New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-09-14


Those gentle hours that plenty babe to
bloom,
Those calm desires that asked but little
room,
Those healthful sports that graced the
peaceful scene,
Lived in each look and Frightened an
/ the green.
These, far departing, seek q kinder shore,
And rural mirth and manners are no
more, &
Even in the fertile agricultural sec.
tions Of the west, even in the Mississip.
pi valley, the richest large body Of farm,
ing land in the world, the substitution
Of the tenant farmer for the owner Of
the soil goes on a pace to the detrime nj
of the state.
The last census developed the saddest
fact that / ever read-that nearly one
BALI of American householders do not
own their own houses. Almost half the
fathers and mothers, husbands and wives
of the land are houseless and homeless in
a country which less than 400 years ago
was bowling wilderness, which 800
years ago was still virgin soil.
When was little child, my father
used to put me to sleep at night by sing
ing to me song entitled "Uncle Sam
Is Rich Enough to Give Us All Farm
He was then, but our dear uncle is ssbust-
ed" now as to land, because unwlse and
reckless congresses granted to corpora
tons enough land to make half dozen
states as big as Missouri. Conditions in
this country have grown worse rather
than better since 1890. the date of the
last census. That much can be stated,
I hope, without laying myself open to
the charge of pessimism or anarchy. If
practically SO per cent of our household.
ers Wire renters in 1890 and times have
grown worse since then, how many are
renters now? Most probably much more
than one half.
Lord Chatham said can Englishman's
house is his castle. It may be frail and
full of holes and cracks, so that the rains
of heaven pour in and the winds whistle
through it, but it is nevertheless his cas-
tie, and the king, with all his power,
dare not cross its threshold unbidden," or
words to that effect.
| It is true now that an Americans
house is his castle. If a man owns his
own home, be it town lot or section
of farming land, it is his own. He is
free, and no boss, no landlord, can COM
mand HIM to move on. So.
No wonder Henry George and other
lovers of his kind were apprehensive as
to the future of the masses of the people
when they saw coming stealthlly and
swiftly upon US the curse which has been
the blight Of Ireland-the curse of alb
| SeuCcC 1HQOlOrU1Sm.
Only 40 years ago Uncle Sam was rich
enough to give US all farm. Now
when father looks into the faces of his
prattling babes and presses them to bis
heart, he wonders where they are to fine
homes in the days that lie before them
To this complexion has 1t come at las!
through the unwisdom and maladminis.
tratlon of the Republican party. Sure.
ly, the American fathers and mothers
will wake from their lethargy at last AND
hurl from power forever the party which
is rendering the masses houselcss and
Champ Clark. IT,. i.
Secretary Alger says he will not re-
tire "under fire." Certainly not. HI
will retire under whitewash.
The empress of Austria was brutally
stabbed and killed by a crazy anarchis,
on Friday. The murderer was an Ital
ian.
! Towne, Ringdahl, Willis, Kinds, Ca
ton, Milo White and Evans-some o.
these names will appea: in the next con
gressional directory.
/ In Vermont the republican majorit!
was reduced at least twenty per cen
this year very unusual thing in Yer
y mont. Oh, yes, this is a republican year
We predict that the investigation 0
4 Secretary Alger and his department vii
be as much of whitewash as was Judg
& Flandreau's report on the management
Of the Minnesota prison.
The early nomination of Ignatius Don
I nelly for vice president was great pc
litical mistake. It gives the people tw
full years to find out what kind of
!. politician Donnelly really is.