New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-07-28
err To this the Chicago Chronicle

sumer." To this the Chicago Chronicle
says:
Indeed! Republicans will have to be
thoughtful beyond all measure to solve
that problem. Otherwise stated, the
problem is how to rob the consumer Of
sugar, crockery, glass, woolen garments,
bedding, carpets and hundreds of other
things for the enrichment of the Ameri-
can producers of those things without
overrobbing him.
Gov. Pingree, the Republican execu-
tive OF Michigan, generally has q plain,
matter-of- fact way of expressing him
self on topics of public interest. Here
is what he says of the Dingley bill. the
sugar schedule IN particular:
II wish somebody would tell me now
a sugar duty, that makes people pay
more, is going to benefit them, or how
higher prices for sugar is going to bring
prosperity. It seems to me the trust is
going to reap all the benefits. The lnm-
ber schedule hits people Of moderate
means the hardest. It increases the
price So per thousand. Not much lum-
ber is used these days in business blocks
and fine city residences. 1t is the farm
er and workingman who have cause to
complain, for they cannot afford brick
and stone. And it's all for the benefit
of the few who control the remaining
pine IN Michigan and adjoining states.
1 don't recall that the Dingley bill i'm
poses any additional duty on paintings
or diamonds. 1t is the necessary COM
modities that are to bear the increased
taxes. The promoters Of this bill ought
to be proud Of it. l predict a reckon
ing for them yet with the people,
The Chicago Times Herald, in aliud-
ing to the danger of trouble with Japan
over the annexation of Hawaii, remarks
The danger of possible interference
by Japan in Hawaii is perhaps not as
great as some people fear, but it is great
enough to warrant the Uqlted States in
standing on guard. We can hardly be-
lieve that the japanese, even if they
should forget the clai us of this country
on them and the friendship that has long
existed between the two nations, could
be SO blind to their own danger as to
willfully engage iu the rash enterprise OF
Opposing the United States. Trouble
between this country and Japan would
mean destruction for the mikado's en-
pire. The first clash would lie signal
to Russia to extend her power in Asia,
and if Russia Is now advising Japan to
take bold stand she is doing so with
a sinister purpose.
Charles A, Towne, in speaking of the
forced retirement of Mr.. Andlew from
the presidency IF Brown University be-
cause of his pronounced leanings
towards silver, employed the following
vigorous language:
sThe resignation is another sign, oi
which many have recently appeared, ol
the gravely significant :act that the gold
standard and its cognate influences, hav.
ing taken possession of the physical as.
sets of tie country, are moving toward
absolutism in the realm of the educa.
tional and formative forces that build
up puplic opinion and in the end main
tain institutions. It is one thing to
plunder the producers Of the. world. II
Is thing that has been done frequently
in human history, though never before
on the scale Of these modern days, no1
with the same certainty, dispatch and
safety. But nothing in the worlds an
nails approaches the splendid audacity
of conception, according to which it is
hoped to educate mankind into glad
and reasoned preference for its own
spoliation and enslavement. All over
this land today are bright men iii the
service of educational. institutions who
bear about with them truths they dare
not teach. The friends of liberty and
light ought to put their mites together
and found a university Of truth, a great
cen ter of free and fearless inquiry and
honest exposition, where sincere men
co uld continue to utter to generations
not wholly loose, the natural prompt
ings Of heart and the true conclusions
Of mind. Z
Hon. John T. Aitgeld, who seems to
be able to live down virulent'abuse with
much better success than any other
American z. Of prominence, has just benin
terviewed in Chicago Speaking Of the
political situation IN the east, he said