New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-04-07
Ideas Of Others.

attendance at the Corbe1t- Fitzsimmons
fight, and to characterize, as an insult tO
| Aperican manhood, the ex-seHat0r's
statement that the spectators at the fight
we're average American citizens. Mr.. In
CALLS answers with caustic letter, por-
tons of which follow:
aim now a private citizen, without
even the vague, and shadowy publicity
that attends man who IS prospective
candidate for office, for ] realize that
my political career in Kansas is at an end.
Il am glad to be able to infer from
your remarks that while I wore the sena-
torial garment I dishonored neither my
constituents nor the country, whatever l
may have done since.
aDuring the interval have been, like
yourself, working for my living. Not
having the gifts, faculties and consecra-
ton requisite for a bishop, being out
OF practice at the bar, and business be-
ing dull, have been doing odd jobs, on
the lyceum platform and for the press.
I talk and write, as you preach, for mon
ey, but my opinions, convictions and
Judgment are no more for sale than
yours. ~ !.
~From your illusions to my glowing
rhetoric,' and the alleged incidents at
the ripgside, 1t is evident that you care
fully read the accounts of the brutal
tistic tournament at Carson, whether
from the pulpit to your congregation, at
the tire-side to your family or in the Sc
clusion of your study does not appear.
To the unregenerate mind it looks quite
as immoral to read about,a disreputable
transaction as to witness it and write
about it. Your time and mine, admit,
could have been more proftably en-
ployed in meditating upon the maledic-
tons of Christ against the Pharisees of
his day; the canting hypocrites of Pales-
sine, and their lineal descendants in Kan
sas, who, thanking God they are not as
other men, pay tithes of anise, mint and
cummin and omit the weightier matters
of law.
II went Ito Carson with authority to
write as much or as little as I pleased,
in any vein, as I saw fit, and my purpose
was to tell the truth about the encounter,
the audience and the moral environment
as it appeared TO me. Had I been re-
quested to attend the Winfield confer
ence and write my impressions of it's
proceedings, I should have done so with
equal composure, had the compensation
offered been satisfactory, and no other
occupation prevented. .....
"Had l heard you distort and miscon-
strue the language Of a man who had
always treated you with courtesy and
spoken of you with respect; had I heard
you apply injurious epithets gratutitous-
ly and without provocation to one who
had endeavored to endure adversely
with fortitude; bad heard you denounce
as a lie statement of whose truth you
could personally know nothing, should
have SAID so, in the same spirit with
which I described what took place at
Carson; and I might also have added
that you exhibited all the characteristics
of the gladiator, except his courage.
II heard no such language at Carson
as is imputed to you at the Winfield
conference. Its only parallel is the fc-
titious exclamation which you incorrect.
~ ascribe to the frenzied Mrs. Fitzsim-
mons. %
''The etiquette of the prize ring does
not permit man to call another liar,
or. accuse him Of being a 'prostituted
acrobat with IMMUNITY. Perhaps yor.
are incorrectly reported. hope so. !
should regret to be compelled to believe
that Carson has higher code of ethics
than Winfield, or that pugillst may
have better manners than bishop
{
Speaking Of human limitations, John
Ruskin once wrote: 8,
If you have not courage nor heart
enough to break away from the letters
of the earth, and take up the sensual
bed Of it and walk if you say that you
are bound to win this thing. and become
the other thing, and that the wishes d
your friends and the bias of your
genius, aQd the expectations of your
college and all the rest Of the bow-wow.
WOW 81 the wild dog world must be at
tended 70, whether you like it or no
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