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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
PARTY Naturalizations.

The civic federation Of Chicago,
while it agrees with the Purdy COM
mission as to the abuses of naturallza-
ton, does not think it necessary to con-
fine citizen making to federal courts.
The facts adduced by the federation
are startling enough to make reform
a live issue. It shows that in Chicago
between Oct. 1 and Nov. 5, 1900, first
papers were granted to 1O,449> appi-
cants. This was an average of fifty
day For all of the courts. if they did
nothing else, but everybody knows that
the Judges attended to their other d11-
ties, and the making of citizens was
purely incidental. .'
Citizens are usually made at night
sessions Of the courts, where the grind
is incessant while it lasts, and where
the personal examination is perfume
tory. Professional witnesses are used
to large extent. Political commit
tees deposit with the clerk Of the court
a lump sum to be drawn against for
the expense Of naturalization and the
precinct workers 90 out in search for
aliens who may be made citizens and
partizans at the same time. The
ttworker' is sure to tell the alien that
he is being made citizen and mem
Der of the republican OF democratic
party, as the case may be. If the alien
is too sharp or well-informed to swal'
low such a large dose. his sense Of graf
itude to the party which is paying
his way into the great family Of vot-
ers is drawn upon. Politicians realize
that it is the first vote which counts.
The man who has declared himself a
member Of political party, even if he
did so without much knowledge of the
party's principles, likes to indorse his
own action. The first vote so far fixes
the political status Of many men that
party managers take all kinds Of ways
i to get it. One of the cheapest is to
pay for man s naturalization.
The objection to it is obvious. TAX
ing the oath of allegiance to the United
States is different act from declaring
faith in the principles or policies of
this or that political party. To mix
them looks like making merchandise
of citizenship.
The national commission recommended
raising the naturalization fee and re.
curing the applicant to produce il
personally in court. #
The raising of the fee is a reform
measure of doubtful efficacy. Hun
dreds of applicants are really unable
to pay the present fees. To raise then
would put these men more firmly under
the thumb Of political committees
Moreover, it would give the riches
committees the monopoly of making
citizens. The desired result might b
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BUSINESS HINTS FOR THE AM

BUSINESS HINTS, FOR THE AMBI-
TIoUs.-The desire to "get on" in the
world results in the asking of much ad-
vice6& nd the adopting Of too little. es-
peciaNy when it is good. To meet the
demand for the artiele-good advice
Benjamin F. Cobb has prepared a little
book on Business Philosophy containing
much wisdom both for those just begin
ming, and for those, who have begun but
need to improve on their methods. Among
the good things he says are several in
connection with THE age Limit ;, His
idea is that a man is as old as he, acts
The man of ripe years who still continues
to make things move Tho Whe S}modern
phrase, ''to make, good'H- in his esti-
nation a young man. and the best kind
Of a young man; 50 issreass the man of 80
say, who fails TO maksigeqd" Is already
ply is sound and will wear, as viii the
book itself, considered as a piece Of the
bookmaker's art - = p
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York,
I'll &.G- $1.20 net. - .~.s,a7 =
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Hare By. Hazlng.

