The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-06
GOALS FROM THE FIELD


J. Newton Mind of Chicago was in this
morning to say that he found TIL e
u of twenty-five years ago a.
perennlat delight. It really made him
feel at home. Mr.. Mind admits that
when a man gets to sc he feels a renewed,
interest IN the past, and that his blood
is more stirred by meeting an acquaint-
ance OF forty years ago than it would
| be: by the sight of a new senator or a
sure-enough general carrying a. Wagon,
load of braid
Recently on the streets Of Chicago he.
ran into General Nettleton, and forgot
to go to the office While they reminiscec
over matters that occurred In the old
city hall when ALI the newspapers occu-
pied the space Elater devoted to the Sal
walton Army BARRACKS On the same day
he had a pleasant encounter with John
Leonard, who once walked to st. PAU
on a wager with e, D. Chaddick, and
rode hack in an ambulance, Theodore
Long, who wrote editorials for the old
Star, and two or three more ghosts of the
r halcyon past.
Il Ed rnal of twenty-five wears
ago and of today span the period between
Minneapolis *the Village; and MINNEAPOLIS.
I the ssc1tys and yet things crop .out from
time tostine to Show that the difference
bsttveeA the town and a metropolis are
rtskher unreal:s% after all: >. One is a posts
office location. "A good many people
whp never go to TIT" postoffices unless a;
deputy Sheriff from the United States
courtsE comes for thehnds are getting great
ly excited over the NATTER, Some Of the
members of the fteal estate board ! are
positively down on%one, another about it,
and it will take AZ purity. banquet" to
clear the atmosphere 80 Il
The activity5sof owners of real estate:
is somewhat difficult to understand when
one takes into consideration that a post
o1f1ce. does not, as, a rule, attract the
! finest class of business to- it's neighbour
hood. One man who has been investi-
eating the matter, says it is generally
peanut stands and @popworks: This may
be an exaggeration. but it is not as harm:
full as. theF idea that the location Of a
postoffice will make the people deter
mined to 5haYe the, surrounding property
at any price. About the only thing that
makes a. postoffice desirable, the making
OF 1t a part Of "a general scheme of civic
improvement, appears to have been lost
sight of in Minneapolis.
-. G. w. Van TuyI has a kickback on the
Goals He says he has not played a
game of chess since the Chapman meet
ings: Tally for the Chapman meetings.
Spelling reform as it has penetrated
Missouri refers not merely to superflu>
Gus letters, but to superfluous capitals
as we'll. Kansas City wants to be known
as Kansascity. The Kansas City, or
Kansascity Star asks:
|, Are there any reasonable objections to
the plan Of making one word out of two
as has been done with hundreds of other
municipal Names such as Pittsburg,
Nashville, Hartford? Do not they look
quite as well when you: are. used to them
as Pitts Burg, Nash Vile or Hart Ford?
They certainly d. They look better,
But In order to be- consistent we should
have to spell it Newyorlz sanfrancisco
and Saintpaul.t> r. ~. ts3AAs'
Speaking; OF, !Tillman makes one think
OF Booker Washington. Where is the
man in north or south who does not feel
humbled to have Tillman the spokesman
OF his race, and where is the colored man
who does not feel proud and elevated to
have the latter ais the representative Of
his people? Tillman's recent excursion
thru the north pouring out ribaldry, riot
and rot for the benefit of his own purse
is IN hum1lating contrast with the pub
lie addresses Of Booker washington, de-
livered not for personal gain, but to ben
eht. an institution, for the development
OF the negro, to. whom Booker Washing
ton has devoted his life. Tillman came
into the world the son Of a favored race
He had every incentive to high endeavor,
and IN a way he has done some GOOD
4 things for the people Of his state. But
he has traded upon prejudice flouted alb
stract Justice and declared in so many
words that no matter what the negro
made of himself he should never ride in
Inc same streetcart nor sit at the same
table nor vote at the same polling booth
with the divine white man.
The senate has had negro members
but never one who jumped over his seat
and throttled a brother senator to give
force to his arguments The south has
had NEGRO oratorsss men who discounted
TiHnan in everything that pertains to
;eloqnence, but neYer B one who went
about tt the fo1nfryn proclaiming riot Sc
cessioh afldq5lood AZ theasnegro were not
Immediately gfvefE AFT his fights. Till
man explains Booker WAS hington as an
exception to the rule of negro inferiority.
Let US hope that Tillman IS an exception
to the I; rule les,} Of white superiority
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