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Seeing America First.

The See America first propaganda has
its virtues and it's defects. Of it's vir-
tues it is in order to speak. Its de-
fects will be soon enough discovered
by the men. who have the money to
spend and the intention to spend it as
they choose. a. ........
The patriotism Of the movement ap-
peals to one more than the financial as
poets. The question Of loss or profit
in European travel is one on which it
is unsafe to dogmatize. The stream of
people going to Europe is pictured as
caravan carving $150,000,O00 annually
out Of the country, which sum it is al
legged is permanently subtracted from
the actual wealth of America. , The
statement carries it's own refutation, for
if it were true, America would be bank
rupt. A great deal of this money comes
back in the way of trade. AS the Chi
cago Tribune has put it, "The stream of
American gold causes the soil Of Europe
to bear fruit and when it is ripe we
gather it, - ". 49, r..
There is another source Of alleged
drain on the resources Of America that
is the money sent back to the old coun-
try by immigrants. Annually the
Swedes and Norwegians who have set
tied in Minnesota send back large sums
to those they left behind in the home
land. The immigrants from Austro
Hungary send back 100000 year
and this is considered so serious that 3
special immigration inspector has rec
commended legislation to stop it. But
it must be evident that the immigrants
sent nothing back but the surplus Of
/ what they earned. In order to have
sent anything back they must first have
earned and spent in America the cos
of their necessities, sum much in ex
cess of anything they sent away. Ameri
ca was made richer by the capital they
created by their labor. Europe got onl,
dividends which their labor paid owe
the cost Of living. Who got the hes
Of the bargain?
/ But the inspiring of American peopl,
to see and know their own country il
a worthy idea from the patriotic view
| point. It is not an inversion Of idea
to desire to see Switzerland before see
| ing the Yellowstone, nor illogical to g
to Rome or Paris before visiting New
1 Orleans or San Francisco. The prob
lem Of domestic travel will be take
care Of by the American travellers 0
the second degree. Those who hav
4 seen Europe will see America afterward
/ if they are correctly informed wher
. to go and what to see. The association
can accomplish much by getting i
touch with the people who are seein
Europe over and over again, and slight
. ing their own country. This class o
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

4 ANOTHER AUTHOR FOUND OUT
G. P. Putnam's Sons will issue shortly
in book form From College Window. -
The volume will include six essays not
before published. These papers were
written by the author (who has up to
the present moment jealousy guarded
MS anonymity of 1.-THE Upton Letters
a work that by it's charm and distinction
of style, its acute reflections upon books
and life and its tone Of cultured amenity
Won at once the praise of the judicious,
and Is meeting with a steadily increasing
appreciation. Under the authority of the
author, the publishers are now free to an
nounce that both these books are the
work of Arthur G. Benson of Magdalene
college, Cambridge, who, it is perhaps un-
necessary to add, is the son Of the late
archbishop Of Canterbury From a Col
lege Window" is essentially a collection
Of familiar essays. =, ~ III
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02
ADJUSTMENTS
Metropolitan-"The Wizard of o."

