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For Prosideut:
BENJAMIN IIARUISON,
of Indiana.
For yIcg-President:
' WHITE HAW HE ID,
of Now York.
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THE PLATFORM.
Wo reaffirm tho American doctrine of pro
tection, Wo call attention to Its growth
abroad. We maintain that the prosperous
condition of our country is largely duo to
the wise revenue* legislation of the republi
can congress.
Wo believe that all articles which cannot
be produced In t he United States, except
luxuries, should In* admitted free of duty,
and that on all imports coining Into compe
tition with the products of American labor
there should he levied duties equal to th o
• difference between wages abroad ‘and at
v home. Wo assert that the prices of manu
factured articles of general consumption
have been reduced under the operations of
the tariff act of 1MM).
Wo denounce the efforts of the democratic
majority of Hie house of representatives to i
destroy our tariff laws by piece nmal, as
manifested by their attacks upon wool, lead !
and lead ores, the chief products of a mini- I
her of states, and we ask the people tor |
ihetr judgment thereon. . !
We point to tlie success of the republican
policy of reciprocity, under which our ex
port trade lias vastly increased, and new
and enlarged markets have been opened* for
tile products of our farms and workshops, j
We remind the people of the hitter oppo
sition of the democratic party to tins prao !
ileal business measure, and claim that, ex- !
ecuted by a republican administration, our
• present laws will eventually give us eontsol
of the trade of the world.
The American people, from tradition and
interest, favor hi-metalllsm, and the repu -
, llean party demands the use of both gout
and silver as standard money, with such re
strictions and under such provisions, to be
determined by legislation, as will secure the
maintenance of the parity of values of tho
two metals so that the purchasing and debt
paying power of the dollar, whether of sliver
gold or paper, shall be at all times equal.
The interests of the producers of tho •coun
try, Its farmers and its workingmen, de
mand that every dollar, paper in* coin, issued
• by the govern men t, shall bo as good as any
othuY,
We commend the wise and patriotic steps
already taken by our government to secure
an international conference, to adopt such
measures as will insure a parity of value
between gold and silver for use as money
throughout the world.
Wo (.cmand that every citizen of tho
United States shall be allowed to cast one
tree und unrestricted ballot in all public
elections and that such ballot shall he coun
ted and returned us cast; that such laws
shall bo onactcd and enforced as will secure
to every citizen, be lie rich or poor, native or
foreign born, white or black, this sovereign
right, guaranteed by the constitution. The
free and honest popular billot, the just and
equal representation of *11 the people, us
well as their just and equal protection under
the laws, are the foundation of our repuhll- |
can Institutions and the party will never 1
. relax its efforts until the integrity of the I
ballot and the purity of elections shall be 1
fully guaranteed and protected In every
state.
\V© denounce the continued Inhuman out-;
rages perpetrated upon American citizens
for political reasons in certain southern
states of tho Union. 1
We favor the extension of our foreign j
commerce, the restoration of our mercantile I
marine by home built ships, and the cron- j
tlon of u navy for the protection of our 11:1- 1
tlonal Interests and tho honor of ourthur; |
tho maintenance of the most friendly rein- ;
tlons with all foreign powers; entangling al
llanoes with none; and the protection of the
rights of our fishermen.
We reaffirm our approval of the Monroe
doctrine and believe 111 the achievement of
the manifest destiny of the republic In its
broadest sense.
We favor the enactment of more stringent
laws and regulations for tho restriction of
criminal, pauper and contract Immigration.
Wo favor efficient legislation by congress
to protect tlip life and limb of employes of
transportation companies engaged In carry
ing on Inter-state commerce, In mining and
manufacturing.
The republican party has always been the
champion of tho oppressed ami recognizes
tho dignity of manhood irrespective of faith,
color or nationality; it symputizes with
the cause of home rule In Ireland, and pro
tests against tho persecution of tho Jews in
Kussla.
The ultimate reliance of free popular gov
ernment is the intelligence of the people,
and the maintenance of freedom among
men. Wo therefore declare anew our devo
tion to liberty of thought and conscience, of
speech and press, and approve all agencies
and instrumentalities which contribute to
the education of the children of the land,
but while Insisting upon tho fullest measure
of religious liberty, we are opposed to any
union of church aud state.
