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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-13

more lime stone soil than any other
one in the union. It's blue and or
chard grass, permanent pastures are
not equaled any where. It's farm
lands are cheaper from the only true
standpoints, viz: production than in
any Of those adjoining states. It oc-
cupies that happy middle ground be-
tween the land Of ice and snow and
that Of flowers and tropical fruits.all
in all our itineracy was both pleasant
and profitable. Pleasant, because Of
our association with SO many pure
and bright men and women. Profit
able, because of the many things we
learned agriculture. morals and good
citizenship, LOWELL ROUTENBUsH.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-13

Most disfgured skin eruption,
scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are
due to impure blood. Buedock
Plood Bitters is a cleansing blood
tonic. Makes you clear-eyed clear
Drained, clear-skinned.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-13

Slopes earache in two minutes;
toothache or pain Of burn or scald in
five minutes; hoarseness, one hour;
muscle ache, two hours sore throat,
twelve hours DR.. Thomas Electric
Oil, monarch over pain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
Editorial Section.
Separate City Elections.

STHE mayoralty campaign in ST Paul does not APP
= pear todhave awakened a. great deal Of public
feeling Tho the election is further off than May
1st the city is taking but languid interest IN the
contest, to judge from the newspapers. There Is
apparently considerable crossing Of party lines The
Pioneer Press is paying generous compliments 10
Mayor Smith, whom it has frequently in the past
violently opposed. The Dispatch and News may be
doing something in political way, but it has not
been very conspicuous in their columns.
The situation seems in measure to support the
contention Of the opponents Of separate city cleo
tions that it is unWise to make too many calls upon
the people FOR political activity. Too many cleo
tons they have always claimed tend to produce in
difference among good citizens who desert the polls
and leave the election to the interested element IN
each party, which is usually its most undesirable
element.
On the other hand there is no doubt that sep
arate city elections enable the people more fairly
to discuss local questions than would be the case in
general campaign. The attitude Of the newspa-
pers is evidence of this There is less pressure upon
them to Support the party in separate city cleo
ton. The applies to the voters themselves. 1t
is representative government which the people de-
mand when they demand separate city elections
They do not ask to be guided as to how to obtain
the best results. That is their own problem
The right to separate city elections and the ne
cessity Of them has been conceded in nearly every
city of the first class except Minneapolis We still
merge all our elections and take tariff candidates
for congress the council, they are handed to
u.s. This system is defended on the grounds noted
above as we'll as those Of economy, but these are
minor considerations compared with the right Of the
people to representative government. .. 49,.
The campaign in St. Paul, tho quiet is not neces-
sarily failure There is perhaps not much to get
excited about. Possibly the people Of St. Paul are
satisfied that they have the kind of government they
want. In this the principle Of separate city
elections is vindicated much by quiet as by a
noisy campaign. j.. ..- g
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
Robespierre Elkins.

nECLARING that he had been squeezed out Of
- the coal business and ruined by S. B. Elkins,
after he had rsked every dollar he possessed in
petition with an overgrown fortune, A. c. Fulmar Of
West Virginia furnished before the interstate COM
MERGE commission a typical witness to the results
which follow the entrance Of the railroads into the
coal business. g." -~. .. =. ..~. .
-Four years ago, Mr.. Fulmar testified, he opened
a coal mine on the Morgantown & Kingwood rail
road, first making contract with the railroad to
furnish him spur track and sufficient supply
Of cars, he agreeing to furnish $4,000 tons of coal
the first year and 100000 each year thereafter The
first year he had no trouble. He got plenty Of
and fulfilled his contract. In the fall of the year,
however, Mr.. Elkns became the proprietor of the
Morgantown & Kingwood railroad, and his sons
opened two mines in Mr.. Fulmar's vicinity. Imme
diatelys the latter began to have trouble. Supplies
Of cars decreased. In December, 1902, he got
eighty-fve cars. In January 1903 the first month
Of the Elkins' regime, he got seventy thressF eb-
ruary forty three March eight May Is, Juis three
In July the company notified him that it weuld fur
nish no more cars because the spur track was too
dangerous. =" %#-. II .... .4.x.ss
MrFulmar tried lawsuits to get his rights, and
finally, after being he said 'led about like bull
with ring in its nose, he was induced tS submit
his matters to the arbitration Of United States
Judge and he was ordered to sell out to the railroad
company for $4,000. Presumably the dangerous
spur track has been so improved that there is now
no difficulty in securing for the mine from
which Mr. Fulmar was practically evicted. rsair 4.
This Elkins is the same who in the United States
senate claims to be supporter Of the president and
who is the author Of law for the prevention and
punishment of rebating determinations and other
traffic abuses Mr.. Elkins appears to be versatile
individual. 46~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
Grading a New Race.

