New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-06-16

4 gives eVltenceS OF repentance ana re.
FORMATION. His friends have neither in
i huence nor time nor money to exert i
4 his behalf. He pays his penalty and hi
honest repentance is seured. The intel
Il ligent criminal, one we'll educated ant
we'll associated, has q power to resis
/ temptation which the uneducated crimi
nal has not. Yet the formers crime i
condo the latter is punished to th,
lend. Did q man ever get pardoned 70
stealing q loaf of bread for q starving
family? But s'gentleman" who takes
the money Of trusted depositors Of :
bank gets half his punishment RENTED
The educated man who knows better,
whose moral standards are high, should
be fully punished for crime. HIS crime
is a crime, not the result of an impulse
he knows not how to control, or q ne
cessity he cannot resist. He is a danger
to society because he has position in
it. Moreover, when such a man is treat
ed with lenlency because of his .srespec-
liability the act is injurious IN two
ways; it shows those high inlife that if
they fall there is an even chance that
the punishment may not fit the crime,
and it embitters habitual wlongdoers
against society at large, when they see
that there is clemency for Dives and not
for Lazarus. The Times maintains that
pardoning in such cases is wrong ethical
", morally and socially, and that it
should be disconntenanced in the inter-
ests Of the highest and truest Justice.
Hon. Chas. A. Towne, in his address
to the silver Republicans at Chicago last
week, gave, as the motive for organizing
the National Silver Republican party,
the following: r.
We desire above all things else of i'm
mediate political concern the speedy re-
establishment in the United States of
true bimetahism; the same privilege Of
free coinage at the mint for both gold
and silver, and absolute equality between
them in all money power, when coined,
with the option to every payer, whether
the government or an individual, to
choose what ccin shall be the basis of
payment in every instance. We wish to
do all in our power to advance this hap
py contamination, and we realize that if
this great cause is to succeed in the cleo
tions Of 1898 and 1900 it can do so only
through the addition, to the allied ar
mics Of six million that followed the
banner Of the joint standard in 1896, Of
at least some hundreds Of thousands of
the Republicans of that contest.
The general method Of our procedure
will be that demanded by the depths of
our convictions and the dominant impor-
lance of the issue that has moved us.
With us the cause is everything. Men
and parties sink into relative inconse-
quence. All armies marching to invest
the citadel of the gold standard are our
allies; all their soldiers our comrades.
We will loyalty and tirelessly. cooperate
with all other organized forces of bimet-
allism that honestly profess the faith
and resolutely and undeviatingly keep
it. Harmony is Of vital concern to the
success of the cause, and nothing but
consideration of its welfare shall limit
the burdens we will gladly bear or the
sacrifices we will eagerly make to ad-
vance it. But the sincerity we offer we
shall also require. Our allegiance is to
the cause alone, and we should as readi-
" abandon an ally who would imperl
the cause as We turned from the old Re-
publican party when it was false to its
duties. Is it too much to expect, or is
it injudicious in me to express the hope,
that silver Democrats, Populists and sill
yer Republicans may BY 1900 be welded
into one strong and serviceable instru-
ment;i in the hands of Providence for the
political regeneration Of the country and
the beginning of reform, restoring the
spirit of the constitution and contribut-
ing 70 the advancement and happiness Of
mankind2 ..s n III. :}
The Cuban situation and the position
Of the cKinley administration is made
the subject Of editorial comment in the
Minneapolis Times as follows
Evidently President Mckinley hoped
to get out Of the Cuban question BY ..
change Of ministry in Spain and the sub
|sequent recall Of the brute Weyler. But
the reports from Madrid show that the
spaniards decline to change horses while.