New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-03-07
Personal Column.

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it will be read by those who are Of
Tended when this paper attempts to
tell him where to head in. He knows
we'll enough that he invited and pre-
] eipitated all this sagreeableness, but
we have put that aside. There is no
reason why brethren should not dwell
| together in unity, but there is also no
reason why one man should try to run
peculative jealousy.
Now, Mr. Liesch, don't you think
you would feel better and be happier
if you tried as hard to create happi-
ness as you do to make some person
miserable?
You can't expect to live forever; no
man has ever succeeded in doing that,
and when you die and are called upon
to answer for the deeds done in the
body, how much better it will be if you
are able to tell the Great Judge of All
how. you have helped to make the con-
dition Of some of your fellow beings
happy than if you are obliged to say,
IT have spent my life in trying te Gre
ate all the misery possible; I have dug
up and invented stories that had no
foundation in fact, and have devoted
the years that have been given me to
narrowing details Of character MUIR
dering, when it was my province to
spread the gospel of good cheer and
make the world better. y
You cannot expect to regulate the
whole world. Smarter men than YOU
have tried that and have failed lust as
you have failed, and when they have
come to lay down their burdens of live
they have bemoaned the fact that they
could not point to one good deed they
had done to recommend them to the
mercy and consideration Of the Judge.
So far as we have been able to Judge
1t has been the policy of the Journal
to fall upon the foibles and inconsist-
encies of the people Of this place as a
vulture falls upon carrion, magnifying
into premeditated crimes the weakness
Of those who have fallen. This may
be the art of news gathering; perhaps
you think it is, but how infinitely
better it is to be able to say 81 have
extended the hand of sympathy to the
fallen: have rescued those who have
been crushed byadverse circumstance;
have not reviled the prosecuted nor
scoffed at the unfortunate.
Now be honest. Don't you think
that is the better way?
You might, if the editor of this
paper were disposed to take what you
have to say seriously, drive him to
insanity or suicide by the vilifying
stories that you are disposed to call
news; but after you had done that
would you be better off? Would the
people think more of you? Would more
business come your way? The proba-
bilities are that there would be some
one to take his place who would have
more of a bull dog tenacity of the man
who recently paid his respects to you
after the manner of the prize fight,
and then your first estate would be
better than your last.
You can't drive those you dislike
out Of the city. You can't kill COM
petition by iibelous falsehoods. You
will find that by throwing mud you
will get more on yourself than on any
other person. You have smart edi-
tor, (at least he thinks he isl why not
direct his energies to doing good?
Why not use your own vast and I'M
challenged powers toward making the
city better rather than trying to make
the outside world believe that we are
harboring one of the most miserable
class of citizens the state of Minnesota
has in any of it's cities.
The sun doesn't rise and set in the
Journal Office, neither is the journal
indispensable to the happiness of any
one person. You may think so, but
| you are mistaken.
Mans greatness is measured by his
| >>AS POSAVAoi w 1ol CIV y uOU OS LIS poWtI
to revenge himself. You are large
and powerful, and you might come
down to the Review Office and clean
the whole force out but you won't do
it, you are afraid to, because your
cause is notjust.
You didn't create this world and you
didn't come into it by your own wolf
ton and you have no rights or privi-
leges other than may be enjoyed by
any of the millions of creatures like
yourself. You may think so, but you
will always be in trouble as long as
you have that false impression.
/ Now, honestly don you think there
is whole lot Of truth in this; don't
you think that the gospel of good
cheer is far better than the rant of
hypocritical discord that you are try
ing to scatter broadcast.