New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-20
Official Paper OF New Ulm.

deal of stock in the Edison claim that
he has invented a storage battery
which will place automo biles within
the reach of everybody.
Edison has blighted my Iife,' says
Maxim. 'sHe has been inventing a
storage battery ever since Adam was
a little boy, and [ have been putting
off buying an automobile all that time
simply because [ thought should be
able to buy one of Edison's electric
cars. have grown old waiting, and
if Edison's battery is not ready by
next year I have determined to buy an
ordinary gasolene car, SO that [ may
help to make life horror to those
who live in the country"
In a talk to New York merchants
the other day Geo. B. Cortelyou,
secretary of the treasury. said: IT be-
lieve that if the money of the country,
wherever boarded, we're at once put
back to fulfill it's functions in the chan
nels of trade, there would be in twenty
four hours an almost complete resump-
tion of business operations" And he
might have added that if the New York
stock gamblers would be effectively
curtailed in their swindling operations
the danger Of recurrence of the pres
ent unpleasant conditions would be
far, far removed.
Speaking of politics at Mankato the
other day Col. Henry Watterson said:
"If the people were to elect Roosevelt
for third term they would give up
all gained by the hundred and thirty
five years of republican government
and Mexicanize the nation. The same
arguments could be used four or eight
years from now and elections would
be unnecessary, and the Diaz plan
would be adopted. To accept a nomi-
nation for third term would show
that Roosevelt is a scoundrel and
traitor to his country, and prove that
he had been planning all along to re-
tain the presidency"
We are forgetting too much the COR
ner stone of all civic righteousness,
which is individual responsibility.
Landing behind the bars three men,
whose names are constantly upon the
public tongue for plain violation of
both the state and the national law,
will do more good to check trusts and
Interstate commerce evils than any
number of injunctions or receiver
ships.-John Sharp Williams.
In a collection of interviews with
democratic editors on Mr.. Bryan's
statement of his own position, we find
the following from the editor of the
Nashville American, one of the most
progressive papers of the south: "It
is pitiful that great party should be
destroyed in catering to the ambition
of an individual whose honesty is 40
excuse for his folly"
John C. Spooner, former United
States senator from Wisconsin, is now
engaged as leading counsel in the de-
tense of E. Ell. Hartman. And to
think of it, that Uncle Sam had to pay
him So, 900 a year for twelve years to
enable him to acquire the experience!
Here is something decidedly Waiter
sonian. Speaking Of Gov. Beckham,
the great Kentucky editor says he is
''a lifelong place-holder and place
hunter, manager of a bankrupt voting
machine and chief of an Office broker
age gone into liquidation
Gov. Johnson will 60 to Washing
ton the first week in December to at
tend the national rivers and harbors
congress and incidentally to listen to
the arguments in the legislative rate
case which are TO be made before the
United States Supreme court on De-
cember End.
Attorney General Young has given
it as his legal opinion that the rail-
roads may exact an extra charge of
ten cents from passengers paying fare
on the trains. Thequestion now arises,
what will the conductors do with it all :?
Under the new system of finance,
says the st. Louis Globe Democrat, it
is possible for the humblest citizen to
write his own money on a typewriter
provided he can induce the butcher
and banker to take it,
During the past year Rockefeller is
said to have contributed to the relief
of 1000 of the lowly poor in New FORK.
Within the same period he has held up
$4,000, 900 in other parts of the coun-
try.
American girls have invested 5000,