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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
Norway's Preparedness.

. Possibly the Norwegians were listen
ing when President, Roosevelt uttered
his maxim about walking softly and
carrying 4.bg stick" At all events;
they seem to have adopted that policy.
j The mos. interesting contribution we
have vet seen to current literature on
the subject of Norway's action in dis
solving the union with Sweden is the
letter which The journal pub
fishes today from Professor 0. j. Breda,
formerly member Of the faculty OF
the University Of Minnesota, a Nor
wegian by birth and now resident OF
Christiania, where he is engaged IN
teaching. a-->+ rs
While Professor Breda is Norwegian
and writes from the Norwegian stand
point and. with strong sympathy ma man \
.festly with the Norwegian people, he
recognizes. a strong bond Of sympathy
between the people Of Sweden and Nor
vav, and credits their political differ
ences to the ambition Of their states
men and politicians, rather than to any
conflict of interest or feeling between
the two peoples. :r... e..
The particularly significant thing,
however, in Professor Breda s very IN
teresting letter is what he has to say
about Norway's preparations for war
While not really anticipating any con
| fict Of arms with the sister nation, the
leaders Of Norway had no mind to enter
upon the work Of dissolving the union
and establishing an entirely independ
.ent. government without being prepared
to meet any opposition that might
arise. So it appears from Professor
Breda s correspond ence, altho it has not
been revealed before from any othe1
| source, that the government Of Norway
before deposing King Oscar had taker
all necessary precautions for military
defense, had reckoned upon the pos
sibility of war and had gone to the ex
tent of strengthening her fortresses
undermining bridges and approaches
laying submarine mines in the prope
| places, putting her entire naval force
in commission and patrolling approach
es by sea to important towns.a mill
tary supplies had been. gathered an
stored and all military preparation
that could possibly be made, short 0
actual mobilization of troops had bee
made before the decisive political ste
was taken. %...'.-.
But even this fact does not militat
& against the hope and the excellent pro-
t. pect Of preserving peace between til
, two nations. Indeed, there are strikin
: evidences in Professor Breda's lette
: of a closer, tenderer feeling between til
/ two peoples than existed before tt
2. political union was dissolved, and a
! the indications today point to the e
t, Enlistment of a degree of cordialit
r and good will between not only Swede
4 and Norway, but including Denmar
h which shall cause the three Scandinavia
nations to be more closely united ar
e a stronger force in the politics Of E
= rope than they were before Norway d
cided upon a separate political exis
s ence. 20.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
The Fourth, Past and Future.

ssIn the year Of our Lord 1905 and'E
the independence Of the United States
the 10th, - thus read the proclama-
ton of the White House.
The 10th year of America then
dates back, not to the time when Wash
ington was inaugurated president, not
to the day the treaty OF peace was
signed in which Great Britain surren-
dered all jurisdiction over her former
colonies, but to the earlier day When
the continental congress decreed that
this country els and of right ought to
be free and independent. If the revo-
luton which followed had not been sue
cessful, if the colonists had been
whipped as were the colonists Of the:
Transvaal July 4 would have beens1a
day of shame instead of glory. 1t
would have been a. day to remember
as one when men declared solemn
truths and did not back them up with
heroic acts.
Nothing succeeds like success. The
colonists were successful They accom-
plished, and having accomplished in
war they moved on to greater triumphs
in. peace. They formed the constitution.
They gave their descendants not only
the tradition Of liberty but they ce-
mented them together with the working
machinery Of government, elastic yet
i 1lnionizing. $4,000 .s+ 81
Providence gave this people a great
land which they have been quick to
develop, sometimes perhaps too quick
With every kind of climate from trop-
ical to arctic, with every kind of soil
from that which nourishes the most
delicate fruits to that which develops
the strongest plants and the most
luxurious foliage, with untold under
ground wealth ranging from gold tt
coal, with natural systems Of transpor
tation unrivaled in the world, with
population to fit each shading Of eli
mate and each variation of natural ad
: vantage, it was evident that this ma
tion was bound to grow, expand an,
become great provided man would d
his part in his relations with his sfel
! low man.
Turnout America high sense Of jus
! tice prevails. There is little Of tn
patrician and plebeian spiri heret. Their
are few men who would rule, if the
= could, without merit; there are fe,
!. who would choose to be underling'
q The sense Of ease has not penetrate
8 the successful, nor a feeling of hope
& lessness overcome the unsuccessful. I
& the republic the Struggle Of life goes Q
Z hopefully, cheerfully and optimisticall7
3 With confidence in the good intention
4 Of his neighbor, the American strive
8 to- better his own condition Withor
81 pulling down someone else. The ell
& waiting thought of the brotherhood I
s man is fairly one ofSthe ideals of OF
q worship. IF that ideal ever;s loses il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
FIRED THE ARSENAL
Small Boy Has to Be Extinguished
with Pail of Milk.

