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4HSB YOtWL IN (r-V New Ulm Review NEW ULM PUBLISHING CO. Owners «i KEVIEW PRINTING COMPANY Lessees and Publishers PUBLlSHE|{|gVERt WESflfBS- *t%ii *DA Subscription Rates $2.50 per year Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at New Ulm, Minn. Official Paper City of New Ulm. Wednesday, Sept. 13 1922. Let's see, hm, wasn't it Bro. Rey nolds of the Mankato Free Press who said in his paper on the day before the Wisconsin primary that La toi lette's war record wss to be passed on by the people of Wiscorsin? Well, the people passed on it, didn't they, old dear? And incidentally they passed on paytrioteenng, eh what? Yes we have Freusperity in this state. And when the farmer gets less than a dollar a bushel for his wheat, let him remember that all this wealth comes under the administration of Preus, with Dollar Wheat Harding in the president's chair. The laborer who is getting his wages boosted downward, might stop and think a bit, or will he see great prosperity when the politi cal gang hands out a or an a few days before election to a half dozen or a dozen "labor men" to use their influence with the rest of the workers to vote the old gang ticket. E\en those who get those measly fives and tens ought to figure how long they can live on these small bribes. Wouldn't it be a bit better to ha\e better condi tions all alone? Then they could prob ably get along without these fives and tens that come around orly once or twice every two years. And the mer chant who is now getting rich (wow) from the surplus money that the far mer and laborer have to spend in this Preus prosperity mes, wouldn't he be better off if prices of farm products were better rnd wages to labor were higher? If these three groups would unite for their own best interests at the ballot box, Magnus Johnson will be our next go\ernor, W. W. Roaster will be railroad and warehouse com missioner ?nd e\ery farmer-labor can didate all along the line will be elected And if you are not quite sure that this would make conditions any better, for the luv-o-mike look around and see if anything could be much wo&e than what we have now. Most any change would be an improvement, would it not? You have tried the old gang long enough without getting ahy benefit, why not grve tre farmer labor folks a chance? Showing How Wind Blows. A straw showing row the political wind is blowing was the treatment given Vice President Coolidge by the crowd at the Minnesota State fair last Wednesday. The vice president started out with a eulogy of Kellogg and waited for the applause. He got it— from Preus and a few others on* the speaker's stand. But the people in ihe" grandstand and the bleachers never stirred a hand. Then he launched ifito a defense of President Harding and the republican administration. The crowd listened with respect during the first 15 minutes. During the second fifteen minutes, the people be gan to gel restless. When he had spoken about 40 minutes, a man yelled out, "Let's go on with the races", and this speech received tumultuous applause. It took about two minutes before the crowd quieted down. The vice president again started to speak, but he had hardly given more than a couple of sentences when the crowd broke loose again and he had to quit. Now, Preus and his bunch say that the crowd acted that way "on account of the heat." Wonder what they will say on the day after electicn in No vember. Law Enforcement The law enforcing officials of a com munity have a hard job at times. Petty crimes, and even greater ones, are hard to get evidence on. People Virho Know the facts often keep their lfjps pealed on account of friendship for thf accped ot'for fear of trouble to th|mser$s. -A On|the „Jfcher hand, anyone charged with cx%&, be it great or small is entitled to a goo^TctefeWe^^Tifer spn learned in the law to see that all tlra accused's rights are protected. But witn as many good* lawyers as taere are in New XJbnr it .should hard'y be necessary that any law-enforcing officer should appear in defense of man charged with crime, thus being in-rthe position of ppposing or obstruct ing^ other law enforcing officers. If Bwyers were scarce and the accusec1 was in danger of not getting legal/de fense, there would be an excuse foi such procedure. If such cases were very common and therefore a source of considerable income to the attorney 'handling the defense, there might be less objection, probably, as it cojuld excused on the. ground that a po- pular attorney in this way had a lu crative income. Although even ther we feel that the ethics of the situatior would demand that such a practi tioner should resign as a law enforc ing officer. But when these cases are few and far between and certainly not a source of great income, when the" defendant have ample opportunity to secure goot legal services otherwise, we feel that city attorney should not appear ir criminal court as the attorney for the defense. It cannot but have a politi cal effect which is demoralizing on the law enforcement machinery of a com munity. There ought to be absolute har mony between the sheriff's office and the city police department, for in* stance. And