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Stand by the President.

The dispatches from Washington out
line plot to do the president, provided
first his popularity can be broken.
Of course there are always number
of people in Washington who want to
see the president broken on the wheel.
They are, first, the disappointed office
seekers These swarm in all hotels and
boarding houses of the capital. They
outnumber the grateful recipients OF
office as the sands of the sea outnum-
Der the boulders on the shore. They
are forever of the opinion that the
president could have appointed them
had he wished. In this opinion they
are sedulously encouraged by the con-
gressmen who recommended them. These
always prefer the president to carry
the responsibility of the disappointment
rather than themselves. -s,~ >
Then there are the disgruntled mem,
bers of both houses who have not been
sufficiently recognized in the govern
ment. Their advice has not. been sought
or it has been sought and not followed
Besides, there are in congress cranks
of the constitutional brand and wide
wiseacres who know man who would
have made better president himself
All these characters the president must
contend with even in times Of peace
But when a time Of war arrives, when
the president is leading a great fight
the silver-purchase bill, or when Presi
dent Mckinley sought to prevent wal
between this country and Spain, o.
when President Roosevelt attempts tt
settle the railroad-rate question, the
noise around the ears of the president
rises to a shrieking and maddening din
The waning Of the presidents popu
larity is today the shibboleth Of :
thousand agents Of corporations Whose
masters fear him. What they woul(
like to see they affect to see. VIVA
these eminent vultures are trying tt
! do is to create the president IS unpopu
larity. by pretending to see it alread.
in existence.
We have only this. to say that thi
is no time to desert Theodore Roose
welt, and we have no idea that tn
people are going to do it,. He is en-
gagged in the biggest fight against tn
biggest combination ever undertake.
by a president. The people should >an'
do understand that the fight which i
being made on the president is reall
made on them.
If the people. will but keep this i
mind they will see the point of all tn
poll parroting in the senate about tn
president s usurpations of legisIativ
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17
NOT TOO BUSY FOR THAT

. The bishop of London tells the follow
ing story: II was sitting in my room
one morning very busy. when l was told
that a lady wanted to see me. 1 was
very busy. and almost said at first, oh,
I'm too busy to see anyone this morning.
But thought. and said, No. have made
a rule never to refuse to see anybody. in
case it is someone in trouble So said,
Let the lady come upstairs She came.
and the first thing she said to me was
this: I was going to ask you whether
you can find use in your work for
e1,000? l said 1T is the very thing
have been wondering all the morning
how / was to get / showed her exactly
W hat 1 was going to spend her 81 600 on,
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freeze bubbles, how to put kittens INSIDE
of bubbles. He is indeed a bubble ma
gician. He does wonders, too, with Kites;
makes strange seaside toys, and odd
shapes with eggshells; makes toys that
run up hill, ships that sail on the snow
etc. The book is copiously illustrated
and is such thruout as to delight the
young-and the old, too.
Doubleday, Page & Co., New YORK.
IN
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1.-THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL "
INDIANAPOLIS News

llIuId1dpOIIS NEWS.
What we need in this country is not
such writer's as find London or Paris or
Munich better places to work in, but
writers who will confront the great life
which Is being lived in these states
with a determination adequately to give
it voice. "Old Walt understood this. If
he did not speak the true word, he at
least predicted the man who would speak
it. He said:
match my spirit against yours, you orbs
growths. mountains. brutes,
eoplous as You are, | absorb you all in myself
and become tie master myself
There is enough here to keep the great
est artist the world ever saw fully occu-
pied And the artistic background is sc
vast-and that is the trouble-that we
cannot see it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17
The Philippines Tariff .

Nothing so becomes great nation as
great action. In passing the Philip
pines tariff bill the house yesterday
took another step toward fulfilling the
mission undertaken by this country of
bringing peace. prosperity and a future
full of hope to the people whom we
rescued from Spanish misrule. The first
step was in. freeing Cuba and setting
her up in business as nation, the
second was in giving Cuba freer trade
with her big brother. The third step
was taken yesterday when the products
of the Philippines, except sugar, rice
and tobacco, were put on the free list,
and on these the duty was reduced to
IS per cent Of the Dingley schedules.
The bill meets with the approval Of
all representatives of the people
except "a few who have local reasons
for supposing that some beet sugar
farmers or cane sugar planters would
turn them out Of congress if they voted
for it. They deserve to be turned out
for not having a better appreciation of
the spirit Of intelligence. of their con
stituents. There is no danger that the
Philippines will flood this country with
sugar when Hawaii and Cuba, much
nearer to us, have not done it. The facts
are that the, sugar business has pros
pered and increased in California, not.
withstanding Hawaiian competition. "
The amendment Of Mr.. Mccall of
Massachusetts, pledging congress to- the
policy of giving the Philippines indie
pendence, was rejected as having nc
relevancy to the bill. The bill itself is
more consistent with the Philippines
becoming a part of the United States
than Of its becoming totally foreign
soil. It provides for free trade with. the
islands after April II, 1909. The United
States has absolute free trade with NJ
foreign country. % L. ,~'f - I. g
! The discussion Of what will event
ually be done with the Philippines i
a side issue as far as the bill was con
cerned. It was a revenue measure TO
the relief Of the islands and for tn
increase Of trade between them and tn
United States. FL
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functions, of all the vaporings in tn

