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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
Editorial Section.
Civic Evolution.

NIESTERN people are familiar with the changes
in morals and manners Of a community as
it passes from the frontier stage to one Of stability
and more or less refinement The same sort Of de-
velopment is to be seen today in Minnesota, tho
we no longer have frontier and consider ourselves
well to the front in the march Of progress, There
are great reaches Of northern Minnesota that have
been changed in the last few years from forest or
stump-covered wilderness to settled territory rails
ing stock, growing farm crops and marketing the
timber that remains the land. New lines Of rail-
road have opened these tracts to settlement, and
villages have been established their market towns.
When the railroad first went thru, these towns
were merely the temporary swa1ming places OF
transients. Such inhabitants were not as rule
chad men, but they lacked home environment,
and the prevailing atmosphere was one of license
and loose morals Saloons were the most numerous
places of business, and open gambling houses the
most prosperous. Railroad and lumber crews
the patronage on which these industries fed
A great change has come over some such towns,
still in their infancy. The Crookston Times calls
attention to the fact that within year nearly every
village on the Great Northern between Crookston
and Bagley has voted to prohibit the sale of liquors.
Instead Of harboring unbridled vice they have be-
come quiet, orderly communities observing the laws
and building up solid material prosperity. Follow
ing the transient population that blazed the way,
SetIleTs moved IN ana improved the zlandS around
and men with families and more settled principles
in to establish stores, banks and other neces
. sary enterprises This element soon became the
controlling one, and in town after another came
revolutions from ''wide-open' methods to decency
and order @-. ~ r
= The civilized stage has come unusually soon to
most of these communities, and there is reason to
believe that the general awakening to law enforce
ment and higher moral standards has quickened the
reformation of these and impressionable towns.
AS the Journal correspondents showed week ago,
the tendency has been strong all over the northwest
Of late. Business in the older communities have
dropped the old attitude and the theory that en-
enlargement Of vice makes business good. They
are supporting the local movement for law enforce
ment and finding that the question has two
sides to it from a business standpoint, while there
can be but one side as a question Of morals. Min
neapols cannot claim all the credit for creating this
sentiment but the Minneapolis stand has no doubt
had a wide influence When new villages in fornna-
tive stages going "dry'' and cutting saloons
out entirely, there is no excuse for older COM
nunities that persist in conducting themselves &C.
cording to frontier standards. . =.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
Lincoln, Democrat.

FREQUENTLY the claim is made that Lincoln was
democrat. Mr.. Louis +. Post in a recent speech
in this city said: ''There is house in Chicago on
which there is this tablet, dedicated to the public
service and the memory Of Abraham Lincoln, demo-
crat. = This seemed to the speaker conclusive.
The democrats who heard him agreed that there was
no appeal from the tablet and so the question Of
Lncon's politics settled finally : -.-' ~ NV (
There is no objection on the part Of republicans
to the democrats claiming Lincoln, for there is a
sense in which the virtues Of greatest states
men belong to all the people, and therefore to all
parties of the people, Republicans may claim Jeffer
son in the same sense that the democrats claim
Lincon and neither party be the loser. To be sure,
Lincoln passed good share Of his life fighting the
democratic party Of his day. He stood for liberty
against party which stoodfor slavery. He opposed
the enforcement of the fugitive slave act in free
states, and the democratic party with solemnly
UNCONSCIOUS humor declared that the enforcement of
this Infamous statute essential to the preserva
4tion of liberty Lincoln favored protection and
the democrats denounced it; Lincoln favored sys-
tenn of internal improvements, and the democrats
said it was unconstitutional vi Is @$Nz
Lincoln died before he recanted any OF these
opinions, so that if he is democrat the change
must have come over the democratic party and not
Lincoln s record >Ea M&. 'a#
J. It is true that the democratic party is not now
in favor Of slavery It is not against internal
improvements It is not against protection entirely
So the democratic party has become to that extent
Lincolnized. a%'s~ s~..=-s% r. - -.
10 % .s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
SEEING THINGS AT NIGHT