Metropoltan-"1he Wizard of o."
Contrary to all precedents of stage re-
juvenation, THE Wizard of o." with ad-
ditions, is as good, If not better than the
original production. Last night for the
third time, it was presented in Mime
apolis, and crowded house signified it's
enthusiastic approval Montgomery and
Stone as the Scarecrow and the Tin
Woodman, have given their parts new
attractiveness and humor, and with their
football song, are decidedly better than
in the original production. Tho they al
ways have outshone the other members
Of the cast, they have excellent support,
from their fellow leads down to a
chorus that is readily voted one of the
best balanced and prettiest in the bust
ness. Their vocal attributes may not be
so finished as in some companies that
have appeared in the city, but the pre-
ponderance of pretty faces and fine fig
ures more than makes up for any def
cheney. in singing.
WITH the present SO full of football
talk, Montgomery and Stone could have
no better song hit than their travesty on
the game that they sing in the second act.
The only regrettable feature was that the
comedians were not supplied with more
than three stanzas and able to respond
to the generous encore in which nearly
every person III the large duQleQCe na0 a
part. Other new songs have been intro
duced, in fact ''The Wizard of Or has
been freed from everything that bore the
| semblance of dragging and given more
| life
| Another feature that combats all prec-
edents is the apparently new condition OF
costumes and scenery. Minneapolis has
seen rents and CRIME in the fittings
handed to third-year companies, but
everything in this production appears
| brand new.
Other parts are as well taken by the
remaining members of the company, as
the chief roles vested in Montgomery ant
| Stone. Refine Davis as Dorothy Gale
Marion Stanley as Trixie Tryfe, Allent
Crater as Cynthia Cynch, and There's
Won Bruno as The Witch of the North
neglect none of the possibilities in thei
parts, and better work from them coult
not be asked. Harold T. Morey, Helen,
May, George B. Field, James K. Wesle.
and the other portrayers of male part
are good. as are George RAMA and Jos
eph- Schrode in the parts of the Coward.
Lion and the Cow. So it is down thru tn
chorus, where beauty is present in unus
ual quality and quantity, for third-yea
production. e. c. H.
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reeds and factions may come

creeds and factions may come to-
gether.
There may be some disposition to
smile at the idea of reviving a lost ma
tionality by the artificial method Of
studying language which can
never become the language of trade
and literature which survives only
in ancient fragments. But it is not SO
certain that the Gaelic league will fail
of it's object. 1t is not necessary to
argue that it will fail even if Ireland
does not secure separation from Eng
land. The point is the preservation Of
the logical lines along which the Irish
nation may develop. These may be pre-
served without separate political es-
tablishment. England has not angli
cized Scotland nor India. Why should
the Irishman give up his traditions, his
names, famous in story and song, his
music, his games and his distinctive lit
erature, merely because he puts his
governmental affairs into partnership
with the British empire? tt is against
this tendency that DR.. Hyde protests,
and it is against this sort of hybrid
who has ceased to be Irish and has not
become English, that he inveighs. He
would have him be one thing or the
other, and Of the two, he prefers that
he should be Irish, because it is his ma
ture to be Irish.
The Gaelic league is not directly con-
nected with the Irish home rule move
ment, but it logically fits in with the
yearning of the Irish to manage their
own local affairs. It has the advan-
tage of the purely political movement
that while politics has driven Catholic
and Protestant farther apart, the Gae-
lie league is 4drawing them together. BY
stimulating national pride and national
, industry it has already shown that it
is capable of leading the Irish people
out upon higher ground than they have
heretofore taken in their efforts
to save themselves from absorption.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02
DR.. Hyde s Lecture.

DR.. Douglas Hyde, the head Of the
Gaelic league in Ireland, last night ad-
dressed an audience which completely
filed the Auditorium and which was in
hearty accord with the sentiments
which he declared animated the league.
DR.. Hyde is pleasing speaker, witty
as an I1ishman must be, and earnest
as reformer ought to be. The i'm
preston left upon the mind of the
American is that with but few such
leaders as DR.. Hyde Ireland cannot fail
to recover much of the ground she
has lost as a national entity.
The mission of the Gaelic league is
undertaken, Dir. Hyde explained, not
thru hatred of England, but thru love
Of Ireland, but he let it be known pref
ty plainly that one of the great OBJ
stacles in the way Of the league is the
Irishman who initiates England, who
gives his children English names and
Anglicizes his own patronymic; who
will not buy Irish manufactures until
they have been sent out Of the country
and come back with label "Made in
Paris or "Made in Manchester. "
The league, he said, has cut off this class
of Irishmen as useless to it, and is
making it's appeal to the rising genera
ton. which in a few years will be doing
the shopping, the voting and the think
ing for Ireland. -. .+:
Wonderful success has already at
tended the effort to pledge this rising
generation to cease to initiate the Eng
ish and consent to be Irish.
Six years ago, when the league be-
gan its work, the Irish language was
well nigh extinct. Today it is being
taught more or less in 5000 schools
and 100000 young men and women are
studying it. The logical result OF
arousing pride in the traditions of the
race thru the language and literature
is a revival Of pride in everything Irish
As consequence, DR.. Hyde said, the
league had already doubled the out
put OF the Irish wooden mills, treble6
that of the Irish cloth mills and CORE
spondingly stimulated every mino,
Irish industry.
The happiest part Of the movement
. has been it's capacity to bridge over tn,
chasm which has separated the Catholic
from the Protestant Irishman. TIL,
language is neither Catholic nor Protest
ant, neither national nor unionist
neither landlord nor tenant. It i
merely Irish, and it forms a common
platform upon which Irishmen Of al
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02
BY w. p. Kirkwood.

