New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-12-08

1t is imposed upon or oppressed. There
is moral force behind the commission
that the railways are afraid of, and any
body who assumes that its recommends.
lions are ignored makes great mistake.
The Supreme court has punched so many
holes IN the law, however, that the rail
ways are able to- crawl out somewhere as
often as the commission catches them in
any serious wrong-doipg; but the fact
that they are exposed and that somebody
is looking out for the public interests IN
connection with the transportation busi-
ness is wholesome restraint, even if the
commission is not empowered to COM
pei the attendance of witnesses or enforce
its orders. We shall try to patch some
OF the worst holes that the courts hRve
made in the bill, and if the railways are
wise they will assist us in making con-
servative, judlcious amendments, instead
OF trying to defeat everything we pro-
pose. If they were wise they would re-
alize that the country demands the reau-
lation OF traffic, and that the sentiment
in that direction is growing stronger ev-
cry day, until soon it will become a po-
litical issue, and the legislative bodies,
at Washington and at the capitals of the
states will be filled with men who have
radical views on these subjects and will
confiscate instead of regulate. They
ought to know enough to know that
good law will be to their advantage and
that public sentiment is easily satisfied
if it is fairly treated. But if they con.
tinue their opposition the first thing
they know they will get bad law,
which will be to their injury and to the
injury of the publlc.'
W. W. Erwin made public a letter; last
week which he had written to Senator
Pettigrew. In this letter he says: "Had
Mr.. Bryan analysed the campaign of '96
as deeply as he should have done, h ad
he so brought out the conspiracy of the
money classes to destroy competitive
systems of labor, our battle cry would
not have been silver against gold, but it
would have been gold and silver coin,
the money of labor, against nation al
bank notes, the money of privilege
"Mr. Bryan unfortunately put forward
as the leading proposition Of the cam
paign only corollary, viz: that as gold
had appreciated 5y reason of the demon
etization of silver, and as gold was not
sufficient in the worlds possession to do
the worlds business of production and
exchange, therefore money should he
made from some metal commodity now
available, aud more cheaply obtainable
than gold. But he failed to discuss the
necessitated use of coin money in order
to deprive the privileged classes of their
imperial powers to create money out of
nothing, and force the scquiescence of
all persons engaged in haman enterpris-
es to the maintenance and establishment
o. these special privileges.
"Had Mr.. Bryan placed the struggle
between the classes and democracy upon
these true issues, the people of these
United States would have been prepared
to expect the attempts which will be
made in the next congress to secure these
imperial privileges to the money classes.
"As the national debate now stands, I
hold it to be the duty of all meo devot-
ed to liberty who are members of the
next congress to cause to be summoned
before some committee of congress able
men from the ranks of citizen life, who
will be uninfuenced in their opinions
by any interests which may be offered
them by the money classes, in order that
such men may present their views IN a
forum created by congress to encourage
such public expression, so that the peo-
pie can with their intelligences, guided
by their consciences, choose for them
selves the public economy which is here
after to become, either the promoter Of
human industry or the destruction of
liberty. .,-ss.. Il. -. i 2 = *.
II believe that the minority in the
next congress will be able to awaken the
people to the character and progress of
the great conspiracy to enslave all the
forces of industry in this republic, and I