The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-26

The last time ne felt it necessary
to take something" was when |
Adam was very small boy.
All! We understood then. Our conf
dence was restored. The editor of Back
bone did not go about his tasks reeking,
with the fumes Of whisky and tobacco,
1t was merely a little joke on his part
But Mr.. Wells often makes a. pretty
telling point and that Is not so easy
to answer Speaking of the effort to Sc
cure the communication Of the sentence of
death for the Nelson boys who murdered
their employer at Owatonna, Backbone
says: ...-s ..+.r -- -- 40. ..'@
Owatonna 1egalizes saloons. Eriers was one
of the largest and most centrally located and is
stu run by his widow; The Nelson boys set UP
pins in his bowling alley above the saloon and
occupied themselves similarly to sufficient ex-
tent to support themselves and carry life
OF sin. and crime: The facts. which too
awful to appear in full in print, were known
to the authorities at Owatonna. In spite OF
them this saloon went on--the saloons still go
on-in that city. and the marshal, whose duty
1t is to stop the sale of liquor to the boys and
break up such q nest they have maintained
has recently been licensed to run saloon of his
own, and so develop and educate other moral de.
generates bummers and criminals
1t is understood that Owatonna sentiment
strongly insists that the boys shall hang. We
would not object to this strenuously if the
majority of the people Of that city Of churches
and colleges, who persistently vote for the con-
t1nuatlon of the anarchistic, damnable LIQUOR
traffic, shall hang with them Nor is the state
OF Minnesota free from responsibility for this
crime 1t was under its protection that the
saloon was run and the boys educated crime
ward and hellward 1t may be said that the
law prohibits the sale of liquor to minors. but
who will claim that there is any serious attempt
at its enforcement? .-ss..
Senator Lord had much warrant for his as,
ton hnfN $1n nor7 49,, rIa g.
trembling with emotion, that eff these boys
guilty 1t is by of their education
and environment. and the responsibility rests
upon the very officers who here to urge
the enforcement Of the extreme penalty-ths
death sentence $50
We sometimes laugh a little at a man
or a party whose eyes are fastened SO
strongly on one abuse that everybody else
seems to be warped out of proportion.
but, all prejudice aside, isn't there a good
deal in what Mr.. Wells says. The low
saloon. whether in city or country, comes
SO near being the backdoor to hell that
we never pass one without looking to see
If the hinges the door aren't getting
hot.
Young ladies in California have formed
an antikissing society. Each member has
resolved that she will never allow man
to kiss her. Of course, if he does it when
she is looking the other way, that doesn't
count. ...'...-
Charlie Towne is at work upon a demo-
cratic platform that will harmonic; all
democratic factions. We would suggest
that popular old democratic harmony
plank, "What'H you take?' " @N"'
The coal bin is beginning to look like
a baked banana.
Anyhow, this slight chiliness in the air
is awfully bad for the alley microbe.
A Belmont Mass, church is making
money to- pay a debt by showing stereop-
ticon caricatures of the prominent people
Of the town. How the methods of tho
church have changed in. the last 1900
years! 81.
Four French footpads attacked two gem
tIemen on the Bots de Boulogne In Paris
the other day The gentlemen happened
to be from Kentucky. A telephone mes
sage from the hospital says that four
doctors are now probing to locate the four
bullets in the highwaynnen's persons.
Lieutenant Peary ought to come up here
and make DASH from Medicine Hat
to Milwaukee in order to get into con-
dition for that dash for the pole next year.
declares that the clerk of courts at Ro-
seau. Mimi, last August received strange
application for marriage license. It was
supposed to have been written by gem
tleman of Scandinavian extraction, and
ran as follows:
A ben fellar down har vat skal ga to me
u OILS da fellar vat sail da cuplin up paper af a
fellar skal want wife to sta by him. 80 skal
rite coDla Inns ia ask af it ben al rite for.
a Norwegian mans ia marry Dutch yomans
skal lax ia be in var town van da sircus skal
be dar. let vomans Sc elafant-
she never Sc eafant and tank it skal be gud
honeymoon. A skal LAX ia hav rite an tai
ma vat it cost for cuplin papers and vat da
,upin skal cost af it ben al rite ia get cupled
IN var offs. Las mite it ben big storm har at
ben big fires in ski an big noises da water
,om down lax hal tank a skal hav big
crop dis var. Val, Mr.. Clark. skal want u to
De in offs sircus da an me an Katharine cum
Up sure ting. Gud bye.
man who could throw his ideas into
such vigorous English certainly deserved
to get his "coupling-up papers at the
lowest market rates. a .JsR-