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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1895)
THE COURIER. in M It 1 THE OLD HOMESTEAD Quincy, Mass., July 7, 1895. -By gad," said ho, "I am deu cod glad to get back to Boston. I wired my wife yesterday I would be home today and told her to cook some beans. I haven't had any for three weeks. I won't do a thing to those beans. Tell you what it is, gentlemen, there is nothing in the line of food equal to the reliable Boston Baked Beans with steaming hot brown bread. By gad, it is elegant. I am sick of this western beef. You can't cut it, you know, without an axe or something heavy and sharp." The above thrilling statement was made in the smoking room of the sleep er as I neared Boston enroute from Chicago. I admire a man- who speaks the truth, and more especially when the subject is either Boston or Beans. It is fairly fas cinating. When he remarked about Boston baked beans with steaming hot brown bread, my mouth watered deep ly. I was bathed in a transport of joy- Ho keen the pleasure to return to one's native home after years of absence. To see, as of old, the trees, the woods, the rocks, the river, the harbor, the ocean, the old colonial house which has stood for a hundred years among the elms and horse chestnuts, the old barn with loft full of hay, where we as boys used to play hide and seek under the hay hidden beams. all scenes of my youthful days. As I sit beneath the great bronze chandelier, facing the great iron fire place with -Us shining brass andirons and antique mantel in white, and now and then gaze out the windows which reach from floor to ceiling, upon a de lightful view, over the green fields, across the water to tho pine hills be yond, my thoughts are like a dream. 'Tib a very pleasant reverie which ac companies a return to old associations. The truth ot this is more forcible per haps, when one has returned to the old home where he was born and lived for the greater part of his life. I first saw the light of day, like ray father before me, in the south east room upstairs, of this Did house, on December 27, 18G-, two days after Christmas. This, from the' outset, was unfortunate, because I have never, or rather seldom, received any birthday presents. It, early in my life, became a custom to unite the presents which I might ordin arily receive on these two great days, into one present, which I was forced to accept as a birthday present or a Christ mas present Berore 1 was old enough to talk, I used to amuse myself by tak ing any one present and looking upon it, first as a Christmas present, and then when i got tired of it as such I would turn it over and play with it as a birth day present. I naturally learned to give to my gifts a double value. Ihe unfortunate side of this matter arose in later years when I learned to recognize and call by name the several pieces of money which are so much sought for today. According to the theory' of my younger days, when I was presented with four dollars, Lin reality had eight dollars, four for my Christmas present and four for my birthday present. There is a difference between getting fun out of a toy of twice its joy-giving capacity and getting eight dollars worth of fun or good out of four dollars. When a lad I had little trouble to imagine twice as much fun. as I really had, but I have never been able to imagine that when I had four dollars I in reality had eight dollars. I have always felt sorry about this, for it would be a matter of somn convenience to me, and at critical times SOCIALISM AT CRETE source ot great annoyance in later days; SOCIALISM A I Ct l B consiaerea appeals io a morma ana de- .. . .: .. . . structive sentiment in the people. nr- my mower used to tie it up in a long cipitate a revolutionary movement that braid, and my playmates used to pull it, jjr. Bayard Holmes and Prof. Graham wouj reaiiy delay genuine progress in and further add to my discomforture by Taylor, both of Chicago, the former a SQci&l reform. Americans of this last giving me the distinguished appellation surgeon, and lately &5;ig half of the Nineteenth century are not ,. . ., . ,. j . or of that city on the populist ucaei, in all respects comparable to the French- of "Pigtail.' And later on, as I was a and the iatter a member of the faculty men of BitUe more than a hundred fat faced little shaver. I received the 0f the University of Chicago, were the j.earsaco. Philosophy was then an almost name of "Tony Lumpkins." principal speakers