functions, of all the vaporings in the
house about the cruelty practiced on
Mrs Morris, Of all the head-shakings
among "prominent business men, over
the president s unsafeness.
If the president had not undertaken
the railroad job he would have been
as popular in the senate as he is in the
country. If he should yield in this
fight there would be wonderful re-
vival of confidence in the president in
millionaire clubs.
The president is not seeking that
kind of popularity. He is still stand
ING for the square deal and the people
who have no interest in a crooked deal
will continue to stand by the president.
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THE SUNDAY JOURNAL
THE IEADER

HeCtOT IINIIlII.J
OF all the Sunday papers that come to
our desk 1--WE burn nothing else In the
heating plant on Monday The Minneap-
oils Sunday journal is the leader There
isn't a paper in Chicago and the north
west that can beat 1t for interesting,
clean and up date matter. Every
page Is worth reading, and the magazine
section compares very favoraby with the
Saturday Evening Post.
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NNSS
"NEw GAMEs ANp AMtJsEMEMTs

"NEW GAMES AND ADJUSTMENTS"
A book bearing that title and living UP
to it is a book worthy Of a wide circu-
lation. Meredith Nugent. the author.
says the games described are inventions
of his own and of Victor j. Smedley. They
appear new to us and are so attractively
described that even tho youth. as meas
ured by years. has been left behind. we
would like to try some of them and we
take pleasure in helping on the circula-
tiop of the book. Mr.. Nugent certainly
works wonders as bubble blower. He
shows how to blow bubbles within bub-
bles how to spin tops in bubbles, how to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17
THEFoRTUNEs oFTHE LANDRAYs,


by Vaughn Kester, is hardly novel in
the ordinary. acceptance of the term. and
yet it is a big story full of interest. 1t
has it's beginning in the east, near the
foothills of the Alleghenies, and it's in
terest reaches out to Texas, Utah and
California. Its characters are good, bad
and Indifferent. It contains the story OF
men well-to-do, with good wives, who GO
off on "a FOOLS Grand to California for
gold, and get murdered by Mormons. dis
guised as Indians, in Utah. 1t contains
the story of a lawyer who loved the wife
of one Of these men, and who, after THE
murder Of her husband, went "crooked'
in transacting her business in the hope
of compelling her to marry himself. II
reads like the narrative of actual occur
rences in life, and as story, or a his
tory, it is entertaining
Mcclure, Phillips & Co... New York. -
.. s..z-- - 3, .. ,a. 81. so. 49,. 3
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DISCUSSION is MERELY ACADEMIC
Nebraska State Journa.

Athletically speaking. the west is in a
state of vassalage. Our athletic rules
are made for us practically by few
people living east of the Alleghenies and
north of Chesapeake bay A discussion
Of football rules in this section bears
points of resemblance, therefore, to a
tariff discussion in a woman's club.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17
CIVIC ACTIVITIES

The New York Journal and Engineer
remarks that it is significant that most
of the great New York bridges were
started as private enterprises, but had tc
be completed by municipal capital. This
was true Of the Brooklyn bridge and the
Williamsburgh bridge. "A favorite argu-
ment against municipal ownership is thai
progress on municipal undertakings is
unnecessarily slothful but how unprog-
sive private capital at tines
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tsMIGHT HAYE.n

have lived my life. and face the end
But that other life l might have led.
Where lay the road, and who was its friend
And what was the goal, when the years were
fed?
Where lay the road? Did miss the turn?
The friend unknown? Our greetings unsaid
And the goal unsought? Shall 1 never learn
What was that life I might have led?
AS the springs last look. for one dear day
From skies autumna, on earth may bend
So lures me that other 1ife-but nay
l have lived my life. and face the end.
Edith NJ. Thomas in February Smart Set,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

The st. Paul Society for the Relief of
the Poor complains that the Salvation
Army collects a great deal of money for
Christmas dinners and makes no report.
The army might retort that the society
makes a great many reports, but collects
very little for Christmas dinners. Es-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

Secretary Taft is said to have lost
twenty pounds. At least a pound of this
came off when, he read Poultney Bige-
lows long distance canal criticism. r.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17
A CLOSE PARALLEL
Philadelnhia Inquirer.

