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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-16
Lincoln S Fame.

At Irregular intervals someone turns
up with the theory that it was good
thing for Lincoln-that Is, for his
fame-that he died just when he did.
The Indianapolis News is the last to re-
peat this sentiment, advancing the idea
that if he had had to encounter the po-
litical difficulties and dangers Of the
reconstruction period he might have
died, less honored and beloved, less of
power in American affairs than he was
when he was called hence. +. -" .s.~
These difficulties, the News suggests,
wrecked the administration Of Andrew
johnson and it thinks it by no means GER
tain that Mr.. Lincoln would have been
able to cope with them successfully.
Lincoln entertained a sincere friendship
and sympathy for. the south which, it is
suggested, might have have resulted in
serious disagreement with the radical
element in congress and led to revul-
sion Of feeling toward the president.
The News admits that possibly his wis
dom and tact would have averted such
a conflict, but thinks it not likely. ..-,
Of course, this is all speculation on
both sides, but we are more inclined to
think that if Mr.: Lincoln, had lived,
this country would have been spared
some Of the most serious mistakes in
the reconstruction period. He might
have had serious differences with the
radical element in congress and he
might have been discredited temporarily
with the people Of the north, but he
would in all probability have been
right. He probably would have been
able to modify the incorporate radi-
calism Of the majority without getting
himself into the same attitude with re-
spect to them that Mr.. johnson came to
occupy, and if he had been right popu-
lar judgment in. the long run would
have indicated him as it has since
| justified the policies which he pursued
at times during the war, but which at
one time were SO generally condemned
as to seriously threaten his nomination
for second term. To assume that
Mr.. Lincoln 8 fame would have suffered
permanently from the policy which he
would have been likely to pursue is to
assume that he was not large enough
for the task. We believe he would have
| BEEN .-. ..az-s -E
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Armour's Defense Riddled.

It is an i'll day for trust magnates
when they begin explaining. Every
explanation made in bad cause sinks
it deeper in the mire. . J. Ogden Ar
mour has been explaining the benefcent
effects Of the Armour private car sys-
TEN, and his statements are now being
riddled by a dozen well-informed CON
tributors to newspapers and magazines.
The trouble with Mr.. Armour is that
he has claimed all the benefits resulting
from refrigerator car systems. The
fact is that fruit refrigerator lines were
in general and successful operation be-
fore the Armours entered that field.
Some Of the largest railroads in the
country have their own refrigerator
cars and give service as good as the
Armours at only a fraction Of the price.
Refrigerator lines have become a ne
cessitys IN the fruit business, and no one
wants them abolished. What the pro-
ducers want is to give the interstate
commerce commission Jurisdiction over
their charges, and thus to reduce the
ruinous icing charges made BY the pri-
waite car lines with their monopoly of
exclusive contracts. s...
Answers to Mr. Armour have pointed
out the vast difference between icing
charges. Before the Armours secured
control Of the Michigan Central and the
Pere Marquette, their icing charge from
Michigan points to Chicago was $3.50 a
car. Now it is $25. The charge to
Pittsburg was raised by the Armours
from $3.50 to $50, and the. charge to
Boston, from 800 to $55 car. The
former charges covered the cost Of the
ice. The increase represents profit.
taken from the producers and put in the
pocket of the private car line. Rail
roads that own their refrigerator cars
make less than half the charge for cor.
responding distances. The Pennsylva.
MIA, Illinois Central, Nickel Plate, Rock
Island, North-W estern, Wabash, Lake
Shore, Grand Trunk and the Santa Fe
are among the roads still refusing to
make exclusive contracts. Their icing
charges are usually reasonable. Pro.
ducers dependent on private car com.
panies, however, are deliberately held
up for exorbitant charges, and the
southeastern states, Florida, Georgia
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MIR. Dalry1nple and His Report.

