New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-15

In the vicinity of 10000 copies Of
the new state laws were circulated
throughout the state through the me-
dunn of the newspapers.
The managing board of the state in
sane asylum held a meeting at St. Pau
last Friday, and adopted new by laws
which will conform to the recent hos
pital legislation.
Now that the Legislature has adjourned
and the powers at Washington are in
clined to run things to suits themselves
will some one suggest something for
the newspapers to tackle.
The meat inspection bill before the
Michigan Legislature has failed to be.
come a law. Evidently our own So
lon are not as susceptible to the Doodle
of the big Four'.' as the legislatures
of some other states.
Senators Washburn and Davis cannot
agree upon the appointment of a Unit
ed States district attorney for Mime
sofa. Both are pledged to staunch sup
porters and neither will give in. If
they want any suggestions as to way
out of the emergency they should not
be backward in asking. Perhaps there
are those'w could readily devise a
way of solving the attorneyship puzzle.
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The last of the famous gang of Bald
Knabbers, of Missouri, were hanged at
Ozark on Friday. The execution was
a terribly bungled piece of butchery
and the victims had to be strung up
twice and strangled. Capital punish
ment in any form is barbarous and out
rageous, but if we must continue the
death penalty, why not administer it in
some sudden and effective way and do
away with the disgusting practice of
hanging.
People are ever ready to criticize the
actions of legislators in appropriating
money for what seems to them an un-
necessary expense. The payment of
one hundred dollars by the state for
the law supplement seems
to many useless outlay of money.
Perhaps in instances it is but they for
get to consider the general benefit. On.
ly $4,000 copies of the laws will be
printed by the state and these will not
appear for months. In utilizing the
papers it makes it possible to acquaint
nearly ever reading person in the state
with the laws which govern them, and
they should not regret the cost.
The w. G. T. u, in state conven-
ton at St. Paul last week, went through
a lot of wrangling over the question of
making the order an annex to the pro-
hibition movement and spent but very
little time on anything else. The re-
suit is general weaking of the order.
The organizations have always been
among the greatest of the forces for
good but in seeking to dabble in poll
tics, they have only created dis sensions
within themselves. and it would seem
as though they had served their pur-
pose. AS soon as they become figure
in politics, they are no longer body
of women bent solely on doing good but
lot of screeching politicians with but
little influence and no vote, and they
should sacrifice their name at once on
becoming living lie.
The deep rooted race conflict that
prevails in the southern states is fully
evidenced in the reports that come from
Louisiana Of bodies of armed regulators
surrounding polling places 8 preventing
the negroes from voting. The election
was municipal one and the action of
the whites, in attempting with force to
suppress the negro vote, was not due
to any political prejudice, for the can.
didates were all of one party. 1t was
simply an outbreak of the long stand
ing hatred of the people of one race for
those of the other and which every now
and then crops out in open feuds.
There is lesson in it for the south
which they should not fail to recognize.
The negroes will not long brook being
deprived Of their just rights and the
southern people should take the warn
ing and meet the question in a fair and
statemanlike way. 1t is deep and
touohy one but they should not be