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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22
The Biennial Salary Grab.

Is Government by Hennepin delegation
is not elf-government because the
Hennepin delegation is not elected to
govern Hennepin county, but to take
a part in the general lawmaking
scheme Of the state. Nevertheless,
the Hennepin delegation does to great
extent govern Hennepin county by
means Of special laws. Two years ago
the Hennepin delegation had up the
question Of county salaries and passed
salary bill. There were two theories
of how this bill should be passed, one
that it should provide for the creation
of the offices and leave the fixing of
the salary Of the incumbents to the
county commissioners. This would have
been home rule. The legislature
thought it could do the job much better
than the commissioners and declined to
give us home rule. It fixed all the sal
aries and said it had done an equitable
lob and one that would stand the test
of time.
Two years have passed and the Hen
nepin delegation at the beck and call
= L Gl6 OA1CO-Ao1NAuS GLASS 10 CISoSOu LII
the laudable undertaking of revising
and, Of course, increasing salaries all
along the line. It has also agreed to
create five new positions of an aver
age value Of $1,000 apiece.
These places may be necessary, but
if they are, it is remarkable that the
people did not hear anything about it
until the Hennepin delegation met. The
county commissioners have adopted no
reports showing the need, the county
officials have filed no requests with
the commissioners. 1t may be that
there is a necessity for these offices,
and then again it may be that an un-
usually large number of 'good fell
lows fell outside the breastworks last
fall. At any rate the Hennepin dele
cation has not advertised hearings on
these salary bills. Are they private
matter7
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22
LNGERSOLL ON WAGNER


Now that the air hereabouts is full Of
Wagnerian music it may interest a good
many to read IngersolPs remarkable con-
ception Of Wagner and Wagner's wonder
full art:
OF one thing T am certain, and that is
that music was born of love. Had there
never been any human affection, there
never would have been uttered a strain of
music. Possibly some mother, looking in
the eyes of her babe, gave the first mel
ody to the enraptured air.
Language is not subtle enough, tender
enough, to express all that we feel, and
when language fails the highest and
deepest longings are translated into mu-
sic. Music Is the sunshine, the climate
Of the soul, and it floods the heart with
perfect June.
I am also satisfied that the greatest
music Is the most marvellous mingling of
love and death. Love is the greatest of
all passions and death is it's shadow.
Death gets all it's terror from love, and
love gets its intensity, it's radiance, its
glory and its rapture from the darkness
Of death. Love Is flower that grows on
the edge of the grave.
When I read Shakspere, am aston
ished that he has expressed SO much with
common words, to which he seems to give
new meaning; and so when I hear Wag-
ner I exclaim: Is it possible that all this
is done with common air!
In Wagner's music there is touch Of
chaos that suggests the infinite. The mel
odies seem strange and changing forms
like summer clouds, and wierd harmonies
come like sounds from the sea, brought
by fltful winds, and others moan like
waves on desolate shores, and mingled
with these are shouts of joy, with signs
and sobs and ripples Of laughter and the
wondrous voices Of eternal love.
Wagner is the Shakspere Of music. The
funeral march for "Siegfried' is the flu
! neral music for all the dead. Should al
the gods die, this music would be per.
fectly appropriate. It Is elemental, uni
versal, eternal. The love-music in "Tris
tan and Isolde" Is, like Romeo ant
Juliet an expression of the human
heart for all time. So the love duet IL
1.-THE Flying Dutchman' has in it thu
conservation, the infinite self-denial O.
love. The whole heart Is given-ever!
note has wings, and rises and poises like
an eagle in the heaven of sound.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22
The Senate's Problems.

