New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-06-10
HER PEOPLES NOTIONS.

OTHER PEOPLES NOTIONS.
Expressed on Topics,not only Political but
Otherwise.
| do not think the planks in the Cincin-
natl platform can be fastened together
and held in place. The farmers ought 10
know that resolutions passed by politi-
cal conventions raise neither corn nor
wheat, neither can they effect prices.
| do not believe that a government can
make money by law any more than it
can make good crops by law. The gov
ernment can't support the people. The
people have got to support the govern.
ment. The government is perpetual
pauper. l ask this one question: the
government can make money why
should it collect taxes? Why not make
what it needs and stop bothering the
people? Sill I am glad that the farmers
are discussing these questions. They,
will find out what the government can
and cannot do.-Co]. Robert G.. Inger-
soil in an interview at Duluth.
Senator G.. X. Davis in an address
to the State law students of the State
University had this to say of the shyster:
The profession is always verminous
with him. He infests the law. If emf.
nent he is deadly. If obscure he is a
crawling. ]oatbsome, scratching horror.
He is, in his lowest form, sort of in.
visible ligamentous band which unjtes
the criminal to the policeman, and his
nature is compound of both. He is
something of a detective, and he smells
of the Jail. He is the toady to every
susceptible Judge. He is the pandar to
his own prostitution. He is abject to
his betters, Iscariot to his friends and
knavlsh towards everybody. Benefits
torture him to resentment, especially
when the contemptuous charities of his
benefactor have been wasted upon him
in the hope of enriching nature that
was sterile from the womb. As doc
tor he would be quack, producing his
patients by injecting them with the dis.
eases he processes to cure; as a clergy.
man he would first appear as an apos-
tate from one faith and would finally
become renegade from all; as sol.
dier he would be coward, deserter
and spy; if a woman, bawd; as man
he is all these in one compendious in
carnation of reptilian propensities.
Make war upon him. Trust not his re-
pentence, especially when he discredits
it by the accident of any meritorious
act. 1t is the mere desquamation of q
snake, and he becomes more poisonou.
Immediately after the process. In life
he is the chartered robber of our times
and he will die. if possible, in some act
of crime, like Jonathan Wild, who while
the rope was being adjusted to his neck
picked the pocket of the clergyman
who was praying for the salvation of hi
internal soul. = "
Maj. Edwards, the corpulent editor
of the Fargo Argus, known all over the
| Northwest, was in St Paul last weel
and expressed himself to St Pau
News reporter on the racket that is'be
ing stirred up in the PRESBYTERIAN
church in the following humorous man
ner: ''The situation worries me.
have wasted away until l am but {
shadow of my former plump and peachy
self; but us Presbyterlans can't afore
to die until this matter of the hereafter
has been properly attended to and de
cided upon once and for all, as WI
haven't any clearly defined ideas as te
whether we belong to the elect or are ir
need of heavy fire insurance. These arr
troublous times, my boy, for man O
my sensitive nature. First they hat
prohibition introduced into Dakota; ;ther
the original package was exiled; mex
your man McHale tried to rob us of tn,
beauty Of womanhood, !, and now religion
is having hard time of it. Nothing il
sacred to some people. The heres.
craze hasn't penetrated the Northwes
as yet. but if Dakota happens to hav,
poor crops this season the occupation Q
the sky pilot will be gone, as the who'll
blessed population will lapse into Inger
sollian inidelity. I am free to say tina
i this breaking away from creeds doe
mot please me, and have written t
4 Phillips Brooks, Heber Newton, Rain
! ford and the rest, conde demning their POI
I|icy. The safety Of the Republic de
4 pends upon the maintenance of SUI
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