Is YOU eber skeered an lonesome
When de dark s settlin' down, .-.- e.
An de trees cas- long black shadders
Des lac snakes along de groun' s.-
Don't you feel de little shivers -
Kinder creepin up yo' spine
When you hyears de squeech evil holler
An de whip-er-will a cryin'?
Makes you think bout ha 'nts an chooses
Des to hyear dem crickets sing,
An dem frogs down in de marshes
DEFY SCUM wo 'se den anything.
Wish dat dawg way ober yonder
Wouldn't howl so doleful lac,
Wish train would come whizzin
Down dere on de railroad track.
White folks neber does see chooses,
Ha ,nts dom bodder dem at all,
But nigger's boun' to see 'em
Soon es twilight gins to fall,
T 'aint so hard to be a niger
When de sun IS shinin' bright,
But ID rather be a, white man
When hit IS gettin' long to ards night
-Eloise Lee Sherman in New York Times
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
Sunday, January %, 1906.
Uncongenial Tasks.

- HAVE boy and girl in the public schools,
= said a Minneapolis the other day. THE
boy has taken all the honors OF his class, but the
girl has not done very well. She continually COM
plains that she does not like this study and does
not like that study and SO she makes no progress
in it. I tell her that when went to school that
had to Ike the things the teachers wanted me to
like and that the things they made me study when
did not want to had done me more good than any
thing else in my school life, but it does not change
her attitude. What is the difference between them7
The difference is very likely that the boy has
the JOY of work while the girl has not. He has the
yearning to achieve, to conquer. The task itself
is Of minor Importance the conquest is the main
thing. ssf
Learning lessons in schools is like stonemason
building a wall. He would rather handle the small
stones which do not strain his back with their
weight but he knows that the large and unwieldy
stones must be put in place If he is to have wall
There is no escape from the facts The big stones
must be laid SO he might well be cheerful about
it. Besides they give him results faster than the
others. If it is hard work he has the satisfaction
Of knowing that the wall rises faster.
Children in the public schools have early an OPP
portunity of learning the philosophy of life. Hat
ing to do things reduces not only the capacity to
do the thing hated but also to do the things loved
The discontinued, unwilling discharge Of uncon-
genial tasks, says John Coleman, the slave s
attitude The slaves unwillingness under the lash
wears down to sullen obedience to superior power,
but with it goes the ability to turn off any task well.
The slave loses his initiative. Command of one s
self is command of one s work - -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
xTHE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL
The Question Of Waste.

M Il. JAMES 81. HILL recent pesslmlst1c ut
n terances about waste in this country will
not strike responsive thrill among people who see
their miionaires wasting more every day than the
common people can afford to waste in lifetime
The American people are not opposed to million
aires per se but they are shy Of attention to the
platitudes Of millonaires who talk about personal
waste when the waste Of our laws is daily more than
the entire income Of frst-class powers abroad
What is the waste Of our tariff laws for examples
How much Of an effort has been made scientifically
so as to adjust them that the tax will represent the
difference in labor cost between the home-produced
and imported article 2
Where are we att on the tariff question any
howq Do we know anything about it beyond the
fact that we have tariff and that we also have
monopolies which sell boots and Shoes steel bridges,
and breakfast food to the South Sea islands, to
Egypt and to Madagascar, cheaper than they will
sell them to Americans, and that after paying the
freight? What would happen if there should be an
intelligent investigation of this waste?
Then there is the question of the waste in rail-
road rates. How much waste is there in paying
dividends on stock which never paid for IN
cash? There is suspicion that this comes out Of
the shipper first and finally out Of the consumer,
and that every cent it causes him to pay for an
article than it is really worth is waste Of his
income. There is also the waste in the hauling Of
pampered passengers free Of charge. Each one OF
them takes up room, some Of them a lot Of it. 1t
costs coal to haul them it costs labor and wages of
labor too Who pays forit? Is it not the passenger
who does not ride on pass?
Then there is the waste of national resources
involved in the 1000 per cent tax on alcohol used
in the arts when it could just we'll be free and
be the cause not only Of building up many indus
tries, but Of making sure market for the farmers
surplus corn and potatoes Is the revenue the gov
eminent receives from alcohol compensation for
this failure to utilize the forces nature has put in
our hands9 .S.a. H. -,
Is the real waste in this country at the spgot o,
at the bunghole? Is congress the bunghole9
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
A Rocky Road for the Square Deal.