The house "put it up to' the senate
in wholesale fashion yesterday. Even
if the grave and reverend seigniors Of
the upper house had no revised statutes
on their hands, they would perforce
be busy for the remainder Of the ses-
sion, if they felt impelled to consider
seriously all the bills passed yesterday
their consideration.
Being very busy, and unwilling to
waste time in the consideration Of
Etpopulistic'' measures, the senate will
likely follow it's usual plan, and find a
grave for most Of the bills in commit
tee. This course will, no doubt, be fol-
lowed with the tax commission bill and
the one limiting telegraph charges. The
whipping post bill may be doomed to
the same fate at the hands of the eff
cient judiciary committee. The Gand-
rud bill prohibiting railroads from rails
ing terminal and switching charges
without consent Of the railroad COM
mission will hardly pass the gauntlet
of the railroad committee.
The constitutional convention bill
has at previous sessions been able to
get majority in the senate, but not
the requisite two-thirds. It may come
to a vote, but it's friends will be sur,
prised if the necessary fortytwo votes
are secured.
There is more hope for the highway
commission bill, which is favored by
| the senate committee on roads and
bridges. The absence of opposition in
the house indicates that all warning
elements have been reconciled, and that
the intent of the constitutional amend
ment Of 1898 will be. carried out at
last, giving the state a highway com
mission and respectable fund to apply
on the work.
The senate has another chance tc
right itself on the question of private
banks. The emphatic vote in the house
by which the Lund bill passed yesterday
should be notice to the senators thai
the people want private banks brought
under effective state control. They dc
not want two classes Of state banks, one
with limitations on it's loans and thu
other with none; one publishing it's con
dition and the other giving no state
ment to the public.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22
La Toilette and Spooner.

AS straws show which way the wind
blows, so certain political events in
Washington tend to show that La Fol-
lette, as senator, would have hard row
to hoe in competing with Spooner for
the smiles of the government. His
election certificate was hardly made out
when the news came that Quarles had
been appointed United States judge
right in La Toilette g neighborhood,
and he had not been consulted. More
recently more direct snub to the half
breeds has been given by the appoint
ment of Congressman J. w. Babcock as
national committeeman from Wisconsin.
If there is any man the halfbreeds
despise, it is Babcock, who was first
with them and then against them, and
to have him promoted to the vacancy in
the national committee is bitter dose
At the national convention the stall.
warts won their fight, and seated their
delegates, but subsequently the half
breeds got legal recognition for their
state ticket, and they elected La Fol
lette by a tremendous majority. The
stalwart faction was all but wiped out
at the polls. The halfbreeds, represent
ing the great INABILITY Of the republi
cans of Wisconsin, naturally demanded
the position on the national committee
which was their due, but they have
been denied it, and stalwart has beer
foisted upon them.
The La Toilette men are said to &C
cept the situation as indicating that the
stalwarts are not ready to submit to the
will Of the majority. They propose tt
put their armor on once more and give
battle in such a way as to establish
their supremacy, if it takes Spooner' Z
official scalp to demonstrate it. LIZ
Toilette may decline the senatorship
and stay in Madison to direct the fight
Politics have not lost their real human
interest in Wisconsin, and probably will
not so long as two such antagonisti'
men as La Toilette and Spooner are il
the same party, pretending to think tn
same line Of thoughts.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22

The new male fad in France Is the
square beard. Its dimensions are nine
Inches long, five wide and two inches
thick. It is squared away and from cor
ner-post to corner-post a level could be
run without clipping q hair. When 1t
comes to getting four meals out of soup
bone or fun out Of a fad, the French are
the real thing. In this country father
trims his beard with the lamp shears and
decorates them with spinach or egg and
goes to work, or to the legislature, as he
likes. There is nothing about his whis-
kers that demands any more attention
than a senator would give to an antitrust
petition. ..-. 81.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22
The Girls Training School.

