New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-16

friends among the Republicans of this
state, but if he wants to lose them, all
be has to do is to countenance the Min.
neapolis scheme to make him governor
In the eyes of the majority that would
make Knute smaller man than he
eyer dreamt of being.
Gov. Merriam will soon be called
upon to pardon Adamson, the Minnea-
polls chattel mortgage shark, sentenced
to a long imprisonment at Saltwater.
The governor should not listen to such
q plea. He made the one mistake of
bis administration when he pardoned
Ried; he should not permit himself to
make another.
There has been an increase in the
number Of immigrants landed in New
York every mouth this year over the
corresponding months Of last year. The
total number arrived at Castle Garden
for the first six months of 1889 was
l73,67S and for the first six months
Of the current year 200,230. Such fig
ures as these emphasize the Importance
of judicious regulation Of foreign i'm
migration as nothing else can. With
an increasing tide of immigrants pour
ing into this country, and steadily de-
creasing proportion of desirable peo-
pie among them, the failure Of con-
gress to put up the bars and afford the
country reasonable and adequate pro-
lection from undesirable immigration is
inexcusable. Weeks and months are
wasted over matters of not half as much
Importance. Minneapolis Journal.
Cyrus Northrop, head Of the state
university, is All educator Of the high
est and strongest type. He is also an
practical. He believes that the school
is the Place to make citizens; that it is
also the place to bring up the boy, so
that in after life he is the manly man,
and the girl SO that III the fulness of
years she is the womanly woman. The
teacher has duty to perform that is
not found alone in dealing out the
three Rs at so much deal. In his
speech before the Educational Associa-
ton last week, the President told the
teachers this, When he said: II want
you teachers to feel that you are not
engaged in work that is all in a rut-
that it is not the teaching of so much
grammar and so much arithmetic that
constitutes the essence of life, but that
you are the greatest factors in the de-
Velopment of what We most need-an
American citizen, capable of admins
tering the affairs of this vast land when
called upon to take our places. want
you to teach our girls and boys to hon.
or the American flag above all other
flags, so that no matter where their
fathers came from, no matter whether
they were Scandinavians, Germans or
French, they will grow up loyal and
true to our national flag. By the de-
velopment Of the pupils mind and
thoughts, you are helping on this grand
work, preparing to make the rising
generation more noble and mighty than
the present. Good words those, and
truly spoken. The educational conven.
ion too was good place to sow them.
The National Teachers Association
met in St. Paul last week. AS many
rs ten thousand of the instructors of
the youth Of our land, it is said, were
in attendance, and the papers have
been replete each day with the address.
es and speeches of the learned ones. AS
to the amount of good that is to result,
it is not going too far, perhaps, to say
that much of what was heard went in
one ear and out Of the other. It is on
" the new ideas that make a lasting
impression, and in so short a time, with
so many to talk and so many topics to
cover, it is wellnigh impossible to do
justice to any. President Northrop of
the state university covered il exactly
in his happy way when he said to the
teachers present: Nov, you are not
going to get q great amount Of good
out Of the speeches you will hear at
these meetings, and you are not likely
to go home filled with new ideas, be-
cause there are no new ideas. These
men will get up, look wise and talk
learnedly, but they will not say any
thing new. They will dress up the old
things in new forms, and you may not
recognize the hash, but it will be hash
all the same" Nevertheless the con-
vention was a good thing for the teach
ers; it always is. It gives them. and
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