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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

the first magnitude. Shall we join in
the cultivation of the war spirit and
in the craze for battleships? Sur
rounded by oceans we are in posi-
tion such as no other nation occupies.
We are not only the moral leader of
the world, but we are SO situated geo.
graphically that the arguments ad-
dressed to fear ought not to influence
US as they do other nations. We can
with less risk than other nations APP
ply the Christian doctrine to our ma
tional policy and trust to the right
eousness of our policies and to the
sense of justice which guides US in
dealing with other nations. Our re-
sources are so abundant and the capa-
city OF our people so we'll known that
no nation is going to invite an en-
counter. If we had not single bat
tleship, it is known the world over that
we could build and equip a navy, if
we so desired. And if any nation was
foolhardy enough to inflict injury upon
US before we were ready for battle, it's
indemnity would only be the larger
when the real contest began. But
those who oppose the extravaganza
navy program outlined by the presi-
dent do not ask that our ships be dis
mantled; they only ask that we shall
have a policy of our own and not be
driven into naval expansions by the
example Of others. We ought to lead,
not follow; and it is time to recognize
the superiority of moral greatness
over mere physical prowess. It is
time that the moulders of public senti-
ment and the opponents of the nation S
conscience speak out against this rash
embarkation upon a policy of swag-
ger and boasting. It is time to invoke
again the words of Lincoln. He de-
clared that the nations strength was
not in it's army or its navy, in its
forts or its towers, but in the spirit
that prizes liberty as the heritage of
all men in all lands everywhere. This
must be our reliance if we escape the
fate of the nations that have gone
down to death.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21
Look to the Front.

When Grant fought the battle of
Shiloh, says a writer IN the Chicago
Examiner, he was comparatively
obscure commander. He had no
brilliant part to look back upon. His
achievements at arms up to that time
had been promising, but not brilliant.
Shiloh brought him into notice, but
he did not allow his mind to stay
memory gathering about that battle
field.
There was a war to be ended, and
Grant knew that he could play an i'm
portant part in ending it. And with a
mind that was always on the future.
he quietly did his best, with the result
that all men know.
In that same war were many other
generals who won brilliant victories,
and who kept on winning those same
victories-in dreams and around the
camp fire in talk with their fellow
soldiers. They never won any more,
and gradually drifted backward and
downward, till, looking for their part
in the war, you must diligently dig
through written history.
And so in every anization Of
men, continues this writer, you will
find two classes.
The men, who have their minds or
the past, live in the past. They tel
you how things used to be done; how
they used to do them. Always they
have good memories for details, ant
nearly always every detail is of JUS
as much Importance to them as every
other detail.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21
The Folly Of the Big Navy Program
BY WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

President Taft has espoused with
enthusiasm the big navy program in
augurated by his immediate predeces-
sor. He uses the phrase ''stro2g
navy" and insists that 'the policy of
maintaining strong navy is "the
best conserv ator of our peace with
other nations, and the best means of
securing respect for the assertion of
our rights. y The advocates of a
big navy, recognizing the universal
desire for peace, attempt to conceal
their military enthusiasm under the
guise of an advancement of peace. No
one ought to be deceived. The theory
which the president advances is not a
new one; it is centuries old, but it is
falacious. Big navies are not built
in the interest of peace and they do not
promote peace. The spirit that justi-
fies them is the spirit that leads ma
tions into war, just as the spirit which,
prompts man to carry revolver is
the spirit that leads him to use the re-
volver. Does anyone suppose that we
would have less shooting if every citi-
zen equipped himself with number of
revolvers? Does anyone believe that
the carrying of revolvers promotes the
observance of the law? AS little can
we expect to promote peace by rivalry
in the building of warships. They have
navy league in nearly all of the lead
ing nations, and the navy league of
each nation demands an increase in
the navy of its country every time a
battleship is built in another country.
If we build two ships, Germany must
build two Or three, and England must
build three or four, and then we must
build again, and then other nations
must build more. There IS no end to
this insane policy except the bank
ruptcy Of the weaker nations and the
burdening of the people of all nations.
War is much more apt to come from
the cultivation of war spirit than
from the infection of real injury by
an enemy.
This big navy program brings the
country face to face with question Of
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