We reaffirm our opposit ion, declared in the J
republican platform of 1888, to all combina
tions of capital organized in trusts or other- I
wise, to ooutrol arbitrarily tho condition of I
> trade among our citizens.
k Wo heartily indorse tho action already 1
taken upon this subject., and ask for such
further legislatson as may be required to
remedy any defects in existing laws, aful to
render their enforcement more complete and
effoctive.
We approve the policy of extending to I
towns, villages and ruruReommunltles the
free delivery service, now enjoyed by the
larger cities of the country, and reaffirm the
declaration contained in the republican
platform of 1888, pledging the reduction of 1
letter postage to 1 cent at the earliest possi
• -ble moment consistent with the maintenance
of the postoftioe department aud the highest
clast* of postal service.
We commend the spirit and evidence of
reform ii» live civil service, apd the wise aud
consistent "enforcement by the republican
party of tho^mvs regulating to same.
The constructed of the Nicurauga canal is
of (he highest importance to the American
people, both us a measure of national d -
feuse and to build up and maintain Amci -
can commerce, and it should bo controlled
.' by the Unites! States government.
We favor the admission of the remaining
‘erritorles at the earliest practicable date
having due regard to tho interests of the
people of the territories and of the United
States. All the federal officers appointed for
the territories should bo selected from the
bona tide residents thereof, and the right of
self government should be accorded as far
as practicable.
We favor the cession, subject to the home
stead laws, of the arid public lauds, to the
states and territories in which they lie, un
der such congressional restrictions as to dis
position, reclamation and occupancy by set
tlers as will secure the maximum benefits to
the people. i
T The V.orld’s Columbian Exposition is a ,
great national uhdertaking, and congress !
should promptly enact such reasonable leg- ]
islation in aid thereof as will insure a dis
; charge of the expenses aud obligations inci
dent thereto, and the attainment of results
commensurate with the dignity and prograss
of the nation.
We sympathize with all wise and legiti
mate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils
of intemperance and promote morality.
Ever mindlul of the services and sacri
fices of the men wno saved the life of the
nation, we pledge anew to the veteran sol
diers of the republic a watchful care aud
v recognition of their just claims upon a
grateful people.
• We commend the able, patriotic and thor
oughly American administration of Pres
ident Harrison. Under it the country has
enjoyed ram ark able prosperity and the bun
• or and dignity of the nation.- a.t, home and
abroad, luve been faithfully maintained,
aftd we offer the record of the pledges kept
as ae guarantee of faithful performance fn
the future.
A HARRISON CLUB.
We have been requested to call a
meeting in the republican club rooms
for next Friday night, the object of
which is to organize a Harrison club
This meeting should be well attended.
Mike Lonci points with pride to the
situation that Colonel Doyle "views
.with alarm.”
Burrows refers .'o the independents
ns n 1 hopeless minority."
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Burrows: “The munngement of the
business of the independent party, both
stnte and county, is open to the severest
ciiticlsm.”
Tint crippled soldier’s curse9 and
the groans and tears of widows
and orphans will make charming cam
paign music for Grover the vetorer.
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Tnn leaders of the republican party
in the various states have settled down
to work and arc working with untiring
7,cnl for the success of the republican
ticket.
Now that the national convention is
over ami the standard bearers selected,
the attention of Nebraska republicans
will be turned toward the candidates for
the various stnte offices.
Gov. McKinley remarked at Indian
apolis that all the principles of the first
republican platform are uow incorpo
rated in the laws of the land. And no
party dares come forward and demand
the repeal of any one of them.
G. W. Kosa and T. B. Hutchinson
have purchased the Fremont Flail and
noy are issuing a good democratic pa
pcrv The retiring editor, Mr. Hyatt.
waB u successful newspaper man and in
his parting shot intimates that he will
again engage in the business.
