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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-24
TIE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

and adorned with much that would inter-
est the readers Of the Harper periodicals
and OF this department OF The Jour
nal OF chief interest perhaps, is 4
border Of paintings by Edwin A. Abbey,
executed while he was part OF the reg
ular staff Of the Harpers. They possess
the qualities that have made Mr.. Abbey a
master, and would bear much close
study. which lack Of time denied me-
Across the counting room from Colonel
Haryeys office. Is what may be named
the initiation room. Here the manu-
scripts are read, and thru this office
many writer has found his way to fame.
or to oblivion. The room is q large, omen
ROOM containing many desks. at which,
the. readers work to the clash OF elevated
trains, the rumbling and roar of mercllan-
disc trucks, and other multitudinous
noises of the wholesale district of the
worlds metropolis.
Altogether no place in New York has
50 many or such rich literary associa-
tons as this old iron temple Of Harper &
Brothers. down beside the elevated rail-
road and almost under the New York an
proach to the Brooklyn bridge. It is
haunted. but by benign ghosts, whose
presence It does one good to feel the
thrill OF, and of which none ever need ba
afraid. Has it not perpetuated Harper.s
Monthly, finer legacy to Americans than
a great hospital or a magnificent univer-
sity? - :, - = - =
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Minnesota Politics
$. A. Langum Says Chairman HamIIn
Should Redeem HIs Promise OF Meet
Ing Of the State Committee, March T.
FeIa Won't Run for rreasurerE. a,
Nelson Looks in on Twin cities.

- -
Early convention talk is general. and
friends OF nearly all the candidates are
anxious to have things come to an early
decision. In the interests Of a winning
campaign they are anxious to head off
as much pre-convention strife as possible.
s. A. Langum Of Preston. chief boomer
for Samuel Lord, says In his paper: -
Is; The Times can scarcely credit the often
repeated story that Condo Hamlin chair.
man OF the republican state central committee,
mas been persuaded to change his mind as to
the calling together of the full committee about
March l.. looking to the calling of an early
state convention: That he had promised this
early meeting of the committee cannot be dis.
puted, and If he does not do SO till the middle
OF April, as reported, the report that he has
changed his mind will of course have been
proven true. The Times has taken pains to men.
ton the subject to scores of republicans, and
we have found only one man who did not favor
an early convention this year.
Chairman Hamlin is away from home
but 1t Is said he will call meeting soor
after his arrival, before the end OF
March. .s.
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by w. r.. rsirkwood.

Jou RNEYlNass AMONG THE MAoA-
ZINES: JOURNEY fi.r-New York, Feb.
22.--When one looks for haunted houses
he does not go into the heart Of q great
city; he goes to the suburbs or the coun-
try. where in lonely valley or secluded
spot he is sure to find some tumbled down,
forsaken- looking place whose silence
gives the whisperings Of departed spirits
q chance to be heard. Yet there are
haunted houses in the hearts Of great
cities.> One Of these. in the heart Of old
New York. is the house of Harper G.
Brothers, the source Of that ever-welcome
monthly visitor Of the reader, Harper's
Monthly.
Harper's Monthly is far from being In
hands, yet in very true sense the spirits
Of departed men. and women, too, have
q part in making the magazine what 1t
is from month to month, and year to year,
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More Money for Waterways.