When you hear one of them Dragging
about what he has done and how he
did it, recounting with boastful pride
the way in which he outstripped the
men in the same game or in the same
business, and going from one past
achievement to another in the re-
miniscences that always come so
readily from his tongue, you can set
that man down as one who will do
nothing in the present or the future.
While other men about him are
doing today's work he is still plodding
along in the cobwebbed past and
doing in his mind work that has al
ready been done and never need be
done again.
The other class of men is the sue
cessful class-the men whose minds
are on today.
You do not hear them boasting
about what they have done. Indeed,
they do not have time to talk much
about what they are going to do; they
are busy with what they happen to be
doing.
With them the work of today has
the place of highest Importance, the
work OF tomorrow the place of secon-
dairy Importance and the work Oh
yesterday no place of Importance al
all.
Wo toh thono ond vo,,-:ll ~
they are getting ahead. Follow their
example and you, too, will get ahead
Your friend who sits and brags ia
| you of other days has perhaps nearly
as good q mind as he had in those
other days, but it is impossible thai
he should have better.
! And the mind that does moi
constantly add to its strength and
wisdom and understanding is not the
mind that will ever aid in progress.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21
TAX LEVY WILL Be REDUCED
Economy III Omnibus Appropria.
ton Bill Makes Decrease
Possible.
Total Expenditures Authorized
Fall Short OF Thirteen Mil
lion Dollars.

A reduction in the state tax levy of
about four-tenths of mill will be
made possible by the economy shown
in the omnibus appropriation bill by
the joint finance committee of the house
and senate reported late Monday af-
ternoon.
The appropriations total almost ex-
actly the same as two years ago, but
on account of the larger amount in the
state treasury at this time and larger
receipts expected the tax is made
smaller.
The omnibus bill carries appropria-
tions Immediately available totaling
$500, 900, appropriations of 81, 100000
available July 81, and 81, 1000, 900 avail
able July 81, next year. The standing
appropriations under existing laws
amount to about 81, 100000 year, so
the total expenditures of the state au-
thorized until July 81, 1911, are Sl2,-
100000. This does not include the
state school and university tax of 1.23
mills.
The following are some of the most
important items:
The attorney general is given 49,
600 with which to fight the commodity
rate cases.
The employers liability commission
gets $4,000 for expenses.
The soldiers home gets $4,000 for
a building for surgeons and staff.
The state fair association is given
5000, 900 for new grand stand.
The state university receives $500, 900
for buildings and 5000, 900 a year for
maintainence.
The St. Anthony agricultural school
gets $50, 900 for ladies' domitory,
$50, 900 for dairy hall and Sc, 900 for
a denatured alcohol plant. The Crook
ston agricultural school is given $780,
900 for library and assembly hall
and 1925, 900 for girls dormitory.
The sum of $4,000 is provided for
the Improvement of the St. Criox,.
Itasca and Fort Ridgely parks.
The asylums for insane are allowed
S740, 900 for current expenses for the
two years and S24O, 900 for new build
ings. Other state institutions, like the
school for feeble minded, school for
deaf and dumb, school for blind, train
ing and industrial schools, states pri-
son, sanatorium for consumptives and
hospital for crippled children receive
$685. for support and SAIL, 900 for
Improvements.
The sum OF 1852, 500 is provided for
the NJ aintenance of the Normal schools
at Winona, Mankato, Duluth, st.
Cloud and Moorhead and the sum of
1920, 900 for new buildings.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21
HALvORsEN SUCCEEDS RosING
Former State Senator Gets Place on
Board Of Control.

