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The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
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The Rockefeller Fortune.

IOHN D. ROCKEFELLER' Standard Oil divi-
- dends for the year will amount to $2o,0OO,0o0,
and his income from all sources for 1905 is esti-
mated at $40,O00,O00.
That sum is not the Rockefeller fortune bear in
mind, but the accretions Of single year. "Fren-
zied finance" would capitalize such an income for
a par value of billion dollars.
Rockefeller might spend and give away $40,00O-
900 in single year, and be poorer at the end
of the year than at it's beginning. He doesn't
spend 1 per cent of it, and in all his years of Civ
ing he has never gotten rid of much he is TAX
ing in this year. The money is simply piling up,
adding to the vast hoard and increasing the enor
nous power of man.
Taxes levied in the state Of Minnesota Tor
year amount to $20000,000. This sum supports the
state government all the state institutions, all con-
ty government all of our cities with their special
assessments, supports all schools, and pays the
expenses of townships and road Ok The Rock
efeler income is twice the income Of this great
state. Minnesota has the greatest permanent school
fund of any state in the union, $l6 100000
Rockefeller could supply two such endowments out
Of his annual income and still have $S,O0O000 for
pin money. ~S",S
Such figures are beyond the comprehension of
ordinary mortas. Reducing them to lower terms
will make it easier. Rockefeller's income for a
week is very near $S00,000. That sum Of money
would establish family in wealth and social po-
sition for all time to come, if conservatively in
vested The income from that :$soo,ooo would keep
its possessors i luxury such as no one dreamed OF
fifty years ago. The income for a single day, over
100000, would be welcome endowment Tor many
a small college.
Everv hour adds to the Rockefeller fortune a
sum almost equal to a congressman's annual sal
arv. He receives in fifteen minutes from the money
that is working for him. much as most skilled
mechanics earn in year Of toll.
Regardless Of where and how he got it, the tact
stands that he has it, and that the increment from
his hoard is large enough to be menace TO legiti
mate industry and commerce It is great enough te
threaten the subversion of free institutions: 49,
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
McCleary's Committee Assignment.

THE question whether Congressman McCeary OF
l. Minnesota shall shall not arrive by order
Of succession in the craftsmanship Of the house com
mittee on appropriations is supposed to have been
considered mainly from the standpoint Of his quail
fcations for that position Nobody questions Mfs
McCleary's ability, his knowledge Of AFFAIRS but
there has been some question as to his tempera. :
mental qualifications for the position of chairman
of the committee named Mr.. Tawney is supposed
to possess those temperamental qualifications, par
ticuary the capacity for giving good is sent in
a rough and tumble debate; and the wisdom of
transferring Tawney from the ways and means COM
m:ttee to McCleary's place on the committee
appropriations and putting McCleary in Tawney's
place on the ways and means committee is supposed
to have rested entirely upon this purpose OF seeuT
ing man for the former position peculiarly adapted
to the position Of ttwatch-dog Of the treasury
Mr.. Cannon was chairman Of that committee great
many years and knows the requirements Of the
place. :: se.'. ...~:. 49,. - '->..s,. ..:...
Now, however, it appears that other. .considera-
tions enter into this possible transfer. Mr. Cannon
is 'standpatter' of the stonewall variety He is
becoming suspicious Of the ways and means com
mittee The j Journals Washington correspon-
dence today suggests that there enough republi
cans favorable to revision of the tariff with the six
democrats oasthe committee, to bring in revision
report. This Mr.. Cannon will prevent: if he can,
and Mr.. McCleary is supposed to be the instrument
which he is to employ for that purpose. Mr.. Nc
Cleary, altho representing western agricultural
district, is radical protectionist, high tariff
tstandpatter,' and his presence on the committee
would help to head off any favorable reports re-
vision bills / s#. Is
This is another view Of the McCleary case which
may be quite as interesting to his constituency
the phases previously presented. Uncle Joe''
Eis sy, A>~S<T-& r - - r< 49, s-a= -
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
Grover Cleveland's Warning.