there should be the same harmony between the county attor ney's office and the city attorney's office. It is the business of all tresc officials to ferret out crime and tc punish evildoers. It is the duty of every good citizei to aid the law-enforcing officers in the proper conduct of their offices. Sucl duty falls more heavily on people wht themselves have been elected to en force the laws and they should be verj careful not to do anything to set bad example for Mr. and Mrs. Han Citizen. This criticism is made by the Reviei in the friendliest spirit and we hopi will be received in the seme spirit We belie\e that- those concerned hav prol/ably not stopped to think of hov it looks to those of us on the outside At this particular time, it is rathei hard to voice this criticism fcccaus it may appear that the Review is tak ing sides with a certain loud-mouther criticism of New Turn's law enforce ment machinery which is plainly not sincere but prempted by a selfish spirit of re\enge. The writer, who has spent the summer montls in New ITm anc whose teim of employment with the Review expires with this iSBtife, is proh ably in a better position to give an impartial opinion than tre folks whe live here peimanently, and New Ulm measures up in law enforcement wit!' any other piece in tie world. Some folks who are now criticising in a louc voice have themselves appeared in court and begged for suspended sen tences when their own kin was in the drag net of the peace officers. Foi that reason, the demands for law en forcement from such a source, ever though sentiments trat can be sub scribed to by all good citizens, should be taken with a pinch of salt. Some folks who want to "clean rouse" sc badly might sweep off their own front porch first, probably. And yet, we should always be in favor of law en forcement and stand ready to give justice to even the most unpopular individuals. The majority of the people of New Ulm are built that way They want to give justice even to those who spend most of their time barking at the city and paintirga picture of this beautiful community and its splendid people which certain ly hasn't done us any good with the outside world. We have no sympathy with those who unjustly malign the people of their own city, but one wrong doesn't make mother wrorg right, and Tvhen such people are wronged, their rights should be pro tected. The Review deplores tre epfcee'e cf last Thursday when Major Albert Pfaender so far forgot h"mself as to lose his temper and strike Geo. Hogen, justice of the peace, evidently because the justice bound over Pfaender's client to the grand jury. The evidence against Bartl was pretty thin, to be sure, and still an impartial observer would agree wi£h the justice that there was enough brought out in the case to justify a trial in district court. The justice did not pass on the guilt cr innocence of the defendant. He simp ly decided that the defendant should give a bond to appear in district court. True to his oath cf office, we don't see how the justice could do anything else. But even if he had been dead wrong, that would not justify an as sault. That is taking the law into one's own hand in typical Burnquist regime fashion. The Review has been busy pointing out the wrong of this kind of thing when done by the poli tical adherents of Burnquist, Freus and Liesch. We cannot stand idly by without a protest when the folks that we consider "our folks" begin to use the tactics so cemmon with the opposition. Let's cut cut tl rough stuff at its very beginning, folks. We surely are too much civilized for that kind of thing. NOTED AND QUOTED. __ *Jt*&*s%3mnsk There comes a loud noise frcm Wis consin which sounds like two hundred thousand majority for La Follette. Or Is the big noise we hear, the tip-toe ing around this piece of news by Bro. Reynolds of the Mankato Free Press? Ivan Bowen, railroad arid warehouse commissioner and "state fuel adminis trator" let the cat out of the bag in his reply to a lette* from Dr. Henrik Shipstead*when he admits that the uel adm'ni3tration is not a govern ment institution at all, but a private concern supported by "eontributlcns" from Senator Kellogg and others in terested in getting votes at the Novem ber election. So it is emerely a poil- tical propaganda bureau, instituted by Kellogg and Preus and others of the gang. Even worse than the dollar a year proposition during the war. Well, veil. But the people may take a land in this petty trickery and de ide to relieve Kellogg by putting Shipstead in his place at Washington, Magnus Johnson in the Preus guber latorial chair, and Wr W. Royster as ailroad and, warehouse commissioner. t's about time fyat something' is lone too. The people of Minnesota a\e sat idly by long enough. Wasn't that an awful wollop La "toilette gave the old preacher-politi ian in Wisconsin? Governor Stephens of California, who as persistently refused to do anything release Mconey and Billings, two abor men who were railroaded to jajl »n admittedly perjured testimony, was lefeated for renemination in last week's Primary election. There is hardly a tate in the Union but what the people re waking up this year. Over and over again, the sneeze heet