New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-15
Ire Book Trust.

It is not the Roman Catholic who is the
great enemy of the American public school
system and popular education. Neither of
those classes who favor or oppose the read
ing of the Bible in the public schools are the
dangerous enemies to universal education.
The danger most to be feared today and the
one to be taught against and conquered
is the school book trust. Every book
used in the schools OF Minneso-
ia to-day costs from fifty to seventy
five per cent more than it should and the
surplus goes into the pockets Of the mean
est and most heartlcss gang Of piratical
Spectators ever known. The man
who would rob the State school fund
would be sent to the penitentiary followed
by the hearty excavations of every citizen
in the State, good or bad. And vet,
the people of Minnesota submit with
out protest to species of rob-
berry just as contemplate, just as
open, just as inexcusable az though the State
Auditor should take half million from the
school fund and decamp to Canada. Do the
people OF this state know that one school.
book publishing house has sent into retire
ment three millionaires during the
past twenty years. and that the same
house is still piling up wealth at the
rate of more than q million year? lis
generally known to the people that the
PECKsNIFFs who publish the books used by
the school children OF Minnesota have be-
come one Of the most demoralizng elements
in every community in the land-that they
hribe legislators with one hand while they
pick the pockets of the poor with
the other? There is only one way to kill
this soulless and constituencies trust. The
State must buy the text books used in all
the public schools and in the State Univer-
sity. Then, if the State cannot get those
books at fair price it can establish a State
printing office and print them. The school
book trust must follow the binding Irvine
trust into the darkness of oblixion.-North-
field News.
Good News From Headquarters,
For the first time since tho present cam.
paign commenced the Republican state CEN
trail committee has made an estimate of tina
strength of the Republican state ticket. and
yesterday Chairman Heatwole gave it out
that the present governor OF the state will
be reelected by a majority of Is, 500 or
more votes
You may give this out straightfrom me. !"
said he, land the only reason do not make
a close estimate is because do not know to-
day how many votes Gov. Merriam will gain
between now and Nov. f. But l put down
1870 as the minimum" This estimate is
based upon the reports made by the chair
men of the county committees and others
who attended the big committee meeting on
Tuesday. These reports show also that
There IL every prOOaDliity OF 1ne re.electlon
Of the five Minnesota congressman,
and that. despite the specia! efforts which
are being made by the Alliance and the Demo-
Gratis, the Republicans will in all probability
have a majority of the members of the next
Legislature. The returns from the country
seem to indicate that the scheme of the Dem.
ocrats, while ostensibly working for the
whole state, congressional and legislative
tickets alike, is really to sacrifice the state
and congressional tickets in the interest Of
the legislative candidates, With a view to the
election of a combination Democratic-A l-
ance United States senator to succeed Hon.
C. K. Davis There is gond evidence also
that the Democratic and Alliance managers,
who have SO far been working in conjunction
with each other, are getting jealous OF each
other. and that there is likely to be an open
rupture before election tlav.
Tom Wilson as Barrator.