" - ~ II
Mr.. Joel Stevens Of the Tenth Ward
Improvement association Of Jersey City
wants all women, teachers excluded from
the public schools on the ground that
they are making the pupils eowards.
He has watched public school children
in the streets and finds that they are,
not the hardy children they were when
men were the teachers. In the near
future, he predicts, boys will jump on
chairs when they see mouse.
The attention Of the Tenth Ward
Improvement association might be
drawn to the naval academy, where
the teaching is not done by women and
where the whole first class is on trial
for hazing. Hazing is the peculiar
process Of hardening boys which has
reached such heights Of perfection that
congress has interviewed to make it
public crime. The hardy youths who
are now on trial are not being prose
cuted for an infraction of the rules Of
an academy, but for violations of the
law of the land they have sworn to
serve and defend.
"A good deal more depends upon the
ideals outside of the school than the
teaching inside. Women are as capa-
BILE as men Of teaching children to, re-
spect standards Of truth, honor and
chivalry, but they are not SO capable
as men of illustrating them. Yet the
teacher, whether man or woman has
few opportunities Of illustrating COM
pared with the father. What are his
ideals9 Take the matter Of initiation
into fraternities. The jour-
printed yesterday a list of nine pupils
killed in schools or colleges last year
by brutal hazing. Six Of them were
killed in the mummeries Of limitations.
What is responsible for these excuses
except the idiotic conduct of the elders
in the rites of fraternities? :
The appalling list Of young, promis,
ing lives sacrificed in brutal hazings
in schools last year makes parents sick
at heart. It causes them to condemn
the schools in which men do the teach.
ing and hold up the ideals. It makes
mothers cling desperately to the idea
that their children must not and shall
not leave home to be CHARTERED among
savages. If the mothers had their way
about it, women would do all the teach
ing. If their children cannot be hard
;. ened and given ideals of life without
being murdered or manned, the moth
ers would let the poor ideals of tn
home suffice and look no further. Thu
skin-deep civilization Of our boardin,
schools is enough to make thousand
of parents turn from the thought o.
permitting their children to have an,
Of the so-called higher education.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
CIVIC ACTIVITIES

''Gawky Miss Chicago claims to have
outgrown her charter clothes and is
clamoring for a new dress. The dress
makers are in session, but are in doubt
whether to patch the old one or cut out
an entirely new gown. The charter COM
mission which is in session has some
serious questions to consider. The prfn-
cipal thing that needs to be done Is to
consolidate number of taxing bodies.
Chicago has three or four assessors
elected by the people Of the original
towns making the present city. They
have different standards of valuation and
different ideas of going after delinquents.
They are in a large measure non-co-
operative. Departmental administration
In. Chicago is also weak. But the char
ter commission is handicapped by a legal
doubt as to its power to recommend a
full-fedged charter for full-hedged city.
The compiled records Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, make the claim that public owner
ship Of the lighting plant has saved the
city $213,697 in seven years The cleo
trio light contracts of Grand Rapids un-
der private ownership dropped from $40
per arc lamp in 1883 to 500 in 1897. The
first year Of municipal ownership dropped
the price to s4s.75. 1t is now about $40
a lamp. AZ
Hearst's Boston American claims two
thirds Of each branch of the hub council
for municipal lighting plant The
newly elected mayor is pledged in writ
ing to approve a. public plant.
The Mitchell 8. D., council, tho 1t had
given an ordinance renewing the Mitch
ell Gas company's franchise for twenty
wears a. first reading by a unanimous
| vote, failed to give it its second reading
| when a protest by 800 voters was filed
against renewing the franchise severa,
years before 1t expires.
| A municipal ownership league has beer
| formed in Dubuque, Iowa, for the ex.
press purpose Of preventing the water
plant from falling into private hands
| The plant will so fall if the city default.
on the principal or interest of the watei
| bonds.
Mayor Cullum of Duluth said recent.
hin an address: IT believe the city shoulc
own every public utility. No law shoult
be passed by the legislature granting :
franchise in the streets Of any city with
out the consent of that city,"
La Crosse, Wis, has adopted the pol
icy Of carrying its own insurance. 1
is plan which involves the levying o
a special tax to create a sinking fund o
| sis, 900 to pay losses. The scheme is no
generally considered moneysaver TO
| the city, as the insurance rates are yer!
reasonable. It would be a long time
before they would amount to this sink
ing fund, which the taxpayers will nevel
get back.
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IIM,s TESTIMONY

