The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-29

construction period given US an interesting
inside view Of the condition and state OF
mind Of the southern people, after the sur
render Of Lee at Appomattox and of Johnston
Greensboro, left them face to face with
the awful ruin entailed by a bloody war
fought to decide whether the great republic
of the western hemisphere should die
miserable death before 1t had reached its
centenary live undivided to stand for lib
erty enlightening the world. The author has
succeeded we'll in showing through the glamor
OF very attractive love story, the blunders
committed under the reconstruction policy,
the hafdships entailed the south by the
carpetbaggers, the perverted philanthropy OF
the Freedmens Bureau, the manifest error
cl bestowing the elective franchise on a peo-
pie just released from the bonds Of degrad-
ing slavery and the bitterness Of race con-
tots following the induction Of negroes into
legislative and executive functions. These
negroes, thinking that freedom meant the
abolition of work, and who hocked to the
towns with wheelbarrows and big baskets
to get the promised elective franchise, beliey-
ing 1t to bs something to eat or to wear
were largely innocent babes in worldly
knowledge and were easily made the tools Of
the wilier negro and white politicians. The
negro politician became nsolent and ugly and
after enduring the peculiar hardships of the
radical Change Of conditions, the white SOUTH
erners decided to maintain home rule
and the story embodies an account of the
red shirt movement and kuklux exploitation,
which ultimately brought the question of
negro domination to a head and to the with
drawal of federal garrisons from the southern
states and to the death Of carpetbaggery
The author in the closing chapters eloquent
ly describes the New America cOntrasted
with the conditions of the former days. The
Spanish war united the nation firmly. The
author, however. stands firmly on his belief in
tytny ia u;nk
and Anglo-Saxcn in the development of our
civilization and that the negro is an impos-
slbllty in the newborn unity of national lie
The book has large literary merit as an offset
to the injection Of the authors political views
The Social EVIL, With Special Reference
TO Conditions Existing in the City of New
York. A Report Prepared Under the Direc-
tlcn OF the Committee of Fifteen. New
Hof Mcc a. P4 pnsa Sons Minneapolis:
This report is the result of the careful in
vestigations. by a committee appointed at
mass meeting of refOrmers in New York city
, In 1900 into the causes of the appalling prog
| ress of the vice of prostitution there In
general, the committee found that, under a
corrupt city government and lax liquor legis-
, lation and congested population conditions.
New York at the time the Investigation was
made, was thoroughly rotten with vice Traf-
hckers of prostitution and the police depart
! ment officials were in close business connec-
ton. 'fhe propretors of the haunts of pros
| tltution paid big money to the police to be let
alone. This business was mutually profitable
The demand for fresh victims increased Ac-
cordlng to expert authority, SOC, 900 women fall
| victims to prostitution in this country every
| i've years. Sixty thousand girls are required
| by the Moloch every year. and New York
| furnishes large percentage As there has
| been comparatively little improvement since
| the investigation was made by the commit
tee, the conditions up to the beginning of
the reform Low administration, were about
| the same There is now better prospect of
minimizing the evil. The committee after
| thorough examination Of conditions and rem
edies. properly objects to Equalization and sani-
| tary inspection Of brothels, making the prac-
| tice OF vice innocllOuS to those who engage in
| it. They recommend (D the prevention of
| overcroWding in the tenement-houses which
| is the prolific source of sexual immortality
! and the making of provision for the better
| housing of the poor; (2) the furnishing by
! public or private muniflcence of pllrer and
| more elevating forms of amusement to SUD-
| plant the attractions of the low dance halls
| theaters and other similar places of enter
! tainment, which serve only to stimulate SEN
suality and to debase the taste; 60 improving
| the material conditions of the wage earning
| class. especially of the wage-earning women
many of whom enter the road to- ruin be-
cause they cannot live on the wages they re-