A STORY TO SIT UP o. NIGHTS
WlTH.-One Of those books that you say
you'll put down just as soon as you've
read another chapter, only to go back on
your word and read another and yet an
other, is The Storm Signal, by Gustave
F. Mertens. 1t is one of those exciting
tales in which each chapter closes with
something just about to happen. some
thing stirring, to characters that for the
most part have taken a grip on your
sympathies or affections. It is pre-
eminently tale of action: mental moral
and emotional analyses have little PLACE
in it, tho the book is full of mental, NOR
al and emotional states such as appeal
to readers. There is strong play upon
the horrible in an uprising of blacks,
which Is one Of the most exciting Incl
dents of the novel, but not the thing of
chief interest
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02
Dalzell's Little Faux Pas.

Sad was the case Of MIR. Dalzell Of
Pennsylvania-asle at the switch
when Mr.. Gillespie called up and
passed his resolution asking the inter
state commerce commission to throw
what light it could on the Pennsyl-
ania s merger projects.
It seemed all innocent enough reso-
luton, merely asking for information,
but Mr. Dalzell appears to have wanted
to kill it. AS soon as he realized what
was going on, he made objection. When
the speaker informed him that the reso-
luton was really. and truly passed, he
moved it's reconsideration. And yet
it was only mild, little resolution
asking for information.
What could be Mr.. Dalzell' s motive
in objecting to little thing like an
application for news? Was it that he
foresaw trouble when the nows came
in? Does he know that the Pennsyl-
vania has absorbed and is controlling
several lines of railroad which are sup
posed to be parallel and competing sys-
temsg If he knows this, why did he
not bring the information himself, in
accordance with his oath to uphold the
constitution Is the charter Of the
Pennsylvania more to Mr.. Dalzell than
the constitution If it is, why .doesn 7
he get out of congress and into the
open as an employee Of the road7
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02
Minnesota Politics
Duluth Is Already After the GaveI in
Both Houses of the LesIsature-Hawk-
ms Candidacy Means that HaIden VIII
Not Oppose Iverson for Auditor.

1t is taken for granted that Senator
Hawkins did not announce his entry as
a candidate for lieutenant governor until
it was decided that st. Louis county
would not support any one else for state
office. Nothing has been heard from
Odin Halden, but in the circumstances he
will hardly be a candidate for auditor,
thus leaving s.. G. Iverson an apparently
clear field.
Hawkins candidacy assumes formidable
proportions at once. The st. Louis coun-
ty delegation alone, used for trading pur-
poses, gives him a big start, and his SEN
atorial friends all over the state will pull
hard for him. The contest between
Hawkins and Sprague, if no one else en-
tiers, will be an interesting one.
The Duluth municipal campaign has
started things politically at the head OF
the lakes. There is N. F. Hugo, who has
already filed for the house and is can
didate for speaker. Duluth evidently as
pires to name all the committees in both
branches of the legislature this time, and
with Hawkins and Hugo in the saddle
the zenith city would be the big end Of
the next legislative session. The other
two senators from Duluth. Laybourn ano
Pugh, have both filed for denomination
P. e Bowling Of Eveleth announced him
self today for the senate to succeed
Hawkins. Legislative candidates have
! hardly begun to come out of the woods
in other sections of the state, and no one
| else has filed for nominations.
Armand Albrecht was waited on yes
terday by a delegation of st. Paul repub
licans, headed by A. H. Lindeke, who Of
fered to pledge the solid support of tn
party If he would consent to be candi
date for mayor. He declined absolutely
and said he had no use for the office
even if rendered unanimous election. H
| is chairman of the citizens committee o
fifty, recently organized to secure reform
in municipal affairs.
| Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

