New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-07-20

Here's a prediction! Watch and see
how near it comes to being true! The
$500 appropriation is to be secured and
in course Of time Nix is to be ousted
from the schools.
We would impress upon all who are
apt to read these articles that the Re-
VIEW doesn't care one centWho gets on
the school board so long as personal
spite is kept out of its councils and the
welfare and progress Of the schools is
kept constantly in view.
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ALI, who. noticed the calm and manly
manner in which the Lutheran ministers
and their candidate conducted them
selves at the hail and compared their
action with that of certain other gen
tleman Of the cloth, were bound to re-
spect them. No one can make us be-
.lieve that REIN and his true friends
would ever endorse all of the methods
that were used to Indirectly advance
their cause.
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Here is what Prof. Soaring, Of the
Mankato Normal School says: ssThe
graduates of the New Ulm schools are
among the best we receive. They show
evidence of careful and thorough train
ing much above the average. I have a
full appreciation Of the educational
work that is being done in our neigh
boring city, Prof. Soaring is an edu-
Gator Of long experience and pronounced
merit, and his opinion should weigh
well in the balance when compared with
that of those who seldom visit a school.
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The story was started by one of the
agitators that if Turner Hall was loca-
ted on Front Street, State Street would
not have been graded. The story has
nothing to. do with the school question,
as we can see, but to illustrate its absur-
dity it is only necessary that the petition
which brought about the grading of State
Street was headed by A. F.. REIN and
that the improvement was paid for large
ly by people residing along the said
Street. Furthermore, Mr.. Strickler. as a
member OF the Board of Public Works
voted for the Improvement, and certain
iy no one thinks of accusing him of be-
ing run by the Turnverein.
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It is a bad sign Of popular corruption
sufficient to cause fear, when liquor is
employed IN the ordinary political strug-
gle after Office where money is at stake,
and perhaps living, but when men are
so anxious to secure control of educa-
tional matters in order to execute selfish
desires and vent personal spite, that
they will spend whole nights in sa-
loon and even tarnish the sanctity Of
what was once place Of religious Wor-
ship by employing the fasset to destroy
the more upright and patriotic inhuen-
ces that would guard the sacredness of
the public schools, then it is enough to
cause one to think that Amcricanism
and loyalty to American institutions
have lost their weight with some people
and are as nothing compared with per-
sonal greed and individual ambition.
Heaven forbid, though, that all Of us
should ever come to fall so low. Rather
be losers always than to taint the citi-
zenship of which we are proud by re-
sorting to ward politics to run the
schools which are to fit the youth Of this
land for the responsible duties of gov
ernment.
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The gentleman who made the speech
.es at the New Ulm Brewing Co.'S saloon
on Friday evening and who for the first
time in the history Of New Ulm intro
duced beer as a motive factor in settling
educational interests, gave it out in
boastful terms that if it it hadn't been for
him the lower part of town would never
have secured the $4,000 school house..
People, who lived here before the town
was blessed with the presence Of this re-
markable ward worker and educational
beneficiary, will remember that G. w. II.
] Heideman in years gone by introduced
a resolution at the meeting Of the school
board and impressed upon the members
at that time the necessity of setting aside
lots for the purpose Of a school building
In that section when one became neces-.
sary. The board agreed to the resolu-
ton and now that the need is apparent