sat talking with my charming come
dian friend, Tim Murphy, in the West
hotel. Little did we think upon night so
sweet such awful morn could rise" and
that some Of the men by us were soon
to be seen in morgue and hospital,
burned, blistered, black and dead.
won't you have a cigar?" Tim said,
as he lit fragrant Havana.
Thanks, don't smoke" -- 49,. !
'Well, it is a bad habit anyway; but
when I'm on the road and tired after.
the show, it seems good company"
II used to drink" he added, "but
there's no excuse for booze"
We talked Of politics, religion, the
drama and books. I spoke of a recent
visit to Ireland. He told me some splen-
did stories in that inimitable way Of
Irish accent and facial expression which
has made him famous as an artist actor
After a while he paused, grew serious,
and went back to the subject Of drink,
saying: ..~~- b.
-Four years ago met Mcintyre, the
'Ham-tree' comedian, In Boston. He had
begun to drown his talent in drink, but
was then clear-eyed and active.
Hello, Mac said, how goes it?'
Fine, old fellow, I'm OH the water
wagon now. Billy Emerson cured me-.
Well. how was that?'
"I had been drinking hard-my
friends had advised me, and my wife on
behded knees had pleaded and begged
| me to quit, but didn't. One day met
Billy Emerson who had gone to pieces
| thru drink. was half full myself and
Billy told me to come down. to the
| corner where he had just had got
drink.
"'We went in. The barkeeper was al
the end of the room taking to someone
Billy braced up and said, Come, give us
a drink
"'You just watt he answered, until
get thru here
| Then, seeing me, he said. 'Well
declare. Mcintyre, I didn't know you
were there. You've made me laugh many
a time. Excuse me for not coming a.
once
"I was astonished. Here was Billy
| Emerson, the prince Of entertainers, who
had stood highest in his profession II
song and story and had commanded thu
biggest salary, but now so poor and fall
en- thru drink and gambling that even ;
bartender had lost respect for him.
"I felt was going that same way.
"'When he asked, "WhatH you have
boys?" Billy said,~ ''Whiskey;' but
\ looked him square in the face and said
"I'll take apollinaris now and always!
"' did and have ever since.
Whenever I visit Boston and go nea
the old saloon. I look in, throw the bar
keeper kiss, and say, 'I'll take apol
linaris, john - --1---~'- p
? Tim had grown strangely earnest. Hi
Estory was one of the finest temperate
+ lectures had ever heard. I told him
he could just "steer" it into his stag
; speeches, it would do worlds Of good.
N. G. L. Morrill,.
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The Lid in Toledo.
Journal Special Service.

Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 15.-Another nail
was driven in the "lid' clamped on
Toledo by Mayor Whitlock today. Act
ing for the Ministers union, Rev. o. S.
Shelbourne, its president, swore out
warrants against the Vanity Fair Bur
lesque company, and J. Shapiro, mana
ger of the Empire theater, in which the
company opened its engagement yester-
day afternoon.
The warrants charge violation of the
state laws, which prohibit theatrical
performances on Sunday.
If successful, the pastors union, it is
stated, will attempt to close all restau-
rants. drug and cigar stores. The af-
fair has created a sensation. Toledo
saloonkeepers made no attempt to pry
up the lid.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
FOOTBALL AND PRIZE FIGHTING
New York World.

. -sa.: New York World.
The football that is played is to the
football that should be played as a finish
prize fight Is to legitimate boxing. In
deed, as between the two prize fighting
is on a higher ethical plane than college
football. The fighters are frankly pro-
fessional. They make no pretense of
amateur standing. They fight openly for
money and they have to fight fairly.
The fouling Of opponents which football
referees tolerate would not be allowed in
a prize ring.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
A YANKEE "cALLED"
London Globe.

= London Globe.
A Yankee passenger in a train the other
day was ~wearying his fellow travellers
with "talP' stories, and remarked: 1--WE
can start with a twelve story hotel one
month and have it finished the next"
This was too much for burly Yorkshire
man who sat next to him. MAN, that's
nowt," he replied. "Ah've seen 'em when
ah've bin going to work just laying the
foundation stones of a row Of houses and
when ah've bin coming home at MET
they've bin putting the folks out for
back rent" ~ g-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
Omaha Closes Lid.
Special to The Journal.

