Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-07-03

40oCoIudy dlCoTuOOn passed OH
pleasantly. At 2:30 the Indian
band gave an out door concert,
and at 3 O'clock the grand concert
in the auditorium took place, the
Wesleyan male quartet leading off.
Then Miss Wilma Anderson gave
a piano solo, Miss Goodman sang,
and Mr.. Flournoy indulged in a
character sketch. All the actors
in these parts were encored and
all responded in a delightful
manner, and in addition to this,
most of them appeared on the
stage a third time. DR.. May told
a good story concerning man
who visited an insane asylum and
was chased by one of the inmates.
The race was supposedly for life,
but when the pursued dropped
from exhaustion, the pursuer
simply touched him on the
shoulder, exclaiming as he did so
-"Tag! You'ritv'
At 1870 o'clock in the evening
there was the usual outdoor con-
cert by the Indian band, and at s
O'Clock the concert by the talent
began in the auditorium. The
entertainment proved highly sue
cessful and was participated in by
the Wesleyan male quartet, by
Misses Wilma and Ruth Anderson,
pianist and violinist respectively,
Miss Goodman, the sweet voiced
singer, and by Al G.. Flournoy, the
impersonator. Not one of these
failed to please the audience, each
reaping a harvest Of applause and
being compelled to respond to
encOreS.
DIRECT LEGISLATION.
At the close Of the concert Hon.
Eltweed Pomeroy, of Newark, New
Jersey, was introduced and de-
livered his lecture on "Direct
Legislation" Mr.. Pomeroy is a
calm and argumentative speaker.
There is very little of the spread
eagle style Of oratory about him,
and yet he held the close attention
of the large audience throughout
his, long speech, by his earnestness
and apparent sincerity. There is
no doubt but that he is a firm
believer in the effectiveness of the
initiative and referendum as a
corrective power for the abuses
which have come into existence
under the present law-making
system. One of the experiences
of scientists, he said is to take out
the rear part of a pigeons brains
when the bird loses the power Of
coordinating it's powers and cannot
direct it's actions. IF it attempts
to fly in one direction it goes in
another. Men in battle some
times sustain injuries to the back
of the brain and like the pigeon
lose control of their actions. They
cannot direct it. Society today,
the speaker asserted, is very much
like the man and very much like
the pigeon whose brains have been
injured. It cannot coordinate or
direct it's powers. Gladstone said
that more wealth had been pro-
duced in the first fifty years Of the
present century than during the
Christian era, and the speaker
added that more had been pro-
duced during the past 20 years
than during the previous 1900
years. But how gathered? Into
whose hands had it centered?
The people are now called
sovereign, but the sovereigns some
times starve. In New York and
other large cities in the eastpeople
have been known to die of actual
hunger. In the boundless west
they sometimes suffer mental
starvation. Why is this? Be-
cause, Mr.. Pomeroy affirmed,
society does not exercise the power
of coordination. It does not
properly direct it's energies and
the great problem is how to so
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