New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-12-04


to take a step that only the unreason-
ing and the soreheads would ever think
of taking.
If erybody in New Ulm didn't give
thanks last Thursday, it was not be-
cause there was not that to give thanks
for. for certainly there was. In the
first place and above all else, we have
within the past few months passed
through the first, and successfully end
ed a second county seat fight. We have
won both, fairly and honestly. We are
better prepared to 60 before the people
for a third time, and our cause is viewed
in a more favorable light throughout
the county, than when we first went in
to it. But throwing aside all this, with
the i'll, feeling that it has engendered,
New Ulm has seen in 1889 the most
prosperous year of her existence. In
none previous has she made such strides
towards true development. The i'm
provements made in the little space of
one year are such as no other town of
its size has equalled or approached.
The towns advantages have for the
| first time really awakened an interest
therein, and the improvement is not
| alone in the direction of public changes
| but in Individual industries, increased
and developed. The outlook is even
still more satisfactory. The coming
year promises to be as fruitful and add
as much to this, as the present has ad-
ded to the past. New Ulm will grow.
In few years she will be a bustling
city with all of a city's hum and stir.
Sluggishness and inactivity has been
the history of the past, but great pros
poets is the story of the present and
great achievements the outlook for the
future.
! The business men of Owatonna have
done the right thing. In presenting to
their city council petition, asking for
the placing of fixed license upon IA
kris, who float into place to dispose
of bankrupt goods, they have set an
example that ought to be followed by
the merchants of every town. And the
city council Of every city should be viii.
ling to grant every such petition. Nor
is it reasonable to say that it can't. II
these Cheap Johns were doing q legiti-
mate business, it would be different,
The council might then have some
doubt as to its right to disturb the equa.
lization of taxation. But they don't.
In the first place they fail to pay any
tax whatever, and are assisted in avoid.
it.in every they 60 to by by the very
laws of that town. Further than this
they refuse to live up to any Of the
rules of trade. You can never find
them willing to do business on the same
scale with regular merchants. On the
contrary they make it their purpose to
bleed the public with poor goods, cheat
the merchant by underselling his lowest
possible figures with the claim that their
goods are as good as any, and then skip
out to avoid the kick that must in the
end result from their Objectionable bust.
ness methods. They are never what can
be called legitimate dealers. They are
fakir,s through and through, and consid.
ering all this we claim that any city
council has the right to refuse to allow
/ a gullible public to be roped in. Ithas
right to protect its merchants and its
purchasers as well, and when these
men go so far as to avoid taxation, il
has perfect and legitimate right to
license them, even to q sufficient extent