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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1894)
iBViiiT7grT.T mi, rfL.HJiirf.i ,iwlvr':ii.."5a ',MKTrKS1ft: " lf?!; iprT&jg&i -IT I H (THE COURIER , - H i- II & I i' V- - . e 3 b V I if Wi fe H tr fr his paper that camo within range of tho observatory had a half col uuin of local news and three columns and a half of Al Fairbrother's editorials. One editorial was on "Too Early Marriages,' one was on women appearing in tights; one was on sluggards, and there was a fourth entitled, "All Going, as follows: "Men are coming and go ing coming from the homes where tho night has been passed in sleep and rest going to the dreary, weary, work-aday grind; to toil and labor for the bread which they may eat or which, their children may eat. Even in such a small place as Lynchburg at about 6:30 in tho morning thero is quite a large procession to be Been. Men and women going to the different places; hastening that they may be at their usual place by the time the seven bell rings, and then it is busi ness until night And tho next day, and tho next day, and the next day, and tho next day, still witness the same walk the same tread; tho wine press is thero and it must bo worked. And yet in all of this fierce struggle; in this restless and exhausting way men live and mcr say that they are happy. Ambition fires them, and if the recompense for which they toil is scarce fifty cents a day, they still see visions just over yonder; they know that on some bright to-morrow their condition will be bettered. This is the hope and this the belief. To some tho to-morrow comes, freighted with much they have not had. To some the delay is too long; tho other procession which they only head carries them to that loug rest to the place where no bells ring and where thero is no worry that some one at home may need something which tho money they have will not buy. Sometimes it eccms cruel, this style of government, this style of ex isting which wo have, but maybe it is right. The gay and festive Indian, who wore no clothes to dwarf or annoy him; who never, carried a tin bucket and who smoked his pipe of peace whenever he felt like it, was perhaps tho cuss who introduced the ideal way of living. But then as his style was not adopted, people who have laundry bad better have it done up; if they have jobs they had bet ter work, and it they have no jobs they had better Becure one. Time is money, and it is said that time is lleeting. J. D. Calhoun's former paper the Herald, that was a kind of a free will democratic organ, has passed into the hands of J. A. Edgerton and J. W. Jordan and is now what might be called a red hot popu list sheet. Edgerton, tho editor, is one of those two by four men that have acquired a six by ten prominence in the populist party. He is a professional agitator, and he sees, or thinks he sees in the populist party an opportunity to make something of Edgerton, and be proposes to work the pops for xll he is worth. Mr. Jordon, his associate, is well known in this city through his connection of sev eral years standing with tho -Lincoln Printing Co. He is a straight, forward, well meaning young man. He is much too good for matiy of his associates in the populist party and the time will come when he will see his mistake in chasing rainbows when he might have been more profitably employed. For his own sake the Observer wishes him much success as business manager of the Herald. The Herald, by tho way, states that it follows the teachings and principles of Jeffereon and Jackson. There ought to Ire some pro vision by statute to keep people from insulting the memory of-the dead. It is bad enough to be compelled to submit to abuse when alive. After death persecution should cease. Imagine Jefferson and Jackson coming to life again and leading the populist party! Could anything be more unreasonable than the linking of these two names with a party that is fathered in this state by the Edgertons and Sam Elders and Damn-the-Constitution Schraders and the Van Wycks and the Aliens and the McKeigans and the Bryans? A great many peculiar and unneard of things have been done in the name of Jefferssn and Jackson. These two men have been made tbo shield for manj questionable undertakings. But it remains for Mr. .Edgerton to cap tho climax by trying to connect these two men with that disorderly and more or less disreputable movement called populism, a movement that Jefferson and Jackron as patriots and men of intelligence would have been among the first to con demn and antagonize. The editor of the Netcs, whose proprietors sometimes claim that it is a republican paper, wps elected a delegate to tho late democratic populist free silver conference and no one thought of questioning his right to be there. Anybody connected with thoJVetcs would be admitted to any conference of the populists and democrats, and be made right welcome. Crows always recognizo crows. Speaking of newspapers, tho Observer would commend the Sun day edition of the World-Herald. A great deal of life is infused in to the Sunday edition. Mr. and Mrs. Peattie do much to give individuality and originality to the World Herald's pages. Tho Peatties do a vast amount of work and they are always clever. Admirers of George Ebers will doubtless enjoy "Cleopatra," a trim two volume edition of which has just been issued from the publish ing house of D. Appleton fc Co. It is a translation from tho Ger man by Mary J. Safford. In the observatory Ebers is not very pop alar. There is a suspicion that is becoming quite well developed that he is tiresome. His romances are diluted, and when ho drags his romance into the field of history ho takes great liberty with facts and does not always succeed in making himself interesting. Cleo patra is a hackneyed theme for tho fictionist; but inasmuch as tho reader has got to go back to ancient.Egypt and to tho time of this remarkable woman, it is too bad that Mr. Ebers did not select a more interesting period in the career of Cleopatra. The reader is intro duced to her as she suffers defeat with Mark Antony, and as this brilliant pair is about to enter the mausoleum. It would have been possible to have portrayed a far more attractive epoch in the queen's eventful history. Ebers begins his romance with the prniosition that Cleopatra was a very good woman, that she has been much maligned, and in the succeeding chapters, as he unwinds his story, he has considerable difficulty in preventing tho reader from forming a contrary opinion from his own showing. But those who have learn ed to like Ebers will probably like Cleopatra, as has already been said. To the uninitiated this book can hardly be regarded with en thusiastic approval. Clinton Brings, with his Union Park meeting, made his appear ance as a full Hedged sport this week, A good many peoplo are cur ious to see the outcome of this highly ornamental young man's ex perience in the racing field. If he succeeds it will bo a unique ex perience for him. If he loses a pile of money tho expectations of those who know him will be realized. That somebody will niako money out of "Clint while he is on the turf there is no doubt. He is what would be called an easy mark. Three teachers in the high school in Omaha were removed the other day, and it is said that the removals, or two or them, were dic tated by the A. P. A. The A. P. A. movement has been discussed in these columns, and The Courier's position is well Known; but the action of the Omaha board of education seems to call for an addi tional word of comment on a subject that the daily new6dapers dare not handle. The American Protective association may carry its peculiar warfare too far, and when it presumes to say that a person shall not be a janitor in a public school, or a teacher, simply because he or she is a Catholic, it certainly seems as though something should be done to administer a rebuke to this organization. The A. .P. A. is most un-American in its objects and tendency, and it is difficult to see why so many patriotic and intelligent men go into a move ment that is intolerant to a degree never before reached by any or ganization in this country, save perhaps the know-nothings. Dr. Duryea in an interview on the subject Baid: "Nothing has been said to me personally in regard to the religious questions in volved, but many things have been said to others. I have under stood that the obligation of the American Protective association binds its members not to vote for any Catholic for any position. It is said that the members of this organization on tho board have de termined not to vote for the election of any additional teacher or janitor who is a Catholic. If this is true, it is un-American and un fair. Out of the 100 teachers in our public schools wo have twenty two Catholic teachers and I have never heard that one of them ever ootruded her belief in her school work in a manner that could give offense to anyone. It is also said that if the other members of tho committee had opposed the determination of certain ones to remove Miss Crowley the head of every Catholic teacher in tho schcoh would have been lopped off. I have not heard any of the members themselves say this, as they are dumb on this matter, but there are A x r && - - 3C ; . -t , v "w - 5. ir.rro . a;, trt. .r.i-aia r ?1-V'g?l f -- r ?-'-. i.- a-.dsaa; wwm