New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-02-19

hen also from the man who gave the
advice. and like pious good christ
Ian gave it to the preacher and received
many fervent blessings in return.
Elder said It was evident q good
Providence was watching over him
and supplying him with his wants.
One Of the last farces transacted by
our silly solons.in the Legislature last
week was voting to have 1000 copies
OF the Governors message printed in
the Irish language. It will be neces-
sary for them to employ an Irish pro.
lessor te translate it into the English
language before the Irish can read it,
as there is not perhaps score Of Irish
men in this State, who can read their
native language. would suggest
that DR.. O'Larey Of N. Y. is a compel
ent professor Of the Language that en-
lightened England and once made it a
penal crime to teach or talk. Perh APPS
Senator Rice meant to politely insult
the lrishmen of Minnesota by remind
ing them that they had no Country or
language but borrowed one. forced
on them by severe penalties.
I must not neglect to say something
about last weeks Lyceum, as it was
small boys affair, and they might think
I had sighted them and did not think
their efforts worth noticing in the Re-
view. Such is not the case, I appreci.
ated their maiden effort at speech
making.
They made more fun and caused
more laughter than would a lecture by
Mark Twain, or an essay by Sh. Bill.
lings. Their subject was: Resolved,
that the Indian has suffered more
from the white man than the negro
has. The boys did splendidly. One
little fellow said the Indians had been
reduced from a population of several
millions to few hundred thousand,
while on the other hand the negroes
had increased from a few to millions.
Another fellow thought the Indian
didn't have very bad time as Uncle
Sam supported and clothed him and
let him spend his time hunting and
fishing, he would not care if he was an
Indian himself. Some of those boys
will yet make their mark in the world
and leave their foot prints in the sands
of time. I saw in the Philadelphia
Times, speaking of the wonderful pos
sibilities that boy may attain to in
this country, that cited Gen. Shields
as living instance. He came from
Ireland at the age of Is, without
friends or money. He has written
his name on the bloody pages of his.
tory in two sanguinary wars, and has
just been elected to the U. S. Senate
for the third time from three different
States. Another instance of wonder.
full success is John Hinton, poor or.
phan boy, who was kicked around diff.
ferent parts of Pennsylvania 40 years,
but is now commander in chief of the
Ameer's army in Affghanistan and
Weather than any nabobof the Indies.
DR.. Holland says politics has become
the pursuit of small men and we no
longer have an opportunity to put the
best men into Office. The scramble for
place among fools is so great and so
successful that men of dignity and
modesty retire from the field in disgust.
Everybody wants to be something and
in order to be something everybody
must leave his proper place in the
world and assume a position God never
intended he should fill. Look in upon
State Legislature once and you will
find sufficient illustration of my mean
ing. Not one man in five of the whole
number possesses the first qualification
for making the laws Of the State. I
mean no contempt for the good honest
men. 1wish simply to say that there
is nothing in their quality Of mind,
habits of thought, intellectual power
or style Of pursuits that fits them for
the great and momentous functions of
legislation: They are there a set of
nobodies mainly for the purpose of be.
coming somebodies, and not for any
object connected with the good Of the
State. This desire for distinction
seems to sun through the whole social
body as kind of neral scrofula.
Now this description of men that
DR.. Holland wrote about l8 years ago
seems to apply admirably to our pres.
ent Legislature. Their tramp act,
making poverty a crime, infamous
thing. Mr.. Powers said if that was
the law of the land every member OF
the Senate might have been put at
breaking stones on the street at some
period of their lives. Mr.. Doran said
he himself was tramp when he came
to this country but be was helped a.
long till he cOu1l helm himsa1f