New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01

a.
Let them mark the language he gave to
the reporter of the Minneapolis Tribune!
-@ ErWin's Latest.
Hon. W. W. Erwin, the great criminal
lawyer of st. Paul, created The only sensa-
ton attendant upon the State convention
OF the Farmers Alliance in ST. Paul two
months ago by his speech delivered upon
that occasion. That effort was eloquent. err
ratio, communistic, entertaining and alto
gether unique in the history of political liter
allure. In that speech was curosly nterwov-
en- both truth and falsehood; history and
romance; poetry, prose and philosophy. 1t
was like "a dream created by the sick i'm agin-
alton of tevered philosopher as ideal as
utopia, as unreal as the FRANKS of Puck or
ARIEL BUTT was highly entertainingto both
the poetlcal and practical mind and very in
structive surely as a psychological study.
On the 18th inst. at Saltwater, Mr.. ERWIN
gave birth to his second etfusion-a speech
embodying so-called "facts and figures" re-
lating to the policy of protection i'll America
This effort is not so highly colored with the
word painting of the brilliant orator; it
Slltters with fewer diamonds of rhetoric, and
Its historical presidents are drawn from later
authors thac HERoDoTus and PL1NY; but the
same interest attaches to it, because of the
perfect recklessness with which he handles
the severe science of mathematics.
The speech. occupies six columns of the
Saltwater Messenger of u week ago:
and, like the former one, has been pub
lIshed as campaignd by the Farm
ers Alliance committee. Hence it will be
widel y read, but it is devoutly to be hoped
Its educational influence will not be co-exten-
sive with its reading. Now, who is this Mr..
ERWIN. who awakes SO suddenly to the fact
that the farmers of America are being grad
ually dragged into slavery by the Protection
system? His great ability an orator
hat h@ -
and his manner OF handling his sub
sject demonstrates that he, is both
scholar and thinker. He is then, the great
| criminal lawyer of st. Paul, and one of the
greatest in America. Why has this infant
HERCULES of Tree trade tlum bered SO long in
have glided and Missed about him? For
tweity-one years he has lived in Minnesota
| and eaten the bread of the farmer but never
before in history has he raised his voice in
de ence OF this down trodden industry. He
has taken fees from merchants, bankers, cor
porations-everyb body, in fact. who claimed
his servces-and allowed the ''devil OF
monopoly to eat it's way into the very vi
tails of this bucolic Commonwealth. Mr.. Err
WIN does not claim to be a statesman and
sneers at the mere politician. Heis alawyer
and great one-an advocate of remark
able briliancy. His seavices are in pprpet-
nal demand AZ the highest prices and yet he
deserts his practice, and leaves his legal
tones to gather the dust of dsuse while he
cavorts about the State preaching the
| damnabe doctrine of free trade with all the
fiery eloquence Of PETER the Hermit
There can be no other construction
placed upon his action except that
he has become the paid attorney of some
interest. The adoption throughout America
OF the political heresies eloquently pre-
sented by this distinguished gentleman
would restore to England her commercial
supremacy; would make the United States
the common prey of Europe. ltwoud bank
ruDt the treasury of the nation, and distri-
butte the surplus now accumulated, amongst
the countries that hate and fear us.
1t would close every factory door
on this continent in twelve months,
and send honest lahorers to betramps
upon the streets. 1t would deliver
| the fields of the American farmer over to the
tho night-shade and the thistle, and give the
stock-ranges back to the chaos of desolntion
and silence. Who would profit by the euact-
ment ofthese wild and erratic notions into
substantial law Let the farmers of Mime
sofa determine ifthey can who would profit
by it, and then, possibly, we may discover
who it is that pays the splendid fee which
alone could prompt this AJAX Of the bar to
talk upon the cause of free trade and plead it
so cloquently at the bar of public opinion
Northfeld News, Sept. p.
What the Press Say.
Window Reporter: When Hon. Thomas
Wilson accepted the nomination for COVER
nor in the Democratic convention last week
he said 81 am not here to say nword
against the railroads or corporations
Why should he shave word to say against
the railroads. He has been their attorney
for the past twenty-five years, and sought
every channel to nulfy the laws the people
have made toregulate common carriers. He
has sat in the legislature and congress, the
paid attorney for the railroads. and our
court reports are full of cases III which Ii
has figured as counsel to defeat the will o
the people or ride roughly over some poor
mans rights in his efforts to secure justice
from a railroad. The railroads have made
him rich as the reward of his efforts to
thwart justice and public interests. No great
er demagogue ever satin legislative councils,
in speech befrendng the people, in commit
tee and in lobby fighting the battles of rail-
road corporations. Suave and plausible in
manner. an autocrat by association, he is
typical Democrat, crying reform upon the
forum. md i'll court multiplying the will of the
people. Such is the feast to which the peo-
pie are invited this fall and with brazen eff
trontery the Democracy encourages the al
lance to perfect it's organization and pur-
sue its course of politics, knowing that a
strong alliance vote is u step toward Demo.
cratic success
Duluth Tribune: Democratic leaders and
the Democratic press have been making good
use OF the pra ting and high-sounding Erwin's
charge that Merriam was horn in a bank, but,
if such a chargeis at all to a mans discredit,
how much better is it to say of one that he
was nourished and tattened into wealth off
thepnythat comes from being the salaried
attorney 1ior years oil a great railroad? Such
a man is Wilson, the Democratic NOMINEES
for governor
Mid Continent: He-Wel. what did You do
to celebrate Independence day, my lover
She--I talked back to the ianitor.