New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-02-22
,ditor New Ulm Review:

The death OF Postmaster s. D.
Peterson, which no doubt caused wide
spread sorrow for man OF his pro.
mineuce, removes another Of the early
settlers from their steadily thinning
ranks in New Ulm; and will make ,
lively contest to fill the P. o. vacancy
his death has created.
Now, pardon me when I say that |
have been 50 long bottled up in this
city, must take little liberty In
your columns with so stirring q theme
as the present Reciprocity pact with
our neighbor, Canada. do not
know how your readers view this new
department, particularly on the part
OF q Republican administration, but
to my mind it is one of the most i'm
portant and fsr-resching acts OF
recent times aud will prove the enter
ing wedge for general reduction OF
the exorbitant protective tariff. Re-
ciprocity, generally speaking, broad
ems the minds of men in and out OF
Congress, as we'll as enlargens trade
The movement, too, is particularly
fortunate for the Democratic party in
the present condition of parties and
the trend of public and private
thought, to one influence has had the
injurious effect-not even little git
as the protective tariff which has
dominated this country for the past so
years. 1t has dwarfed legislation in
Congress, dwarfed the public and
private mind, dwarfed politics,
dwarfed the trade of the country, in
stead of enlarging and broadening it.
1t has also indoctrinated the public
aud private mind with extreme and
ever increasing selfshness. The real
and baneful effect of high, protective
tariff, framed especially for protec-
ton, has the object of private enrich
ment and the breeding and nurturing
of monster trusts, in place of pro-
viding revenue for the support of the
general Government, which was the
primary purpose of tariff. If the
time is not now, it must come soOn,
when intelligent thought will cause
men to look upon the past all
absorbing effort in tariff making to
pile up tariff protection to the Utmost
limit of human endurance, as q
monster of such hideous mien that to
be hated needs but to be seen; and /
may add, to be felt. Stripped Of all
OF its false garbs, the protective tariff
of this country in the last half century
have simply been guarantee by
/ Congress to comparatively few
favorites for large, not to say ex-
cessive profits, which all consumers
OF their goods and wares have been
forced to pay. And only recently
have the people at large been opening
their eyes to the enormity and in
! justice OF the burthen forced upon
them. The base thought of compelling
the great body of the people to
guarantee certain profits to the few,
already bloated with wealth, while
they had to rely soley upon their own
toll and economy to accumulate their
little store, 1t would seem was enough
to produce physical revolution, iu'
stead OF the mental and moral evolu.
ton now coming on.
The average mind can scarcely
realize the rapid changes in thought
and action of the very recent past
almost OF months instead of years,
The awakening OF the people to thei,
sovereign power and intelligent GRASP
of their enslsved condition, to i'd
vance and protect their hitherto
smothered interests, educational suc
industrial, as we'll as political, 10 vel
nigh bewilderine 10 its rapidity aut
far reaching results. And the chic
regret Of those of US advanced II
years is that we were born in q toe
remote period of life to enjoy the full
fruition of the many, many years, o
seemingly fruitless effort to produc,
the beneficial results now manifestly
> within easy and certain accomplish
mert.
would like to elaborate on tn
: great awakening of economic though
to the fact that education in the publ,
l schools must be directed to enabl,
boys and girls to make living in th'
t practical affairs of life, and not main
: ly to make wall flowers and helplessly
), educated ornaments for the industr,
D OF others to support, instead of usefu
citizens; but I have not the time tc
crave your further indulgence. I viii
q only add, that away from the farm
8 has been the insideous silent influenc,
a OF the schools and educators; now i
:, is back to the farm, and so great i.
the cry that 1t even comes from
9 cushioned official seats, directing me,
2 who have been on the farm all of thei
lives to pick their seed corn on