New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-12-05

Inc government QeclOeU ldSI week
that the millers of the country were
getting rich too fast and accordingly
ordered drop in the price of flour.
The right or wrong of the decision does
not concern the consumer. He is CRATE
full for small favors and hopes the
Government may get similar notions
with regard to other household COM
modities.
Back In The Harness
For the past year and half, or nearly
that, the Review has been edited by
Mr.. George III. Miles and the owners
of the paper have scarcely written line
which has appeared in the Review. Mr..
Miles has recently purchased news
paper plant at Rushford, Mimi, and
left last week to take charge of the
business, leaving the owners Of the
Review once more in the editorial
sanctum, looking about rather blanky
at the scissors and paste pot and wonder
ing how on earth we are going to find
material to fill twenty to thirty columns
Of news every week after years vaca-
ton from the grind of preparing copy.
It has been strangely eventful year,
year full Of big events for all of us,
readers as well as writer's. The world
has whirled madly about us, making
us fairly giddy with the swiftly moving
panorama Of events. Yesterday we
were going our accustomed ways, each
of us doing his best to make success
of his plans. A new day comes and all
plans are pushed Off whole lives must
be rearranged, to suit the course Of
nations. Bewilderment is the state of
mind most common. Feverish anxiety
is the portion of every one who takes
any part in public events. Such hideous
passions have been aroused that one
may we'll question what depth Of civiliza-
ton exists when men become savages so
readily. A year ago no one would have
believed that such intensity of hatred
could exist in America. We found it
hard to realize anything Of the Civil War
hatreds until all of a sudden we found
ourselves here in America living in just
such an atmosphere of distrust and sus-
picion and dissension.
Such are the times, times that try the
stoutest souls. It has been hard to bear
the censure of our fellow editors in the
state for we have known and liked and
admired many Of them. We think them
sincere in their belief that their opinions
are right, but it is out Of the question for
all to think alike on any question, par
ticularly one which presents so many
angles as today's problems do. We ask
| for our ideas no more respect than we
voluntarily offer to others. We have
never ridiculed others expressions Of
opinion or their arguments tho we have
not always been able to quite credit the
evidence of our eyes when we would see
some of the most extreme den unciations
of those who opposed them printed by
men whom we had always before thot
| fair-minded and just. = S
We have tried to make allowances for
the passions aroused by race hatreds
engendered by interested parties but
we have not been able to bring ourselves
to the point where we can justify tie
gratifying Of personal grudges. That,
to us, seems the. most dreadful thing
about the present unhappy situation
/ in America. So many, many are selling
Ion the opportunity to punish their
personal enemies. It's crying shame
that malignity and vituperation have
come to be the common tongue of the
land. The press leads in this style of
unchristian denunciation To us it
seems that he who feels it necessary to
make a great noise about the lack Of
some quality in his enemy is actuated
by personal animosity or is not quite
sure of his own arguments and is trying
to drown out the other fellows remarks.
Feeling thus it is with a reluctant sigh
that we take up the work left on our
hands by Mr.. Miles departure.
Our policy in the future will be what
it has always been in the past. We shall
refrain from using our newspapers as
weapons unless it seems to us that
publicity is necessary to prevent actual
local wrong doing. In questions relating
to the war we are not permitted to
publish ything except what is passed
4 by the post Office department.. No
! publisher can get paper to his readers
"a it contains any criticism Of the govern
ment or officials. Not only are mailing