NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 10 , 1898.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATKE BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOU.
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Neb. , as Second Class mutter , July 29th , 1898.
Sailing far iiito
THE ISLAND
OF NEVADA. the Sea of Sage
Brush one can
find the island dependency of Nevada
which was annexed to the American
Union , for political purposes , in the
year 1864. It has less population now
than it had ten years ago. There are
less than forty thousand men , women
and children in the island of Nevada
and all of them would escape if the
means of escape were within their grasp.
The islanders have but one fetish.
They howl for the free coinage of silver
in xmlimited quantities at the ratio of
16 to 1. They howl for senators and
representatives in congress at the ratio
of sixteen voters to each senator and rep
resentative.
The annexation of Nevada and its
projection into the national council of
those pagan economists , Stewart , Nye ,
Bartine and Jones have inoculated the
politics of the country with the virus of
alchemy. All the island statesmen be
lieve in the right and declare the power
of the government to make something
out of nothing ; all have faith in the
creation of values by statute.
The senators and congressmen from
the Philippines , the Sandwich Islands
and the "West Indies can be no worse
than those from the island of Nevada.
The yellow kid
YELLOW KID journals of the
PULPITISJI.
United States
sicken the public with sentimentalism ,
sensationalism , jingoism and an utter
disregard for the privacy of the homes
of men in public life. They write up
incidents which never occurred. They
publish interviews which never trans
pired. They proclaim as truth that
which is false. They depict evil as
good. They portray good as evil. They
shamelessly declare that they are made
to sell.
And not many years since , at the an
nual banquet of the commercial club of
Chicago , an eminent veteran in the
newspaper service of that city smilingly
asserted that he made a newspaper for
the purpose of selling it , and that if his
paper contained vice in type alluringly
displayed , or depicted fast and dissipated
life agreeably , it was because the read
ing people of Chicago demanded that
sort of stuff.
A prominent board of trade man re
plied to the editor and compared the
mental prostitution to which he con
fessed with the social evil , and could
make no distinction between soiled doves
and soiled intellectual abilities , except
to the credit of the former. The men
who had fallen into the habit of writing
and printing anything that would be
paid for , he declared no better than
women who had fallen from purity and
modesty to vice and brazen effrontery.
But the Chicago Commercial club and
all the other associations of trade are
powerless to put down a journalism
which is every day demoralizing the
youth of the United States and eveiy
day undermining the respect and rever
ence for truth and honesty in the public
mind.
All crimes are telegraphed over the
country. All dirty details of scandals
are wired to the newspapers. Crimi
nality is covered with a dressing of deli
cate verbiage and distributed by light
ning for the delectation of the depraved
and the curious.
But how little is wired about the
country of the good deeds of men I
Every day , in the great cities , in villages ,
and on the farms are acts of generosity
and abounding charity performed. And
if these good deeds were taken with the
same avidity and distributed with the
same universality that touch the crimes
and send tidings of them into every
household , all mankind could be bet
tered by the reading.
But the pulpiteers who attract audi
ences by advertisement of strange topics
to be discussed , or by a catchy nomen
clature for their sermons , are not less
sensational nor less vulgar , many times ,
than the yellow journalism which good
citizens in every state deprecate and de
spise.
Bight and not rhetoric ought to be the
aim of preachers and teachers. 'A big
sense of doing duty with courage , of tell
ing the truth faithfully and with solt'-
forgetfulness is better than a * big audi
ence. It is better to tr3T to do good than
to try to bo great. And there are many
who may succeed in attempting the first
and flatly fail when they attempt the
last.
last.Very
Very many of the yellow kid pulpiteers
were quite frantic for war long before
the general "hu
PEACE ON EAHTII
"
manity" of the
GOOD WILL TO MAN.
United States had
been worked up to the hysterical stngo.
For many Sabbaths before war was de
termined upon the houses of worship
wherein the pugnacious preachers taught
invasion and subjugation were mere
adjuncts to recruiting stations. Thus
the professed followers of that Grand
Teacher , whose intellectual splendor
has lightened up eighteen centuries , in
stead of preaching peace and good will
have been fervidly advocating war , ex
alting the glory of human slaughter , the
beneficence of corpse-making and the
benevolence of battlefields.
And with these facts in view THE
CONSERVATIVE is constrained to think
that some clergymen preach for the sake
of popular plaudits and not for the sake
of Christ and the gentle and tender
brotherhood of man and fatherhood of
God which Christ endeavored to impress
upon the human heart and understand
ing.
An Atchison
SUNDAY Oil
SABBATH ? minister , quoted
by The Globe , says
"there is no such word as Sunday ; that
it is Sabbath. "
Speaking as a follower of the Hebrews ,
he is right ; the Jews had a name for
only one day of the week , the seventh ,
which was their chief day , for reasons
given in the second chapter of Genesis ;
they called it "Shabbath , " or "rest. "
But speaking as an American , he is
far from right. Our fathers had names
for all seven days before they ever heard
that there were any Jews. They named
them after the divinities , or divine man
ifestations , that were known to them ,
the Sun and Moon , Woden , Thor and
Freya ; the first clay of the week being
foremost in their eyes , as it is still to
their descendants , they named it for the
Sun , the best thing they knew of ; it did
not occur to them to dedicate it , or any
minor day , to rest ; they were a restless
people , and their ideal was activity ,
rather than repose.