Inc NatlOnal h1VerS ana darD0rS+ con-
gress which assembled in Washington In
January, is preparing for an aggressive
campaign for more liberal treatment Of
natural transportation routes than has
hitherto been accorded by the general
government. The executive commit
tee has headquarters at Cincinnati and
has a secretary, who has commenced to
remind the newspapers by correspond
ence Of the Importance Of public i'm
provements of this character. One Of
the first points made is to emphasize
the comparatively small appropriation
made by the. government for this pur-
pose. Agriculture and commerce, he
says, from which is derived the entire
revenue Of the government, has for the
past ten years received less than per
cent Of the entire annual appropriations
of the government for the improvement
Of natural and economic highways
rivers and harbors-while war and it's
rewards, the army and navy and pen
sions, receive over 40 per cent Of the
entire revenue Of the government.
This committee asks for $50,000,000
annually for rivers and harbors, which
is less than 7 per cent Of the govern
ment's revenues. The appropriations
for the past ten years have averaged
less than 100000 "a year, so that
what is proposed is to increase the pres
ent allowance by $50 per cent. >4 s.s,@
Undoubtedly the waterways of the
country might be made to render a
much more. valuable service to COM
merce and agriculture if they were
properly improved, but popular senti-
ment has not been insistent upon large
appropriations for this purpose, partly
because the public money has been SO
foolishly wasted in many cases and the
river and harbor bill has 50 often been
made use Of merely as scheme fol-
graft. This, Of course, is not a suffi.
cient argument against liberal appro.
priations for river and harbor improve
ment, but the executive committee OF
the rivers and harbors congress will
promote the cause for which they labo,
by furnishing the public some assurance
that the money appropriated hereafte,
will be more wisely spent and that mill
ions are not thrown away upon dry
creeks, impossible harbors and inef
fective river improvement for which
appropriations are made simply to Sc
cure the expenditure of government
money within the district of a. graft
Ing congressman. Chairman Burton NJ
the house committee on rivers and har
bors warns the committee of the river,
and harbors congress against the promo no
ton Of graft of this kind by .insistine
that IN its efforts to promote river am
harbor Improvement it will exert itsel1
not on behalf Of any particular loca]it,
or project, but in the interest Of II,
general improvements.
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ADJUSTMENTS
Foyer Chat.

Bertha Gailand will begin her engage.
ment in David Belasco's Sweet Kitty
Bellairs" at the Auditorium on Monday
next. The play enjoyed in New York
run Of 302 nights at the Belasco tNeater.
Miss Galland has played many roles
that usually fall to the lot Of actresses of
twice her years. She might have been
billed as "the child actress" when, at the
age Of Is she played OpheIia, Juliet, Des-
demona and Lady Macbeth It Is said,
however, that in Sweet Kitty Bellairs'
this talented young actress is given the
best opportunity to display the extent Of
her rare and versatile art.
The engagement Is for an entire week.
with matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
AL the Comforts Of Home" the
screaming farce which has been presented
to enormous audiences at the Lyceum all
week, will be presented for the last time
tonight. Tomorrow, "a Courier Of For
tune and 1.-THE Peacemaker." new plays
by Ralph Stuart, will be the attraction.
Manager Elliott sprung q pretty sur
prise on patrons of the Unique last night
when he palmed OF the Four Comedy
Hills, who We're the big hit OF last week
bill, as amateur performers. The occa-
sion was the usual Friday nights anna
teur show, and dozen or more clever
performers took part, but the appearance
Of the Hills made the others look like the
proverbial 80 cents. :--,
Those who made merry were Martin
Rotella, an cratic musician; e. Drake,
contortionist; Eric Peterson in Norwegian
| folk songs. and A. D. Rymord. fancy
trick bicycle riding. Others who appeared
| were Orville Johnson and Harold Chan
dler, comedians; Bennett brothers. aero
bats; Harry Sableman, buck and wing
dancer; Alfred Finlays Frank Bartosh,
Charlie Morey and Eugene and Arthur
White, singers, The, White brothers. with
minstrel business made a great hit.
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Post Check Currency.