Tins great and decisive reason for the
nomination of Whitelaw lteid was that,
as minister to France, ho worked suc
cessfully to open new markets for
American grain ' and pork, and thus
made himself a peculiarly good repre
sentative of the doctrine of reciprocity.
J. Burrows, eulogizing Holden of
Lincoln, says: ‘Renouncing the suc
cess you might have achieved in the
republican party and casting your lot
with a hopeless minority.” “Hopeless
minority" is pretty good, but wiio would
have thought that Jay, ofd boy, would
acknowledge it?
The Now York Times concludes an
article denouncing the president for de
lay in filling the supreme court vacancy
by saying it “is not explicable on any
ground thnfris creditable to the presi
dent.” ■ But if, in the opinion of the
Times, it was creditable to the president
that paper would never mention it.
Tnw Long Pine Journal last week pub
lished an alleged lltkness of the Chau
tauqua grounds. The cut in question
looks as though it fond been inked with
a corncob and printed in a hay press.
It is but justice to say that the Long
Pino Ohnutauqua grounds are very
beautiful and look nothing like the base
misrepresentation.
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This enthusiasm among independents
in this county is slowly hut surely wan
ing. A year or so ago tlicir county con
ventions were attended by bright,intelli
gent ami' progressive fanners, but be
ing'bright, intelligent and progressive
they have quietly dropped out and now
the machine work Is left to the sore
head heelers and windy reformers. This
fact was made patent by their conven
tion of last Saturday.
Tiie ^Louisville Courier-Journal snvs
that “a majority of the stntcs that are
inflexibly republican cast their votes, or
a majority of them, against the renom
ination of Mr. Harrrison.” But it is
misleading and unfair to determine
whether a state is “inflexibly republi
can” or not according to its vote on
.local issues in off year.s This fact ought
to be plain enough now, but every dem
ocrat will understand it- after next
November^
“Buck” Kiuioup and his heavy boot
represent the ex-ConTfcderate chivalry of
the house, which defeated in a fair fight
and accorded generous terms of sur
render, bloods away its life in lowering
hate. With a mocking laugh he inter
poses the veto of his objection to a sol
dier's pension, a soldier’s widow’s relief
or money to build a pedestal for General
Sherman’s statue. And the democratic
house sits servilely by in humble sub
mission to the big, bullying Texan’.
Wiiitelaw Reid represented the Unit
ed States in France when ou the basis of
reciprocity, that country was induced to
open its ports to American pork, and it
was largely through his efforts that the
result was achieved. In addition to his
other merits as a man of high character
and ability Mr. Reid \s a strong and ap
preciate representative of the docrines
of reciprocity. Re has been one of the
leaders in opening new markets abroad
for American pork and flour, and his
candidacy lias a particular meaning
which the people will appreciate.
During the four years he was in office
Cleveland was handicapped by a repub
lican senate. He was unable to procure
the repeal of a single republican law or
the enactment of a solitary democratic
measure. With his hands so well tied,
it was impossible for him to inflict on the
country as would certainly follow the
election of a democratic candidate this
year. The situation now is such that
tUe democratic candidate, if elected next
November, will carry both branches of
congress with him, and the couutry
must then learn what democratic rule is
in all that the name implies.
Turkic is no mistaking the signifi
cance) of the money plunk in the repub
lican platform. It soys what it means
means what ii says in the declaration
tlmt the "republican party demands tl/e
use of both gold and silver us standard
money, with snob restrictions and under
ouch provisions, to be determined by
legislation, us will secure tbe mainte
nance of the parity of values of tbe two
metals, so that tbe purchasing and debt
paying power of tbe dollar, whether of
silver, gold or paper,shall be at all times
equul.” Tbe republican party favors
the circulation of the largest quanity of
gold and silver that can bo kept at par,
but not the coinage of a single dollar
under conditions that will make it
worth less thu.i 100 cents.