Otto West, 13, of St. Paul, suffered
from an interior display of pyrotech-
MICS yesterday afternoon. He had pur-
chased a supply Of fireworks and stored
them in his loose blouse, and while 60
ing home could not resist the tempta-
tion to set off a cracker. In so doing.
he accidentally set fire to fuse lead
ing to a pack in his blouse. There
were. soon things DOING Otto be-
gan to spin round and round in his
fright as Roman. candles and small
rockets began to vie with small fire.
crackers in their efforts to get out where
they could make more noise. A boy
happened to be passing by with big
Pail Of milk With apic X wit he Soused
blouse and put a quietus to the fur:
Their operations Of the hidden fireworks
Otto was little the worse for his ex
perieuce
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
POEMS By JOHN. HAY

:EE'.. 49, LIBERTY. 800 49,.
What man is there bold that he, should say,
''Thus, and thus only, would I have the sea ?"
For whether lying calm and beautiful,
Clasping the earth in love and throwing back
Or whether, freshened by the busy winds,
1t bears the trade and nav1es of, the world :
To ends of use or stern activity;
Or whether dashed by tempests, it gives way
To elemental fury, bowls and roars
At all It's rocky barriers in wild lust
OF ruin drinks the blood OF living things,
And strews its wrecks DER leagues Of desolate
Always it is the sea, and men bow down
Before its ,va~t and varied majesty.
So all in vain will timorous ones essay
To set the metes and bounds Of liberty.
For freedom is its own eternal law;
1t makes its own conditions, and in storm
Or calm alike fulhls the unerring will.
Let us not then despise it when it lies,
Still as sleeping lion, while a swarm
Of gnat-like evils hover round its head;
Nor DOUBT it when, in mad, disjointed times.
It shakes the torch of terror. and its cry
Shrills DER the quaking earth. and in the fame
OF riot and war we see its awful form
Rise by the scaffold where the crimson ak
Rings down its grooves the knell Of shudderinne
kings.
For ever in thine eyes, 0 Liberty,
Shines that high light whereby the world II
saved,
And tho thou STAY us we will trust in thee.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

potency the fact will mark an essential
departure from the standards Of the
fathers.
Is the standard changingq Mouthing
socialists and incompetent political
leaders sometimes tell us SO. But his
torically we can see that the ideal has
become stronger instead of weaker. In
Washington s time women had titles.
General Washington wife was Lady
Washington and General Schuyler s
spouse was Lady Schuyler. There was
great gulf between even the free
laborer and the great planter, The
continental congress which declared our
freedom was not representative body
as we know it today. 1t was almost
self-appointed. The army was not the
army of democracy sustained by the
taxes 5of the people. 1t was the army
of an, aristocracy supported by, contri-
buttons and forced loans and captained
from the lieutenant to the general by
the 'ssfrst families"
Jefferson declared all men free and
equal and we have by thousand is,
DEGREES and customs made fact OF his
declaration which to the members of
the congress must have been more or
less Pickwickian. 's "
We are able. to say to the pessimist
who points to the agglomerations Of
wealth, in a.few hands, that we are not
afraid of those few hands,sneithers dc
Weskiss them in obeisance. Never was
there timessin America when wealth
as wealth had less homage. There never
was time in our country when men
as men, were of more account.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
Urban and Rural Growth.

