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The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
TO HAVE NEW CHARTER
ST. Paul Commission Decides to Mako
Thoro Revision.

St. Paul's charter will be revised
from end to end The charter commits
sion last evening decided that it would
be better to revise the whole charter
and submit it as one proposition than to
secure the desired changes by amend
ments. which would be so numerous as
to be confusing. President Markham
was instructed to divide the commits
sioR into five subcommittee to work
on the charter.
A redistricting Of the city into wards
was suggested by Commissioner Erma-
finger. The eighth ward has a popu-
lation of more than $4,000, while the
tenth and eleventh have less than 1000.
The distribution of assemblymen was
unjust. AT present all but one lived
west of Wabasha street. It should be
arranged so that four would come from
west of Wabasha, four from east and
one from the west side.
The control of the Auditorium. the
manner of awarding contracts and the
collection of assessments for permanent
improvements were referred to as ques-
tions requiring attention.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
WHITE HOUSE TALK ON
NEW YORK B0SSISM
Washington,

Washington, Nov. 2l:-Governor
Frank Higgins of New York was a
dinner guest last night of President
Roosevelt at the White House. Invited
to dine with the governor were Secre-
tary Of State Elihu Root and Postmas-
ter General Cortelyou.
The conference, admittedly important,
began at the dinner table and contin-
ued until a late hour. The president
invited Governor Higgins to come to
Washington to discuss with him the
whole subject was considered with spe-
cial reference to the disclosures made
before the Investigating committee, but
only a brief general statement was
made public.
President Roosevelt is naturally deep
ly interested in the situation in his
own state, as are the other three par
ticipants. He has let it be known, how
ever, that he is not directing the affairs
of his party in the state, but as he has
some important appointments to make
in New York he desires to have all pos
sible light thrown on the situat tion
there.
The evidence taken at the insurance
investigation has involved several poll
ticians, and the subject was discussed
thoroly at the conference.
After the conference Governor Hig
gins said:
"The subject of chairman of the
republican committee of New York was
discussed. The president made the fol
lowing statements:
:" Il am very solicitous about the po
litical conditions in New York HI
said that he was not for or against any
particular man and does not propos'
rto interfere in the selection of chair
man of the county committee, but il
anxious that whoever is selected will
be man Of the highest character ant
reputation. -
"That is the only report, gentlemen
I am authorized to make in relation t.
| the conference.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
Child. Labor.

There are 100000 children under 16
years of age in the United States en-
ploved for wages, most of whom ought
to be in school. This statement is on
the authority Of the secretary Of the
national committee on child labor. A
number of philanthropic people have or
ganized themselves under that name for
the purpose Of securing legislation
against child labor, and in order to ere
ate greater uniformity in the child labor
laws of the different states.
Some Of the states and territories are
without any provision on that subject
at all, and the consequences of this neg
lect are particularly noticeable in the
south. The factory development of
Georgia, which has brought so much
capital into the state and increased so
largely her manufacturing output, rests
very largely upon child labor These
great cotton factories are hives of child
labor. Thousands of children, who
ought to be in school, are confined there
from morning until night tending the
machinery. AS yet very little has been
accomplished in that state toward the
correction Of this evil. The local senti
ment has not yet been aroused. The
opportunity to earn money is too attrac
tive to many of the poor whites, to en-.
able them to appreciate what this har
Messing of their children to the factory
wheels means, but sentiment is grow;
ing on this subject and progress is be-
ing made toward better condition OF
things, in spite of the Indifference Of
those most vitality interested.
The national committee has organ
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
HINTS AT PERJURY
County Attorney Kane Springs Sur
prise in Laramie -Egan Trial. :,

Harry Laramie. on trial with James
Egan for the alleged murder of Police
Officer Peter Raverty in st. Paul, testi-
fed for the defense before Judge Orr
Of the Ramsey county court yesterday.
The witness swore that he had never
been in st. Paul until he was arrested
and brought there May 8, after the MUIR
der. He detailed his movements up to
the time of his arrest and outlined the
alibi upon which the defense is relying
for an acquittal.
Something Of sensation was sprung
when F. l.. McGhee, attorney for the de-
PENDANTS, moved the court that the state
be instructed to call E. Goodbout, the
hackdriver who drove Raverty and
Puglaesa to the johnson Lumber office
and was an eyewitness Of the shooting
County Attorney Kane opposed the mo.
tion and insinuated broadly that this
witness had been tampered with by the
defense. Judge Orr denied the motion
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
MORE LIGHT WANTED
Gas Lamps May Be Placed Further
Apart OH Streets.

