St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-16
And Managers Of Criminals
Consider Best Means
and Methods
TO BEFRIEND AND UPLIFT.
Every Paper Interesting and
Every Talk Fruitful in
Good Ideas.
rHE PROBLEM OF WORK.
Noted Workers for Charity
and Morality Put In a
Busy Day.
rHE PROBLEM OF WORK.

After a welI-rendered air by the boys
band from the school for the feeole-
minded at Faribault, and the pantomlme
reading of the twenty-third psalm and
the Lords prayer by two girls from the
Faribault deaf and dumb school, George
~ WeIch. superintendent Of the Fergus
Falls hospital, read the opening paper
Yesterday morning at the charities coli
mention in the capitol before the COM
mittee on the insane and the feeble
minded. DR.. Welch. who presided at
this session, spoke of Estate Provision
for the Insane" and said that the pres
ent law regarding the admission OF Tor
eign patients to asylumS detalnS many
cases in iail for weeks, when, II the
latter was in the hands Of the board
Fl corrections and charities, the liberty
of citizens would not be intringed. The
English law should be adopted. punish
ing any one who, either willtully or lg-
norantly, aids in committing another 10
all insane asylum.
The necessity and benefit of creative
employment for the insane was made
evident in the paper then read by III
II. A. Tomlinson, superintendent or the
ST. Peter insane asylum. UpholSterlng
furniture and the making OF mattresses
were recommended.
In the opinion of DR.. A. c. Rogers, OF
Faribault, the epileptic and the feeble
minded ought not to be allowed TO
marry. Their employment should be III
the open air.
Just before the noon adjournment
President Mott named the following
committees:
Nominations-C Amundson,of Nicol-
let; Capt. E. Dunn, Of Wlnona; K. X.
ResoIutons-J. B. Wakefield, OF Blue
Earth City; j. j. Dow. or Faribault;
Rev. Haupt, st. Paul. -,
Organization Of Next Conference W.
II. Eustis, of Minneapolis; L. Z.
Clark, of Saltwater; A. I. Kilbourne,
of Rochester; w. E. Lee, Of st. Cloud,
II. H. Hart, of Ramsey.
Time and Place-Sheriff Mansion, OF
Atkin; F. Whitney, of Anoka; Henry
Paten, of Lincoln; Mr.. Lennon, or Big
Stone; John Hetheringlon, OF Dakota;
+. W. Temple, of Faribault; A. +. An"
derson, of Goodhue; NJ. E. Clay. of MIN
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DR.. A. f. kllbourne,, Of Rochester;
William Hoetf1ng, of Otter Tail; J. f:
Jackson, of Ramsey; S. p. Stewart, OF
Rice; Bishop McG0lrick, Of st. Louis;
John Cooper, of Stearns; Henry Wolfer,
of Washington; }. G. Mills, of Fillmore;
Robert S. Hughes, Of Blue Earth.
In the absence of II. NJ. Palm, E. A.
Tripp presided over the session on pub
lie care OF the poor. Mr.. Trips paper
On 1.-The County Poor" gave 10 the APP
plicant the benefit OF the doubt as to his
being worthy of relief.
Good suggestions abounded IN the
two next papers-one by Supt. j. y.
Dow, of Faribault, Oh the care or the
adult blind, and the other by Miss Alice
Mott, whose subject was Am l My
Brothers Keeper"
The Problem of Work.
Owing TO the illness OF Dr.. j. L. Eg-
bert, the first or the afternoon sessions,
that OH private charities, was presided
over by Rev. Dr.. Hebron. A paper on
Better Methods of Caring for the In
employed was read by State Labor
Commissioner Powers. The problem
of the past-under production-had
been solved: but the speaker claimed
that the modern problem-uneQual dis
tribution- could be best solved, for the
present, by giving all men enough
work. The locating OF the city poor in
the country, after the plan of the Saliva
ton Army, would be, perhaps, OF the
greatest benefit.
The present method of employing the
Idle upon the streets Of st. Paul was ex-
planned by w. l.. Wilson. The reopen
Ing of manufactures has, he stated, re-
duced this year the number OF the I'M
employed.
Rev. David Morgan, Of the Bethel
house. described the operations OF our
local Friendly Inn, through which those
alone were assisted who were willing to
work. An animated discussion of this
paper developed the usual differences
between those that would rather some
should starve than that few Of the UNI
deserving should receive relief, and
those that would prevent suffering at
any price. The solution, being mat
ter of heart rather than of brain. was
left indeterminate.
Morgan l.. uutchins, secretary OF