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

items appeared on the treasurer's books
or not, Mr. Silverson has no right to
speak Of the fact as he has. Scherer's
bank account showed that he was re-
ceiying interest and Just how much, and
a final settlement with the bank before
he turned over the money to the new
treasurer was bv no means necessary. and
would not have shown Mr.. Scherer to be
any more honest than he proved himself
to he by his own actions. Had he wan
ted to profit by the office which he held
he would have handled the money him
Self instead of permitting the bank to do
1t. His thievery would not have been
left open to the criticism of the bankers
and the bank directors. On the contary
he would have engineered the interest
getting himself; he would have covered
up his tracks.
But it IS useless to 90 into any further
defense of a man who is so well-known
as Mr.. Scherer. The charges against
him are without proof. Those books
that Mr.. Sllverson howls 50 much about
show nothing. They may not be COM
plete as to the interest business, but
there is no reason why they should be.
The matter was a private one and when
| the proper time came, Mr.. Scherer did
all that could be required of him. If he
| didn't give Silverson all the satisfaction
he wanted, he had good reason to do So
Any man who maliciously attempts to
insinnate against another is no: entitled
to the slightest consideration.
1t is a strange fact that some men can
not resist the temptation to throw their
Importance upon an entire community
to such an extent that whenever they
move about people are compelled to Won
der if they are not debating in their own
minds whether God made them or they
really made God. It is strange, we say,
and unfortunate too, that such men can
not know their place and refrain from
making themselves obnoxious in the eyes
of the thinking public. But we have
them in every town and we have them
in New Ulm. Several years ago all was
quiet here and friendship and general
good-feeling. People were content to
provide for themselves and their fami-
lies, to build comfortable homes and tc
elect the hest men to office if they could
be induced to accept. Now all is differ
ent. Disturbing spirits have showed
themselves upon our people, forced theil
way into prominence by methods, ,wheth-
er far or foul it made no difference, and
to-day what have we got? Hatred. enmi-
ty and imminent danger. The hatred
and enmity is general. Former friends
have been cast against each other, and
men who were once boon companions,
who had confidence in each other and
who might have continued as friends for
the rest of their lives, now refuse
to greet each other as they
meet upon the streets. SO much
for that. The danger is not ap-
parent to all, but it is here nevertheless.
When you excite bad blood amongst
neighbors, you destroy their power to
work together for the common good
v hen you tackle the schools merely for
the sake of majority rule, you threaten
to pull down what is dearest to every ci-
tizen. Education prospers only through
united action. An institution can never
be built up whose managers are pulling
in opposite directions. And that's Just
what these evil spirits are doing to-day.
When men struggle to becomes members
of the school board merely to show that
they can be elected, they render them
selves unfit for the performance of the
duty required of them. Their heart is
not in the work. It is their selfshness,
their malicious jealousy and shameful
spite. That and that alone.
Now who is to blame for all this dis
sension? The Review may lay itself Ii
able to another TRADE from the pronoun
I, but it will say now and continue to
say so in the future that it was the worst
thing that ever happened to this town
when Chas. S1lverson and o. C. Strickler
came and settled amongstus. They may
have built up tremendous moneyed insti-
tutions and they may be the payers of
great sums of taxes and with their wealth
they may appear so great and good that
the crowd kisses their very garments, but
| remember this dear friends yOur money