New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-05

change of management in all other
public institutions would not be bad
thing. Successive years Of control has
tendency to make the heads of public
institutions arrogant, independent and
more careful of their own comfort than
of those for whom they are expected
to care. Turn 'em out.
Senator Edmunds in the June No. of
the Forum has an interesting and very
telling article on ballot reform. There
is no doubt that the prostitution of the
ballot by corrupt practice is menacing
the liberty of this country. So long as
every man, be he small or great, has
his price, SO long will few politicians
of either party control the government
of sixty million people. It is pleasure
to notice that this matter is engrossing
the attention of the people and more
especially the party leaders, like Ed
munds. It is also quite suggestive
fact that the matter is being taken up
by the G. .. p.
Some time ago the Chicago board OF
trade and the w. U. Telegraph com
pany resolved not to furnish market
quotations to anybody but those who
paid for them, and took out the stock
quotation tickers in private offices in
the Northwest and refused merchants
in this part of the country the usual
reports. A dispatch from Chicago says
that Geo. M. Hurd has secured an in
junction from Judge Tulley, restraining
the board of trade and the Western
Union Company from removing his
ticker. Hurd has brokers' offices in
Minneapolis and St. Paul, and he
claims to have as much right to an in.
junction, as if he were dong business
in Chicago. He insists that the market
reports are public and not private prop.
erty.
In asylum horrors Chicago is not to
stand alone. From our own state hos.
pital at Rochester comes the report
of brutal murder. It has just been
discovered that about two months ago
a patient at the hospital was horribly
murdered by two of the attendants
He was doing some work on q scaffold
and was muttering to himself wha. he
would do if he had a revolver, when be
was suddenly attacked by the attend.
ants, knocked down, cruelty beater
and jumped upon until dead. The at
tendants concealed the diabolical crime
by claiming that the patient had fallen
from the scaffold and killed himself,
but they were recently exposed by {
witness to the deed. If such things al
I. this can be committed there and not be
found out, isn't it quite likely that the
treatment the insane receive is not al.
ways what it ought to bep We begir
to think the st. Paul News about right
| in its kick against loose hospital man
| agement.
i The st. Louis school board refused K
| make Memorial day a holiday so thai
the children might participate in tn,
exercises, and they are catching thun
| der for it from the people and paper,
/ of that city. They deserve it. Til,
men who do not know that the lessor
to be taught the children by the props
observance Of that day is more import
ant than any lesson they will learn on
of their books that day are not ft t,
direct the education of future citizen
| Of the Repu bic. On the other hand, il
the school boards were more careful tt
provide some memorial day exercises
] in which all the children would be re
CURED to participate they would com,
nearer the mark.-JoURNAL.
The North is the name of week
" English newspaper. devoted to th,
interest of the Scandinavians of til,
4 United States, which is to commenc,
publication at Minneapolis next week
! Luth. Jaeger is the editor.