New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-03-10

st. Paul ministers on sunday took s.
whirl at the story Of Jonah and the whale:
One Elder Phelps said it wasn't a whale,
but some other kind Of fish. Another
good orthodox pastor said that to doubt
the story was to show lack Of faith.
How we do move! We must have trav-
eled a whole mile on the road of prog
ress since Jonah's time!
King George of Greece has issued a
call to all the reserves of the Grecian
army who are now in this country to re-
turn to Greece at once. The situation
grows more and more serious with each
succeeding day, and the heroic young
ruler is determined to show the powers
of Europe that the courage and valor
for which the Greeks of yore were fam
Gus is not extinct. There are twenty
thousand Greeks in this country at pres
ent and of these about five thousand be-
long to the army reserve. To a man al.
most, they will listen to their country's
call and hasten to its aid.
When VIM. r. Merriam asked Senator
Cushman K. Davis for his signature to
a petition for appointment to a foreign
mission: he probably realized for the
first time that true greatness and hon.
orable public conduct mustever triumph
in the end over the schemes and plans
of the ordinary political boss. And
when Mr.. Davis refused to sign the Pc
tit1on, he administered just the kind Of a
re5uke that Merriam's cheek in asking 1t
deserved. Davis strength is of the kind
that lasts and conquers. During all the
years Of Merriam rule, he has main
tanned dignifed position that of in
dependence of the machine and strict
attention to public duty, depending
upon the masses of the people for re-
ward. 1t has had its effect in making
him popular at home and tower of
strength with the administration at
Washington. Merriam, on the contrary,
has spent his best years in trying to
knife others and crafty. an ambi-
ton that knew no bounds. His action
was not Of the kind that inspires conf
dencesor regard, and he failed in his pur-
poses, just as he deserved to fail. Now
he finds himself suppliant for favors
at the hands of the man he would have
crushed, and it is but meet that he should
be treated. If he had not dealt so extern
sively himself in the marble heart,' he
might not now, that he asks for bread,
be given stone.
On March 18th the St. Paul Globe re-
marked editorially: "One of the really
good men whom this nation has pro-
duced goes today from the White House
to the enjoyment Of private life, followed
by the gratitude, the respect, the admi-
rat ion and the love of those of his fell
low citizens who place country above
party" Just what the editor of the
Globe would convey in this ELUSIVE tri-
bute--whether sarcasm, humor or "just
what 1t says'- hardly apparent. The
great mass of our intelligent people, it
is safe to say, are capable, at times at
least, of rising above party and giving
to each man his due for patriotic service,
but few indeed can bring themselves to
look upon Grover Cleveland with the
same feelings as does the editor of the
Globe. Denounced by the business in
terests of the country; hated, almost, by
the MISSES; rebuked by those Of his own
faith who had honored him with their
support; deprived of the confidence of
the entire nation and his administration
characterized as 3dropsical and impotent;"
criticised by the entire press of the coun-
try for his lack of Americanism and
sympathy with American traditions; the
entire people impatient for change of
executives; upheld only in h,s stand for
the gold standard and in that only by a
little more than one-half of his fellow
citizens; people from one corner of the
land to the other congratulating them
selves on the Inauguration of his success
sor; surely, in view OF all these NANTES
tatious of dlsapproval, it can hardly be
said that he laid down the burden of Of
flee and retired with the gratitude, love,
respect and admiration of even a re-
spectacle portion of those Of his coun-
trymen who place the nation above their
party. No, no, Mr.. Globe man. The
country is in no hurry to crown Mr..
Cleveland with the laurel wreath of a