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SrV *fr •01 4 k.i flew Ulm Review ERNST WICHERSKI, PROPRIETOR F. W. JOHNSON, EDITOR Wednesday May, 5, 1897. Ideas of Others. $ Sir William Veiuon Harcouit, leader of the libeial party in the British house of commons addiessed a laige Welsh meeting a few night* ago and said. The' union of Crete and Greece is the proper ultimate solution of the present Euio pean difficulty. If that had been pei mitted theie would have been no war. The powers are only anxious to preserve Tuikish integrity so long as it suits them selves. The whole integrity formula is .1 sham. It has been said that a ukase lias gone foith to let Gieece perish. If that is the derision of England, and if the conceit of Europe results in the doom of fieedom in Greece, it will aiouse in the breasts of all Englishmen sentiments of the sternest indignation and the deep est disgust. Bio* Dana of the New Yoik Sun glows facetious ovei many things and just at present the thing that makes him laugh most is Secatoi Pettigiew of Dakota. Dana wntes as follows The other day the Sun mentioned, with ]U6t pride, the original and power ful project of Richard Fianklin Petti grew, a senatoi in congress from South Daicota, foi. establishing foity new gov ernment departments Mr. Pettigrew modestly gave the ciedit foi this plan to a citizen of Virginia, but the country was not deceived. Genius like Mr. Pet tigiew's tries to hide itselt in vain. On Apul 1st Mr. Pettigrew intioduced in the senate a bill to regulate the value of mo"ey and for other purposes almost too numerous to mention, but all valuable and instructive. This bill is attributed by Mr. Pettigrew to Captain John Cow don of New Orleans. Evidently Mr. Pettigrew's thought-w orks are in such lapidity and voluminousness of opera tion that he requires the services of many paitneis in many states At any rate, this curieucy lefoim scheme, whether the pioduction of Mr. Cowdon or of Mr. Pettigrew, will make foiever famous its makei and its intioducei. It was intro duced by lequest It should have been intioduced by demand. Theie can nevei be too many measuies like this. In fact the woild has gone on several hundied thousand yeais and has produced scarce ly anything so vast Rnd able as this bill. Mi. Pettigrew oi Captain Cowdon, or both, propose that the treasuiy depart ment shall issue legal tender leal estate certificates beaiing inteiest at the rate of 2 pei cent, a year to eveiy landholdei who wants to borrow. In the course of time, the government would probab ly be able to acquire by a foreclosure most of the bad land in the United States. Doubtless, this would bring "peace, plenty and prosperity," Some what after the fashion of the agricultu. ral snbtieasuries for which the populists used to cry, a producer's loan bureau of the treasuiy is to issue 2 per cent, loan certificates on domestic products It might be thought that the owners ot land were going to have a certain advan tage ovei the landless, but as the bill piovides for the defrayn g, by means of public authonties' loan ceitificates, of "the actual cash cost of purchasing all mannei of private industries, either by pnvate sale oi condemnation, when the owneis and employees cannot agree as to the matters in dispute" and as the public authorities can go into the indus try business on their own hook, by bor iowing from the government, it is probable that private production would cease befoie long. What is the use of woiking when a benevolent government will lend you money at 2 per cent? And what is the use of tiying to compete with Hie government as a producer? Let it here be observed to the additional dis tinction of Mr. Pettigrew, or Captain Cowdon, oi both, that the bill proposes, that women shall get the same pay as men get for the same work. Moreover, the bill gives women the right to vote. Vast as currency reform is, other re forms go with it in this tremenduous bill We had net supposed that there was much sympathy for railroads among wholesome currency reformers, but this Pelican or Dakotan plan provides for 2 per cent, loans to existing railroads or for building new ones. There seems no season why anybody should fail to have t' a