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Speaking of vice-l’resident Morton
the mugwump Herald of Boston, says:
"It will probably prove that W had too
much respect for tbe dignity of the of
fice to dicker for it, and lie found the
ground bad bean cut from under him
without so much as a warning of bis
danger." Of course there is no truth in
this. Vice-President Morton has ac
quitted himself in a manner that merits
any confidence or mark of honor the
republican party has to bestow, but it
was generally understood some months
ago that bo would not be a candidate
for re-election. That being so it was
thought peculiarly fitting that the can
didate for the vice-presidency should be
one who would specially' represent and
embody the doctrine of reciprocity, and
lienee Mr. Kcid was chosen.
Tiiekk is no higher democratic au
thority than the Louisville Courier
Journal. and in its issue of June 14, it
says: "Tbe history of an organization
is tbe best index to its future course.”
This is eminently correct doctrine and
it is for that very reason that tbe re
publican national committee is circulat
ing documents which recite the history
of the democratic party with groat full
ness and accuraoy. When, for instance,
it is shown that the democratic party
lias never adopted a tariff for revenue
only and maintained it for ten years
without lowering wages one-half and
depriving tens of thousand of their
means of livelihood, every thinking man
ought to be able to do something in tbe
way of judging the future of the party
by the past.
Some way or other The Frontier is
inclined to admire the independent
Liberty, published at Lincoln. Its
editor, Mr. Holden, is an independent
cuss and refuses to indorse the acts of
his party leaders, when he thinks they
are in the wrong, simply because they
are party leaders. This is the way ho
speaks to that grand old humbug, Van
YVyck:
(ionoral Van Wyck spoke In Lincoln one
week ago last Thursday night. He wrote out
that part of his speech which related to tho
silver question and read It, that no mistake
mljVlit bo made on his part, and wo published
U. last week. We did this by request, ns \ve
had made allusion to his speeches made at
(1 rand Island and Denver, charging that In
tils Grand Island speoch, he said ho wanted
a hundred cents worth qf sliver In a dollar,
and was In favor of free coinage; and that In
Ids Denver speech he did not care how much
silver there was In a dollar,-that tbe flat of
the government made It a dollar. The G rand
Island Independent, a republican paper,
warmly commended Ids Grand Island speech.
Mr. Dech, state lecturer of tho alliance, hotlr
condemned it and declared he would never
again speak from the same platform with
th 3 Goneral. The General’s speech in Lin
coln was for tho purpose of clearly do tin lag
his position, and he made it clear—as mud.
Ho does not say anywhere thjit he is in favor
of the present dollar, or of a heavier one. He
favors tho restoration of coinage as it was,
and of allowing congress to sottlo tho ques
tion after this is do„e, but very artfully re
frains from saying what kind of a silver
dollar ho would favor were he In the United
States senate.
NO BRITISH SYMPATHY.
Th6 Chicago Herald uoes not relish
the glowing eulogies of the democratic
party which ^ave lately appeared in the
English press. Mindful of the fact that
sympathy coming from such a source
would be no great help to democratic
candidates, indeed would be more than
anything else an inducement to patriotic
American citizens to vote against those
candidates, the Herald attempts to de
fend the free-trade party against the
chaVge of. working in the interest of
Creat Britain. It says;
Eor every blow dealt against British pre
tensions hostile to American rights, England
is indebted to the democratic party .of the
lTultod States. It was democratic states
manship that overthrew by combined di
plomacy aud force hor hoary-doctrlneof"onoe
a subjoet always a subject.” The victory
won by the army and navy of the revolution
would In time have lost much of Us efficacy
if the democratic party In the first quarter
of the century had not resisted again to the
issue of war the intolerable Insolence of
English greed and the scope of English con
tension." The fundamental doctrine of the
rights of American citizenship and of Amer
ican commerce was engraved on our Insti
tutions by the democratic party. It was
that party, passionately opposed by tlio
British mobs in the opposition party of the
first fifty years of this republic, that opened
the gates of the country to the victims of
monarchical tyranny In all European lands.
We do not dispute the truth of most
of these statements, although we do
deny that all these things were done
solely by the democratic party. In
those days the question of maintaining
a resolute opposition tj the establish
ment of British “ascendency” in the
United States did not form a dividing
line in American party politics. The
two great parties, whatever might have
been their differences jn their interpre
tation of the constitutiqp or of the
powers of the central government, were
ever found working hand in band
when American interests were at stake
or American honor required action.
