New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-06-08

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brains of men who invariably consider
their own selfish interests while pretend
ling to be doing the best for the country,
The governor of Missouri has offered
Mr.. Bryan a colonelcy and says Missouri
ians generally will endorse his action.
OF course they will, just as the people
of the whole country would have en-
dorsed and applaaded Mckinley had he
recognized and appointed Nebraska'a
great son. The regiment that secures
him will have every reason to be proud
of their leader. = ii
The time consumed by the Oregon in
making its trip from San Francisco to
Key West has induced many former OPP
lponents Of the Nicaraguan canal scheme
to suddenly espouse the cause of that
terribly expensive venture. Even sen4-
tor Davis is said to favor the scheme,
and it is not many years since the senior
senator from this state employed all the
power of his logic to keep Congress from
lending its assistance. Whether his po-
| sltion at that time, from the standpoint
of commercial advantage, was the cor
| rect one or not, we are not prepared to
state. It may not have been, but he GER
tainly made it appear that it was. His
change of front at this time, therefore,
is not easily understood. The necessity
of the canal as war measure is far from
apparent, and the mere fact that the Or
egon had to undergo perilous trip does
not make it any clearer. Had we such
navy as we ought to have and as We
could have by the expenditure of an
amount equivalent to that needed for =
canal, there would not be any need for
such trips as the Oregon made. On the
east and west coast alike, we could have
an array of battleships abundantly able
to take care of the coast assigned to
them without help from the fleets on the
other side. This would be all that we
would need, and It's just what we must
have in course of time, whether we
have canal or not. A large navy, ad-
vantageously distributed along all our
coasts, will cause the necessity for Me-
araguan canal, as war measure, to dis
appear. -
John Sherman denies emphatically
that he is standing with one foot IN the
grave. "People have been made to be-
lieve," he remarked in Chicago the 9TH
er day, ''that was losing my mental
powers, and that I was dangerously ill.
The truth is I never felt better in all ray
life" Discussing the war he said: "If
the Cubans are let alone when peace is
declared I feel sure they will form a
stable government"
Gen. Joe Wheeler, who commanded
the confederate cavalry during the late
war, remarked upon joining the cavalry
troops at Tampa last week that it was
just like getting back from long fur
Tough. -
Republican newspapers are extremely
soil hot fla INV,
partisan feelings and give their aid 10y
ally to the prosecution of the war against
Spain. In the words of the Chicago Dis
patch :"Democrats have been profound.
ly patriotic. They have buried all par
tisan thoughts. They have stood by the
administration. They have voted $780,.
100000 to be expended by Mckinley a,
his individual discretion. They have
entered the army as privates. They have
raised regiments. And what do they
| get for their loyalty? They are called
obstructionists, and the representative
democrat, William j. Bryan, is abused
and villfed because he is going to serve
| his country by raising regiment t
| fight the Spanish foes. There is nothing
in the history Of politics more contempt
ible than the course of the administra
ton press toward Bryan. Every anti
democratic newspaper rejoices over th.
fact that Alger has issued an order which
4 will prevent Bryan's regiment from see
ling active service. Such petty, ignoble
puny spite is unworthy Of men, to sa.
nothing Of patrio OTIS. Republican hatret
! for Bryan is a deeper sentiment than re
publican love Of country, and the ad
ministration would prefer defeat at th
J. hands Of Spain than = victory wol
i through the aid Of Bryan 4
Henry Norman, the London CORES
pondent whose articles during the Vene
zuelan embroglio attracted such genera
attention, has sized up Spain chance
: lin the nresant war and advises her 4