n S THE result of lawsuit Mile earlier, one
of the leading actresses at the state theater
in Paris, finds herself endowed with $4,000 sable
cloak for which she did not pay cent. 1t was
brought out in the trial that the proprietor Of
fashionable fur store had asked her to pose in the
coat and that she had assumed that the coat to
be her reward for advertising the furriers goods.
The jury agreed with her and she wore the coat
home triumphantly all Paris applauding the digni-
fed impression she made and adding its opinion that
the furrier was we'll repaid by having the goods
exhibited in neat package.
The testimony also established the fact that
Mile. earlier was not singular in her ambition to
possess clothes for which she had paid money.
Another actress swore that whenever she posed IN
costume she expected to have the dress presented
to her. A third said she depended on this system
for her entire trousseau elbow else," she said,
- could wear good clothes 2" So
II This system may seem equitable to its bene-
ciaries, but it is of doubtful value to the rest Of
the community. When an actress obtains $4,000
worth Of clothes in single year for merely posing
someone pays for the goods and the making in the
end. Who pays? Probably the wives of American
milionares who imagine they must have dresses
made in Paris. ~: .s.~ r. .:r.-,
! e But even those who buy at home do not escape
I this species Of graft New York modistes do the
same Not only the dressmakers, but all who sell
anything to the rich from coal to ice cream, pay
tribute to employees and charge the tips finally in
the bill This form Of graft has become insuffer-
able that the legislature of New York has passed
ant-tip law under which if you catch your servant
splitting up bride money with your butcher grocer
you may discharge him and then send him to jail.
It takes more than four years to inoculate a
whole people with the germ Of the Square Deal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
The Slocun1's Captain Convicted.

n NEW YORK jury has found Captain William
H. Van Schaik guilty Of criminal negligence
In failing to have fire drills the steamer General
Slocum, which he commanded in June, 1904, when
it burned, with loss of than one thousand
lives. He was Immediately sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment This was Captain Van Schaik's Sec
ond trial. the first having resulted in disagreement
Of the jury. ~ ...
The Slocum disaster was peculiarly horrible
one. The steamer crowded to the guards with
excursionists from German Sunday school in lower
New York. On her way up the East river she took
fire and hundreds Of helpless women and children
persisted by drowning or in the agonies Of fire
within few rods Of land. Investigation showed
that the vessel was absolutely untitled for the duty
to which she had been put. . . = ~s -. +
There was some effort in the trials to shunt the
responsibility from the captain to the owners Of
the vessel but it must be clear that the guilt of the
one does not imply the innocence Of the other
The duty Of the owners to present a properly
protected boat, and that of the captain to take all
the precautions that were laid by law upon him as
skipper. He could not escape because they were
derelect any more than they should escape because
he negligent. &.-. .-.-~ s~~ ...~~.
This verdict, arrived at after two trials, must
be justified by the evidence, and it carries with it
a sautary lesson. Coupled with the fact that a
Chicago judge has recently upheld the indictments
against the manager of the Iroquois theater whose
burning sacrificed five hundred lives some years
ago, it indicates an awakening on the part of the
American people to sense of responsibility. When
steamer captains and building owners find that the
laws are not dead letter they will begin to take
less ight-hearted view of their duties. @
In order to make the verdict in the Slocum case
complete the law should reach out and secure the
owners of the steamer also.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
TWO RAILROAD SYSTEMS
G. E. Russell in Everybody s.. ="

