New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-08-04
Ideas Of Others.

DR.. Crane Of Chicago discussed the
great strike in one Of his pulpit editor
-ials Sunday evening and said:
The present strike among the coal
miners is just what might have been ex-
pected. It is the inevitable result of
the savage, fraudulent, merclless tactics
of the coal barons for past years. OPP
orators and transportation com panies
and coal trusts have waged bitter war
of greed among themselves. There is
plenty Of profit in the coal business if
conducted justly, paying wolkmen hon-
est wages and dealing honorably with
competitors, but after the fashion of
the American aNapoleonic" idea of busi-
ness the princes Of the coal industry
were not content with reasonable gain
they have reduced workmen to starva-
ton and by every art of legitimate
swindling have feeced them on every
hand. The present agitation has been
fostered by many spectators who hoped
to get a corner on coal. This traffic in
flesh and blood, this shameless standard
of business ethics, this heartless tramp
ing of the rights Of men beneath the heal
of profit can produce nothing in the end
but misery and violence. Public sym
pathy this time is squarely with the strik-
ers. Let us hope and pray for their sue
cess.
| Capt. Mahan, recognized the world
over as leading naval authority, has
expressed an opinion on the Hawaiian
question as follows:
If we do not at once annex Hawaii
we must either resolve to give it up t.
Japan or to fight her within ten years
for she will take it if we don't.
/ Last fall the Republican cry was fol
"protection, reciprocity and sound mon
ey." To one of these principles the Chi
cago Record holds that the Republican
party has proved false. 1t says:
The tariff bill, which has become
law, undoubtedly gives, "protection' ant
plenty OF it, but the reciprocity features
are not SO prominent. The campaign
pledge in favor of reciprocity does no
seem to have been taken so seriously b,
congress as the pledge to the seekers TO
| high protective duties. To he sure, ther'
is reciprocity clause in the Dingle!
act, but no one expects it to amount tt
anything in the way Of encouraging in
ternationai trade. 1t is doubtful if
single treaty can ever be negotiated un
der it; certainly none Of any consequence
The reciprocity provision Of the Dingle!.
law is designed for appearance rathe
than for actual use.
| When the Pan American delegates, re
Gently making a tour of this country
were IN Cincinnati, one of them made ;
| speech in which he said substantially:
.sYou wine us and dine us and take Vi
i by the hand and tell us you want ou
trade. But at the same time your con
gress is putting duties on our product
which will make it impossible for us t.
deal with YOU" Germany and som,
other countries are so annoyed by th,
new schedules that not only is reciprocit.
with them impossible, even if the Law
made ample provision for it, but retaiia
ton is threatened.
The resignation of President Andrew
of Brown University at the request 0
the trustees has awakened interest i
England as well as America. The Lon
don Chronicle regards it as the most ser
i ious blow that the capitalistic oligarch
!. has yet struck at social, economic an,
Iintellectual liberty in America, and says
There is no doubt that, like Prpfesso
Bemis, who was dismissed from the Uni
versity Of Chicago, President Andrew
was dismissed because he warned hi
countrymen against the growth Of grea
monopolies. It seems certain that con
fiict is approaching that will shake th
union as it was shaken by the grea
slavery question. t looks as though th
. splendid millionaire endowments Of a
merican universities had the unWorth
! motive Of the prom otion Of the interest
J. lsof 1he monopolists. We anticipate
great wave Of opinion against the pre-
{ tensions Of the monopolist class as dan
. gerous to freedom. This movement vii
]. lead 20 the substitution Of public e
]. private control aud ownership oi q
q blg trusts and monopolies and the sub
Estitntion Of state for private universitie
md colleges
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