TROVER. CIiEVELANDiS IS article published IN IN
- this mornings Journal is "a solid and impres-
siye contribution to the discussion Of various ten
denotes in our national life which are calculated
to give the country uneasiness Mr. Cleveland
speaks frankly of the craze for moneNgettlng, the
laxness with which trusteeships are held by men
whose presence on a board should be a guarantee
OF safety to the investor and the growing disposl-
ton on the part Of the well-to-do to- avoid their
duties as voting citizens All Of these tendencies
he recognizes as present in national life and ne
concludes that they must have their spring IN the
failure Of individuals to comprehend their duties
and responsibilities. - s'"' -. ,',-' *
He paints the dark side Of the picture, but does
not forget that there is another side. The people
have recently given many instances OF devotion to
the best standards Of conduct in approving the re-
entless pursuit Of wrongdoers in official place and
have risen to such pitch of indignation in debate
ever the insurance scandals to show that they
arc not callous to the wrong done by breaches Of
fduciary trust. i #L,l - - ..r,,.. =
Moreover, the recent voting has shown that the
conscience Of America is stirred upon the subject
Of the honest enforcement Of law and the punish
ment Of those who to debase the franchise.
Watchfuness against the poisonous growth
which gradually undermnes the moral constitution
Of the country is demanded rather than hysterica]
outbreaks against specific of wrong-doing. It
is the disease of national deterioration which is oul
enemy.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
THE JAPANESE SMILE
CHICAGO Journal,

The smile that is essentially Japanese, this strange
national expression, is combination of infinite pa
thence, gentleness, timidty, pathos and humility. 1t
is gently depreeatory it pleads "Dea not too hardly
with thy foolish servants it is sublimely unselsh
ssLet us not dwell upon my unworthy grlefs; my
honorable friend shall not for moment be troubled
with my obscure SORROWS; let us speak of pleasant
things It is submissive 'This is the viii Of the
gods''; it is pitifu, such and such person does
most wrong, but it is thru ignorance or thru fool
ishness or thru weakness, thru something done In
former birth, or the world is too hard for him."
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
ozoATE ON ..E1zzEEf Ef:B'tI BOSS"
Joseph H. Choate.

Joseph H. Choate.
wish could get up good definition of the word
"boss." 1t is vulgar word but there is other
word to express the meaning to which It is applied.
creature, should call him. without scruple
science, who fills his capacious with graft; who
feeds his greedy followers upon political garbage gath
cred from the official flesh pots and swill pals; who
now dictates who shall be the candidates of the re-
to fill. And the members Of the party at large
have to do with the making of the nom-
nations for these municipal offices than the children
you find playing in the streets. ,s~~"o'
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
Help Out the Art Society.

THE Society f~Fine Arts is. one Of the public
bodies of the city which, in its own line, has
been doing quantity and quality Of disinterested
work for municipal betterment that is perhaps not
fully understood as it should be. In the nearly
quarter of century since it became a. corporation
it has this city grow from the "boom days. .
Of uncertain prophecy the stable commercial
power of the northwest, which It is today. AS MINI
neapolis has had her ups and downs also has the
art society had it's own fluctuations of prosperity
and adversity-since art must depend largely upon
wealth for it's fullest realization Of beauty
AT this period Of it's existence, however, the
society begins to most gratifying results of its
labors.s The art school is now Of those educa-
tionaI INSTITUTIONS for which Minneapolis is famous
and is demanding and getting larger and better
fitted quarters every year The society's annual
exhibitions are reported as national art events Its
art gallery by small each yeag,A
best test Of ALL as Influence the present artistic
advance of the whole section, the local society
bids fair to cease to be- local. and to become factor
to be reckoned with in all national art movements
But III order to do this the society realizes that
it needs still more Of the help, financially and
numerically, of largely increased membership. 1t
needs the better acquaintance Of the people Of the
city with the work done by the society. 1t needs
more attendance at it's exhibitions, sympathy
with its untiring efforts to keep education in art
among the foremost influences Of the city, and more
belief in the idea that the. city beautiful is only
~ yanetdby the home beautiful. ~-'"@o ss.1e. III
it dees not require great expenditure Of time
or money on the part Of any one individual to do
this A little economy here slight sacrifice there:
the curtailment Of some indulgence Of appetite or
fancy will realize a servceable aid to the work Of
the art society and contribute toward the establish
nect here of an art museum which shall be worthy
Of the city and the cause. It will be worth some
thing for the city Of Minneapolis when her citizens
put art next to religion and humanity and begin to
do something in serious, practical way for the
cultivation Of the art and for the development
Of that taste which shall 6ndgsexpresson in the
ador11ment Of the home and in the beautifying Of
the city.
just now that which will contribute most to the
advancement of the cause of art in this city is a
liberal patronage Of the loan exhibition now view
at The public library We glad to be able to say
that it is we'll attended. It ought to have five tiues
the number Of visitors that it has. Such splendid
exhibition Of the work Of the most famous artists
is worthy Of a metropolitan audience every day. l.
rot Minneapolis metropolitan enough to appreciate
5 what IS here presented on canvas and make it worth
,shle to carry on bere annual exhibitions Of this
character? -f% %@ - >-,~5@ g
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

