The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1901-10-17

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that it will succeed.
The MIRROR is in receipt of commendatory
letter commenting the fact that malcontents do
air their grievances in is columns Il should think %
says the writer, 'that fault finding and chatting at
The existing order of things would naturally
into prison paper. I am glad this does not occur,
and that the realize that the voice of the people
is the voice of God, and accept their punishment
accordingly
Ever since the beginning Of time men have
given expression to formulas under the impression
they were uttering truths and some of these fornu-
las are very senseless not the least senseess is
the quoted by friend Is it the first voice
of the people the last that is the voice of the
deity? This is important, the instability of
public opinion is proverbial particularly where it
attempts to form estimate of right and wrong
Then, is it the voice of one community or nation
that is divine is it the voice of the whole world?
This is also important public opinion differs in
different localities. Was it the voice of God that
raised the rumpus when Dewey gave his house to
his son, or it His voice that acclaimed him as
hero after Manila? The sentiment is to obviously
mere form of words to discuss The voice of the
people in this country is the government. but even
that sometimes makes mistakes
The men in prison are different in many ways
from our correspondent, whose good opinion we
appreciate but the difference between them is not
SO great that they desire to air their troubles real
or imaginary, in public any more than he does
Is THERE or is there not a case against Admiral
Schley2 That is question many people have asked
during the past month or two and public opinion is
almost much divided today as before the court of
inquiry called
There is case against the admiral, inasmuch
as it has been proven that he might have coaled at
sea- that he dilatory in trying to discover
Cerveras whereabouts, that he proceeded from
Cienfuegos in far too leisurely manner that he
failed to do all in his power to destroy the Colon
she lay in Santiago harbor and that he did make
the celebrated loop, universally admitted to have
oeen error. These things have been proven, but
the defense has always been ready with that
allow the reasonable doubt to creep in
On the other hand Schley's enemies have failed
to prove their charge that his blockade was in
effective and have sgnally failed in showing him to
be catiff" coward. The worst there is against
such it would other officers might easily
have made had they been in his place.
What the outcome Of the court of inquiry will
be is difficult to foretell If Schley is vindcated
and if he is reprimanded court-martialed his
friends will object strenuousy. 1t is the greatest
pity in the world that it was necessary to call
for the court Owing to overzealous friends two
gallant and brave gentlemen-who themselves kept
out of the trouble-have been made the objects OF
mud Singing from one end of the country to the
other and the entire navy has lost prestige in the
eyes of foreign powers. If the matter only ends
with the court of inquiry it will be great blessing
PORTLAND Me-, the home of teetotalism in
America, in for some hard raps at the meeting
of the London Society for Study of Inebriates last
week. Dr. Reid of the 'Lancet," made the state
ment that teetotalers make drunkards and backed
it up by saying that Portland has forty-two drunk
ards per 1000 against twenty three per 1000 in
London, Chicago and New York. His remarks
precipiated small riot out of which secretary OF
a temperance society emerged and took the floor
! This gentleman said that Dr. Reid is going "daffy.
He said that the difference between London Chicago
and New York and Portland, Me-, is that in the
latter city every single drunkard is promptly ar
rested, thereby doing his share towards making
statistics while in the former many DRINKS escape the
meshes of the law. he cable reports of the gather
ing say that after continuing the debate for two
hours with extreme warmth and pungency, physicians
and aymen taking sides in the matter, the meeting
was adjourned until some future time when the