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Apropos of the tempest raging in the
G. A. R. tea pot because of Professor
Foesler and the American flag, it may
not be amiss to remark that Americans
never had so solemnly appropriate an
occasion to feel ashamed for their ilag
as they have in this year of our Lord,
1896 Farragut post to the contrary not
withstanding. There was a time when America and
free government were worth fighting
for and dying for, but that was in the
good old days, in glorious reminiscences
of which the veterans are living, and de
fending which they speak for their
flag. There was a time when our free
institutions stood for a great principlo,
and when statesmen and jurists, spot
less in character, pure in motive and
grand in ability, stood champions in
their behalf. There was a time when
our laws were enacted on behalf of so
ciety, when they were executed with
honor and integrity, and passed upon in
the clear light of reason and justice be
tween man and man.
But the time of good and honest gov
ernment has passed. Ihe grand old
statesmen and jurists, of high ideals
and lofty purposes have gone, and their
places have never been filled. A people
who believed in democracy, equality and
justice have been replaced by a people
who believe only in the dollar, and any
way to get it. Our free institutions,
cemented with the life's blood of patriot
fathers, have come to be a mockery and
a farce in the hands of degenerate bode.
Official life, wo say it and know it, is
corrupt. Dishonesty and fraud are at a
premium. Bad laws may be bought of
the law makers, good laws may be rend
erpd null and void by the purchase of
their executors, and justice, in be
draggled ermine, with both eyes open
wide, allows her scales to be freely
tipped with bags of gold. These things
not only may be, but are. We know it,
because we see it here at home.
There is not a good citizen of Lincoln
but knows that tbe administration of
our city government reeks in stultified
dishonesty, shameless indecency and
brazen defiance of every principle of a
good, pure government. There is not
an intelligent citizen of Nebraska but
knows that many of the laws on our
statute books were bought and paid
for; that while fraud ard corruption
have been unearthed galore in the ad
ministration of state institutions, what
has been discovered is as nothing to
what is daily practiced and unrecorded.
From the policeman on his beat to
the judge on the bench and the execu
tive at his desk, every official in public
life today looks upon his
office as a private snap. Public dishon
esty and peculation are not considered a
private disgrace.
Such is the condition of our govern
ment today. This is the meaning of
"Free America'" modernized and up to
date. If there was ever
"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong
forever on the throne"
it is here and now. Not even the presi
dent of the United States is exempt
from the universal belief in general pub
lic dishonesty. And as for congress,
rendesvouz of such men as Dave Hill
and Matt Quay and Cal. Brice, it
swarms with the lobbyists that infest
and disgrace it, until even the president
has found that bribery is the only way
in which it is possible to secure the pas
sage of a law. It is an open secret that
tbe dictum of a Kotshchild or a Carne
gie, backed by the all pervading withal,
can secure from our government today
legislation and favoritism that would
never be forthcoming in response to the
petition of a million voters.
Corruption, shameless dishonesty and
immorality, it is everywhere. In every
city, in every state, throughout the
nation the festering gangreno of public
dishonor is fast eating away the integ
rity and morality of the American
people. Politics, it is a game of tho
partisanship of the many and the greed
of tho few. And the many, they who
make dishonesty possible, who vote for
it and hurrah for it, they are the most
culpable.
The citizens of Lincoln who voted for
Frank Graham and prostitution and
gambling and bad government, because
tbey were on the republican ticket, and
Lgainst morality and good government
because they were running as demo
crats, they are the real criminals.
They are tho cause, Frank Graham,
et al., are the inevitable effects.
But, as I starte d in to eay, our flag,
what does it stand for? Today it
means nothing more or less than a care
less, ignorant people kuowingly sanc
tioning public dishonesty and national
immorality. Tomorrow, and that a
morrow soon to dawn, it will represent a
people themselves dishonest, sordid and
debased, and unfit for self government.
Then will come our Caesar, and then
our fall.
And in the meantime, the saintly,
scholarly city of Lincoln may be de
penued on to elect any yellow dog that
runs for office on the republican ticket
next spring.