country press (the kind that neezes when their political bosses take nuff) keep on repeating the lie that was sprung by the Kellogg campaigners when they said that Senator Ladd, Nonpartisan of North Dakota would ,ampaign for Kellogg and against Ship tead in Minnesota. All we have to ay in commenting on this matter is hat the statement is just as true as most of tre political bunk that manates frcm the republican propagan ia press of the state. It isn't always hat they lie as openly as this, and if hey would, it would be a whole lot jetter as people can more easily de cect the open-faced kind than the mooth, back-handed twipes more reg alarly indulged in. "The New Ulm Journal office, to? ?e\her with the residence cf H. L. 3eecher, a prominent citizen, and one the Catholic parish houses, was re cently decorated with liberal quantities 3f yellow paint. We had thought the yellow paint spasm was o\er, but evi dently such is not the case. Decorat ing a place with yellow paint doesn't prove much except that the perpe trators are a set of dirty cowards who ire afraid of their actions in daylight. If that is any consolation to those who did the work of paintirg, it is probably all right with those whose property was painted."—Cottonucoc County Citizen. The abo\e is just one of many com ments now being made in newspapers of the state and again the Review de plores the fact that an untruth about the Catholic parish house, started by P. Liesch in the Journal should be spread broad-cast over the state and give the people an entirely erroneous idea as to the standing of the Catholics in this community.. We hope that all papers who copied the slander will make amends by correcting it. There was no malicious painting cf the parish house, but some children spilled some red paint on the floor in one of the rooms. As to the rest of the editorial squib in the Citizen, we We glad to learn that even Bro. ChuVchill of Windom, who penned it, is at last showing signs of becoming civilized. As far as we know, this is the first and only time that Churchill has opened his voice in protests against yellow paint. The yellow painting cf Nonpartisan League 'houses during the Burnquist regime Minnesota, and the tar and feather parties in those days, were just as wrong and despicable as the crimes committed against Beecher and the Journal here. Where was Churchill and his ilk at that time? It does seem to make a difference whose ox is gored, doesn't it? "Speaking about courage, a letter comes to the editorial desk, beginning with this sentence: 'I wonder if you have the courage to print this.' At the close of the letter, the writer signs: 'John Doe' *'—Lincoln, Nebr., Star. Yes, there are some people in New Ulm also who stop us once in a while and wonder why the Review doesn't criticize this or that. These people who are better informed on these parti cular subjects might show some of their "courage" by writing an article for publication signing their own name to it. The Review is willing to print anything written decently and on any subject, except religion, if the writer wilh sign' Bis cr her own name: Why expect the editor to do all tkse reforming? "Come oh'in yourself, the water's fine. if .'s* hoQ "Seme people find it necessary to im&^6r*&eiT*imfc!r 1ecaW^otner people are unable to discover it by their &cts."—El%sian Enterprise. "The World war has been over for about four years and yet there are any dumber of politicians who refer to the~ war quite frequently when try ing to excuse some Of the fallacies of their party or the failure of some pro ject ^in which $he public is vitally interested. Strange thirgs do happen in politics."—Chaska Herald. '*'& "We asked Agnes Anderson, the pe ite and pretty girl at the St.JP&uJ Hotel", says Frank A. Day. in the a us a definition of a *&p>er^^e^reW which she good naturedly reduced to writing, follows: 'My idea of a flap per is a girl with bobbed hair, low heeled shoes, large garden hat., short plaited skirt, and a sweater. She does not wear a corset and shakes like jelly when she walks.'.' It is really too bad that Frank Day should have to stand the expense of .such important research work out of his own private funds. We„WjQuld sug gest an appropriation frcm il,et legis lature to out* & „f» ,,i —r^ -*T "Wouldn't it have been fine if the president had offered Borne measure of protection to the consumer against an exhorbitant tilt in coal prices along with his message to governors to protect from violence men willing to work in the mines!"—Gibson Gazette. "If you recommend a man for a job and he turns out bad, you will be blamed for the rest of your life"— Fairmont Independent. "When you find a man who has no prejudice, you have found one has who no convictions."