Mr. Dalrymple and His Report.
The substance of Mr.. Dalrymple' q re-
port, which Mayor Dunno obstinately
suppressed even after having it plainly
intimated to him by the corporation
Of Glasgow that it considered It public
property, has been made known. It
merely confirms what was understood to
be the contents of the original docu-
ment. Mr.. Dalrymple did not believe
that American cities, and particularly
Chicago, would gain anything by mu-
nicipal ownership. He found their sit
uation very different from that Of elias
gov, where the street railway company
is managed just as it would be If it
was a private concern. This is what
we have in this country, private owner
ship, and Mr.. Dalrymple would have us
continue it. He would, Of course, be
glad to see the people get everything
out of the deal except the proper recon-
pense to capital.
~ Very likely Mr.. Dalrymple's views
would meet with almost unanimous APP
prevail in this country If we had any
adequate means Of enforcingva square
deal from public service corporations.
If we were beginning over again, with
all the knowledge which bitter expe-
rience has given us, it would, perhaps,
be>practicable to chain corporate greed,
but this is not the case. We are in the
middle Of things. We have corpora
lions on our hands and on our necks,
and We are surrounded by the meshes
Of vested rights and prior occupation,
which madden the public. It is only a
few days ago since Divine Right Bae1
read the legislature Of Pennsylvania an
insolent lecture on their ignorance of
the fact that his company got control
Of the coal lands before the state con
stitution was adopted, and. hence its
rights antedated those of the state. The
proper answer to such a Haunting mes
sage is that while it may be- true that
Mr.. Baer obtained paper rights when
conditions now pressing were undreamej
of, the right of revolution is always
inherent in the people. r. ~....
Mr.. Dalrymple does not solve the cor
poration problem for us, tho we are
obliged to him for having given ar
honest view Of it.. He has not hurt
the cause Of reform, and may have done
something to steady those who arc
rushing off to make a partizan issue
Of this purely unpolitical question.
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OLD FRIENDS.

Ola friends Of long ago, ~
Scattered where the four winds blow,
Come from far and come from near, ,...,-
Gather round your old chum here, ~
Let US talk Of other days, = -.~
Let US laugh at other ways -r- IS
What like wrinkled age can know
ALI the joys of long ago!
olden times when we were young, ~
Often have they since been sung, 3~s
Let us live them DER tonight
Gathered in the rudy light,
Tho our heads are gray and bowed,
Let us form the beardless crowd, ~
Let us mtngle here our joys,
Noisy, thoughtless, village boys
Once again let's gather round -
Listlessly upon the ground 3 1
Gather meath the naples shade,
Where of old we oft delayed 800
Thru the noontide Of the day, g.
Chatting all our cares away ..sE
There again let's meekly lie .@- -
While the bees go humming by.
Tho tie truant's ways are wrong,
Let the schoolbell sing Its song,
Who is left can truly say
Why we are not there today?
None-the years have laid them low
Meath the flowers and meath the snow,
And the west winds, signing, sweep
Where the master lies asleep.
: Little's left to US old men - :, aT3Sg -
Of life's threescore years and ten; rNr.& ~,
Few, If any, Of the joys " '--s'% Pa
That we knew as village boys, 4
J Beckon from future day EIF'
We are plodding on the way, lea .1g,.i 49,
Looking lingeringly back IT +. t3'S
Down the din receding track. - 's.@S's :.
Old friends Of long ago, ,.s.e So .
scattered where the four winds blow,
flIty years have passed between
Winters snow and summers green-"5@ =
Yet these years of life apart ,:s, 49, ! .-.
Have not severed heart from heart; g., :
You are as Of old to me- 49,, )
Friends deep carved in memory. * ; 81
7;-.'T ''*' - Floyd D. Rae.
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Our Discredited Senate,