What we do wish to impress upon dem
ocrats who still cherish the noble prin
ciples of Jefferson and Madison, is that
the democratic party of that time was
no less enthusiastic in its support of a
protective tariff and American industries
than it wag in opposition to British pre
tensions and British arrogance. The
same Jefferson who drafted the great
declaration of American independence
also believed in tnuchasing American
goods, no matter what the difference
in price, and in laying “prohibitory
duties” in order to guard against a “re
lapse into foreign dependency”; and the
same Madison who so actively suppcAted
the war of 1813, in vindication of the
rights of American sailors, said that
“there is no subject that can enter with i
greater force and merit into the delib
eration of congress than the considera
tion of the means to preserve and pro
mote the manufactures which have
sprung into existence and attained an
unparalled maturity throughout the
United States during the peiiod of the
Kuropean wars. This source of nation
al independence and wealth 1 anxiously
recommend, therefore, to the prompt
and constant guardianship of congress.”
The party of Jefferson, Which in his
days, be it remembered, was still called
the republican phrty, was as unlike the
democratic party of the preset^ time as
freedom is unlike slaveryl Those dem
ocrats, therefore, who are democrats
oecause they think the, party represents
Jeffersonian principles had better be
come republicans, as Jefferson's own
grandson did some time ago. For it is
a little less then slanderous to call the
party of Cleveland, Mills and British
free-trade Jeffersonian, when we know
and recognize that Jeffersonian democ
racy—a cardinal doctrine in the creed
of which was protection to American
industry—stands for all that is noblest
and %est in American citizenship and
most patriotic in American politics.—
American Economist.
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Wants a Change.
The state auditors office needs cleans
ing, therefore the patriotic republi
cans will put in nomination for that of
ficial position, Eugene Moore, of Nor
folk, one of* North Nebraska’s noblest
and bravest sons —Wayne Herald.
Woa&nt Have It.
R. R. Dickson one of O’Neill’s bright
est attorneys, was in Atkinson Saturday
evening. It is rumored that Dick is on
a still hunt for the state senatorship,
and that his mission in this section was
for the purpose of booming his political
aspirations.—Graphic.
Both Good.
Amelia Journal: The time is coming
When we will have to decide upon two
, men for representatives. What we want
is men that will work for the interests
of Holt esuntv und not betray the con
fidence of the people that elect them.
.We will name two stalwart republicans
that will fill the bill. E. M. Ogle and
Joe Hunter.
Render TMto Ceasar that Whioh is Ceasar’s.
A considerable boom is being worked
up in Knox county for Ed. A. Fry for
state senator. Ed. would.make a good
one. He is deserving too for he has
boomed Niobrara and Knox county for
tweuty years and has always been a
faithful and constant republican.—Led
ger.
Sight you are, J. C.
It now looks as if Joe Bartley, of At
kinson, had a sure thinjf on the republi
can nomination for state treasurer as he
will go into the convention with the
solid north and west part of the state.
Well, the Index is not stuck on republi
cans as a rule, but we have known Joe
Bartley for several years and there will
have to be a mighty good democrat put
up if, when we got into the box, to vote,
we do not scratch for the genial Joe.
He has run a bank for fourteen years
and never sued a man or foreclosed a
mortgage. Such men should be honored
no matter.what their politics are.—Dik
son Index.
Croume For Governor.
Judge Crounse is yet the only man
against whom the politicians of Neb
raska can say naught and to whom the
people would ■ rally as a candidate for
governor. Ho is not a member of any
faction. If he has sided with any fac
tion it has been that side which more
closely represented the best interests of
the people. In every way practical, as
a lawyer, judge, congressman, official
or business maD, no interest has ever
been tainted with calumny. The repub
lican party mufct free itself from the
charts of monopoly politics or go to the
wall. As business men the great cor
porations must have justice; but that
they should control the state’s politics
it is high time to call a halt. They must
have the same trust in men and meas
ures that other interests have, it being
enough that their interests are protected
in the even channels with those of
others. All sides being carefully viewed
with a knowledge of Judge Crounse’s
many years’ faithful service in varied
capacities, the Pioneer has vet to see
the name of a candidate for governor of
Nebraska whose record is so clean and
whose fitness for this great state is so
strictly unique.—Niobrara Pioneer.