Japans protectorate over Korea is to
terminate when it is recognized that
Korea has attained national strength. >.
That will be about the same time that the
Philippine islands are admitted to the
American union as free and sovereign
states.
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PROTECTION NEEDED

Chicago News
1t might be we'll for loving relatives of
venerable and susceptible miilonaires to
organize as a vigilance committee for mu-
tual protection against the chorus girl
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The New York senate declined to ac-
cept Mr.. Brackets resolution, thereby
putting almost as large a value on De-
pew's legal Services as he placed him
self. '" .2S s..r 49, ~ . ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

DRAMA oF7R,sTRAM AND IsouLr.

DRAMA OF TRIsTRAM AND IsouLT.
Martha W. Austin has put the story of
Tristram and Isoult into a drama based
upon Mallory. The author has felt free to
modify the legend to suit her own plans
for the drama. - -..E
The Poet Lore company, Boston.
HI. $1.OO.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

The Chicago News says that Uncle Sam
is 1.-The innocent bystander' at Algeciras.
II there is a fuss, it is the bystanders
| neck that always stops the half brick.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

man in South Chicago who was
working on roof thought of his girl and
suddenly fell of. He is not the first man
who has been shaken by the sex.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

With Davis voting against the Philip
pine tariff bill and. McCleary trying to
raise the Dingley tariff rs per cent, Mime
sofa certainly has something to think
| about. -=i '5's s-. .. go =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17
TAFT VS.. LUNA
Boston Globe.

Even tho Secretary Taft in the last
FIVE and half years has travelled the
equivalent of four times around the
globe. astronomers stil regard fair Luna
as its only satellite.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

Glen E. Plum, the special counsel ap-
pointed by Mayor Dunno while the street
railway franchise was before the coun-
Gil committee, declares that municipal
ownership is impossible under the fran
chises. The provisions in the West and
North Side franchises require the city.
when it purchases the physical properties,
to assume the bonded indebtedness of the
companies, which are left free to in
crease the bonded debt for every dollar
expended. Other provisions equally
cheeky, he declared, made future city
ownership impossible.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

Colonel Poultney Bigelow was twenty
four hours in Panama and says he
couldn't see any old canal. Are we being
deceived? -..-..I g.. ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

Is revolution catching? No sooner does
Arizona, under the savage leadership Of
Dave Rose, declare herself for separate
statehood or "blud," than northern Min
for liberty or secession --s- ".-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

England, after several weeks Of hot
election, has not yet heard who carried
the Chiltern Hundreds.
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The Municipal Ownership league of
Chicago will nominate candidates for al
dermen in every ward in the city for the
spring election, and Mayor Dunno will
stump for them regardless of their poll
tics
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oFFICE-W W. Jermane. chief
of Washington Bureau, 901r0O2 Colorado pulid-
ing, Northwestern visitors 20 Washington In
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vited to make use of reception-room. library,
stationery, telephone and telegraph facilities.
Central location. Fourteenth and 4 streets N w.
Copies of The Journal and northwestern news
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THE MAGAZINES

] Sir Henry campbeIl-Bannerman as
Seen by the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in
The National Review for January. says
things about the new British premier
that are decidedly interesting to one who
can look upon British politics with an i'm
partial eye. Here is "Scrutator's" open
ing gun:
With the advent to power of Sir Henry Camp
bell Bannerman, the control of the United King
dom and. to a limited extent, the fortunes of
the empire pass into the hands Of man whose
intellect is not remarkable whose political
achievements will not bear examination and who
has associated with him in office apart from
a handful of liberal imperialists, the most ex-
traordinary collection Of enemies of their coun-
try ever assembled in a cabinet.
This is the opposition way Of saying
the country is "going to the dogs" no
doubt, and will hardly occasion serious
alarm. ...- .-...~- - s....-.. S.. ..
The Review for January is a number
of much interest to those especially in
| terested in watching the course Of in
| ternational affairs.
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ALL papers are continued until an explicit order
is received for discontinuance and untl! all ar
rearageS are paid.
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Innovation In the Arena.-In the Janu-
airy Arena an innovation lis made, the
editorial department has been greatly en-
larged SO as to present a. comprehensive
editorial review of the significant events
in the political, social and economic world
from the democratic viewpoint. This in
noVation will make the Arena more in
dispensable than ever to friends Of pro-
gressive democracy who wish to keep in
touch with the great advance movements
thrUlOut the entire world
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

The Wine and Spirit Gazette is greatly
alarmed over the fact that the Anti
saloon league last year collected the sum
OF $3.50 479 and spent it in aggressive and
destructive work against the saloon 1t
seems to have gotten results, too. In
Ohio 1t has helped to put the lid down on
Cincinnati and Toledo, two towns which
contribute as literally per capita to the
support of the Gazettes leading adver-
tlsers as any in the country, r
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

Rather be right than be president was
not spoken of dattoes.
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the railroads only per cent. Yet the
supreme court of the United States de-
cided the cut to be unreasonable and
unjust to the stockholders Of the roads.
Minnesota would not gain by making
an order, fighting it five years in the
courts and then losing entirely. 1t is
better to proceed moderately and, It
possible, to avoid litigation. The re-
tduction means a good deal to Mime.
sofa roads. Business done within the
state. and subject to state regulation
is SO per cent of the whole in Mime
sofa and only Is per cent in Iowa.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17
SAYS TOLSTOY IS
POWER In RUSSIA
ST. PETERSBURG SCHOLAR TALKS
OF AUTocRACY.

