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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
PRETTY SOON

an going to get up early and 20 walking every
--.5 day. 49, -. = 49,
Pretty soon. ~ =. -"
1 win ccme around to BREAKFAST without causing
. nuch delay. H.. 8.
Pretty soon. go. ~. i. - -
o, to snin the morning br.e.ss is treat that's
- &" simply great. - '"-'-. - -
rye resolved to quit this lazy and unsatisfytng
And each : morning win prano. into the office
Just. At eight .,,--..s ....~= .
Pretty soon. ,. ~
I am going to quit frivonty and fu.btsh up my
Pretty soon. ~ e.. ., - 49,
I am going to read some solid boots--ths biggest
Pretty soon. -s.' ~ -
Wasting golden hours in pleasure II q folly and 4
II I spent my nights In study what q future
TN turn down all Invitations and TO labor III
begin
Pretty soon. 81" - ~
Spending money is extravaganza, I think I'll
| ~ cut 1t out 80 4. ia ~
| Pretty soon. .,-,--.-.r
I'll 70 thru some Swedish movements every nigh
| to make me stout
| Pretty soon. - 49,
Yes, I form some high ideals as my way 10,
High resolves are good and noble and I max
them with a song ....=. - }.
And, perhaps. I'll even try them when I'r
| feeling good and strong 1850.
| Council Bluffs Nonparsil.
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The opinions expressed by the country
press show what the people Of the state
think OF the governors veto of the Hor-
ton bill, and Of the legislatures co,rse
In passing the bill over his head. With
hardly an exception the republican press
OF the state. no matter what its attitude
In the last campaign, condemns the petty
politics involved in the bill. and 1t is
only fair to assume that this expression ,s
good index of public opinion. When
the members get out of their st. Paul en-.
viron1nent and talk to the good people
at home, they will learn how the who'll.
proposition strikes an unprecedented oh.
server.
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California 8 Recall Law.

The supreme court of California has
been reported as overthrowing the recall
act, but the decision of the court does
not sustain this view. The suit was
brought by an alderman Of Los Angeles
who was recalled by his constituents
under the provision Of the city charter
He sued to be reinstated and to be put
back on the salary list. Between the
time when he instituted proceedings
and the decision his term had expired
The supreme court merely decided that
he was entitled to recognition and tc
pay because Of Irregularities in the pro
ceedings by. which his recall was made
effective.
The theory Of the recall act is that 8
government can be conducted on the
plan Of a private business; that officials
are merely the agents Of the people
who are the directors Of the concern
They have the power to take back thei,
contract of employment when an off
cial does not suit them, and employ an
other man.
While the recent decision does no
clearly hold for or against this theor,
OF government, it cannot be long befor
there will be a case. People often hav
feeling with regard to aldermen tina
they would like to recall them and pu
them on ice. When the supreme cour
comes up against clear case we sha]
know whether a recall is a. recall or not
How would you like to see the call-bac!
system tried ON the United States ser
T. ate? So: =, s:~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
An Explanation.

The magnifed effect of one bad thing
in time Of general good things is
forcibly Illustrated in the matter of fail
ures for the first quarter of the year,
in which Minnesota figures in a manner
not at all favorable. The, states, in the
"Dun's Review summary, which is
authority in the matter Of commercial
EN- arrassments, are divided into seven
groups. In the group in which Mime
sofa belongs she stands at the head,
with failures for the three months rep
resenting liabilities of $9s0,674, COM
pared with 1921, 565 in the correspond
ing period Of last year. Excess of popu-
lation and greater commercial import
ance is in part the reason for the larger
total, but this is not the principal rea-
son, for such good states as Iowa, Ne
braska and Kansas are in this classifi-
cation and they fall far below, showing
only $395,2O0 for liabilities in Iowa,
$539,S59 for Nebraska and only $500, FOL
for Kansas.
The reason for the big excess of
liabilities in Minnesota is found in one
incident-that Of the failure of the
First National Bank Of Faribault, which
went under for 100000 on January 8.
Eliminate this feature and "a bad
showing is turned into, a good one, for
against failures to the number Of nine.
ty-nine in the first quarter of 1904, there
were only seventy-seven in the quarter
just. closed, and if the Faribault liabili
ties be taken out the total shows con
siderably under the comparative total
With this there are comparisons il
other western and northwestern state:
that are highly gratifying. In South
Dakota fourteen firms or individual
failed against seventeen, and liabilities
were only $51,5S4 compared will
$87,186. North Dakota had ten failures
the same number as in the first quarte
of the year before, but liabilities wer
lighter, or only $86,943 against $1O2, l26
Iowa fell from one hundred and tw
failures to seventy-fve, and in liabilitie
from $574,10 to $395,200.
On the whole it is showing that ma,
we'll inspire confidence in business cor
ditions, and altho Minnesota does no
look we'll in the table Of comparisons
the extraordinary cause Of the heav
,, total is we'll known, and does not reall
bear upon conditions for the state a
a whole.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
THE MAGAZINES

