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1 ri I NOT READY TO GIVE AN INCH jjpremier's Address Still Clings to the Old Idea of Paternalism. & hi St. Petersburg, May 28.The position of the government on the demands of I't'he lower house of parliament is still ."tie subject of heated discussion on all [sides. Premier Goremykin's address, !in which the government expressed its 'rejection of the popular demands bids i^air to become a historic document from 'the results which must inevitably fol low. Tie premier's statement was as fol {lows: i- "The government, after examining "the address of the lower house, of parlia ment in accordance with the instruo itions of the emperor, is fully prepared to lend its entire support to the elabora tion of the questions suggested by the lower house in so far as they do not go jbeyond limits of the legislative initia tives assigned to the lower house. This "support the government will also extend fco the amendment of the franchise law, jtftbo it is of the opinion that this ques tion should not be made the subject pof immediate discussion, inasmuch as j'the lower house is only just entering sipon its labors and therefore is not, yet 3a a position to ascertain the need of 'such a change. Guarding the Wealthy. "Special caution must".be shown by ifche council of ministers in regard to ^he questions raised by the lower house, &f satisfying without delay the needs of *h rural population and placing the Pae easants on a footing of equality with other classes, of satisfying the re quirements of the working people, of xaming a measure providing for obli atory elementary education, of making h.e wealthiest classes liable to the pay lent of taxes, of re-organizing the pro vincial administration, and of introduc ing a system of self-government with Special consideration for the peculiar llBQliditions of the frontier provinces. '"The council of ministers attaches no 8S importance to the suggested law re nting to the liberty of the subject, o'f Jonscience and of the press and to free om of meeting and association. Never iheless it considers it necessary, in pre paring such laws, to provide the admin itration with such effective means as enable the government to prevent or ounteract any abuse of the liberties onceded. Agrarian Plan Rejected. :t "With reference to the solution of She agrarian question by the transfer of [the crown appanages and monastery nd church lands, and by the forcible ^expropriation of private landed prop erty, which includes the private prop erty of peasants, the council of minis iters holds it to be its duty to declare jthat such a method is wholly inadmissi ble. The government cannot deprive one party of its possessions in order to bestow them on another. To contest the right of the private possession of land would be in fact to contest the right to possess any private property at all. Thruout the world and in ail grades of the development of civil life the inviolability of property constitutes the cornerstone of the welfare of the people and the fundamental basis of the life of the state. The resources still at the disposal of the state and the wide application of legal methods will aouptiess nelp to Una a successful salur tion of the agrarian question without undermining the powers of the father land. Fundamental Law Involved. "The other laws referred to by the loWer house touch on the responsibility of. the ministers and the abolition of the upper house. The council of minis ters does not feel itself justified in en tertaining these proposals, as they in volve radical alterations of the funda mental law and conditions which are beyond the province of the lower house. Finally, as regards the solicitude of "the lower house to secure justice and right in the army and navy, the gov ernment declares that in the army these principles are already unspeakably es tablished and that the solicitude of its illustrious head is now directed to the improvement of the material position of the soldiers and to devising means for a jmore extensive realization of the meas ures directed to that end. As regards the proposed abolition of the exceptional laws and the arbi trary acts of officials, the council of ministers consider this wholly within the domain of the public administra tion, of which the lower house has only the right of interpellation. Further more the consolidation of the adminis tration into a state of strict legality jforms the subject of special care oh [the part of the government, which will not fail to see that the conduct of government officials is inspired