THE HESPERIAN. UNIVERSITY of NEBRASKA. Vol. XIV. LINCOLN, NEB., MAY 15, tSS6. No. XV. C UK KENT KEM.4KK- Sincc "Lincoln lias joined the Western Lc.igne the question of professional athletics is become a pcitincnt one. It ap pears to us that the tendency to malcc a profession of any sport is almost wholly evil. Those men who go into such a husincss arc usually of the less intelligent and refined class and their calling has anything but an elevating effect upon them. Do away with horse racing as now practiced, profess ional walking matches and kindred amusements and a very perceptible decrease ot professional gamblers will be the ic sult. Athletic sports arc a fine tiling, "but let tlicm be prac ticed for their intrinsic worth and not for money. The Slate ypimialis determined to keep up the interest of the citizens in the matter of street paving, though the fine weather of late has very much improved the formerly almost impassable streets. Some bids on asphalt pavement were published by the Jourinu, and they would seem to prove that compost everything considered is more available for Lin coln than any other equally good paving material. As the in terests of the "University arc more or less closely connected with the interests of this, the capital city, we too would urge upon property holders the necessity for good paved streets. The streets of Lincoln arc generally well graded and would be casilv paved. Moreover, the city if properly improved is destined soon to become one of the finest in the west, and o' the cheaper pavements asphalt will certainly best correspond With the signs of thrift and energy so characteristic of this city. Governor Larrabcc of Towa has issued a proclamation dc claring'that'thc prohibition law of that state must be enforc cd. He calls on the ministers and teachers, on the temper" ancc societies and on individuals, to aid in the attempt. Lawyers and judges arc requested to do their duty in prose cutions and not allow violators of the law to slip through their fingers. If this appeal is heeded the fact thai "Prohibition docs prohibit" will have to be recognized. It has prohibited wherever public sentiment was in favor of the law and men wore bta'c enough to stand up and denounce its violators. It is drily where public morals have been lax and in cities where the lower classes rule, that the flagrant violations of the law have been committed. We hope the day is not far distant when the people of Iowa, as a whole, will arise and sec that the plainly expressed wish of a majority of her cit izens is compHod with in all sincerity. A New York reporter has interviewed Hcrr Most, the emi nent) socialist, and Tcports him quite satisfied with the con duct of his followers at Chicago and elsewhere. He is con vinced thnt it is but the beginning of a great socialistic revo lution brought about directly by his own teachings. We agree With 'him that the lawlessness exhibited and the bloodshed caused arc but the legitimate outcome of the doctrines tauglit bv.'him-and hisjless scrupulous sympathizers. JBut the causes, rif'Sisaffectiorire deeper an "more wide spread than this false teacher in his bigotry can imagine much less under stand. His teachings have hrought about riot with all its con sequent evils, "not revolution. He has in fact, but "thwarted a speedy and amicahle settlement. The complaints, the de mands of the socialists might "have received due attention had they hcen presented properly, hut they have rather chosen to force compliance with their views upon a people averse to law lessness and crime. Some settlement must be had, hut the socialists have hy their unwise actions precluded the possibili ty of the amicable arrangement once possible. They will find that they have roused a people determined even at the cost of many lives to maintain the majesty of law, though always dis posed to accede to just demands when tightly presented. How exceedingly free, we arc led to Tcmaih, the much boasted freedom of the press has become. The most secret ol secrets, the delicatcst of private matters and even that most tender of tendor passions love arc dragged with all the hearllcssncss of professional skill, bpforc the eyes of an aston ished, curious, horrified and delighted public. "Every man's house ought to be his castle certainly, hut the enterprising re porter inserts the point of his pen into the core of his vic tim's existence and pries it open for public scrutiny. This might have little interest for a student body were lit'not that here is the place and now the time to educate ourselves out of liking such wholesale gossip under the guise of news. V The case of the senatorial fool from Florida who is one of latest victims of newspaper hcartlcssncss causes us to remark that the chief difference between the Honorable Mr. Jones and some individuals not far from Lincoln is that, while thc former is an Honorable fool, thc latter arc not. The extent of Mr. Jones' crime is that he has neglected his business for a love affair; and, though he has been held up to the lidiculc of a world, he is no more to be censured than the humbler per son who neglects his business for something which lacks c en thc dignity of love. Thc Daily News of last Tuesday evening suggests tn .ie "L Ls" so conspicuously posted a week or two ago do not, as supposed, refer to Lincoln Leather, but arc the symbols of an organization yclept the "Liberal League," formed to oppose the Law and Order League. This Liberal League, as thc News conjectures, is made up of thc saloon keepers and gam blers of the city, and their professed object is not only to hin der, so far as it lies within their power, nny more stringent legislation upon the liquor traffic and gambling, but also to Ercvent, if possible, the enforcement of existing regulations, uch a movement is in thc highest degree prejudicial to good government and is almost rebellion. "While no one will ticny the right of men of nny trade or class to organize for thc pur pose of obtaining the repcnl of laws prejudicial to their inter ests, or to favor thc passage of more favorable enactments, it is decidedly unwise as well as illegal to combine against thc enforcement of laws. This organization of thc class against which the efforts of the Law and Order League have been di lccted testifies more plainly than anything else possibly could to thc good accomplished by the League. Resistance to law is the last resort of desperate men. If there is any truth 'in these conjectures the officers of the law should sec that this organization of thc criminal-producing class has no more ef. 'feet 'than their 'previous individual attempts 'to evade the law