There is something almost pathetic
in the earnestness and persistence with
which the good women Of the state are
pleading with the members of the legis-
lature for the separation Of the girls
training school from the institution for
boys at Red Wing. It is difficult to
understand how any right-minded man
in the legislature can resist the force
Of the argument which this appeal pre-
sents. It appears that those who op-
pose the separation Of the girls from
the boys school are able to demonstrate
that the girls are under good care, that
they are economically provided for;
that they have good teachers, good &C
commodations, and that everything is
done for them that reasonably could be
expected. All this appeals to the bust
ness Judgment Of members and satisfies
a good many other people who look no
farther into the matter.
But this is only a very superficial
view of the question. It ISM It mat
ter Of buildings, or clothing, or instruc.
tion in the school; it is a question of
moral atmosphere, and anyone who
would understand that phase Of the
question must go beyond these consid
erations of mere housing and feeding
and teaching. It is the proximity OF
the girls and boys school, the possibil
ity, indeed the fact Of communication
between them, which under these pecu
liar circumstances destroys, in a large
measure, all the reformatory work
which the state undertakes to do.
Other states have learned this lesson
Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and other state!
have learned that boys and girls WHIT
require treatment, SO to speak, in 8
state training school, may not be safely
located within easy communication will
each other.
/ It ought not to be necessary for tn,
enlightenment Of intelligent men ant
women to 60 more particularly into tn,
reasons for this separation. The con
ditions at Red Wing are particularly
bad. The school is several miles from
the town; it is community by itself
J the interest of all the inmates is cen
tered upon themselves; the condition
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22
What the Trouble Is in Venezuela.

Our minister at Caracas, in accord
ance with his instructions, has notified
Castro that our government will take
steps to secure justice, if he refuses to
arbitrate the questions pending as to
the properties of certain American
asphalt companies in the state Of Ber-
mudez and the claim Of violated fran
,chise brought by the Orinoco Steam
Navigation company, together with the
claim for damages brought by Jaurett,
newspaper man who was expelled from
Venezuela.
Castro s recent arrangement with
Great Britain and Germany for the
settlement of their claims for $26,000,-
600 by turning over to them the reve-
nues of half dozen customhouses was
a most unjust preference, but just what
may be expected from Castro, who holds
to the doctrine Of the Spanish Ameri-
can lawyer, Calvo, that all foreign
claims must be presented and adjudi-
Gated in the Spanish-American local
courts. Our government has never
recognized the validity Of the Calvo
system, for the experience of American
citizens who have submitted claims to
local adjudication in the Spanish
American republics has been rather un-
fortunate, as the judiciary, in most
cases, have ignored justice and de-
4cided against the foreigners. This
has been the case in Venezuela in a
conspicuous degree. If by any chance
: the Venezuelan courts allow foreign
claim, Castro, who assumes that he is
superior to the courts, overrides their
decision.
FL The New York & Bermudez com
spany was granted concession en-
sbracing 100000 square miles Of terri
tory containing asphalt lakes, for the
term Of twenty-five years, beginning
in 1888. In 1897, when Garner, the
manager for the New York com.
Apany, went to Europe for his health
several Venezuelans staked out claim
sincluding an asphalt lake in the terri
tory granted by Guzman Blanco to the
New York company, and were accorded
"a grant by Crespo, the then dictator
Eof Venezuela, and sold it to Warner and
SQuinlan Of Syracuse, N. Y. The Der
mudez company protested, but a sue
gcession of revolutions prevented any &C
ition, until Castro became dictator
when he and the courts decided in favor
spf the bogus claimants to the asphalt
property, and the lawful concessionair,
has had no show Of justice since.
Our government is acting under thu
prescription Of Secretary Of State Fish
who had his own experience dealing
with Venezuela, and, in a note Of in
structions to our minister at Caracas
said: A claimant in foreign state il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22

The legislature Is turning out the usual
grist Of unconstitutional laws this winter,
to be either winked at or set aside by the
courts. An example is the bill by Repre-
sentative Skinner Of Two Harbors, passed
by the house yesterday, under suspension
Of the rules. This bill amends the spe-
cial law giving the Duluth municipal court
jurisdiction over Lake and Cook counties,
SO as to exclude Cook county. Under the
amendment to the constitution, adopted in
1898, the legislature can pass no special
laws, nor can it amend the old ones It
can only repeal them. Whether this bill
becomes a law or not, the Cook county
litigant can still bring his case in the
Duluth court. What is the use Of lumber
ing the statute books with such useless
Verbiage?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22
The Repairing of Sumner School.