railroad of his own, if the bill passes. i^These loan certificates are to be made 8&«'of the best material." If the paper is good and the engraving is good, must not the money be good? The certificates are to be full legal tender for all debts, and are to be destroyed whenever they «ome back to the treasury. "Thus inter* est slavery" is to be abolished and every body is to be happy and prosperous at 2 per cent, a year. All existing United States paper money is forbidden to cir culate two years after the^ passage of the aot, and anew description of the United States notes, bearing a promise to re ceive instead of a promise to pay, and not inteichangeable into any other kind of money, shall be issued. The free coinage of silver is provided for, but as the silver can be turned into certificates, it seems scarcely necessary. Surely the 2 pei cent, money is good enough for anything and anybody, and especially after the debts of the United States have been paid in new style money. The author or authors of the plan es timate that it will laise a revenue of $600,000,000 a year, but this is only an unimportant detail. The reasons that will leccommend the program to all co lossal thinkers, from Ocala to Medicine Lodge,^are that it will "overthrow the 'money power' and the trusts." The money power and the trusts have hither to been legarded as pretty tough cus tomers, but along comes this bill and proposes to lay them low incidentally and without half trying. The inventor or inventois of it say that it "will be op posed by Shylock and his slaves." Pie sumably, therefore, Shylock and his slaves do not want to borrow meney at 2 percent. Persons who are not Shy locks and slaves may prefer to have in terest abolished altogether. But we have no intention of making even a single un favorable criticism of a plan so remark able. If it is carried out, everybody ought to be rich in ceitificates. The on ly possible trouble would be that some citizen would be too lazy to boriow. Such is the effect of pampering on weak na tures. 3 In a lecent address on the relation* of genius and art, Joseph Jefferson, the great actoi, said "As applied to acting, genius may dye the colors of the lainbow, but art fixes the colors so they will set fast. It enables the actor to re produce, night aftei night, the same character. He must act on each occa sion as if he had never taken the part before. Now, genius produces, it is art that reproduces. The famous actor, Wil liam McCieady, once complained to Mrs. Wainer, with whom he was playing, •Has that leading speech of mine become an old story to the audience? They no longer applaud me?' 'No,' said Mrs. Warner, 'it is because it is an old story to you.' The actor must school himself to repeat his words,his character, as if he for the first time had undertaken them. He mujt listen to anothei's speech and answei as if he had never heard it before. I wTas asked the other day if I did not think starring was the most pernicious system ever foisted on the public. There was a time when I did. I do not now I admit it has its disadvantages, but it was instituted 200 years ago by one Wil liam Shakespeare. To each of his plays there wag one central light, one grand character. Shylock, in the 'Merchant of Venice,' or Falstaff in 'Henry IV.' How about 'Romeo and Juliet?' I was asked. It is a double star witli but a single ray. All the plays of Shakespeaie concern themselves with the exemplifi cation of some human passion. In Ro meo it is the pasion of love, and, of course, the authoi could not lepiesent it with one." Dr. Ciane of Chicago hits the nail on the head in the following The germ o* political debauchment is the spoils idea. When a man secures an office, and has the notion that its advin tages and emoluments belong to him by victor's lights, it does not take a verv strong temptation to induce him to use public funds for his own private gain, or to throw public contracts to persons who will indirectly reward him, or in any other of a thousand wtys to use the leverage of*his office to benefit himself. What is he there for Is it not to get all he can out of it? Is he not entitled to all the plunder he can take, without getting into trouble, to lepay