Gov. johnson on Saturday set at
rest all speculation as to who would
be L. A. Rosing's successor on the
state board of control by naming Chas.
Halyorsen of Dawson, at one time a
state senator from Lac qui Parle and
Yellow Medicine counties and later a
member of the first state highway com
mission.
Mr.. Rosing's term would have ex-
pired next year and Mr.. Halvorsen
can serve only till then unless reap
pointed by Gov. Johnson's successor.
When the bill providing for bank
examiners department, independent o
the public examiners department, be-
comes law, A. F. Mellenthin, assis-
tant cashier of the First National
Bank of Sleepy Eye, will become an
avowed candidate for appointment to
one of tbs deputysbips.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

There is not money enough in the
state to buy single branch of the
legislature, says Lieutenant Governor
Eberhart. Well, what's the use, any,
how, of buying thing that you al
ready own? -.-.-..
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

A special from New Orleans says
that John Bells of that city, who is
heir to a 100000 estate, left by his
aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Watson of Louis
Vile, has announced that he will sur
render any claim he might have on the
estate in favor of his two foster
cousins, Mrs. Thomas Swan, wife Of
the assistant general passenger agent
of the Rio Grande railroad at Denver,
and Mrs, George Venus, wife of a
New Orleans business man. Mrs.
Swan and Mrs. Venus had been reared
as daughters by Mrs. Watson, and it
was not until after her death that they
learned that they had been adopted by
her when infants. Mrs. Watson was a
sister of Bells father. Bells says
he has a good business and is COM
fortably fixed and believes it right
that Mrs. Watson's estate should go
to the children she adopted, though he
is really next of kin and the legal heir.
Nashville Banner.
Where in the country will you find
another Mr.. Bells?
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

In Leonard Rosing Minnesota lost
one of its ablest public servants, a
man of fnem mind, judicial temperament
and thorough honesty.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

@'It isn't corner" says Mr.. Patten.
t'It's q perfectly square deal.' Any
thing that is perfectly square usually
has corner-Chicago Tribune.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

Only few days ago, a young man
died in this town and when he was
lDuried his funeral was attended by
more people, old as we'll as young,
shan usually attend the obsequies
paid to one who passes away in the
autumn of life, even though he be a
man who has played no small part in
the affairs of his community. Why
was it that this boy should have been
so signally honored? Was it out of
idle curiosity, or because of anything
really remarkable that he had per-
formed in his short career, or was it
because the people simply just liked
him, liked the naturalness in him, the
absence of affectation in his makeup,
and the presence there, instead, of the
qualities which go to constitute big,
whole-souled, generous-hearted men?
Was it not that they saw in him a
''chip of the old block" boy from
whom they expected acts of kindness
such as had been performed by his
parents? Of truth, the people have
sheir own way of measuring mans
service to his fellows. They do not
envy the man who is really free and
happy; for happiness, they know, can
not be enjoyed by those who live for
themselves alone. Happiness can
only be enjoyed, can only be retained
by giving it to others.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

st may be just as we'll to remind Mr..
Bryan that wheat and silver are not
maintaining that parity he used to
talk so much about. Paul Dis
Datch.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

People who are afflicted with KEEP
t5omania always feel that they should
take something for it.-Chicago News.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

A mans citizenship should b
measured by his alley as we'll as b.
his front yard.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

The Aldrieh proposition to increase
ehe~duty on mirror glass will bear
looking into.-St. Paul Dispatch.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

There is nothing more divine in this
world than simple humanity. Henry
&. Cope.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

Some people never pay anything
Out visits to their relatives. Chicago
News.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

Still, it's not likely that there will
be any increase in the price OF hot
waffies unless somebody develops q
corner in maple syrup. Chicago
Record Herald.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21
Wednesday, April 81, 1909.
Entered<in the postoffice at New Ulm,
Mimi, as second class matter.

