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v*. VOLUME XIV. NO. 61. EDITED AND PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY —BY— 3F. "W- Johnson. OFFICE OVER CITY DRUG STORE. TERMS $1.50 per year in advance. J)R. A. MARDEN, RESIDENT DENTIST. Office, Corner Minnesota and 1st N. Street. NEW ULM, MINN. Teeth extracted without pain by the use of vitalized air or nitrous oxide gas. J)R L. A. FRITSCHE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Female Diseases a Specialty. Office in W. Boesch's New Brick Block. NewUlm, T)R. C. HIRSCH, T)R. L. G. BELL, id is in JQR. STRICKLER, .PHYSICIAN ANti SURGEON. Office in G. Doehne's new biick block. N E W I N N Telephone Connections. J)R. J. L. SCHOCH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Calls promptly attended to night or day. Office over Pioneer Drug Store, NEW ULM, MINN. S I I A N A N SURGEON. Office over Olsen's Drugstore. When in town, can be found at office at all hours. NEW ULM, MINN Office in the Meiidian Block. NEW ULM, MINN. Teeth extracted without pain by the latest approved methods. •/. T)K. A. KOEHNIS Veterinary Surgeon. JOS. A ECKSTEIN, Having treated sick animalsfor yean T_CHILconscientiously recommend- my yself to all who need the^ Bjuifiees»',©fr persons were*" eceeuMa*• for**" competent Veterinary. Orders may be left at the Pioneer Drug Store. I NEW ULM, MINN. Sttotfuey & dotu^elof Titles examined and perfected. Particular attention given to eol lections. auT*Office over Brown Co. Banlc^s* *i NEW ULM, I N N a C. A.HA«a»BQ LIND HAGBERG, ittopneysandCounselors atLaw, Attend to Suits in all the State and U. S. Courts. Special Attention Paid to Collection* GERMAN AND SCANDINAVIAN LAN* GUAGB3 S O E N NEW ULM. MINN. |SJ?RANCIS BAASEN, Sttort\eyki(& doui\6iloi A a Also Notary Public and Justice of the Peace. Collections promptly attended to ••.....,. ..-.-.•.• 101 NEWULM, MINN. Win. PF/ENDER, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENT, MULLEN BLOCK, NEW ULM, MINN. Fire, Tornado, Hail, Life, Accident, Plate Glass & Live Stock Insurance placed in first class Companies. ,. !R,eaI Bstsite /BOUGHT AND SOLD Loans negotiated on farm property. ^.Passage Tickets sold on best Steamship Lines to and from Europe. DOCUMENTS €F ALL MUDS EXECUTED & aCKNOWLEKiED. SIn TATE OP MINNESOTA,County of Brown ss, Probate Court, Special Term December 4th 18I9n the matter of tb.8flSUUSOfHenrj A. Mil, de On heading and filing the netitlpn of George "III. at •Presenting among other thingB, that Henry A. MFX late ot the towS of Oregon, Ogle County, IM ««& the 2nd day of September A. .D. 1867 at a County Illinois died jgi County, Illinois, died fntestoteranfdOreEonVOgle being a resident ofsaid Ogle County l?j -1 lu~ «ime |lS &fi&3bS ardento WdMfM,,so a nf WBB death, leavft ill at the tim of death leaving goods, kl««aia nnfl pstate within Brown County,and that S wtttlonwis of said deceased, and SSytagSai administration of said estate be to §1 Koch of NewUlm, Minn., granted: It ordered, that suid petition be heard, 1 Tiirlee of this Court, on Thursday Slst day o^i December A.' D. 1891, at 10 iviock A at the Probate Office in *aidcoun£. AniUTis farther*ordered, that notice thereof be iv«ito the heiMOf Bald deceased and to-all 1 & interested, by^ publishing cop"e«c-f ?hi?8 order once in each week for three enc 'Siy^week prior to said d»y of hearing In the 'mw UtaBevlew, a weekly^ newspaper, nrlntoi anTpnbUahed at the city of ftew fn said '^pated'at Vew Ulm.Mmn., thc4th dayorDecem ttwrA.1). tBtl- heCourt,i 'TEOU SHALT NOT KILli." Eon, G. B. Davis of St.PeterFurnishes the Eeview with a Brilliant Article Anent/5 the Death Penalty.nj^/ .-',$ There is a Growing Sentiment, he says, in Pavor of its Abolition^ "Thon Shalt hot Kill," proclaimed from Sinai, applies alike to all.