New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-07-15

OPINIONS OF OUR EXCHANGES
Some Partisan, some Unbiased, but all
Of them containing more or
less of Truth.

No doubt John Lind has had enough
OF the lower house of congress, but to
suppose he is out of politics is very fool
ish. If he isn't Governor within few
years, or successor to w. d. Washburn
in the senate the Reporter is Mistaken
Window Reporter. ..
Secretary Foster, to the democratic
press: Go ahead boys, this deficit lie
seems to afford you lots of amuse-
ment these dull days, and 1t hasn't the
slightest effect upon the United States
treasury, which is paying and will con.
tinue to pay all demands at a hundred
cents on the dollar. Heron Lake News.
The Fairmont News proves from quo
tations from the Pioneer Press, which,
it asserts, is "a good Republican auth
ority," that the rest of the Republican
party, that is, that portion of it outside
of the Pioneer Press, is but pack Of
tin plate liars. You can prove anything
in the world by the Pioneer Press for
so many dollars proof, cash down, no
grum BILE. midway News.
There is no picture that is more
daubed up than the picture Of cring-
ing politician who wants office and
wants it bad. He stoops to do more
humiliating things, and gets red in the
face oftener than any bank robber that
ever went to Canada. They ought to
take hint too that possibly the public
is not half as anxious to see them in Of
flee as out Some of the mean things
said of such people are merited and it
is surprising that they are so thick
skinned rs to feel that they are above
criticism.
In recent speech before an Alliance,
that down-trodden and oppressed farm
er. Gen, Baker, expressed a regret that
he had not in the last campaign ''held
Gov. Merriam over hell and roasted
him." If the reader will compare this
utterance with Bakers brilliant pane.
gyric at the time he nominated Merriam
for governor, some estimate can be
formed of the extraordinary magnitude
of the generals disappointment in not
securing the expected reward of rail.
road commissionership. Hell hath no
fury like politician scorned. Martin
County Sentinel.
Despotic and insolent one-manism,
which means cringing and servile sub.
mission of the people, will hardly work
in this State. The Republican party is
hardly the party to be used as means
to sustain personal supremacy. 1t is
true that Republicans should work for
the success of the party, but at the same
time they should be accorded the right
to claim independence of thought and
action in the choice of candidates be-
fore convention. Free thought and
free speech are cardinals with every Re.
publican. Any attempt to force pre-
ference in favor of one person OF combi.
nation, without any regard whatever to
the wishes of the people, and in the ab.
sence of discussion of the merits and
dement's of the candidates proposed,
may result dlsastrously.-Nort
News.
This heavy increase of insane patients
is largely among the foreign born. Il
indicates a growth of mental disease
which. before many years, will become
heavy burden to the state. At the pre-.
sent rate of increase we shall haye to
double the number of asylums within 10
or Is years. Why not use some powerful
means TO arrest this stream of deranged
brains and abate the enormous expense?
One of the first things to be done is to
effectually shut out all European idiots
and insane persons. From that source
has been spread the virus of insanity
through hereditY in this country. And,
for the rest. there must be ceaseless
warfare against the vices which drive
men and women to insanity. At the
present rate of increase, in another CEN
tury, tie state of Minnesota will be
dotted all over with insane asylums.
The fewer we have of these structures
the better. In this superb climate it is
natural to look for uniform soundness
Of mind in sound bodies. Yet the fact
is, we can't build asylums enough to
meet the dem and for accommodations.
Minnesota, Of course, is not peculiar in
this respect. Other states are similarly
cursed. But the subject should be taken
more to heart and discussion than it
is. Minneapolis Journal.
The electrocution of four men in Sing
Sing last week was pronounced sue