St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-25

u'uA thaI UuSincSS dHdir3 S0OuiQ
be allied together. especially in the
matter of the police policy. There
should be harmony between the police
and detective departments of the tive
cities. He had conferred with Mayor
Wright at the beginning of his term on
this subject with view of the two
cities being in accord ON tine police poll
ICY. Mayor Eustis then turned his at
tention to the saloon. which he regard
ed as entering largely into the question
OF preventing crime and misdemeanors.
His policy was to deal with the
saloons on business principles. the
same as other questions, and seek
to regulate them after studying
the conditions. He found by investiga-
tion that tough element got into the
saloon business. Some of them had an
nexss of crime. There were instances
where the police and detective depart
ments stood In with the tough saloons.
HIS policy was to secure the aid of the
better class of saloonkeepers in weed
lug out the tough saloons. He ILL.,
stanced how ex-convicts will start a
saloon and make 1t a rendezvous for
criminals, and when men were arrested
for crimes in such saloons. the salcon-
keepers were ready with an alibi.
HOLD THE SALOONS RESPONSIBLE.
His policy was to make the saloons
responsible for 0ffenses. and when The
bunco men did their jobs in saloon he
would require the saloon keeper 10
make good the loss 10 the victim. Where
men were arrested for being drunk it
was the policy to hold the saloons re-
sponsible. If the saloons could not ba
reformed they were 10 be discontinued
and refused license. He was not in
favor of technical enforcement of the
law, but an enforcement of the spirit
of the law. The mayor gave sta
tlstics to show that his policy of
Te gulation Ut saloons has done good in
the past year. The arrests for drunk
enness had deere ased 80 per cent in the
past year. The decrease in twenty
two days of May for this year was 80
per cent as compared with the same pc
riod for last year. There mad been a
decrease of 81 per ce.t In the men sent
to the workhouse for drunkenness. He
showed that In these hard times, when
it might be expected that more
men would be sent to the work.
house for all offenses, there had
been all actual decrease of so per cent
as compared with last year. While that
was true of Minneapolis. there was no
decrease in the inmates of the st. Paul
workhouse. He said that investigation
showed that men had been sent to the
workhouse twice, ten times, twenty
times, and even twenty-fOur times for
drunkenness. The saloons that harbored
drunken men were told that they must
stop it, and good results came. His
city had made arrangements to allow a
number of men to take the ''gold cure"
at city expense. He also declared that
his policy of dealing With saloons had
prevented murders and other crimes.
He said that if the saloons are not
run right the detectives are to blame.
The detective department is also
responsible for many of the
crimes. They know the criminal
classes, and it Is their duty
to send them out OF the city and not
take money to letthem stay i'll the cities.
Send them on to Chicago, as the Twin
Cities are too small to allow them to re-
! main in their midst The detectives do
not do their duty if they allow the bank
robbers and f0otpads to remain iu tha
cities. The eloquent mayor closed with
plea for closer union between the
Twin Cities on matters OF police regula
ton.
CONWAY SANCTIONS EUSTIS.
DR.. Conway, president of the st. Paul
Press club, was next called upon, and
said: Il believe the clergy OF Mime
apolis do not always agree with Mayor
Eustis, but am glad that can indorsG
the principles that he has laid down.
In fact, portion of them is very old
while another portion of them is very
new. The old portion is tie maxim
that it takes thief to catch
thief; the new that there is more good
in the human race than We desire
to acknowledge. Mayor Eustis desires
to bring about boom here. but the
faith is not good without the works. |
trust that he Will add the latter to his
good faith. Iu speaking of these clubs
and the unitication of these two cities
there is no better word to fit the occa.
sion than determination. Some people
object to clubs in general. In all lines
or public advance determination is
the correct thing. Our predecessors
left us problem to solve in re-
latlon to these two cities. l may even
call it a Gordian knot. l am glad to say
that the st. Paul Press club has. during
the past winter, started the work of
fraternization. When we have had any
thing to offer, the Minneapolis CLUB
always came over to see US, and we have
gone over there to participate in their
aI1airS. we ask no one about their per-
suasions or their allegiance. We believe
there is broader platform. and that is
the spirit of good brotherhood and fra.
ternlZati0n."
The brilliant orator Frank F. Davis.
of MINI eapo!is, spoke OH the subject,
"The Twins.' He began by saying that
he was forcibly reminded that a man
might live in the midst of wisdom aud
still be ignorant. Until he heard the
speech Of Mayor Eustis he never knew
how difficult it was to get full In Mime
apoiis. AS TO the question of "Ihe
Twins" he preferred treating it
as geographical question rath.
er than as domestic one.
Speaking of the vast empire that has
been built up here. he found its origin
to be Northern. "The.people who built
the Twin Cities were not of Southern,
but of Northern BIRTH" Mr.. Davis de-
clared his faith in Northern energy and
Northern principle. He spoke of the
seven states of the Northwest, compris-.
ing an empire greater by $4,000 square
miles than all of the rest of the United
States, excepting Texas and Florida;
and then drew comparison as to what
may be expected tor the Twin Cities, as
compared with Chicago in the future.
Chicago will divide her commerce with
the Eastern cities. Minnesota, he said