New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-06

/ OpOH iuO W1dPpVI zstDOub8 Jul CACu1HSGs,
and hastily skimming through the edi-
torial columns, sink smiling into our
chair when we read s.The New Ulm
Review, contemplating on the recent
Abbott amendment to the platform Of
the I'd district Republican convention, =
and such other mplimentary and sa
lyrical comments. As it is, nearly ev-
cry prohibition editor Of our glorious
district has sat down upon us, and it
must indeed be a matter of congratula.
ton for some of the venerable, noble
gentlemen, who stand aloof, clothed in
the white shroud of virgin modesty and
/ virtue, to perceive that our words,
spoken in the expression of a candid
opinion, are SO harshly and vigorously
criticized. But gentlemen, we won't
give up the ship, as long as there's a keel
in it, and if you say that we are radical
ly wrong in asserting that Republican
principles, the principles of the grand,
old party, are not indorsing a measure
at variance with constitutional laws,
| then we throw to you, to each and every
one of you, the mitten, and say that
you are fooled, tha5 in calling your
selves Republicans you are ignorant of
true Republicanism, inasmuch as You
indorse.a measure tyrannical in nature.
i
You may have belonged to the party
for the last half century, still we, who
have but just publicly asserted our opin-
ion in its behalf, fairly and unqualified
ly, claim that we are truer Republicans
than all of you. You may go on and
commit treason toward that party,
which, as some of you say, has saved
millions of unhappy wretches from sIav-
ely, and by resorting to the practice of
such doctrines as the government of a
man. $ free will, justly asserting itself
you can undoubtedly gain for yourself
amongst your friends and followers a
high rank, and if we are only a mouse
battling against an elephant, we shall
prove to you that we are an indepen-
dent one, ready and on the alert to
speak a word for personal liberty, which
you so studieusly denie. Gentlemen,
class us as an s.Anti Prohibition Re-
publican
1t is said of the eighteen million child.
rem Of school age in the United States,
six millions are not in school because
of lack of state financial ability to pro-
vide free public schools for these child
rem. At the same time, the national
treasury has burdensome surplus of a
hundred million dollars. What better
service could our wise Legislators do
their country, than directing their ener-
gy and ability toward the passage of
such laws as would create with the I'M
counted thousands of useless cash, insti-
tutes of education for those, who now
grow up ignorant, but who in time will
be responsible citizens.
An extract from a speech made by
Dan. Voorhees,, the Indiana Senator,
showing the injustice of prohibition
from a strictly religious stand point,
was just handed us, and we were con-
vinced that the senator after all is cap.
able Of fair and open treatment of
ruling topic. From his wartime beha-
vior, the record of which was disclosed
in the o. S. Senate by John Ingalls,, we
had gained the impression that the In.
diana statesman was d discredit to that
honorable body, and in speaking of him
in our issue of May 10th, did him the
injustice of quoting Ingalls, as having
characterized this age as one of
swollen pretenses etc., while Dan.
Voorhees, was the author of this true,
common-sense statement.
Unquestionably the great oratical
event of the Republican national con-
yention will be the speech of Col. Robert
G. Ingersoll, who has been invited by
the delegates of Illinois, his native
state, to present Judge Gresham's name
to the convention. and he has agreed to
do SO. This will be the Colonel's first
participation in politics for several
years, and if Gresham should be nomi-
mated he may be expected to take the
stump.
Gen. Phil. Sheridan, the brave Union
soldier, has taken up arms against
death. His trouble is heart-disease,
and his physicians express grave doubts
as to his recovery. So one by one the
old Veterans are dropping away.
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