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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1896)
fcisft THE COURIER. Highest of all in Leavening Powers-Latest U. S. Gov't Report $m Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE The A- P. A- is rapidly obtaining a dominant Influence in the politics of this county and this state. Surely pa triotism can be subserved without re course to mediaeval means. The schools and government can be effect ively protected by other than secret processes. The formidable intellect that is pro ductive of so many and varied mental curios In the editorial columns of the reverently esteemed State Journal has finally been brought to bear upon the subject of libel. Possibly there may have been those who Imagined that once the editorial genius of the Journal grap pled with this subject it, the subject, would be completely exhausted. Any such apprehension was groundless. Whatever effect the editorial antics may have had on the Impelling intel lect, however wearied and exhausted the luminous journalistic servitor may have been, the subject itself remained untouched. All of the Journal's fecundity in artifice and oraculor platitudinous ambiguity was called into play in deal ing with a subject that Is of interest to the press and people alike, and I may be pardoned for complimenting the Journal on its special and unusual agil ity in dodging the Issue. Much prac tice has rendered the diurnal contem porary well nigh perfect In the peculiar art of filling columns of so-called edi torial matter without the expression of a single opinion on any subject. Any fool can talk and give his convictions. The fool who can talk forever and never give expression to a single idea is spe cially favored. , 'S these columns. But there is grave doubt shadows across the white spaces, and after going down on the field of bat whether the A. P. A. is, properly speak- making wierd sounds that penetrate tie, after the last requiem has been ing, patriotic. Whether its tendency is the furthermost recesses of the grave- sounded, after being nailed into his not to defeat the very purpose for yard, and carry beyond into the realm coffin and pounded into the earth, his which, it is claimed, it was organized, is of the living, awakening unpleasant shade rises from the sepulcher and per open to question. Bespeaking freedom memories long since passed into quie- forms ghoulish antics in the quiet that and liberty it may of Itself be creating " a condition of thralldom. Certainly it is provocative of bitter and unnecessary strife and the cause of denominational contention out of which no good can come. It allows Itself to be ridden by unscrupulous men and made an agent for the accomplishment of purposes the very opposite of patriotic. Fundamen tally opposed to any Jesuitical system it Is today following in the footsteps of the Jesuits so far as methods are con cerned. Supposedly fighting intrigue and secret manipulation it is rearing a scheme of oath-bound allegiance and revenge that is repugnant to the great distinctive American idea. tude. moving men to indignation, to ensued upon his death-lThe ghost of anathema, to disgust, to protest Be- Tom Majors, having already made one fore this same Tom Majors yielded up or two manifestations, nkes bold ap his unwilling and most obstinate splr- pearance on the announcement of the it he was productive of discord, enmity, candidacy of George Meikeljohn, and vexation. He walked into the abode of beckons and gesticulates and moans and peace and there was war. He yearned yells. But to no purpose. Outside the for the flesh pots and stretched forth his City of Dea"d there Is a great and mov covetous hands and injected his wear- ing sentiment ihat will brook no spec isome person and foment arose and tral visitations particularly of the Tom smoke ascended, and there was tribula- Majors sort and from this sentiment tion and gnashing of teeth. And now, will come a flagellation of the spirit that will make It more transparent and hopelessly flattened than ever spirit was before. Some months -ago George W. Smal ley, journalist, returned to this country " "-J - J1 .-.'. ..- -V- Yto" 1 . ' - m. ds&-" . 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AND IS BETTER ADAPTED TO THE NEEDS OF THB PEOPLE OF THAT SECTION THAN ANY PAPER FARTHER EAST. It is In accord with the people of the West both in Politics and Literature. Please remember that the pries of The Weekly Inter Ocean is ONLY ONE DOL LAR per year. Address THE INTER QCEAN. Chicago. ; f -M Vfe r -2 The Journal In the editorial above re ferred to says tritely, "The publisher has nothing to fear if .he tells the truth." The reproduction of this frequently voiced sentiment in the columns of the Journal seems to Indicate, not that the Journal in any way fathers the bold Idea advanced, but that It recognizes in a dim sort of way that a newspaper can properly tell the truth. The Jour nal is no iconoclast or pioneer, however, and It is not going to venture on a poli cy of truth-telling until such a course is much safer than it now Is. And now comes the remains of the once mortal body of Tom Majors and lo! the corpse dances on its own grave, disturbing the peace and solitude of the great City of Dead, sending quaint SUBSCRIPTIONS JOB At NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES Received. We caai supply any periodical published in any country in any language 4 H 4 v. A "V4I ?", ,M