Chairman Wendell Hertig of the coun-
ell committee on gas, and Gas In
spector w. H. Roberts were appointed
yesterday as a committee 20 confer with
the Minneapolis Gas Light company;
relative to greater distribution of the
present gas lamps so as to light
a larger territory. Under the
present system the gas lamps are set
six,to the block. -- While this was quite
necessary when the old fiat flame burn
ers were used, it is maintained that four
lamps to the block will be sufficient
with the incandescent burners. In this
way it would be possible to light 50
per cent more territory without increas-
ing the number Of lights and without
any additional cost other than the ex-
pense Of moving the lamps:
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
College VS.. Public Football.

The president in a talk with Professor
White of Pennsylvania university yes
terday said he was in favor of football
being retained in college athletics, and
added that brutality and foul play
should receive the same punishment as
meted to the man who cheats at cards
or strikes foul blow in boxing. He
advocated giving the umpire summary
powers of ordering individual players
or whole teams off the grounds in case
of violation of the rules.
l. The president s views, are very large
and humane and would, if enforceable,
put football or any other, sport on a
very high plane. But where colleges
arctic find officials with the nerve to
run whole teams off the field in the face
of the crowd expecting a game, would
puzzle any college president OF set of
college presidents.
In football much must be left to the
innate sense of propriety in the players.
| The game is such that foul or brutal
, work can more easily be covered up
than in almost any other known. The
man who shows himself a dangerous
groundgainer may be secretly and mali
ciously assaulted and placed hors du
combat in mass play. This opportun-
ity for bad work lays an extraordinary
responsibility for self f-restraint on the
players themselves.
Unfortunately for this theory Of the
game, it seems at present to be tending
in some colleges toward a farcical ANA
teurism, which is really cloak for pro
fessionalism Of the rankest kind. Men
are introduced into colleges because
they are good athletes and carried on
the class rolls as students, when their
deficiencies outside Of the gridiron are
notorious. Organizing for victory is the
vice of the game.
Football has become large business
The public pays the bills and the public
demands it's moneys worth. Hence the
struggle for trained football players be
comes every year fercer. professional
coaching every year makes the game
harder one to play and every yeal
there is an increasing demand fo1
trained players. In the colleges will
the least sense Of propriety the demand
for material for the gridiron has caused
: a lowering of the college standards tha
? athletes may be brought in. The alum
, nj, the faculties and the student bod,
have become the victims of the great
, howling bleacher crowd, which demand
+ scientific football, and which cannot b.
induced to give up it's money for game
which are merely incidental to othe
college athletics.
! Some brave men at the head of tn
, colleges will have to take a stand upo
6 the subject and suffer considerable rid
O cule in order to reduce football not onl
to an amateur, but to a college amateu
basis.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21