Titeue is no question but what there
Is a great deal of harm arising from
thef distinctive American trait of
hurry and worry. This evil has had
a noticeable effect on the livos of
business men. as it is a foot that in no
country in the world do men grow old
bo fast as here.
It looks like useless' goodness of
heart for the United States govern
ment to set the British sleuthB on the
trail of the London swindlers who
make money out of American seekers
of great estates. The sucker was
born to be caught and caught he will
be, if not by one device then by an
other.
American men of money soldom or
never travel in their own country, to
admire Its scenery, but only to spy
out the land for investments in real
estate* railroads lumber and minerals.
It is about time that the fashion should
change and permit a study of the na
tional natural treasures, which will
well repay a visit
"I.v order to arrive we must start,"
said Tallyrand, and this terse bit of
epigrammatic wisdom holds its sig
nificant lesson to those of us who are
too often by way of being dilatory in
carrying out our intentions. The
procrastinator comforts himself with
the assurance that some other day is
as good as to-day—which is a fallacy.
If one would arrive he must start and
the sooner he starts the earlier will be
his arrival.
We have to work at the universally
adopted rate in order to keep up ivith
the competition of the times in any
line in which wo may be engaged, but
oven this being true, can the business
man not cultivate the habit of laying
off the cares of his surroundings, as
he does his office coat and go into
the atmosphere of'home and society,
forgetting the dark cloud of the day,
trusting that a brighter to-morrow’s
sun may dispel it or bring a clearer
sky?
In'no country in the world are the
peopld living in the mental and phy
sical strain that they are here. In
every other country the relief comes
to the business man and the laborer
in the shorter hours occupied; the few
moments’ respite enjoypd jwith com
panions over the glass and the lunch,
when the forenoon is but (half spent
and its repetition again in the after
noon, juBt os the burdens qf the day
begin to be a heavy weight; in the
holidays crowded with everything
whioh would teud to drive from the
mind the cares of the bread-winning,
gain-getting struggle of lifk
To get one’s name wfrltten with
some credit on the pages of one’s
town or state is an ambition which is
commendable* To leave behind, as
some have done, or to,set up during
his lifetime, somS monument which
will give pleasure* or inspiration or
help to somebody else, that is a glori
ous.ambition. But to build a marble
pyramid, a great pile of dumb stone
to obstruot the earth and binder the
planting of corn and potatoes, is a
conspicuous illustration of human
folly, not to say meannesa That sort
of a memorial makes intelligence
laugh and evokes pity or execration
from true humaneness.
1h» desire to be remembered Is a
common, and not an ignoble feeling.
When we are dead and gone it will
really make no, difference to us wheth
er we are remembered or not When
the time comes for friendship and aor
quaintance and reputation to be trans
lated into memory we will be engaged
in a journey of discovery whose in
terest will take our whole attention.
Even the most enterprising newspa
pers have no subscribers in heaven.
Even the meanest newspapera though
well fitted for circulation on earth,
have no constituency in helL So that
the account of our funeral in either
class of papers wil! make no differ
ence to us when once we have crossed
the line. We will never read it
Nevertheless we have a desire to be
remembered.
The making of fine distinctions in
volves no end of painstaking. But it
is precisely the perception of these
that constitutes the variety, charm
and pioturesqueness of every coveted
good of life In our public schools,
see how the boys and girls have to
perspire in learning to match the
ideas they want to express with the
fitting nouns, adjeotives and verbs.
So to speak, all the verbal colors they
know at first are yellow ochr* Indian
red and ooal black. Look at their
compositions and see what dreadful
discords .glare out of their language
embroidery. One adjective seems to
them just as good as another, alike
whether, they are characterizing Cleo
patra or a sculpiu, majestic ocean
steamship or a clumsy dugout Let
them keep on ten years, however,
matching word shade* and then what
a pleasure to get a letter from one of
them, written from she mountains or
seashore! How the ravines and sum
mits, the cliff* breakers and beaches
stand out before the miod’s eye!