While are busy extracting the microbe from our
politics substantial progress made in eradcatng
the boil weevil The boil weev in his ignorance of
the course of empire is moving eastward. He is
the Mississippi river and unchecked he will
the Rubicon within about week after Christmas. He
is said to cost the American people quarter of
billion dollars year-almost as much whisky.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
.''FAMIsHED AFFECTIONS"

Oh warmth of love that is wasted;
Is there none to stretch a hand?
No other heart that hungers
In all the living land7
I could fondle the fisherman $ baby,
And rock it into rest;
I could take the sunburnt sailor,
Like brother, to my breast.
could clasp the hand Of any
@Outcast Of land or sea,
If the guilty palm but answered
The tenderness in me!
The sea might rise and drown me
Cliffs fall and crush my head
Were there one to love me, living,
Or weep to see me dead!
-BaYard TaY
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

new law in Ohio requires that whisky sold under
patent medicine label have exactly the status
whisky undsguised This is shock to some of our
best sickly citizens. j.. -,.u,~ '4.,.. 49,.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

The story Of the new mayor of Toledo is dramatic
Brand Whitock, young lawyer, got into politics
and finding there strange bedfellows,'' he wrote
story about them, which, under the name Of 'sThe
Thirteenth Dstrict,'' was hailed of the best
Of political stories Whtlock followed carefully in the
footsteps of Golden Rule' JONES' and was elected
a platform Of reform, embodying many Of the ideas
which made his novel success. This is author,
quite Indiana, at whom literature cannot afford
to laugh. af5ls@a os -~-~ ~.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

King Alfonso's wild yearning to 60 up in balloon
is explainabe. Perhaps Of his numerous fancees
was after him. -et-.- ~....
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

is in order for the Isle of Pines to send message
of sympathy to Russia Peoples struggling for freedom
and the offices must stand together
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
FOOLED BY CRoQUET.
Chicago News.

chicago News
Hear this from Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews:
9 Played under due supervision football breeds not
calousness but kindness and restraint" Somebody
has fooled the gentleman. He has been watching
game of croquet. *a- ..-s-. -. r., .. =.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

Minneapolis gets some advertising nst the Congrega
tonaist &Christian World, which comments upon She
mayor's Sunday closing order and emphasizes the
value Of a sober Sunday to the workingman and to-
his employer
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

. The Detroit News has managed to worm out of six
Michigan congressman that they willing to reduce
any tariff schedule in which no one is Interested
Some day the CONSUMERS will elect few congress
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

Bar silver has been advancing steadily of late until
it is in the 60's.s Some of the Colorado papers
limiting of dollar silver, If it would keep
with wheat the mine owners would be happy. But
that deusion of 1896 is almost forgotten.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

The receipt of beans at the port Of Boston SO far
in November has fallen off several thousand bushels,
and while there is immediate danger Of shortage,
the enhanced prices causing considerable suffering
among the poor: . .
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
HEGEMAN's AIR OF sANcT1TY.
Kansas City Star.

.' Kansas City Star.
When Mr.. Hughes remarked that saint
holy President Hegeman of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance company appears, he doubtless had in
mind the New England saying that man really
great Daniel Webster always looked.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

. Secretary Root goes to work in the state depart
ment early in the morning and remains at his desk
until pm He also annoys his subordinates by want
ing to know what is going in the department It
is q great trial to the clerk-but it does things.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

8a President Eliot evidently understands the noble
art Of running press agency By swearing everybody
present to secrecy he has developed in this curious
country perfect hunger to- learn what he said.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

Hennery Gassaway Davis is opposed to rate legis-
lation and thus is. the great and yawnng chasm in
the Davis Ekns family bridged We have always felt
that some good would come Of this agitation
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

College presidents will abolish football as
long as the co-eds will pay for colors than for
carameIs. .s@
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