THE great race-mingling process going on in the
United States has wonderful possibilities for
the future. The problems presented in race-cuture
and heredity have aroused the interest OF Luther
Burbank, the plant wizard, whose hfe-work is the
ingng Of plant species and varieties to result in
new and higher forms Of vegetable life. The analogy
is fascinating he presents it in his article in the
Century, Training Of the HumanNP liant. =
Mr. Burbank points out that the great outpour-
ing of Europe into America means the greatest ex-
pertinent in crossing races the world has ever known
The ningling slowly at first but In the second
or third generation intermaniage is common, and
the outcome Of the great fusion foretell.
In the vegetable kingdom Burbank brings change
and improvement by crosses. The process brings
every conceivable result, but in many cases it is
found to excel both the parents These improve
ments are reproduced and fixed into new varieties
by successive breeding From six to ten generations,
usually, are sufficient to fix the descendants in the
new ways. b. (. g&s l5E4 ..9.FE@
Environment Is everything, however, In develop
ing plant as well animal life The varieties,
to give best results, must be brought forward under
the best conditions So in our great racial mixing
process the environment Of the child is allmportant
Children of mixed marriage may turn out very
we'll or very i'll, and much depends on the develop
ment Of the child in it's infancy. race type fixed
is hard to change but the admixture is plastic and
may be most sensitive to influence. If influenced
right, the coming American race should approach
the "supernan'' so often dreamed of. ssa+- r5-~@
Our parent Ango-Saxon stock, itself success
full mixture Of Britop, Roman, Saxon, Dane and
Norman French, when transplanted to America met
even in colonial days the Dutch the French and the
Swede The mixing process has been going ever
since The earliest German immigration is already
we'll mingled. The Irish and the Scandinavian are
Americans all, and in their younger generations are
joining the great family. The ultimate type Of this
mixture should be noble one. The danger lies in
our later floods from southern Europe.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
J DIR. Crapsey's Case.

nR. CRAPsEY of New York, who is to be tried
~ by the Episcopal church, will not have the sat-
isfaction of bringing his actual beliefs before the
court He is to be tried, not for believing some
thing but for taking vow to believe thing and
then going off and teaching something else. The
apostles creed, which he is accused of not standing
squarely up to, declares certain beliefs: Some of
them are mundane facts. It is for example easy
to believe historically that Christ was born, lived
and died. as is stated in the New Testament, as to
believe that Charles was born, lived and died, as
stated by Macauley But the creed goes further,
and says he again from the dead, and this fact
which all orthodox churches accept as the corner
stone of their faith, which DR.. Crapsey would
explain away. -. H. ~. RI. 81: ii. s.~.ss -.
It follows that the Episcopal church must either
admit that this is not essential belief it must
reject DR.. Crapsey as Of it's teachers.
DR.. Crapsey may be intellectually honest when he
does not accept literally this statement Of the creed,
but it would be to his dscredt should he insist upon
remaining as teacher in church which does acr
cept it. It would tho the Crapsey case does
not involve any difficulties, provided DR.. Crapsey
has the proper conception of his duty. Instead Of
compelling church trial he ought to resign.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
More Lines Are Needed.