by sim ilar endeavors. Ministers Drafting Perfect Measures. "The government also recognizes (that the present exceptional laws do not suffice in extraordinary eases to insure tranquility and. order and the ministers therefore are engaged in grafting more perfect measures to that |end: If the exceptional laws, despite their imperfections, have been recently enforced in many districts, the cause of this is to be found exclusively in the incessant murders and acts of violence Conscious of its responsibilitv to tho Country, ^he ministrv will maintain quiet and order by the legal means now jat its disposal so long as the disturb ances continue and so long as. the gov ernment is not furnished thru fresh legislation with eectual means of eom patmg lawlessness, ing lawlessness. Only Partial Amnesty. "In regard to the amnesty question I the pardon of prisoners convicted by .the courts, no matter what form^of .crime may have been committed, is''the |prerogative of the monarch. The coun cil of ministers'considers that it would (not be beneficial to society to amnesty persons implicated in murders and acts of -violence while disturbances continue. ,As'to persons deprived of their liberty I by administrative order the cabinet has taken steps to procure the release of those whereby public safety is not threatened." u'-'-1 What Government Purposes. "Independently of the considerations contained in the address to the emperor, I the cabinet deems it necessary at this [-moment to sketch the general lines of C* iits,intentions in th legislative field. The welfare of Russia will be unattain jable so long as the prosperity of agricul te I ture is not assured. The -peasant ques- v. i tion, therefore, rises as the most import- $-" ant of the hour and the council of min isters recognize the necessity for de- $ [voting special pains to the care of its settlement. Further, all restrictions ft.* I regarding the possession of land must fi,r' be abolished andt&t..the. same time steps .must be taken increase the profit ,jriiich the peasants draw from the land. l'*r %t The migration and settlement of the peasantry on fresh lands is one of the !& I chief cares of the council of- ministers. jjK The government recognizes that the |U raising of the intellectual and moral %s-' level of the masses is a necessity which '.cannot be postponed. The government ari lay before the houses a pill provid* Monday Evening, ing for the reform of secondary and higher education. *4 Order Must Come First. "The preliminary reforms announced by the emperor cannot be thought of so long as the law's power is not firmly established. "The council of ministers places at the forefront of its labors the question of the creation of local courts on lines which shall simplify a change in the procedure of trial from the present sys tem and also will submit to parliament a bill regarding the responsibility of officials. These bills will be framed on the principle that conviction of lnviola bilitv of the law can only be implanted in the people when they are confident that violation of law by representatives of the government is impossible. "Tho government is fully convinced that the stability of the state abroad and its strength at home are dependent upon the legal but firm exercise of its authority by executive power and, in tends to exercise that power inflexibly, conscious of its responsibility ^to the throne and the country and the con viction that parliament, recognizing that the peaceful prosperity of the country depends upon a .prudent com mission of liberty and order, will co-op erate with it in bringing by means of peaceful and creative labor that pacifi cation of all classes of society that is so necessary to the country." NEW SUBMARINE CAN SEE THRU THE WATER Journal Special Service. New York, May 28.A new subma rine destroyer, from which. the. crew can see and hear at a great distance and thus strike with greater accuracy, has been invented by Lewis Nixon, the shipbuilder. The new submarine de stroyer, Nixon says, will be offered to the United States government before any power has an opportunity to get it. Nixon declares the boat has a secret device by which it will be practieally impossible for a torpedoboat or strange craft to come within a mile or two without being observed or heard. "The task of destroying the unwel come craft requires another device," Mr. Nixon said. "This is covered by one of the applications for patents now pending. The blowing up of a hostile vessel approaching too closely is a sim ple matter. My device includes the use of high explosives