New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-06-27

The catalogue Of the state agricul-
#tural college has been published and
is IN the hands of the directors to be
sent to any person who makes applica-
ton for It. Attention is particularly
called to, first: the college course for
students who have graduated from a
state high school or from the School
OF Agriculture, second: a school course
of three winters for farmers bows and
girls who have finished eigth grade
work and who desire to study agricul-
ture and home economics, third: a
short course for farmers which is a
lecture course of eight weeks duration,
|given for the benefit of farmers who
cannot afford the time to take the
regular school course, and fourth: a
four weeks course for butter and
cheese makers. In order to take this
course a person musthave had years
experience in a creamery or cheese
factory.
The battle field of the future appears
at this time to be the home of the
trusts and the corporations. If the
conditions which have obtained in the
past few years continue to prevail for
few years to come without restric-
ton, the small business man, the hope
OF the rural communities, is doomed.
The power of the trusts, monopolies
and the department stores, if allowed
to continue unchecked is destined to
work the greatest injury to this country
that it has ever seen. The only de-
tense the people of the United States
have against all this is the ballot and
it is up to the voters to see that only
good men and true are sent to legisla-
tive Offices to make the laws that are
to restrict or give these economic evils
the license they are after. If we are
building only for ourselves and for
the present there would need be no
concern but what Of the future and our
responsibility to the unborn genera
tions yet to come?
John Bunyon will have grounds for
a grudge against President Roosevelt
as long as Pilgrim S Progress endures,
according to writer in the Lincoln
(Neb. Journal. The Journal writer
explains: "As was frequently re-
marked at the time of the presidents
now famous muckrake speech, the
muckraker of Bunyon was not a stirrer
up of scandal, finger of filth into
peoples faces, but the man who de-
voted himself to the requirement of
filthy lucre to the neglect of higher
things. In the spirit of Pilgrims Pro-
gress the man with the muckrake would
be Mr.. Rockefeller himself, not the ex-
poser Of Rockefeller. In sense it is
unfortunate that the term came thus to
be misapplied, for no better word for
the money grubber could have been
found than the title of muckraker. On
the other hand the word, with its I'M
savory significance, does an injustice
when applied to the numerous authors
whose literature of exposure has
FASTENED greatly the day of cleansing.
But as the battle of Breeds hill can
never be anything to Americans but
the battle of Bunker Hill, because they
got started to calling it that way, so
the muckraker will always be Lincoln
Steffens instead of a Russell Sage"
The representative of the Standard
Oil Trust are denying that that con-
Germ is interested in defeating the bill
removing the tax on alcohol for use
in manufactures and the arts. In this
connection, writer in the Springfield,
Mass, Republican draws attention to
the following extract from the report
of the house ways and means COM
mittee: 'sThe bulk of free denatured
alcohol in Germany is used for the
purpose of light, fuel and heat. A
lamp is now made with a Welsbach
mantle which produces very strong,
steady and high grade light by the
use Of alcohol. Experiments have
been made testing this lamp with the
most improved pattern kerosene lamps
with round wicks and of equal candle
power; it was found that gallon of
alcohol would keep the alcohol lamp
burning twice as many hours as would
a gallon of kerosene burning in the
most approved pattern of kerosene
lamp which is in general use In other
words, one gallon of alchol is equal
to two gallons of kerosene for light
ing purposes. Hence it follows if the
price of alcohol methy lated is less than