Mr. Rockefeners pastor in Cleveland declares that
ssMr Rockefeller has the greatest mind in America
Perhaps the great himself has confessed it to his
spiritual adviser.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

With call money in New York at rs per cent your
Uncle Russell Sage can hardly BE- held down BY his
wife and two nurses. t-:TZ5 .S% I@Ii&
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

James Hazen no doubt looks upon the shoe
facturers call upon the president effort to divert
attention from himself the real head Of the Hide
family. y g.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
TRY IT YOURSELF.
Kansas City. .Joi1rna'

It is true that it. costs you to live now than
it cost your greatgrandfather but it wouldnt
much if you lived as he did. "se=.. .-...r
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

It's the wise pocyholder that knows his own
insurance company.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

New York is looking forward to the direct primary
and the pure Australian ballot New York may be-
come so good in time that Platt and Odell will look
upon politics failure. $~x ~
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

The steps Of the Russian revolution slow and
olninous Take down your Carlyle and read The
French Revolution = again.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

The reports in the current dispatches tell of the
national convention of the patrons OF husbandry.
Girls, do you belong to this important orderf
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19
A PERSONAL THRUST.
Washington Post,

This contention that there never was an angel with
whiskers looks like personal thrust at Dr. Parkhurst
and DR.. Dowie. 5s<@# #tat Y ~.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

Whether blood is thicker than water depends on
whether the water has been filtered
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-19

Mayor McClellan's plurality looks like a lump OF
Tammany ice on July f.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-03
LOW AMBITIONS.

In speaking of the man Bigelow,
bank president and embezzler of up
wards of 100000 the Minneapolis
Journal has the following:
"But what d wretched failure he has
made, for himself and for his family!
With a legitimate income sufficient to
provide not only every comfort, but
every luxury that reason could ask for
he was willing to jeopardize all that he
had, including his good name and the
honor of his family, in the hope, not
of adding anything that was needed,
bat simply that his overmastering
greed for money and the power that
money gives might be-not satisfied,
for that could never be-but might be
gratified. How deplorable that some
worthier ambitions might not have en-
gagged the energies and talents of this
capable man. That he should not
have been capable to take juster and
a saner view of the real object Of life!
All the higher and nobler and worthier
possibilities of his existence have been
thrown away that he might seize one
great prize which has eluded his grasp
at last and left him disgraced and
ruined by his efforts to reach it.
The greatest pity of all is that the
world is full of men like him. They
do not all fail as he did nor do they all
employ the dishonorable means that
he used but they waste their lives in
trying to realize an ambition no high
er than the one which tempted Frank
G. Bigelow to his ruin
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-03
New JJln1 Review
Wednesday, May 3, 1868.
ROBBlNG THE PEOPLE.

The public lands are one OF the most
precious possessions of the American
people, and it is hard to estimate their
value in future opportunity. 1t is the
policy of the government to make their
requirement easy to the homesteader
who wants to apply his industry to
opening a farm of medium size. But
a current statement of some OF the vast
holdings is surprise. One man owns
22,717 square miles, and he came to
the country a penniless migrant in
1850 Another person has deeds to
5000. 900 acres said to have been OBJ
tanned fraudulently. Though indicted
many times, he has not been convicted.
A resident of California has fenced in
half of one county as his property An
owner OF wagons has picked up several
townships by locating his vehicles fire.
quently on the corners of four sections
and hiring men to swear that they are
settlers.
Proofs of widespread frauds in land
entries have been legally obtained OF
late and indictments have followed.
Secretary Hitchcock has been ener-
getic in this work and the course of
the pending trials will be watched with
general interest. Many of the fraudu-
lent owners insist that they are proof
against prosecution for various rea-
sons, but this is a matter on which
Congress and the state Legislatures can
take vigorous action. Where frauds
proved the land holdings can not stand,
and other branches of the subject can
be reached by the power of taxation.
The rights of over S0,000,00 Ameri-
cans and their descendants are at stake
in this highly important question.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-03
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES.
Seventeen VIII Receive Diplomas
on June 9th.