The complete works of Robert Brown
ing have recently been published in a
single volume by Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. The typography of the volume is
very clear and the paper and binding
tasty and substantial. I am glad thus
to see Browning put in reach of all
classes of people, and, as this volume is
published at a very moderate price,
would suggest that Lincoln culture,
which has so signalized itself by its
greedy appreciation of "Beside the Bon
nie Brier Bush" and the "Prisoner of
Zenda," might still further evince its
existence by adding Browning to its
visiting list.
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The doctors disagree. Our duty as a
"Christian nation" toward Venezuela
does not seem to be clearly marked.
One minister arises in his pulpit and de
clares that we will be acting in an un
christian manner it we take one of two
possible courses, and another minister
at the same time declares our action will
be reprehensible If we take the other
course. It seems a clear case of "be
damned if you do, and be damned If you
don't."
Said Dr. Rowlands, in his published
sermon last Sunday:
"Venezuela Is a turbulent, half-clvillz-ed
and half-savage, misnamed 'repub
lic' in South America." and he declares
that:
"So far as the Interests of civilization,
morality and religion are concerned. It
would be a blessing if the British flag
waved over every Inch of Venezuela."
Rev. C. M. Shepherd, on the other
hand, says:
"In the relation of kinsman he always
is to be condemned who fails of brother
ly kindness. Nay, more, the sturdy man
who refuses to answer the appeal of a
sobbing child in the hands of brutality
wins the lasting contempt of fellow
men, and this nation in its strength
cannot stand idly by while a monarchy
slowly puts to death a young and strug
gling republic without men feeling con
tempt for its selfishness.
We trust war will not be, yet It Is to
be preferred to a dishonorable desertion
of those we ought to help."
These words would Indicate that the
first speaker does not agree with Dr.
Rowlands that the interests of "civili
zation, morality and religion" require
British conquest and domination of
Venezuela.
Rev. Shepherd evidently believes with
the great body of llberty-lovlng Ameri
cans, that freedom and Justice are not
to the refined and Intelligent alone, but
that even a "half-clvlllzed and half
savage" race has. In the eye of God.
equal rights even with the British em
pire. There will be no war over Venezuela.
King Pelf will never permit it. But the
land-grabbing, liberty-crushing policy
of England has received a decisive set
back. Our government has declared
boldly and firmly that America Is for
American rule, not European aggrand
izement. We have said that we will
protect American self-rule, If need be,
by a resort to arms. The oppression
England metes out to India and Ire
land she can never plant on American
soil not even though the best Interests
of civilization and religion require it.
The mourner in a darkened room
bowed in grief above his dead. He
wept for her who was gone, and in his
sorrow he found no grain of comfort.
She was dead, and he would see her no
more forever.
Ho was old and bent and wrinkled.
His poor, thin hand shook as with a
palsy, and the tears rolled slowly down
his face and fell on the face of her who
slept the eternal sleep.
And ho who wept lived again tho days
that had gone by, days happy and full
of joy. He looked back through the
long vista of the departed years and
saw her who now lay cold and still
walking with him hand in hand, a
maiden, through quiet groves and along
grassy lanes as the sun sank low in
golden splendor. He lived again tho
years they had lived together and to
gether builded a homo, toiling and
struggling on and on through the heavy
days and weeks and months, sustained
and comforted in life's hardships by tho
comradeship of a perfect mutual sym
pathy. And now she was dead and gone. He
was alone. Then, in his grief, he dreamed
a dream, and all was well. He saw
tbe dead alive, revivified. She walked
through grassy pastures, along quiet
streams and waited for him. In some
mysterious way death had been over
come, and she over whose body he was
bending even then, in the beauty and
radiance of her maiden youth, awaited
his coming on the further shore.
So was the mourner comforted. His
dream became real to him. Ho called
it instinct. He looked on the world, and
Io! it glowed and gleamed in the soft
and loving hues of the amber and the
violet.
And while he lived his life and
dreamed his dream, arhile he saw the
world through the seven hued arch of
radiant hope, she who had died, was
dead. Only the dreamer did not
know it.
"But see, amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from
out
The scenic solitude.
It writhes! it writhes! with mortal
pangs
The mimec become its food.
And tbe angels sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued."
H. E. NEWBRANCH.
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