New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-23

| BY order OF Committee.
Diphtheria is raging at Nicollet and
some deaths have occurred.
Snow covered the ground at Fergus
Falls on Monday. At Minneapolis TOO
there was slightsfurry and even here
flakes could be noticed in the air.
A party of Winthrop folks consisting
of Mayor Anderson, M. j. Rosskopf,
John Wetter, Henry Wetter, Henry
Olson, - Bon, r. Gustafson and A.
Emmerich spent Sunday in our city.
Frequent visits between the residents
of these two towns are becoming popu-
lar and we hope.,they will be kept up.
Among our other exchanges we note
the arrival of the s'Montana Staats lei.
tung'' published at Helena, Montana.
by our old friend Lambert Naegele,
'Freie Presse." We wish the new pa
per success and hope its publisher
will experience none of the difficulties
which attended him while at the helm
OF the Minneapolis sheet. We also no.
tice from the ''Volkszeitung'' that the
Freie Presse, which has been purchased
by Minneapolis business men. will be
managed by Richard F. Schmidt and
that Charles Baehr will be retained as
one of the staff
/ Few people have an idea Of how
much a cargo Of a modern vessel red.
resents-such, for instances as are.now
engaged in the carrying trade of Lake
Superior. A few days ago q vessel
cleared from Duluth to Buffalo with
$4,000 bushels of wheat At the s.ver-
age yield of 20 bushels, this cargo rep
resents the product of 1900 acres, or
more than the average product of 46
Minnesota farms Loaded on farmers
wagons, at the rate of 40 bushels per
load it represents 2,300 distinct loads.
In car loads it represents 204 cars, or,
twenty cars to the train. 10 distinct train
loads. And yet there are lots of vessels
in the Lake Superior traffic doing this
amount Of business every trip they
make.
One of the most senseless things ever
done by congress was passing the bills
by which Indians receiving allotments
of lands in seVeralty should become
voters. Under this head about twenty
thousand Indians will be entitled to vote
at the next presidential election. Will
one per cent. of them vote with any
idea of what they are doing or of the
value of a vote in . moral sense? Will
they not as a rule measure the value by
the measure Of whisky and tobacco they
can sell their votes Tor? It is safe TO
say that, as the twenty thousand Indian
1 votes will be the balance of power in the
new states, thousands upon thousands Of
dollars will be expended in their pur-
chase. Large Indian campaign funds
will be necessary in every election, and
the candidates getting the Indian vote
i will have to buy it several times over
For years we have heard the cry of bal
j lot reform, and every year the ballot is
a legislated deeper into the mud The ballot
is placed in the hands oftheignorant and
the vicious, without a single require
ment of a knowledge of our methods of
government or of our institutions. The
Indian. idea of the United States is q
4 government that provides them with
food or clothing without pay or work,
and keeps them supplied with all the
weapons Of war necessary to make a
massacre successful when they are so
4 inclined. ST. JAMES JOURNAL.
4 Il would not live always" said the
i Psalmist in moment of poetic rapture
Il would not either, = says Josh Bill
! lings, irreverently. So we say-but
4 then while we do live, let US hold on TO
our health and spirits. The snrest way
Il TO do this iSS IN Law II, a Sunn1v of D,.s