that will work terrific damage when exploded near the hull." NEW YORK MEN ON TRIAL FQR BRIBERY Washington, May 28.The trial of State Senator George E. Green of New York and W. D. Doremus on charges of conspiracy to defraud the govern ment and bribery in connection with the purchase of certain stamp canceling devices for the postal service, was be gun today in the district supreme court before Justice Gould. The defendants were arraigned and eaeh pleaded not guilty. The work of drawing a jury was then begun. This is Green's second trial grow ing out of the postoffice investigation. His first trial resulted in an acquittal. CONYICTION FOLLOWS FAKE CONFESSION Journal B^scial Borrrco, "Philadelphia, May 28.To the amaze ment of everybody, including the pros ecutor himself, the jury in the court of error and terminer Saturday found Har ry Norris guilty of murder in the sec ond degree. This erratic and perhaps weak-mind ed youth had made an astonishing "confession" to the effect that he and a companion, Neil or Haifley, had killed Clara McGonnell, a young milliner, last February. Norris was at the time in the county prison charged with larceny. He said that he and Haffley had met the girl at Sixteenth street and Eidge avenue, had inveigled her up an alley and had stolen a bag she carried which contained $30. She was about to scream, and Haffley, Norris said, picked up an iron bolt and killed her. Then they threw her body into a pit. The po" lice could find nothing to connect either Norris or Haffley with the murder, if, indeed it was a murder at all. But Norris was tried and now has been con victed. His lawyers have made the usual mo tion for four days in which to file rea sons for a new trial. His Mother is heart broken and says the lad is weak-minded and that they had contemplated having him confined for years, but put it oil' from time to time. SOCIAL EYIL CRUSADE IS ON IN PITTSBURG Journal Special Service. Pittsburg, May 28.The social evil crusade continues. Instead of prosecut ing the women, the authorities have de cided to go after the people who rent their houses to the women at enormous figures, who sell them their clothing at two or three times its value, who rent them furniture and who loan them money at usurious rates. There are two forces at work in the crusade, the district attorney's office and the city police authorities, under direction of the mayor, but they are not working harmoniously. FLOUR CITY MEN INVEST Act on Hill's Suggestion and Buy Gold Mines in Montana. Special to The Journal, Kendall, Mont., May 28.Acting on the suggestion of Walter J. Hill, a son of James J. Hill, president of the Great No.rthern Railway company, Seattle and Minneapolis investors nave secured promising mining claims in this dis trict, known as the richest gold section in Montana, and will.at once begin ex tensive development work. Among the investors are W. W. But ler of Seattle and J. E. Eden of Minne apolis, and their property consists of a group of claims not. far distant from the famous Barnes, King and Kendall mines. Mr. Hill brought his friends here this week in an automobile. Messrs. Butler and Eden have dia mond drills at work to thoroly deter mine the value of the claims, and the indications are said to be very favor able. CEDAR FALLS, IO"WA.The baccalaureate sermon before the class of thirty members of the high school was aellvereQ last night hy Rev. (1. H. Blrney. The commencsement address will be delivered by William Arnold Shanklln. presi dent of Upper Iowa university at Fayette. CASTOR IA Tor Infants and Children. The Kin You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of i w--n PLENTY OF FOOD A i 1ICE ANTIDOTE Starvation, Says London Special ist, Causes Loss of Heart and Grime. Journal Special Servioe. New York, May 28.A simple meth od ,of abolishing vice and crime in New York and other large cities is an nounced by Professor Alexander Haig, the distinguished English physiologist and physician to the Metropolitan hos pital in London. The criminal classes, according to him, are recruited from the pauper classes, after which they "lose hearth" become unemployed ,and de generate into chronic loafers, beggars or thieves. This thing of "losing: heart," Dr. Haig says, is not a mere sentimental or emotional state of the mind, but is an actual, physical degeneration of the heart, due to insufficient nourishment. He says: There is a problem of some interest in relation to a portion of our popula tion. I refer to the condition of the poorest classes and the chronically un employed, for if people who are well