AuditorIum-"The Girl and the Bandit"
{: The Girl and the Bandit is the mer-
.riest round Of nonsense we have had for
many day. 1t has little more wisdom
than you would find between the covers
OF Mother Goose's s melodies, but its non
sense is even more dtyerting and is given
with spirit and dash that convince you
that the simple life is equally enjoyed on
both sides Of the footlights. 1t has a
plot, a very l-connected one, but
you need not bother with it unless you
choose, for there is enough to keep you
interested without.
The story is all about a poor but beau
tiful marchesa who is loved by two hot
headed Italians; When they suspect one
Daniel Clancy Of being a third lover he
is abducted, with all of his feminine rela-
tives, by the brgands and held for ran
som in the bandits retreat, where you
expect all sorts of things to happen, and
are not disappointed. This comedy
opera, . as Mr.: Perley labels his produc
ton, is reminiscent of the old comic
operas with their robber bands and Anna
zon troops, but it has considerably more
snap. No one is idle for a minute and
the large, comely and capable chorus is
always doing something. Much of the
music is very good, none of it is bad and
the costuming and stage settings are
gorgeous different and very effective on
the big Auditorium stage.
Mabel ~IIite rather monopolizes atten-
tion, which IS; not tisurprising. for she is an
oddly .amustls l5it of fenininity.. Hel
| tireless energsgds saggestive Of Eva Tan.
guay-not thar she etrnitates the .Sambe
girl, for she does not even for a mo-
ment--but. she has the same restless
1 activity. She seems to do the work OF
| four people. for she is a clever come
dienne, contortionist, a dancer and {
singer. Joseph .Miron, with his deep
deep voice, is as funny as ever and hi.
song, "The Goblin Man, illustrated b,
Miss E1te, was one Of the hits Of the
evening. John G. Sparks gave a hui
morous twist to- the part of DAME
Clancy, the millionaire. without making
it grotesque. Harry Parent, as a mem
ber of tile bandits band, made very
much Of a SMALL part. Violette Gillett,
looked queenly as, the beautiful marchesa
| the object Of SO much alteration, an,
sang some charming numbers. f"Myst
| MOOn,' "Dreamland," and with MI
i Sparks, '"The Man in the Moon" Fran
ces Ann Ware was MI. Clancys daugh
! ter and with Sidney Brace as the inevi
table Englishman with accent and mono
| cle-WithOut which no musical produc
ton seems to be complete-gavea one o
the catchiest Of the songs, my Vene
tian Rose Marion Wilder as the spin
ster sister, found.-a lover in the bandi
chief .Miron, and sang with him the at
tractive duet, 'Anxous.'' George
MacFarlane was the man who planned tn
horrible abduction. He has a good voic
and gave several pleasing numbers
"Carabou' and Big Fig Tree" Will
his hated rival, T. Henry coote, the poe
very properly sang of love and "In Beau
tvs Garden.' Frances r. Sterrett
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
MOURN FOR POTvIN
Co-workers Of Fireman Killed at Lit
tie Falls Are Saddened.

Tho death of Fred J. Potvin, the
Northern Pacific fireman who was killea
in a wreck at Little Falls, MINI, Mon,
day morning, has saddened all the train
men who knew him. He was extremely
popular with his associates and was a
apolis. He was unmarried and his home
was at Osseo, where his father is a
blacksmith. He had been employed by
the Northern Pacific for three years.
The accident in which Potvin met his
death was caused by the locomotive on
which he was firing running off at D
rail as it was coming off the Little Falls
& Dakota branch onto the main line.
stantly killed. Ellsworth Martin, the
engineer, jumped and escaped with a
broken leg.
Potvin will probably be buried at
Osseo.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
he PRAISES RESIDENT
DAVID p. JONES TELg CHURCH
CLUBS ROOSEVELT las BEEN
MIGHTY REFORM FoEE.5

Mayor David P. Jones adSessed the
members of the Plymouth GLIB and the
Westminster club in the Irlors of
Plymouth church Last evenlg, speak
ing largely of the reform movement
which is sweeping the colltry. ! He
thought that the Australian 'allot and
the primary election. laws wes primari-
ly responsible for the new er; for they
gave the power to the comm people,
which usually meant better gdernment.
The personal influence of President
Roosevelt had been a might5force in
the new movement.
1t was shown that Thoma Lally's
comparison of the effect of thtmayor 3
saloon order with the expee ence of
Minneapolis under the Babb adinistra-
tion was not quite true to fact. r. Lally
said that Minneapolis people fairly
swarmed to st. Paul, and thatthe in
terurban cars were crowded onSunday
with a drunken mob in whichit was
hardly safe for even a man totravel.
AS the interurban line did no start
| running until seventeen days before
Mayor Babb retired from offc the
awful conditions painted by MrLally
could not have existed for morethan
| two Sundays.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
MI. Dooley on Graft.

