New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-09-22
Ideas Of Others.

ers Col, Robert G. Ingersoll says:
5# 'sThe question of wages for the coal
miners ought to bes settled by the en-
ployers and it would be il the employers
were civilized. - Fl Is
I. 1T is very easy to acertain what 'wagg-
es ought to be paid. 1t is easy to find
out what it costs for good, wholesome
food, for decent clothing, for rent, to
take care Of the children. When that is
found it is easy to say what wages should
be paid. .='.
"When men work all day and just get
enough to keep life in them so that
they can, work the next day; when moth
ing can be saved; when old age can have
a rag and a crust; when youth of in
dustry ends in poverty and want; it is
about time for the decent, the Intelligent.
the humane to assist the children of toll.
II do not blame the miners for strik-
ing. They must strike OF starve. All
blame them for is for not acting togeth-
er. Every smlner in the United States
should strike, and then, if they demand
ed only the reasonable, they would sue
coed.
"My sympathies are with the men and
women who toll-to whom the future
promises nothing but work and want
nothing but failure at last.
GAS the employers are not civilized
enough to act fairly I advocate general
strike-a claim. for fair and reasonable
wages and hope that all miners will have
sense enough to Join. I know of no
other way for them to protect them
selves. If they are reasonable, a vast
majority of the people will be with them.
So say success to the strike.
Republican Ben Butterworth said re-
Gently in reply to an address by ex-Gcv.
Flower of New York:
I do not need anyone's opinion on the
benefit of trusts. Any one who has spent
a season in Washington, as I have doue
this past year and for many seasons be-
fore, cannot but look with horror upon
the growing influence of these mighty
combinations and aggregatlons of capital.
Every body knows how congress was
simply held up by the trusts during the
last session.
It came to be that the representatives
of these great combinations merely said,
''You shall do this, and you'shall not do
that" and it was done or not done, as
they commanded.
The claim made nowadays is that
there should be war because war will
necessitate the issuing of bonds, and there
have been some recent instances when
this sentiment very nearly predom1nated.
I am opposed and bitterly opposed to
all this sort of talk. Shall we create
war to make a market for bonds? Shall
we sacrifice human life that some one
may cut coupons payable in the blood
of our children and our childlen's chill
dren?
What shall be said, too, when it comes
to pass that one man in the city Of
New York can fix the price Of anthrax
lite coal for the Atlantic seaboard? 90
not know whether am differently con-
stitrted from other men or not, but my
blood boils when contemplate the grow
ing power Of corporate wealth over the
legislation of this country.
Gov. (lough and staff will arrive
over the St. Louis next Saturday morn
ing at 10 80 o'clock: He will be met by
Co npany A and Burg's Battery, the lat.
ter firing the usual governors salute of
seventeen guns.
The Chicago Record is waging no.
ble battle in behalf of postal saving
banks. 1t gives the following as advan-
tages of such a system to the people per-
sonally:. :.e
Absolute security from loss; conve y
ance of making deposits; repayment not
affected by change of residence safety a.
gainst PRESERVATION and fraud; prevention
ofpoverty or temporary want OF develop
ing habits of thrift and saving; gives,
where no other bank exists, a means of
ready and safe deposit; discourages reck-
less aud speculative expenditures; edu-
Gates the young and unframed to a know
ledge OF the use and value ofmoney; to
the young it helps to give bookkeeping
and business habits. St.
As advantages to the government it
gives the flowing
It prevents borrowing from abroad !; it
places the money whether regarded as