c. E. Russell in Everybody
The German railroad system is not complicated by
any rebate issues by Hobbies, pools combinations,
dark DEALS compacts crooked congress
men, purchased senator's bribed district attorney No
part of the railroad earnings in Germany need be set
ipuating political conventions in electing certain
candidates and defeating certain others That makes
wonderful difference in the practical operations of
pocketbook. In Germany railroad rates based on
the cost of transportation the interest on the out
standing bonds, and fair profit n the service
formed. In America, they are based on the traffic
managers nerve - -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
NATURE; THE ARTIST

Such hints. as untaught Nature yields!
The calm disorder of the sea,
The struggling splendor of the fields,
The winds gay incivility
o workman with your conscious plan.
Compass and square are little worth;
Copy (nay, only poets CAM,
The artless masonry of Earth.
Go watch the windy springs carouse,
And mark the winter wonders grow
The graceful gracelessness of boughs,
The careless carpentry of snow
Frederick Lawrence Knowles
On Life IS Stairway,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
BATHING AT BEMIDJI
Grand Forks Herald.

Grand Forks Herald
An S-year-old girl studying lesson at home looked
up from her book and said: 'sMama, why do they
put in the geography that pilgrims go and battle
the Gauges river9" Why said the mother ssbe-
suppose. Well, people 60 to Bemidji to battle,
and they don't put that in the Biographies. Oh,
see But you must understand that people battle in
at Bemidii flor other reasons .-se
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

The 1nillionaires gave to charity in 1905 the tidy
sum Of $66,1o4431. OF this immense amount there
donated for education, $373o3,ooo; galleries.
museums and societies, $7,o24ooo; hospitals, homes
and asylums, $53s1,5oo; miscellaneous charities,
$57oo,175; church work. S., 242756; library build
ings, $1,9930oo; gifts other than cash, $2435,-
900; donations sent abroad, $2o15ooo Some of this
simply must have been tainted-but never mind now.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

Z: The J Journal attempts today to make itself
useful in new way to large element Of its read
ers in the city and out Of it by instituting what,
for lack Of better name may be called a trav-
elers exchange The theory is that there are great
many people in the city who would be glad to spend
summer vacation in the country who cannot afford
to pay regular rates at resort hotels and people in
the country who would like to visit the city in the
winter but who cannot afford to bring their fami-
J lies into city hotels for period long enough to
make the trip worth while. Both, however would
be glad to exchange accommodations of this kind,
which would enable people from the country to visit
the city and people in the city to visit the country
full statement of the plan and how to take adj
vantage of it is given in this issue Of h J r
nal. 1t looks like feasible plan and one likely
to produce very excellent results So far as we
know it is not in operation anywhere, but that is
reason why it should not be complete success.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

The public examiner, who rushed in to check up
the accounts of the Albany capitol, pretty nearly
fell thru the marble stairway which has been closed
for repairs Now that the building is nearly com
plete there is movement to examine the founda-
tion. This is all wrong. They should go up in the
tower and look at the view
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

Nicholas Longworth, who marries into the dynasty
is receiving numerous letters from hair fakirs who
wish to reproduce growth his vacant dome
of thought Mr.. Longvvorth, however, not
these letters as he understands that badness stands
rather for intellectual rpeness than for deprivation
Of natural covering "< .z..l
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
Profanity and Good Manners.

