VOL,. 10, NO 35.
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LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 1895.
OBSERVATIONS.
IN a few weeks now the real main
spring of Lincoln's business life,
the schools, will be restored to its
place and business, of all kinds will feel
the effect of a student population from
outride of Lincoln of from three to four
thousand persons. The various schools
in this city cause to be expended among
the merchants of the town from $10,000
to 115,000 per week. The schools are a
good thing, and they should be encour
aged. The coming season promises the
largest attendance yet recorded and
this one element alone will give stimu
lus to all kinds of local trade.
At a meeting of one of the ward dele
'gatiuns interested in the candidacy of
certain men for the office of judge of
the district court, prior to the conven
tion, a delegate expressed the wish that
the time might come and come quickly
when candidates for judge would be re
moved from the general scramble for
political office, lie regretted that the
candidates for judge were compelled to
get down on the bailiff's level, and run
with him, at the same time, for a nom
ination. This sentiment, which has
had frequent expression in these col
umns, was received with a considerable
demonstration of approval. This sub
ject has been seriously considered of
late, and it is possible that the people
who are interested in improving the
judiciary system, placing it beyond the
reach of partisan politics, may see this
change effected at a day not far distant.
Judges of our courts should not be in
p ilitics. They should not be politicians,
in the ordinary acceptation of the word.
For the last fivo years people have
wondered at the seeming success of a
man in this city whose name and enter
prise were under consideration in last
week's Courier. With absolutely
nothing to commend him, without
money, without ?redit, with antecedents
that were calculated to inspire instant
distrust rather than even a modified
confidence, this man, an empiric in his
business, almost an object of ridicule,
by dint of perseverence and that su
preme assurance which the perfect
fraud always possesses, did push his en
terprise along, erect buildings, lure
patrons into his scheme, and achieve a
certain modicum of success that many
an abler, bettor man would have fallen
far short of. This man's career has
been a mystery and a surprise. Of
course it had to come to an end. And
it came; but it was long delayed. Most
impecunious adventurers of this type
are given to setting up elaborate
structures in Spain; but few of them
are able to get the brick and mortar to
gether in their own land as did this pro
moter. If the person who makes two
blades of grass to grow where formerly
but one grew is entitled to credit. I
suppose the person who creates some
thing out of nothing is fairly entitled to
some consideration, and this the pro
moter did.
The sensational preacher still con
tinueson his bent. Last Sunday he
preached on "Sensational Preaching'
In justification of his course he said
Luther was a sensational preacher.
Now, using the word in its broadest
sense, there are two kinds of sensational
preaching. One kind is represented by
Martin Luther and a representative of
the other may be found in Kev. Byron
Beall; and between these two men and
Mr.Beall to assume that because Luther
aroused men's minds by his appeals to
reason and intelligence, and assisted in
the Reformation, he provided a prece
cent for the bombastic buncombe with
he, the Rev. Beall, seeks to keep him
self before the public.
It is said that the Associated Press
will call the feverish Mr. Rosewater to ac
count for thosj inflammatory dispatches
he caused to be sent out from Omaha.
The people of the country really thought
there was a reign of terror in Nebraska
and riot in Omaha, whereas the inflam-
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their methods there is a space so vast
that even thought itself can scarcely
span it. The one kind of sensational
preaching seeks to storm the citadel of
human intelligence by xhe sledge
hammer blows of honent conviction and
earnest purpose directed by an honest
mind. That was Luther's kind of sen
sational preaching. The other kind is
a flippant and inconsequential striving
after effect, a blatant appeal to ignor
ance or prejudice, an attempt to arouse
curiosity, to provoke comment, to
achieve notoritey; a manifestation in
which there is neither intellectual power
nor real sincerityofpurpostjadrosson the
surface that attracts the frivolous, the
fanatics and the foolish. It is idle for
mation and riot and disorder were confined
to the brain of the editor of the Omaha
Bee. Some sort of restraint, or punish
ment, or treatment should be devised
for Mr. Rosewater, and there should be
no delay in applying the same.
The men and women who came to
Lincoln in the early days when the
town was in the swaddling clothes of
infancy, are no longer young. They
are along in the meridian of life and
beyond, and they are beginning to pass
away. While there is yet time The
Courier proposes to secure from these
pioneers the material for a series of
sketches of "Early Days in Lincoln,"
which will be commenced at once. All
old residents of Lincoln are requested
to Iecd their cooperation in this enter
prise. A number of sketches are al
ready arranged for and I can promise
the readers of The Courier much en
tertainment in these reminiscences.
Life in Lincoln prior to the eighties
was neither prosaic nor conventional.
The west was wild and Lincoln was a
frontier town. The people were few in
number and bound together by a com
mon interest that made the popula
tion practically one big family.
People saw far more of each other
and knew far more of each other
in those days than they do now. Life
may have had its hardships, but it was
full of zest, and 1 doubt if any of the
old settlers look back to the early days
without a certain regret, and a feeling
that whatever may be their present
condition or lot, there are no times like
the old times. Much information that
is of real historical interest is passing
away unrecorded with these first com
ers, and it is the purpose of The Cour
ier to secure this material before, it is
too late. Will those who can, assist in
this endeavor?
Next week Miss Harris will assume
her duties as associate editor of The
Courier, and Miss Cather will also
commence her contributions to the
theatrical and other departments of this
paper. Incidental to this enlargement
of the staff a great many improve
ments and new departures are now
being considered, and these plans will
be developed as rapidly as possible. Ar
rangements are being made to secure
correspondents and representatives in
all of the important towns of the state,
and subscriptions are now being re
ceived from many points in Nebraska.
The Lancaster county republican con
vention was held this week. Two weeks
or even a week ago, no political prophet
was able to pick the winners. The
trend of opinion was that an element of
the party other than that which finally
dictated the nominations would control
the action of the convention. As
it turned out the convention came
nearer being what a republican county
convention should be than any similar
gathering in recent years. The people,
not the professional politicians, domi
nated, and the ticket selected is singu
larly representative and clean. Mon
day's convention demonstrates the fact
that however strongly entrenched cer
tain politicians and interests appear to
be the people can, at any time, rise
above them, and dictate nominations
and control the action of the party
all along the. line. No set of pol
iticians is able to hold sway when
once the people are fully aroused. The
people are as a rule easy to manage, and
it is only occasionally that they exert
the power that is in them. The advan
tage gained in this week's convention
phould be followed up, and if the interest
that was then manifested can be kept
alive, it will be kept up.
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