himself for his party work? All this reasoning flows naturally from the spoils system. The thought of a man doing service for the people from an exalted and distinguished motive is received with a contemptuous smile. Honor and integrity are treated as an "iridescent dream." An employe in a factory or office would not be tolerated a moment after he had declared his conviction that he was using his place to feather his own nest that he was entitled to all he could pluck from the firm as a reward for his efforts in getting his job. But it is calmly believed by many that this sort of thing is pertectly proper, natural and unavoidable in the people's business. Some color of reason is lent to this fallacious theory by the statement that when the voters elect a democratic may or, for instance, or a republican presi dent, they thereby express their wish for a thoroughly democratic personate on* the one hand, or a full quota of re publican office-holders on the other. What an election means is apparently as hard to tell as what some bible texts teach. But this much is certain: The mass of the electors do not mean that they want ttie gifts at the bestowal of their chosen magistrate to be awarded to those whose claim consists only in party service. This means the spoils system. It means public robbery and the prosti tution of public honor to purposes of private gain. It is right that a chief magistrate should surround himself with aides who aie in sympathy with him, and in whom he has personal confidence. But it is wrong that he should select them be cause of their partisan seivice. If a par ty is to be held together by gifts of of fice to its workers, then a party is only an organization whose life depends upon "the cohesive power of public plunder." Then such a party is a guaranty of fraud, malfeasance and disgrace. But parties will cohere without such aid. The partisan spirit is strong enough to hold men united even if all hope of official spoil were removed. I believe the party system to be the best ever de vised for managing a republican form of government, but it must be purged of the vicious element of spoils. Parties are necessary—'lis the spoils system that damns them. Machines are neces sary—'tis the spoils idea that trans, forms them, from being contnvances to register the public will into engines ot debauchery. All Sorts. ~^v» fy* When people get left they usually shout- for their rights.—Truth. A man who has one new idea a month is a genius.—Atchinson Globe. The silent watches of the night are those that need winding up. Honesty is a virtue that only the rich can afford and only the poor practice.— Truth. He is best served wno has no occasion to put the hand of otheis at the end of his arm.— Cervantes. The man who can endoise everything is either a saint or a cur.—The American. One-half of the men who have won wealth do not possess it, it possesseth them.—The American. It would be just like the milk dealeis to turn on us and demand a pure watei supply.—Philadelphia North American. The good opinion of honest men, friends to freedom and well-wishers to mankind, is the only reputation a wise man would evei desiie.—Washington. The boodle senators object to receiv ing their pay in checks. Money talks, but checks tell tales.—Chicago Record. Dr. Hunter was able to get a majority of the votes of a grand jury if he did fail to round up a sufficient number of the KentucKy legislature.—Chicago Rec ord. The women should be awfully good to the men. What with war and appen dicitis, they are becoming awful scarce. —Atchinson Globe. There aie always people who are talk ing of doing great things but because they wait for great opportunities, life passes, and the little deeds of love and kindness are not done at all. Bcston has celebiated Paul Revere's lide as usual this yeai. If Paul lived now would he scorch over the track on a bicycle or lose all hope of fame by go ing to the nearest telephone station?