The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-29

H., was next on, the program with
a paper Oh MY share, OF Your
Farm" and Miss Margaret Evans.
dean OF women, Carleton college,
Mortified, Mimi, spoke on Child
Conservation"
Home life is the vital factor"
Miss Evans said The first inspira-
tion of the, child fUr good or first
impression for bad, is received at
the home. Practically all cases Of
criminal tendency in children are
preyentable" She pleaded for a
happy medium between the strict.
England and the more liberal life
of the present day.
! DR.. II. Longstreet Taylor of st.
Paul, member of the Minnesota tu-
berculosis commission, spoke on the
problem of fighting the diseases as
a state measure for protection, and
criticized conditions at the state
hospital for consumptives at Walker,
MINI. He said there is opportunity
to care for 125 patients but that
only 100 can be taken because of
lack of funds The legislature, DR..
Taylor said. has not met the full
requirements of the hospital. There
are $500 deaths annually in Mime
sofa from this plague" DR.. Taylor
said, land how are We combating
| it? With one hospital that at most
can accommodate 125 patients"
! Governor Edwin l.. Norris of Mon
tana, who was to have spoken to-
T.! day, took the platform last night.
He talked of the northwest and
its future. with it's many and SUI
perior advantages the northwest
should speedily become thickly pop
ulated and fully developed" said Gov
ernor Norris, 'but the public land
policy of the government must be
changed before that ambition can
! be realized. The laws governing
! the appropriation of public lands
subject to entry by settlers are
reasonably satisfactory. The chief OBJ
| lection is to the manner in which
those laws have been interpreted
] and administered. A few years ago
the long-standing policy was chang
| ed, the change being due, it is
claimed, to the discovery by federal
officials that title to lands was in
some instances being obtained by
| fraud. To the measures taken to
check frauds and to punish the
guilty parties no honest citizen OBJ
jects. Only in rare instances were
actual settlers upon agricultural
lands found to be guilty of an at
tempt to defraud the government.
In order to reach a few guilty par
Z n in ION.
rated which has proven more bur-
densome to the innocent than effec-
, tive. against the guilty.
THE Canadian government has
wisely pursued different course
relative to it's lands. In the domin-
| ion everything is done to encourage
and assist those who are willing to
till the. soil into productiveness."
The COntagiOn Of dramatic ap-
fpeal for the convicts by Maud Ball
ington Booth led Governor Eberhart
| to devote the major portion of his
address at the closing session or
the Minnesota, Conservation and Ag.
ricultural Development congress last
night to the cause of the criminal.
The " subject of his address was
Conservation and Progress" ResO.
lutions touching on many phases of
the work of the congress were adopt
ed at the final session. ...
The Pioneer Press says: Cover
nor Eberhart urged the conserva-
ton, through economy and rigid
watchfulness of the funds appropri
ated by the state for the mainte.
nance Of the prisons, so that con-
victs may reap the, full benefit OF
the money. -
Urges Moral Education. a.
Minnesota should take more
pains to educate it's citizens along
moral lines, in the schools and the
homes, so that the prisons will not
be filled. Thus should we be free
of large part of one of the gray
est problems We now have to face.
advocate an immediate change in
criminal procedure in this state, to
do away with the preliminaries of
indictment for crime, SO that sus-
pect, If he wishes to plead guilty,
may do so before a Judge, without
being compelled to spend long
time in Jail, before the legal for.
malities have been complied with.
We devote too much attention to
preventing crime, and not enough to
removing the causes that go to fos.
ter crime, but, SO long as we have
1t with us, / am radically in favor
of seeking some method whereby
we may deal with criminal cases
more speedily"
Taking up the resolution of the
Twin City Lutheran Minister'S asso-
citation, which placed that body on
record as favoring the death pen.
atty for murder, Governor Eberhart
expressed himself as surprised that
the clergy should say that the abol-
ishment of capital punishment leads
to crime. He asserted that he had
investigate the records, and that
there was no difference in the num-
Der OF crimes under the two sys-
TENS of punishment
ut is because we do not enforce
the laws speedily that we have
crime" he said.
Legal Delay an Injustice.
The governor urged that the laws
delays" constituted an injustice as
between rich and poor, following
the same line as given in an inter
view Thursday. He said he advo-.
Gated doing away with all appeals
to the supreme court except in a
final Judgment by the lower courts,
since rich man could take advan-