JANUARY 14, 1304.-
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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
"SOUR GRAPES."
Mr. Clark Reviews
Professor Ott's Book.
"Sour Grapes," with its sub-title,
- "Heredity and Marriage," by Ed. Am-
: fcerst Ott, president of Oit?s school
of expression, Chicago, 111., fell by the
, wayside and thus becomes the sub
ject of our criticism. The chief fea
ture of the book deals withcrime and
criminals from the standpoint of her
edity, which he seeks to make spon
sor for this growing menace to so
ciety, and while attempting to with
hold from the race at large that uni
versal application of the censoria cos
mos declared upon in holy writ, con
cedes that "we are all of one" blood."
Starting with a grain of truth, his
"eiSphasis of "heredity" grows beyond
all measure of consistency,. so much
so, in fact, that he is overtaken by
self-refutation, not only between me
lines, but by direct statement. It is
to "be regretted by all that one of Mr.
Ott's natural ability and acquisitions,
could not,, in advance of "Sour
Grapes," have made the acquaintance
of Wm. Dean Howell's "Traveler from
Altruria," and also have gleaned from
Mr. Herbert Spencer's ninth chapter
of "Social Statics" the evidence upon
- which society, en omnibus, is not only
indicted, but-convicted of-being ma
ternal paternis to all of the whelps
of dolus born in the cosmic lair.
Though it may be that it was reflec
tions along these' lines or from some
such contact, that led him in; his final
summary to conclude that those crim
inals that passed review under his
glass "were more sinned against than
sinning." - '
, , But "Sour Grapes" is not a total
"failure by any means. Aside from the
fact that it contains some very use-
' ful information, if heeded,' it cannot
be denied that as an emollient with
which to assuage the conscience of
those who, "smiting their breasts,"
thank God that they are not "a3 other
men are," it is a complete success.
To personal character, Mi. Ott' as
signs a three-fold basis, in this or
der: heredity, environment and self
education. That this Is the proper or
der of importance is true only from
the fact that environment, in the
broad sense, Involves both the others.
He also says: "The blows and buf
fets of adverse circumstance affect
,it," but has neither mention nor cen
sure for those who, by, their insatiate
criminal greed, are directly responsi
ble for those adverse circumstances.
He also. says: "The weariness bora
of hard labor and the sweet benedic
tion of rest are needed." The use of
the conjunctive in this sentence fur
nishes us a rather curious anomally;
Cor when hard labor, either as a ju
dicial ukase or from force of circum
stance, is imposed, the physical law of
nature . is violated, but this is not
"needed." This may be a mCre lapsus
Jingul, but, considering the latter part
ol the sentence, how abortive the mere
benediction of rest woaid be unless
bodily comforts were also at hand.
Mr. Ott seems not to see that it is the
absence of these bodily comforts that,
in the main, incite 90 par cent of pet
ty crimes as declared upon by a large
and dignified concensus of authority
upon social statics.
There Ms an unveiled suspicion in
- the Ott philosophy and dictum that
the bounds employed upon the gen-eologic,-
trail of the New York, Ind
iana and Oklahoma families, to whom
Mr. Ott pays the compliment of spe
cial mention, and whose, nrocenv fur
nished such a saturnalia of crime that
their prosecution cost their respective
slates several millions of dollars, had
what hunters call a "bad nose," I. e.,
their scent had bcom vitiated, while
those who "ran by sight" were han
dicapped by wearing the Ott ground
lens. The birds they stockd wire
all of the common feather, 1. e., the
lower (least dangerous) impoverished
type. None of the pharbalc brand
are mentioned, though criminal la til
ths show that the most henious
crimes, and .hcso compounded, are
largely committed by clergymen and
other of high social stand In 5.
