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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05
From Berqer 10 BMYI son.

SO Congress is going to throw out"
Victor Berger. 1t is going to do this
because Victor Berger opposed this
country'y participation in the war. And
this in country priding itself that it
lives under government Of discussion.
Now Victor Berger, whose anti-War
opinions everybody knew, was elected
to the House Of Representatives by the
votes of the people Of Milwaukee,, his
friends, acquaintance, neighbors. tt
looks as if. the people of Milwaukee
are to be thrown out Of Congress. They
sent Victor Berger to represent them.
To be sire Congress is the sole judge Of
the qualification Of it's members It
can throw any member out, at any time,
for any reason, or for none It is. throw
ing out Victor Berger for his opinions
or the expressions Of them. It is de-
priving Mr.. Berger's constituents Of
representation by a man of their own
choice. Let us have a little more Of
this and it will not be long until House
and Senate reach the stage Of removing
members elected for such trifes as wearing
sack-coats in the afternoon or brushing
their hair-if any the wrong way, and
filling the vacancies by a process #
cooptation. Throwing out will becon e
q favorite pastime in Congress and the
J. first order Of business, after prayer, each
day will be the demonstration Of all
p rsons who don't subscribe to the
prevalent pop lar hobby or mania that
morning. Not that Mr.. Berger is or was
right is this bad beginning Of a bad
custom to be deplored, but because it
makes a precedent for misrepresentation
Fo IF the people by means Of political rape.
Reflect that Mr.. Berger was elected TO
Congress as member Of an officially
recognized party and that party had for
one Of its chief principles opposition 70
all wal. Then recall that this IS sup
posed to be q free representative govern
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05
Fighting German Music

Apropos of the announcement by the
management of the Lexington Theatre
at New York that they have cancelled
all further performances of German
opera it is interesting to hear what
William Marion Reedy has to say about
the antagonism against German art
among certain groups Of the American
people. He says:
OF all the absurdities of which an
intelligent people could be guilty the
worst is the movement against the Ger
man language, German music, German
drama, and so forth. The people of
this county should learn the German
language They will need it in trade
and commerce in the future. They
will need it as they need. the Spanish
langl age in Business with South America.
German music has never hurt any one,
German ohera is as moral or immoral
as French or italian opera. German
drama, as drama, is as good as our own
contemporary drama. German paint
ing and sculpture are awful: that we all
know BIT art should be sumner
for it's badness as art, not for the nation
atty of those who prodace it. There is
little nationality in art. 1t is good
art or bad, and that is all one should
say about it. The best thing the Ger.
mans have done is their musis. ~ Why
deny Ourselves the benefit Of : hearing
that music, Just because it is German in
it's origin? We would only be punish
ing ourselves, not the Germans. Sup
pose the Germans wouldn't let Shakes
peare's PLAYS be performed in their
country; who would they be hurting?
Not Shakespeare, not England. They
would be hurting themselves. And yet
we are told that in f~rtherance Of a.
camp align to prevent the production
of opera in the German language in
New York City number Of wounded
soldiers went down into the fnanS ial
district in three automobiles, from which
they distrib tied Eetitions Of protest and
I made speeches. The petitions are. adj
dressed to city and state officials, The
petitioners want a law to stop German
opera. The chairman Of the Anti
Propaganda Committee of the American
Legion is named Harold M. SchWab.
He say there is an overwhelming senui-
ment against Gerna an language opera
II wonder Whee it is! certainly not
| among people VINO love and understand
music. Mr.. SchWab doesn't believe
that we should tolerate German opera
at q tine when ! hospitals still don
tain men n NAMED and crippled in the
8 war. How many Of those manned and
wo nded would object to hearing good
German music on the graphophone il
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

