New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-03-21

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cnel Ingersoll himself would approve.
" ''Iu is not to me,' said Judge Freeman,
when :; questioned on this subject,
':a question as to whether Colonel Inger-
soil is right or wrong, or partly right
and partly wrong. I claim that he has
done good. The preachers and the peo-
pie who follow them, if undisturbed,
drop into the sanctifed and self-satisfed
habit of accepting their religion without
question. They will reason about every
thing else but their faith in the SUPER
natural; that is accepted without ques-
ton. Religion is as much matter of
progress and evolution as the sciences,
and the man who shakes them out of
their stagnant and mossy. conservation
does good to religion and to truth. 1t
has been the custom for people to regard
their clergymen with species of idola-
try, who by virtue of their calling are
more learned, wiser and better than the
average unsanctified mortal, but when a
man like Ingerson comes to laugh their
pretensions into radicule, and to question
the truth of their dogmas, it may cause
religious Indignation for the time, but
the result must be to elevate the pulpit
and broaden the congregation
Colonel Ingersoll himself appears to
be entirely Indifferent to the opinions of
the pulpit or the public as to his own
life and motives. He believes in the ut
most liberty for every man, woman and
child and he would have this freedom
extend to their thoughts as we'll as to
their acts, and he holds that this should
influence their opinion Of himself. His
domestic life is in every way beautiful.
The Colonel is very fond Of his home
and though counted public man he
never visits clubs, and it is next to i'm
possible to get him to dinner where
speech making follows the dessert. Not
General Neal Dow himself is more tenn
perate than Colonel Ingersoll, though an
exception should be made in the case of
tobacco. He is an inverate smoker, and
even in his office he works and talks with
a cigar between his lips, which, like
General Butler, he chews when it chances
to go ont.
The Colonel is discussing orators, and
he is giving his opinion of Grattan. when
the door and shabblly dressed old man
comes in with the apologize manner
and obsequious bearing Of a man about
to ask favor. 'Well, what is it?'' asks
the Colonel. brusquely. The man begins
the stereotyped story of hard times, no
work and rent unpaid, but the Colonel
stops him, at the same time withdrawing
one hand from his pocket. eyes, yes,
my frend,' he says, 'the times are hard
and am sorry for it." He reaches out
his hand to the old man, who glances
down at the crumpled note in his palm
and is about to pour out torrent of
thanks, when the Colonel bids him good
day, and relighting his cigar goes on
with his story, ending 1t with quota
ton from Grattan that would have
thrilled the heart of the great Irish orator
if he could have heard the feeling and
the rich musical voice in which the ex-
tract was given.
At length l was taken into the Coils.
private room. "Now sit down here and
let me have your questions,' says the
Colonel. He lights another cigar, sees
that I have plenty of legal cap paper,
and with my questions in his hand he
takes turn about the room. have a
sheaf of sharpened pencils before me
and am prepared 10 take down the COL S
address. ''Now all right" The Colonel
draws IN a long breath, hips the ashes
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forming on his flexible and beardless lips
for he is as smooth shaven as a monk.
when rap is heardat the door. sSome-
one to see you, Colonel" calls out a
voice from the other side, and without
a word of explanation, he vanlshes.
i Five, ten minutes pass. Then I take
out my note book in which there are
number of anecdotes of Colonel Inger.
t soil which I want. to have verified. Here
IVES one Of Senator Quay, of Pennsyl-
vania:
It wasstated that the Keystone s.Boss''
had called onPresident Harrison TO OBJ
tain as"fat Job" for one Of his fpllowers.
The President was not ina = generous
mood; and Mr.: Quay ..put the. screws Oh
him. IN il the usual way, saying that his
Excel ellency enjoyed the occun Of the
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