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as pili NewUlmReview Published by New Ul is in Compan Wednesday, June 24, L908. Entered in the postofiice at New Ulm, Minn., as second class matter. A Political Virtuoso. "Why shouldn't all admirers of the piano rally with uproar to Roose velt," asks the New York Evening Post. "What other master of the queen of instruments has succeeded in com pelling such convincing harmony from a mere complex of wires, hammers, pedals and keys? Not to Chopin's touch, not to Rubinstein's or Pader ewski's, has the piano answered as this country to the supple hands of the master. He lets his fingers wander dreamily over the board, and America sings 'in minor key of the virtues of home and good citizenship. The hands fall with a crash, and the country thunders out its wrath against the wealthy malefactor and the unde sirable citizen. Now the mood rises to a mocking scherzo, in which the ear almost discerns the nature-faker, hiding his blushing head beneath piles of rustling leaves, and the patter of the mollycoddle's tears into the waves of the loud-sounding ocean. Again a swirl of the fingers, and in a cresendo of noise we hear the muck raker filling the teeth of his rake, the impact of soft bands against hard faces, the stroke of millions of ham mers on thousands of battleships, the aged senator moaning with pain as the 20,000 words of the latest measure reverberate through his poor sweet breads. And then the final andante of a nation that has reached the mil lennium, every citizen under his own conserved hemlock tree and by his own little waterway, while in the White House there is Taf and silence, and from the banks of the Zambesi comes the occasional sharp crack of a rifle." *&3*&4*fcaflj William Jennings Bryan has made the following statement regarding his attitude on the question of prohibition: "I have received many letters from prohibitionists and many from oppo nents of prohibition, and I have an swered them all in the same way. I have told them I did not regard the question as a national question. While it is an issue in a number of states, I do not expect it to be made an issue by either the republican or democratic national conventions. I have made it a rule not to discuss questions outside the platform, be cause the candidate has no right to inject issues which his platform ex cludes. "I have refused to give advice on the question in other states because I am not sufficiently informed as to the con ditions in the various states, and I have refused to discuss it as a nation al question because, as I have said, I do not expect it to be an issue in the campaign." William Howard Taft on Friday tendered his resignation as secretary of war and the president at once an nounced the appointment of Gen. Luke E. Wright, governor of the Philip pines, as his successor. Congressman Davis of St. Peter says Candidate Sherman is one of the best parliamentarians in the country. All the more reason why he should not be presiding officer of the senate. One boss is enough. Buffalo gnats are having a "home coming'' of their own at St. Peter this week. The gathering thus far has been a distinct success. How the standpatters must have smiled when they landed Sherman. It was the best haul they had made in years. The people got Taft, the interests got all the rest. 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Says the Commoner: "The republicans who attended the national convention as spectators and joined in the demonstration in favor of President Roosevelt and Senator La Pollette must have felt indignant as they watched the panic-stricken dele gates running over each other in the'r effort to get away from the La Follette reforms, some ot which had been in dorsed by the president himself. Con gressman Cooper of Wisconsin, repre senting the La Pollette men, brought in a minority report and one signed by himself alone. Fifty-two members of the committee signed the majority re port and one signed the minority re port. The republican party will find the ratio of 52 to 1 a very embarras sing one to deal with in the coming campaign. Mr. Cooper's report con tained a declaration in favor of pub licity as to campaign funds. It was lost by a vote of 880 to 94, more than nine to one, and yet the president has been advocating legislation in favor of publicity as to campaign contribu tions, and Secretary Taft wrote a let ter to Mr. Burrows advocating the passage of a publicity bill. How for tunate it was that Secretary Taft's let ter was finally discovered and pub lished. "Senator Burrows, the man to whom the Taft letter was addressed, was the temporary chairman of the conven tion, and the convention over which he presided turned down the publicity plank by a vote of 9 to 1. 'Who will deny that, on this sub ject, the republican party is retreat ing? "Another plank of the La Follette platform authorized the ascertaining of the value of the railroads. This plank was lost by a vote of 917 to 63— nearly 15 to 1—and yet President W, J. Bryan Calls It a "Stand Pat" Convention. Nebraska Commoner Charges that the Party Went Back on the Roosevelt Policies and Enters the Coming Contest Heavily Handicapped.!!? WSmP Roosevelt has advocated this very proposition. Here is a retreat on the railroad question. "The injunction plank adopted by the republican convention is a retreat from the position taken by Mr. Taft in his speeches, although neither of them went as far as they ought to have gone in their effort to prevent what is known as government by injunction. Here is the third retreat. "The president has advocated the income tax as a means of preventing swollen fortunes and of equalizing the burdens of government. The republi can platform is silent on the subject. Was the president right in the posi tion he took? If so, then the conven tion was wrong in not indorsing- him. Will the republican voters follow the president in this just demand, or will they follow the republican organiza tion in retreating