developed to the fullness Of their pos
sibilities. Neither one involves the ex-
clusion Of the other. It ought always
to be one and the other not one or the
other.
IA Certain but Limited Victory.
If all workers col Ia be organized
and could be persuaded to act in uni-
son, then, simply by folding their
arms, any concessions, which it would
be possible for their employers to make,
they would be obliged to make without
any great delay. However, even in
such case, any such use Of this power
takes it for granted that the workers
are to remain the servants Of others,
and that all progress is to be limited
to the i'm provements in the conditions
Of service and hence, in the nature of
the case, can not include the abolition
Of all conditions Of industrial servitude.
The Only Alternative.
If the workers are ever to become
their own. employers, this condition
of independence can not be secured
by simply improving the conditions
under which they are employed by
Others. 1t must involve productive
undertakings Of their own and these
y q : : { 8 / is fgg. . &.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

those hospitals? Very few. tits too,
bad that this movement against German
opera should be treated seriously by
the press. It reminds me Of an anti
papal committeeman who wouldn't
stand for Mozart Twelfth Mass on a
program, because the mass was an
abomination unto him as it was to
Cromwell at Drogheda, but was moli-
fed into acceptance Of the number
By the assurance that Mass in the
Mo art piece was an abbreviation Of
Massachusetts,. He had nothing to
say against music written for that
gallant regiment the Twelfth Mass.
If there's one thing German we could
stand enormously more Of, to our mental
and spiritual proht, that thing is German
music. Our beer was taken from Us,
finally, because most Of the brewers
were Germans And that was one on
us and not on the enemy. Why not
start movement penalizing anyone
for using in talk or writing any of the
thousands of English words having
German roots? There's something so
inappropriate in all this sort of thing when
we remember our boys of German names
who wear our and allied decorations for
service in the war or those other German
named boys in our khaki who sleep
that knows no waking" and "dream OF
battle fields no more Ay-di-mi! May.
be we shall have an end Of all this hate
stuff when we see how silly it is, espe-
cially when it is professionalism into
drives into the heart of the financial
district" in "high-powered AUTOMOBILES"
The American Legion should "cut it out
as beneath that organizations dignity.
Since writing this soldiers and sailors
mobbed the opera house whereat the
operas were to be sung and troops had
to suppress the rioters. Rioting isn't
Americanism and the Legion ought to
know it.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05
Amtl-Strlke Clause Fought.

Railroad shop employees, locomotive
engineers, 6remen, brakemen and con-
d, ctors, and each Of the various classes
of railway men employed in mainte-
nance of the track and structures, are
writing and telegraphing to members OF
the senate and house their protests
against the Cummins bill and their de-
mand that the Plumb plan be enacted
into law. The Cummins bill, with its
anti-strike clause, is described by them
as imposing slavery on railroad workers.
1t is due to the widespread and de-
termined rejection OF this anti-strike
measure, by organized labor in all
the states, that the house committee
on interstate commerce has decided
to recommend, instead, clause making
arbitration proceedings compulsory and
forbidding strikes until arbitration shall
have been attempted. But since a law
delaying strikes is just as abhorrent to
the labor unions as is a law forbidding
strikes altogether, the house scheme has
no special advantage, from a political
standpoint, over the Cummins plan.
Every where in trade union: circles,
and notably among the railroad men,
the threatened restrictive laws against
them have aroused a deep interest in
political action. They are talking Of a
big Labor party movement, to be or
gained within the next three months
and to step into the national field in
the spring with full ticket in the pri-
mary elections in most Of the states.
The railroaders are confident that they
can reach an understanding with the
progressive organizations Of farmers,
notably the Nonpartisan league, upon
a platform and upon candidates in
agricultural communities. @
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05
Published Every Wednesday.
subscription Rates $500 Per Year
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1919
The Tyranny OF Prohibition.