Census Director. Wright estimates
that Minnesota as whole will show
only 10 per cent increase in population
over the 1900 figures, which Were.
1,751, 1914. Of the $4,000 estimated
increase, Minneapolis furnishes 54,S41,
and the three principal cities Of the
state, with less than a fourth of the.
total population, seem likely to- become
responsible for nearly half the increase
noted since the 1900 census. =
Cities and country are interdepend-
ent, and, the cities could not have
shown such growth if the tributary dis
triets had not been prosperous. It is
evident that the slow growth in popu-
lation of the rural districts is not due
to hard times among the farmers Of
Minnesota. Land values have risen in
the five years, mortgages have been
paid off, and conditions have so i'm
proved that populism has almost dis
z appeared from the state. The explana-
ton of the slow population increase
is that thousands of Minnesota farmers
have been caught UP by the wave of
immigration to cheaper land in the Da-
kotas, on the Pacific slope or in the
Canadian northwest. Some have con
tented themselves with investing in the
low-priced lands, but others have gone
to settle on their newly acquired acres
and try their fortunes.
The movement is temporary. Min
nesota s superior advantages for home
and farm seekers are being recognized
and iudicious advertising is producing
a. reaction that will add rapidly to the
rural population of the state in a few
/ years. Fertile soil, superior: climate ant
nearness to markets are reasons tina
I will apply to level-headed farmers AM
] bring them from the Older states tt
our borders. ',{~+s=E '-s."
The rapid increase of the cite
means much for the country. 1t mean
a growing and an active market TO
3 products Of every kind right at tn
: doors of Minnesota producers.
h What is needed this summer is wet
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
BeIIstadt with Park Band,

Hermann Bellstedt, premier cornet So
loist, and an elaborate display of fire.
works promise to attract an unusually
large crowd to Lake Harriet this even
ing, If the weather offers any encour-
agement Mr.. ~Bellstedt- made his first
appearance of the season at the Lake
Harriet roof garden last night, and speed
lily demonstrated his right to the title,
First Cornetist of America" He APP
peared this afternoon and will play
again this evening. The feature of the
evening performance will be the descrip-
tive piece, From Battlefield to Fire
side" with it's pyrotechnic finale. = -.
This evenings program:
PART I.-S:15. "' X F..
March, Our President" .Aronson
Concluded with 'Myt Country, IT'S of
1853 grand medley Of war songs. :. Calvin
Cornet solo, "Zipcoonian Rhapsody. .. Bellsted1
Hermann Bellstedt.
american Fantasle ;.::........... .Herber
Airs from "The Yankee Consult. ....... .Robyr
Waltz, Jolly Fellows Characters
tc) 80; =: =: ....... Vollsted
"karama," porhapsody. .......... Grey
Numa, - an Algerian intermezzo. :AlleI
Cornet solo, fantasy, "a, Soldiers
Herman .Beiistedt = = N ~ =
From Ffreside to Battlefield' (grand # .
descriptive war scene). !........ .Dalbe,
Synopsis: Camp at home; rooster crow
q O'clock strikesl; Corporal of the
Feveille;' nsys esIls snarchii T. y .tr rain
tie: Confederate bands IN the DIS
Rsfors union bands; assembly lust
menes. Firing !rh Tile Battle; Re;
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
ARGUE OVER PARK
Camden Place Residents Appear For
and Against Improvement.

Camden Place residents appeared be-
fore the park board yesterday and In,
against the proposed park at that place.
A part Of the residents headed by j. A.
Lane and Joseph Guy, appeared fol. the
park. George Leonard and Andrew
Hanson were. out to kill the project or
dieFin the attempt. The matter was fin
ally referred to a committee consisting
of Commissioners Walker, Decker and
i johnson.
|, Ninth ward residents presented pc.
|tition opposing the purchase of Long
John pond in that district for park pur-
poses. In both cases the opposition was
based on the burden such improvements
would place on the small property own
.Grc 5HaE.5 X
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
= CARE FOR FOUNDLINGS
Members of Children's Home Society
Meet in Convention.

