New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-07-19


yet who are capable Of acts that lin the |
Cities are known as thievery and bood- |
ling. But come not back to the scenes
where once you stood shoulder to should |
er in manly defense Of your town, The
spirit Of evil has entered your gray
headed coworkers and they have grown
corrupt and dishonest. They were once
goodly company. Important trusts
were left in their hands and for thirty
five years the people knew that they
were being faithfully discharged. But
times and men have evidently changed.
Strickler and Silverson proclaim
| upon the street corners that
the sold-timers have fallen from
grace, and surely whatever Strickler
and Silverson say must be so, for these
new exponents of public matters are men
who know no guile. Their souls were
| cast in the moulds of meekness, honesty
and gentleness. The creator gave them
to us that they might lead us safely
through the valley and shadow of public
danger, out of the Egypt of distress
Chosen and annoited from on high, a
halo of virtue shines about their heads
and from their mouth there issues only
truth and gospel. Like Moses of old
they promise to lead the people into the
land of Canaan where all will be milk
and honey. With inspired wisdom they
will establish a new dispensation. Sill
verson and Strickler will be the new AL
lahs and whoever falls in battle for these
new leaders for him shall open the shin
ing gates of the promised land But to
the veterans, those who have grown old
in the service Of the town and the schools,
to them there has already been served
notice that their advice and wisdom are
no longer needed. Hereafter the schools
shall depend for their success and glory
solely upon the sublime genius of such
annoited leaders, as Chas. Silverson and
O. C. StrickIer.
At Union Hall on on Wednesday even
ing those self-styled men of principle,
Chas. Silverson and O. G. Strickler, un
dertook to pay their respects to the edi-
tor of the Review. We had the pleasure
of listening to them and were asuounded.
As orators they are grandiloquent That
calm, stately and beautiful self-denying
manner with which they proclaim the
principles of honesty is simply immense
They recite them just as though they
were newly discovered and were for the
first time in the history of the world to
be put into practice. 1t is solemn mo-
ment then. Everybody feels that the
high-water mark of human righteousness
! has been reached, and all are treated as
liars who venture to predict that after
the high-water comes the ebb. We are
told how good and honest they are and
how bad and wayward others have been
how careful and conscientious they would
be in the handling ofpublic property
and how reckless and selfish are their
neighbors. A statue of economy aud
virtue, chiseled from lifeless marble bv
an artists genius, could not be grander!
| But what is all this compared to their
attacks upon the Review? The latter
may be raving and pestiferous rant, and
it may be principally wind, but we do
not regret 1t. 1t is at least a beautiful
sight to see the way they go into action.
| Cicero denouncing Cataline; Corbett
stripping for the ring: the eagle soaring
to his eyrie; the royal man-eating Ben
gal tiger in his native Jungle; nay, the
| very buffalo himself as he lifts his bel
low over the rocky prairie-all are but
pale reminders of one of these majestic
creatures, with eyes of fire and tongue
| that wags, firing torrents of invective
| upon the sboy" who runs the Review
They make noise enough to lead the
thoughtless to think that they are really
saying something, and yet, when you
clear away the smoke that comes from
| the fireworks, there is actually nothing
over which to occasion bluster-noth-
ing aside from the fact that it isn't con-
venient for people who have schemes to
work to have paper around that can
expose them. @
But if their attacks upon the Review
are terrible, there is one theme upon
which they can take ur the notes of the |
dying swan. How we do love to hear |
them talk of their love for the public |
schools! There they are not ferocious, |
but sublime and pathetically great. To