is anxious to be informed
whether the democratic party dying. Any one hav
ing information please forward to the World office
care Of the morgue
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

When the boss starts to go down in the estimation
Of the voter he usually finds the rails soaped the
incline.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

When President Hageman admitted that his COM
pany gave 1000 to the Palmer and Buckner ticket
in 1896 he set whole lot of people looking up their
dictionaries Of American politics..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

Chicago complains that her postofice is already
too small Chicago people must learn to write
finer hand. #l !. -~. .-..- ..s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
THE PUBLIC GOT OFF EASY
Boston Globe

The courtmartia sentence of Commander Lucien
Young Of the Inflated gunboat Bennington is said
to be reprimand. So long as he received neither
monument pension, the public sense of JUS
tice will be satisfied.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

Just after election Senator Burton has new pack
age of indictments handed him. The cruel part of it
is that he within days Of the statute Of
limitations. - 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

The fact that Mr.. Pattison of Ohio surmounted the
incident of his being life insurance president shows
that his opponents missed it in not bringing him
before Hughes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
PUT IT IN THE MUSEUM
Detroit Journal.

1t isn't exactly clear what Sir Henry Purdon
Clarke, curator Of the Metropolitan museum, will do
with his title when he carries out his expressed nten
ton to become an American citizen.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

People had almost forgotten Cassie Chadwick, but
the courts to have held the lady in mind
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

The Norwegian election for king is set for today.
AS there is but candidate, Charles have
a walkaway. "Es. e.. ..#Y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12
SOL FRECKLH FACE"

Hair was very auburn,
Nose was mind to pug,
People said her ears were
Handles to a jug;
Eyes o. real blue azure,
Rather fur apartJ
Katy-did in motion,
Hard to stop an start;
Homely as a mud fence,
Far as looks an grace:
Full O. heart an commonsense-
OF Freckle Facet
Town was JUS alive with
Purity little It's;
Heads were full o cornpith,
With a smear o. wits;
Mamas allus dolled EN-,
JUS the foolest yet;
Didn't have the gumshun,
Git in out o. wet;
Whole mess o. them loonies
Couldn't fill. the place,
One real, long-leg'd, homely
OF Freckle Facet s....
Whistle thru her fingers,
Ride horse bareback;
WASH Z -1Idlu " sL1uSo1S,
Sometimes cut up "jack"g
Onc't boy he kissed her,
When he hadn't ort;
Gave him such twister
That it made him snort.
Was her Daddy's standby,
Filled her mothers place;
Couldn't git along without
OF Freckle Face!
Course o. time she tanned down,
Learned to be polite;
All the folks in our town
Knowed that she was bright;
Went away to college,
Took some big degree.
How'd she use her knowledgef
Way it ought to be.
That's her home cross yonder,
Purity little place
Call their oldes' young un
Oh Freckle Facet
ID. A. Ellsworth in Kansas City Star.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

If Battenberg had come sooner Mr.. Murphy would
have had more joy in showing him his town.