from it? "The president advocated an inheri tance tax, but the republican conven tion is silent on that subject. Was the president ahead of the republican par ty in advocating this reform, or has the republican party receded from the president's position? "Did the president give*a false alarm on, this question, or has the party sounded a retreat? "In the president's message to con gress last spring he presented an in dictment against the conspiracy formed among the great lawbreakers to prevent the enforcement of the law and to evade the punishments pro vided by law. The platform adopted by the republican convention contains no intimation of danger. If there are any conspiracies, the convention did not see them if there are any com binations, it had not heard of them: if there are any dangers ahead, it was unconscious of them. Was the presi dent mistaken when he issued his de fiance, or are the republican managers deceived when they think that an aroused public will calmly contem plate the encroachments of predatory wealth? "The convention by a vote of 866 to 114—more than seven to one—voted down the plank in favor of the popu lar election of United States senators. It is true that the president and Secre tary Taft have never advocated the popular election of senators. They seem to take the Hamiltonian rather than the Jeffersonian view, but the most popular reform in the United States today is the reform that has for its object the election of United States senators by direct vote. It has five times been indorsed by the nation al house of representatives, three times when the house of representa tives was republican. It has been indorsed by nearly two-thirds of the states and there is probably not a state in the union in which it would not be indorsed at a popular election, and yet, in spite of the record made in the house of representatives and by the various states, this reform is re jected by a seven to one vote in a re publican national convention. "Here are seven propositions upon which the republican party, nation al convention assembled, has retreated from the position taken by that party in congress or from the position taken by tha president. What have Roose velt republicans to say? The presi dent has awakened a spirit of reform within his party. He has at least re vealed to the world that there are re formers in the republican party. Can that spirit now be quelled by a stand pat convention? Millions of republi cans have enlisted at the president's call to arms and are ready to march forward. Will they furl their ban ners and turn back merely because the president acquiesces in the sounding of there treat?" A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Strunk yesterday morning. Mrs. Geo. Brown of Cassleton, N. D., is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Schroeck. The Y. M. C. A. boys will go into camp at Clear Lake under the direc tion of Secretary Pierce on July 6th. The outing will continue for ten days. Prof. Critchett went to Minneapolis Sunday to be ready Monday morning to enter upon his duties as one of the instructors at the University summer school. He will not finish his work there until early in August. THE SERENADE. Wednesday night the barn of Chas. Sievert near Gibbon was struck by lightning and was completely de stroyed along with a large amount of hay and some farm machinery and harnesses. Eight head of cattle were also killed and the total loss is placed between $2,000 and $3,000. Mr. Sievert is a brother of Prof. Sievert of the Lutheran parochial schools. —Trigg* in N«w York Prws. **'. warn A Sigh of Relief. The New York World finds comfort in the nomination of William H. Taft as putting an end to what it is pleased to term "the Roosevelt reign ©f ter ror." The World says: "William H. Taft will be the next president of the United States—provi ded the democratic national conven tion nominates William J. Bryan. "It is an office for which Mr. Taft has conspicuous qualifications. But, best of all, his nomination means an end to Roosevelt and Rooseveltism. It means the end of personal govern ment, autocratic regime, of militarism, of jingoism, of rough riderism, of ad ministration by shouting and clamor? tumult and denunciation. It means, the end of the Roosevelt reign of ter ror and the restoration of the presi dency to its historical dignity under the constitution. "Even Andrew Jackson, in his peri ods of sobriety, had more innate re spect for-the office itself, for its tradi tions and for appearances than Mr. Roosevelt has shown. Never before was there such a lawless president. Never before was the presidency so de liberately lowered to gratify a love for studied, sensational theatricalism. "Mr. Taft's nomination means the end of the most shocking extravagance known in the history of the country, the most extraordinary contempt for economy and retrenchment that any executive ever displayed the most ir responsible clamor for bigger navies by absurd appeals to the war spirit and absurd threats of foreign enemies the most reckless disregard of consti tutional limitations and constitutional checks and balances. Every serious, thoughtful citizen can now breathe more freely and feel that the republic is safer, having withstood another searching test as to its right to endure. "Mr. Taft may be pledged to Mr. Roosevelt's policies, but he certainly is not pledged to Mr. Roosevelt's meth ods. He was reared in the school of constitutional government. His father before him was a distinguished jurist, who served both as secretary of war and attorney general in Grant's cabi net. "Mr. Taft ought to make a better president than Mr. Roosevelt. He is better balanced, he is better poised. The doubtful question relates to his future independence as an executive. Will he be bound by self-interest, by party policy, by personal obligation to defend Roosevelt's mistakes? Is he bound to represent all his policies? Can he conscientiously disavow any thing Mr. Roosevelt chooses to impose