young northerner for southern girl and
the love of the girl and of her school chum
and most intimate friend for the young
man. 1t is a case of Cloves cross cur
rents" which are finally Strengthened out
with the aid of the negro uprising alluded
to, and other exciting events.
The scene of the story Is southern Ala
bama in the early nineties.
The book as a whole is intensely in
teresting, tho the close is rather weak
something Of an anticlimax. It lacks also
somewhat In finish Nevertheless it cost
us some midnight gas. ~, - Et
The Bobl s-Merrill company Indianap-
ellis. $780, - e. .. III
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

AS we understand it, it will take ten
years to construct the Panama canal after
the work is started. No computation has
been made as to, how long it will take to
make a start. ...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

Representative Duncan p. Mckinley OF
California wishes to bar out the Japanese.
He says that there should be no dtscrim-
nation between the Japanese and the
Chinese. He says that they both come
to undersell the labor market, living on
20 cents day and sending their earnings
to their native land every month There
are probably 10000 Japanese in the coun-
try, and they are pouring in at the rate
OF 1000 month This seems to indicate
that the Japanese were not all killed in
front of Port Arthur as some of the cor
respondents intimated.
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steel trust and railroad interests on the
iron range, and his record has indicated
consideration for them.
If the people Of the state want to
perpetuate the old regime in the SEN
ate, Senator Hawkins will fill the bill
for lieutenant governor, and fill it
nicely. If they want new deal, they
will look elsewhere.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

The debates in the Chicago newspapers
convince US that the policeman has been
maligned. He is really harmless crea-
ture susceptible to coughs, colds, chill
blains and sore throat, ~.-... s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

Mrs. Cragie, addressing the rich in New
York the other day, asked: would we
be clean If we had to carry water for a
bath up eight flights Of stairs?" Don't
know about her auditors, but Mrs Craigie
seems an exceptionally energetic person.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02
ST. Paul's Population.

On the basis Of the persons found
employed in gainful occupations, the
census returns of Minneapolis give op-
portunity for some interesting compari-
sons. The number thus engaged in
Minneapolis is reported at 1911. This
number multiplied by 2 gives 259,422,
substantially the population returned
for this city by the bureau. In st. Paul
are found S7,249 persons engaged in
gainful occupations, which number,
multiplied by two, gives liza, 49S, which
is 10000 less than the population re-
turned by st. Paul. This comparison
leads to the inference that either there
is a much larger percentage of per-
sons living in St. Paul who are not
engaged in gainful occupations than in
Minneapolis, or else mistake has been
made in counting the people Of one
city or the other. The conditions in the
two cities as to occupation are SO sim
liar that it is safe to say that the pro
portion of persons who are working for
a living is the same. From which il
might seem as tho st. Paul had either
gotten her proportion Of working per
sons too low or her population too high.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

Senator Dick of Ohio is said to hold
the deciding vote on the Philippines tar
lift bill. Then the thing for Senator Dick
to do is to give it. Holding vote is not
going to bless anybody. ...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

NeWcomer-That man on the floor is;
discussing the ship subsidy, but I can't
make out what is before the senate.
Old ,Timer-It is probably the live stock
bill or something about smoke consumers
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

Arkansas has just indicted five mem
bers Of it's legislature for boodling. Cal
norma has two Of its state senators I'm
Tor ten years for the same crime. We
are living in a grand and awful time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

Japan's official cost Of the war is fig
ured at $685., 900, 900. 1t is a large figure
but the sorrowful part of it is that Japan
could not have won that large place in
the worlds respect in any other way.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02
TIE SUNDAY JOURNAL

GREATER FAVORITE THAN EVER
Albert Lea Standard.
The Minneapolis Journal, 1t Is due to
say, Is not only an independent news
paper, closely In touch with the people,
but 1t Is strkingIy and admirably enter
prIsing. Recent features, its special Sun
day edition; its magazine section and its
Bryan letters especially commend it just
now, and make 1t greater favorIte than
ever.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02
Foyer Chat.