To tho Editor Of The Journal.
I would like to ask If the board Of edu-
cation have not in their employ Mr..
Adams as superintendent of buildings.
What does this title suggest?
A man to act in this capacity, believe,
should know something about the con-
struction of building, and be able to
make all necessary estimates in case Of
loss or damage. If Mr.. Adams was cap
able Of doing this class Of work, why was
it necessary for the board Of education to
hire F. G. Mcmillan, former member
of this honorable body, to adjust the re-
cent loss at the Sumner school?
I am told Mr.. Adams gets fairly good
salary, and has at the repair shop under
him plumber, a.. tinsmith, a steamfltter,
a painter, carpenters, laborers, ETC., a
fairly well equipped workshop.
Why is 1t necessary for the board to let
a repair job Of this kind when they have
at their disposal men who are supposed
to be capable Of doing job of this kind?
This is necessarily a rush job. Why
shouldn't they be able to do it quicker
and better than an outsider?
contractor will not take contract
for less than 10 per cent. If Mr.. Adams
was capable Of doing this work, why, then
did not the board allow him to do it and
save this 10 per cent, practically $500.
The board Of education ought to be
able to buy material as cheap, and secure
as reliable workmen as any contractor in
the city. The contract for repairing the
Sumner school was let to Mr.. Mcmillan
last Saturday. Mr.. Mcmillan had no OPP
position.
If the board of education have not in
their employ men capable of doing and
looking after this kind Of work, It is high
.H-.~-
and an old resident of this city, l. for
one, seriously object to useless expendi-
lures Of this nature. III. Pratt
Minneapolis, March IL. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22

not required to exhaust Justice in such
state, when there is no justice to ex-
haust.' Secretary Fish took the view
that the Calvo doctrine ought to be
amended to that effect. Before Castro
ends his career he may be induced to
adopt Mr.. Fsh's opinion.
Our government is fortunate in hav-
ing at Caracas such judicious and
strenuous minister as Mr.. Bowen, who
was appointed to the position by
President Mckinley in 1900. His
diplomatic experience dates from 1890,
when he was appointed consul to Bar
celona, Spain, by President Harrison,
and made a consul general there by
Cleveland, and, before he withdrew on
account Of the war with Spain, he
was daily assailed by mobs and threat
ened with assassination. Since he has
been at Caracas he has compelled
Castro to apologize for insulting the
American flag, and was, in 1908, author
lied by the powers having claims
against Venezuela, to represent them
at the conference held at Washington.
His Judgment dominated the proceed
ings which resulted in agreement to re-
fer the question Of the preferential
treatment Of the cooperating and block
aiding powers, Great Britain, Germany
and Italy, to the arbitration tribunal at
The Hague. Mr.. Bowen may be ex-
pected to work out peaceful con-
clusion of the present stormy outlook,
if any man can do so. He is we'll
equipped with experience and under
stands Castro's strong and weak points
thoroly.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22

When I listen to the music of Wagner.I
| see pictures, forms, glimpses Of the per-
fect-the swell of a hip, the wave OF
breast, the glance Of an eye. 1 am IN the
midst of great galleries. Before me are
passing the endless panoramas. I see
vast landscapes with valleys of verdure
and vine, with soaring crags, snow
crowned. I am on the wide seas where
countless pillows burst into the whitecaps
of joy. I am in the depths of caves Ger
walled with mighty crags, while thru some
rent I see the eternal stars. In a moment
the music becomes a river Of melody
| flowing thru some wondrous land-sud-
denly it falls in strange chasms, and the
mighty cataract is changed to seven-kued
| foam. 49,. ,.-
Great music is always sad, because it
| tells us of the perfect, and such is the
difference between what we are and that
which music suggests, that even in the
vase Of Joy We find some tears.
| The music Of Wagner has color, and
when hear the violins the morning seems
| to slowly come horn puts a star above
the horizon. The night in the purple hum
Of bass wanders away like some enor-
nous bee across wide fields of dead clover.
The light grows whittier as the violins in
crease. Color comes from the other in
| Struments, and then the full orchestra
floods the world with day.
| Wagner seems not only to have given US
new tOnGS new COmDlndllOQS, DuC Inc mo-
ment the orchestra begins to play his mu-
sic, all the instruments are TRANSPORTED.
They seem to utter the sounds that they
have been longing to utter. The horns run
riot, the drums and cymbals join in the
general joy. The old bass viols are alive
with passion The 'cellos tf1rob with love,
the violins are seized with a divine fury,
and the notes rush out eager for the air
as pardoned prisoners for the roads and
fields.
The music Of Wagner Is filed with land
scapes There are some strains like mid
night thick with consultations, and there
are harmonies like islands in the far
seas, and others like palms on the deserts
edge. His music satisfies the heart and
brain. It is not only for memory-not
only for the present, but for prophecy.
Wagner was sculptor. a painter in
,, sound. When he died, the greatest foun-
tain Of melody that ever enchanted the
world ceased, but his music will instruct
} and refine forever.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22

