New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-03-27
Neau Ulm's Press Agent.

TIE Brown County Journal is much
exercised over tie unpleasant advertising
our city is getting. It is deeply grieyed
over the fact that one of the owners of
the Review is the first editor Of tie
state to be called disloyal by the Editorial
Association because the charge gives
New Ulm black eye.
49, Let us sit down and consider bit.
There are a few questions to be answered
before deciding just who the parties
are that are giving New Ulm her un--
pleasant notoriety. Nor should the
questions be confined to the present
time. They must cover a period OF
some years because we have not sprung
into notoriety in day. Many years.
ago evil tales were told of our fair city,
by those within our midst, bringing us
into disrepute. The question is, who
told these tales which IN every instance
have been proven to be lies?
Go back in memory to the days of
the settlement of the place. What
brought upon the city the wrath of the
savages? Was it New Ulm's treatment
of tie Red Men? Was it German greed
of gain that fingered the Indians? In
deed, it was not! It was the dishonesty
of the government agents at the eov-
eminent posts, tie sharp practices of
the Yankees in dealing with the Chip
pewas and Sioux that brought death and
disaster to New Ulm. And when the
horror of the massacre had just begun
to dim little came the terror of the
tornado and the ''holier than thou,
fanatics both at home and abroad
published it thru the land that New Ulm
was again being punished for her sins,
giving us more unpleasant advertising.
AS tho every place destroyed by the
savages or by storms were not equally
open to the charge that it,required the
wrath of God to turn it from it's evil
ways!
In the days of tie school fight who
was it that gave New Ulm it's unpleasant,
advertising? The basis of that great:
quarrel was a misunderstanding which
precipitated the city into most horrible
brawl that was fostered by the establish
ment of the Volksblatt, paper con-
ceived in spite and hatred. From that
day to this the Volksblatt and it's sister,
the Journal, have made it their chief
aim in life to stir up dissension and
strife and to publish our.family differences
of opinion abroad and bring shame upon
the city.
Never have these yellow journals
aimed at constructive criticism. Always
have they cast the blight of half truths or
outright falsehoods upon events trans
piring here, innocent in themselves, but
so distorted by the evil mind which guides
the policy Of these papers that the OUT
side world must of necessity wonder
what sort of place New Ulm can be-.
Who was it that printed in shrieking
headlines the damnable falsehood of a
$4,000 steal, charging city official
with theft when there was rot one word
of truth in the charge? Who was it
that printed hundreds of extra copies
of the lie and distributed them in public
places that the lie might be carried to
every home in tie city and state? Who
was it that refused reparation for the
wrong done the city official until forced
to a retraction and how much publicity
did he give his retraction? Did he
publish his error broadcast that New Ulm
might be set right, or the official cleared?
Who was it that published lies whole
sale about Captain Albert Steinhauser
in the Spanish-American War and after
ward admitted to the writer in person
that he had done it because he knew it
would give him lift in his newspaper
game? Has he ever set right the wrong
done in this instance to both the city and
the man?
Who was it that fostered the hatred
Of the city in the Koch case? And why
did he lend his efforts to the attempt
to railroad a man to the gallows? For
tie simple reason that the Review was:
giving the accused man the benefit OF
the doubt and the Journal and Volks-
blatt saw more money in taking the
opposite side. The guilt or innocence
of the accused man did not enter into
the question at all for these papers, and
New Ulm got notoriety, again from tie
same source. .-.-..-. .- "
Who was it that made tie town smell
to heaven by calling New Ulm men of
tie End Regiment Band "slackers"
at the time of TIE late unpleasantness in
Mexico? Who advertised the town then
and helped to bring about tie loss of our
local military units by his interference?
Who is it that cares not who is hurt,
provided his own interests be served?
Who was it that held the women Of
tie Current News Club up to public ridi-