| Show IN minneapolis during vie fie past few weeks I 1 have visited many any cities the attractions of minneapolis the twin iwin city of the north and metropolis of minnesota V I 1 induced a few days sojourn since it was first settled in 1851 this city has had a remarkable growth settlers were first attracted by the great falls of st anthony and their unsurpassed water power the forests of pine lying to the north and west and the hundreds flowing through the pine regions and emptying into the mississippi 13 which would fart the logs logo to thy very doors of the saw mills ten cities in minnesota Minne sot have a population of over anti and minneapolis leads in the race with it is 0 impossible to fully describe the city in a brief article A number of beautiful lakes extend along its southwestern boundary and across the sout southern bern boundary is the romantic minnehaha Minne hahs creek which terminates mississippi in the famed minnehaha falls this is the skating season and though the temperature is 20 degrees degree below zero the skating trains are 9 as heavily laden as our garfield beach trains in summer merry groups with skates hung over their shoulders are hurriedly crowding along intent upon a few hours of healthful recreation and enjoyment on the frozen lakes and rivers minneapolis is the educational centre of the northwest and has a fine public school system over pupils are enrolled in the pu public alic schools and about teachers are employed of course the university of minnesota located here is at the head bead of the educational institutions the city boasts of its architectural beauty and may certainly be proud of its fine broad streets avenues and parks its chief industry is the flour ing trade minneapolis flour mills are well known the world over the largest flouring floering flou ring mills in the world is located here athas it has a daily capacity of barrels twenty two large mills are running with an aggregate total of barrels the flour is shipped hipped to all parts of the united states and an average of two million barrels are exported to foreign countries annually this article would be incomplete with without out some reference to the lumbering lu aber industry nature evidently intended this site for a great lur lumber fiber manufacturing point hundreds of factories have been erected for the purpose of utilizing the inexhaustible supply of timber in the locality and some of the finest furniture is manufactured here I 1 visited many of the leading mills not the least interesting being the extensive school furniture factory which in a few years has gained a national reputation here I 1 saw school desks and office and bank furniture in every E tage of manufacture the process of drying lumber sawing plau ing polishing etc was observed with much interest and finally the packing and shipping departments were visited here I 1 saw immense of these beautiful automatic seats note being shipped to every part of the union utah was represented among the rest at present the minnesota state legislature is in session and a lively I 1 interest is taken in the doings of the lawmakers w the farmers alliance holds the balance of power and its representatives saxe are determined to profit by it the president of the alliance is the most prominent man in the legislature and though accused of being a political trickster is acknowledged lu in literary circles to be the peer of any author his most recent production published under the now nom do de plume of edmund bois gilhert gilbert MD 1 and entitled I 1 Cm sars column a tale of the twentieth century is attracting more attention than the popular looking backward often the traveler to is asked have you read creears Cee ears column 11 the tenth edition has been sold gold since last june aal I 1 was therefore induced to peruse its pages one critic tersely states that looking backward pictured what ought to be but column describes what may be it is a startling picture of what the results of the present social system may be my object in calling attention to the work is to pla place before your readers a lew few extracts which not only picture the state of society but contain incontrovertible truths the author in his preface says the world today clamors for deeds not creeds for bread not dot dogma for charity not ceremony for lovel love not intellect ff in treating on the all absorbing question of capital and labor he asserts this defense of labor could only aaring spring from the me inspiration of god for t the e natural instinct of man in these latter days seems to be to prey on his follow fellow we are sharks that devour the wounded of our kind again there is no power in the world too great or too sacred to be used by good goodness new for the an suppression of evil religion true rell religion gion not forms or ceremonies but inspired purpose should take possession of the governments of the world and enforce justice 9 il the italics are the authors I 1 can almost hear the utah carpet crying treason dis fran chi priestly control etc for these sentiments are not in accordance with their creed the churches of today are arraigned in severe terms and a few quotations may be profitable reading the churches must come to to the rescue or retire from the field virtue we want but virtue growing out of the bosom of universal justice 1 l what the world needs to is a new organ organization iza tion a great worldwide brotherhood of justice we have inherited christianity without christ we have the painted shell of a religion and that which rattles around within I 1 it is not the burning soul of the great last hut but a cold and shrivelled shrivel led and meaningless tradition ohl ob for the quick pulsing warm beating mighty heart of the man of galileo Ua lilee ohl ob for his uplifted hand band armed with a whip of scorpions to depopulate the temples of the world and lash fash his recreant rea eachers chers into devotion to the cause of preachers gift Er ia poor afflicted children the foregoing will show that canting hypocrisy and religious apathy are attracting the attention of great thinkers the following contains a doctrine which will be readily understood by latter day saints and will suffice for the present cc who ho that knows the immortality of matter its absolute indestructibility can believe that which must be at the lowest estimate if they are not something higher a form of matter are to perish into nothingness if it be true as we know it is that the substance of the poor flesh that robes your spirits nay of the very garments you wear shall exist undiminished by the friction of eternity afons after our planet is blotted out of space and our sun forgotten can you believe that this intelligence li gence genee whereby I 1 command your souls into thought and communicate with the unsounded depth in your nature can be clipped off into anchila tion |