at the Crete Chau- forbidden science or study. Now. it is a But after all those days were full of tauqua AHgnj subject for unusual contemplation. . T . . iva evening. These gentlemen uiscussea among our own people especially, and pleasure. I remember how we bojs ubjectB. though from a radically we not ready tTadmit that we have used to rake together the horsechestnut different standpoint. Dr. Holmes is t eajnej anything by a hundred vears ....... .. iiii. A...nt- hnnacr man- u - . z . .. leaves which rell from tne nail circle ot unuouDteaiy an uci, uu. -, tr in front of the house and build but he makes extravagant statements, trees in front of the house, and build .n tfae uge of adjec. houses and forts, and when Deacon tives He ig given to appiying superla- Bills, the good old deacon of the Baptist tive terms to comparative conditions. ohnrph nr Phnrlnv TTnvi?An tin wan H ifi of the Herron typo of socialist v mmb-vt utwm uw - th. fat tnnn nf nnr tntrn nml trulai- thinkerS. MOTO than UV . WB. VH W.. Hf .w . once in nis aa- ,i.nMM uia n-Aolr Via rtftrrf tn Herron. for that matter passed by, how we an(j it was evident to his hearers that he would pelt him with horsechestnuts jB in entire accard with Herronism. from behind our fort of leaves. And if Wednesday he referred to Altgeld. the more or less frenzied governor ot Illi nois. And he had only good words to say oi mis niau uu jruuuucu iuc uui cago they chased us, as they often did, we would leg it for the old barn and hide under the hay in the loft. Often times nno anarchists of the Haymarket we played around the wharves at the Square riots, and who sought to prevent Point where the shins were in dock un- president oi ine umiiw o.-. uu of honest, earnest study of mankind and the conditions of human society. We believe that the new era of more perfect equality and a more generally dis tributed prosperity will be brought about without guillotining thousands and hundreds of thousands of innocent persons; without the dreadful and un precedented brutality and crime and destruction of the revolution that took the throne of France from Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. A few more such experiences as that of last summer in Chicago would bring us dangerously near the state of 1793; and that experience was, to a large extent, the result of utterances of men like Altgeld and loading coal or lumber. fun to climb the shrouds and ratlins of the tall masts. Had our parents known it we would have been spanked and put to bed. But they never knew. And then when the tide was coming in we went in swimming in what we called the "Little Cove' which was out around Germantown Point. It was a greit day for the boy when he first could swim across this little cove some twenty feet wide and ten feet deep. His next feat was to swim the "Big Cove" where the larger boys went in. Back of the school house is a large acreage of grass land, in May blue with violets, and beyond the woods we called Point Holes. What sport we had here knocking down the shellbark nuts with sticks and stones. And then, too, there was Pine Pasture on the other side of town. A beautiful grove of pines whose fra grance is so pleasing to the smell. To you, perhaps, these names and my early associations are meaningless, but you may draw some idea, perhaps, from them what my present pleasure is as I go over in mind my first and only play ground. In my next letter I will speak of Bos ton and Quincy and make note of such items as I consider of interest to you. C. Y. Smith. It was ereat exertitig his authority for the protection H d H , .!!,: ! rtMVBtoJK&Z danger. There are. h Herein is the lnxxA. Tkao nM. !n thlo Annt... ...,v --. r i uauucit iucic aid tu ima tuuuin. iucii jmJfLJSJZFZ. ke Washington Gladden and that other uCuU m .-...u "-"" Crete lecturer, Pror. Taylor, who are mend. He dejpreca ed he punishment committed to the course of social re- 2ZM? " r'S form; but who labor along rational, legit- ftc it opf"" v ?xb.' imiito Itnoc anil tf ia tn man nr rhic rtoe that the nation looks for the solution of the vexing problems of the day. the police of Chicago were responsible for the Hay- market riot. He discussed corporations, and said much that was true. Then he said that no honest, pure man can remain in any legislative body in this country from the United States senate down, and have any power or influence. He reflected on the sweeping nature of this assertion and afterwards modified it. Holmes would assail and demolish and