New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-06-30
Ideas Of Others.

! The trouble with Mr.. Debs' plan for ],
cooperative commonwealth is that he /.
making the same old mistake that ha,
been made thousands of times before
that is, that all that is necessary to bring
peace and prosperity among men is tc
/ devise some wise scheme. NnW, there
is no plan, continuance or invention that
will permanently remedy existing human
evils. 1t is the law of earth that things
are to be bettered by growth. Human
society improves just as the trees grow
Any seeming advancement that is not
growth is fallacious and has to be un-
done. Bad as existing institutions are,
yet no new ones will ever take hold on
mankind unless they have their roots ia
the old. Evolution is social as we'll as
a physical truth. I notice one of the
news papers, in commenting on Mr..
Debs' idea, declared that human nature
is the same now that it was in Egypt
and Babylon. That is not true. Human
nature Is vastly more altrulstic, humane
and intelligent. Its character has won
derfully improved in the last thousand
years. And it is this improvement in
character and not in government and
the like that marks its real progress.
And it owes that improvement to the
only common sense reformer that ever
visited this sub!unary planet Jesus
Christ. 49,
In a speech at Cincinnati last week
Charles A. Towne, of this state took &C.
casion to pay his respects to Hon. Mar
us Aurelius Hanna. He said:
''There was never more bitter, more
corrupt, more venal campaign than that
of last year. The embodiment, the ab-
brevlation, the condensation of that spe-
cies of corruption. Is Mark A. Hanna.
When the future historian of political
institutions shall sit down 10 sum up the
colossal figures whose bad eminence has
given complexion to the decadent ages
in which they lived, he will write of the
ambition of Cleon, the infamies of Cata-
line, the tyranny of Lorenzo the Magni-
ficent, and the corruption of Walpole;
but he will pause and nerve himself to
his mightiest and concentrating task,
when, dipping a pen, perhaps of gold,
into the blacklist of ink, he impresses
upon the shrinking parchment the name
of Mark Hanna of the nineteenth centu-
ry."
This marvellous bit of invective aroused
the widest enthusiasm of the delegates,
who realized that the speech of Mr..
Towne was entirely impromptu, he draw
ing inspiration from the audience and
the occasion.
Millionaire Rockefeller stands ready,
it is said, to give 100000 to Brown
University in case, President Andrews
leaves the University or renounces his
allegiance to the cause of free silver.
President Harper of the Northwestern
University of Chicago in his baccalaure-
| ate address thus rebuked the action of
the trustees in complying with the de-
mand of the multi millionaire: Kills..
"In this free country of America there
are still relics of former despotislns
which prevent free thought and free
speech. There is no greater despot than
the ignorant majority when it is in the
despotic mood. There is no greater him
drance to free action than the villitica-
ton of the press.
"Even IN the sacred circle of the univer-
sity, where, if anywhere. there should he
opportunity to think and express ones
thoughts, not infrequently is felt the
iron hand of authority, moved by sus.
plcion and self-interest. In free and fail
New England, the ground on which the
struggle for freedom of opinion was
fought out, an cid and established insti,
tuition only yesterday censured its head
because, forsooth, he had the courage
to think for himself and, still worse, tt
speak what he thought.
'.This censure, ordered to be admins
tered by committee of trustees, is
blot upon the history of that honoret
college which century of prosperit.
will not wipe out. The world which doe
not think is loath to grant the privilege
to the thinking few"
The Minneapolis Times EDITORIAL,
discusses the problem of rescuing WON
en-, who have fallen from the path of rec
titude, after this manner:
Lecky sets the social evil down as
!, product of hum an nature, limited by re