New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-06-28
PUBLISHER.
EDITOR.
Wednesday, June %, 1899.

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TIE closing year of the nineteenth
century is not one to be particularly
glorified, taking everything in consider
alton. The SO much talked of prosper1-
ty is plainly visible in the more or less
embalmed articles written by political
editors ofrepublican journals only,while
the masses OF the people are wholly ig-
horant and unconscious Of the rapid
strides made by this prosperity. Now
and then the wages in some manufacture
ing plant are raised, during the busy
season mainly, and this fact is given out
in fat type as the genuine prosperity ar
ticle, the closing up Of factories and the
reduction of wages being utterly ignored
by these prosperity organs. Strikes in
all parts Of the country are chronicled
daily, which is explained by the prosper
ity organs as the result of the prosper
Gus state of affairs among the working
men, they not being satisfied with what
they have and wanting the earth. One
dollar aday is regarded an ample reward
for days toll by these organs, and the
average workingman does not even re-
ceive such magnificent stipend for his
days work. Still prosperity is here, even
If you don't see It.
It is true that the farming element is
prospecting but they do not get prosper
ity prices for their products unless the
Joe Letters & Co. inaugurate short
boom in wheat etc. Good crops will
partly indemnify the farmer for the low
prices paid him for his products, and of
course good crops are the result of re-
publican administration. In tact the
people of the United States are so pros
porous that war tax had to be levied,
under the guise of revenue stamps, in or
der to keep the money receptacles of the
working people from bursting OF over
flowing. The war with Spain is a thing
of the past, the revenue stamp is not, it
is still reminding US of the prosperity
threatening to inundate the country with
oceans of gold and gold certificates, bank
checks, greenbacks and trust stocks. In
order to prevent this lnundation the war
lax is still being levied and the war con-
tinued-and there we are again, in the
Philippines. As bad as the close of the
century might be, it should be without
a blemish left on our national admins
tration. We ought to be spared the ig-
nominy and the ridicule heaped on US
by all other nations on account of this
war with a semi-savage nation in the
far away Orient. 1t is not likely that
this war, if such the slaughter of the
Fllipinos may be termed, will come to
close at the end of this year unless hero
ic measures are resorted to. A victory
over the Filiplnos, the subjugation even
of the Philippine Islands could not re-
deem us from the ludicrous position we
are placed in by a lot Of, we'll, let us
call them politicians or some other kind
of cranks, entirely wrapped up in their
ideas of glory, honor, humanity and
christianity. There is something rotten
in the Philippine affairs as conducted by
our government. It is not the Alger-
Eagan embalmed beef combine, it must
be something else to be kept from public
knowledge, or else the strict censorship
and other contemplate methods as fol
lowed up by our heads of departments
would not be necessary. The public are
to be kept in ignorance as to what Is
actually going on in the Philippines, tn
statements of the few returned soldiers
are mot being taken heed Of, and the
press reports are overlooking with glorl-
Gus (O victories. Our army is advanc-
ing rapidly and has, after six months
fighting succeeded in capturing the sub
urbs of Manila. At that rate we might
be masters of the situation in the Phil
ippines in the course of the next century,
perhaps at the close of it. Why this Sc
crecy about the Philippine war! 1t is
certain that the volunteers now on duty
IN the Philippine Islands will soon be
home again, and no censor will he there
to restrain them from giving to the pub
lie what they know. They know the
state OF affairs in the Philippines, and
they will give publicity to the grave
errors committed by the imperialists.
Let's wait until then.
twill be extremely difficult to at
tempt to prove that Mr. McKinley's civ
il service order had "no political slgnif-