THE conservative east fears that the business
= Of building transcontinental railroad lines
will be overdone. The New York Evening Post
voices that feeling in speaking Of the Great North
ern's proposed Canadian line, suggesting that the
presence Of several parallel lines competing for the
same thru business may divide earnings to dam
aging extent. --'@
Such fears are entirely groundless. AS far as
the new Canadian transcontinental is concerned, it
has it's justification in the rich wheat lands to be
opened up and connected with the worlds markets,
which will insure it tonnage without depending much
on thru business It lies too far north to this
gateway on business from Puget Sound, and that
particular traffic is now overlooking the existing
roads to an unpleasant degree. The building boom
in the northwest has stimulated the demand for
western lumber, and the three roads are swamped
with consignments Business Of all kinds has grown,
and congestion has been the rule with the thru
freight business Of the Great Northern, Northern
Pacific and 500 since last August It still continues.
The roads seem to have cars enough, but are short
of motive power, and need more thru tracks. The
Northern Pacific is starting to double track its line,
working westward, and double track to the coast
would be a great benefit right now. The Milwaukee
is pushing its rails westward and will give the twin
cities fourth line to the west coast direct. 1t
cannot any too soon. Our freight traffic with
the orient, with Washington Oregon and Idaho is
growing by leaps and bounds There is no imme-
date prospect that railroad building will be over
done in region where the existing roads are unable
to move the traffic offered. / &@&5&zes -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
The Russian Parliament.

THE WHOLE civilized world is interested in the
first Russian parliament which will be opened
IN St Petersburg on May 10. Whether it will mark
new peaceful era for the subjects Of the car or
prove but the opening wedge in further distractions
Of the country depends very largely whether the
country accepts the cars draft Of constitution
as beginning, foundation upon which to work, or
whether the revolutionary idea that it is trick
shall prevail.
The constitution itself is being fercey criticized.
It certainly does differ in important respects from
the cars manifesto Of last October. The right Of
freedom Of residence which appeared to be freely
granted then is now made subject to the existing
regulations which means that there is no freedom
of residence.
The laws Of the douma are not to be enforceable
until approved by the Russian senate, which is thus
made a sort Of supreme court to pass upon laws
before they have been put in operation instead OF
after, as is the practice in western countries.
Distrust is also excited by the provision that the
car may dissolve the parliament and order new
elections but which does not make provision for
the time when the new parliament shall assemble.
But the all important fact is that the manifesto
Of October is now part OF the fundamental law
Of Russia, that parliament has been called and
that the task Of developing its powers and increas
ing it's prerogatives is matter for the genius OF
the Russian people to work out There are obviously
holes in the new constitution. In the nature or
things there would be. The concessions made, we're,
from the czars viewpoint a gift out of the store7
house Of his autocracy. He might be pardoned for
thinking the people should not look gift horse too
closely in the mouth. Yet it is inevitable that the
douma must have enough power to command the
respect of the people If it does not the evolu-
ton will go on until it does.
Constitutions in Great Britain, and even in
America, are growth. The Russian constitution
must share the same character. It is perhaps as
we'll that the Russian parliament will meet with
obstacles in the way for it is only by overcoming
obstacles that the parliament feel its way to
system of government suited to the needs of the
Russian people. -.E
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29

Our Washington correspondence brings out very
clearly the fact that it is the Standard Oil company
which is threatening the life of the free alcohol bill
in the senate What beautiful thing it would be for
the republican senate to present to the republican
party in it's campaign this fall banner inscribed
Free alcohol defeated In republican senate by the
influence of the Standard Oil company!' They might
we'll paint and pass it around if that bill fails
of passage for that's exactly the view the country
would take Of the matter. 49,. ~ ''5. +.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
Restoring San Francisco's Schoolhouses