Some weeks ago Margaret Ellington
Frohman caused lot Of talk by leav-
ing her husband. She said she wan
ted to leave him and the stage in order
shat she might marry a man she loved
and have a home, market basket and
"a lot of Riddles.
The public was willing and prompt
ay forgot Margaret, which was just
what she didn't want.
In a column interview in Chicago
the other day she said again that as
soon as she was free she intended to
marry man who is domestic.
This is the recital OF her greatest
longing as told to a reporter:
1sWhat I want is babies, my own
little babies to nestle at my heart and
call me mother l want eleven OF
them every twelve MONTHS" she said,
with a pathetic little laugh.
az have been cheated out of my
home and babies for so long that [
want all of them I can have. I am
hungry for them," she said, and her
voice shook with the emotion that
characterizes her successor the stage.
Eleven of them every twelve months
The fact that Margaret is stopping a
every flag station to tell newspaper
amen that she abhors public life, and
wants a home and husband and lots
of babies, doesn't. look as if she was
sincere. Women who have babies, at
anything like the rate of ''eleven a
year." seldom say anything about il
TO reporters.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07
White Wash.

Slack One.half bushel of lime
with boiling water. keep it GOV.
cred during the process, strain
itand add a peck of salt dissolved
in warm water, add three pounds
of ground rice put in boiling wa
ter, and boiled to a thin part,
One-half pound of Spanish whit
ing and a pound of glue dissolved
in warm water, mix we'll togeth.
er and let stand for several days,
put on as hot as possible. This
has been found by experience
nearly as good as oil paint and
much cheaper.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07

rehectlng upon the city press.
But the great metropolitan jour.
nails are conducted as business
concerns, and do not give much
thought or consideration to the
moral side of these important
public questions. Concerted &C.
ton to bring about the reforms
have discussed, must therefore
originate and have it's chief SUD.
port IN the great body of the peo.
pie, who, like you, are not sub.
1ect to the control or influence of
machine politics. The constitu.
ency represented by you and by
the class to which you belong, aid
ed and supported by a united
country press, can, not only
speedily, bring about the reforms
| have suggested, but can take
and maintain permanently the
supreme control of the govern
ment OF this state; and my appeal
to you is that when you return to
your homes, you will at once set
about the creation of a public
opinion that will spread through.
out the state, taking in it's wide
sweep all classes of people, that
will place our beloved state upon
a higher plane in the sisterhood of
states; and that will enable every
one of her sons, wherever he
may be, to exclailn with pride
and exultation, 81 am a Louisi.
anian."
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07

In many towns of this size
women's clubs are numerous,
and while they are criticised by
some, they are certainly benefi.
cial in many ways. In small
towns and villages the club has
been special providence to
many a weary mother or to the
woman of few early advantages
and large aspirations. In our
great cities woman's clubs have
been the first to institute social
reforms and to call public atten.
ton to crying evils. They have
controlled superficial and selfish
social customs until such Gus.
toms have become obsolete. In
home government and the train.
ing of children they long ago
struck the keynote of a grand
choral of reform which will be.
come more and more harmoni.
GUS as the years roll by. Out of
the selfish EGO" they have evolv-
ed the progressive we" They
have strengthened two weak
hands with the combined power
of twenty or a hundred; they
have taken a dull uncut gem of
thought and polished it until it
has been fit for the purest set
ting in refined gold; they have
great difficulties, con.
quered absurd prejudices, and
solved difficult problems; and the
grandest work of all has been to
teach the women their own posi-.
bilities and the glory of their own
heritage. -Opelousas Courier.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07
Louisiana Parish Fair.