Omaha, Neb.; Jan. 15.-The. police
Omaha yesterday for the first time in
many years, not one Of the 245 saloons
in the city being open. This is the re-
suit of vigorous campaign recently in
augurated by the civic federation.
The saloon men had agreed to keep
their places closed last Sunday, but
many of them violated the agreement,
with the result that twenty-five were
arrested and their cases are now pend
ing. Convinced that the federation is
in earnest, the saloonkeepers are MAX
ing no effort to resist.
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quick to see that life insurance was a
literary mine, and he. began to work It,
The result Is to be seen in The Best Pol
Icy, a book of insurance stories, doubtless
based upon fact, convincingly told. an6
unavoidably full of good arguments fol
buying Insurance. It holds comedy, trag-
edy, villainy and much else that goes tt
make up life from whatever angle it is
viewed. ~ aS%s.
The Bobbs: Merrill company, indianapolis. ,.
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SUBSIDY AND THE TARIFF
Philadelphia Record,

Philadelphia Record.
There are some arguments in favor of
tariff reform that stagger even those har-
dened "stand-patters'' who are crying out
for ship subsidies. AS an example the
New York Evening Post cites for the
consideration Of President Roosevelt the
statement furnished in the report Of the
subsidy committee ''that our steelmakers
were charging our shipbuilders s32 a ton
for plates at the same time they were
selling them to Belfast builders for $22''
There might be no need for subsidies to
reestablish the American merchant ma
rine If our shipbuiders were put on q
level with their foreign competitors.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
Balfour's Defeat.

Evidently the liberals did not mis-
judge the temper Of the English people
on the fiscal issue. The parliamentary
constituencies have voted straight for
free trade and regardless of personal
prominence and popularity have bowled
over the late prime minister, Arthur j..
Balfour, in one of the divisions of Man
chester.
The significance Of Mr.. Balfour's de-
feat is the warning it sounds to tories
that the storm is up and all upon the
hazard The people Of England are
rallying to the defense Of a free trade
and are knitting every candidate who
even squints at protection, Mr.. Bal
four g policy Of retaliation was one
which might to be construed as free
trade or protection as you look at it.
The people apparently have chosen to
look upon it as protectionist. Mr..
Balfour cannot complain if he has been
defeated on an obscure issue because he
purposely left it obscure. He wanted
to hit if it was deer and miss If it was
a man, but the people have quickly
and sharply rebuked the effort to oh.
tain their confidence without giving
| confidence.
The outlook for the liberals is bright
ened by the initial pollings. They are
now certain of a substantial majority in
the new parliament. They may have
enough votes to dispense with Irish ma
tionalist assistance, tho this is doubtful
It would take a turning over Of about
200 seats from tory to liberal to make
Bannerman independent Of Redmond
This result, while possible, is highly i'm
probable.
What effect the defeat of Balfou
may have upon Chamberlain s fortune
in Birmingham is problematical. Cham
berlain enjoys an immense personal pop
ularity in Birmingham, where he live
and whose mayor he has BEEN. His de
feat there is unlikely, but his return
by reduced majority would be polit
ical rebuke.
i The election is taking the turn whic'
/ Chamberlain predicted. He admitte
that the liberals would come back wit
a majority, but claimed they would no
last above a year. He is quite likel
to miss the second half of his predie
tion. Round majorities in parliamen
do not melt away in a year. The cam
Scot who has seized the reins will hus
band his resources. Bannerman ha
no burning ambition to become an e1
premier with the job of building up a
opposition party again at his age. II
will therefore keep his majority togetl
err and make it last the life Of til
new parliament if he can. i
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
BY w. p. kIrkwood !.

81 OUOD EIFE fNSU HAfHCE NCES,
WITH <lNclDENTAL 4 REASONS FOR
BEING Anyone who knows
anything about. the life Insurance bust
ness, knows that there is In the expert
ences Of veteran solicitors excellent ma
terial for the weaver Of tales: Such ma
terial was little used, however, until Elliot
Flower one day fell in. with an insurance
man who told Of a case that came under
his own observation. Mr.. Flower was
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15

GOOD IN EVERYTHING.-Ade M.
Teskey, the author of The Village Artist
tells in her book of a woman who per-,
,sistently looked for, and for the most
part found. something beautiful some
thing good, in everything about her. Her
ability to make others see the beautiful
and the good in the same things is. the
authors ground for calling her the VIII
lage artist.
Fleming h. Revell company: New York.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
sEMPER PARATUs.
Grafton Record.