^'* Barbarism in law promotes "barbarism' in those snbiect.tb the law. "wsv-v Editor Review Recent' executions within this state have apparently^pro voked discission in many localities as to the merits of capital punishment,and it i3 gratifying to rjtotice the growing sentiment in favor of its abolition. It is proverbial that reforms are of slow growth, and usually require long, well directed and incessant effort to accom plished the desired result, and society often hesitates to pratically enforce views entertained,until years after posi tive conviction. In this respect O0n servatissm may be considered as fll^MSII emv of progress it seldom object? to results, but invariably priests against the necessary action to achieve them. Governments by their law|f having so long sanctioned the execution of crimi" nals, it is hard to eradicate the ideas thus inculcated, and, man b«ring a crea ture of habit, is liable to become less mindful of the sacredness of human life when he sees it held so lightly by the law of the land, A reasonably deduce tion from our present penal code is,that the fabric, of society can only Vjbe pre*' served by destroying part ot H34mem bers who commit a certain cri admit this conclusion would, it si me, lead to another, viz That ing the death penalty to more c! wonld enhance civilization an more effectually proteet society, thus conclude would be to falsify tory, aad maintain that a greater teetion existed daring the reij Henry Till, than- are now- enjoy, during snob, reign seventy-two thoi rr0 crimes, an-• under the proteetioa am guidance of Queen Elizabeth nineteen^ thoasand were deyoared by^the ^allowa.: Oae hundred and fifty oSenaas were dnriag those delightral(P) times treat* ed as capital, where-now enly one re mains. The comparison is odious. It is claimed by many that the state exe cutes criminals in self defense. Can this be so after he is securely shackled and behind the bars? For each he must be before his execution can take place aad certainly there can be ne repetition by this offender as long as the jailor remains true to duty. Charles Sumner says( 'That the right to take human life stands only en the ground of self de fense, in the state as in the individual, and if either can defend without it,they are bound to do so and no combination of men can have greater righto in this respect than the individual and no matter what the exigencies of other days the time has gone by when the life of a state can only be saved by hanging the criminals.11 Society is pro tected from the most dangerous maniac by confinement this map be called self defense. If purely on this ground, (self defense) why make so great a distinc tion between the dangerous maniac and the murderer, for both are dangerous. Can it be that revenge has any place in the various treatment? And who will admit that in this age laws exist which tolerate revenge? To permit vengeance tojenter into our system of punishment is to reduce us to the level of the offen der. The Mosaic code embraces thirty three offenses punishable with death and yet the greatest law giver swept them all into oblivion when he said, "Resist not evil11, and all his other teachings and commands concur there witht There is no right in reason or warrant from religion to take the life of a fellow being. God did not demard the blood of Cain as an expiation but de clared that "Whosoever slewi Cain, His vengeance (not ours) should be taken on him sevenfold.J' Thou shalt not kill proclaimed from Sinai, applies to all, citizen and ruler alike. But when the State,under the plea of necessity,breaks this commandment and calls it virtuous to do, how can the individual be con demned for similar conduct?The\wroogs of government permeate every vein of the individual and society. Like be gets like, and the people become like the government. Cruel punishments by* parents usually are reproduced bjr threey children when they become parents. When society treats human life as a thing to belightly taken,peoplebeoome familiar wtth its little value. Yon can-, notillustiatethe sacredness of human criniina). Judge#fProbate by killing Wste-ry DEFECTIVE PAG E than you can demonstrate the .value of property by burning everything com bustible. To quote from John Bright, "Barbarism in law promotes barbarism in those .subject to the law, and if the law regards life as inviolable, the peo ple would also so regard it." The re--often suits of capital punishmeut are irreme diable, and the innocence of the victim counts lor naught. The fallible tribun al that pronounces such judgment fre quently bases its conclusion upon, the most unreliable and perjured testimony often emanating from witnesses seeking revenge, and not infrequently from the actual criminal, to shield himself. So long as man