Following are the names and
places of the various fairs held
in 1909:
Bienville Parish Fair Associa.
ton, Gibbsland, La, Sept. l4-l7.
North Louisiana Camp Meet
ing Fair, Calhoun, La, Sept. %.
"a.
Lincoln Parish Fair AsSocia.
ton, Ruston, La, Sept. 2S-Oct. /.
Claiborne Parish Fair Associa-
ton, Homer, La, Oct. 1915.
Ouachita Parish Fair AssOcia-
ton, Monroe, La, Oct. 5s.
Webster Parish Fair AssOcia.
ton, Minden, La, Oct. 1920.
Natchitoches Parish Fair ASso-
citation, NatchitOches, La, Oct.
27.3O.
B0ssier Parish Fair Associa-
ton, Plain Dealing, La, Oct 1929.
Avoyelles Parish Fair Associa.
ton, Marksville, La, Oct. 2O-23.
st. Martin Parish Fair Asso-
citation, Breaux Bridge, La, Oct.
ALI.
Acadia Parish Fair Associa.
ton, Crowley, La, Nov. 1910.
Iberia Parish Fair Association,
Jeanerette, La, Sept. 30-Oct. 3.
Red River Parish Fair Associa.
ton, Coushatta, La, Oct. 21.23.
Lafayette Parish Fair AssOcia-
ton, Lafayette, La, Oct. I'll.
State Fair, Shreveport, La,
Nov. IL.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07

Governor j. Y. Sanders anti
election platform pledged him TO
retire the $l1,OOO,OOO state debt
but there does not seem to be
any likelihood of his being able
to keep his promise, because he
has already borrowed large sums
which must be paid by the next
legislature.
In the face of the short treas.
ury' at Baton Rouge the Court.
house Commission is asking him
to get the state 100000 deeper
in debt in order that the new
$1,000,0 900 courthouse in New Or
leans may be furnished. New
Orleans Item.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07
Notice.

Town clerks Office, st. FrancisVille,
La. Aug. 4, l9O9.-Sealed bids will be
received for putting on new roof at
Power House until August 10, $3.50 p.
m. The right reserved TO accept or
reject any or all bids. Information
furnished on application.
G. L. PLETTINGER,
Town Clerk.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07

Motion made, seconded and carried.
That 5000 be appropriated to road
fund and $4,000 to Plant contingent
fund.
Motion made, seconded and carried,
That the following bills be paid:
Plant
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07

Here is an extract from a Kan
sas City firms letter 10 the edi-
tor: I'VE can sell all the large
Creole onions your people can
raise. The Louisiana onion is
preferred to the California ship
ments now selling at Sl.2O a
crate of fifty pounds. Market
generally short and demand ac-
tive. '-Bunkie Record.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07
For Sale.

One three.fourths Devon Bull,
5 years old, large and handsome.
Two Brahmin Bulls, 1 a years
old.
One Wind Mill, 60 feet high, in
good order, so per cent below
cost. G.. M. BARROW.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07

The decrease in assessments
threatens to bankrupt the State.
In fact, if the Board of Equaliza'
tiOn fails to increase assessments
the State will have to borrow
money for current expenses.
They might borrow it from that
independent and coordinate
branch of the government, the
State Game Commission. Mans.
field Enterprise.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07
Town Council Proceedings.

st. Francisville, La, August 3, 1909.
AT a stated meeting of the Board
OF Aldermen of the Town of st. Fran.
cisVille, held this day, the following
members were present: AT Barrow,
Mayor; Councilmen Geo. Rettig, JOS.
Stern, W T Forester, X C Smith and
A B Briant.
Minutes of last meetings read and
adopted.
Mayor and marshal reported six
cases.
Receipts and disbursements for July
read and ordered printed,
Receipts and disbursements July 1902
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07

AUEIOH On HOHaEI0H 70 HIgH oCH00F
was deferred, until opinion of Town
Attorney could be secured.
On motion meeting adjourned.
A. F. BARROW, Mayor Pro tenn.
G. L. PLETTINGER, Clerk.
l hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true copy Of the original minutes
as they appear on pages, ll9 and l2O
of minute book ~"
G. L. PLETTINGER. Clerk.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-08-07

G. L. Plettinger. Clerk
Letter OF Mr. Rudolph Teutsch ac-
knowledging receipt Of resolutions
read.
Engineers report read and ordered
filed.
The Mayor appointed Mr.. X. c.
Smith member OF the Plant and Au.
diting committee.
Motion made, seconded and carried,
That the following salaries and CON-
mission be paid:
W H Taylor, pres. B OF Health 80 90