Restoring Dan FTdaClSCOS SCnOOlnOuSeS
THE suggestion made FROM several different
II sources that the school children Of America
build the schoolhouses Of San Francisco fine idea.
There are in round numbers 100000 children
enrolled in the public schools of the United States.
In Minneapolis there are 42,OOO In the whole
country there 42s times many in this city
The children Of Minneapolis have contributed $4,000
to the San Francisco relief fund IL the other
children Of the rest Of the country should do nearly
as well their contributions would amount to 81, 2
OOO or enough to rebuild the forty destroyed school
houses in the city Of San francisco And the chief
benefit of such result would come to the school
children Of the country themselves who out of their
slender resources, had rendered such splendid
service to the children Of the stricken city. The
plan may not be practicable and will probably not
be carried out, but it would afford one Of the most
impressive and most valuable lessons to be derived
from this great calamity.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
The Duchess of Roxburghe.

THE Duchess Of Roxburghe, who was Miss Goelet
= Of New York and double back action million
airess, has been disappointment to her friends In
the role of duchess. While she expected to
give large parties and take lead in things social lit
appears that she has done nothing Of the kind alho
she is fthe only American woman with whom the
Princess Of Wales has been friendly terms -
Casting up the account the friends of the
duchess have figured out that the trouble with the
Duchess Of Roxburghe is that she married Scotch
man to whom society is everlasting bore. Amer
lean heresses who have married Scotch dukes and
earls have found they had their hands full. The
Scotch peer Is fond of incoming his estate in
golf socks and in inimitable cap and figuring where
he will use the dollars brought over by his bride, but
he bucks at attending garden parties, and while at
a luncheon Scotch peer is about as ornamental
as a deep sea diver would be in a Japanese bazar.
His small talk is as chic'' as that Of the sphinx
and his intensely practical habit Of contradicting
every statement which is Inaccurate does not add
to his popularity.
Some one has wisely said that the secret Of sue
ceeding in society to take the keenest interest in
being told things which you already know. This is
the lock Of to which the Scotchman does not
carry the key. He never can see why truth which
has been established should ever again be repeated,
at least in his presence.
The Duchess Of Roxburghe, we are happy to say,
has not permitted the ultra Scotchness Of his
to ruin her young life. She has accepted him and
in accepting him is said to have discovered that
he is more than half right about the unutterable
boredom Of society.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
Hobson Goes to Congress.

nm THE second trial Richmond Pearson Hobson,
" the hero Of Santiago, beat Representative
Bankhead for the nomination for congress from the
Sixth Alabama district Mr.. Hobson's quarrel with
Mr. Bankhead is of several years standing. It dates
back to the time when Hobson asked to be placed
on the retired list Of the navy after a commission
had reported him fit for duty. special bill per
uniting his retirement prepared and Hobson
accused Bankhead of having beaten it in the COM
1nitteeS Hence he decided to have Nh. Bankhead's
seat He as good as has it since the Sixth Alabama
district sends any but democrats to congress
Mr. Hobson congressman will devote him
self to the proposition that this country must have
the greatest navy on the waters of the EARTH and
have it like the deacon S powder explosion almost
immediately If congress does not accept his
views gracefully, he will appeal to the country from
the lecture PLATFORM thereby crossing wires with Mr.
BRYAN and Senator La Toilette, who have accepted
the doctrine that the proper way to instruct the
country in the way it should go s2to lecture it
into obedience.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
The Next President.