provided with# food occasionally suffer from, heart failure, from defective nu trition, how much more must those suf fer who for weeks and months in the winter are on the verge of starvation, tho not actually starving? _"I believe, that when, these people lose heart it means that the heart mus cles is a tlast sharing musclesJ Savr oo people, however, practically never this chance. The most they car hope is that as spring comes around a small increase of work may lift them a short distance above the verge of starvation and their hearts therefore never have an opportunity of com pletely recovering." FATAL MISTAKE IS STRANGELY DUPLICATED Journal Special Service. Pittsburg, May 28.Almost on the same spot and almost in the same man ner as he -had killed a man less than three years ago, Archibald Buff, one of the wealthiest men of Clairton, a suburb of this city, was killed early Saturday morning by his son-in-law, A. M. Burd. As the coroner's jury exonerated Duff for the crime he had committed, so he, with his last breath summoned a jus tice of the peace and made a deposition exonerating his son-in-law from all blame for his death. On Saturday morning Duff arose about 1 o'clock, intenng to take a walk. Recently there have been burgla ries in Clairton and the town was on the alert. When Mr. Burd heard some one moving in the house imagined that rob bers were about and securing revolvth er ran out: into the-hallway.his In dim light.lfe saw the'outlines of a man. He callecLto him to throw up his handsi but there~was no reply. He* pulled tiW trigger jttst as Mr. Duff was about to tell who he was. The bullet entered the old man's abdomen and he fell un conscious to the floor, dying, shortly afterward. Always avoid haTsh purgative pills. They first make you sick and then leave you constipated. Carter's Little Liver Pills regulate the bowels and make you well. Dose, one pill. THE MINNEAPOLIS^JOIIRNAI2 i i I in the general malnutrition.otherAethhwit the result of this the heart probably fails and dilates and is perhaps never again able to keep up the same blood pressure to produce the same muscular nutrition and the former strength of muscle and nerve or of will power. "No doubt it such a person were carefully dieted and rested for months that person would return to a normal orapproximately normal condition. These I I I &r ^T Still shortening the dls ^tance between the smok er and his cigars. f. I ANTY DRUDGE "Fudge for YcnI^s,*, ^jrejj^Fp, -V^K^ ke 9*. i mm K*A Sa ys Anty. Mrs. OldHabit "Shucks! I ain't gotno use for this labor-saving soap. It's aH right for lazy folksbut I ain't afraid o' work, so long as my wash looks clean." Anty Drudge"Fudge for yours. It*s your brain that's lazy, else you wouldn't slave the way you do. Why! Look at your clothes alongside o* mine. A blind man with a cold in his nose can tell the difference. Clothes washed with Fels-Naptha feel like new, and smell sweet and fresh." Are you a Fels-Naptha washer? Or do you just use Fels-NaptHa soap? There's a lot of difference between the two. If you use Fels-Naptha the way you use other soaps, you are not getting full value out of it, and we'd rather you wouldn't use it. Fels-Naptha soap has knocked the old way, of boiling and hard rubbing, on the head. But it's not meant to be used any way but the Fels-Naptha way. If you won't follow the direc- ^9^f^^^?^W,'^W^^5.f^F piPijp^ CIGARS ANOTHER UNITE CIGA STORE I N MINNEAPOLIS I 4 5 SouthFourth Street CATURDAY NEXT will see our third store in op- eration in this city. We feel that you are ac- quainted with us and we with you. I your satisfac- tion is only half as great as ours, we have no doubt there is room for our new store. It's surely up to us to hold the confidence already shown. We're going to try with all our might. Special Inducements and Souvenirs on Opening Day ii ^UNITED CIGAR STORES COMPANY wrapper FELS & CO., PHILADELPHIA i CtPricesto tions, don't buy the soap. are, for the white things: clothes with Fels-Naptha, and lay them to soak in lukewarm or cold water about thirty minutes. Then rub out and rinse thoroughly. Your wash is ready for the line. Remember, used with boiling water, it's little if any better than any other laundry soap. But, used ac- cording to directions it will relieve you of every wash-day horror. No boiling necessary not much rubbing, and your wash on the line in half the time. Look for the red and Insist on getting it. All grocers sell Fela-Naptba soap. Tft count only when ied qualityour prices are* Here they Soap the green *NSffetf iKi%^i^ v# i*k'i iv rLj v. js&^mSA, s(v-?