The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-14

IOunu Ill the case Oh "A. w. Ofeen,
president of the National Biscuit COM
pany, the so-called Cracker Trust"
Mr.. Green, who has palatial home on
East Fiftieth street and is the head
of a company with $55,OOO,O00 of as
sessable stock held in Chicago, is stat
ed to pay personal property tax of
exactly $3.50. This is no more than
is paid every year by scores of men
who are not in the 'magnate class.
Certainly taxation, as practiced in
Chicago, is wonderful social leveler.
Emulating the East.
In emulation of the New York
standard of country house and New
port cottage, some of the Chicago mil
lionaires already have some very pre-
tentious estates and more are getting
them. In the wooded quiets near
Darlington. Ills, H. |. Miller, presi-
dent of the Chicago & Eastern Him
OILS Railroad and Spencer Otic have
purchased i 600 acres of land for $780,
900 and Will spend 100000 upon homes
of more or less public simplicity. To
make a lake. forty acres will be eXca-
waited and flooded. Stables, garages
and houses with "thatched roof effects"
will help in bringing the sylvan soil
tudes up to point of the happy
naturelness" desired.
Emigration Is Stimulated.
That the money furry has proved a
stimulus to immigration, colonization
and active investments i'll land had
midwinter confederation in the an
nouncement here that the Canadian
Northern Railway had sold tract of
100000 acres in the Saskatchewan
plains west of Saskatoon a cash tran
saction of practically a million dollars.
This land was purchased by j. f..
Luse of st. Paul for a colony of Ger
mans from Iowa, Nebraska and Kan
sas who will remove in the spring to
occupy portion of the tract. Specific
cases like this are numerous in this
city which is the headquarters of many
colonization movements. In connec-
ton with this the comment was made
bv Davidson & McRae, general agents
for the Canadian Northern, that immi-
grafton to western Canada will be hea-
vier this year than heretofore, the
money pinch in the United States
having increased investments in real
estate in Canada as in the United
States. 1t is the experience of rail
ways of Canada that tight money and
unfavorable industrial conditions slim
ulate immigration to the new a9ricu-
tural regions of western provinces.
Will Read Greek Myths.
Steps have been taken by supern-
tendents of Chicago schools to use as
supplementary readers volume OF
Greek myths which gives also the art
of the world that is founded on those
myths-a kind of thing which illus
trates how the old "three r. method
of education has been modified. That
Chicago, so long considered prosalc
and commercial should take lead in
perpetuating the folk lore that IS
classic and in teaching some knowl-
edge of art along with the three
Rs" is an interesting commentary on
this cosmopolitan city.
Walters of foreign birth in the res
taurants of this city know more about
music and art than most native-born
Americans do; laborers from Austria
and Germany are familiar with those
things which are closed book to
Americans, and the foreignborn popu-
lation of Chicago, it should be re-
membered is over 100000. The Prangs
of New York have for years urged
the value of art knowledge as a means
to divert and stimulate the minds OF
people away from inevitable questions
of their bread and butter and wages.
1t remained for western educator
Charles f. Mann, formerly president
of the Illinois State Teachers associ-
alton, to produce the book that was
considered practical for publication by
the Prangs and marks the adoption of
education of this kind.
Co-Operation is Necessary.
A movement for cooperation be-
tween the railroads and the shippers of
the country as the only way to solve
the railroad problem had its origin
last week in the offer of Chicago ship
pers to meet the railroads part way.
In return the railroads were told that
they must cease thinking of their pro-
1perty as personal, private property and
should refrain from doing things which
affect the rights of shippers without
conference with them. III. G. Barlow
| the executive director of the Chicago
/ association of commerce, who voiced
these views on behalf of the shippers
did not stand on ceremony in telling
officers of the western railroad systems
what they would have to dc. eff the
railroads are to be saved from them
selves" he said, "and if commerce and
the railroads are to be saved from the
mob, cooperation between the shippers
and the railroads is necessary. The
success of the railroads depends more
upon commerce, infinitely more, thar
I the success of commerce depends upor
i the railroads. You cannot expect sue
cessfully to appeal to the country
4 when you continually, from caprice