ThiI American plan of business
founded as It is upon rush and puan,
hurry and hurrah, is at best a. grnid.
ing system, wearing away the lives of
participants in it and the question
arises: How can some relief be
found from this constant taxing to' the
uttermost of the strength and abilityf
A gentleman in the East who some
yoars ago took a champagne bath ata
cost of |800, has taken his life at
very small expense because he had
nothing to eat and not raiment enough'
to wad a gun. The two acts taken in
connection are an effective commen
tary on the exceeding foolishness of
fools.
Meice beauty needs no appeal; it
makes its own. But there is noth,
ing, after all so vulgar and
wearisome as physical charm without
adequate harmony of mind and heart
We should prefer that all our procla
mations should be for the develop
ment of feminine harmony, rather than
the conservation of bodily beauty.
Don’t carry your business home.
Leave it down town; wait and meet
its hardships to-morrow when you
{>ave renewed strength. Don't meet
your family with a flag of despair fly
ing at half-mast and by word and
act send a chill to the hearth and
hearts of your home, which will de
stroy every chance for them to help
you by the loving tenderness they
would otherwise extend. It is a hard
matter to accomplish, we know; there
are a thousand and one things to ban
ish from your mind, which it seems
impossible to do; but it can be done.
Some years ago it was generally ac
cepted that electricity was a current
flowing through or along a wire or
other good conductor, exerting a force
at the point of exit just as in the case
of water or air passing through a
tube. This was too material a con
ception, notwithstanding the fact it
could not be demonstrated, and the
obscure term of force was substituted.
This has since been allowed to stand
while the vain search for its cause
was continued. Now that electricity
has become so important an element
in the mechanical welfare of the
world, efforts to uncover the mystery
of its existence have been redoubled.
It is undoubtedly necessary that in
the machinery of the law, or for Its
enforcement, there should be a class
of men whose duty it should be to
trace criminals, and whet by practice
and the study of trifles that would
pass the eye of the unobservant and
inexperienced man, can follow a trail
through a crowded city as accurately
as would the Indian through the un
broken forest. But ihere is danger
that ‘these men. or some of them at
least, are actuated by " other motives
than those of bringing the criminal to
justioe or upholding the dignity . of
the law. Probably there are not
many who would be ready to protect
the criminals if they could share in
the profits of the crime, and there are
less who would instigate him to
crime for their own pecuniary benefit;
but such cases have been known.
Anarchy cannot be attributed either
to liberty of speech or liberty of the
presa Where there is free discussion
its spread is impossible. The • secret
nature marks it as the natural means
of fighting the repressive policy of
absolutism. The most conclusive evi
dence on this point is that it does not
originate in lands where the liberty
of the press and of speech is the great
est but where they are least It takes
no root in England or the United
States, but attains its most universal
development in autocratic Russia. It
may seem a contradiction of this rule
that the anarchists are active in tbe
French republic, but we must remem
ber that not even the republic has re
frained from repressive measures
toward the radical element of .Democ
racy, while the real seeds of the small
anarchist growth in France were sown
by the repressive ,tendencies of the
sedond empire..
Theke are two things that do seri
ously ‘•wear" updo all workers: one
is a position of responsibility Which is
complicated by continual contact and
inevitable friction with the varying
wills and dispositions of other people\
—as, for instance the work of public
school teaching. Here the teacher
has before him the problem of har
monious relations with fifty, or more,
unreasonable indlvidualties, and the
further duty of maintaining with all
their parents such relations as best
conduce to the good of the pupila and
the problem also of meeting the re
quirements and holding the respect of
the school authorities. —the head
master, the supervisor, the board of
•education. In private schools the con
ditions are somewhat simplified, and
concern in the main only pupils and
parents. But in all occupations where
the worker has to do with a more or
less complicated tribunal, there 1* a
tax on nervous force that may well re
quire seasons of complete and evn
•protraoted rest to recuperate the enA
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