Twenty-six states will send about
sixty delegates to ST. Paul July hip,
Children IS Home society. The meetings
the first day will take place in the First
Baptist church, ST. Paul, and the second
day at the Jean Martin Brown Receiv-
ing home, 2239 Commonwealth avenue.
The program for the convention is now
being arranged. DR.. II. ii. Hart of Chi
'cago, formerly of ST.. Paul, is to give
an address 1t is also expected that w.
II. SlingerIand of Des Moines. Iowa, ed
itor of the Children IS Home Herald,
will speak. The arrangements for the
convention are in the hands of Rev.
E. P. Savage of Minneapolis, superin-
tendent of the Children's Home of this
state.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

of their homes from the communicating
presence OF vice have the first right
to be hearda The mayor Of PhiladelI
phia seems to have thought, too, that G
striking object lesson was needed. He
believed that raid Of this kind would
do more to terrorize lawlessness and
keep weak people in the right path,
than many months Of temporizing with
orders to the dive-keepers to move
on,'' or "keep quiet or any Of the
other familiar compromises with the
under world
Well, by tomorrow morning it will be
over and we can pick up the pieces
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

Shall we add the conviction of Sen
ator Mitchell to the items Of this years
celebrations No and yes. No, because
it might seem like cruelty cheering over
the fall Of an individual; yes, because
above. the cry Of the wounded there is
present note of satisfaction in the
triumph of justice and the vindication
Of our: institutions. What better time
to vindicate them than on the glorious
Fourth9
The conviction of senator upon a
fine point Of official probity testifes
to the conscientiousness Of the courts
and the virility Of the jury system. If
we need deterrent examples of the dis
grace Of supine yielding to convenient
sin, surely the United States senate is
"a tempting place for the lightning to
strike. From no other source could an
illustration be drawn more calculated to
attract attention.
9 The senate is the highest legislative
body in the world today. It should
illustrate in it's membership the highest
ideals Of the people. When the people
find senators who are failure they are
led to moralize on how far they con-
tributed to the result by selecting i'm
proper men for the trust and how far
the declining traditions of the senate
contributed to the corruption Of SEN
lator originally pure. Reform must be
consistent. The people will correct any
error of Judgment in choosing senator's
but. they must ask the senate to protect
| it's members by surrounding them with
the highest ideals of the place. Senator
Sorghum must go. j.. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
REPORTED SONS DEATH
Young Tourists Mulcted Parents in St
Paul-The Detection.

Los Angeles paper tells of cruel device
used by n C. Hammed and William ]. Godske,
young tourists. to get money from the latter.s
Saving that s.sWilliam" was Ill and needed
money. a $50 check was sent t., at once The ne
second telegram told OF the feebler condition OF
sent the message:
ssWiliiam is dead. Don't come. Please send
me sufficient funds to give your son decent
burial H. c. Hammer"
The parents of young Godske were distracted
and wired to Chief of Police Hammel for further
determinations When the chief called at the
South Olive street rooming house where the
young men lived. both had disappeared, Godsks
presumably taking with him his fatal malady.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
SWIMMER BROWNS
Small Boy Loses Life in River at st.
Paul

While attempting to show his com
.panions how well he could swim, little
Freddie Durette, 9 years, old, got be-
You'd his depth in a pond on the flats
terday afternoon. and was drowned be.
fore help arrived. He was the son of
Peter Durette, 1873 South Wabasha
street. When his boy companions real
lied that his struggles meant that he
was drowning, they fastened for help
and met John Smith, a pedestrian. he
succeeded in recovering the body and
notified the coroner.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
SIDES WITH SALMON
Mayor Jones Approves Patrolman's Set
element with Auto Driver.

Mayor Jones has investigated a ru-
NOR that one Of his patrolmen, NJ. J..
Salmon of the fifth precinct, had col
.lected 800 as a settlement from H. G.
Fertig, whose automobile killed the pc,
liceman IS. horse some weeks. ago, and
has taken sides with the policeman.
According to a published article, Mr.:
Salmon and lawyer, under threat of
court proceedings, compelled N Mr.. Fer
tig to pay 800 for the horse. The horse
the auto near the viaduct at Henne-
min avenue and Twenty ninth street.
The mayor says that Mr.. Fertig acted
wisely in settling the claim outside of
the courts.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
CHRISTINE.

