New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-09-01
Ideas Of Others.

Ideas Of i Others.
The Minneapolis Times put this in
quiry to William Jennings Bryan on
Friday SIS there any truth in the state
ment that you are to receive $1,000, or
any other fixed sum, for making one or
more speeches in the Ohio campaign"
The answer was characteristic. 1t
simply said: '.The statement is entirely
without foundation"
Col. Rend, one of the most obstinate
mine owners connected with the. strike
district, made this statement on Satur-
day: 49,
can attempt will he made to create a
repetition of the Pullman strike on a
far more extensive scale. Appeals in
lurid language will go forth to the
American workingmen telling them that
they are being enslaved by capitalists
and judicial tyranny. With all the grand
eloquence of spurious patriotism the lead
ing orators, born in Europe or of Euro
pean parcntage, will proclaim that they
are being robbed of the precious rights
and priceless liberties purchased by the
blood and treasure of their American
forefathers. To regain lost liberties, to
restore free speech, to rebuke despotic
judges and to save the country will be
the theme and song of socialistic spout
ers. They will raise the cry that labor
must unite in general sympathetic
strike that will stop the mires, the mills
and factories and the wheels of every in
dustry.
IA triumvirate of agitators has been
formed to formulate this purpose and ex-
ecute this conspiracy. One is an extreme
socialist; another is an industrial fire.
brand, and the remaining member of
this trio of sedition is a Judas anG a
traitor to the cause of labor Debs,
Sovereign and Ratchford have united to-
gether in this evil design. Such gen.
eral strike as contemplated by them
would be colossal. crime against the
entire country"
That staid old paper, the Springfield
Republican, ,criticises the abuse of the
Injunction system in the following:
Either the judge in such cases
undertakes to construct crimes out
of ats which are not crimes under the
law, or he aims to substitute contempt
proceedings for the due processes of law
In either case the court of equality tran.
scends its prerogatives and becomes an
engine for establishing judge-made law
on the ruins of trial by jury. The acts
of men like Jackson are doing more to
bring the disseminated into hot antago.
nism to the established order Of at.
fairs than most other causes put togeth.
er. They are doing their best to force 8
radical crisis by their blind zeal to bring
lawless powers to the aid OF powerful
petitioners, and impeachment proceed
ings are evidently not too serious to be
thought of in their cases.
Here is a sound suggestion from the
New York Tribune on education "NeeC
of more thorough instruction in patriot
ism and civic duty exists not only in the
public schools, but in all schools, semi
naries and colleges. Boys and girls
young men and women, are instructed
in all other things, but are expected It
acquire this knowledge spontaneously
Yet it is not only one of the most i'm
portant branches of knowledge, but also
one of which mastery is least apt to come
spontaneously and in which systematic
and accurate instruction Is therefore
most necessary. A boy or girl is more
likely to learn the multiplication table
without teacher than to learn the real
s meaning and effect OF the federal consti.
stdtion; yet, from the civic point of view
the latter is by far the more essential
Every political campaign, every public
discussion Of any public question, be il
tariff, currency, annexation, or what not
reveals most painfully the widespread
lack of exact inform alton on such mat
te.s. Yet if people do not understand
the principles Of their government and
the issues which arise from the varying
conduct of it, they cannot vote intelli.
gently upon them, and if they do not
vote intelligen.ly they doom themselves
to ignorant and therefore to pernicious
government
Chas. a. Towne was interviewed by the