New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-06-03

Lectures and Amusement.

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Mrs. Judge Krekel of Kansas City will
lecture at Turner Hall the latter part Of
june. Mrs. Krekel is one Of the few and
at the same time the ablest lady advo-
cate of free thought before the public
today. Her lectures are referred to by
all the daily papers as being of great in
terest and unusual force.
/ Next Tuesday evening at Turner Hall
! Edward G. Russ will give a vocal reci-
tai, accompanied by local talent. Mr..
Kuss is popular aud we'll known Grand
opera singer and possesses magnificent
bass voice of fine quality. In his con-
cert he sings the very best of music and
at the same time manifests admirable
dramatic art. In Grand Opera he has
appeared in nearly every country of Eu-
rope and in all the larger cities of Amer
lea. .~,.& ~
J. r. Reitzel, a Chautauqua lecturer,
will visit New Ulm from June 10Th to
29th AMI from July 18th to 9th and
give several addresses Oh travel in the
Holy Land. The lectures will proba-
bly, be held at the Congregational church.
The "Redmonds," frst-class theatre
cal company, are making efforts to book
Turner Hall for the first week in July.
Rev. VIM. Oehler of St. Paul. Rev.
Sam Smiths assistant, will speak in Ger
man at the Congregational church next
Sunday morning and evening.
'Dr. Klaus" which is to be presented
by the Dramatic Section next Sunday
evening at Turner Hall is a play in five
acts and of much merit by Adolpn LAT
ronge. Those who are to assume roles
are Messrs. Hugo Fischer, Alb. Steinhau-
ser, Robert Scherer, W. E. Koch, Fir.
Sietzel, Robert Brandt, Henry Herian
and ALT. Schrceck, Mrs. Hugo Fischer
and the Misses Meta, Ilda and Hedw1g
Setter, Allie Scherer and Annie Neumann.
The lectures by Hon. Samuel P. Put
nam at Turner Hall on Saturday and
Sunday evenings were among the best
that have ever been delivered here. Elo-
quent, truthful, logical and forcible. the
speaker seems to enter into the spirit of
his subject as if the movement for which
he fought was inherently right and must
prevail.
His subject on Saturday even was
s'The Rights of Man. and ic substance
he said:
The Rights of Man are universal and
iinallenable. They belong to us because
we are social beings because we live in
this world. The American government
is founded upon the rights of men. This
is its pre- eminent distinction. It is a
government whose powers are desired
from the consent of the governed-a gov
eminent "of the people, by the people,
for the people,"
There are no divine rights; only hu-
man rights. The doctrine of "divine
rights" is the doctrine of tyranny. The
principle of the rights of man demands
a total separation of church and state.
The church must be a voluntary institu-
ton. 1t cannot be forced upon the pco-
pie. To do so, as Jefferson says, Is
"wicked and tyrannlcal." The govern
ment, to be government of all the peo-
pie. must be purely seculars. The word
"God" must not be engrafted IN the con-
stitution. As Washington declared, that
is no place for it.
The question of greatest Importance
today is that of preserving the liberty Of
the people. We are drifting away from
the foundations of the republic. We do
not stand 10y the rights of man. In the
administration of our laws the constltu-
ton itself is violated. The work of re-
form in the government is indicated in
the following demands:
That churches and other ecclesias teal
property shall be no longer exempt from
taxation.
That the employment of chaplains in
congress, in state legislatures. in the ma
Wy and militia, and in prisons, asylums
and all other institutions supported by
public money shall he discontinued.
That all public appropriations for cd
ucational and charitable institutions of a
sectar,an character shall cease.
That all religious services now sus.
tanned by the government shall be abol-
ished; and especially that the use of The
Bible in the public schools, whether os-
tensibly as a text book or avowedly as a
book of religions worship shall be pro-