There Is a state of things in the city
Of Washington just now which sug-
gests with almost painful obtrusiveness
how far the senate Of the United States
as body has forfeited the confidence
of the people, and even how far the
members of that body have lost faith
in each other. There is a pretense OF
confidence, an outward shell Of good
faith and mutual respect, show Of
senatorial courtesy which keeps up
forms but does not disguise the facts.
Legislation with regard to rate regu-
lation has revealed, as it has not been
revealed before, the relation of GER
tain members Of that body to the great
corporations. 1t has exposed how COM
pletely they are representatives in the
senate, not Of the people of the vari-
GUS states which have sent them there,
but Of large financial and corporate in
terests which have probably furnished
the money for, their campaign expenses,
and which are suspected Of furnishing
a good deal more than is needed for
that purpose. At any rate, there are
a. number of men in that body who are
SO closely identified with special in
terests that nothing which they do, even
tho it be with good motives, is free
from suspicion.
The question uppermost in the discus
sion of rate regulation is whether the
bill shall specifically provide that a
new rate named by the commission may
be the subject of judicial review before
it goes into effect, OR whether that pro-
vision shall be omitted and the railroads
shall be left to such defense against
unreasonable rates by the commission
as their constitutional rights would
guarantee. @
The presidents advisers are not
agreed, as to this point, and the presi-
dent himself has the matter under con-
slderation. Extracts from his messages
quoted in our Washington correspond
ence today indicate that the president
has always stood for the proper safe
guarding of the rights of the transpor-
tation companies in any legislation
framed for the purpose Of giving the
government control over them, but
whether that safeguarding shall be
framed up in the form of a; provision
of the bill itself, as insisted upon by
Mr.. Elkins and Mr.. Aldrich and other
opponents Of rate regulation, the presi-
dent has not indicated. Those who
have stood for his general plan in the
senate-Dolliver, Clapp, Cullom Of the
interstate commerce committee, Senator
Nelson and others-are opposing any
amendment of the Hepburn bill in that
direction, contending that the rights
Of the railroads are fully protected al.
ready and that to inject anything into
the bill which would change the char
acter Of it so that the railroads might,
by resort to the courts, defeat the
practical value Of the bill to. the pub
lie, would be to nullify the whole meas
ure and leave it Of little practical value
to the public.
But the point we set out to make was
that neither do the senators trust one
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-16
BOOKS OF 1906 BEGIN ro@.,,,

BOOKS OF 1905 BEGIN TO ARRIVE,
-Houghton, Mifflin & Co. publish on
Saturday, Feb. II, their first books for
the year as follows: In the March and
Borderland OF Wales" by A. G.. Bradley,
an account of a summers ramble thru q
most picturesque part of England. with
numerous Illustrations by W. M. Mere
dith; "The Spirit of the Pines" an out
door romance, by Miss Margaret Morse:
five talks to college students entitled
What Is. Religion" by President Henry
s. Pritchett jof the Massachusetts, Insti-
tute Of Technology; Individuality and
Immortality" by Professor Wilhelm Ost-
valid; the first volume Of '"The Proceed
ings Of the international Congress Of
Arts and Science at st. Louis; and
Shakspere's Henry w in the Riverside
Literature. series. =
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">'- ---As'

= NEW NOVEL BY Lillian BEUL,-
A year or so ago Lillian Bell spent several
months in the south with her husband,
Arthur Hoyt Bogue, while he invests
gated the commercial possibilities of GER
tain turpentine plantations Miss Bell
has turned the knowledge she gained
then to good account in her new novel,
Carolina Lee" to be published March 1
by l.. G. Page & Co. The greater part
OF the story Is laid in the south, and the
turpent1ne- bearing trees on Carolina g
plantations are the means Of restoring
lost fortunes and the splendors Of an
estate.
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and Alabama, are helpless in the hands
of the Armour combination.
Mr.. Armour has made himself a shin
ing target, and the replies to his article
have emphasized the extortionate meth
DDS Of his companies. He has SO plain
~ been .worsted in the argument that
public opinion is more firmly fixed than
ever. The private car line is not q
benefcent nor q necessary monopoly.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-16
NOVELTIES BY MARY i

NOVELE.T Is BY MARY J. HOLMES.
Two stories by Mary j. Holmes have
neen put into one volume bearing the
title Of the first Of the stories-The Aban !.
doned Farm. 1.-THE Abandoned FARM is
the story of a girl of refinement who. in
a spirit Of adventure becomes waitress
at the country home Of wealthy young
man Of New York. The country home of
the young man was his by inheritance
from his great-grandfather, or he thought
1t was his. 1t turned out, however, to be
the property OF the adventurous Young
waitress. The consequences may be
guessed. The other story in the book is
"Connfe's Mistake" - z. f..
g. W. Dillingham; company, New York.
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another in these matters, nor does the
public feel any confidence in the sim
cerity Of those who are proposing
amendments and seeking in other ways
to postpone or emasculate or ultimately
defeat all Yailroad-rate regulation. No
doubt that the railroad coterie in the
senate have earned their reputation by
their policies and practices in the past,
whether they are to be credited with
sincerity and honesty in this instance
Or not.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-16