CHRISTINE.
The beauty of the northern dawns,
Their pure. pale light is thine;
Yet all the dreams Of tropic nights s
Within thy blue eyes shine.
Not statelier in their prisoning seas
The icebergs grandly move.
But in thy smile Is youth and JOY,
And in thy voice is love. 1.
! Thou are like Hecla's crest that stands
So lonely, proud and high,
No earthly thing may come between
Her summit and the sky.
The sun III vain may strive to melt
Her crown Of virgin snow,
But the great heart Of the mountain glows
With deathless fire below.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

Another prominent citizen of Minnesota
has been discovered sitting pensively I'M
der a tree in the Isle of Pines. Why have
not Gaynor and Greene taken a change Of
venue to that delightful dot of earth
which has little tradition and no extradi-
ton? a=- s.. sy >az f ...srl s-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

After a manful struggle the kaiser has
succeeded in preventing himself from go
ing to war over Morocco. But he has
made some awful faces and the, French
have used some perfectly dreadful Lam
guage. -------- -. - -.-.-- -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

While some sympathy will be felt for
aged Senator Mitchell in his conviction,
everyone must rejoice that it is possible
to secure the conviction of CRATER so
high up in the councils Of the nation. It
is a proof that with the newly awakened
public conscience, corruption's G''gilded
Ehand" can not "shove by justice.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
MOTHER WAS DRUNK
woman with Little Girl Found Keeling
on the Street.

Mrs. Title Hanson, 1114 Seventh
street S, was found reeling alang the
.terday, and with her was her little girl
43years old.
The woman, who is said to be a slave
ito the liquor and drug habits, fought
desperately when accosted by the police,
but was overpowered and placed in
Central station. The child was turned
over to the Humane society and will be
taken care Of until her mother is tried
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

Grand Forks confesses to some hail
fully indefinite and evidences cowardice
on the pant of some one. What were the
comparative dimensions? n
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

Possibly st. Paul is holding up her cen
sus returns. You don't expect her to hold
them down, do you?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

John H. Hamlet has been nominated for.
the city council in the second ward of
Indianapolis. The ward is not expecting
Hamlet to make such a botch of it as the
other Hamlet did.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
READY FOR DULUTH
Twenty Minneapolis Photographers Will
Attend Convention This Week.

Twenty Minneapolis photographers will attend
the convention of the Northwestern Photograph
ers' association ut Duluth July 81. The asso-
citation derives its membership from Minnesota.
North and South Dakota and Wisconsin Last
year the convention was held at st Paul and
q majority of the prizes were carried off by
the Minneapolis members. SIS ss5 q Il @
| The prizes this year will be seven medals.
two gold, four silver and one copper Jewellers
from the four states sent In bids and the con-
tract was given to John D. Bodfors A Fourth
Istreet s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
z See stockwell soon-That life insur.
Penn Mutual. Andrus bldg.

Palpitation of the heart, nervousness,
tremhlings. nervous headache, cold
hands and, feet, pain in the back, and
other forms Of weakness are relieved
by Carter's Iron Pills, made specially
for the blood, nerves and complexion.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

Engineer Wallace's case is likely to
prove historic one. How many Of us
would throw down our beloved country
for higher salary? g.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04
Fine Building Next to Postoffice Soon
to Be Erected,

Preparation is being made to erect
which the Minneapolis Brewing COM,
pany planned two years ago, for the
Postoffice court and First avenue s. The
four-story brick on the site and the two
story frame shack will be torn down.
Boehme & Cordella are the architects,
and the original plans called for a
$5OO,O00 building.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

The government free seed graft is
growing. The expense will reach a quar-
ter Of a million next year. - ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

Secretary shaw's system Of concealing
deficit is said to be so neat that all the
housewives in the land want pamphlet
on it. .r. ~ .t'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

1t does not make grating honest If you
give fierce per cent of it to charity.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

Even the little cracker looks as big as
a sawlog' when you are Of the right age.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

Maybe it is the glorious Fourth because
that percentage comes out unscathed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-04

If YOU want a hurry-up JOB Of roof
ing done, telephone w. 8. Mott CO.. 376.