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LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, JUNE 29, IS95.
OBSERVATIONS.
The titwillow editor of the Journal
didn't like my little pleasantry about
his testimonial for "dear Mr. Croan"'.
For the day after The Coukiek appear
ed titwillow, malicious and lying, pro
ceeded to "got even" by making what
ho conceived to be very cruel state
ments about mo in the Journal. I am
sorry that my friend titwillow lost his
temper so. He might have been more
adroit in covering up the chagrin that
he felt over the publication in Lincoln
of his Croan letter. Lot mo give you a
piece of advice, oh, titwillow, titwillow,
titwillow! Never allow yourself to get
excited, particularly in the summer
time; and because somebody has a little
good-natured fun with you, don't
straightway fall to and be malicious
and lying in order to got even. You
are a bit too sensitive, oh, titwillow. Jf
you must get in a rage at least, titwillow,
stick to the truth. The truth, titwillow,
is a good thing to stick to. People
would bave a good deal better opinion
of your manliness and honety, titwil
low, if you were truthful. And titwil
low, if you do not want to be held up to
ridicule before the people of -Lincoln,
don't commit any more asinine atrocities
like the testimonial for "dear Mr.
Croan".
The next time titwillow Jones writes
a testimonial for a man of Croan's stamp
he will add the celebrated injunction,
"Burn this letter."
The persistent attacks made on resi
dents of Lincoln by the Omaha Bee
have been carried to such an extent
they have altogether lost their force.
Nowadays when. the batteries
of abuse in the Bee office are turned on
some prominent citizen or politician,
knowing ones smile and say: "So
Roggen is at it again, is he?" E. P.
Roggen, commonly known as the chief
hound in the Rosewater gang of whelps,
was for many yearsa citizen of Lincoln
and he conferred a benefit on this com
munity when be left it. Roggen waxed
fat on the pap that Mowed in the secre
tary of state's office for a decade or
more, and it was seldom that he was not
in a deal of some sort, generally repre
hensible. Naturally he was opposed
in some of his deals, and it occa
sionally hnppenetl that he was
turned down. Finally, when he left
this city to become whipper-in at the
Bee kennell, ho had run his length.
The people had had enough of Koggen
and they didn't hesitate to let him know
it. Ho" was sore and he pined for re
taliation. Rosewater hired him, and
now, for three or four years, he has
been evening up old scores, by hounding
down with all his pack his former ad
versaries. The wonder is that Rose
water has not tumbled to Roggen's little
game.
A gentleman who has had some op
portunities for judging, gives me the
following "impression" of the new chan
cellor of the state university. Prof.
McLean: "He is, first of all, a scholarly
man. There is in him and about him
evidences of genuine scholarship and in
tellectual force. He is keen sighted,
alert and polished. I believe he is a
man of positive character. He may not
concern himself so much withomall and
unimportant details, but I think it will
be found that he will take a broad,
practical view of the aims and purposes
of the university, and his administration
will inspire confidence in the faculty
and thus be effective. In my opinion
the regents have made an excellent
selection."
One of the professors in the stato
university : "Uanfield was an excel
lent chancellor and I think he did the
university more good than all of his
predecessors combined; but it is not
necessary to deify him. He had his
weaknesses just like ether men. He is
dictatorial to a degree and he some
times carried his animosities too far. I
think what The Courier 6aid about his
conduct with reference to Miss Smith
and Mrs. Manning entirely fair."
That the new chancellor of the state
university is an excellent man for the
place there appears to be no question.
Chancellor Cantield was largely instru
mental in securing the selection of Prof.
McLean as his successor, and he is
entitled to credit for his efforts to
Ma.er Bros, sometime ugo ordered
S'JO.OCO worth of shoes. Very recently
they were offered $2,000 for a release
from the contract a pretty sure indica
tion that there is something besides
talk in the predicted riso in the price
of shoes. As a matter of fact many
tilings an; advancing in price. Flour is
high, and leather goods are going up,
and ilrugB are in tho ascendent. In
dry goods thes.une tendency is manifest.
It is a trite saying that high prices
mean general prosperity.
There was a sermon delivered in Lin
coln last Sunday that the State Journal
did not see tit to publish. It was
preached by Rev. E. H. Chapin and
had for its subject ' Lincoln Misgovern-
Eb. E. MOCKETT.
secure so good a man as the present
chancellor.
