New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-10-11

IN the White House tool as subservienl
as Mckinley but with more blood
thirsty willingness to employ force to
|suppress the people. They have found
him in Roosevelt.
. In Havana Gen. Ludlow has broken
up general strike for shorter hours by
ruthlessly thrusting into prison every
labor leader on whom he could lay his
hands. he denied the workmen of Ha-
vana the right Of public meeting. His
methods were very summary and very
effective Similar methods employed in
Idaho in behalf of the Standard Oil
Company's mines have nearly crushed
the spirit out of the miners of that un-
fortunate state. This is not Russia; IN
Russia the tendency is toward Liberal
ism and Freedom. In this country it Is
toward Alilitarism, Imperialism and Des-
potism. In Havana and Idaho Mckinley
has been "trying it on the dog" The
next move on the program will be to
|suppress by force every attempt on the
part of the people to struggle against
oppression. The Constitution is plead
ed whenever Capital can gain point
and violated impudently whenever its
just powers stand in the way of corpo-
rate greed.
How GAGE MAN1PULATEs THE MONEY
A useful illustration of how the law
can be mis- handled is found IN Secretary
Cages conduct of the Treasury Depart
ment. Some six months ago he conclud
ed that he had no power to issue any
more gold certificates. The New York
bankers and spectators happened to
want the Treasury to take care of their
gold free of charge; so they twisted
Gage out of his unwillingness in about
three days and got all the gold certi6-
Gates they wanted. With every evidence
in. front of him that there would be a
heavy &c nand this fall for silver coin,
fractional currency and small bills, he
made no provision to meet the emergen
cy, snd is now hiding behind lot of
petty, hair splitting legal subterfuges to
explain his failure. Congress at the last
session provided for the coinage of the
entire silver bullion in the Treasury, but
Secretary Gage is too hostile to silver tc
carry out the PLAIN intent of the law
He has violated the civil service in 6
score of ways and in hundreds of instan
ces, but he stands appalled, at doing any
thing to provide the currency which the
farmers, workmen and small traders
need. He advances the payment of the
October interest On bonds nearly montl
without any legal authority in order te
relieve a stringenc; in Wall street bu
refuses to withdraw the bills of large
Nominations and replace them with the
small notes which the real business o1
the country demands, because in so do
ing he would tighten the money market
in New York and thereby knock the
wind out of the inflated values which
the trust magnates are trying to shove
upon the public before the inevitable
crash.
In The PHILIPPINES.
The military situation is about the
same in the Philippines. Macarthur and
Lawton have executed one of their slow
moving marches and captured Porac
few miles from San Fernando. 1t was
announced that they would capture a
large section of the insurgent army, but
when they looked in the trap the animal
had flown. The undisguised military
fact is that the American tactics in the
Philippines are as untitled fo, coping
with the swift footed light armed Fill
Epinos as was Braddock's heavy forma-
ton against the French and Indians. =
In the meanwhile the civil-militar,
administration of the islands is maxim,
rapid progress in a peculiar way. Th
charge is openly made in Manila, that
certain American officer received 500,
900 for suspending putting into effec
/ the new tariff on nnin1n for fnnrtae,