d. -
The check currency plan, which has
been before congress for some time, and
which has always met with strenuous
opposition from Senator Thomas g.
Plat for the openly avowed reason that
it. would interfere with his express
money order business, Plat. being the
head Of an express company, has not
been given up. It is still before the
house committee on postoffices and has
been promised hearing soon.
The plan in short is to reprint the
81, So and So bills, and to print a so
cent piece so that they can be converted
into checks upon the government paw
able to the person named thereon upon
Identification. Under the post check
system If you wished to send money
thru mails you would need but to take
bill from your pocket or your desk,
convert it into check and enclose it In
a letter. Under the present system you
must make trip to the postoffice and
60 thru the elaborate and slow process
Of getting money order. Either that
or you put the money in letter and
take the chances. Silver money can
only be conveyed by means Of paste
board receivers, whic serve plainly to
indicate to the possible thief the pres
ence of money in the envelop.
Another device for sending money
thru the mails is the use of stamps, a
cumbersome method and use Of
stamps for which they were never in
tended. Thousands of dollars every
hour are transported by means Of these
little government stamps, meant to go
on letters, but which have begun to
serve as transferable currency. The
popularity of the stamp, and, notwith-
standing it's unadaptability, should sug-
gest to. the government the making of
some more scientific provision for car
rying on business. The post check seeks
to make this provision. The plan is
simple. workable. and so far as it has
been discussed no serious objection has
been urged. On the other hand, high
postal officials have recommended it
Tor trial at least. .
The blocking of the required legisla-
ton ls-a sample Of the power of logroll-
| ing & politics. Two men, one in the leg
lative, another in the executive depart
ment, have been able to prevent con-
gress from coming to vote on the sub
Ject. The executive opponent has
been removed and the legislative enemy
is crippled in influence, so the time
seems ripe to make renewed effort.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-24

DR.. Charles e. Hewitt Of the divinity
t department OF Chicago university says
thatl@a minister ought not to acquire
money in return for the use of his por-
trait and an eloquent letter of recon-
mendation in which he thanks God for
anybody's pure Cuff whisky and ad-
vises all good people to use it freely. No
more should an impecunious pastor re-
plenish an empty flour barrel with the
proceeds of testimonial telling. the
world how Rupena snatched him from
the brink Of the grave. We are getting
to be awfully particular as to our min
isterS ~ II -:
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Leopold's Congo Grimes.

The civilized world cannot be GER
tain just what to make Of Leopold H.,
king of the ,Belgians. It entrusted him
with the government Of the Congo Free
State largely because it was impressed
with his general air of benevolence
and because he was a monarch Of a
neutral small power In Europe. Bis
marck presided over the meeting which
created the Congo Free State; England
gave her assent to 1t and the United
States came along and breathed the
very breath of life into it by giving
its Endorsement. Bismarck congratu-
lated the conference upon the govern
ment having been undertaken by Leo
pold, and Leopold replied that his
only program was the work IF ''moral
and material regeneration.
Thus this great territory on both
sides of the equator, containing one
million square miles, one-third the area
= of the United States proper, and filed
with a native population, was handed
over to one man whose benevolent
aspect entirely deceived the powers of
: Europe. Leopold has proved himself
despot of the meanest kind. His
avarice has impelled him to set up
slavery in the Congo, to countenance
and encourage murder, rape, fogging
: and every other violent crime in the
calendar of the most besotted en-
peror of Rome s degenerate days. He
has farmed out the land, which he
claims to own personally, to syndicates
and with these rights have gone the
power to fog and punish the natives
into working for the divine white man
without compensation. = -,
The main export Of the Congo is
rubber. The white man wants rubber
but he cannot get it. The miasmatic
sWamps in which he would have to
seek it would kill him. He must de.
pend on the native for it and the
native must be whipped into pro-
ducing it. The brutalities practiced in
the Congo Free State are almost past
belief. That they can be outside the
knowledge of King Leopold may be
true, tho it is unlikely, but if he does
not know what all the rest Of the WORLD
knows, then it is high time the powers
got new administrator.
But Leopold does know it and he il
stepped to the elbows in the crime.
of the Congo. He is the chief gainel
by the output of rubber, and it il
to provide money for his singular
domestic establishments that the me1
are MANNED, children slaughtered ant
women worse than slaughtered il
Africa. The story is very briefly anl
mildly told in recent pamphlet o.
the Congo Reform association.
/ The association wants the United
I States government stirred to take SOM
action: What should be done is frs
: to get new conference Of the lower
!. which organized the Congo Free State
l If it can be had and the facts 1ai(
before it there will be an end to Leo
pold's maladministration The United
States appears to be in a position t,
take the lead in getting the conference
together, since it is freed from tn
neighborhood jealousies which hampe
+ the European powers. H. r..
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FIT FOR THE BEST HOMES