Ohio's new railroad law, making the
March 10. To make the law unpopular
the Pennsylvania road threatens to dis
continue selling thru tickets, SO that
travellers will miss connections at juno
lions and possibly pay more for long dis
tances. Evidently what the old Hebrews
called Judgment" Is being accumulated
by the Pennsylvania. Y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-16

RIGHT AND WRONG THINKING
AND THEIR RESULTS, by Aaron Mar
tin Crane, is presentation Of the teach
ings Of Jesus, as applied to the scientific
development and thought of the age. The
principal theses of the book are these,
which should be encouraging to any read
er, and are upheld with vigor ana force
by the author:
Man may control the action Of his mind and
his mind controls all his other actions; therefore
by this control Of his mind he may have com
plete mastery Of himself -.-n re
Consequently man may make Of himself what.
soever he chooses, morally, mentally and phys.
ically; therefore, If he chooses, he may so con-
troll himself as to become absolutely perfect.
Lothrop, Lee 4 Shepard company, Boston.
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ADJUSTMENTS
acknowledgements Marriage Of William
Ashe."

etropolitan-"The Marriage of William
Ashe."
Wild, wilful, irresponsible Lady Kitty
Ashe, with her charm and her poor mad
brain, has the most compelling PERSONAL
ity that Mrs. Humphrey Ward has given
to any Of her woman characters and
those who have read the book have
vivid picture Of the glowing, passionate
little creature who wants to live, to en-
JOY every moment, and who is willing to
pay with the sorrows of tomorrow for
the pleasures Of today The picture is
so real that Grace George has a difficult
task, and IL she does not show you your
Lady Kitty. she gives you most pa
thetic, convincing picture of the elusive
heroine Of Mrs. Wards famous novel,
i The book, like all book plays, leaves
much to the memory of the reader Mrs.
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FRANCHISE GRABBING, 1905 &c.

birthright. ..-.' ''''
Ana Esau said, Behold, I am at the
point to die and what profit shall this
birthright do to me-?
And; Jacob said, Swear to me this dav:
and he swore unto him; and he sold his
birthright unto Jacob.
+. Ihe a Jacob gave Esau bread and pot
tage OF lentils; 'and$he did eat and drink,
anu rose up and went his way; thus
XIV, 1894
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THERE is THE HEIR, COME, LET US
KILL HIM"

81 Nebraska State Journal - -a..
Most of the newspapers with anti
Roosevelt leanings were. observed to re-.
mark In one form. or another that Mr.
Wallace's explanation to the canal COM
mlttee Of the meanness with which Sec
rotary Taft treated him shows Taft to
nave been badly in the wrong, and
pretty generally an unsafe man. The sne.
clal interests that wish some other man
than Roosevelt were president would be
fairly thankful if they could be certain
that Taft is not to be his successor.
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.BEDE's TEST. OF HONESTY
New York Journal.

NEW OK J Ourna1. - -
congressman J. Adam Bede was con-
suitlhg win PRESIDENT Roosevelt about a
MINOR FEDERAL appointment in the Min
nesota district which he represented A.
ter making several inquiries about the
man, the president said abruptly: cts he
an honest MANI" IAN honest MANI" re-
turned Mr.. Bede. 71"Why, see here. Mr..
President, that man wouldn't rob a rail-
way company-not If he had the chance ,,
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rs, 1906.