bring a hit-or-miss revolution. He sees nothing good in an evolution into a better state. The change mu6t come by revolution. He denies that he is an anarchist. But he cannot disavow his iconoclasm. And like most persons of his ilk he has much more to say in abuse of existing conditions than he has of the remedies to be applied. Prof. Graham Taylor is wholly sincere and as earnest a socialist thinker and speaker as there is in the country. He is full of the tremendous importance of this subject that men like Holmes handle so glibly of its gravity, and the danger of ill considered discussion; and his manner is halting and apologetic as compared to the self-confidence and assertiveness of Holmes. He is serious and thoughtful and careful. His state ments are temperate, and somehow they find a much more secure lodgment than the extravagant sayings of his fellow lecturer. He appeals to reason where Holmes appeals to prejudice. His course is safer, and is bound to be more effective. Prof. Tayor spoke of imnii gration and the. congested population and crime of this country, and he con sidered his subject in a forcible manner, making a distinct impression. Unre stricted immigration he considers a menace. He talked of the methods of dealing with crime in municipalities and arraigned the so-called "reservation" sys tem, and police and official corruption trenerallv. ItispaRV tn h Hamhnvant r i" i . ..... a .. " . - uaiayette; ana so mine cnange mat is on a subject of this kind; but he was at In the beginning of the French revo lution there were men like Marat who knew conditions ought to be changed, but who could, apparently, find no other way of bringing about the new order than the indiscriminate chopping off of heads. Now, after the lapse of years, there are those who believe that even the Marats and Robespierres served a purpose that could not be achieved by 6uch republicans as the . Marauise CHANCES OF SUCCESS Some figuring has been done by persons interested in the success of the whole republican ticket at this fall's election. Waite, it will be remem bered, was defeated by Baker for clerk of the district court by 124 votes. There was an unusual combination against Waite, a combination that could not be duplicated this year, and even with the tremendous opposition Waite had to face, an opposition that has since mater ially diminished, he received 3234 votes, or 50 votes more than Lansing, who was elected. Votes in detail were as follows: Republican again taxing piace in tne Bociai con ditions of the world, and in this coun try particularly, and that must soon take on a greatly accelerated movement, it is contended that the Herrons and the Altgelds and the Waites and the Holmeses, to say nothing of the Spieses and the Herr Mosts, are serving a useful purpose in pricking the public con- science. The danger is that they may, Canon City coal by their incessant and sometimes ill- Coal and Lime Co. all times intelligently conservative. The Courier has not the space to report his lecture in detail, Suffice it to say that his addresses were highly appreciated throughout the assembly, and were un questionably productive of good. The country needs more Taylors and fewer Holmses. at the Whitebreast Wescott 3672 Woods 3745 McClay 3597 Lansing 3282 Waite 3234 Independent Maule 2537 Dauren 2633 Eldfind 2394 Wynn 2414 Baker 3353 Democrat Carver 1333 Neenan 1332 Hubbard 1724 Whitmore 2030 McClay beat Baker 239 votes; Woods YOU DONT HAVE TO buy your clothes of us, but are you dressed, if you buy them elsewhere? Then our prices. You don't pay us any more for a suit than the other fellow, bee! E WING CLOTHING COMPANY UUWOUH PMW beat Baker 387 votes, and Wescott beat Caker U14 votes. Baker beat Lansing 26 votes; Baker beat Waite 124 votes. When these figures are considered, with an understanding of the conditions save me from unnecessary worry and that prevailed four years ago, politicians embaraasment. ' " have no difficulty in persuading them- Those who know tell me I had beau- SffS Concert from 1 to 10:30 P. M. tuui goiueu nmr wuen x was a cuuu this year. Field which hung down my bacK like silken Genuine Coal Creek Canyon and Rock threads. But this adornment became a Springs coal at the Whitebreast. O. HoWt, Manage 9 -4l.ta.XJLtA.g?X4 Open at all times for Picnics and Excursions. Picnic grounds in the State. Finest SUNDAY, JULY 14Tfl, 1895. BalIoonAscens.onat5:30P. M. Boatins Bathing sports, Races, Menagerie, Floral Garden, etc. Come out and bring the children.