New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-08-11
H. Payne.
July 3Oth, 1915


and by the time you receive this shall
be we'll on my way home and before
it is printed 1 shall in all probability be
in Minnesota again altho do not expect
to arrive in New Ulm until about the
middle of August. Mr.. Steinhauser ex-
poets to be in New Ulm by the 10th at
the latest but shall stop in Minneapolis
for several days to visit with my mother.
We leave here tomorrow morning for
Portland and will go by the steamer
Northern Pacific arriving at Portland
sometime Sunday afternoon. From
there we are undecided what way we
shall go to reach Vancouver but have
planned to stop a short time in Seattle
and will make the return trip thru
Canada, visiting at Bauff, Calgary and
Winnipeg.
wonder if didn't growl good deal
about California in my last letter. I
suppose the exceedingly pleasant trip I
am enjoying ought to make me overlook
the things l do not like but I have a
feeling, too, that I ought to describe
things just as they seem to me, without
being led away from disagreeable facts
by the many very pleasant hours Cali
fornia has given me. Those who con-
template coming to California should
come prepared for the weather of Cali
fornia and for other disadvantages and
in this way their visit can be made much
more enjoyable. We were not pre-
pared for the continued cold weather and
we have really suffered from it. We
hope those of you who may be planning
to come will profit by our experience.
And, above all things, if the opportunity
offers to come, be sure to do so for Cali
fornia and the Exposition are Wonder
land, indeed.
Since am obliged to write my news
letters almost two weeks before they
are read by Review people and as l do
not get to see them at all after writing
always find myself wanting to apologize
for the poor sequence of what write,
the many repetitions and the lack of
unity and sustained interest; for, unless
you have tried similar task you really
do not know how difficult it becomes to
write even fairly good letters when there
are so many new impressions crowdine
upon ones mind daily and hourly.
There's too much to tell and one gets
everything in a jumbled mass; at least,
/ do.
Did tell you about hearing Jimmy"
Larkin, the Irish Labor Leader speak
here in San Francisco? He had an
audience of approximately $500 and l
got small idea of what is meant by the
mob spirit as I listened to him. Not
that there was anything like an uprising
but the speaker swayed his listeners
as the great evangelists do, playing upon
their emotions as a master violinist
draws his bow across the strings. He is
the typical labor leader, big, brawny,
quick Of wit, thanks to the soil he
sprang FROM strong-lunged, filled with
zeal for the cause and eloquent in the
Irish way, broth of a bye" as thew
would say in the Emerald Isle, and while
his arguments left me cold and unmoyed
1 confess l got more thrills out of wit
Messing the effect of his efforts upon that
vast audience than would ever be able
to feel in all the dizzy Notwithstanding
California might afford. It would have
been vast satisfaction to most New
Ulm people to listen to his arraignment
of England in the matter of the war with
Germany but I am neutral and III
leave it to the New Ulm Post to tell
what he had to say of the perfidy of
England. His hearers seemed to agree
with him in spite of the fact that the
Anti German spirit is quite strong in
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