Wards story is too comprehensive, too
voluminous, to submit to a graceful
Many Of the characters
are changed and there are omissions in
the play that leave one wondering at the
untangling Of the plot Nothing is said
OF the nervous collapse that sends Lady
Kitty to Venice to regain her health, and
there is little told of the privations and
suffering that bring her repentant and
dying to the little Swiss mountain inn.
Miss George dominates the play even
as Lady Kitty dominates the book, but
she Is quite as lovable and not SO exas-
perating. From the moment OF her en-
trance with the ungainly dog she has
rescued from the London street boys, In
her arms. you feel the charm Of her pa
thetic personality and recognize that she
is impelled by "the something within her
that makes her different from other peo-
ple." She invades the sacred precincts
Of the British drawing room, dares to
keep cabinet minister waiting for his
dinner, gives her dog food on the hearth
rug, and would have danced Spanish
dance If much-tried Lady Grosville had
not ordered her back to her mothers
shabby, ill-regulated home. It is then
that William Ashe, the coming politi-
clan, asks her to marry him. knowing
fully the consequences that may follow
the linking of his life with such wild
creature as Kitty. Miss George shows
with rare art Kitty's love for Ashe which
underlies the wilfulness and passion that
would have ruined his career. Her hope
that the book will bring them together,
her dawning fear that it will send them
further apart, her plea that she meant
to make him the idol Of England, her
challenge to Mary Lyster and accept
ance Of what Cliffe has to offer, 'life.
freedom, woman's work." follow swift
ly and with increasing power and pathos
until broken in health, awake to a real
ization Of what she has really done, she
dies in Ashes arms.
H. Reeves Smith is very manly, very
tender William Ashe. He has married
Lady Kitty aware that their life will be
stormy one, and when the storms gath
er, thicker and faster than he had ex-
pected, he bears them patiently until he1
book holds him up to the ridicule Of the
English public Then when Kitty needs
him most he leaves her. When he finds
her again. ernaciated, dying, the past is
forgotten and it is with real feeling that
| he forgives. ."
The Godfrey Clitfe Of Ben webster Is
| colorless. 1t seems to be actuated by q
purpose too lofty to have an enthusi-
| asm that would strike fire from a nature
like Lady Kittys. The Lady Parham OF
Katherine Stewart is splendidly English
| domineering and self-important, and W
| J. Constantine ably seconds her as Lore
Parham.. Ruth Holt makes Of Mary Ly.
ster a more unpleasant, intriguing char.
| acter? than does the book, while Morti-
1 mer Weldon is a very attractive young
Englishman. -
Mr.. Brady has given the story some
charming stage settings, the Ashes gar.
1 s. "a - ~
| age and flowers, the fire-lit room II
Ashes house and above all the garden ii
Venice. with the canal and the gondolas
lantern-decked and bearing the happy
singing Venetians up and down under
meath the starlight. F. r. 8.
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Swift & Co.'S new stock issue OF
$10,ooo,ooo has been oversubscribed.
The feeling among fnanciers seems to be
that the government Is not big enough to
hurt the packers much.
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terceding for the Rich Man at the Gate
of Heaven. It must be understood,
however, that st. John reserves the right
to pick his rich men.
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SKETCH OF JOHN FIskE,s ,,EE.

SKETCH OF JOHN Fishes LIFE
"A very interesting and concise little
sketch of John Fiskes life is to be found
IN the latest addition to the Beacon Eli
ograph1es.' The author is Thomas Ser
geant Ferry, who gives a clear outline Of
man whose life is full Of interest . M
value to any reader. - 1T
Small Maynard & Co., Boston. - :
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General Grosvenor says the term
utable source. Is it possible that General
Grosvenor believes this to be a Wall
street phrase?
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NO SENATOR ALDRIcH, EITHER
Boston Transcript.

y. -bOslon transcript. =.
There Is movement looking to the
establishment Of "a new county, in Min
nesota by the division of Itasca county.
As the proposed new county would be
about three times as large as the state
OF Rhode Island, the movement does not
seem unreasonable . 49,,
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John D. Rockefeller Is now at Lake
wood. N. j.; Pocantico Hills. N. Y; ia
maica. Florida, Houston, Texas and
oconomowoc, WIS., -,
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The down rodden meat packers are.
still telling how Garfield worked them for
Information to the effect that they were
lawbreakers. 81 9f9s
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The Boston Herald says that the best
obituary Of King Christian is that he died
poor. Dying poor isn't SO hard. It is
living poor where the pinch comes.
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AND SOME HAVEN'T ANY AT ALL
Milwaukee, Seminal

. Mark Twain says, Most Americans
have two sets Of Christian mora s-a set
of private morals and set of public
morals"
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WELL, If THAT AMT LIKE A
WOMANI

A Connecticut woman, Miss Clara
Smith, has invented an auger that bores
square hole. .-
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Jacob Riis got no invite to the we'd
ding. The president was afraid Jacob
would get excited and nominate him for
bridegroom or something.
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The trouble with some self-made men
is that they are continually building on
to themselves when the pattern doesn't
call for any more goods.