Mr.: Dooiev has discovered what IS
! the mat with our politics. S All there
is to graft he says, 'is business
man payin' less to a pollytician thin he
wud have to pay if he bought a street
or a dock direct
There is unfortunately no question
but what Mr.. Dooley has touched a
quivering wound in our body polite.
Graft is the corruption of public Off
cials to overthrow the laws. The bust
ness man who wants something from
the citv. instead cf going to the city
openly for what he wants, goes private
lv to the aldermen and makes bargain
with them. whereby he gets the coveted
privilege for less. In st. Louis the
street railway people had a regular fund
set aside and placed in a vault to make
payments to the aldermen. One day a
small, smooth-faced, soft-voiced, young
man went into the office OF deposit
company and said: 81 have Informal
ton that so-and-so has deposited with
number. Will YOU please open the box
and let me see whether | have been
correctly informed.' The president of
the deposit company snorted with indig
nation, but the SMALL: boyish mar
looked not -.. abashed,s but. severe
II was going to add when yor
. inter rltpted NE that my name is Folk
that I am your servant the district at
torney, and that if you do not open that
box in my presence shall have you ar
rested and take possession of your eel
lar
The president of the deposit company
came down and Mr.. Folk got his evi
dence that the street railway company
was Systematically corrupting the public
officials Of the city.
Why do business men do these things
One reason they give is that they canno
do business in any other way. If the.
go to the public with their requests the.
will have to pay the aldermen secretl.
any way, and so they would be ble'
twice So they go to the aldermen il
the first place and rob the public Of it
profit on the transaction. Of course tn
excuse is only an excuse, but has tn
merit Of being sincere. Very few bus
ness men get into the business Of buyin
aldermen until they have tried othe
ways Of doing business. 1t is mast
work.
There is legal feature which make
bribery of officials difficult to trace
That is that the man who gives brib
is equally guilty with the man who It
ceives one. Even if the man is blacl
mailed out Of his money by crimin;
combination he is made as low as th
fellow who held him up. 1t is a goo
deal like hanging the man who shoot
a highwavman in selfdefence.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
ADJUSTMENTS
MetropoIitan-"stroneheart."

.
returning to the scene Of his opening
performances Of "Strongheart,' Robert
Edeson, after a years eastern indorse-
sment OF Minneapolis approval, comes with
a 1alf claim to new praise. Seasoning of
the production and strengthening Of the
cast nave combined to make for a more
convincing whole. Mr.. EdesOn and his
players have to deal with an odd ANAL
gam OF football and race problem, where
IN the football is Of melodrama and the
race problem is theatrical. So it is
really Mr.. Blossoms fine work, as the In
dlan become almost a brother OF his
Wnlte fellow students, that wins the
audience to thoro sympathy, not that his
support is lacking-for every part is
realized by an excellent company-but
naturally 1t is the son Of an Indian
chief that dominates thruout. tho with
n1eety that does not for moment
subordinate the college spirit SO neces-
sary5 to@,the faithful presentation of the
fStory. Football has become secondary
| eons1deration since Strongheart played
the game here last season, and 'twere
better so, for the ways of the Strongheart
Columbia team are far from the ways of
the training table and the dressing room.
''Strongheart" is a race problem play
marked by some inconsistencies that win
| applause, but working consistently, new
ertheless, to fitting solution and pow
erful "curtain'' as the Indian, son Of a
chief, and now chief himself, renounces
his love, turns his back >on friendships,
whose tiles are cut by the. knife. OF
| prejudice and calls on the .'Great
| Spirit as he stands 'in a great desert
alone"
There are few changes in the cast since
last season, and these are mostly to its
betterment.. Mary Boland comes neare,
| the ideal as Dorothy Nelson, from
| Strongheart's love for whom the race
problem arises. Frank j. Mcintyre is
this years slangy Billy Saunders, the
| center rush. Ira Hards falls below Ed
ward Breese as the coach, but is accept
able, nevertheless. Louise Drew, daugh
| ter OF John Drew, Is pleasing as Moll!
Livingston. Otherwise the cast has the
same capable personnel as last season
And Robert Edeson-one must go bacl
] to him again, and express delight in hi:
| faithful chara acteriza ton, his .deliberatiol
Of speech. his realization Of all tina
makes the part and the play thorol!
worth seeing. .~,..s. ,r~ ~
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
SONG CYCLE TONIGHT
Famous Quartet Will Sing Composition
I at Plymouth Church.

The shakspere song cycle to be given
thissevening in Plymouth church by the
famous quartet Of singers, David Bisp-
ham, Mrs. Katherine. Fisk, Mrs. Shot
wen-Piper and Kelly Cole, has brought
it's composer, Mrs. Grace Wassall, a
western woman, national fame. :
Nine Gadski and other noted singers
have Included some of the songs in
their repertoryy and the whole vi lie, compost
its kind. 1 Mrs. Wassall is the daughter
of Mrs. Ella: Crosby, the lecturer on
Wagnerian music, who was heard in
Minneapolis several years. ago. The
cycle will 'be given under the auspices
Of the Thursday Musical, and will be
one of the features Of its educational
work for the. season.
Tickets can be secured at the door
and plenty of excellent seats remain.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21

