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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1896)
rOL 11 NO. 41 ESTABLISHED IN 1S86 K... , PRICE FIVE CENTS x BB1 -iMl BBBWBBeX y.XKSVaMAV w'BBBaeBBWo'mBM BBBBBk iBPBBBv LINCOLN NEB., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1806, Tvrtravnrr OTFICB AT LISCOM AS taCOStD-CLAU MATT PUBLISHED BVEBT SATURDAY x TS COiltlER PR1NT1HG UD P6BL1SH1M 61 Office 1132 N street, UpStaiis. Telephone 384. SARAH B. HARRIS Editor Subscription RatesI Advance. Psr annum !2-$5 Biz months 100 Three months Onemonth ." Single copies sv bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbL?bbbssbbs OBSERVATIONS I Canton is a small placo but it is en joying a scarce prosperity since Mr. Mc Kinley's nomination. The crowds wh'ch come to pay him their respects must be fed and lodged and warmed and souvenired and photografed. When hotel keepersjewelers, merchant princes and photographers have their pocketB full of money, their neighbors get some of it, all in the way of trade. m A large business does not live in itself, but it is like a cistern with pipes all around its circumference, leading to other cisterns and making a Bystem. All of the cis terns may be filled if water enough ie let into one of them. This is natural law in the business world. There is no one who can dispute the first premise. It is only when it is carried to the in evitable conclueion that a large busi ness, like a railroad company or manu factory, which employs thousands of men and builds, buys and produces un ceasingly, is beneficent that the popu lists get excited and call all combined commercial energy an octupus which throttles a community instead of con tributing to its welfare. Every man is one of a mass, of a vast crowd, and he prospers and suffers with hiB neighbors. Mr. Bryan says the bankers belong to a class, meaning, I suppose, that they are favored in some especial way by the government, tie does not say how, but he says enough to make the people who listen feel injured and rebellious and 'agin the government." And yet the rich farmers who listen to him that have lands no "run can take away from them would laugh at any one who pro posed to sell him bank stock. Who would be a member of that privileged ciasa that Mr. Bryan sayB the govern ment fattens at the expense of the musses? If the farmer believes that the banker breakfasts on capon and Rhine wine and dines on lobster and cnampagne there are plenty of the so called "privileged daises" who are ready to change places with him. The farmer shows that he does not believe what he says he does when he does not buy bank stock when it is cheap and plenty. Mr. Bryan says he loves his home town and that when his one term is over he will return to bleesand ennoble it by residing in it. This is all very well and we appreciate his self sacrifice but if he would only stay at home now like Mc Kinley, Lincoln would get a boom when she needs it most. Mr. Heaton says that even the undertakers are getting busi ness in Canton for the crowds are so great that occasionally a man drops dead. The Knights of Ak-Sar Ben of Omaha have been sending the board of gover nors of that body to visit other proces sional advertisements of the same char acter. Mr. Chase, who, according to the Omaha Excelsior, is the most im portant member of the organization, went to inspect the Feast of Mountain and Plain at Denver. According to Mr. Chase's account the parade was a brilliant success. He sas that the principal parade was held in the day time and that he has always said that the Ak-Sar-Ben parade was the most mportact feature of the State fair and should be held at the time when the city of Omaha would be most bene fitted. The article closes with the fol lowingthe Italics are mine. Denver is a wonderful city, and its business men are big hearted, courage ous fellows, who know how to draw a crowd to their town andhow to keep it and entertain it when there. Some sort of a state fair was being held in the vi cinity at the time of this festival but it did not seem to cut much of a figure, as the parades were given in the mornings and afternoons, at 'what appeared to all of us to be the proper timo for them. The streets were filled with people all day, the shops were crowded between times and there seemed to he a good deal of purchasing of fall supplies. The mind of one member of the board at least, is made up to the fact that day parades, with the exception of the bis parade, are the thing, and that if seri ous remonstrance is made by the State Boara of agriculture to such parades, as detracting from the attendance at the state fair, it would be better to hold Ak-Sar-Ben festivities on nnother week, separate and distinct from the fair, at a season late enough to conduce to fall trading, and bring our friends from the country to Omaha, keep them in Omaha and entertain them in Omaha, instead offivi tniles out in Douglas eounty. Who