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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1896)
-THIXOUKIER. THE LINCOLN LI FP JCSSTNt. V IS Ife AS -. Jf OCCUPIES MIDDLE GROUND BETWEEN THE "OLD LINE" OR OLD PA8HIONED LIPE COMPANIES AND, "AFTER DEATH ASSESSMENT"OR CREDIT SYSTEMS. IT I83UES A CLEAN PLAIN POLICY .ON THE FIVE YEAR DISTRIBUTION AND FIFTEEN YEAR SELF SUSTAINING PLANS 4 s ' -- !V t V 1 For full information apply to W. R. Proctor, Sec'y ar. home of f ice rooms 3o4-5-6-7, Farmers and Merchants Insurance block or to Fred S Clincon'or Allen S. Gren; general agents. s NOTES OF bUMMBR CHAUTAUQUAS Dr. Graham Taylor, the lecturer on people as the lecture. One of the most economics at the Crete Chautauqua, re- interesting features of this experience ports in his paper, "Chicago Commons," was the conference with the men in the some of hie experiences in summer' Santa Fe railway repair shops, where, at Chautauqua's aa follows: the noon hour, foremen, mechanics and "The growth ofjeocial consciousness and laboring men, grouped around their culture is nowhere more apparent than great machines, listened to the discus in the numerous summer assemblies for sion of the motive and the methods of popular education. The attendance and the labor movement. The social spirit , attention given to classes for the study of the occasion found no more beautiful of the social teachings of the Bible and expression than in the . noon concert to courses of lectures on the labor move- given in these shops by the orchestra, sent and other branches of social eco- who, as members of the Musicians' nomics are simply astonishing, even to union of Kansas City, volunteered this one in constant personal contact with token of fraternity to their brother the growing interests in these direc- workingmeu. Dr. Gunsaulus well ex tioos. The new movement seems to be claims, "Give me a Kansas audience!" in solution everywhere, needing only a istebestjn Nebraska. point to p.ecipitate upon. While prev- In Nebraska, at the Crete Assembly, sleet usaoog all classes, it is noteworthy the same interest manifested itself iu that the women of the west seem to have similar ways. The note bookc, the de a greater degree of social interest and mand for biography, the references to intelligence than any other class of the books read, the study of labor cointuw pepulation. This is largely due to the sioner Wright's Chautauqua text book, woman's clubs which have grown so entitled "jfhe Industrial Evolution of rapidly even in the agricultural states, the United States," the intense interest that they seem to be well nigh omni- in the Btory of the rise and progress of present. For fifteen years the Woman's tne labor movement through the pest Social Science club of Kansas has done six hundred years' of English history, a splendid educational and social work aH'bore evidence of the deepening social for the womanhood of that great com- consciousness of the nation and the moo wealth. When a bright woman growing social intelligence of these was known to be living on some lonely western states. The tremendous nural ranch or in an isolated town she was in. earnestness with which social aspects of vited to the meeting of this club, which, the coinage question were discubsed, not for wider usefulness, though at the in.- only by such representative debaters as ceaveuience of the majority of its mem- Hon. John P. Irish, the effective advo bers, has been held in every quartersof cate of thegoid standard, and the bnl the state. When necessary, her, travel-, liant Mr. Bryan, presidential candidate iBg expenses -were paid, that she might of the silver sentiment, but also by all take part in discussion or read her first classes of the people themse'ves, was a paper. Thus there came to be little revelation to an eastern man. What groups of women in every county, gath- ever may be thought of. the economic ered around leaders whoreceived their principles involved, no man can.gainaay training in this way; so that when the the candor, ability, depth of conviction state club federated the local centers and manly spirit with which the con, there were found to be quite a thousand tending views are held and discussed, members Since., women have the 'The nation has little to fear from ihis municipal suffrage in Kansas the Big- great awakening of such a citizenship niticance of this social training is great, to active participation in its economic and its effect is in plain sight. So ef- development and legislation, factually is the prohibitory law en- labor meetings at des moines. forced, for example, in Ottawa, and to so. The large city constituency thit Des high an ideal has the social order been Moines supplies to the new Iowa Mid raised, that its population of 8,000 people Iaad Chautauqua was no exception to require but one policeman by day and the prevailing popular interest in the another at night! The jail stands empty same themes. The many appointments most of the time, and no grand jury has for their disuueaiou on the ground did been necessary during the ten y:ars. not prove sufficient, and invitations Disciissixo the church's mimstbt. poured from the city for the repetition So great was the demand for teach- of some of the address? or presentation iag on social topics a' the Chautauqua Assembly that the writer' eighteen ap pointments rew to thirty during the tea days of his visit, special conferences beiBfj requested by tbe young women college graduates and undergraduate, by public school teachers and .superin teadents, by pastors, fifty of ( whom, representing various denominations, were present eager! v discussing the seciah aspects .of their pwn and the eacrebs mtajstrrf So many ere .the iaavifteS'rsgardiBg the topics, of ' each ieetare that a question hour, was held of other phases of the subject. Confer ences were held with three hurches,the social economic section u' itie Woman's club and the Trades aud Labor As sembly. On Sunday night the gn-at Calvary Tabernacle tield a largo .iudieuce of workingtuen and wouicu, among whom were many busiuesd uj professional men, bankers and employers of labor, who seemed to listen with equal i mer est to the discussion of labor and re ligion and a hat was com sun to both The following evening the invitation of every erseiag, and drew nearly as ir.any workingmeo to meet them in their Tradesand Libir Assembly hall was accepted for the purpose of an informal conversatinnil conferance over the ways and mean of making the most and the best of their labor unions. There, for three hours, the men list ened to the plainest talk and the frank est criticism. They appreciated the best that the speakers had t" offer and applauded the reading of Arnold Toyn bee's most conciliatory pleadingB. One of their number, an old English miner, made the most telling speech. Ridicul ing the workingmen's subserviencyto party, by which his old countrymen had been kept crying to this Tory lord, "pictr us up, and to that Liberal com moner, "pick us up," and by which American workingmen were still cry ing, "McKinley, pick us up."' "Bryan, pick us up," the ''old-man eloquent"' thundered out, "it's time to pick our selves up!" and again. "The man that can't mas'er the week's wages he earns won't master the movement for more." The Tabernacle pastor.himBeK a gradu ate from an Eoglish coal mine, and one of the most heroic of American city mission workers with Parkhurst in New York, alone in Omaha, and single-handed in Des Moines, made a rousing plea for the brain power of the workingmen to be applied to the study of industrial economics and the history of the labor movement. BEGIJfMSG A NEW EPOCH. One of the leading editors of the city, who had been keenly interested throughout, declared it to have been one of tne most enjoyable and profitable evenings he had ever passed, and pre dicted that this meeting would prove to have oegun a new and inestimably im portant educatioual movement for the people of Jes Moines. One of the trades unionists immediately turned his prop hecy ,into history by moving that' the' firs of a series p such meetings be held" in two weeke, und that tbe editor, min ister and the old miner be invited to ad dress it. With a vim it was 60 voted, and with hand-shaking all around the new brotherhood adjourned to meet many a time thus to pray, "that come it may, As come it will, for a' that That man to man. the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that." Empress Josephine toilet preparation face bleach, face tonic, hair tonic, etct at Kleinkauf & Grimes', 117 North lie. 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