A young fellow named. Everett Colby
smashed up boss a Newark, N. j., by
defeating 1.-The I-entz machine He
says that bosses, or at least their under
lings, are usually warm hearted men,
who sympa thize with people, really like
them, and would do anything for them
except refrain from robbing them thru
political graft. Honest leaders are usu-
ally of sterner stuff, and frequently give
the men whose votes they need an i'm
preston of lack of interest in their per-
sonal welfare. This is very true. We
have seen in this city instances of the
power of the good fellow vote. ~, u
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21

The charge that voting machines con-
duce to stra aight-ticket voting gets jolt
from Buffalo. In the recent election
democrats were elected by n1ajorfties
ranging from $500 for mayor, to 500 for
municipal judge. But this was not all
Ryan, a democrat, for poor overseer, was
defeated by 1900, showing a difference
between the leading and the losing dem
60, 900.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
FIFTY MILLION 70? GOOD ROADS
Nebraska State Journal.

The automobile interests have Won a
victory in New York in the adoption Of a
constitutional amendment authorizing the
immediate expenditure. Of $50,000,000 on
good roads. The appropriation of only
twice as much for SO important a wealth
producer as the enlarged Erie canal
caused a tremendous uproar a short time
ago. The opposition Of the railroads to
the canal and their acquiescence in this
scheme may account in part for the diff
ference in the noise made during the Two
campaigns. .- ..
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21

future. The laws Of New York are so
constructed as to put premium on
ignorance and fine upon intelligence.
The straightaway Tammanyite goes into
the booth and marks cross under the
Tammany emblem. He goes on his way
rejoicing and his vote is counted as
dast. But a voter from Brooklyn or the
Bronx who tries to vote, q split ticket
or to discriminate between good and
bad candidates on his own ticket, gets
into all sorts of difficulties. If he
votes some candidates on one ticket,
some on another, he is likely to get
into difficulty with the emblem, and
if, in the process, he soils or tears the
ballot, it is quite likely to be rejected
under a technical construction of the
law ....... -,e. ,<s.a
The people OF, New York are demanety
ing law like that of Minnesota, where
the names Of all candidates are ranged
under the name, of, the office to which
they aspire. Then the man who car
read will have little the better Of the
man who cannot. The New York law
does not give the plain American
fair chance. -.. =. ~~
1t is well that the cities are aroused
upon the subject of-a fair. chance: fol
the honest voter. The corruption Of
the ballot is most manifest in >,tht tht
great cities. It's fruits are there gath
cred by the bosses in the most abun
| dant crop. The whole country is com
| ing to take it's politics and it's poll
ticians from the cities. If they arr
not going to stand by the principle Of
manhood suffrage and one honest vot'
for each honest man, there will be seri
Gus trouble in maintaining democratic
institutions
The election Of Jerome in New Yorl
and Of the city ticket in Philadelphia
shows that normally the people are t.
be trusted, but they cannot always b.
on their toes to catch thieves. Th
laws ought to be almost automaticalll.
enforceable against the man or part
which tries to besmirch the franchise.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21

-. One of the most recent improvements
in. journalism is. the ready-made editorial
which is syndicated among a number of
papers. It brings about a similarity Of
utterance among several newspapers
which is at first puzzling. One does not
know whether there Is unconscious as
siniation of ideas by one editor from an
other or whether two or three editors
thought Of the same great idea about the
same hour of the same day, or whether
one has borrowed from the other without
giving credit. But it is all plain enough
when you know that there is an editorial
syndicate which will furnish a New
Hampshire editor with ideas and fur
nish the same ideas to the Butte editor
and one at Fort Worth. There will be
hereafter no reason why all newspapers
shall not be ably edited.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-21
CONVENTION ENDS
Otto G. Johnson Is President of Twin
CITY Luther League.

The convention of the Twin City
Luther league concluded at St. John S
English. Lutheran church last evening
with an address by Rev. Luther Nj.
Kuhns of Omaha on ''The Right of the
Lutheran Church to Care for Her Young
People.
The following new officers were elect
ed: President, Otto G. Johnson; re-
cording secretary, Miss Sophia Stearns;
corresponding secretary, Miss Esther
Swanson; treasurer, E. Nervig; general
secretary, A. NJ. Knutson.