put the state fair "five miles out in Douglas county,' so'that it is actually easier to reach it from Gretna than it is from Omaha? The idea of the Omahoga seems to have been to locate the state fair in the most disagreeable and inac cessible place they knew of in order that when the people came to the state fair they might be induced or rather, com pelled to stay in Omaha. It is naif in Clementina, though, when we remember how hard Omaha worked for the state fair, to speak of it with such scorn as being "five miles out in Douglas county." The Christian Kndeavorers, who were here last week, have adopted a conspic uous badge and cap which both men and women wear. The cap is a large white Tam O'Shanter, tho ba-Jge is three quarters of a yard of white ribbon pinned diagonally across the chest with the name of the new but honorable body printed on it in largo gold letters. The effect is startling, if nothing more. The costume, after the first moment of be wilderment, suggests that of the Salva tion army, which, although not bo strik ing as the EndeavorerB, is said to bo worn for the same purpose that of marking out the members from every body else. The desire to be conspicu ous which, for a while is almost as good as being famous, is a powerful motive with undeveloped crude natures. When a man who has been an undistinguished atom all his life is given the opportun ity tn belong to a powerful army and to wear its uniform. The offer fascinates him. When he has that uniform on he represents power and the people on the street look upon him as they would a soldier. General Booth under- r stood that to the people who would join the Salvation army the uniform was a great inducement and he incorpo rated it into the ruled and regulations of the army. The Christian Endeavor ers white cap and bade can be seen a greater distance than the army's blue cap and blue coat, therefore it is by so much a stronger inducement to be one of them. Still there is always the danger of frightening horses and timid women and children. Not that any Buch contingency should be allowed to interfere with improvements. It will be re membered that electric street cars were regarded with disfavor for awhile because the nerves of an occasional country bred horse wore upset by them. But the horses had to give way to the cars rather than the cars to the horses And we also shall get used to seeing otherwise nice looking boys and girls parading the streetsin conspicuous caps and badges in order that they may be known bb Christians. The Bible criti cises tho wearing of broad phylacteries too. But then a phylactery was, among tho Jews, a strip of parchment, on which were written texts from the law. They were worn by devout persona on tho forehead, arms or breast and were especially effected by tho Pharisees. Not that the Christian EndeavorerB are like those who in Jerusalem prided themselves on their piouB neckties and "weekitB" but organization, uniforms and set phrases to express the various phases of religious emotion and degen erate into cant, take the life and fresh ness out of any movement. It was so with the different orders of friars which were vowed to absolute poverty, and at first were without shelter, the next meal, or money. Their numbers in creased. Sinners died and left their houses and lands to the holy order in ex piation. They were made tho deposi. tarie? of jewels and plate by knights who went on a crusade against the Turk who cut off their heads and by the same token the friars kept the plate. They grew rich and the spirit tied. Some zealot started a new order then,which flourished and bad tho same history, until the arrogance of power made the organization of another one necessary. Besides the city and state meetings the delegates from the Endeivor socie ties of the United States meet once a year in Boston or Washington on which occasions they take the town with their youth, numbers and preco cous ways. It i3 well for them to re flect on the history of other organiza tions and not be too much elated by success. History teaches humility and tho advantages of obscurity, especially for a religious body. Lincoln is the most accessible of any town, able to take care of a large ac cession of .people, in the state. It ie true, sometimes it is too true, that itiea desirable place to stop, to visit and to lay fences in. Association after association meets here In rapid succession. Each one is said to be an annual meeting by tho solicitor who calls to inquire, "How many delegates willyoutake'Theanniversaryof agreat many are due about this time and thfc hospitality of many church members is stretched to its limit. In these times no one has mce help than is absolutely necessary to do a portion of the work. The rest is done by the lady of tho house or the members of the family. One or two visitors means harder work for maid and mistress. It ia a pleasure to entertain an occasional minister. It M IH fwl