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If a man is arrestd charged with
murder is a sheriff performing his
duty if he gives him the freedom of
the city?
Thk leniency of our honorable
county judge in dealing with men
accused of crime is causing con
siderable comment We will have
more to say of this matter later.
OscW again has the fair name of
Holt county been stained with crime.
The funny newspaper writers have
been furnished material for sensa
tional stories about the lawlessness
and blood-thirsty greediness of the
.. citizens of this county, but not
through the instrumentality of
residents of Holt While the killing
was done within the confines of this
county the men who were instru
mented in sending the soul of young
Cole to his maker were from Keya
Paha, aocross the Niobrara, a river
; whose waters have often been crim
... soned with the blood of misguided
and lonely wanderers. Is there no
law in Keya Paha county? Have
they .no officers to pursue and arrest
criminals or must such work be left
in the hands of a few who pride
themselves on their aptness in pull
ing a “shooting iron ?” Is the life
• of a fellow being thought so lightly
of that a man will kill him for steal
ing a couple of saddles and an old
harness? When did two wrongs
ever make aright? If the parties
from whom the articles werj stolen
had sworn Out a warrant &nd sent
.. officers after them there is lib ques
- tion but what they would have* been
arrested and that without bloodshed.
The property would have been re
covered and the culprits could be
punished according to law. But
hew different now. < One or two men
with the mark of. Cain upon their
brow and a conscience whioh will
^alway accuse them and whioh they
will find impossible to placate. Their
most peaoftful dreams will be dis
turbed by visions of the hillside near
Stuart, where dole crossed the
divide. , If the aocused a^econ
\ demn&jfc and punished that will not
••restore to the aged mother her dar
ling boy who, though probably a
little wild, was dearly loved; The
law should be strictly enforced and
'justice meted out to all offenders,
is for the protection of the rich
id the poor, the strong and the
weak and its majesty should be
Maintained.
f BEFORE AMD AFTER.
Lincoln, April 27, 1807—Special
Correspondence: Of the ' active
•farmers now iu Nebraska, most of
the older set remember how we
used to stand op in line before the
teacher’s desk at the district school
and read from the old McGuffey’s
$ Fifth Header. It was a sterling
book and every “piece” was a gem.
How proud we were when we had
< been promoted to the fifth reader
* : class and conld stand up with the
big boys and girls, and read verse
. about down the line Some of us
' can even yet recite from memory tfaie
thundering lines from Bryon de
scribing the battle of Waterloo,
■j commencing, “There was a sound of
revelry by night” We can remem
ber some of the stirring passages
. from Webster’s great oration where
V he began, “Mr. President, I shall
Miter into no enoonium upon Mass
i achuaetts.” We remember the story
from Washington Irving of a buffalo
hunt which occurred over a hundred
, years ago out in this western conn
C try somewhere, and the story of the
\‘. . ' ■ ‘ . - n<S
beautiful Genevra, who in thought
less playfulness locked herself in the
great oaken chest which held the
secret of her death for fifty years.
Life seemed very beautiful aod
romantic to us then, when our hearts
were tender and impressionable,
before these later disappointments
had deadened our finer sensibilities.
“Bat we promised so much nnd we’ve
gained so little,
We promised so much of glory and gold,
And we’ve gained so little
That our hands are cold.
And for gold and glory we’ve gained
instead,
Hearts that are sickened and hopes that
are dead ”
There’s as much beauty in the
world now as there was then, but we
don’t see it Love is humming the
same old tunes, but the gentle music
does not reach our ears.
“Time that defaces us,
Places and replaces ub,”
has put deep furrows and harsh
looks ttpou the happy faces which
we had then. If we had been con
tent to keep in the broad highwny
where competency and content
comes at last as a sure reward for
honest toil and frugal living, if we
had kept out of the side roadB into
which greed, speculation and fash
ion were forever beckoning us, we
would now be looking at life fiom a
different standpoint, and the dis
tance between what we hoped to
achieve and what we have achieved
Would not seem so great.
But speaking of how we some
times see ourselves from the wrong
standpoint and how the burden of
each one seems to him heavier and
harder to bear than the burden of
his fellow, reminds me of'another
one of the “pieces” which we used
to read in the old McGuffey’s.
In a certain country the people
came to the king, each with a bur
den peculiar to himself, which
seemed to him more grievous than
the burden of any other and which
he prayed might be removed by
some act of the king or some process
of law.
One man had a scolding wife,
another had a carbuncle on his
shoulder, another had a cork leg,
and still another had an undutiful
son. Now, if that king had been a
demagogue, he would have tried to
fool the people, to- take their minds
off on a wild goose chase after some
pretended reform; He would have
called a convention and would have
prepared some thundering resolu
tions. He would have organized a
street parade of those who had
grievances. There would have been
banners and mottoes crying “Down
with carbuncles!” “Down with un
dutiful sons!” “Down with sodding
women!” “Down .with oork legs!”
But the king was neither a dema
gogue nor a chump. He knew that
life was no joke, that it was a seri
ous matter, that thundering resolu
tions or flying tanners would never
do awqr with carbuncles, undutiful
sons, scolding women or cork legs.
He was philosopher enough to know
that each man' must evolve within
himself sufficient individual strength
to solve the problem of his own par
ticular life and must keep his tem
per sweet enough, his mind clear
enough, and hia eyes open enough
to see whatever sunshine would -fall
upon his path. The king knew that
each of these eomplamers had
brooded over his particular griev
ance' until he had become morbid
and chronic in his discontent, apd
that the only way to cure him of
this mind malady was to change off
with the other fellow.