To the Editor Of The Journal
wish to commend the Incentive which
The Minneapolis Journal is aIvIna "a
boil, oral and written expression Of Enu-
llsh IN the schools OF the northwest.
The clean editorials and carefully CLEANED
news In your daily and Sunday journal
make It fit periodical for tho best
homes. IL. A. vandvke.
superintendent Public schols, Fergus
~ Falls, MINI.
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TEN YEARS AGO

FEB. "a, 1sse-London-pn jane
son arrives from South Africa and 10
arralgned In court upon charge Of
warning on a friendly nation.
WashIngton-UnIted States senate
defeats tariff bill.
Inneapolls-Female six-day BIZ
cycle race starts. TIlIIe Anderson In
the lead.
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CHURCH TROUBLES IN eh pANAEs
=. MINI, -

It sets religion back lot
Il grievss the angels eSeFywhefA
When sanity men fall out and swat
Each other IN the house Of prayer
10 drive their preacher from tia towA
They robbed him Of all reoompsnss;
They took his pay and cut Il down
Until IT looked like thirty cents.
And when he came to pray and preach.
To cheer the hearts Of those who Syistls
4 deacon with great length OF reach -
And lack OF grace do oslisVs,
Denied his rights before all nsn,
And made covert threat to fog &
And there was something doing than
q Within that sacred synagos.
The preacher rushed, the deacon fen
As falls the wounded forest trae;
So heaven itself becomes q hell
On earth when good men disagree.
-Nebraska State Journal
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81 If you have broken any Of the laws OF
the state you will be interested to learn
that the new code will positively be on
the market on Monday. or course, if YOU
have been law abiding you will manage
to get along without it.
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FEB. 81 IN OTHER YEARS

1e7e-DeerneId, Mass, attacked by
Indians.
1s1s-1attIe between the Hornet
and the Peacock.
1s24-eeorse william, curtIss, au-
thor, born.
tsss-court Of claims, Washington,
established.
1s6s-Arlzona territory formed from
New Mexico.
fe6s-BiIl to Impeach President
Johnson introduced In congress.
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MAKING A MARTYR OF HIM
Nebraska State Journal,

A Connecticut library board has DE-
barred the writings Of Jack London from
the library In their charge on the ground
that he publicly announces he Is an an
archist devotfng the constitution to hell
and the government to destruction" II
that library board only knew It, the best
way to defeat the purpose of such writ
ings is to encourage Intelligent people to
read them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-24

Another playmate of President McKin-
ley, one Enoch Hetzel, has recently died.
AS evidence that President Mckinley
was thoughtful boy, it is pointed out
that Hetzel was ~ years old when MI.
Mckinley was born. It is probable that
the young Mckinley took HetzA along to
pull down the higher branches. i
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THE RATEMAKERS
ARE LAWMAKERS
TIE FORMER ARE MORE POTENT
III THAN THE LATTER.

Laws May Be Made and Unmade as the
Majority Of the People Elect-Rates
Of Transportation in tho Hands Of
the Ratemaker Who Controls Des-
TIMES Of Individuals and Commune
ties-The Price Of Every Article In
Every Place Fixed by One from
Whom There Is Now No Appeal.
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Castro has come back from the dance
and handed down an appeal for true
brotherhood among the nations. Castro
himself exemplihes the brother i'm law
theory. .s.szGz3 4. ~ =: 4: s.. *. -
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ONE YEAR AGO

Feb. "a. 1sos-Japaness feet salls
for VIadlvostok.
MlnneapoIls-oolone Charles X
Wood, proprietor West hotel. dles,
500 stock Jumps from 100 f.T to
ff5.
st. PauI-stats senate defeats the
Peterson board Of control bib
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It is rather strange that with Divine
Right Baer making proclamations we
hear nothing from David M. Parry. Cas-
tor and Pollux We're not wont to be sep
arated. z g.
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A FATAL HABIT

