New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-07-13
Wednesday, July 13, 1898.
Official paper Of the county Of Brown.
The Notification and the Issue.

The Notification and the Issue.
More forcibly and pointedly than did
the platform does the letter notifying
Mr.. Lind of his nomination present, not
only to him, but to the voters of the
state, the issues upon which they can
alone pass effective judgment. Any
opinion expressed by ballot upon any
of the planks of the Republican plat
form will be as irrelevant as would be
an opinion upon the nature of the ma
terial composing the Milky Way. It
might be interesting as an opinion, but
it would be utterly useless as a direction.
We do not except even that little tail
ender about good reads, for it presents
no issuable policy, the Democrats hav-
ing also previously declared for the
same thing. There is absolutely no
national question whatever to b. sub.
mitted to the voters this fall in the cleo
ton of state officers. It is only in the
congressional fields that such questions
are pertinent and can be anything but
suzplusage and aodomantade. And there
is but one issue there this year: No pol
icy Of imperialism.
In their last analysis every specifca-
ton of the charges against Republican
state rule yields state'socialism. Against
this, in whatever form it presents itself,
whether in the form OF despot1c mon
arohy, in wlkch the .despot is the "httle
father" of his people, or whether under
the net less despotic rule Of plurality,
incapable Of being '*tempered by assas-
sination," Democracy sets its face stern
ly and iufexibly. 1T sets the limits of
the state at the point where its powers
preserve to every individual the largest
possible freedom consistent with the en-
joynlent of.a similar degree of liberty by
his fellows 1t regards the state as chief
ly a policeman, keeping order and pre-
venting infringement of rights. It does
this because all history of governments
teaches that liberty is possible only un-
de- ouch restrictions and that when
state passes that dine it's steps tend con-
stantiy towards "a despotic interference
with the Inherent and unbelievable rights
Of man.
No one can scan our statutes without
being strock by the progress made IN
state socialism. At every turn the citi-
zen is met with some restriction upon
rights whose full enjoyment is essential
to his "parsult OF happiness" He finds
the state house packed with officials ,ap-
pointed to see that these laws are en-
forced. He scans the statutes and finds
numerous other socialistic laws, which,
having No prepelling force behind them,
either in fat fees to reward the spy1ng
official or selfish interests to be bolstered
and buttzessed, are dead letters, useful
only to show the thrift of that party's
legislation ander the propulsion of ats
socialistlc spirit. Nearly every way IN
dustry turns in the fields of occupation
it finds the sign 1'Keep off the grass
staring it in the face, planted there eth
er by state or initiative municipal regu-
lation. Few are the fields left open to
which industry can get admission with
out presenting license, duly signed by
some autocratic Official whose pocket is
enriched by the fee exacted. Would the
widow sell the surplus milk yielded by
her cow beyond her household require
ments, she must have license and pay
fee. Would man seek to gain live
lihood by attending steam engine, or
by shoeing horses or shaving faces or
pulling teeth or selling beverages or
vending vegetables at kitchen doors, re-
pairing the plumbing of a house or cur
ing his neighbours ills or defending his
rights, he is confronted with the same
imperious demand for q license and for
a greater or less fee. The statutes at
test, in their biennial growth, the con-
slant increase of this tendency. 1t is
this that Democracy arraigns in ita plat
form; it is this spirit which, in all coun-
NJ -. ,f3 80 EEs
tries, Democracy has fought, and those
countries boast the highest civilization
where Democracy has been the most sue
cessful in Its contests with privilege.
This is the one param cunt, supreme is
sue presented to the electors of this state.
And no more vital one was ever given
Them for decision. st. Paul Globe.
Germany and The United States.
Speaking editorially the London Times
says: s'The German newspapers are in
great state of excitement because the