Why Don't More Men Teaeh?-ossian
H. Lang, in The Forum for April-June,
answers the question in part as follows:
There will be no real change. Of attitude to-
ward teaching as a life work until teachers
are afforded an opportunity to earn diplomas
absolying them forevermore from the humiliating
ordeal of discrimination superintendent who
wants a teacher could then be compelled to look
for suitable material among the holders OF these
diplomas. Instead Of calling miscellaneous
convention Of candidates, bearing the expense OF
their attendance, it should be his business to
search for the teachers likely to ill the re-
cial test, let him do 50; but the school system
should invariably pay the expenses caused the
candidates. by their submission to the ordeal.
This is business. and this Is right
Among the special articles in the April
June number Of The Forum is America
Economic Future in the Far East" by
Baron Kaneko. ,@g..Es .~.
Great Spiritual Movements In So.
Called MaterIalIstlo Age.-"This is a ma
terial age" How often that Is said. How
! true it seems to be, till some strong, ideal
| istica phenomenon gives It the lie. says
| Everybody's for April. In the New York
Schenectady. a capital Of materialisr, a
city OF locomotives and electric plants,
there has been q great and sincere old
/ fashioned religious revival. Men and wo-
| mon turned to the things OF the spirit
/ They- aspired to better lives. There was
! a moral effect as well as a religious ex-
| element. For example liquor-selling fell
off greatly. In Denver, Col, immensesre-
hgious ass-meetings were held. On ar
i appointed 'day of prayer" the public
4 schools, the city offices and many business
/ establishments were closed. Even the
i theaters were given over to. religious ser
i vices and were crowded. Such reactions
4 against materialism are inevitable. Re.
! ligion is permanent human need. 4.
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,PLATT,s UNIQUE RECORD
senator Delegate to Eight Consecutive
National Conventions.
Washington Post.

Senator Thomas C. Platt of New
York has record that is probably not
eoualed by any man in. the country,
and certainly by no senator OF repre-,
sentative in congress. Senator Platt
has been delegate to eight national
conventions in succession, beginning in
1876 and down to 1904. For twenty
eight years he has been going to. the
national conventions of his party and
participated in the nomination of Hayes
and Wheeler, Garfield and, Arthur,
Blaine and Logan, Harrison and Morton,
Harrison and Reid, Mckinley and 7Ho-
bart, Mckinley and Roosevelt, -Reese.
Welt and Fairbanks. Only two OF the
eight. nominations has he seen DETECTED
at the polls. It is true that SenatorIlatt
did not favor all the nominees pnt ne
helped to name a number. OF them,
either because he was originally IoI
them or because he was part OF the
combination that agreed upon the can
didates. It is possible that some
where in the United States there IS a
man who has been a delegate to eight
national conventions, but it IS very
doubtful In all proba senator
Plat alone has this distinguished
record. d eH.9 saitst 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
The Antipass Bill Again.