-----~---z- Chicago Journal sss-@
A London doctor says death u Q bad
habit. rAnd, unlike many other bad habs
its, 1t Is almost always fatal .-,-Z-z=.
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AND RIGHTLY

Nebraska State Journal.
publishers say that Charles Dickens,
works are more popular now than ever
pe1ore. II ne could know it he would be
the proudest angel in paradise.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-24

Richard Mansfield says that he will
give up the effort to elevate the stage
after 1909.
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Feb. "a, 1ss1-WashInston-sena.
tor Matt Carpenter OF Wisconsin,
dies.
Minneapolls-E. w. Gaylord reslens
as superintendent Of the Minneapolis
e. st. Louis railroad.
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WHAT? ,PRoPs FOR RLlNkERsq

Bottom Globe, gr
All the judges in Minnesota, are ras
turning their free railroad passes ,rha
question now is how long have thew had
them and how much Of a prop did thew
constitute for Justices bIInkers. :,
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lsaturda y Evening,

George 3 scheme was at least moro cons;
sistent. He wanted to make it unproHt-.
able for men to hold private property
in land at all. The city Of Berlin
merely wants sto make even success in
land speculation Of dubious benefit.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-24

II Bill Miner has really sold ont bis
rights for a paltry $4,000 he is not the
Individual we took him for. We put Riu
in the million dollar class n - s.,,s4
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whatever price they could get. Mean
while the railroads were secretly devil
ating from their tariffs in carrying their
own coal at lower rates, while pretend
ing that they were only selling their
coal at lower price than somebody
else. Chat isa also an old trick in our
Minnesota iron regions.) Whenever
they succeeded in driving out competi-
tive operators they were in position
to exact from the public the full tariff,
which was in itself unreasonables and 4!
the public got the worst Of it, This ~ "
the situation on the Reading, where the
coal rate is SO per cent of the value OF
the product. But the Reading hauled
its own coal for less while It had COM
petition in the production. AS soon
as competition was frozen out, the tar
if rate prevailed.
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THE PURSUIT OF GAM

Perverse disputings Of men Of eorruys
minds and destitute Of the truth, suppos.
Ing that gain is godlinessi from such
withdraw thyself.-I. Timothy, 4, &
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A MISTAKE SOMEWHERE
E Kansaa CITY Journal.

Kansas City journal
Tho oil drin at barrow was chr4stens6
with champagne and struck strong dow
of water. Now, II It had only bs<n
christeued with water =
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WHY NOT BRAND THEM9
Chica OF Nave,

Chicago News.
Let all authorizations be branded Then
II coal tar, borax and analine dive ira 80
hYealthful, the consumer can get them
straight from the paint shop.
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Naturally John Mitchell does not want
the just fame he has received obsoured
by a seat in congress.
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PINoHEDi
Boston Ghobe,

- ----. Boston Giobe.
It Is estimated that q cent shaaxe9
hands about 10000 times In the ooursS
Of It
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to try the water. 1t Is not warm, but it
is good -, 10
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&oNDoN-Journal on file at American Express
office. 8 Waterloo place, and u. =. Express
office. 90 Strand.
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When the doctor calls 70 take tho pulse
Of H. H. Rogers he will probably be met
with a fiat refusal on the part Of the reti-
cent patient to put out his tongue.
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&ARlS-Journal on Ale at American Express.
81 Rue Scribe. and Eagle bureau. IS Rue
Gam INN
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AL papers continued until an explicit order
u received for discontinuance and Until all ar
cearaXeS are paid. ska aaF -. y Is .N...
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NEW YORK OFFICE, CHICAGO OFFICE
World Building. Tribune Building,
e'NARA & oRAsBEE, REPRESENTATIVES.
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Victor L. johnson Of Center City, Chf-
sage county, has announced his candidacy
for the senate in the Thirty-second dis
trict. He was formerly county treasurer.
Charles B. Cheney
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