New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-09
A Pointer for MeCIeary.

The hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Abraham Lincoln occurs next
year. The Honorable ames Thomp-
son McCleary, former congressman
and present assistant postmaster gen.
.eral, suggests that the occasion be
marked by the building OF a splendid
roadway from Washington to Gettys-
burg. His idea is that the monument
should be of practical benefit to peo-
pie who have profited SO much by the
genius and fidelity of Lincoln.
Anent this suggestion the Duluth
Herald begs leave ''to volunteer to
Mr.. McCleary, as an eminent authori-
ty upon the tariff and as Republican
standpatter who should be chastened
by the defeat which kept him out Of
congress the past year or SO, another
suggestion-not one intended for Mr..
McCleary alone, but for all members
of his party and especially for those
who have, with him, stood firmly
against revision of the tariff, in the
interests of the people. /" Here is the
lggestion:
:'Let congress next winter enact
@~seW tariff law, to be known as the
Lincoln law in which the real in
rests of all the people shall be con-
lered as systematically as honestly
d as Fundamentally as Lincoln con-
cred them.
tsSuch a measure would be a monu-
,ent to the memory of the great eman-
apator more fitting than any other
that could be devised. 1t is peculiar
" fitting because, as Lincoln enamel
pated the black slaves, this law, by
relieving the plain people of the bur-
den of fattening predatory wealth,
would emancipate the white slaves OF
the United States, who are forced by
their government to yield painful tri-
butte out of their necessities to fatten
the purses of the arrogant rich who
spend their money in scandalous lux
Ql y Wlil1C uA1oSO WIN A11oIAO uiAS1A I'LL
groan and sweat under the burden of
'eR,e existence.
1T would be peculiarly fitting, too,
cause the congress that will still be
session when the hundredth birth
ny of Lincoln comes will be Republi-
can in both it's branches, no matter
yH7I11 r kIo on no alnn-
- ton, and the Republican party had its
firth, with L lcoln as its chieftain, in
,he glory of giving freedom to race.
1t would be a peculiarly fitting cele-
Grafton of this splendid anniversary
iif the Republican party, which began
\ its existence as the champion of OPP
pressed humanity, rose once more to
the sublime heights from which it de-
scended to become the champion of
vested special privilege and wanton
wealth, by again becoming the Pala-
din of oppressed and cheated and de-
spoiled humanity.
"Think of what a splendid, endur-
ing and halo-crowned monument to the
memory of great heart and a human
ity-lovjng soul such tariff measure
would be! The Lincoln tariff bill,
framed for the good of all the people,
producing revenue enough to operate
the government without booming hui
mainly to the merciless greed of cor
porate brigandry, would relieve the
people at a single blow of their heavi-
est burdens, and would cause them to
bless again the eternal memory of the
great Emancipation, while clarifying
p rasurrected spirit that made the
l|of the Republican party as glo.
AS its degenerate age is shame.
et the Republican leaders frame
acoln tariff bill, with malice tow.
d none, with charity for ali, with
mnoss in the right as God gives US
see the right. Let them rear this
BILE monument to Abraham Lincoln
on his hundredth birthday, tina
is nation, under God, shall have {
Ew birth of freedom, and that govern
ment Of the people, by the people, fol
the people, shall not perish from the
Nhe Window Citizen guesses tina
nson will have $4,000 majority
Citizen has another guess coming
bnkato Free Press.
ell, supposing we put it at $1,000
1000.
lave you received McCleary com
ission?