New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-10-06


Ideas Of Others.
President Schurmann Of Cornell, IN his
annual address to the students Of that
university, made timely utterance.
Speaking of the relation Of the UNIVERSE
ty to the world, he said
The teacher is not the representative
OF a corporation or the people, but a
representative of the god Of truth. s
While money is necessity to any un.
iversity, it is not paramount to the free
dom of teaching staff. Better that the
university be wiped out Of existence
than that truth be suppressed. The end
OF university is propagation of truth.
Any pretensions of a corporation to set
limits on a teaching staff must be resist
ed as absolutely unwarranted.
Criticism of the novels of James Fen
nimore Cooper, as unworthy of literary
notice or even a place in the home H.
brary, is heard only too often. Replying
to such criticism the Minneapolis Times
says: Children are hero worshippers and
will not surrender their Robinson Cru
soes or their Leatherstockings to, the
modern spirit of carping criticism which
gives them nothing in the place of what
they love. Cooper's novels should be on
the shelves of every school and home IL
brary, side by side with the novels of
Scott and Dickens.
The Chicago Record says: at is now
evident from explanations issuing from
the state department at Washington that
Minister Woodford's duties are simple
and clearly defined. He is, first, to de-
clare war; second, to insist upon peace;
third, to let the matter quite alone. It is
we'll that this has been made so plain to
the general public.''
Pittsburg Post: The treasury defclen-
cy under the first year of the Dingley
tariff law will be greater in amount than
has occurred in this country since the
close of the civil war. All of Dingley's
twistings, evasions and apologies cannot
get around this fact. Just as soon as
the morey accumulated by Grover Cleve-
lands bond issues is exhausted the
treasury will be empty, there will have
to be other bond issues or the tariff
tinkered with again to make it revenue
producing measure. Protection as rev.
enue continuance is an obsolete idea.
The recent address Of the American
Federation of Labor, was noticeable
for its moderate and temperate tone, and
in advising the unions not to go to the
expense o. Representation at the labor
convention in Chicago, the executive
council showed sound practical sense in
objecting..not only to the expense but
in declaring that:
1t is::not by convention with irrespon-
sible talk, inf1ammatory declaration and
revolutionary buncombe that the cause
of labor can be advanced. Violent ap-
peals to the passions of the multitude
can serve no good purpose. 1t is only
by systematic organization, with united
hearts and united hands, and fraternity
of purpose, which knows no bounds, COL
or, nationality or politics, that we may
uplift the masses. Trades unions are not
the promoters Of socialism or the up
holders of riot orrevolution. Our course
is along the lines of peace and historical,
orderly development. We are law abid-
ing citizens, and if the law of its admin
istl alton at times is against us, we are
confident that an enlightened public
opinion will ultimately correct the wrong.
1t is something for this large aggrega-
ton of labor unions to have reached this
rational conclusion. The tendency to
such moderation has followed the unsat-
isfactory experience of costly strikes and
the yielding to the radical socialism
which now distinguishes such bodies as
Eugene Debs' "Social Democracy of
America" just now quarreling with in
tense bitterness in an interneclne way.
The idea Debs and Sovereign have as to
the promotion of the interest of labor is
thatit is necessary to keep up one long in
cendiary wrangle with capital; emit red
flag speeches and advise physical revo-
luton. The American Federation. of
Labor deny that trades unions are pro.
motors Of socialism or upholders of riot
or revolution. They need not be. certain.