The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-26
WARNS YOUNG MEN
DIR. BEACH TALKS sENsATIONALLY
OF THE CORRUPTION IN poll
ITICS.
OFFICIAL BRIBE TAKERS.
MINNEAPOLIS NOT FREE FROM
THEM. SAYS THE REVEREND
GENTLEMAN.
CLOSE OF ENDEAvOR WORK.
Enthusiastic Rally of the Juniors
Ladies at the Wesley-Minne-
apolis Matters
CLOSE OF ENDEAvoR WORK


ment in a decidedly uncomplimentary
way at the mass meeting for young men
of the Chritain Endeavor society held
yesterday afternoon in Plymouth Con-
gregational church The headline to
which he had reference preceded an
article describing a society meeting
last week. 1t read: DIR. Beach
Works in a Little Politics.
He admitted that such had been the
case and that he never failed to do so
inasmuch as politics was closely iden-
tilted with religion. He said: Jesus
was nailed on cross by order of Pom
thus Plate because he worked in lit
tie politics; he was crucifed by the
Jews because he was dead set against
the rotten politics which existed in
Palestine at the beginning of the Chris
| tan era
Il make it habit to work in a lit
tie politics because 1 know that in this
great country of ours and in our great
cities there exists such a heinous thing
as protected vice and crime something
that is hardly known in other countries
that boast of as high civilization as
ours. DR.. Mckenzie, of Scotland,
who is at present my guest, has as
sured me that protected vice and crime
are almost impossible in Scotland and
England, and not even in the great city
OF London are the corrupt state Of
municipal affairs to be compared with
| those Of Minneapolis. And in London it
is only occasionally that policeman
takes bride and in most cases he is
| detected and summarily dealt with
But 1T is regular business in the
great cities Of America and I include
Minneapolis. In Minneapolis it is and
has been for a number of years the
regular business of the corrupt city
officials, and those now in office are no
exception, to rob the treasury Of the
city 1t is now and has been the reg
ular business Of our officials to protect
vice and crime, to protect barrooms and
brothels, gamblers and burglars. How
we'll the latter are protected is best
evidenced by the impunity with which
a seemingly organized gang of bur-
glars have been committing depreda-
lions all over our city for the last
month with apparently little effort to
stop them or bring them to Justice
Things have reached that condition in
this great city where man has only
to pay fee to be vicious or criminal
| And L need not speak Of the entailed
and specific iniquities also perpetrated.
They are too numerous to mention.
II want to impress upon you that in
this city there is a. Aagitious combi-
nation known as the city government
which is now robbing and has been rob
bling Minneapolis year after year Of
hundreds of thousands of dollars. And
not only that, but greater and more
extensive systems of municipal rob-
berry are now being planned If the
city does not arouse itself to the danger
which thus threatens it half of the work
of the churches will be wasted. If
the people will persist in looking idly
on the devil will get ten men while we
get enc. 1t is time to act"
DR.. Beach's text was, "The Value
Of Jesus in the Civic Life" and in con-
Guiding he called attention to the great
municipal reform that had been
achieved In the city CT Cambridge,
Mass. These reforms had only been
accomplished through the spirit of
Jesus Christ, who was the animating
element in all great reforms
The meeting was presided over by
Rev. Charles n. Hunt The other
speakers were General Secretary John
Willis Baer, of Boston, and Rev. w.
w. Dawley, Of the Central Baptist
church Mr.. Baer spoke of the won
derful possibilities which the society
might achieve If properly directed. He
said that the 100000 young men of
the United States were the trustees
of the posterity of America, and that
the good which they were capable of
doing the world if they only acted to-
gether was incredible.
IF these young men," said he, were
to take hold Of hands they would make
a double line across the continent
| from ocean to ocean; if they would
stand 10 abreast, IL feet apart, they
would stretch out $500 miles; if each of
them would save 81 week for go years.
and let the interest accumulate, the
total amount thus saved would equal
the combined public and private wealth
of this country; if each of them would
waste 10 cents a day the loss would be
equal to the destruction each day by
fire of a town of 5000 inhabitants: if
each of them saved cents a day 3OO,-
600 of them could be sent to college !"
Rev. Dawley spoke of IAN Ideal OF
Life Jesus Christ, he. thought, was
the ideal. Everyone should endeaver
to SO live that gIesus would approve
their lives as He, Himself, was a per-
feet type of moral and physical beauty.
He was the personifcation of moral.
physical and spiritual power. A young
man could not have too high an ideal
and it could not fail to be achieved if
Jesus We're taken for the example If
Christ was only taken as an ideal
every one would have an incentive in
life.
JUNIORS RALLY.
One of the most inspiring and en-
thusiastic rallies of the Endeavor con-
vention was that of the junior societies.
held at the First Baptist church at 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon. For some
time prior to the hour of beginning, all
the unreserved portions of the house
had been taken by the eager crowd
which was anxious to see the exercises
for the little folks. At o'clock the
chorus Of children seated In the choir
! place, began singing Our Junior Band
Is Marching On" and the societies of
little Endeavorers began to file into
the church and take their seats by So
cieties. Each society was led by its
| superintendent and was preceded by
the banner Of the society. For fully
half an hour the little folks came in in
large numbers and completely filed the
ground floor of the church. Part of the
gallery was vacated by the public and
given to the little folks 1t is esti-
mated that there were 1000 children in
the audience besides a number of
adults. The sight was indeed an In