Speaking of Venezuela, the Times says:
During the presidency of Grover Cleve-
land the situation was strained almost to
a breaking point thru tho determination
of England to collect debts from the South
American pest. HI.
Never! The United States has in no
instance interfered with any nations hav-
ing what IS justly its due. It has, how
ever, and this is the Monroe doctrine,
stated that no foreign nation shall ac-
quire territory on the American continent
or use it's claims as a leverage to get ter
ritory. This country Is willing and anx-
ious that every nation should collect it's
debts, but it is not willing that the world
shall look on South America as another
Africa, to be carved up and divided among
the strong.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22

BY decision in a higher court the
Barnes medical college Of st. Louis
claims to have been instrumental in OBJ
tanning legal decision Of more than or
binary Importance to the whole medical
fraternity. It had on its lists a student
who did not measure UP to the moral
standard set by the trustees and to whom
it refused a diploma, tho he had completed
the course. The student on commence
ment day sued the college, and from the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22

Our neighbors in the Canadian north
west Will ere long be intelligent Ameri-
can farmers, graduated from the best
farming districts, and reinforced by
the best Notwithstanding elements Of
Europe. How long can we maintain a
narrow trade policy with. them ?-Boston
Globe. 81 d.
AS long as narrow trade ideas dominate
the majority. Of our statesmen And that
looks as tho it might be for some time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22

1t takes year, or two in congress to
familiarize man with round figures.
Here is Charley Davis of st. Peter talk
Ing about river and harbor bill carrying
$2s, 0OO,o 900 as If it held only the change
from a 81 William. "Of course" he says
ten or twelve millions moro could be
used" but he leaves the general impress
sion by his interview that couple OF
dozen millions can be chucked in the river
with speed and profit. II
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22
Obedience to tho Law.

TO the Editor Of The JOURNAL
(. In recent issue Of the Tribune 1t was
announced that had been arrested, con-
victed and fined for violating park
board ordinance by trimming trees on the
boulevard fronting my property on
Tenth street. all Of which is true, and I
may add that probably deserved the
punishment and reprimand which I re-
ceived from the court. Nor will urge, in
extenuation of my offense. that the
branches cut off had been broken and
shivered by the tornado of last August.
But the information the officer gave me
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22
The Sad Alternative,

To the Editor Of The journal.
It must be with feelings of alarm that
temperance advocates read the article,
Dangers Lurking in Old Corks." A few
days since you published an article pur-
porting to be an interview with DR.. Hall,
Of the health department. condemning all
the wells. The city water supply has been
condemned for years. If by any chance
this city should pattern after Excelsior
and "go dry there would be left but the
chance Of diphtheria and typhoid, or the
alternative Of moving to some point where
pure water Is to be obtained or saloons
flourish Total Abstainer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-22
THE VOYAGE

Some work Of noble note may yet be done,
Not unbeconaing men that strove with gods
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;
The long day wanes, the slow moon climbs the
deep
Means round with many voices. Come, my friends,
Ills not too late to seek newer world.
Push of, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows;a for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset and the baths
OF all the western stars.
--Tennyson's Ulysses.