T~HE reported candidacy of Speaker Cannon for
the republican nomination for the presidency
suggests that the speakership has been as poor a
road to the White House the senate or the can
ddates for president since the two were soldiers
who had never held public office, three were public
men who had been in the senate and SIX were gov
errors Of pivotal states Seymour Cleveland, Harrl-
son. Tilden, Mckinley, Roosevelt, owed their nomi-
nations as much to the fact that they had shown
vote-getting capacity in their states as to any
other cause While our political history is starred
with such names Reed, Carlisle, Randall, Blaine,
men who had made great records in the speakers
chair. not one Of them reached the White House
tho all were at times pushed for the nomination IN
their party. 81 49,. +. %
The calmest Judgment Of the country probably
will be that Mr.. Cannon's day for reaching the
White House has passed He ripened late in life.
His legislative capacity and his parliamentary skill
have long been recognized but he not thought Of
for speaker 80 long as such Reed and Nc
Kinley were in congress. He even waited Tor Hen
derson to have his turn. In the meantime Mr.. Can
non has achieved his scriptural allotment OF years.
Moreover the while the speaker has been arriving
at the reward Of his industry as committee chair
man the country has also passed given point. 1t
has definitely parted from the stand pat statesman
Of the old school to whom the label republican is
all that is necessary piece Of political goods.
IF Speaker Cannon stands for the presidency he
must do it as the candidate Of the reactonaries of
the extreme protective tariff let-well enough alone
people who are being constantly turned down in the
party r.. r. =,
Honest as Speaker Cannon may be and typical as
he may be Of southern Illinois, he is far from being
typical Of the country today 1t Is looking for men
whose eyes are to the future and whose comprehen-
sion includes great questions Of state and broad in
terpretations Of fundamental laws. As parer5 of
appropriations Mr.. Cannon had his place, as the
kindly boss Of the house he appears to enjoy the love
of his mnons, but the next president Of the United
States must be neither cheese parer petty
boss. .... -. .ts.~s... :.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
THE SUNNY SOUTH

The following ode is credited to an English writer
who had never visited America but had read of the
balmy days Of the southern cline:
Way down in South Dakota
Where the cotton forests bloom,
And the yellow jacket
Sings its merry tune;
There one spring day wandered
In my winter clothes Of cloth,
And cheerily sang my little song
o, Dakota, O, Dakota,
My dear old South Dakota,
Where the lily-white magnolia
Bursts it bud;
And the chipmunk chirps his song,
In the summer, all day long,
And the rivers overlooking
With the food.
N. b.. IN, Anneri Spectator.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
Inheritance Taxes Abroad.

= NGLAND enjoys an immunity from considera-
- ton of the sacred character of wealth to which
this country has never attained. The government
takes out Of the income Of the people the respect
able sum of $110,OO0,000 annually. The empire
grades it's income tax progressively beginning with
one Of $500 year, below which there is an exemp-
ton. The man who has an income of $4,000 an
nually pays the government 5000. If he enjoys
income of $4,000 he pays $175 and for all incomes
over that figure the government tax is per cent.
This tax is in addition to anything he may con-
tribute as rate-payer. .~4as- ~-es~
:. Besides this, the government obtains by means
of inheritance taxes, called death duties about half
as MUCH annually as:i lbs from the tax on in
comes.s 81 IS ASM..a SO #
But It should Be Observed that the imposition
of income and inheritance taxes has had no ten
dency permanently decrease the size of great for
tunes tho it has had the curious effect Of decreasing
the value Of real estate This comes about because
the heavy death duties absorb all of the available
cash. leaving the heirs TO ehtaed estates penniless
ndunableto improve oruse their Inheritance. These
live in French pensions while their "broad acres
go to weeds. A few of these noblemen have been
able to recoup their fortunes with American mar
riages but many more are reduced to such state Of
unhappiness that there is strong movement to
abolish the law of entail that the landed pro
prietor may sell off enough land to enable him to
improve and enjoy the remainder. The death duties
become double tax upon real property.
But the great fortunes gained in trade continue
to thrive, grow and spread their influence the
politics and policy Of the country, Indifferent to both
the death duties and the life duties
!. I *tTraitor'' exclaimed Senator Shackles. tsWhc
says traitor when have voted steadily for the people
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-29
The Hartford Courant, a stanch protection paper,

The Hartford Courant, stanch protection paper,
says: :#. = - .aE
It is mighty trying work for sincere and believ-
ing protectonist to read of the speeches delv
cred in congress by open and avowed enemies Of this
benefcent policy. These people show up the
trickery and hoggshness Of certain protected inter
ests and then denounce the system ITSELF 1t is hard
to put up the defense the system deserves.
We who give the protection Disseminated against
It Is mmeasurably irritating
This looks like tsopening up the tariff question
with