New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-16
IMPORTANT DECISION.
Judge webber makes a Rulin : in the
Cele brated Land Gases.

Judge Webber makes a Ruling : in the
Celebrated Land Gases.
On Wednesday, Judge B. F. Webber
handed down his decision in the cases
of the Winona & St. Peter Land Com
pany VS.. Ebilcisor, Nowak, Casey, Dun
can, Schiltz and others, over which the
lawyers had such tussle in the courts
of this district about month ago.
The cases were brought by the Land
Company to eject certain settlers from
land to which the company claimed a
right by act of congress. There is a
great deal of land in this and neighbor-
ing counties that is similarly situated,
and proceedings were instituted in on
ly eight cases for the reason that they
were best suited for test. Similar
cases ale now pending in the circuit
court, relative to decision of Secreta-
ry Noble.
Judge Webber favors the settlers in
all but the Nicollet county cases and to
some extent that of Ebilcisor. He is
very clear in his ruling, and in his de-
cision, which is one of considerable
length, seems to cover all points of dis.
pute.
The attorneys for the settlers IN these
cases were Congressman Lind, G. A.
Hagberg, Geo. w. Somerville, J. NJ.
Thompson and c. R. Davis. Senator
Tawney represented the land company.
The Minneapolis Tribune accuses the
Review of nominating John Lind for
United States Senator. While there is
no truth in this statement, we are never
theless ready at all times to claim that
John Lind is made of the stuff and cast
in & mould that would eminently fit him
for so high station. Southern Mime
sofa or the so-called county districts
could we'll afford to take up the name
of John Lind, and carry it to the front.
One of the hobbies of the Democracy,
in urging the overthrow of the protec.
tive system in this country, has been
that it kept us out of the markets of the
world and restricted our foreign trade.
No Democrat has ever been able to
make satisfactory or logical explana-
ton Of how protection closes outside
markets to US, but the cry about for
eign markets has been kept up with
considerable fuss just the same. The
only attempt to justify this strange Dem
ocratic claim has been with the gener-
al statement that ''na.lons will not trade
with US unless we trade with them," as
if each individual foreign purchaser
we're in the habit of making a calcula-
tion and baslng his purchase upon the
result of his information with reference
to the condition of the foreign commerce
of the nation in which he lives, regard
less of price or quality of goods. Of
course this is the sheerest foolishness
Good sense laughs at such ridiculous
proposition. and, what is moro impor-
tant, the official figures utterly disprove
| it.
The Mckinley law has been in opera
ton now something over ten months.
and during that time the increase of our
foreign trade over the similar period of
the proceeding year had reached the
handsome sum of $32,512,992, This is
the largest annual increase of our ex-
port trade for many years. The aver
| age annual increase is less than SIS, ,OOO-
COO. It will thus be seen that the in
crease for ten months of the present
year is equal to more than double the
usual increase for the full year. The
! next two months:will show much heavier
exports than any other two months in
the year, owing to the movement of the
crops, and it is fair to assume that at
the close of the full year it will be
shown that the increase of our foreign
export trade has been three times as
large as usual. The balance of trade
has been against us for some years past
in amounts ranging from $14, 100000 tc
1926, 100000. This year it will be in ou1
favor. There can be no better test o1
the merits and value of the new Law
than this.
The benefits of reciprocity have just
begun to be realized and in due time
will make a big addition to the show
ing in favor of the Mckinley law, ot
which it is an inseparable part. The
first reciprocity treaty was with Brazil
4 or1 IN fo,1r nnontho our ovx0r& <rodo .