is liable to err in judg ment, would it not be$*r better to re serve the right of ejecting possible mistakes? The commpiity is shocked whenever an innocent person is execut ed, and none can be fouijff who will ad mit that they are to blame yet to a cer tain extent all are to blam^ in a greater or less degree, and all musjtbe respon sible until the laws are so changed as to prevent a recurrence. All laws teach that motive and intent are* the^essential elements of crime hence sanity must not be wanting in the perpetrator in or der to properly puuish him. Every jury •must of necessity pass judgment^'jbpon the mental condition of the accusedyand determine where sanity ends nnd insan ity begins. The workings of the hni^an brain, that complex organism which even the most scientific cannot always fathom, the disorder of which frequent ly produces crime, must be analyzed by a jury it unscientific metv^Sand judgment in most cases is final. There, fore,who will deny that often irremedi able punishments are meted out to those ^already afflicted with the awful malady pf Insanity. A popular fallacy exists |hat the death penalty is absolutely es sential to deter the criminally inclined from oommittini murder, and that without this menaee society would be nnprottsetad. pThlte admitting its de terrent I wee, yet I ieel eenldeat that Ufe insjpriaonmesi •etslstsitly enforced wo^bsi|aallyeflk«^«s. If not so. Tha sure and^trieffetuemeat W pjli laiaiawllsa fcisji si mentwouVi strike *rrer to the vicious than the praeeut uncertainty. |tjh« attcsto ei court* **4- J»ries to oonTirt whaj* irremediable punishment pA\omt0m •Weld the ««**. hut with »laww|ishuennltsthe eefreofis* of sjlttakesY jpeeter certahitv of, eeavte fy*» would follow. Baath Is the mto lot of alL and the saousu tat in thelnture inspires no partieular drsW, rho murderer thtaks mat of his owlUfeatthe time he eommiU^lhe crimf, andoulv fears death (if at IW) wheii it is absolutely lmpendinjr. Again a lar^e peroeatajp of the murderous class plaoe little or no value upon their own lives, and often regard death as a blessing owing to Vhe fact that their previous life had been largely made up of unhapDiness, The great excess of suicides over homicides proves the state ment that life is often a burden. To de ter the vicious And desperate is the chief aim of, the law hence the idea of legislating men of this class out of ex istence to end their enjoyment is some what fallacious.- The value of any threatened penalty depends largely up on the uniformity of its enforcement and the repugnance of those whose duty it is to enforce the death penalty is often the avenue through which the guilty escape.'||jV. large portion of hu manity being so averse to this penalty, they will seek many means to avert it, and frequently besiege the Chief Exe cutive for clemency, andoften with suc cess. By the commission of crime man forfeits his civil rights, and this forfei ture giyes society its right over him. Restraint should then, follow for the purpose of protecting soe'etv, .and if possible reform the offender. Many in stances might be citedshowing that the gallows instead of suppressing crime incites the commission of it, and hence modern civilization'and legislative bod ies have concluded that this exhibition of executing the criminal should not take place in public, owing to the ex citing and bad effect, upon the depraved. Does not the state in sanctioning secret executions thereby confess their perron cious efteot upon the multitude? If not so, then at once repeal all laws which limit the number of spectators,and her ald the event far and wide, bidding'the populace draw nigh and witness this, spectacle, tor its moral .and.- deterrent effects. Punishment for crimeought to be three fold in its nature: Firsts the reformation of the criminal Second for protection of society, and Third, ttf* straiht|upon thecrimiuallyinclmed^hid the best authority, assorts, that the death penalty fails in aco«mpUsl4*jr, either.for \i destroys without reforaalag NEW ULM, BROWN COUNTY, MINN., WEDNESDAY, December 23,1891. W'HOLE NUMBER 728 1 in secuaing protection to society, or in destroying crime, Its failure is marked and consnicnous. All penalties should contemplate the reformation of the criminal, as well as punishment, and failing in this, are but cruelties. It is asserted that the deliberate mur derer is uot fit to live, and should, be re moved. If this be true, will those who venture thus to speak assert that he is fit to die, sA»\rff-vC.R. Davis.'