New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-02-17
who have been dead over 100 years.
Minnaa n0lls I0nrnal -.

MluucdpOAAS JOuIudA.4
It is plain that the governor Of Mich
igan has conceived notions of his own
greatness and Importance IN the affairs
tof this world, that the majority of
people will be slow to accept or endorse.
It is plain too that we, as a nation, do
not look upon men like Washington,
jefferson, Paine, aid Lincoln through the
same glasses as does the Hon. Mr.. Pin
gree. We are not yet too busy to stop
and profit by the study of those whose
life-work was devoted to pure and lofty
public service. We owe altogether too
much to them to ever permit Of theil
being dropped from the national men,
Dry. Their views and principles per-
me ate all our institutions and furnish the
guide to public action and national glory.
With the far-reac}aing ken of statesmen
they foresaw the possibilities of the ma
ton and paved the way for the perpetuity
and safety of democratic institutions.
Their public service is part and parcel
of our national existence and their char
acter and motives will ever be pattern
for true Americans to adhere to. Mr..
Pingree may not be able to see why
their names should be mentioned in the
| same breath with his own, but, then, Mr..
Pingree has lots to learn.
| A charity organization in st. Louis
declined gift of $4,000 because the
princely offer came from the brewers.
Such hypocrisy is disgusting St. Peter
Herald.
Right you are, John. Had the offer
come from pharisee Of the church, no
matter what his motives in making the
Gift and no matter what methods he may
have employed in accommodating it, it
would have been accepted with much
show of gratitude and heralded through
out the country as the act Of bene.
factor. But just because it comes from
a brewer, man whom their contracted
notions have stamped sinner, the gift
is declined as being tainted with vice and
therefor unfit to be appropriated through
any means of theirs. Such Christianity
is altogether too heightened and hair
splitting to exist. It should be requested
to make an assignment at once. What
the world needs is practical, not church.,
charity. Want stalks abroad in the land,
and whoever, out of his means, finds the
wherewith to relieve it, let his profession
be what it may, is doing an act of kind
ness, for goodness is the same".no matter
from what source it comes. Far more
acceptable the charity of brewer. given
willingly and with the feeling that he
> can afford to divide, than that of him
"who gives from sense OF duty"
, The Struck jury lawhas been repealed
The Legislature is entitled to thanks fol
, this, if Tor nothing else.
The Mckinley inaugural ceremonies
bids fair to rival the pomp and SPLENDID
of an imperial coronation. And this a
1 time, too, when the nation IS in tn
throes of adversely and want and suffer
ING pervade the land How much NOR
app opriate would be the simplicity o
Jefferson.
Old Abe Lincoln hasn't passed from
the recollection and respect of the Amer
lean people, even if Gov. Pingree hash
the time to think Of him and other
who have been dead for a generation O
more. All over the land on Friday en-
, logies and tributes were paid to his grea
character, and orators, preachers, teach
ers and press united in confirming tn
popular sentiment that his is "the gent
lest memory of the world"
1t is fact, though an unpleasant one
n that the numbers of the more desirabl
n immigrants are falling off, while tn
IS numbers of the unwelcome are Target,
# on the increase. In brief, the immi
e grafton from Great Britain and Ireland
l. from Germany and Scandinavia, is O.
e the decrease, while the immigration fron
d Italy and Austria Hungary and of Rus
n sian Jews is mounting upwards. Thus
j. in 1882 immigrants came to us fror
!. Great Britain and Ireland to the humble
l. of 1879, 423; in 1896 to only 64,s27. Fror
v Germany in 1882 came 250,63o; in 1879
Q only 1885. From Sweden "a, 607 cam
n in 1882, and but 81, III in 1896. From
# Norway came %, 101 in 1882, and onl