A somewhat caustic editorial in The
Minneapolis Journal the. other day laid
down pretty heavily on those senators
who withheld their support from the Pet
erson antipass bill. ; This particular
editorial, like SO many others in the
daily, press, is very misleading because
one phase of the bill and ignored the
other important feature, namely, the
maximum rate feature. It is hardly
fair to criticize so severely when only
a part of this truth is given out. Had
the bill contained only the antipass
feature the editorial in question would
have been proper enough from T h e
J ourn 8 point Of, view, but why not
state the whole truth instead Of handing
out such a solar plexus blow from be-
hind the shield of, half-truthsY- Sauk
Center Herald. >,; s?5,s,~.ss.. .r;2>-t ;rs>r'.
The journal has never hest
tated to state the whole truth about the
Peterson BILL. The criticism of the
senators was based on their refusal tt
permit the bill to come out on the foo1
where it could be debated and amend
ments offered Possibly the two-cen
limit on passenger fares was too low
Senators who thought so could have Of
fered amendments to raise the limit, O.
to leave only the antipass feature il
the bill. They were not voting on tn
final passage Of the bill, but on the re
port Of the committee, which con
demned it to oblivion without anothe
WORD. The minority Of the committe
asked only that the bill be placed o
! general orders for 4 discussion an
a amendment. Any member sincerel
! wishing for an antipass bill would .hav
voted for this minority report. Sens
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

The board appointed to investigate the
epidemics Of typhoid fever among the vol
unteers for the war with Spain. while they
lay IN southern camps, has just been pub
lished The report fills two large volumes.
It shows. in, brief, that about one-ffth Of
the soldiers in these southern camps oon-
tracted typhoid-an appalling percentage,
We trust that the war department will
not send these volumes to Toxic just now.
The contrast is too painful.
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Done by g. Trust.

Now that the trust and what to do
with it is the topic Of the day, it may
be well to note that there are a few
good points about trust, commercially
considered. For instance, there is the
electrical trust or General Electric
company, which, while it has never had
tho hard knocks that Standard Oil,
Amalgamated Copper, American Sugar
and other combinations have stood
against, is nevertheless trust In all
that the word means in the ordinary &C.
ceptance Of it.
The electrical trust has just gone
down into Brazil, where there is city
considerably larger than Minneapolis,
and about as far behind it in every
thing that makes for comfort and de-
cent living as it can well be, and has
taken a contract to put that city into
up-to-date condition. Rio dc Janiero
has a population all told Of about
100000 souls. It's streets are for the
greater part lighted by oil lamps, and
its Inhabitants are jolted around in
mule cars. Along comes the American
trust and for a consideration of $4,000,
900 agrees to install power for an cleo
trio light plant and an electric street
railway system, and bring the city
somewhere close to the modern stan
I. dard. Presumably this is only the first
contract and there will be more forth
coming, for it will take more than 81,
100000 to get a backward city Of 800,
+ - 1oto ~ %ho ~ al IN
trical equipment. .<..s.
This is only one item taken from
list Of many important foreign con
tracts recently landed by American cor
porations. Most Of them are trusts.
Down in Mexico the work of progress
is going on, and thru Central America
Z We read of American-made machiner
going into Africa and Asia and tn
most remote corners Of the world, an
in the list of invaded lands appear
nearly every civilized country on tn
M globe, and many barbarous or hall
civilized.
The claim is that the American con
binations are able to 90 out and e
much business Of this sort that an O.
binary firm or individual could nj
land. No doubt there Is something
this, altho its Importance might be g:
aggerated. The American business ma
would probably do a little bushes
even If there were no trusts. ,'.@'s
It is matter Of pride, however,
an American to see the commerce of b
country expanding. and even tho
cannot like the trust and is a firm b
liever in regulation, and if necessa
governmental intervention to prove
corporate abuses at home, he can
from the reports Of the day that t
trust is not necessarily a thing to
exterminated, but rather to be co
trolled. In connection with the evils
manifest, there are business advantae
accruing to combinations of capt.
and to employees, and the country
the whole as well. It is the busint
of .sthes lawmakers to recognize bo
sides Of the trust question, and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

tory 81 America; ref4rs + Parkman as ..our
most Sowerfti historian - 12l1An affected man.
nera Of talking euphusm.-was characteristic-sof'
Shakspere's time, The age was also one of
music and poetry. The language of Shakspere's
plays, while, therefore, "a literary language"
was at the same time largely the spoken Ian
guage adapted to the periods OF the various plays
and amplifed and made luxuriant. /.
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tors not wanting to. see any, legislation
of the kind would have voted to bury
the bill beyond recall, Just as they did.

