New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-06-28

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with an American electorate.
A German investigator has reached
the conclusion that married men live
longer than bachelors and are less like
II to become insane. Now will the bach.
elors be good and hunt up a few June
girls and get married
The Minneapolis journal severely cen
sures Mr.. Mckinley for not sending TO-
600 troops to the Philippines. Did it
never occur to the Journal that men are
rather more anxious just now to get out
Of the army than to get into lt2
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Rev. Sam Jones says that his income
for some years has been upwards of $685.
900. This is enough to make the rest
of US give up trying to acquire q work
ing knowledge Of the English grammar.
It is plainly not essential to financial
success.
Arbitration sometimes slips up. Five
Texans were appointed commission OF
arbitration the other day and the dis
pute is still unsettled, three of them be-
ing under-the coroner's care. Let US
hope that matters will result more hap
PLY at The Hague"
SEX Ambassador Eustis," says the
New York Mail and Express, ''isn't sat
isfed with the way things are going on
in the Philippines" But how does ex-
Ambassador Eustis know how things are
going on in the Philippinesa Under the
present censorship nobody else knows.
The pet lmbecility of the present heat
ed term is the question whether women
may or may not propose, which is being
gravely discussed by the newspapers of
Chicago, Boston and New York. In the
engagements are being an
at the usual rate, regardless of
who did the proposing.
Strictly censored news is all we now
get from our Asiatic possessions. There
is one consolation in it all however,
Otis has no typewriter. There is diff
ference between suppresslng news that
might do harm and endanger the lives
of brave men, and the publication of
false and improbable stories. Gen. Otis
has at least discretion.
All the volunteers of the 18th Mime
sofa who are coming home send word
that they want to be mustered out at
San Francisco, as soon as they set foot
on American soil, and thus is Gov. Lind
proven again to be right. The volun-
teers evidently do not propose to make
a show Of themselves in the Twin Cities
for the glorifcation of Mckinley. Alger
g. Co. ..."
A certain general in the United States
army is quoted as saying, eve have out
grown the constitution" Yet this very
general has taken an oath to support the
of the United States. If his
assertion is not unpatriotlc, treas enable
and rank "copperhe adism,' what is it?
Surely Senator Hoar nor Edward Atkin-
son have ever advanced anything so un-
American. ~.
At the close of the war with Spain the
plea was made that ina bility of the war
department to do its duty was due to
insuficiency of clerical force. In 1858,
while Secretary of War Edwin NJ. Stan
ton was administering to the wants of an
army of million mon, the clerical force
was SOS. Under Russell A. Alger the
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many.
Less than six months ago republican
newspapers were declaring that the tar
If was dead issue. A short time age
Andrew Carnegie declared that the max
ing of steel was no longer an infant in
dustry, and now Mr.. Havemeyer say!
that there is not an industry in the coun
try that requires a protection Of more
than 10 per cent ad valorem. The tar
if appears ia be a very galvanic corpse
Sampson pleads for a larger navy
Yes, and most of us will be inclined tt
plead for man with a larger soul t
command it than he has got. The MAJ
who detracts from the fame of other
under the hope of charging his own