And so he appointed -a day when
each should bring bis burden to the
palace and exohange it for another.
And now the man with the scolding
wife came, dragging her in, and
filing her down before the king.
The oork leg was thrown into the
heap of discarded bnrdens and the
nndntifnl son with his cigarette and
tan colored Hhoes was tumbled in
along with the carbuncle. And then
there was a scramble each for what
the other had discarded.
The carbuncle man had long had
his eye on the scolding wife, for she
had never scolded him, and he had
seen her only in company where her
manners were amiable and sweet
The father of the nndntifnl son was
tiokled to death to get the carbuncle,
and the oork leg man was delighted
at having an heir to his fortune and
was willing to spend any amount of
SSni&Si •. <'■ "t V *. , * ,
money on cigarettes and tan colored
shoes for the undntiful son.
But you remember, my old school
fellow from way back, how each of
these men returned in a day or two
pnd begged for his burden back
agam. And now I am wondering
how Nebraska people feel since they
have exchanged republicanism for
populism.
The taxes were a heavy burden
nnder republican rule. The popu
list politicians told the people over
and over again that they w^uld
reduce the salaries of those tvho
lived on the public, that they would
abolish the secretaries of the board
of transportation, would abolish a
great mnny of the useless positions
which absorb the substance of the
people and render no equivalent.
They would abolish railroad passes
and stop the private junketing of
public offices. Enough of the peo
ple believed these promises and
voted for a change to put the popu
lists in charge of the state govern
ment. Now, what is the result?
Has the burden been made lighter ?
I have seen a gaunt mother pur
sued by a hungry pack. I have
watched her to see if she would
finally yield to the cries of the fat
little rascals who were too lazy to
root for themselves. I have seen
her at last, as if overcome by the
importunities of the brood, lie down
and turn up her dinner basket, and
I have observed how each little pig
rooted his nose about to find the
softest teat, and how in their greedy
scramble they crowded each other,
how they sucked and pulled and
grunted with satisfaction as the last
drop was sucked from the poor old
mother and how when she could no
longer give down they jamed their
little sharp hoofs into her flesh, root
ing, pulling, sucking and squealing
for more. Did you ever see pigs
suck with more energy than these
reformers who are sucking now?
They have been jostling each other
and quarreling like cats over the
spoils instead of remembering the
promises they bad made to the peo
ple. Some of them have not only
their noses but both feet in the
trough, and some of them, hundreds
whom I could name, are squealing
all over the state because there was
no teat for them. If I should write
it down now that all these fine pre
tentions of reform were utterly false,
that they intended to fool the people
by this trick of pretentions just a r
Bryan fooled the people when he
pretended to hate injunctions, and
just as he advised the farmers and
working men to deceive during the
last campaign, and if I would say
that populism is only an organized
appetite for office, then the governor
would send out, over the signature
of his stenographer, another com
munication to the populist press
denouncing me as a skunk. If the
Oder which republican writers give
out is bad, it is the oder of populism
uncovered, and I don’t blame them
for holding their noses at the smell.
Honest populists all over the state
are turning their noses away when
they see this mass of pretended
reform reeking with wriggling poli
tical maggots whose only instinct is
appetite.
They are grabbing passes ns
passes were never grabbed before.
They are grabbing salaries as salar
ies were never grabbed before.
They are off on junketing tours,
some of them, before they are dry
behind the ears from being born
into public office. A week before
thtf legislature adjourned it was all
at once discovered that the secretary
of state was absent. It was given
out by his clerks that he had left no
word, but they thought he was off
for a day or two at his home in
Merrick county. It was an awkward
and unusual thing for the secretary
to be away at such a time. All the
business of the session accumulates
into his hands at the close, and it is
important that he be t^iere above all
times in the year. The bills passed
are required to be handled with
great care lest there be some error
in compiling them into the printed
laws. But the secretary was away
just at this critical time, and the
mass of newly made laws was
dumped into his office, into the
hands of a lot of inexperienced
clerks, just as a careless farmer
' dumps a load of corn into the mud
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before a poo full of hungry cattle.
The lawyers and those who under
stand how important it is to koep
the work of legislation orderly and
straight, smiled when they saw the
general tumbled and disorderly
manner in which the session was
ending, and some of them say there
is scarcely a bill passed which, when
it finally gets into the book, will
stand the test of its constitutionality.
But the secretary was away, every
thing went by guess, and no one
could tell where he was or when he
would return. In two weeks after
the close of the session he appeared
and began to tell his confidential
friends of the wonderful sights and
the wonderful advantages of Florida.
He had been on a junket to the
south and could not keep the secret.
Warwick Saunderk, one of tho oil
inspectors, is.. just, returned from
Texas, and is trying to be inter
viewed in an advertising scheme as
a reward for his transportation.
The governor and his private secre
tary, with their families,-are off in a
private car for a junket to Port
Arthur and other . poidttf in Texas,
which are trying to boom. The
Gulf road, which furnished the
private car and equipped it with
victuals and drink, is sending out
booming dispatches all over the
country, quoting the governor add
Maret as being wonderfully im
pressed with the opportunities
offered by western Arkansas . apd
other points which ace seeking em—
migration from NebUfska.- How do
you like the change as far as you’ve
got '■ J. W. Johnson.
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