Mr. Ott also aya that "virtue and
vice run In families," and that the
"convicts In our penal Institutions
wear In their facial contour evidences
f an Inborn predisposition to crime,"
yet does not claim that any of the
progeny of the "virions families" men
MkttM by hlra were aldermantc b'.od
1cm that arc found galore. In every
tlty In the country; none wire una
tori, congressman or stt oiru lala
and legislator h Uk bribe and
. Iw'tray their wntlltufncy, nor were
there any of tho an n criminal
anions limn who wear ship's doth
in, who aw so admit In trim that
they first procure 1 ho enactment of
law through legislator whom they
corrupt, bf h!h to justify thiir
trim In ad ramo and, the moral U
of God aside, stand at the throne of
grace and in the corridors of good so
ciety with a surfeit of Idxury about
them earned in the sweat of a bro
ther's face whom they exploit by vir
tue of legal travesty.
So, also, since it does not appear
that this superlative brood of crim
inals from the bacterial womb of
dolus "wear in their faces the in
born evidence of a predisposition to
crime," so boldly asserted of their
captive brothers in our penal instill
tions, we must conclude that this sup-:
posed criminal .badge of the latter
class is but the mark that abject pov
erty and Janguishing distress always
leaves upon the famished child of
want whose physical, moral and men
tal abandon, enduring from generation
to generation, Knows no hyatus but
the grave.
0, yes, there are types other than
the ."Jukes," etc., and it is passing
strange that none of Mr. Ott's ci i ur
inals were bank cashiers, treasurers,
who were also prominent In the Sun
day schools and Y. M. C. A. or were
the trusted guardians in other fiduc
iary capacities, who become so often
the subjects of Associated press news.
Those of fine cloth and wine suppers
have wholly eluded the scent of the
Ott Bounds, while the facial Indicia
of a "predisposition to crime" must
yield its claim to that which poverty
asserts, as its very own.
Then come the manifest destiny and
benevolent assimilation type, the
kill-all-over-ten variety ,and the more
recent peculiar-circumstance genus;
yet none of these large and ever
growing "high roller" variety whose
impecunity has not the ameliorating
spur of poverty or "the buffet of ad
verse circumstance" behind It, seem
to have enlisted the attention of the
professor. He saw no Dietrich, Col
by, Fisher or Captain Parker, while
the "facial indicia of crime'' was un
noticed by him in any of the. postal
department grafters." Only those who,
in metaphor, being without a potato
patch, stole a sack of meal,, are come
within his radius from whom the pro
fessor adduces such an emollient to
our conscience. Though of that class
he so quietly avoids, it was a Christ
who said of them: "The publicans and
harlots shall enter into the kingdom
before you' '
The philosophy of Mr. Ott, as typi
fied in "Sour Grapes," has but a spur
ious optimism that needs the leaven
of the optl-pessimlst in order that it
may pTHnt to us the avenue of search
and the coverts of all the whelps of
dolu3, whether they be clad in rags
of poverty, the judicial ermine, the
phylacteries of saints, the cloth of re
spectability or the crown, with pre
judice to none, that a better justice
may be born to the race.
E. C. CLARK.
Syracuse, Neb.
(Note: Mr. Clark adds that the
quotations from "Sour Grapes,:
though substantial, are not pro hoc
verba.)
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Wabash road will build a station with
300 feet of frontage on a grand en
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exposition will maintain at me main
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avenues. The plaza will be cut off the
end of the Catlln tract, on wnicn ine
Pike ia to be located. A Buoway suu
feet wide will carry street car pas
sengers under the main tracks of the
WabasTi where they cross De nan-
vlere avenue at Forsyth Junction. Tho
track will be elevated at tnta pomi.
At no point near the main gateway of
the World's Fair will different Kinds
of traffic cross on the aarue level.
Fifteen amir tracks will leave tho
Wabash main line 1,500 feet east of
De Dallvlere avenue, and. entering
the eastern portion oi me vaum
tract at that rlnt. will run directly
into the station by the lnterKxklng
system. Provision ha boou made In
the trackagw pUnt to'anui the un
loading or loading of at lean 1.0,000
passengers every day, i;xcuriou
train will enter and leave the ter
minal spur on tho mn track. The
Walah tniln line ll carry four
tracks for Urn entire thitanco along
the north front of the exjv.sttlon.
Through trains ll satup at platform
along the main traKs cm the north
side of the kasid tract, and In the
Immediate protlmlt jr to the Worlds
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