Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-11-24


faith, did not leaFnu6 the conditions
alleRed, and no complaint of excessive
ppptshmegt was ever made to him ny
ally inmate. To believe that such
men, under such circumstances, and
with such opportunities, should have
failed in their mission to the extent OF
permitting such abuses to exist Tor
years without detection and without
arousing in them even suspicion OF
their existence, requires evidence OF .
more convincing nature than has been
produced in the hearsay of this case.
PROBATION OFFICERS REPORT.
Tho prObation officers of the three
major cite: of the state, trained in the
care Of. deli1queps children and. aocus-
toned TO: watch for and detect i'm
proper interference with them, have,
by, their unanimous testimony, cOrrO-
bQrated the view of the clergymen re-
ferred to, that M such abuses existed.
"a learned and respected judge OF
tho district court, chosen by his asso-
oiAtes ON the bench because OF his
training and qualities of mind and
heart as peculiarly fitted to preside
over the juvenile court and to super
wise the probationary system con-
nectcd with it, not only gave testi-
monys tending to discredit the existence
Of abuses in general, but fatty contra
dlctory of tho testimony of at least one
Of complaipant's principal witnesses.
Former members OF tho State Board
OF Control testified to the same effect.
One of these was a member for eight
years and visited the school on an
average once every month. Recognized
by every one who knows him as un-
usually keen to discover and quick to
punish derelictlons of duty in officers
and employees under his jurisdiction,
in this case he failed to discover any
of the alleged abuses charged in this
complaint.
PHYSICIANS STATEMENTS.
Two practicing' physicians visiting
the school daily for years charged with
the duty and paid for the service Of
looking after all the bodily ailments OF
tue pupils, and with the pupils free to
20 to them at any time for even trivial
ailments, also failed to discover any
I evidence of the conditions that we are
now asked to find have existed for ovel
nine years. If the charges be true,
, these physicians are equally guilt.
with the accused officers, for under NJ
possible combination of circumstance
could they have failed for period Of
years to discover at least some evi
dence OF such abuses as have beer
charged without deliberately and viii
fully shutting their eyes to facts wh1ct
must have forced themselves upor
their attention.
| Several young women OF education
and refinement, trained in our higher
institutions of learning, experienced
by years OF teaching in the public
schools of our state, deny the intiictior
of punishments such as have teeI
charged in the complaint and sup
ported by the testimony Of its alleged
victims. E..
BOARD OF VISITORS.
The State Board of Visitors ap.
peared by two of its members and it,
secretary. The members of this board
have been selected from among The
states best citizens, and it's sole duty il
| to discover and report abuses. 1t has ex'
ercised its peculiar duties with viRi'
lance, as its numerous reports on file
in the Office of the chief executive
amply testify. No defect in equipment
personnel, or discipline, no matte,
how. trivial, seems to have escaped itf
notice OF avoided its scrutiny; yet
here, in the most vital of its duties, II
must have wholly failed if the abuses
charged are true. 49,.
The evidence given by the above
named classes of witnesses, some of il
direct, some circumstantial, forms q
mass Of testimony which goes to dis.
prove the charges made. When to this