New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-24
Young Voters, Attention!


1 presidential electors next month
who never voted for Presidential cleo
tors before. These 1000. 900 young vo-
| tersshold the result of the present con-
i test in their hands. Now as custodians
OF trust at once so important and so
far reaching, it is their duty to act with
| thoughtful caution. As young Ameri-
can citizens, You have this responsible
| ty, and in the discharge of it it will not
| do for you to say that your father acted
thus or SO. 1t will not do for you to
follow your inclinations solely; to fol-
low your preferences, your prejudices,
Your sympathies.
Your decision affects your own future.
Ttalso affects the future of your neigh
Dor. This is the rub. Here is the mo-
raj side of it. You are your brothers
political keeper. AS political sentinel
young, patriotic, ambitious are you
going to prove false to your American
citizenship at the very outset?
Right down in your heart you have
sympathy for one cause or the other. It
is very largely this sympathy that deter
mines whether you are Democrat or
Republican. Now what right have you
to blindly follow this sympathy, when
your act directly affects every other man
in the land? You are sovereign, not
serf. You are sitting in Judgment upon
the future of your own realm.
You elect Judge to the bench. He
follows his prejudices and disregards
evidence. You quickly degrade him.
Ought not you as electors, who put not
only judges upon the bench, but law
makers in Congress and presidents in
the White House, ought not you to be
hauled down from your American citi-
Izenship if you follow prejudice, and dis
regard evidence?
You admit that you ought Of course
you do. You are manly Americans,
and can't do otherwise. Now let us
submit in evidence, three points:
| 1. That history shows thai whenever
the strong, national policy, outlined by
| Hamilton, saved from destruction by
Lincoln and Grant, and now represented
by the party of Observation-Disclosures
this policy has obtained, we have made
progress. WhyP Because the policy had
in it the elements of success; the oppo-
site, or Jefersonian policy, the elements
of failure. You doubt this? Let us beg
our Judge to lay aside that lurking pre-
judice, that suggested the doubt, and
read our history through clean glasses.
2. That experience proves that our
greatest material progress has been
made while we shut out products of for
eign capital and labor, unless they paid
us something for coming in.
3. That wherever there is greatest
material accumulation, there is greatest
culture, temperance, humanity, piety.
AS an impartial sovereign, with de-
cision in your hand that effects not
alone yourself, but me, and not alone
me, but every other American, you are
bound to take this evidence into con-
sideration. Can you gainsay it? If you
can find the road to national unity in
the precepts of Calhoun; if you can find
more material wealth in Virginia and
Mississippi than in Massachusetts, and
sylvania; if you can find the high
est culture in the lower wards of New
York, and in States where two out of
every three men you meet can neither
read nor write; if you can do this, then
you can conscientiously decide this case
in favor of the principles at present
represented by Cleveland and Thurman.
If you cannot, then as an impartial
Judge, you are bound to decide it in IA
vor Of the principles represented by
Harrison and Morton. Bear this in
mind: that it is no more a question OF
men than it is Of sympathy. It's q,ses-
ton of principle, not of your prejudice
or of your preference.
Most severely is it again felt and es
pecially by those who can least with
stand such a course. that the specula
ton in the necessaries Of life is crimi-
nal act and one therefore which should
be prohibited by law.
The speculation in wheat at the Chi
cago exchange, and which was conduct
ed by that merciless monopolist, Hut
Crimson, has advanced the price of that
staple to such an extent as to necessi-
tate very high price for -four. True
it is that the scarcity of wheat this fall
has much to do with the rise in price,
but unhindered speculation in this nee
essary product tends to heighten the