New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-08-04
n, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1897. WHOLE NUMBER l,ols.

twice before they invite the japanese
navy to do the mischief it undoubtedly
could. The London Globe refers to the
E.scynical insolence" of Sherman and says
that if Japan abdicates or commutes her
rights it would be the clear duty Of Eng
land to interfere even at the risk Of
another abusive dispatch from Sherman.
The st. James Gazette remarks:
According to European usage the Jap
anese protest amounts to threat to re-
sist the transfer of the archipelago by
force, and is equivalent TO warning the
United States that they must give up
their views as to Hawaii or prepare for
war. It does mean just SO much in the
mouth of Japan, though the Americans
\ do not think SO. But they have such
odd ideas OF diplomatic language that
they are no great authorities.
One Of the most original writers in
the country is the editor Of Brann's Icon
oclast, a former minister. In the last
number of his highly interesting paper
he gives his opinion of legislative chap
lains, in language that cannot possibly
be misconstrued. Here it is: .
Congress and every state legislature
must have brace Of chaplains to num-
bic few words every morning, which
the legislators do not hear and the Lord
does not heed. Each receives for two
minute. prayer more than workingman
can earn in Il week, ald it is paid on
compulsion chiefly by men who believe
his religious dogma broad highway to
hell. At the national and at all the
state capitals there are churches of vari-
Gus denominations to which our public
servants may resort for the Observance
of religious rites; hence thc,,t, 40 ex-
cuse for this pulling the tax i ysr's leg
that the sanctlfed pets of political cab
ais may fill their purse. The preacher,
who will accept a chaplainship where he
knows the service rendered will not be
proportionate to the pay. would steal
sheep if given an opportunity. Such
men are not enlisted in the army of the
Lord; they are but cowardly camp fol
lowers who insult the prisoners and strip
the slain-are foul buzzards whose god
is their belly.
The same writer pays his respects to
President McKinley's Cuban policy,
and is especially severe. He says:
At this writing President Mckinley
has not announced his much talked of
Cuban policy. He has been four months
in the White House, and has not yet
made up his mind to stop the brutal
butchery of nom combatants and the sys-
tematic insults offered our citizens. He
lis so fearful of being called a ssjlngo'
by the plutocratic press that he plays
the jackass to the disgust of the people.
Had Andrew jackson been inaugurated
last March, Spain would have taken hel
butchers home instanter, or, s'By the
Eternal!" he'd have given her ''haughty
dons" a little of the same unshirted
hades that cooked the goose of Packen-
ham. Oh ye gods! that we could once
more make u live man chief magistrate,
, instead of filling the Office with such
cold hearted, timber-headed cunctators
, as Cleveland and Mckinley
The following is an extract from the
: address, issued by the labor leaders, who
gathered at Wheeling last week to con.
slider the pending struggle between the
: coal barons and miners:
A wall Of anguish, mingled with des.
peration, arises from the bowels of the
earth, and the miners cry for relief. They
are confronted with condition By
, which their scant earnings are denlet
. them, except through the compan,
|"pluck- me" stores, which out-ShylocI
the worst features Of the nefanous sys.
tenn and cast stigma on the escutcheon
J of our country and a blot upon our civil
) ization.
The miners live in novels, unable tt
buy sufficient bread to ward of starva
tion; in many cases not sufficient.
!. clothed to cover their nakedness; and
with children unfit to attend school, be
cause Of lack Of food and clothing, max
ing them q danger to the future stabili
Ity of our republic.
We feel assured that all men AMI
women who love their own families, o
who have one sparx Of human sympath.
for their fellows. cannot fail 70 givs. 4
the aid IN their power 70 enable the min
en- to win their present battle.