New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-03-17

the statistics showed. poverty came hand
IN hand. In our native-born population
illiteracy is deemed rational evil. To
prevent it nearly $780, 100000 a year
are spent on public schools. Why should
the nation welcome or receive this evil
from abroad?"
Iguatius Donnelly got after the courts
in the lower house Of the legislature the
other day. He said: ''What terrible
thing it is to canvass the decision of a
court or to question its wisdom When
we are so servile that as members of the
Legislature we cannot express our free
opinions we might as we'll abolish this
republican form of government. I re-
spect the personnel of our courts, but
am not so AFFECT that say amen to ev-
erythins the courts declare. England is
governed by her people, not by her law
yers. Jefferson had the correct princi-
pie. Wrong legislation he would have
corrected by the people at the polls.
Once these judges make decision, right
or wrong, ii holds good until merciful
God takes them off the earth. Talk a.
bout veneration Of courts! One deci-
sion in American history, the bred Scott
case, took civil war to wipe it out"
Asked whether the laws governing d.
vorce ought to be changed and whether
the divorced should be allowed to marry
again, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll is re-
ported in the New York Herald as saw
ing: Has the woman whose rights have
been outraged no right to build another
home? Must she be an outcast forever?
Can she never sit by her own hearth,
with the arms of her children about her
neck, and beside her a husband who
loves and protects her? There are no
two sides to this question. All human
beings should be allowed to correct
their mistakes. If the wife has fragrant
ly violated the contract of marriage the
husband should be given divorce. If /
the wife wants a divorce, if she loathes
her husband, if she no longer loves him,
then the divorce should he granted. It
is immoral for woman to live as the
wife OF man whom she abhors. The |
home should he pure. Children should
be we'll born. Their parents should love
each other. Marriages are made by men
and women, not by society, not by the
church, not by the gods. Nothing is
moral that does not tend to the we'll
being of sentient beings. The good home
is the unit of good government. The
hearthstone is the corner stone of civil1za-
ton. Society is not interested in the
preservation of hateful homes, It is not
to the interest of society that good wom-
en- should be enslaved or that they should
become mothers by husbands whom they
hate. Most of the laws about divorce
are absurd or cruel and ought to be re-
pe:led.
The St. Paul Globe talks common
sense in the following, relative to anti
trust laws:
Let us have done with this farce. Let
us cease Illuminating laws against trusts,
or enforce them. If they have become
our masters, let us submit with what
grace we can. If they are the legitimate
evolution of industrial progress, and all
old notions are become obsolete, let
that be admitted, that we may adjust
ourselves and our ideas to the new and
irrevocable. Above all let us have sur.
cease of this vicious enactment of dead
letter laws against corporations that are
not enforced, with the inevitable result of
fostering the too prevalent feeling that
repressive laws are only for the poor
and weak, and against them the wealthy
and strong are immune. Nothing breeds
discomfort, that takes form in express
siOns of anarchial sentiment. 81 OK.
tensively as the impunity with which
these trusts disregard the law. If social
revolution comes, this will be the wide
door through which it will enter.