New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-01-13
Wednesday, January 10, 1892.
NEW Y OFFICIAL ORDER.

NEW Z OFFICIAL ORDER.
Saturday dispatches announce the
organization, of new political order in
the following language: "a new politi-
cal organization has been formed. Re-
ciprocity is its platform and Blaine is
It's chief. 1t is a combination of labor
ing men in protected trades, farmers
who are in or are weary of the Alliance
and Democrats and Republicans gener-
ally who believe in Blaine and protec-
tive tariff.
Last night committee of the Chi
cago organizers met at 1853 Washington
street The organization is secret and
oath. bound. Each meraber must sub
scribe to ritual that fixes his opinions
on certain questions in black and
white,
ut claims 5000 members in Chicago.
Among them are W. E. Mason, Frank
Lawler, Aid, Cremer, M. Butler, Aid,
Gahan and host of others prominent
in politics and business
"Outside of Chicago the organization
is said to have $4,000 members. En-
campments, or lodges, are to be orga-
nized IN every city in the land. Be
tween now and next fall lot of vigor-
Gus work is to be done. Then the
league will show It's hand and come out
for Blaine, or Blaine friends. Old-time
political associations will be laid
aside'
Its scope is immese. II takes in half
dozen grea. interests. In the West
and Southwest it embraces every one
who is partial to Mr., Blaine and reeip-
rocity, and it is organized under the
general name of knights of Recipro-
city, In the East, where there is no
Farmers Alliance to bar the way to sue.
cess, the order is called the Continental
League. This particular branch of the
movement was. intended to exist in the
cities and large towns almost exclu-
sivelY.
EX-Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson is said to have conceived the
idea of the organization and Patrick
Ford, editor of the Irish w orld, of New
York, is credited with assisting him.
THE EMPEROR as PREACHER.
The New Y ork World publishes four
sermons, both in the German and in the
English translation, that are alleged by
Germany's army chaplain to have been
delivered by Emperor William on the
royal yacht Hohenzollern. The sermons
occupy eight columns of small type,
From the sermon on the theme, s'The
Voice of the Lord Upon the Waters
we quote the following poetic passage:
Therefore this Sabbath and his service
to God on board, should exhort us again
to this. 1t repeats to us:
The sun which on us beams,
Is nay Lord Jesus Christi
And this sun never sets. It is not
simply midnight sun, but it shines
brightly every where, even when gloom
and darkness are without. Yes, ''Light
is my garment and we NAV not only,
like Moses, behold him behind us when
he passes US IN his glory. but he draws
us toward and takes us to him, so that
we become partners in his glory. In the
cool of the evening, when the winds are
stilled; in the stiffness of the night,
when the heavens are spread out like
carpet above us, studded with the in
Vulnerable glittering stars, our thoughts
wander to our old home and above to
the eternal home-for ''the soul is born
a Christian. 'Then passions are silenced,
likewise the cares and troubles Of the
heart; then it is silent. within u.s. quite
silent. A premonition like tremor of
eternity passes through our soal.''
The sermons have raised discussion
as to what extent they derived benefit
from the editing of Chaplain Richter,
and as to whether they are further evil
dence Of the emperor's insanity,
1t is SO uncommon for hereditary
ruler, these days. to show ability in the
field of thought or action, that signs of
such phenomena seem to be considered
by this democratic age as evidences of
insanity. Emperor William has evinced
unwonted activity in army and navy,
social and political movements, and
even. as it appears, in religion. This
activity, coupled with no little eccentri-
city, has been deemed by the skeptical
public as proof of his lack of balance.
The cceentricities, however, may be
credited simply to the mistakes of mex
perienced and imaginative youth, and it
may be that the young emperor is mere
~ an illustration of the law that all
rules, even that OF the nonenity Of prime.
es, has brilliant exceptions. -Minnea-