New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-02
GREAT CONCERN FOR MILITIA
Lake City is Afraid For Morals of
Soldiers.
Paper Says Scheme is to Get Mar
ket For Beer.
Declares New UIln Unfit For States
National Guard.

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The Lake City Republican has regis
tered vigorous protest against the
encampment of the militia in this city
next year, and the chief feature of the
argument is that the city is too unholy
for the congregating of such body of
young men.
The Mankato Free Press takes the |
matter up in the interest of New Ulm
and the defense of the city as given by
that paper is as good as any that could
be given here so we quote it entire.
But we will say that with all the &C
quaintance the Lake City people have
had with the members of the militia
they have certainly formed a poor
opinion of them if it is to be supposed
that in the few days they will be en-
camped that they will be influenced for
good or bad in the place where they
are located. If men are not men they
will never be soldiers, but the dear
people of Lake City need have no fear.
1t is not to rob Lake City of the en-
campment that it is to be held in this
city one time, it is to secure sufficient
room for the manouvering of the whole
brigade, which cannot be had at the
old camp.
Following is what the Free Press
thinks of the nnestion.
The Lake City Republican is very
much wrought up over the prospect of
the state militia holding its annual en-
campment at New Ulm hereafter in
stead at Camp Lakeview as has been
the practice for a number of years.
The Republican makes the charge thai
the proposed change is in the interest
of the New Ulm breweries. This is
what the Republican has to say re-
lative to the matter:
"F'rom a scenic point of view, no
other grounds could be found in the
state which would compare with Camp
Lakeview, New Ulm, being almost ex-
clusively a German settlement, is the
home of a number of big breweries,
and where beer is taken to Camp Lake.
view in bottles, it would be unloaded
at New Ulmin barrels, and the breweries
would no doubt do rushing business
while the soldiers were in camp
| Colonel Charles Avian Duzee, COM
mander of the Third regiment, has
made the statement that he would ten
der his resignation as member of the
Minnesota national guard if New Ulm
should be selected as the encampment
place. He does not object so seriously
to the maintenance of canteen at
Camp Lakeview, but he doesn't pro-
pose to affiliate with an encampment
site which would be used as a dumping
ground for several local brewing con-
Germs. He thinks that the canteen
feature is already bad enough at Camp
Lakeview.
The Republican is very much mis-
taken in it's estimate of the character
of New Ulm people. To be sure they
are largely of German extraction, but
they are respectable, lawabiding and
take a great deal of pride in their
pretty little city. The Free Press will
not believe that the move to hold the
National Guard encampmentt there was
instigated by the brewerles, nor would
the military camp become the dump
ng ground for th ose institutions.
New Ulm residents would consider it
an honor to be permitted to entertain
the National Guard of Minnesota, and
| The Free Press feels safe in making
the assertion that nothing would take
place in that city during the encamp-
ment that could bring disgrace upon
that enterprising and Intelligent com
munlty nor upon the officers and
soldiers, who are now held in high re-
spect by the people of this state. The
Free Press is aware of the fact that
New Ulm has in its midst newspapers
which are we'll able to defend her in
terests, but this paper cannot let this
opportunity slip by without resenting
the insult which has been heaped up
on our neighboring city.
The Republican confesses that Camp
lLakeview is not large enough to ad-