New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-02-24

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ternational 5imetallism is as dead as Je-
hosophat," or, as other organs are now
saying, is schimerical dream" but can
not these hypocritical partisans see that
they are preparing the way for a new
silver crusade for 1900, when they and
their party will stand before the country
wholly discredlted and dishonored-
party whose most solemn promises will
have no more influence in shaping the
result of an election than the whistlipg
of the wind? Z ~ a
If the republican leaders and states
men are not devoid of sense, they must
; See that if this country should find itself
on silver basis in the first year of the
twentieth century, the reason therefore
| will be found in the blind folly of the
protested friends of sound money" It
is one of the strangest of all incompre-
hensible things that republican organs
of influence and character cannot see the
downright folly of trihing with this great
question. When they look at the returns
of the November election, and find that
nearly all of McKinley's majority was
piled up In a few great states and New
England; when they consider the mar
| velous strength and vitality of the silver
combination; when they realize that if
the election were to come off now, the
result, in all probability, would be re.
| versed, how can they fail to perceive
that absolute fidelity to the pledge
to promote bimetallism is indispensable
| to the cause of sound money!" Surely,
they realize that if that pledge had not
been put into the St. Louis platform. and
worked for all that it was worth, they
could not have hoped for success. But
in spite of this knowledge, they are pro-
! ceeding on the dangerous and utterly
false assumption that the vote for Nc
Kinley has finally and forever settled the
silver question in all its phases and
adopted the gold standard for all time
to come.
The republican promise to make the
| utmost effort to secure international a.
greement was as distinct and positive as
! it was possible for a party pledge to be
made. Now, when the people look for
! some movement toward redeemlng that
| promise, they are told in effect that they
must have been fools to ever have be-
lieved that twas anything buta political
trick. They are told that they have sim
ply been humbugged; and, as the New
York COMMERCIAL Advertiser" says:
international bimetallism is as dead
as Jehosophat. And it IS always gracious
to let the dead rest in peace. The don't
want to be disturbed. AS nation, let
! us tarry no longer at the tomb. We are
sorry that death has overtaken so prom
islng a child, but we cannot weep
Could partisan superciliousness and
insolence go farther than that Is that
an insult the people of this country are
likely to forget in short four years?
Can party organization palm off upon a
great country like this shabby and con-
temptlble political trick like that with
impunity?- Minneapolis Times.
Mr.. Foss' great measure passed the
house yesterday. 1t was 4 bill to pro-
hibit people from sending flowers to
prisoners. Mr.. Foss had conceived, from
reading the newspaper comments on
these manifestations of feminine foolish
ness, that the practice was Objectionable,
at least to heightened people like the
newspaper men. If anybody objects
to anything, there is, of course, but one
thing in the world to do about it, and
that is to pass law to suppress 1t. If
you dlsapprove Of yellow dogs, pass a
law, to extirpate the brood. If you thick
it not quite the thing to eat fried onions,
pass law about it. At least that is the
view of statesmen. Ordinary persons
might indulge the easy-going notion
that public opinion might be left to take
care of all the infinitely multifarious OBJ
jects of somebody's disapproval. But
your true statesman must have his stat
ute for everything in the world that
doesn't just suit him.. Mr.. Foss IS a
statesman. His name will 90 down to
history linked with the great measure
that is to deprive foolish women Of at
least one opportunity to make fools of
themselves. But there are sti!lseveral
thousand opportunities left to women 70
make themselves ridiculous. Does Mr..
Foss propose a separate penal statute
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