That cheerful optimist, Henry Waiter
meditating among the ruins OF Rome and
expectorating musingly on the floor OF the
colosseum, writes to his paper, "The more
I sec of foreign countries, the better I
think Of my own; the longer contemplate
harcful I am Of the rising grandeur OF
America. ~ This in the very face OF
Breathitt county and the Equitable sIn-
s.,sance COMPANY. w. N
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
THE REWARD OF FOOLS

long line and a strong line and nag on a
splintered pole.
And binding hell OF shot and shell, and - Z
Death collects the toll fEf'.@
800 And Death collects the toll rt.,A
And Death collects the toll r-+- =
For kings must live and czars must thrive, "a
And the foolish ones must ever strive "s+3
To heap their bodies upon the field
And cheerfully, gladly, bravelyf yield q 7
To Fate's decree. Long live the king!
For him they die and to him they bring
The yictory's fruit and bow full low. $500
And receive at his hands shining row
OF knocking medals. Oh fools and blind,
Content II he but nings the rind
As kingly gift or a sop to thee
And, ninging, smiles contemptuously
long line and strong line and a nag on
splintered pole,
And q Climbing hell OF shot and shell, and
Death collects the toll ]: ~ =
t And Death collects. the toll {.
lE6,F And Death collects the toll $. sse+
| --whitewood. S. D.. Plain Dealer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
THAT RUSSIAN CENSOR
Boston Globe

Tay Pays Weekly has discovered good
quality In Russia's literary censor. Some
body translated Hamlet into skivitch,
and the censor promptly ordered out all
reference to Hamlet's weakness and indie
cision. It was improper because Of the
intimate friendship between the Russian
and Danish courts! 49,, y.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

Speaking about regulating railroads.
that town Of Temple. Tex, showed con-
gress yesterday. when the town council
met and ordered that the presidents train
must stop there at least three minutes.
There was no stop at Temple on the time
card, but the train stopped, Just tho Same,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

Observation-Disclosures
MARK rWAlNs GENTLE ANSWERS.
Mark Twain Is very fond of smoking,
and has always a humorous and evasfve
answer for those who would reason With
him about" it. ."How can one smoke too
much" he said once, in reply to. a re-
mons STRANGE. when there are only twenty
four hours in the day to do it in?" When
he was a young and struggling news
paper writer in San Francisco, a lady Of
his acquaintance saw him one day with
a. cigar box under his arm, looking In at
a. shop window. ''Mr. Clemens she said.
Il always see you with q cigar-box under
your arm. ! am afraid you are smoking
too much" '"Oh, no! it isn't that, said
Mark, I'm moving again." -. r..N%.
A POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCE or So
clALISM.-There is much food for
thought in a little volume of essays and
addresses, by Bishop Spalding, published
under the title Religion and Art, and
other Essays. One of the things to at
| tract attention Is the bishops prediction
as TO- one or the consequences that W ollid
follow II socialism gained control OF the
| labor unions. He says: 2|.s'a @a'
Were socialism to gain control Of The labor
| unions, the public opinion of the country would
become ahtagen1sdc to them, ana 'theya Mouia'
in ,conseahence grow feeble and tend to- disfup
tion, The outcome would be decline in nationa!
! prosperity, and for this organized labor would
be held responsible. .~ iii
| Other subjects in the book are discussed
quite, as lucidly and thruout with Bishop
| Spalding's well known force. >'''
| - = A. G. McC1urg & Co., Chicago, 81.
PROMISE GIVEN OF FUTURE DIS
coVERiEs OF MASTERPIECES AN
GENT Observation-Disclosures Charles
Waldstein, III Harper's Magazine for April
speaks Of the possibilities Of the discovery
| Of classic masterpieces In Herculaneum
He says: :.
/ The city Of Herculaneum contained many splen
did Villas, and herein it differed from Pompeii
| Pompeii was commonplace provincial town De
voted exclusively to commerce; It was not tn
resort Of wealthy and cultured Romans. 1t wa
essentially illiterate. No manuscript can b
proved to have been found there. 1t Is true
wax tablet with writing has been found; yet thi
contains-receipts Of auctions. Herculaneum,
the other hand, was the favorite resort Q
wealthy Romans, who built beautiful villas there
as in our times people from modern Rome ,settl
for the summer at Sorrento and Castellamare
We have reason to believe that the Balbt, A&riI
pima, Servilia, the mother of Brutus and m1stres
? Of Caesar, Piso and many others had their villa
at Hercuianeum. Not all these prominent Ron
ans were specialists, and their houses must hay
8 contained libraries with the standard works {
classical literature. We may thus hope, to fin
all the missing masterpieces Of Greek and Roma
literature the poems Of Sappho and tho who
works of Menander, the missing tragedies OF E
. chylus and Sophocles and Euripides, the lo
: books of Livy, and perhaps notes bearing upo
the earliest periods and the origin of Christian
Q ity. The prospect is SO vast ar1 momentous tn,
t we can hardly allow ourselves to dwell upon
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
Indians and the, Game Laws.

