The Minneapolis journal., 1905-01-24
RED LIGHTS not
FACTOR IN TRADE
LOCAL JoBBERs RESENT IMPUTA
TIoN AGAINST THEIR DEoENoY.
They Say that Debauchery Of Custom
ers Is Not Necessary to Hold Busi-
ness and Are Indignant Against
Charges Made by Recent Critic Of
the Jones Administration.

ness and Are Indignant Against
Charges Made by Recent Critic Of
the Jones Administration.
essary in retaining city g jobbing
trade?
Who is "L. 2. Eischman of New
York = who insists that they ares
Local jobbers and northwestern trav-
cling men are highly indignant over the
charges both made and implied in an
interview with the man Eischman, ap-
pearing in Minneapolis paper, which
has never been friendly to the pres
ent city administration nor to the ideas
which it is working out.
| Under heavy display headlines, evil
IDENTIFY intended. to lend weight to the
fishes an interview with Eischman
who, in a deeply panied tone,
expresses apprehension that recent
reforms will drive wholesale trade
away from Minneapolis. In effect,
his interview charges that de,
bauches are necessary adjunct OF
trade and that northwestern buyers
t, kind. of men who will naturally gravi-
tate toward the city where they can
"have time.''
Minneapolis iobbers enter an en-
phatic and indignant denial to this
charge. They are not only hurt
to learn that any Minneapolis
paper should give prominence to
they deny, but feel that the good name
Of the city as a whole has not received
fair consideration. .s- .. ~.
/ ''Wideopenness' Means Graft.
"Some one is in a great hurry to
open attack on Mayor JONES' says j.
G. Eliel of the Lyman-Eliel Drug COM
, pany. "He has not been in office more
; than two or three weeks; certainly not
sonally I believe that Mr.. Jones will
give us a sane administration, not a
narrow one. I think it will be dignl-
fed, clean and honest, and have con-
} tidence in him as think that he knows
what the conditions are and what they
should be.
"Now I don't see that he has done
anything to injure the city thus far,
; and if he continues as he has begun we
! business men should give him our sup
port. confidence and good will. 1t is
merely an assumption that he intends
:: to do something which will hurt the
city, for there has been no Indication Of
it. If a number Of gamblers, crooks,
immoral women have left the city we
l wants that class Of people the town is
, welcome to them. . " 'a~
. ''There is great deal of delusion
4 about wide open policy being con-
r ducive to business, for such q policy is
, more apt to mean general graft and
4 Minneapolis has probably had enough of
that for some time.
~ don It imagine that Mr.. Jones can
9 9 stop gambling, but he certainly can
control it. Nor can he eradicate the
; red light district, but he can localize
9 the evil, and in all his efforts toward a
u higher standard Of public morality we
81 notice in this article a statement
u that many large sale has been made
L in the wee small hours Of night In
0 the wee small hours am in bed and ]
= would not be doing business very long
n if I were not. It may be one way tc
Is get business, but Minneapolis did not
r obtain her growth thru such a policy
d advocate it now.
d "There does not appear to be any
l. excuse or reason for the publication Of
e such an article and I fail to see wha1
good purpose it can possibly serve.'
d N. w. Merchants Like Decency.
IS Business, to be successful, must b.
It this is equally true whethers the bust
r ness Is that Of q merchant in a small
r. town OF jobber in large town. ~ sal,
s. T. B. Janney Of Janney, Semple, Hill
ty Co. ''Not only have we no desire t.
Or take customers about to gambling
p houses and disreputable places, bu
TX the wholesale dealers are inclined t.
j1oo1r rus&h c,,rpfoinr q
who is drinking and gambling, for b
is apt to neglect his business and hi
obligation.
OF Of the northwest is that they are clear
T. wide-awake men, who in a business wa
er deal wherever it is to their advantag
e. regardless of whether it is in tow
i'll tight or 'wide-open.' It is immateris
a to the buyer. At home he is q r.
spected citizen with reputation for il
p tegrity, morality and self-respect, nea.
n ly always a member Of q church, an
It is not just to represent him as fr,
quenting the places OF vice and in il!
morality when he goes to Minneapoli
Chicago or New York to buy goods.
,h "Years ago when Bismarck was Q
the frontier and the whole west ws
somewhat primitive as compared wit
op its present advancement, considerab
of license was tolerated in one way (
IN another, but those days have passed:
I's cit strikes me that the one who i
in spired the article is somewhat prem
n ture, as he speaks Of the 'lumberjacl
he trade that Minneapolis lost this sprin
st. The lumber camps have not started
ne break up since Mr.. Jones was mayo
It will be three months before the lur
ch bermen come down from the. wood
7e. hence they have not yetshad chance
.te choose between the two towns as Il
&C. best place in which to spend the
te. money. I should think that the who
of article is ill-timed, as it would be bett
IN to reserve criticism until we had
M year of Mr.. Jones' administration, l
ole stead Of only three weeks =
U.s. U.s. A General Libel. =
on eyes, I read what Mr.. Eischman,
a New York, had to say about the reput
lin tion Of Minneapolis as sporting ce
nd ter" said H. E. Partridge Of Wyma
Partridge & Co. 'eThe only inferen
possible is that he refers to prostitute
+ and his remarks are libel on the ret,
and wholesale merchants Of the mort
west, and that. grand army OF m
hes known as travelling statesmen.
HRetail merchants, with rare exec
tions. come to market for strictly bu
ap- ness reasons eand conduct themsely
the lust as they do sat home. with. self
the spect. The days Of leaving the m
at chant IS clothes at home and putting