New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-01-06
PRESS COMMENT.
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Globe Democrat: ssThe American colo
nists in their Revolution won many
pitched battles and captured two entire
armies before they felt sure that their
republic could stand alone. The Cuban
insurgents will win If they show similar
courage in battle and perseverance in de-
feat" But our contemporary should
remember that the population OF Cuba
numbers little more than half that of
our thirteen colonies at the time of our
Revolution, and that, while the British
armies opposed to Washington at no
time numbered fifty thousand men, Spain
has hurled against Cuba a force of two
hundred thousand. Under present con-
ditions it is required that the Cubans
show themselves better men than our
patriot sires before they can even be al
lowed belligerent rights. e|
Penny Press: The people cannot do
business because mems activities cannot
be employed. Women and children go
cold and hungry because the husband
and father cannot convert his labor into
the necessaries of life, and the reason he
cannot sell his labor is because the en-
ployer cannot buy it; the reason the en-
ployer cannot buy is because he cannot
sell his product; and so the great reason
why the splendid activities Of the Amer
lean people are at a standstill is because
we have yoked ourselves to system of
| finance that makes money so dear that
it cannot be purchased oy the Drawn and
sinew of the people and by the wonder
full natural resources God has given US.
Penny Press: Because banks fail now
is no proof that they have been dishon-
estly managed or loans made on improp-
er security when made. It is because of
the terrible contraction that has squeezed
the value out of all forms of property
and made it absolutely impossible for
the debtor to pay. Banks. like almost
every other institution, depend for sue
cess upon the producer, and if you ruin
the producer how can you expect those
dependent upon him to escape ruin also?
Minneapolis Times: Good Mr.. Wanna
makers wicked servants have been brib-
ing leg slators to vote for him for SEN
ator. M. Wanamaker's Sunday school
class should request all explanation.
St. Paul Globe: Miss Ella Collin, of
the United States, has married the king
of the cannibal islands. She might use
her best endeavors to get the king to
change the kind of meat used by his
subjects.
Fairmont Sentinel: The bill to exclude
from our shores illiterate immigrants,
which is now before conference CON-
mittee OF congress, applies to all immi-
grants over Is years of age who CANNOT
read and write, in the language Of their
nativity or some other language. To de.
termine whether the immigrant can read
and write, the custom officer must fur
nish him by lot with printed slip con-
tanning FIVE lines of the constitution,
which he must write in the presence of
the officers. The bill has already re-
ceived favorable consideration from
both branches of congress and there is
not much doubt of its becoming law.
Fairlnont Sentinel: The lumber trust
and hoarg timber thieves are becoming
frantic IN their clamorngs for high
tariff on lumber, and their organs give
as a reason that a high tariff on lumber
is needed to ''protect labor But the
laborlng men or labor organizations have
never asked for tariff of any kind on
lumber, while the members of the lumber
trust are continually calling for higher
tariff. Who is evidently to be benefited
by 1.-THE trust or laboring men?
New York Press: Without the consent
and instructions of Thomas G.. Plat, Mr..
Choate could no more he elected senator
this winter than he could be elected
King of England. The bestowal Of the
United States .senatorship now held by
Mr.. Hill rests entirely with Mr.. Platt.
If he desires Mr.. Choate to fill the office
Mr.. Choate will be elected. 1.-The does
not desire Mr.. Choate it will he impossi-
BILE for Mr., Choate to be elected. This
is the condition, with all the theories
asleep or dead. It would be the condi-
ton if 500 out ofevcry 1000 Republic
cans in this state asked TOR the election
OF Mr.. f,hoate, because Mr.. Plat con-
trolls absolutely the Republican vote of
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