New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-03-24
Ideas of Others.

The Albany Journal talks of trusts af-
ter this fashion:
There is no combination today that is
powerful enough to set at defiance the
law of supply and demand, and if MANA
gers Of trusts should undertake to over
turn these laws they soon would dis
cover their mistake and 90 Keeling to de-
struction. 1t will not do to try and ap-
ply old regulations to the business world
today. The times in which we are liv-
ing are the times of immense capital
awaiting Investment; the times Of the
ocean cable, the telegraph and the tele-
phone which bring all markets together
into the one room Of the business
man, the operator, the speculator or
wha sver ne may he called. We might
as we'll set one of the caravels of the
Spanish armada against modern STEEL
clad battle ship as to expect that the old
regulations of trade will hold good in
the commercial world today. He who
makes that attempt shows thatahe is not
in touch witt, the times, or that he is
guilty of trucking to an element which
should not be encouraged by patriotic
people.
Commenting on Bishop Whltehead's
remark that the decline and fall of ma
lions are but the preparation for new
and better life, the 2ittsburg Dispatch
says:
1t is little severe upon the pompous
and self-important mortals who assume
to shape the destinies Of people to
have the whole fabric likened to the
bud, the leaf and the mould, but glance
into the history of the past will bring
20 consolation to the wounded pride.
A search into the mysteries of nature
and time will produce no argument to
the contrary. Peerlng anxiously and
honestly into the future will disclose no
contradiction. The world is growing
better, but it Is 10y cycles, and It's ad-
vance has not been without commissions
and revulsions. All the structure that
man has built, grand and wonderful as
it appears to mere human eyes, sinks in
to significance when compared with the |
Unreasonable design of the universe, of |
time and eternity. However civiliza-
ton has advanced it has been shattered |
and broken upon the rock of human sell
tislness and ambition. Yet no experience
of the past has prevailed to prevent |
REPETITION. Will the time ever come
when mankind will be taught by the ex-
perlence of the past and cease striving
to attain the tlceting ends of selfshness?
That no man can know. 1t may be
hoped; it may he wished But the sum
of human knowledge is the sum of hu-
man experience, and there is naught in
all this to augur an approach toward |
perfection, except the law that Bishop
Whitehead invokeS: BY the fall and de- |
cay Of the leaf, the soil is prepared for
a better growth.
The Brooklyn Eagle wants to know
the wherefore of American foreign lean
ings. 1t says: "Why is it that we cod
die the fo1ci gners who come here to sing
for us, and act for us,and lecture; for us.and
who send over their books and pictures,
while our own men and women who sing,
play, lecture, write and paint exactly as
we'll or better get almost no recognition?
We carry our mania for foreign excel
lence to an extreme that is absurd. Some
of our magazines will not buy story
except of an Englishman or Scotch
man, unless he is one of those rare Amer
leans who have European Endorsement,
or who have fought their way to favor
IN spite of the publishers. We do not
recall any demonstration in favor of Ju-
liam Hawthorne, Owen Wister or Marion
Crawford, but we stand around and hur-
rah for MIR. Watson, Mr.. Barrie and DR..
Doyle. We have driven Bret Harte,
Mark Twain, Hank James into exile.
Some of our collectors will not buy an
American picture. Two of the richest
men in New York agreed to contribute
to italian opera, but declared that they
had not cent for American opera. Oar
singers, Kellogg, Eames, Nordica, Cary,
Albani, Stirling,s Van Zandt, Blauvelt,
can get no place on our opera and con-
cert stages unless they have sung sue
cessfully abroad. John Chamberlin was
the only hotel man of note who would
keep even American cooks. And after