In an article on "After-Dinner Speak
ing,'' written by James Gray and pub
lished in last Sundays Minneapolis Jour
nal, the blue ribbon is tied in a hard
knot on President Northrop Of the Uni.
versity Of Minnesota. This gentleman
can be called in the middle of the night
or drawn In off Of the street to address
a table full Of past masters in speech
making and sleave them all on bases.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15

caused by the recent storm on the Great
Lakes are given in connection with an
article by James P. Haverson Of the
Duluth NeWs-Tribune, in The Iron Trail
for January. Another article of promi-.
nence In the same magazine, beginning
a series on Equal Rights. is by Frank
d. Larrabee. The Main Line and
Branch" department gives Edwin c..
Washburn, Minneapolis man. credit as
Sin a sense the pioneer inventor Of the
automatic coupler Of twentieth century
USE"
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Mrs. G.. Rockefeller, says that Mr..
Rogers is natural humorist. A differ
ence in taste in jokes, as George Eliot
wisely observes, is strain on the az
fections. 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
TIE SUNDAY JOURNAL
a KEEN DISCRIMINATION

Alexandria (Minn.9 News.
We may not like the politics OF The
Minneapolis Journal, but we must admire
Its spirit Of enterprise. Its excellent
Sunday edition has been supplemented
with a magazine that Is the equal OF
many found on the news stands.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
.ssrzss3Iw
~AA-R>sA

Among the new novels Of January will be one
from the pen Of Mrs. Mary Dillon, author Of
The Rose Of Old st. Louis The title decided
upon is I'm Old Bellaire," and Bellaire is the
name of little southern Pennsylvania town
where the story is set. "A lovable New Eng
land lass. a dash1ng southern soldier and the
delightful family Of the president Of the Bellaire
college are among the dramatis personae.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15

Attorney General Hadley turned the
tables very neatly on Rogers when, in
a burst of indignant eloquence he told
the supreme court Of New York that if
there had been any sensational Incl
dents in the inquiry at New York they
were occasioned by the witness, Rogers
1ippancy, and his openly expressed con
tempt for the processes Of the courts.
He is right. The thing that stands out
conspicuously in the whole examination
is the attitude of Rogers, one of coarse
scorn for the laws and cool contempt
for those officers Of the law who have
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15

Chicago is now planning "the big
gest hotel in the world" the kind from
which you fall half mile when fire
breaks out. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15

Last year Mr.. Carnegie gave away
fifty organs. AS a sort of counterbal-
ance to this fact, number of political
organs suspended during the year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15

Poultney. Bigelow got away from the
isthmus in time to escape the yellow
fever, but he fell victim to a far more
dangerous malady, the yellow report.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15

What is the virtue Of hazing as a
hardening process9 Our iremen do not
throw candidates off ladders to harden
them. Policemen do not shoot one an
other to mutually develop their skill
and courage. Hazing seems an illogi-
cal and destructive process. ut is mere
bullying and cowardice, the abuse Of
the weak by the strong. There are no
words severe enough to condemn it's ten
dencies,. not any sharp enough to ex-.
pose its lack Of reason. It need not
be reasoned with or exposed. 1t only
needs to be stopped. The boy who is
expelled from Annapolis for hazing
should be received at home just as he
would be if he had committed an as
sault or stolen from a blind man.
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Shut Tight at st. Cloud.
Snecial to The Journal

St. Cloud, Mimi, Jan. 15.-Ths
"lid" was on tight yesterday, the sec
ohd Sunday since the mayors closing
order went into effect. The saloon
keepers have no desire to violate the
tio m Ire reports published against ST them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15

The laugh is on the people who have
gone to southern California in search Of
climate. Neither the plumber nor the
coal man can understand this climate.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15

p Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. have Just issued
the autobiography Of Alfred Russell Wallace,
who is recognized as one Of the leading scientific
men of the day. The title of this important
work is Ny Life: Record Of Events and
Opinions - T. : g
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GOOD GOODS; BAD LABEL
Window Reporter,

The Anoka Union is sorry John A.
johnson comes so near being a good re-
publican. So are we all--only we wish he
were properly labeled. The label Is all
that ails him
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15

Omaha has had its lid screwed on.
st. Paul still seems to be the champeen
of the Red Light ages.