The fundamental fallacy of prohibi-
ton is that it proposes to make crime
of thing which the conscience OF the
great mass of individI ais refuses to cen
slider as such. 1t violates here the
principle on which, and on which alone,
a criminal code can be based. 1t I
steal another ans money, If | rob
another mans house, if l take another
mans life, | do not need the law to tell
me that it is wrong. My own conscience
tlLs re that. But if | take glass of
beer, my own conscience, in spite of all
the laws of forty-eight states and nine
provinces, refu ses to give single throb.
It is, of course, inevitable that leg
islative code resting on so false basis
cannot last. Prohibition will not last.
Sooner or later there will be a. return
to common sense and common justice.
B t the end will not come for long
tine perhaps. Organized tyranny is
difficult to break Especially is this
true of the United States, where an
amendment to the Constitution, once
accepted, requires for its removal an
intricate and prolonged process OF leg
islation. Without the war, national
pro1i oition would never have been voted
even by the politicians. 1t has swept
through the legislatures on false wave
of agitation masquerading as patriotism.
1t owed much to the fact that Germans
are supposed to like beer, and that such
names as Anhauser-Busch and Schlitz
and Pabst do not sound altogether
British. But as it came, so it will go.
The unexpected will happen again. In
course of time some unforeseen contin-
gency will send a new amendment
ripping through the American legis-
latures, and social life and individla al
liberty will be freed from the incubus
that now lies on them. r.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05
Breach of Foith, Charge.

4 Among the 81 charges made in a
Petition circulation 1'for the Impeach-
ment Of Woodrow Wilson, President Of
the United States we find the follow
ing: co. That by making at the peace
table "a scrap Of paper" Of the -Four
teen Points" wherein the Central Pow
ers were invited to surrender upon the
BATTLEFIELD and by concurring in treaties
so outrageously violative of the letter
and spirit Of the Fourteen Points
and Of the common principles of hui
manity, he has been guilty Of scanda-
lous breach of faith tending to bring
black dishonor upon the fair name Of
America, such provisions as Section 6
Of Annex " of the Treaty requiring
the immediate surrender by the Germans
of one hundred and forty thousand
mich cows), being plainly directed at
the lives of German babies which lives
might more hunanely be taken by a
return to the ancient practice of baby
massacre, that is, if these lives must be
taken, and with Americas help, for the
safety of our Associates in the war and
to make the world safe for democracy;
and we further charge him with a breach
of faith and a violation of the Ameri AN
spirit Of humanity in consenting to the
continuance Of the starvation blockade
during the ar1nistice."
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

Uncle Joe Cannon has had the mis-
fortune Of living long enough to see how
foolish he was when he ranted against
an appropriation of $4,000 for aviation
ten years ago. He got so excited that
he took the cigar out of his mouth and
yecited poetry. 49,. w..
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

The fact that the United Farmers Of
Ontario advocate public ownership Of
aerial transportation shows that the
old opinion about farmers being behind
the times will have to be revised.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

American Legion men who turn down
compulsory military training but indorse
general military training should re-
member that every military bill before
Congress makes no distinction between
the two terms. The politicians bear
watching.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

p + . Z Z ~
Washington was never so much wor-
ried about labor as at the present time.
1t would look as if the Democratic
hold on prominent labor officials had
been snapped, and big impetus Civ
en- to independent labor politics.
The industrial conference was OBJ
.viously rugged to outgeneral labor.
Gompers and many other leaders stuck
to it as long as they could, but they
bolted when it was apparent that the
big interests would not give an inch bit
wanted mile from labor. Conserva-
tive labor leaders realized at last that
the labor tub had nothing to stand en-
but its own bottom
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05
The Cause Of Unrest.

What the large press halls as the
decentralization Of the city workers by
alien propagandists can be easily given
a more reasonable explanation. This
same worker used to be patient, sat
fled person, paying heed to little else
outside of work but the ball game or
the music halls or other form of cheap
entertainment. Reformers appealed to
him in vain to throw off the burden OF
corrupt city government. T he bosses,
he thought, were good fellows and that
was enough. Now all this is changed.
First the war reused the people to
unusual interest in an unusual public
affair. They were willing to sacrifice
for Liberty bonds, war savings stamps,
meatless days and the other things on
the war program. Then gradually came
the realization that most of this sacrifice
was going into the NAV Of the profiteers.
They cried out against profteering,
but the government, like some old
heather god, could not hear them.
Bookkeeper, clerk, boilermaker, tailor
saw what was going on from the inside.
They knew it was wrong and at the
same time they also saw their own pay
becoming less and less as compared with
the cost Of essentials. America thus
produced her own radicals, and the
concrete facts of or shameful profiteer-
ing. gathered not from newspapers or
books but from daily work, drove home
to the drllest witted the iniquity OF the
profteering system.
Now the great interests are urlng
the workers to go back quietly to the
old ways before the war But the
workers ref Sc to accept monopoly
any more and they ref1se to vote with
the old-party politicians who made the
war profteering possible. They de
mand an overthrow Of monopoly. They
can not work with the same old spirit;
realizing as they do now that large
part of the product Of their toll falls
into the laps of parasites. Having
eaten of the bitter fruit Of knowledge
they, like the parents Of the race, can
not be the same again.
We must expect widespread unrest
everywhere until victory by farmer
labor forces ends the system of mono
poly profteering.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

