New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-06
ANOTHER LINCOLN STORY.

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Ia the community in which the
lawyer Abraham Lincoln lived a
murder was committed. No one saw
the deed. A tramp was suspected, ar
rested, and placed on trial. Lincoln
was appointed to defend. The testi-
mony was circumstantial, but tended
to show the defendants guilt. Lincoln,
evading nothing, suppressing nothing,
helped the prosecuting attorney to
bring out all the facts. Then, adj
dressing the jury, he called attention
to those matters which pointed to the
defendants guilt, as we'll as those
which made in his favor, and closed
his argument by saying, in substance:
II have looked this matter over fully,
candidly, and while concede that the
testimony bears against my client I
am not sure that he is guilty. Are
you?'' The defendant was acquitted
and the real criminal afterwards
found and convicted. Confidence in
Lincoln's integrity won the case. Not
only that, it resulted in the triumph
of justice. A lie has no place in a
courtroom, and half truth is, as we
all know, often the worst kind of a lie.
a verdict won by a falsehoOd is a dis
grace to the counsel, and equally SO
"a verdict won by a trick. That sue
cess is really defeat, for it makes a
profession consecrated to the pursuit
of justice an instrument of injustice.
By Justice David j. Brewer.
We are indebted to the Literary Di-
gest for an interesting extract from an
editorial printed recently by the Lon
don Times. The Times expresses some
surprise at the extent to which Ameri-
cans allow themselves to be victimized
by dishonest officials and extortionate
monopolists. Such case as this
presents "a curious ethical problem, :"
says the Times, for ''the great middle
class in the United States is probably
not surpassed in honesty and business
integrity by any people in the world. -
1t seems very remarkable to this OBJ
server, therefore, that they should so
often "leave their public business in
the hands OF notorious rogues," and
even take a certain pride in the mag
nitude of corrupt fortunes and Sin the
ostentation with which in many in.
stances they are displayed. Ameri-
cans are too shrewd not to see that
they are being 'sdone," says this wri-
ter, and quotes President Roosevelt to
the. effect that they not only know it,
but feel it in their pockets, and "many
of these existing traits and still more
the possible future combinations of
INSCRIPTIONS millivnaires fand politi-
cians) may seriously affect the COM
fort and welfare of great masses of the
population. The American perhaps
likes to be robbed, it is suggested, by
men who add to the impressiveness of
the American republic abroad by the
possession of enormous fortunes.
Thus we read:
every inhabitant of large Ameri-
can cities must be perfectly we'll aware
that he pays more than he ought 20
pay for every one of the ordinary &C.
compartments of urban civilization,
for roads, for water, for light, for the
protection of life and property; and
that all.these necessaries, besides be-
ing supplied to him at exorbitant
rates, are, as rule, very bad Of their
kind. Every American knows that
Illicit profits upon municipal manage
ment, or Illicit enhancement of the
price Of commodities of universal ne
cessity, are the origin and founda-
tion of most of the colossal fortunes
to which he points with certain de-
gree of pride, though they often con-
stitute in reality not only national
disgrace, but national danger"
The Standard Oil company made in
nineteen years, reflects this writer, as
great a sum as the atrociously exor-
bitant indemnity demanded by Bis
marck after the surrender at Sedan.
Farm For Sale Very Cheap.