upon a man of his type? "If Mr- Taft follows his own con science and judgment,prompted by his long training as a judge and lawyer, he will respect the constitution, con gress, and the courts far more than Mr. Roosevelt has done. The shadow of the big stick will cease to hang over every department of the government," Applauds his Own Creation. The moment President Roosevelt was informed of Mr. Taft's nomina tion he gave out the following pre pared statement: 'I feel that the country is indeed to be congratulated upon the nomination of Mr. Taft. I have known him inti mately for many years, and I have a peculiar feeling for him because throughout that time we worked for the same object with'the same purpo ses and ideals. I do not believe there could be found in all the country a man so well fitted to be president. He is not only absolutely fearless, abso lutely disinterested and upright, but he has the widest acquaintance with the nation's needs without and within and the broadest sympathies with all our citizens, "He would be as emphatically a president of the plain people as Lin coln, yet not Lincoln himself would be freer from the least taint of demo gogy, the least tendency to arouse or appeal to class hatred of any kind. He has a peculiar and intimate know ledge of and sympathy with the needs of all our people—of the farmer, of the wageworker, of the business man, of the property owners. No mat ter what a man's occupation or social position, no matter what his creed, his color or the section of the country from which he comes, if he is an honest, hard-working man, who tries to do his duty toward his neigh bor and toward the country, he can rest assured that he will have in Mr. Taft the most upright of representa tives and the most fearless of, cham- pions. "'%r r* "Mr. Taft stands against privilege and he stands pre-eminently for the broad principles of American citizen ship which He at the foundation of our national well being, "HP Dark Side of Prohibition. The dark side of prohibition, ob serves the Minreapohs Tribune, is best exhibited in the loathsome places that gather around the border of military reservations since the abolition of the clean and healthy canteen. Places more or less similar to these grow up in secret under the shadow of prohibition everywhere. Whether they are worse or better than the licensed saloons depends upon the public senti ment of the community ami the vigor with which order is enforced. It is probable that licensed saloons are least a menace in communities where temperate drinking is the general rule, and that the blind pigs are most dangerous in communities made up in whatever proportion of total abstain ers and persons incapable of decent restraint. The latter class are best managed by the continual oversight of the police in orderly and responsible licensed drinking places. I Here is the real danger of strict pro hibition legislation in the South. The persons it is intended to reach are an ignorant and degraded class of ne groes and poor whites, to whom pub lic drinking places have been given up in the main while the ruling class drank temperately in their own houses at their convenience. Probably they will continue to do this under prohibi tion, leaving the law to execute itself and taking little pains to suppress the evil of secret traffic. Almost worse than the secret grog geries sure to grow up under these conditions are the open places for the is sargasso COMPASS Patent Try a sack of our Compass Patent and you will find that your bread tastes better than any you ever had be fore. It has the clean sweet flavor and natural yellow tint which belong to spring wheat flour, as we use no gas or chemicals to give it a white color. "^A^iif' sale of what are called These are springing up all over fit* South like mushrooms iu a night. Pour hundred of them have been opened in Atlanta alone and are crowd ed with boys and men of all ages. Worse still, the sale of these drinks is carried on with that of soda water by the drug stores, where boys and girls partake of them together. JOHN H. FORSTER The Leading Furniture Man These drinks range all the way from disgusting sweetened water in dirty bottles to inferior, .adulterated and poisonous malt and spirituous liquors. The places that sell tnem without re straint under prohibition are far more dangerous to health and sanity than well regulated saloons In a recent address in Philadelphia, Justice Brewer of the United States supreme court made some rather pointed remarks about the way our government has been spending money needlessly and extravagantly of late late years instead of paying some of its debts. He said that at the close of the war between the states ou» government owed in round numbers $3,000,000,000 that during the succeed ing thirty years it paid two-thirds of the debt, and he added that during the past ten years not one dollar of that debt has been paid, and that we now owe $1,000.000,000. New Ulm Roller Mill Co. BigMillinery Reductions The people of New Ulm and vicinity are respectfully invited to call and inspect our immense new stock of FURNITURE. CARPETS, RUGS. WALL RARER ETC. now better, larger and brighter than ever in the histo ry of our city. Our close buying and thorough knowledge of the market enables us to sell goods than anyone else in the city or surrounding towns. Here is where you get your chance of saving money on your household goods. You will be surprised how far your dollars will go. JOHN H. FORSTER Incensed Bmbalmer. ECONOMY is nothing more than "getting your money's worth You get more than your money's worth when you buy DANIEL WEBSTER 2 the nnest flour ever produced Eagle Roller Mill Co. Daily Capacity, 5,000 Barrels. Every hat is an indi vidual, distinct style. Beautiful colorings. All are fresh as we do not allow our hats to become shopworn. ft Genuine May Clear* ^~J ance Sale of all early Model Hats. We will sell all Trimmed Hats, in light and dark colors at great reductions. ft Mrs. B, FOLLMANN