If the allies allow D'Annunzio to stay
in Fiune while longer, he may be
reduced to starvation, which is the
usual fate of poets.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

The fat boys areurging US to save and: t
the same. time they make it easier than
ever for us to get rid of our money.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

ment. If you will reflect and recall
enough and read the Presidents speech
about his love for freedom Of speech.
Honestly and truly, you can't blame some
people for believing and saying that this
country first became permanently IN
safe for democracy under Woodrow
Wilson, "A. D. 1913-1921. But though
we may be losing democracy we still
havoc God! o Montreal! we still
have Burleson! Exchange.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05
A recent news dispatch from Paris

! tg E
says:
After all, the Rheims cathedral
has not suffered from German bonn
bardments and fire so much IS was at
first supposed, Cardinal Lucon has
told representative Of The Paris In
transigeant. The cardinal announced
that divine service would be resumed
in the cathedral from November /.
The cardinal believes that it will not
be hard to restore the cathedral to its
former architectural beauty since the
destruction was not very great.
And for more than two years the
American people have been fed on
propaganda news from London and
Paris that made it appear that hardly
a stone was left. upon the other in this
beautiful edifce.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05
THE LABOR PARTIES.
By Walter Thomas Mills, NJ. D., Author
of"Den,ocracy or 'Despotism,."
iArticle ~

iArticle y
The Occasion For Their Existence.
Note. This is one of series of seven
articles on the Labor parties. The
series covers .3The Occasion for Their
Existence Methods Of Organization, ;"
Campaign Methods" Selection Of
Candidates" Carrying on the Govern
ment," ..'Their Achievements When in
Office" and what of the Future for
Labor Parties The Illustrations will
be taken from many places where organ
izations Of labor have entered the field
OF politics. Editor.
There are two general methods OF
warfare by which the cause Of labor
may be advanced. One is through
resort to refusal to work and by this
method compel the employers of labor
to grant concessions to those who toll.
The other is to appeal to the ballot
box and to use the strength Of the citi-
zenship Of the work ers to advance their
interests through improved legislation
and through the administration OF
public affairs in the interest of those
who toll.
Neither of these methods have been
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

One can't tell these da. whether the
man who doesn't eat meat is vege-.
tartan or hunger striker against tie
neat II st.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05
Favorable Factors.

In favor Of the Soviet governm ent
the following factors are prominent:
The Russian winter.
The immense territory which the
interventionists must oyerrun and hold
by force of arms.
Financial exhaustion Of all powers
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

Do not forget the Genuine GERMAN
war pictures made in Germany BY the
GERMANS, Nov. 26, one day only.
Wednesday.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

With Denikine being kicked in the
rear from the Caucasus, and with Petro-
grad refusing to fall, it looks. as if those
pot shots the British navy takes at
towns and people along the coast were
little better than useless murder Of
women and children.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-05

trying to overthrow Soviets with the
exception Of Japan and America.
Vast system Of river and canal trans
portation which offsets reported wearing
out of railroads. Il.
Two years Of authority and intense
education Of people in Soviet thinking.
Belief Of peasants that they can
keep land taken from the great lan6-
To- DIS only by maintaining the Soviet
government.
Growing hostility Of all peoples Of the
world to continued war.
The Snowflake herald., 1919-01-03
TOCCERY SHOP
IN HOLBROOK
BURNS DOWN

