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VOL IV. NO. 35. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , MARCH 6 , 1902 SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THB DISCUSSION
OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL
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Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29 , 1898.
The case of the
PLUCK VS. LUCK. South African diamond
mend operator who
worked a great mine for a year under a
lease , at a moderate profit , and saw a
diamond whose worth is practically be-
yond. calculation unearthed within an
hour after his lease had expired , is
quoted as evidence that it is luck , not
pluck , that makes the man. Let us
see how that diamond came to be lost
to the man who had blasted and drilled
his way through hundreds of feet of
rook and almost reached it. Out of the
! 5G5 days during which he operated the
mine , do you suppose that no hour was
wasted in idleness ? Among the twelve
thousand employees do you contend
that there was not one who could have
worked more effectively if given timely
advice and encouragement ? If the con
tractor had searched the history of that
year thoroughly , he would have been
forced to the conclusion that moments
of idleness , and hours of half-hearted
'effort were responsible for his loss.
On the other hand , the man who se
cured the prize had the courage to
undertake what the other had aband-
oned. May his tribe increase.
A poor Chicago
AW OBJECT washer-woman has
LESSON. seven children
whose food and
clothing she provides by ceaseless toil ,
yet she finds time to teach them the
great truths which every child should
be taught and to a lady who offered her
$5,000 for one of them , she replied with
pity in her voice : "I am very sorry foi
you , but Ivcould not trust one of them
to the care of another ; I would not
take $1,000,000 for him. "
- Here is a lesson for those who lecture
and write upon the duties of mother-
lood , the art of home-making and kin
dred topics. Poor , obscure , isolated
from all that the world is pleased to
call pleasure , daily toil at the tub her
never-changing vocation , each day a
trifle grayer , slower in step and bent in
body ; yet , when she hears the childish
prayers lisped at night , far richer than
ihe bejeweled lady whose carriage halts
at her humble door that its silken-clad
occupant may plead tearfully for just
one-seventh the joy of the woman she
had once thought poor. This humble
toiler's sphere is large enough to hold a
wealth of love , a mine of contentment.
Governor Savage of
AS THE ROSE. Nebraska was elected
president of the Inter
state Irrigatio'n Congress , held at Ster
ling , Colorado. In his address he con
tended that irrigation was not an un
tried experiment but a system the value
of which is well established. He cited
the Garden of Eden as irrigated terri
tory and promised that the entire Platte
Valley should become another Eden in
time. Perhaps the enthusiasm of the
meeting and the supporting influence of
his audience of pro-irrigationists caused
the worthy governor to add a little extra
coloring to the picture , though there is
every reason to believe that irrigation
will certainly make glad the desolate
wastes of the barren portion of the
Platte Valley , but whether or not the
government is called upon to water a
man's laud , must be left to time and
congress to decide.
The government can , however , lend
material aid to the movement in a way
that would not be attempted systemati
cally by individuals or combinations act
ing separately or in concert : the collec
tion of data on the practicability of util
izing certain streams , the best mode of
diverting , conserving and distributing
the waters , the waste by seepage , and
means to combat it. With this mater
ial at hand , together with an estimate
of the cost of the various systems , in
this day of money seeking employment
there would doubtless be found more
than sufficient capital to carry out the
plans.
An irate Parisian
THE PASSING lady recently en-
OF TILLMAN. tered the chamber
of deputies with a
basket filled with rotten eggs , which she
proceeded to shy around those sacred
irecincts , splashing the shapely forms
of the without
well-groomed legislators ,
out regard to party or person. The of
fender was removed and the chamber
went into executive session and gravely
fumigated itself.
South Carolina has sent to our senate
an animate package of much the same
nature. From the South Carolina seats
there has come nothing but missiles and
bad odor. Not one idea that has proved
of benefit to the country ; not one
speech that has appealed to humanity
or comforted a distressed brother ; not
one word of encouragement or hope for
any man or anything ; but when South
Carolina speaks an odor always arises
and it is never a pleasant one. Would
it not be well to fumigate ?
The predicament in which he of the
pitch-fork and tempernow finds himself
is not one from which he may expect
to be earcily extricated. The offense is a
grave one , and the previous character of
the accused is by no means exemplary.
His principal complaint against Senator
McLaurin is based upon the supposition
that nothing less than bribery could
have induced a senator to favor
the ratification of the Spanish treaty.
Unfortunately for Mr. Tillmanthere are
other more or less peerless democrats
who likewise supported the administra
tion in the same way , and they find it
necessary to repudiate Mr. Tillman in
order to vindicate themselves and "for
Mr. Bryan's sake. "
Senator James K. Jones has already
made a statement deploring the rash
utterances of the irrepressible [ South
Carolinian , and the probabilities are
that he will be relegated to the rear , not
however , because he disgraced himself
and his country , but because he dared to
criticise one of his party who obeyed
the will of their leader. He will be of
fered as a sacrifice "for Mr. Bryan's
sake , "
Driven gradually
POOR LO ! front the shores of the
Atlantic toward the
far off Pacific , ever retreating before
the advancing white' man , ever being
told "This is mine ; you take the other , "
herded and trailed from plain to plain ,
with his few words of complaint
answered by a monotonous reference to
alleged crimes committed by his father's
grandfather , the Indian is perhaps as
deserving of the sympathy of all who
love liberty , as are the Armenians , the