— St. Louis Globe-Demociat. The great difference between the real statesman and the pretender is that the one sees into the futuie, while the other regards only the present, the one lives by the day and acts on expediency, the other acts on enduring principles and for immortality,''—Burke. Man is not meant to be a creature of one activity. The test of the nineteenth century was the enfranchisement of man and the exaltation of woman. The test of the twentieth century will be'just the reverse—woman's enfranchisement and man's exaltation. There is no antagonism between the two. One river of blood, one battery of brain, unites the human rare. Every woman is some man's daugh ter, and every man is some woman's son. —Miss Prances Willard.i? *f A doctor in Berlin has successfully sewed up a man's heart, after he had been stabbed. If these doctors keep on, they will make it impossible for anyone but themselves to kill a man. —Buffalo Expiess. Wanted. Two girls to do kitchen aud dining room work. Will pay $4 a week. Send references.^ „Dr. G. P. LePaul. v«-» M? Excehrior. Very Low Rates to the West and South. On May 18, the North-Western Line will sell Home Seeker's excursion tick ets, with favorable time limits* to num erous points in the West and South at exceptionally low rates. For tickets and full information apply to agents Chicago & North-Western Railway. .18—*. &^\, 'ja l?» /*»vV CARPETS t*Pd 6 a For Bent. The building now used as the Stai Clothing Hall will be for lent after June 1st. Apply to A. B. Cutts,, G. P. & T. A., M. & S:t. L. R. R. 18—26. Minneapolis, Minn. CHICACO & NORTH-WESTER* R'Y. In effect March 4, '97. N. U. Time Table. Departure of Trains. Going East. Passenger No 4 (Ex. Sunday.) 6 0 0 A For St. Paul, Minneapolis, Winona, Mil waukee, and Chicago. Passenger No. 2 (Daily.) 2:55 For St. Paul, Minneapolis, WinoLa, Mil waukee and Chicago. Freight No. 14 (Ex. Sunday.) 11 50 Carry Passengeis to Waseca. Freight No. 86 (Daily.) 8 30 Carry Passengers to Kasota. Departure of Tiains. Going West. Passenger No. 3 (Daily 2 1 7 For Tracy, Marshall, Watertown, Huron and Pierre. Passenger No. 7 (Ex. Sunday.) 8 3 0 I Fo'- Tracy aud West. Freight No. 13 (Ex. Monday.) 5 05 Cairy Passengers to Tracy. Freight No. 15 (Ex. Sunday.) 1 1 0 Arrival of Trains FiomEast. Passenger No. 3 (Daily.) 2 1 7 Passenger No. 7 (Ex. Sunday.) 8 3 0 Freight No. 15 (Ex. Sunday.) 12 45 Freight No. 13 (Ex. Monday.) 5 0 5 Arrival of Trains. From West Passenger No. 4 (Ex. Sunday.) 6:00 A. Passenger No. 2 (Daily.) 2:55 Freight No. 14 (Ex. Sunday.) 11:10 A Freight No. 86 (Daily) 8:30 Tjains 2 and 3' have sleeping cars be tween Mankato and Chicago and chair cars between Kasota and Minneapolis. For further information inquire of c. w. H. HEIDEJIAN, Agent, New ulm. H. C. Garvin, W. B. Eniskern, LIN0LIUMS n'furDi8h tariff. Werner Boesch A Popular Besort. Lake Paik Hotel at Lake Minuetouka, is the most populai touiist lesoit in Minnesota. It is only a half horn's ride from Minneapolis, and reached by fie quent trains. The accomodations aie in every way of the best, and prices ex tremely reasonable. Good Pishing, beat ing, yachting and bathing. Hotel will open for the season of 1897, on June 24th. For furthei particular, and a beautifully illustrated pamphlet,address General Agent, Gen. Pass. Aged, Winona. Chicago. MINNEAPOLIS,NEW ULM & SOUTH WESTERN RAILROAD. l^J^ki?i Departure of Trains. No. 15 St. Paul, Mpls Pass 6.30 A. M. No. 29 St. Paul, Mpls Pass 11.10 A. M. No. 53 WinthropAcc'dation 4:00 P. M. Arrival of Trains. ,£%* No. 54 WinthropAcc'd^tionT^lS A. M. No. 30 St. Paul, Mnls Pass 2:20 P. M. No. 16 St. Paul, Mpls Pass 8 5 0 All Daily Except Sunday.^Jl* No. 15 arrives Mpls 9:47 A. M. St Paul 10:20 A.M. «A§§ No. 16 leaves St. Paul 5.-00 r. if. Mpls. 5:33 P. M. No change of cars between New Urn, St. Paul & Mpls. S "V T$ Cloee connections for Chicago Mil waukee and all points East/ For full particulars apply to *^ity&&Sl. *JL*\ ,, WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FULL NEW LINE OP S it SPRIN NOVELTlis teed to fit. If you are contemplating laying carpet, then don't delay, as prices Fashionable Seasonable any kind of carpet, all cut and sowed, ready to put on the floor and euarang We have Borders and Stairs to match. REMEMBER, OUR PLAN 1STO BE ALWAYS BUSY, AT A MODERATE PROFIT RATHER THAN TO DRIVE AWAY TRADE WITH HIGH PRICES. LIENHARD BROS. Boots and Shoes (or all Nations. 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