New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-01-04
Dr.. Pa,khurst on the Citlzen's Dntv

Gr. Fa,khuTst on the Citizens DUTY.
we are not going to be safe here in
this city till there comes to he among us.
a general recognition of the fact that
citizenship entails responsibility, and not
responsibility that is discharged by the
occasional dropping of a ballot at cleo
ton, but responsibility that survives
election and that follows the citizen all
the way around the year till the next
election comes. We here in New York
are in the sad condition in which we find
ourselves to-day for the reason that we
have to such degree relegated municipal
responsibilities to our official subordin
ates that they have become practically
irresponible parties, and instantly resent
the idea of being called to account. They
have come to stand to us in very much
the same relation that domestic servants
often stand in towards their mistress,
who, by being left little too much to
their own behests, acquire the idea that
they are themselves the mistress, resent
as vicious interference anything in the
way of rebuke or criticism, even though
emanating from the employer who pays
from his or her own pocket their weekly
wages. Ofcourse such doctrine as this
is not congenial to the parties in office,
but, then, that is their concern, not ours;
but we trust that in time they will be-
come so accustomed to it as to treat it
with a little more suavity than seems
natural to them just at present. No
matter how many municipal officials we
have, this is still our city. The Mayor
IS bound to look after the citizens but
the citizens are just as much bound to
look after the Mayor. The judiciary
must sit ON the bench, but the citizens
must sit on the Judiciary. There is no
man so faithful that he does not need to
be watched in order to be kept faithful.
From "Our City Vigilance League" by
the Rev. DR.. Chas. P. Parkhurst, in
North American Review for January.
At the Republican caucus in St. Paul
Monday, VIM. Lee was nominated fo
speaker, receiving A votes to IA for
Turrell. Another time Schmall of the
Redwood Gazette won't be so confident.
Blaine is still very sick and it is doubt
full if the brilliant and popular statesman
can survive for many weeks. ALI bitter
ness and opposition to the distinguished
invalid are hushed and the sympathy for
him and his family is universal. II
In 1917 a treaty was signed by Canada
by which she agreed not to put warships
upon the great lakes. But she has built
three revenue cutters heavily plated, and
capable of dangerous armament at any
moment. These vessels in a single day
could destroy such cities as Detroit and
Duluth. Nations at peace, and such near
neighbors should not thus float upon an
inland sea such challenge to conflict.
The Review does not believe in toot.
ing its own horn too much nor is it given
over to self laudation as fixed habit
but at this time Of the year when people
are determining in their mental pabu-
lums what papers to take for the ensu-
ing year they should put the Review
down on the list Of desirable Literature.
The management intend making extra
efforts in behalf of its readers and will
see that suitable correspondence is furn-
ished from other towns. It will see to
it that the county as whole obtains
recognition through its columns and thus
prove invaluable at the fre-side Of our
farmers as well as in the shop Of the
W 0rkman and in the Office of the bus
ness man. You should see to IL that the J
Review is not omitted from your list Of I
periodicals for 1899.