New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-03


| sponslbIe for the act of 1890 relating to
the purchase of silver. Whether that
act, isolated from all the circumstances
lot $50, was absolutely wise is more
than / know. That ii then and there
saved this country from the free coinage
for which every Democratic leader was
then clamoring, and on which they are
nov so silent, Z do know. If time will
show that it ought 10 be repealed. that
viii IN no wise initiate against the Wis
dom OF passing it in 1890. They be-
came responsible for the -efunding of
/ the direct tax, a Just measure, which.
Eanlosneg g other things, saved from bank
lruptcE the State of Kentucky, most. if
not all, Of whose Representatives voted
against it.
They became responsible for that lat
est revision Of the tariff. which is Just
now rising so high above the ISLANDERS
which two years ago poured upon it as
Il the foundation of the great deep had
been broken up. Free sugar, largerex-
ports and larger imports are fully justi-
flying the bill, and increased manlfac-
turing resultsiwiH soon add their o,1ete.
10 the. returning prosperity of the coun-
| try.
They became responsible also for the
meat AM and cattle inspection, which took
away from foreign nations their last ex-
cuse for refusing to receive our food
products, and enabled our able secretary
OF agriculture and our foreign ministers
to restore to us in some measure the
markets of the world for such products
They became responsible for the de-
struction of the Louisiana lottery. They
redeemed the honor of the United States
by making provision to pay its honest
debts. They opened up to actual settle
ment many million acres of productive
lands and gave suitable form of gov
ernment to vast areas of the territory of
the United States.
They became responsible for pension
laws which the Democratic house has
not dared to assail, and which, however
much they may be covertly complained
of, were but the assurance of the nation
that the soldiers of the war and their
i dependents might be forever sure. that
| the bounty of the nation, which it was
j honorable for them to receive.
lshould stand between them. and that
faint Of dishoner which, whether Justly
or uniiustly, has always attached itself
i to local and parochial charity.
That all this work was accomplished
. at any time under most favorable cir
fcumstances would have been a great
achievement, but that it was accom-
Iplished, and so well accomplished, un-
der the tiercest opposition that ever ex-
|isted in any Legislative body, is a tribute
|5alike to the soundness of the rules of
/ the house and the unfaltering courage of
j its majority. After the lapse of only
two years the fierce fire of reproach and
i clamor has all died away, and out of
the mouths of its most strenuous oppon-
4 ents its praises are perfected.
Our reputation, the reputation of the
Fifty-frst congress, for wisdom has been
yindicated by the permanence of our
laws. Our reputation for the economi-
4 cal appropriation of the public funds in
4 the interest of the people has been more
than yindicated by the appropriation of
forty millions in addition to what we
Iexpended- an appropriation made by
4 the very boosters who reviled us SO tri-
umphantly while they were putting on
4 the harness. Mr.. Holman now under
stands as never before the wisdom of
that scripture, which says: "Let not
hIn that putteth on the harness boast
4 like him that putteth it of. y
Surely the verdict of history, the only
verdict worth having, is doubly delight
full when it comes thus swiftly and to
living men.
The face of the Republican party is
Fever turned toward the dawn. It bathes
itself in the sunrise of promise, and on
the eastern hills of progress pitches its
tent. In the full glowsof Gods sunlight
where men are prosperous, where happy
homes are built, where wheelssof indus
/ try hum, where the face Of freedom lifts
itself to the sky and the dark spectre of