GOMEONE writes to 7 he Journal to inquire
~ whether profanity is on the increase. He has
met with great deal of it lately and deplores the
prevalence Of this inexcusable habit, and wonders
whether it is not, becoming more common than it
used to be- ~ -. 1T 49,. Z
We do not known how this question is to be
settled. There no reports statistics, evil
dence except individual observation and as to that
We know Of general concensus Of opinion. We
quite sure, however, that there is entirely too
much Of it. The dscouragng fact is that profanity
is, for the most part, not expression Of intense
feeling which sometimes forces explosives forbid
den by the decalog out Of the mouths Of very good
men and very reverent men. ! The serious fact is
that there seems to be growing spirit of rrever-
which introduces the name Of the deity care
lessly thoughtlessly, disrespectfuly idly, without
the least thought Of the gravity Of the oense Per-
haps paragraph in the decalog is commonly dis
regarded as the third commandment Tx ~
And this is a vice not only Of the coarse, the
ignorant; the vulgar and the vicious, but Of men
who lay claim to culture, refinement and gentle
manly breeding: That profanity is gross viola
tion Of good manners, Of politeness of ord-
nary decency, to say nothing of its moral quality
must be apparent to anyone who is at all thoughtful
on the subject. To great many people the name
OF the deity is something to be spoken only with
great reverence, with infinite respect, and yet men
who would be incapable Of offending the sensibilities
Of others by speaking with disrespect other names
honored and revered by those in whose presence
they are, to have thought Of the offense
which they are liable to give by irreverent use Of
the name Of the deity. If they feel no reverence
themselves, common gentlemanly instincts should
compel them to regard such instincts and feelings
in others. In other words no who wishes to be
regarded a gentleman will be profane in the
presence Of those whose sentiments he does not
know are those Of Indifference the subject.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

The South Bend, Ind, Tribune says that massacres
Of the Armenians should stop calls President
Roosevelt to act If the Esqumaults have. stomach
trouble from too exclusively blubber diet or the
Australians suffer from wearing tight shoes, some
body is to call the president to reetfy these
errors And he with congress z on his handsl,'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE WIND
Governor John A. johnson.

fE Governor John A. Johnson
The great curse of the country today is in the
fictitious valuations placed upon property and the fact
economy pay tribute to this class Of genius by paying
rate Of interest and profit property which has no
existence.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

If Phoebe Cousins is aware Of the fact that there
are 1000 women lawyers in this country she may
feel that she did not the gauntlet of the ribad
press in vain. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

One cannot read the long list of $1Ooo0's $4,000,
$5o,0oo's and $1oo,ooos given to cousins, friends
employees, coachmen, daughters and others in the
Marshall Field will, without being convinced that
Mr.. Field was pretty good type Of millionaire.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

Ladies' hats appear in the windows at prices
ranging from $3.50 to 800 If the price marks were
shifted the $50 woman might wear the $3.50 hat
you that. .. 81. "a. .-1..-E = -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

Young Mr.. Rockefeller says that fasehood is never
justfabe. Father agrees with this view, but may
add soto that it is very present help in
of legal trouble.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

The doorkeeper at the White House was alarmed
at first when Crazy Snake called the president the
other day. It was however, one Of Snake IS lucid
intervals, and he had pleasant talk with the
Great Father -.s. Est--- - -..-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

General Linevitch calls the cars attention to the
fact that he is still in Manchuria by announcing that
things in great disorder there. General Sherman
might have couched it in different language but we
catch the idea.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

We have chicken shows and poultry shows, but
why is it that we do not have hen shows9 Possibly
the hen is too busy in the egg trade.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

We trust the Lincoln Journal will make note Of
the fact that the curling bonspiel postponed
account of the January thaw which carried away all
the brooms and two thirds Of the language with which
the game is played.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

When ST. Paul unhogs and divides the interurban
territory the movement for uniting the two cities
will make more progress. -,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
FUTURE SENATOR STARTED
Grafton, N. D., Record.

Senator Clark gave his grandson 81 100000
to begin life with. That is good beginning and if
che young gentleman is careful and saves readily he
may be able to get into the senate when the time
comes. t
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28

We are now watching a neat little finish fight
between the Square Deal Chicken and the Special
Privilege game cock.