Holbrook.s Jan. 2.-The brick
building of w. B. Woods be-
tween the Holbrook State Bank
and the Pastime theater burned
to the ground last night. The
building was the home of L.
Caldwell Company, The Mems
Toggery Shop; the telephone ex-
change, the Postal telegraph
company and the Government
Signal Service telegraph office.
Everything in the building was
destroyed and it is a total loss.
For a time it looked as if the
fire would spread on both sides
and the contents of the houses
near by were hurriedly moved
out. The entire stock of the
Holbrook Mercantile company on
the east side was moved into the
street.
The fire was discovered in the
basement of the Woods building
about IL o'clock which had
started from the furnace but be-
fore help could be summoned it
spread beyond control. The hose
cart was brought out but it was
found that the water system was
frozen aud nothing could be
done.
The total loss was near $780,
900, about 40 per cent of the
amount being covered by in
Surance,
The Snowflake herald., 1919-01-03
Over Is Billion Dollars Paid Out
By U. S. for War During the
Past Year Alone

According to computations of
treasury reports on Dec, 81, last,
it cost the American people about
$18. 100, 100000 to run its war
government and make loans to
allies in the year ending on the
above mentioned, date.
December expenditures, above
two billion dollars, the record of
the nations history, sent aggre-
gate war costs to date to approx
mately $24, 500, 600 600.
Of the $18. 160; 1000, 900 paid out
of the treasury's Golfers in 1918,
ten billion dollars went
for the army and the general
military establishment, about two
billion for the navy, a billion for
the shipbuilding program, a bill
lion for other civil government
The Snowflake herald., 1919-01-03

needs and 81, $50, 600, 900 as loans
to Americas, brothers in arms.
That the public has paid only
about one-third of the wars ex-
penses.s excluding foreign loans,
in taxes in cash, and two-thirds
as loans to be repaid in another
generation, is indicated by treas
ury figures from various sources.
During the year Sc, O38, 600, 900
has come into the treasury from
the Fourth Liberty Loan and
$4, III, ,06O. 600 from the Third
Liberty Loan. In addition $13,-
802, 600, 900 worth of certificates
of Indebtedness have been sold
and subsequently largely redeem
ed from Liberty Loan receipts.
War Saving Stamps and certifi-
Gates have brought $943, 600, 600
into the treasury.
The Snowflake herald., 1919-01-03
Weather Man Seems
to Have No Mercy

Thursday morning was by far
the coldest so far experienced in
Snowflake this winter. Many
acknowledged that it was con-
siderably below zero, possibly 10,
but none would believe it when
told it was over twice that-24
below-as registered by the gov
ernment thermometer at this
place. 1t is said by some of the
old timers to have been the cold
est ever known here, while 9TH
ers say one winter about twenty
years ago the thermometer went
down to "a.
Other places in this section
did not escape the cold spell. At
Heber it was %, at Pinedale IL,
while reports from Holbrook say
it was 21 below. Anyway. the
people of Snowflake realized
that it was unusually cold and
those who happened to be short
on fuel hitched up their teams
to wagons and made fast tracks
for the nearest cedar forest.
The Snowflake herald., 1919-01-03

teacher or two will be employed
as soon as the school moves into
it's new quarters.
Mighty good time now to lay
in a supply of ice.
H. +. and Fred Bushman visit
ed st. Joseph and Holbrook Sat
urday and Sunday, arriving home
Monday.
Riley Gardner and family of
Lakeside have been spending the
week inSnowflake with relatives
and friends.
Miss Myrtle Tanner, formerly
a student of the S. S. A., is here
from St. Joseph visiting relatives
and old friends.
Work was resumed on Marion
Rogers residence Wednesday,
after a lay-off by the laborers of
a couple of weeks on account of
not being able to get working
material.
Postmaster Murray suffered a
fall Tuesday morning while con-
veying wood from his fuel pile
into the house. He alighted good
and soundly on his back which
almost put him out of commission
however not incapacitating him
from his office duties