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THE INFLUENCE OF A LIFE.
Among the lives thnt touched with niino ,
Was ono somewhat apart
And quiet , with a fair combine
Of grace that won the heart.
And she who thus lived year by year
No'ur dreamed that o'er her way
So mcolc , a brightness would appear ,
To Hhine beyond her day.
She simply strove as duties came
To meet them ono by ono ,
And looked not for reward or fame
For aught that she had done.
For those who wept she had a tear ,
She soothed the sufferer's pain ,
And gave quick words of helpful cheer
To those whoso hopes seemed vain.
And , young at heart , she loved in truth
The sparkling joy of mirth ,
And glee of gay and sunny youth.
The saddest souls on earth ;
The souls whoso weakness and whoso sin
Had marred the best of life ,
No judgment cold , but grief they'd win ,
The fallen in the strife.
Close to her side the children came
And looked up in her face ,
Content with simple faith to claim
A welcome resting place.
A Christlike love the smile would tell
Which little ones received ,
God's kingdom in their hearts might dwell
And such should not bo grieved.
Long since this sweet soul joined the
throng
Of spirits , saved and pure ,
But left a life's ne'er-ending song
Of patience to endure.
"Dust unto dust , " and yet she lives ,
This ono who self forgot
And offered all that best love gives
Whato'er may bo its lot.
So deep is greed , so low are aims ,
So many sacrifice
Their higher nature to the claims
Of evils , Avhich they prize ,
That bravo hearts fail and faith grows
weak
And striving souls make moan
That , when a nobler way they seek ,
Their feet must tread alone.
But oft when dark temptation lends
Its sweep to earthly tide ,
Midst troubled thoughts , like angel friends
Sweet memories abide
To guide us upward where she stood ,
To show our spirits faint
This ono , who over sought the good
And shrank from evil's taint.
Ah , friends ! sometimes the conflict's din
Makes struggle seem in vain ,
And yet there's victory to win-
And Heaven has made it plain
That each soul has on earth its part ,
The end we may not see ,
The impress of a steadfaXt heart
Lives through eternity. V ?
MAUY FnENOii MOHTON.
The fashion of
CORPORATIONS the fusiouists
IN NEBRASKA.
which proved mosi
inexorable among their legislators waste
to fight corporate capital in all of its
manifold forms.
The legislation against railroads , in
surance companies , banks , telephone and
telegraph and sleeping car companies
stock yards and packing houses which
has been proposed in Nebraska during
the last ten years would make a volume
bigger than Blackstone's Commentaries
And it is an established fact that a large
> or coat of the proposed inimical law-
nakiiig origiuated with political pirntes
vho sought blood-monoy from the in
corporated capital which they assailed.
And there is printed and other record
evidence to prove that some incorpora
tions have been unwise enough , through
"oil room attorneys , " to surrender like
cowards , their purses to the pillage of
the freebooters of the Lincoln lobby.
incorporated capital which makes das
tardly concessions to and pays money to
egislativo looters generally suffers much
more morally and pecuniarily than
t could possibly be made to suffer
by any provision of any statute.
The incorporations which submit to
the pillage of politicians are largely to
) lame for the continued existence of
Sundering law-givers.
Incorporations ought to keep away
from the legislature. If unjust laws ,
taring unequally upon railroads and
unfairly upon all incorporated capital
are placed upon the statute books the
best way to beat them is to rigidly ob
serve them until the courts shall have
) assed upon their constitutionality and
validity.
Every time capital whether incorpor
ated or not concedes the power and the
right of legislatures to "hold it up , " by
myiug money to be let off , capital en
courages the ancient industry of corrup
tion and bribery in law-making.
Corporations should have no agents at
Lincoln either to secure or to prevent
enactments. Corporations should take
; heir chances with other taxpayers and
abide and obey oil laws however bur
densome until courts determine them in
valid. This course is the" honest course.
It is the best in every respect and will ,
at last , pump out the manufactured pre
judice against incorporations which job
bers in offices , plunderers in politics and
populists have industriously poured into
the public mind.
The blatter of
populistic speak
ers and newspapers as to what Senator
Allen has accomplished for the state
during his six years of service in the
United States senate has stimulated the
wickedly analytical citizen to ask
questions.
What law , on the statute books of the
United States , of value , or valuelessness
originated with Senator Allen or became
law because of any argument , act or
vote of his ?
What particular characteristic of Sen
ator Allen , aside from his physical en
durance while he spoke fourteen sue
cessivo hours in behalf of impairing
American credit , and lowering the stan
dard of American wages , demonstrates
his knowledge of the needs , rights and
privileges of citizenship in this country
How did Senator Allen by any act
speech or vote , during his six years in
cumbenoy , confer any benefit or enlight
enment upon either agriculture , maim
'acturo ' , commerce or banking and
urreucy ?
Since blattorers are so plentiful and vo-
lomeut in the ranks of Allen's disciples
perhaps one may bo found who will sus-
) end blatter long enough to tell some
one thing which Senator Allen has ac
complished for the common good ?
The same conundrums may bo made
o apply to Billgreeuo , and other more
or less prominent members of the propa
ganda of populism in Nebraska ?
What bit of earth in this stnto has
been improved by their residence hero ?
Show some material development
either in agriculture or manufacture
which has been accelerated , originated
or conceived by a free silver at 16 to 1
eader , high or low , anywhere in Ne
braska !
Name some great corporate interest in
the state , either railroad , banking , tele
graph , telephone , stock yards , packing
louse or elevator , that populism and its
chiefs have not raided and assaulted
either for blackmail , boodle or political
prominence ?
We have had blatter enough. Give
; he public some facts about your states
men. Have they done anything , at all
worth mentioning , to improve the com
monwealth socially , industrially or fi
nancially ? When these plain and prac-
; ical questions shall have been answered
more may be asked.
The republican
I/ET US BE JUST.
party in Nebraska
created offices-without-number , by con
stituting boards of commissioners to in
spect railroads , coal oil and other things
in general use.
The taxpayers , after a few years ,
were exhorted by fusion reform orators
to put a populist legislature in the state
house at Lincoln , and it was promised
that the aforesaid law-making body
should be made of statute spawners of
such economy and patriotism that every
unnecessary office would be abolished
before the first session of the first popu
list assemblage was half expired.
That populist promise was never re
deemed. On the contrary there were al
ways from a dozen to a hundred of unnec
essary populists applying for each un
necessary salaried office. Therefore not
a single one of the republican-made sine
cures was erased , and the unredeemed
pledges of populism , were condemned
and spit upon by the people at the last
election of legislators !
Will the republicans now repeal the
partisan , tax-creating laws which they
themselves enacted ?
Will the republicans abolish the ex
pensive , silly and extravagant board of
railway commissioners and their secre
tary ?
Will the republicans leave not a grease
spot of oil inspection and inspectors , or
will they save those places for retainers
and heelers ?