New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-30

''The appointment is taken by many as an
effort to tie the hands of Gov.-elect Lind !,
who it has been thought, would name
Peter NJ. Ringdahl, of Crookston, to sue
coed Judge Mills. Whether he will want
to give the Seventh district the two plao-
es on the board, however, and leave that
part south of the Twin Cities without
representation, is doubtful, and the
friends of Frank A. Day, of Fairmont,
are jubilant over tie favorable aspect Ill
which Gov. Clough's appointment has
put the candidacy of the former lieuten-
ant governor. Gov. Lind was almost in
duty bound to name man from The Red
river valley to succeed Mills, in view of
the prominence given during the CAM
paigu to abuses in the state grain inspect
ing department, but the geographical
distribution of two memberships so close
together might cause some comment in
other sections of the state"
The Globes fears are unfounded. In
the first place Frank Day is not candi-
date. In the second place Lind's hands
will not be tied. As soon as he is in
augurated he will fill the vacany on the
board by the appointment of the right
kind of man, regardless of the locality
from whence he hails-a man who is
broad enough to serve the whole state
and not any particular district. That
done, the rest OF the commission will
fall III line and work with this rev rep
resentative of the administration or Mr..
Mills and Mr.. Backer will walk the plank
as soon as their terms expire.
Praying for the legislature is a useless
luxury that costs Minnesota over thous-
and dollars q session, and the money
might better be given to the Salvation
Army on the street. The sweets of re-
llgious consolation are beyond all price,
but there is time and place for all
things, and unless the mind is in rever-
ent and prayerful mood the mumbling OF
the lips for five dollars day and the So
called glory Of the Lord, is all farce.
The average legislature is a good deal Of
bear garden, and the members thoughts
are usually far from the throne of grace,
so that it is only on special occasions as
perhaps the opening day or the time Of
some great event that prayer seems ap-
propriate. The most devout people do
not 81 about praying at any OLD time
lest it should become mockery, and
homemade prayers are the best anyway.
The contrite heart does its own praying,
and if the legislature needs praying some
member Of that bod y ought to be found
in Minnesota as in other states to offer
up the supplication. Otherwise the
chief..clerk should have that qualification.
Budget.
The latest advices from Manila are to
the effect that the Filipinos will resist
annexation to the bitter end. If anything
more than protectorate is attempttd
by the United States the natives stand
ready and eager to fight. And what is
worse, they are now supplied with the
munitions of war to fur greater extent
than they were under Spanish rule. A
significant incident In support Of this view
of the situation is reported in the follow
ing; "Americans are not allowed to pass
the rebel lines without passports. A par
ty of German officers who attempted to
do 80 without passports we're mistaken
for Americans, and were refused permis-
sion. When it was discovered that they
were German officers they were permit
ted to proceed"
President Diaz once offered a public
position to an old man who had saved
his life during one of the unsettled peri
iods when uprisings and revolutions in
Mexico were the order of the day. The
old man declined politely and with the
remark that small office he didu't care
for and an important one he wasn't fit
ted to fill. What blessing 1t would lie
to the governor elect in Minnesota if
the great army of party workers were as
honest with themselves as was this bene-
factor of Mexico's grateful president.
cit has been asserted that printing is
not healthy business, and that one of
its chief ailments is lead poisoning. I
can testify to this from personal knowl-
edge. A friend of NINE once started a
paper out in Arizona some years ago,
and he had not been .- running it six
months before he died from lead poison
ing. It was 44-caliber Smith & Wes-