New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
What Thinkers Think.

What Thinkers Think.
One at Time.
Albert Lea Standard:
The bill providing for the election o
the railroad cad warehouse commission
ers is now law and hereafter they vii
be chosen by the people, and thus oul
republican friends acquiesce in another
populist reform. It never would be nee
essary, however, with reform COVER
nor like John Lind.
Calls it TrHstperity.
T Prison Mirror:
Two hundred discharged volunteer
soldiers are begging for something to do
in Chicago, while being taken care OF by
the army and navy league, Will anyone
doubt that trustperity has arrove2
Results of Large Standing Army.
ST. Cloud Times
In twelve years, from 1882 to 1895,
the number of females employed in in
dustlial enterprises in Germany, was
more than doubled. That is the sort of
showing the United States will make
when 1t gets to maintaining big stand
ing army, but we don't believe the peo
pie will ever allow it to get to such a
thing. Thanks to the determined stand
of democratic senators, tbs evil has been
avoided for the present.
Even Soap CatchesIt
Morgan Messenger:
The latest is trust on soap. Really
there seems to be trust on nearly ev-
elythlng now except water. When some
greedy individual or craving corporation
succeeds in forming trust on that,
.'Wapdering Willie" will have good
excuse for not washing.
The writer of the above forgot to men
ton that air is also as yet free. But it
may be we'll to lay in a good supply of
it before we get another dose of "pro-
lection"
Ahead of its Age.
Fairmont News
A bill providing for the regulation OF
marriages has been introduced in the
present session of the North Dakota.leg-
islature. The bill provides for med,-
cal commission in each county to exam
ire all people who wish to enter the
married state as to their mental and
physical fitness, and if unsound in any
way to prevent their union. There is
no doubt that such law would be a
great benefit to the human race if its
provisions could be enforced, but at the
present time it is impossible to get PEG.
pie to look upon such q law in serious
light, and it has been relegated to obliv-
ion as the crankiest kind of crank
measure.
:. Advancing Wages.
Farm, Stock and Home:
Much large type is being used by the
press these days to announce advances
In the wages of labor in iron, cotton and
other manufacturing establishments. The
advance, snail rs it is, is gratefully &C
knoWledged, of course, but the large
type and extravagant congratulations of
the press are scarcely justified, because
The advance in no case is greater than
the cut made in '97 and early in US, and
in many cases the rates Of that time are
not restored. The wages now Dragged
about are in no case larger than those
that prevailed during the so-called "free
trade period of '94 to '97, which seems
very strange in view of the fact that for
more than a year and half laborers
have been enjoying very high tariff,
imposed for their special benefit. It is
surely assuming much to expect labor
to regard as a special boon to itself a
high tariff that took it 10 months to be-
stow the wages that "free trade" was be-
slowing when it went out of business.
SPEAKING about the fish trust that has
recently been formed the Martin County
Sentinel says that it is scaly business for
its promoters.
A COMIC paper suggests that trusts
have become so common that Uncle
Sam should pull down his motto, ain
God we Trust,' and replace it with "In
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