Professor N. Kershaw, Who Is Making
Tour of the United States, and
Will Lecture in Minneapolis, De-
clares That Famous Writer is More
Powerful than the Gear.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

The municipal ownership question has
reached the high schools. The schools of
Beatrice and Lincoln, Neb., debated the
ownership of street railways few nights
ago, and public ownership, represented by
Beatrice, won. A remarkable feature OF
the debate is the announcement that each
team had a professional coach.
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PUBLICATION OFFICE-Minneapolis Mimi.
Journal bull ding, At 40 Fourth street 8.
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Harvard Law Review for January con-
tains Dominant Opinions in England. y
by G. c. Langdell Congress and the
Regulation of Corporations, by E.. Par
malice Prentice, as it's chief features of in
terest. ~r
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

The mayor Of Bridgeport, Conn, has
appointed a citizens committee to in
qufre into the ACCESSIBILITY of the city's
purchasing the local water plant.
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BY CARRIER IN MINNEAPOLIS AND
SUBURBS.
Daily and Sunday, one month ...- ....... 40
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Managers Martin and Emery have en-
gagged an excellent company of people, in
Guiding Lawrence Grattan and Eva Tay-
lor, for their dramatic production of ..Par-
sifal,'' which will be offered at the Met
roDolitan the last half of next week. =,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17

NJ, Fallieres was elected president Of
France, job corresponding somewhat
to the vicepresidency of the United
States.
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''The Liberty Bellies Harry B. Smiths
charming musical comedy, with It's de-
lightful atmosphere of refined comedy; its
ininitable company Of fun-makers, and
with its dormitory scene, redolent with
schoolgirl enthusiasm, comes to the Met
ropolitan for an engagement of half a
week, beginning next Sunday evening.
Seats for this event can be secured to-
morrow. E1- i. .
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LoNDoN-Journal on file at American Express
office 5 Water loo place. and U. 5. Express
office, 90 Strand. !
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Over six years of patient endeavor are
represented in the performance of signor
Luigi Rossi's musical horse 'Emir," tea
tured at the Orpheum theater this week
while the Seventeen Pekin Zouaves are
generally regarded as the best drill corps
ever seen here, and Salerno is a greater
favorite than he Was last week. He has
in preparation several new tricks. which
he will probably present this week.
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hen kings appointed their own min
Ben Franklin had no personal enc

Ben Franklin had no personal ene-
mics. In writing lto'John Jayne says:
II have some enemies in England, but
they are my enemies ais an American. I
have also two or three in America who
are my enemies as minister, but I
thank God there are not in the whole
world any who are my enemies as a man,
for by his grace, thru a long life, have
been enabled so to conduct myself that
there does not exist human being who
can say. Ben Franklin has wronged me. y
something or other, once said Franklin
was not a gentleman!
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m to 10 / cent
IN tn al nages Q cents
IN fn IA pages 8 cents
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PARIS-Journal N file at American Express.
211 Rue Scribe. and Eagle bureau % hue
CambOn.
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NEW YORK OFFICE-Tribune building.
D. A. CARROLL, Manager.
CHICAGO OFF 1CE-Tribune building.
Y. PERRY. Manager.
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TELEPHCNE-Journal has private switchbcare
ca1l For deraItment you wish to speak to-
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ST. PAUL oFFICE42O Endicott building. Tele'
phone, N. W., Main $50; T. c.. ZOOS.
EAST SIDE OFFICE-Centra] avenue ana Sec
ond street. Tel. phone Main No. g.
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NORwAY-Juurna1 on file at American Consul
ate, Christiania.
DENMARK-Journal on file at American Lega-
ton, Col enhaCen.
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swEDEN-Journal on file at American Lesar1o
Stockholm.
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The Lucados, the strong man and wo-
man at the Unique this week, are at
tracing great attention by the marvellous
feats they perform four times each day,
Alfred Anderson, clever female imper-
senator; Fields and Hanson, the veteran
| Ministries who stand in the front rank of
blackface comedians; Cole and Cole, Eu-
ropean acrobats are other. high-class
entertainers.