^ vJ^'^V'E 5,"' MR. LIND TO BE HEARD FROM. $ The Minnesota Member will be in Posi teon to make Himself Useful in i*A the Present Congress. ,, .^, $ The Sunday papers were full of inter esting congressional news from Wash ington, and among the names most prominently mentioned was that of Mr. Iiind of our own Second District. The cyclone of last fall robbed the house of many of its leading Republican members and so Mr. Lind finds himself easily at che forefront of the majority. He will-therefore secure a place on some of the mest important committees of the house, where his ability and ex perience will enable him to do telling work. With the delegation of his own state too, all members of which are new, he will be a great help,and his acquain tance and knowledge of congressional legislation will giVte him an opportunity to get through matters for the state which even a man in the majority can their \pot *lways accomplish. -One of the committees to which he will most likely be assigned is that on commerce. The powers of this body have weto enlarged sothat now it is one of the most important under the control of the speaker. Mr. Lind was one of its most active members lo the last oongress,and as there was only one other Republican member re-elected, his prospects for oontiDofi^of tbooommittee are very good. Both interstate and foreign oemmeme are now under ijs- supervis fayswaadthaSooood distriet represent*. tfoa-has give* each suffleieiit study ^imaSaimmmmbm^^Mt., -MSftmkm: Mills is being spoken of as chairman of she oommittee.ias* 5 ELI S SIMPLE VEB8I0N. Eli Perkins has a very simple and clear method of stating his ideas, aad he has lately added a contribution to tariff literature, which, while applying to hot one artlole, can be easily made use of in illustrating the effects of simi lar tari* legislation. The story will be found' very Interesting by those who saw fit last fall to ridicule the "aooro, "straw" and other features of the Mo Kinley bill. The storyfatas follows: I want to tell our little children a story about chicory. I sappose you don't know what ohioory is. Well it is a vegetable like a parsnip whioh the French and Germans are raising, dry. ing, browning, grinding and using in stead of coffee. We have been sending out about $8,000,000 to Germany every year)tfr this little article. It tastes like coffe^, is good wholesome food, but it has no nerve stimulant like coffee. Children can drink chicory as they can To get to the story: When they were putting the tariff on different things last year and got down to^VC" they came righton to chicory., X& "What's chicory? asked Major Mc Kinley. A No* one was able to tell anything about it except that we paid Europe $8,000,000every year^for what was used. "Well, what shall we do with it?11 asked several Congressmen. "Why, if we can't raise it," said Mc Kinley, and the people want it, we will .let raw chicory come in" free,tbut we will put a Protective Tariff on manufac tured chicory... We will try and bring the manufactories to America if we can't raise the stuff," So theTariff went on to manufactured chicory. --SJ. Suddenly I noticed a great stir among the chicory importers, rtWhythis Mo- Kinley bill has raised the Dickens,1*, they said "We can't import] ground ohioory any more from France aad Ger many." We must make it here.1', ... So they wrote and telegraphed the foreign chicory manufacturers that they must hurry up and bring their chicory factories over here. And- sure enough there was stampede,from Europe, and chicory factories began to go.up in Jersey City, Hobokeo, Williamsburg, Newarkaad Brooklyn| Then Philadel phia and Detroit started chicory facto ries Ull we had 14 factories and &00 chicory makers at work in America. They got ibelr raw chicory from France aad Gormaay where it is grown with vat* •hoay labor. I!luaworked woU in hutputiii "We are toofar away, We must raise our own chicory." So they got chicory seeds from Ger many and put in asmallcropinMichi last spring. The farmers made more money than they made out of whaat. It