— Afinncsota Daily Star. "She—'I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the fact is, last night I bec?me engaged to Dick.' "He (knowing her)-'Well, how about next week?" —Boston Transcript "When you are awakened in th^ dead of night by the spittirg, chuggirg or roaring of an auto with its cutout wide open, do ycu envision the driver as a brainy, likeable "person of charm ing character? When you run your aufy, with cutout open, in the dead of night, through town, near hospitals or by, quiet farm houses, do you thrill as to a noble deed, or are ycu just as well satisfied that darkness obscures your identity? Or hadn't you given the matter a thotl^Rirer Falls Jour nal. The Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch un der its new management, W. E. Har rington, editor, used the canned story about New Ulm yellow paint which put special emphasis en the Catholic parish house spill, thea story appearing in the Herald-Dispatch AFTER the Review had reached Sleepy Eye with the truth about the matter. Now it may be that the story was in type and possibly that? side of the paper printed before theV'facts became known. If so, Bro. Harrington, if he wanta to do the right thing by the Catholics, will correct the mistake in & future issue of bis paper, Another interest fact is that the story about the yellow painting is appearing in all/the papers who are of the Preus-Kellogg stamp with ex actly the same wording in each, but without crediting the story to any other paper. Did P. Liesch write the story and syndicate ii' out to all these other papers and thus t&row odium, not enly on the city where he lives and earns his living, but also on the church to which he belongs? And if he did, it isn't the first time that this bird has fouled his own nest. Small Stuff. We always feel a bit sorry for the small sized man. As a rule, however, the man who is small of stature makes up for it in exceptional mental powers. But when a man is small both physi cally and mentally, we feel sorry for him indeed. The writer has had the pleasure of reporting base ball games for the Review during the summer months. We have found the folks connected with the New Ulm Base Ball associa tion to be a set of gentlemen that it does one's heart ^good to meet They are good sports and honest sportsmen all the way from umpire to water carrier. But there is one small fellow in the bunch for whom we feel sorry. He holds a very honorable position, being score keeper. The smaller the man the greater is the honor, don't you think?- This little fellow surprised us very much by refusirg to ghe us tho Iire up and in every way tiying to exhil it his true size. It was rknost uiihe lievable in view'-of the fact that Vie base ball association naturally warts all the ^publicity possible. Base ball writertips are asf good as ppid adver tisiiig. But they cost the club nothing at all. On top* of that, the Revieu is one of the enthusiastic underwriters of the New UlmBase Ball association, being devn for a guarantee of $100 this year. But wel&vtnow* learoldjfce reason ,for jittle Fletcher's Jteh&wfi-, He t»me in one day and helped^pttEelf a copy of the Review, not lejaig olpf1" list as a paid subscriber. The' lady J$ the desk said: "Five cent's, please!"' Now can you imagine how a lady could so far forget herself as to insult little Fletcher by asking him to pay a whole nickel for a copy of the Review? Of course he got mad. He flung the paper: down and walked out without it Why, didn't thje lady know that he was the 6fficial scorer for the base ball club, having worked his way up by sheer dint of gab frcm official water carrier? Why, boy,-if he con tinues to growriie may reach hejghts unknown^"v,''if ^.i W «.rfymS*»fc,rTil 3 6 .gai,Bt the ladyc.at.the desk^ what more natu ral than to vent hjs spite^ on the sports writer. Not that he had anything to do with the "War of the Nickel". But what of that? The entire com munity should be made to suffer for such an insult to a personage of note. So there you are,sonny. We've wasted a lot of space on nothing, but hu morous things deserve their place in life also. The .following from last Friday's Mankl^o Freei Press comes under the category/ "Important, if true": "Over in New Ulm, an attempt is being made to 'dry up' the Journal, a newspaper that is opposed to the wide open policy that is permitted to run riot there. The Journal stood by the United States government dur ing the World War—now it is not pussyfooting on the liquor question. It has declined to suppress the ^fact that liquor raids have been nade in that city—and that during ,the late home-coming celebration federal agents swooped down on alleged^violators of the Volstead law. Bttt/the daubers of yellow paint will not frighten the Journal into silence. Furthermore, the better element in New Ulm is support ing the Journal in its fight against the rabble, that is making" the name of New Ulm a by-wof in the mouths of good people everywhere." The Review is reprinting the above squib frcm the Free Press in full be cause we believe that laughter is a iealthy exercise and when folks get a chance to see what a vivid imagina tion old Rcyr-olds has, they surely will have to laugh. The glaring mis statements are so plain in every sen tence of the above that it isn't neces sary to make any reply. It is quite interesting to see how the Journal "declined to suppress the fact that liquor raids have been made" in our city when the Review with a much larger circulation than the Journal al ways carries the ntws about liquor raids as well as all other news. Still that isn't ?ny more "off" than the rest of the Free Press spasm. "Mak ing