Things are not as they used to be
between one young man and young
woman in this city. Now they do not
speak as they pass by. It was a pair of
bloomers that did it. Sho wanted to
wear them. He didn't want her to. She
had her way.
C. Y. Smith, who for some months
has been writing a series of interesting
articles on European travel for 1'he
Coukiek, expects to leave for the east
soon; and the articles will be discon
tinued Hntil late in tho summer. Mr.
Smith usually finds something interest
ing when he goes away from home, and
if he has his customary luck this sum
mer he may tell the readers of The
Courier about it.
ed; and the Causes of It." Rev.Chcpin
is not a dull man, and in casting about
for the causes of miegovernment of Lin
coln, he naturally found in the Journal
a principal cause, and he didn't hesitate
to say what the people of the town gen
erally think: "Another cause of tho
existent misgovernment is the daily
press of the city, the Evening Neirs
excepted. I am fully consci"iis, I hope,
of the candor, frankness and judicial
temper requited on my part to speak
'the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth' on this most important
subject. But if I know myself I ap
proach this part of my discourse with
out the least feeling of prejudice or un
friendliness toward those to whom I
must now address my words. Person
ally, I must acknowledge the uniform
courtesy with which I have been treated
by such a newspaper as the Nebraska
State Journal, and yet this must not
deter me from saying just what I believe
ought to be said now. My criticism of
tho State Journal is that it is unmoral.
Noto that I do not say that it is immoral,
but unmoral. I grant, however that
immorality in an individual, as in a
newspaper, may bo the worst kind of
immorality. There are few things more
reprehensible than that where one re
fuses to assume any moral responsibility
when it is clearly his duty to do it. I
call tho State Journal unmoral because
it is not guided by any proper sense of
truth or justice or animated by any
principle of right; but because it does
at all times just what tho party to
which it belongs or its own selfish busi
ness interests dictate. It is not for tho
people in any disinterested or noblo
sense that 1 can see, but for self. Truo
it stands by its party, good, bad or in
different, but this is only becauso it
finds it to its own temporal well being
to do it. Much of tho responsibility for
the inhuman and revolting practices
now carried on this city must be laid
at the door of the State Journal.
Those in control of that paper can
not plead ignorance. Thoy knew
tho kind of men who were being
elected to office and what they were be
ing elected for. Why then did they
give these men their support? Was it
that they were being paid or expected
to be paid for their services; and that
they preferred the city should be sunken
in debauchery and crime rather than
lose the little gain these services might
bring? The State Journal poses as a
great family and party paper; but what
kind of an examplo is this to set tho
youth of our city? Can our young men
and young women be taught love for
country, love for home and love for God
and humanity by such evident love for
self as this? Can any sort of moral
heroism or truo manliness or woman
liness spring out of such abject political
cowardice and worldly subservience?
I say that such a paper as the State
Journal has a moral obligation resting
upon it, and that is the obligation to do
right, and to cause others to do it so far
as it is within its power. This paper
does know better than to do many of tho
things it is doing; and it is accountable
not only to this community but to High
Heaven for its sins of omission and com
mission. Never will this city be wholly
freed from the troubles by which it is
now so grievously atllicted until our
newspapers become the patriotic, the
truth-loving, and tho man-loving insti
tutions thoy ought to be. Not until
they dare to teach true and unspotted
citizenship by rebuking the personal
corruption and political trickery and
wickedness of those with whom they are
called to deal will tho city be redeemed
and the newspapers themselves enter
upon their real mission."
I can imagine what a rattling of
editorial dry bones this touching little
tribute caused. If the patriarchal editor
blinked his eyes in horror, how the little
cur, known variously as titwillow, or
Will Owen Jones, that trots at his heels,
must have whined in misery. For these
editors and curs of the State Journal
do not like to have the truth hurled at
them. They are mighty touchy.
Steeped in a vicious subserviency to the
worst infiuences in the city they are not
without a realization of the immorality
of the prostitution to which the Journal
is committed, and they are very, very
tender on this point. It is tuff when a
reputable minister ventures to tell the
truth about the Journal in this public
manner. Of the two testimonials, the
one given by titwillow to Mr. Croan,
and the one given by Rev. Chapin to the
Journal, public opinion will unhes
itatingly repuaiate the first and endorse
the second.
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