set them crazy. Everyone wanted to raise more of it Well, this fall the Detroit factory is doubling its capacity and all the farmers are getting seed through the factory and Jerry Rnsk and preparing to plant chicory next year. What is the result? Why after paying out to France and Germany over $70 000,000 for chicory we are finally goino to make it here, at home,* and save our money—'-"keep it in this country. V,- The history of this industry and how we got it is like that of a dozen other industries which have come through this wise Tariff measnre. Last spring I visited Baron Babant's 4000-acre chicory farm in Whitewood, Manitoba, on the Canadian Pacific. He proposes to supply all Canada with chicory and send his surplus raw chico ry over to be manufactured in theUnited States without paying any duty. His fall crop is now coming to be manufac tured. It is funny about the price of chicory too. It used to sell. for 12 cents per pound wholesale. Competition brought it down to 10 cents, then to 8 cents, then to 4 cents, and now it is offered whol sale at Z% cents. Our retail grocers are keeping the'news from the people and still selling chicory at 12 cts.per pound, when they could sell it at 5 cents. Byand by, if we get a Tariff on raw chicory, every farmer can raise a sub stitute which 'will improve his coffee. One-half chicory giyes a delightful flavor to coffee. Good coffee costs 80 cents a pound. It is one of the burdens of our farmers and mechanics to buy it, for we all drink coffee. Put seoa ehioory will be one of our crops, and §8,000,000 will be saved to our country every year.., -, M1LL8FEEL8 SOME. }^J That was a very interesing as well as amusing answer that Mr.Milts returned plane on the Ways and Means commit tee of the House. Mr. Mills had by the grace of a former congress been per mitted to hold first place on the same eemmittoe aad this fact came in vary bastdyin politely ielbrming Mr. Crisp that ho worth the habit of taking only the best that the Speaker oould afford. This short but pointed reply loaves the speaker in a very peculiar position. The place which Mills wants has ao doubt heoa oroinlisil to Spriager, and not for any particular fitness that Illi nois man maypowees over Mills or be cause he is a Noathem man, but simply to pay oft a debt to which ho owes his present power. Mills, knowing this, is determined to sulk, and, unless he gets what ho wants wo may expect to find the Democratic majority, or rather .the ruling faction, in the house in some very sorrowful straits before the session is over. With Mills holding back on one side, the Cleveland men all dis gruntled and Tom Road and the Re publican minority tripping them up at every chance, that overwhelming ma jority will not have have the easy sail ing that it looked for. Legislation as a result will make very slow progress. ^At the meeting of the Republican Central Commiteein St. Paul last week, the following congressional committee for this district was appointed-^ INTENTIONAL DUPIinATFF A. Blanohard, New Ulmf^Browi county, chairmain p. L.Bendict, Man kato. Blue Earth R. H. Jefferson, Windom, Cottonwood J. H. Sprout, Blue Earth City, Faribauk H.A. Funk, Lakeville, Jackson J. F. Jacobaon, Maduon,Ladqui Parle John McKenzie, Lake Benton, Lincoln F. S. Brown, Tracy, Lyon John Peterson, St Peter, Nicollet J. R. Jones, Worthington, Nobles J. W. Miricle, Fairmont, Mar tin B.R. Whitney, Slayton, Murray F. L. James, Pipestone City, Pipestone John Kelly, Luverne, Rock J. W. Se gur, St. James, Watonwan John Swen son,Canby, Yellow Medicince Dr. W. D. Flinn, Redwood Falls./ i' Minnesota fared exceedingly well in the arrangement of senate committees for the present term of congress. The senior member, Mr. Davis,, is made chairman of the pension oommittee and is also given a place on the committees onjfpreign relations, miliury affairs, ter ritories, and the president's message transmitting report of the Pacific Bail-' way Commission. Washburn, the jun ior representative, gets the chairman ship of the committee on Mississippi river Improvements, as well as places on tho^orniiittsea on civil service mi ^'tdtoattatawl labor, oostoMeos aad roads- aad the OUT OP POLITICS ALTOGETHER. Such is the Substance of a Wa^bingtoa Dispatch Regarding" Mr. Lind.