the neme of New Ulm a by-word" hes been the very busy occupation of P. Liesch for some years, in which he is assidiously assisted by the Mankato Free Press and other members cf the phonograph press. These papers who are always shouting about their pa triotism know full well that the general public would never know from their contact with them that there is a speck of real patriotism in them £nd for that reason they find it absolutely necessary to be "testifying" in their own behalf on that point in and our of season. The honest man nevet finds it necessary to go around and tell everybody that he is honest. People will know that, if it is true. So also of patriotism. Has Our Permission To Go. "If we were living in Wisconsin, we would vote for the democratic candi date for United States senator, Mrs, Ben Hooper, rather than -vote for 'Berger's Bob'. "—Mankato Free Press. Have you lost all your old side door Pullman tickets? If not, then why not hop over for long enough to vote? The matter of residence and such could easily be disposed of under the good and tried theory of "what is the con stitushun between friends". You have pulled rawer deals than'that before, ojd dear. The only reason why you don't arrange for a vote in Wisconsin is no doubt because a 200,000 majority is pretty hard to overcome with one fat vote. And yet those hundreds,' of thousands of "misled" folks would no doubt accept the decision of* your "superior wisdom", don't you'think? Why, most assuredly. To the Editor of the NtwrtJlxn Review. In a recent number 'of the Review I noticed a communication frcm Mrs Ives of Sfc Paul, a daughter of the late Gov. Swift, pertaining to the Indian Massacre in August, 1862. From this communication it would appear as though B&r. Swift and about twelve or fifteen other St. Fetcr men «?me to New Ulm on hor'seback on the 19th day of August early enough in the day to aid and help in the first desperate fight Ao repel the Indians. This is not exactly correct. It is true that Mr. Swift and his party came to New Ulm on the 19th of August but not until the fight was over and the Indians had gone toward Ft. Ridgely which they attackfed the next,df$y. _, The hea%*y rain stopped the fight zx$ the St. Feter men did not cross the Redstone ferry until the rain was over. I spoke to some cf the St. Peter men with whem I was personalty acquainted arid they never claitoed that the^ hard taken part in the fighi Duftng'"the fifijgh£ It is correct that Mr. Swift had'oecn on top of a brick house west of the Forster house on Broadway which is 3tiH standing. My wife and baby were in the Forster house, too my wife knew Gov. Swift, as she had lived in St. Petei before the Outbreak. It wrs on the 23rc day of August, durirg the secctd battle of New Ulm, that Mr. Swirt witn the aid of the b3cope saw the approacLi-g Indians and reported their coming, vLimateJtf4a cowgo&oja* n^for^the, ^purtoose oTBelittlkg the'valknt"services '.k.^ rendered by this St. Peter party which came to the rescue of New Ulm, but for thie purjpose of preventing a wrong im pression of what actually transpired during the first battle of New Ulm and giving the Citizens of New LPm credit for having unaided and alone driven off the Indians during the first battle. In many of the reports of the first battle the facts have been wholly misrepresent ed and the citizens^pf this community haver never been given ful credit for their steadfastness on that memorable 19th. of August. Fred Fritsche. A :y°Pr|ee Wo the Indians occupied housei on ftdth"sides of the street lead&rg'tb N£w tfim* and the St. Petlr partly' wduld have been able to reach the barricaded part of the city if at all, onty at a heavy loss of lives None of these men were killed or wounded on the first day. $ ^x? /£3v Real Sport for Real Sportsmen! Away from the alarm clock and steam whistle! Away from the grind of the farm—of the shop! With our nose in the air and our toes on the ground, what grand sport in stalk ing the game! We specialize in Cuns and Ammunition. The brand on the goods we handle spells "Quality." Our rifles and shot guns are the delight of e\ery sportsman. We can outfit the big game hunter, or the man who likes rabbit hunting or birds. Cuns, Rifles, Revohers, Ammunition, Hunting Coats in fact anything in this line—gi\e us your order. Have You Been in, to Look at Our Coats Arid Suits? 'VTOU'D better come and look* at tKem at least that doesn't cost ydu anything but a little time: You may think you don't want or need any coat or suit but when choice lot of things to show you gnd you to see these stylish coats aaAs^ifs/^ f&3 lhCgBee Hive J. A. OCHS dfsON, Props. New Ulm*Mirin. "jMfT, W -v J**i*-,5 MOVES TQ SLEEPY EYE. ii /D. M. Herrstrom, who has been farm ing 1n the St. Peter neighborhood, is ^moving from his faim in Nicollet county which he has rented to Chas. Marquette of Kasota, and will return the latter part of this w$ek to the Sleepy Eye neighbor hood wh|re he will assist his father on the homfe farm. Mr. Herrstrom has been.reading is psh^wa t^wjoshift.for the past*three years Tell your friends to read the Eeview. ST 2QZ -53 v5 I them you may changejo^r^mind. ,. HpHE stock is very complete 4Vl have a"