New Ulm review., 1912-08-28

IL have been here on nasvarioas ocea
sions and have never found
honsa locked yet; nave never
Wound anything sstoleH !; aneSer found
fany uge for offtcial ls- not even. fol
!,poiice, ! o6icers; tall yHoi need them
||tof1aln 70 hrinr the them oSt Is ssse what they
look like. (Laughter). That Is also
/, whv we brought these officials here
i The genuineness OF the klnuneSs
in the reception you have gwen VII
be OF lasting interest to everyone
who has come to New Ulm again
am very sorry that could not
determine the spot where was
horn: if l had should have select
ed New Ulm; but as your chairman
said. when I couldn't do that the
hest thing ], could do was to sefect
one Of your. best girls for a wife
and YOU know the German girls are
the best kind of girls to marry
loud applause and cheers).
Now, i will tell you why. We
have never had any trouble and we
don't expect to. We simply agree on
two things. We have always agreed
on the the difference between shalr
and will, and when you do that
there never can possibly be any trou-
BILE of any kind. When Mrs. Eber'
hardt says you SHALL say Will;
hence ali our life has been constant
, " happy and l don't believe yet
that there is a house or a place or
an institution in New Ulm that
this key fits anyway, but we are
going to take it home as souvenir;
as a remembrance from the kind
people of New Ulm on this occasion.
do not know how many are here
TODAY and l don't know if they all
live around here, but if they do l
want to say to you that l do not
blame the Indians for wanting to
stand up and stick by and fight for
a country like this. -.
Why, this park in itself is a
credit to any city in the state OF
Minnesota, and you find wherever the
Germans go there are three or four
things they pay particular attention
to. About the first thing they do
is to build SCHOOLS and churches;
then they think of parks and play
grounds and music and all those
things that go to make up happy
home, and I thought as the choir
sang that battle hymn, "The Prayer
before the Battle" and the band play
ed Farewell, mother; you may never
clasp me to your heart again.
but, oh. you will not forget me.
mother, If am numbered with the
slain," thought of fifty years ago
when these pioneers footed across,
swan across, got across the river
some way to get out of the way OF
the Indians; fifty years ago. s5a'
Just think of this immense Will
derness at that time transformed
into one of the beauty spots c|Qff
America; into one of the most Ter
tile and Industrious and prosperous
sections of the state of Minnesota;'
cloud applause). and it is meet
and proper in the presence OF these
pioneers that we should show them
that tribute of love and affection
and friendship and esteem, because
everything that we are-1 am now
speaking for a. younger generation
everything that we are; everything
that we hope to be we are because
of these pioneers that have come
here and sacrificed as they did,
everything that was near and dear.
to them. Take man who stands
on the threshold of his household
and fights the enemy. fights the
intruder and the burglar, that man
is a brave man. A man who march
es after the sounds of music and
follows the stars and stripes to
battle that man is brave man;
he is very brave. but YOU take a
man who goes into wilderness and
establishes home has to defend
that home day after day; his home
is burned and his crops are Destroy
ed; he has to flee for his very ex-
istance and the existance of his
family and that man who still sur
wives goes back to that home and
continues still to build up coun-
try through al! these misfortunes,
that man is the bravest of men,
and in your presence I want to pay
this tribute to you as representing
the great state of Minnesota; that
we cannot do anything more fitting
on the fiftieth anniversary than to
meet ten to fifteen thousand strong
and pay you this tribute and res.
pect and esteem. Loud applause).
Besides that, it is a good thing
to get together. You know we are
apt in a country like ours, where
crops grow as they grow here;