|| JJj? f- is $1 The Present Representative does not EvenF$#0 Want the Governorship "w* tf$v« Dissatisfied With the Treatment Given his -section of the state by tl^e,.. .. »&£ Administration. A Washington special to the Pioneer Press of Sunday has thef following re garding Mr, Lind's determination to withdraw from politics and his com plaints against the treatment given by the administration to the section which he represents- in the" ..matter .of,.fed eral office-holding: •"*." '•v*5 Representative Lind of Minnesota has declared several tfjmes, .and with such emphasis that there can be no mis- «gf taking his intentions, that he will' not be a candidate for re-election in the Second district. This district will lose a valuable member, and Minnesota a congressman who has been very watch ful of her interest. A great many Re-, publicans of the state hoped Mr. Lind would reconsider his determination, and before*the next convention meets1 would conclude to again take the nomi nation, which is of coui'se, equivalent to an election, but in conferenee with tho Pioneer Press correspondent the other day he reasserted his determination tos'j stay out, and positively declined to .al-.^i low his name to be used before thaH& convention. Since this determination lucre has been more or less talk of making him the Republican nominee for governor next fall but, in this connection he is as fully determined as in the matter of the congressional nomination, and would not be a candidate for governor under any circumstances. He ssys that \_-x should he prefer to remain in. politics in tho active sense, such as holding of fiee, tho-house of representatives would suit him better than any other position. It is eyident from what he said that Mr. Lind doss not like the wiy matters Revo run in this administration regard* federal ofies-holding in Minnesota,and that he feels as if his part of the state had been ignored by tho present admin istration. He talked somewhat of the political osntralisiug ia aad around St. Paal and Minneapolis, and especially the latter city., A great many people of tho West, and especially in tho present administration, seem to think that a smalt knot of politicians in Minneapolis is the Republican party of Minnesota. He Is not prepared to b* of that opinion, and thinks that other sections of the state are as truly sW» publioan and entitled to as much con sideration as that oity, whioh has se curedso many of the important appoint ments given to Minnesota. Rot oalr is his complaint on account of federal appointments resident in Minnesota, put in those appointments of honor and profit which wero given to citizens of Minneapolis where the duties carried them to Washington or to other places, remote from their resi dence at the time of their appointment'. He will continue to take an active in terest in politics, and he says he will probably take a hand in affairs relating to the Republican party, but he is not looking for his own advancement,being satisfied, he says, to see others share the responsibility of office-holding. He..,.. will devote his time almost exclusively^! to the practice of his profession, and).?' says.that Minnesota affords him a very ^. satisfactory ,home, and one which he prefers to any other part of the coun-." .. At Eckstein's drug store you will be' more than satisfied that you can suit your friends if you but look over the el egant and beautiful lice of leather and plush photograph holders, French plate aad bevel edged'mirrors In plusb. fig ured wood and metal frames and oth er fancy articles too Numerous to meh t£aa.', «, ,. -, "&••' 7* '~*r 5'* M', In looking fot your Christmas gifts you would commit a great error if you didn't visit the store af AndrewJ. Eck stein. He has restocked bis store with everything now and takes pleasure attiiitfofittd the inany attrac- in tive show themwfilbe Statues, Ho nirs and Wi with which hiscounters and are how loaded. Among Brinseaud SUver nmTreasaad A '•'•£•run Celluloid ^Souvo Chrittmas f:!f1 *3a 'A"l"K Genuine Meereschaum Goods, pipes, cigarholders and ornaments at cost from now until Christmas at T. Muel ler's. Fine quality of goods and just the thing.forChristmas gifts. ^Croup, Whooping Cough and Bron chitis immediatly relieved by Shiloh's Cure. Sold by Henningsen A Kiesel,