Mr.. Leupp, the new Indian commits
sioner, has made a ruling with regard
to the sale Of game by the reservation
Indians which is calculated to do much
toward protecting and perpetuating
large game of the state. Mr.. Leupp
has advised the game warden, Mr.. Full
lerton, that the Indians will not be
permitted to sell game to the Indian
schools or to break the game laws in
other ways. a.
He recognizes the fact that the
northern Indians, and particularly the
older members Of the Minnesota tribes,
have been hunters all their lives; that
some of the old treaties secure them
the privileges of the chase at, will, and
that it is going to be difficult to bring
them to an understanding of their new
relations to the commonwealth as citi-
zens; but he thinks they can be made
to see eventually, that laws for. the
preservation Of the game operate to
their advantage as well as to the ad.
vantage Of the white men. The Indian
has become citizen in very many
cases, and as citizen Of the state, the
commissioner rules, must e.. show al
proper respect to its laws. This viii
bring about quite a radical change il
the northern part of the state, where
the Indians have paid practically NJ
attention to game laws, particularly OF
the reservation. ~
It ought also to have a wholesome
effect upon other violators of the gam
law. The privileges claimed. by tn
Indian have cloaked the violations 20
law by white men to considerable. ex
tent, but this cover will not be avail
able in the same degree in the future.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

Il am the state, tell you." said Louis
XIV, bringing his fist down on the coun.
ter so as to slop Mazarin's beer all owe,
the place. But just then President, Sec.
rotary Manager Taft Of the United States
came in and, with an elbow movement
pushed the poor king clear down to the
other end Of the bar. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

Another oppression Of the common peo-
pie comes to light in the rise in the price
of golf balls from Sc to $3.50 a dozen. Are
we to be despotically forced to chase q
more expensive pill?
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Lady Curzon had a narrow escape from
death during the earthquake at simla,
according to the sympathetic cable. A
chimney fell thru the roof and into a
room somewhere near where she was
stopping, but she was not at home al
the time. ..-ta. ..s.t -. G.,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

The Nova Vremya, the Nova zernbla
and the Nota Bene are getting to be
among our newsiest exchanges. We still
prefer the Princeton Union and the Anoka
Pease, but the Russian press is chirk-
ing up. r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

How would you like to be the nice little
| law-abiding and brilliantined secretary to
e. president who Drugs you off into eieh-
teen miles Of brush on a wolf hunt?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

The insanity Of Chess Player Pillsbury
was only temporary. A man who puts up
game like Mr.. ,Pillsbury's ought to be
allowed to indulge himself In a little tom :
porary insanity to cool Off In. - :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

The striking plumber who invaded a
shop at the noon hour and assaulted a
non-union workman has not done any,
thing to help the cause OF the strikers. b..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

Senator Elkins and his committee are
studying" the railroad rate question.
Doesn't that make you smile. How ear
nestly they will grapple with It'll
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

New York, says Bat Masterson, is. not
American. Nothing else Bat could have
said would so enhance his popularity in
New York. ,..s, ,.....'.- usr-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

Reports from Manchuria say that the
Japanese, Ate, o0O strong. are advancing in
the shape of a crescent. The Russians
are retiring about III the shape Of man
who has made q. bluff at stopping run
away team. :!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07

Maybe Carnegie would drop a dollar or
| two into the hat Of the electoral college,
1t seems to be the least endowed educa-
tional institution we have. -.....