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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1894)
MWyrutS"1 m vfijzsmm t" ' ELX4J,& Jal 3Sg i-'-; "vr--v ? rv - COURIER i 10 THE $. hi i lor 1 - 3 KXTKKKD AT THE LINCOLN rOSTOFFICE AS bECOXD-CLASS MATTEU. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY I1Y THE COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY. OFFIOE 142 N. IITH 8TBEET. TELEPHONE 350. W. MORTON SMITH, Editor. babucrlptlon ltates In Advance. Per annum $200 Thrco months Six months 10U Ouo month Singlo copies Firo cents. ttta. .20c. For sale at all nows stands in this city and Omnlia and on all trains. A limited norabor of advertisements will be inserted. Kates mudo known on ipplication. Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, June 30, 1804. The new board of education will hold its first meeting Monday night, when, it is to bo hoped, the uncertainty that at present sur rounds school matters in this city will be dispelled. Just now teachers employed in the public schools do not know whether they are to be retained or not, and they are equally in doubt as to what the salaries for tho coming year will be. That there will be a rcduc tion in salaries is certain, as tho financial condition of the district is such that a cutting down of cxpenso is absolutely necessary, and teachers who regard this matter in tho proper light will not object to this action on tho part of the board. It is probable that salaries of 160 and less will not be affected. The school board will also, we understand, arrange matters so that tho principals will teach, as was formerly the case, and, under- te circumstances, there can be no serious objection to this. The' newly elected members of the board of education, Messrs. Ludden, Stire and Hackney, have the confidence of the people, and there seems to bo a reasonable basis for the hope that the board, after tho re-organization Monday night, will come nearer meeting the views of the people than heretofore. There is a good deal of room for improvement, Ik the face of a general opinion to the contrary The Courier ven tures the prediction that Mr. Bryan and his friends will be in tho minority at the coming democratic Blate convention. The populist clamor at the silver conference in Omaha was one thing and the sen timent of the democratic party in this state is another, and entirely different thing. Mr. Bryan by openly insulting what might bo call ed straight democracy undoubtedly strengthened himself with the populists; but he opened wide the breach between himself and the party that has twice honored him with a seat in congress, and this breach is steadily growing wider. Mr. Bryan's statement that the popalists in the last two years, have taught the people more genuine reform than the democratic psrty has in the last thirty years can hardly be expected to Increase the congressmansopuIariry among the democrats. It ihe administration wing is successful in the state convention, as now seems probable, Mr, Bryan will be forced into the populist perty, -where ho properly belongs, and where he 'Will Sad fit associates; There will )$ u straight democratic ticket in ike feld thk fill in any invent, and the populist party must be ought by the congressm&h. And when Mr. Bryan is finally and definitely fixed hT the populist ranks tho logical "result of his pecu liar course of thIast three years will have been reached. He has 'been steadily moving in this direction Binco his firpkyear in congress That Mr. Bryan's "career as a populist will be much loss brilliant i his spectacular aspenence as a democrat admits of little doubt. These is some question jas toHss&ifiis" of the republican party oa silver. Prior to the cecSi-ivacei-cl the league of republican dubs in this city an attempt wacjaaotilo work up a sentiment in favor of the free coinage of silver, Uutjtho convention did nothing to indicate that tho sentiment of the republican party in this state is in favor of a policy of retrogression from its accustomed sound financial losition. There are members of tho party, it is true, who have been more or less affected by the commotion that is in progress in the democratic and populist camps, and who aro in favor of letting down tho bars to popular prejudice on the money question, thinking that thereby tho party may gain in strength; but in all its history, from the day of its inception down to the prenent day, the republican party has never gained one single point by surrendering its honest convictions and has never carried an election or passed into power by the abrogation of a fixed principle. It has never won victory on a platform of demagoguism. Steadfastness has always been a char acteristic of the republican party. Principles have been carefully worked out and tho thought and endeavor of the party have been given unremittingly to the development of these principles. The republican position on the tariff and the financial questions is the result of the best thought of the ablest statesmen and financiers this country has seen. It is a position of patriotism and common sense, and nothing has occurred in recent years to change the position of tho party on either of these questions, or to furnish any reason to doubt the wisdom of the party's course. J. Sterling Morton, a democrat who enjoys a general respect, irrespective of political parties, contributed to the June number of tho Forum an article entitled, "Farmers, Fallacies and Furrows," tho tenor of which is to the effect that farming has degenerated, that farmers are at present in a condition of suffering and distress. Mr. Morton is a man of wide intelligence and common sense, and he is generally given the credit of being honest in his views. His position in the Forum article is, therefore, somewhat surprising. It isn't farming that has degenerated, so muchasit is that the farmers have degenerated. There are shiftless, improvident men in all classes of in dustry. There are men who have failed miserably in the grocery business. There are men who have failed miserably in the dry goods business, and in the drug business and in the iron business. But it can hardly be said that the grocery business and the dry goods business and the drug business and the iron business have degenerated and become demoralized, and that a man can no longer make a decent living in these lines of trade. Investigation will dis close the fact, notwithstanding the statements of the secretary of agriculture, that there is today no business so safe and stable, no business that can so readily obtain credit, no business in which in dependence can be so quickly reached as that of farming. Men who go into agriculture and apply their time and talent to the business succeed almost invariably, and they succeed well. As in all other occupations tho farmer has his troubles. Prices fluctuate and rain doesn't always come with clock work regularity; but his sufferings can hardly be said to be unusual. Indeed, many of the troubles and annoyances that afflict nearly every other business man are un known to the farmer. The farmers of Nebraska as a whole are a standing refutation of what Mr. Morton has said, and of what has been heard so often in the last few years. TOO DEEP. 'My hands are awfully cold," said the pretty girl, suggestively, as they drove home from the dance. "Why didn't you bring a muff with you?" "I did," she snapped, but she wouldn't explain where the muff had gone to and he has been wondering ever since just what she meant. A NATURAL QUESTION. Clara Mr. Castleton tried to put his arm around. my waist -last night. Maude Couldn't he get it around? A COMMON ERROR OF SPEECH. SheI've been enjoying very poor health lately. HeAh! Your faculty for enjoyment must developed. be very well v : & 1 - 'C ' -a - l-. - -A T-. & A&-fsS5-ft$E.4l-Sg. . '"?; ,- w -:&&;