Seventeen students will graduate
from the New Ulm high school this
spring and at the meeting of the
school board held yesterday evening
Supt. B. 7. Crichett presented the
names of the young men and ladies
that have received the requisite num-
Der of credits that will entitle them to
the precious parchment on the evening
of June 9Th at the opera house.
Those graduating in the Latin
course are as follows: Otto w. Bur-
meister, Frank Brey, Francis F..
Critchett. Ina e. Juni, Elsie E. Koch,
Mabel L. Remind and John r..
w atschke.
Those comprising the English
course are Aurera G. Neumann,
Viola G. Schell, Loida c. Beussm ann
Sidney S. Alvin, William F. Collins,
Alice Current, George Hogen. Grace
p. Johnson, Herbert II. Leibold and
Clara C. Korbel
MlSS 1l6OCl Uuu II
E. Critchett were the two fortunate
students that received the class honors.
Miss Remind obtaining theyaledictory
and Mr.. Critehett the salutatory. The
following are entitled to honorable
mention as having standings through
their high school course of a high
percentage, the list given in order Of
rank although the difference in many
instances is slight: Mabel Remind,
Francis Critchett, Elsie Koch, Ina
Juni, Alice Current, Viola ScheIl and
John Watschke.
The commencement speakers were
not all known at the present writing
but besides the two honorable men
tions Miss Schell will deliver the class
history and Miss Koch the prophecy.
The beard has engaged Hon. w. S.
Hammond of Mankato to address the
graduates on the evening of June 9th.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-03
Real Estate Transfers,

Henrietta Dirks to w. Rautenburg.
L II and Il, B l39, N New Ulm, $4,000.
Malta Combron to State Bank of
Comfrey, = Is, B |, Comfrey.
Andrew Shellumsen to Olaf Forseth.
80 acres, S %, t los, r SO, s2e30.
Mary Dooner to Joseph Filzen. part
of S Is, { 100, r 81, $3.50.
Theresa Baar to Joseph Grausam.
100 feet OF Outlet A, New Ulm, $3.50.
Theo. FL. Pagenkopf to Emily G.
kohlhase, = Z, B 2, Remmeles I'd add,
Sleepy Eye, 1920.
Frank friedman, Jr. to Wilhelm
Tiedemann, L IL, B 40, S New Ulm,
$500.
Carolina Mohr ct al to Wenael
Tauer, Z S, B rs, n New Ulm, $40.
Edward Drexier to Odina Schulz, Z
/, b 1S5, n New Ulm, 5000.
Nicholas Schwartz to Peter
Schwartz, 264 acres in S. E. ] S. u,
t. 100, +. So sG75.
Martin Forster TO John Olayus
Rude, 3 acres in N. w. ! of S. IL, t.
100, r. "a. $3.50.
Sophia A. Bovia to Anton Gulden,
/ $40 acres of /. /, s. IS, t. ITO, r. 80,
$500.
L. L. Zenor to Peter and John FL.
German, 159 acres in S. 20, t. 1Os, r.
35, so, 500.
Dennis O'Shea to John A. Palmer,
| acre in n. W. 4 of S. Z, I. Ill, r. 80,
$50.
William Pfaender to Anton Fleck,
| 1. 2 and 3, b. l54, n. New Ulm, $3.50.
Charles and Theodore Crone to
Anton Fleck, |. /, b. 154, N. New
Ulm, SS75.
Jennie Peterson to Frank C. and
Martin Schnobrich, 40x10O feet of /.
s and Z, b. Sc, S. New Tim, SO 900.
Michael Donovan to Winifred
Donovan, S. ! fl. 26, Allison's ad-
ditlon of outlot, Sleepy Eye, S. 90, t.
ITO, r. 30, $3.50.
Charles Hausing to Carl Dittben-
ner, so acres in S. 20, t.. III, r.. 3333,
s., 600.
John Reiter to George Naerz, /. 10,
II, and u, b. Is, Springfield, 800.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-03


MIS-. J. e. Finn, So East Hagh street,
Buffalo, n. T., writes:
Perlaa Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Genhe1nen-"A few years ago had
TO give up social life entirely, rs nay
health was completely broken down.
The doctor advised a complete rest TOR
year. AS this was out Of the question
for time, began to look for some other
means of restoring my health.
II had often heard Of Psrnna Is IN
excellent tonic, % I boHEAt bot&se to
zee WHAT wonh do for ne, and it cer-
taialy took hold of my system and re-
5uvs0ated me, and IN less than tive
months was in perfect health, and now
when feel worn ont and tired dose ee
two of Peruna 10 Ill that I need."-hrs.
J. e. Finn.
address Dr.. .Earfmsn, President
Of The Hartman SanhariHm, Co
htmbHs, o., for free sdvice.