New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-16
Thee We Adore,

IT'S love, tbs love, It's love for the
workingman that makes the world &c
round. How we all adore him just now
T1tania aWoke and straigh tWay loved an
ass, but ours is more impressive spec
tacle. A nation aWakes and straightway
loves the workingman. Hanna loves
him. We all love him. Did not fail
Juliet say
.sG1ve me my Romeo and when he shall
die,
Take him and cut him in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven SO
That all the world will be in love with
the night,
And pay no attention to the garlsh sun.
How sweet is this Romeo, with his ov-
erals and his dinner pail! Do we adore
him2 Well, say! to purloin from the
gem casket of the Hogan Alley vocabu-
larry. We are losing sleep over his wagg-
#es and the danger that he may be paid
in 5o-cent dollars. The Sage of Canton
is loud in demanding that the mills be
opened for his special benefit. The bank
ers are communicating with him in the
shape of leaflets on the money question.
The railroad magnates are warning him
of the dangers in his path. We are all
after him with an all-consuming ecstasy
of love.
The horny handed son of toll is
touched, deeply touched. As he contem-
plates his lovers, the railroad magnates,
the bankers, Mark Hanna, all of us, how
he must envy the gentleman w.ao could
have been happy with either were t'other
dear charmer away. There were but two
charmers in that case, but the working
mans worshippers are legion. List to
their dulcet strains:
tsWe look forward to further increase
in the prosperity of workingmen, 'shout-
ed Bourke Cochran at Madison Square
Garden on August 10 last .'there can be
no distress, no hard times while labor is
well paid. The Populist wants to ex-.
clude the American nottingham. To
him we say, in the name of humanity,
you shall not place scourge upon his
his back"
sThey are threatening said Perry
Belmont, the fnancier, speaking of Bry-
ans followers on August IS at. the
Cochran meeting, ''to destroy the sour
ces Of labor to the injury and detriment
Of workingmen."
81 am sincerely interested in your well
fare" wrote w. G. Whirney's brother,
Henry M. Whitney, to the employees of
The West End Street Railway of Boston,
IF which he was the organizer, and I
venture to urge you to do everything in
your power to defeat this movement.
It is nothing more nor less than a gigan-
tic scheme for the reduction of 30 per
cent in the wages of every workingman
IN the land.''
But why multiply evidences of such
levouring love?
Nor is it wonderful that Romeo in ov-
erals has his legions of Juliets in nation
Il banks and country-seats. Who built
;he palaces that line Fifth avanue? Ro-
neo. Who does all the hard, disagree
able work during long, weary hours? Ro-
meo. Who invariably comes out at the
little end of the horn? Romeo, the ans
Wer still is Romeo! Give me my Romeo
There is a standard opera in which the
hero MARBLES that he has an infinite ca
pacity for love, but what were that ca
pacity to ours-torty thousand brothers
could not with all their quantity of love,
make up our Laertean sum, as the play
wright hath it.
Let us not, however, permit ourselves
to wander, in a delirlum of love, from
the point. Somebody is doomed to love
In vain and waste fragrance on the desert
air. One poet declares that pressing
lover seldom wants success, but alas 1--we
are all pressing. It is simply raining
love, and the holny-handed son OF toll
is deluged witt affection. In similar
quandaries, gentle maidens gather speci-
mems of a familiar ornament of the veg
etable kingdom and whisper to the effect
that one they love, two they love, three
they love they say; four they love with
all their hearts, and five they cast away.
That's where the gray hairs are descend
ing with sorrow to the grave that cast
ing away business. Does Hanna want
to be cast away? Not on your life! So
say we. all of US. Who would be a cast
away upon a barren shore?
Let Romeo in overalls tell us how he