Altho Nine. Janauschek has answered
the last curtain call upon the stage, her
spirit may be said to reappear at every
performance at the Orpheum theater this
week in the person Of Harry LIE Clair,
an impersonator of extraordinary ability.
Mr.. LIE Clair, who does a brief scene from
1.-THE Great Diamond Robbery" was a firm
friend of the great Bohemian actress.
and even her most minute mannerisms
are duplicated by him. Aside from being
a clever actor, Mr. LIE Clair is a highly
educated man and great traveller, and
has played in all parts of his native land,
and in Australia, the Hawaiian islands,
New Zealand, India and China.
Mile. Chester's $4,000 statue dog
brought by the Orpheum Circuit COM
pany direct from Hamburg. Germany, will
be one of the interesting features of the
Orpheum's bill for next week
But three more opportunities remain
for witnessing the fine performance given
by the Ralph Stuart company at the Ly-
| ceum in THE Master at Arms" This
| romantic drama, depicting the glorious
adventures of Don Cesar de Bazan, was
written expressly for Mr.. Stuart by MI
ron Leffingwell, who had the good sense
| to preserve the language and situations
of Victor Hugo, D'Ennery and Paul
Feval.
| Tonight will be amateur night at the
| Unique with some two dozen Journal
| ''Newsies' for real play actors. Mama
ger Elliott has consented to give the
newsboys chance to distinguish them
selves and as a number of them possess
unusual talent. an interesting show is as
sured. A few professional acts will be
added to the program to round out the
evenings entertainment.
4 The plot of Stinde and Engel's four-act
| drama which the German stock company
| will present at the Metropolitan Sunday
1 afternoon, deals with the adventures of
| the young Count Ehbersberg. who falls
in love with and marries pretty young
ballet dancer, contrary to the wishes of
i his mother. In addition to the dainty
! love theme. there are many bright lines
!. and comica1 situations in the play. which
4 are well brought out by Manager Else
mann's talented organization.
j 1.-THE Serio-C Comic Girl" comedy ir
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02
1.-THE Public stenographer.

The Public Stenographer, by
Euretta D. Metealf, in the magazine of
next Sunday Journal, is short love
story built upon the experiences of a
young girl doing stenographic work in
a building occupied in part by. lawyers:
A struggling young attorney is one of
her patrons, Just little bit more. His
success depends upon his ability to win
case in which the principal witness
has been spirited away. A more sue
cessful lawyer in the building is re-
sponsible for this mans disappearance,
and the public stenographer is made
aware of the facts by her professional
services for both men. She knows
where the missing witness is to be
found and thereupon begins her strife
between love and duty to her patrons.
Hoodwinks the oculist. Madden Eye
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02
THE READERS QUESTION BOX

Mrs. W. r. C.-"The white oaks clinging in
misery fashion to their crumpled dead leaves"
In chapter XXI Of '.The Prize to the Hardy" is
doubtless mistake, unless the author meant
merely scattered leaves, such as sometimes cling
to their stems quite late. Webster's In
ternattonal and the Standard dictionaries both
give 'skee" the preference over ski, and the
plural would, Of course, be ''skees.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

Jadam Bede is said to be secretly op-
posing the movement to bring George
AIDE to congress. Says he don't need anv
George aid 90
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

In the senate the other day Senator
Iliman located the Bermuda islands in
the Gulf of Mexico. That's about as near
right as the senator's views of the pres
ident were.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-02

Talk Tx, Of Fairbanks s being chilly, hasn't
he given us the first mild winter we have
had in years? ornwas it the. national
platform which gave us that? Il