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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1897)
THE COURIER. RANDOM NOTES. I observe from TiinCoeiMEU ot May 8 that my whilom fiiei-d, .Miss Fdirbroth er, is not disposed to cease those polite attentions that I learned to look for ward to with genuine intorest when I was in Nebraska. That she should re mamber mo in tho purlieus of New t ork is a kindness unexpected even from such a source. That she should seek to fatten on me tho responsibility of "shap ing the editorial policy of TheColuieu" is u compliment that would be most ac ceptable if it were in any wise merited. As the editor of Tin: Coukikr has explained I hare not bad any more to do with shaping tho editorial policy of this paper, since I left Nebraska in Octol2r, 189b", than has Miss Fairbrother herEc'f, for instance. 3ut I may be permitted to say that its "policy" seems to mo tho only correct one. Certain it is that I would not change it. As a matter of fact the Couriek, since a certain day in May, 1803, has had no policy. Prior to that time, when it was in other hands it had a policy, and I bolievc it was tho most polite paper in tho state. Its pol icy then was that of unctuous tribute to society. It had an eagls eye for func tions and a facile pen for flattering. It was aB harmless as soft soap and as in teresting as one or two departments of that exciting publication th Ladies Home Journal. When a change of ownership was effected there came a conviction that Society, important as it is, and I can testify that in Lincoln it is more than mually varied and ortentous, does not measure the length and breadth of human interest. So it was decided tc drup pa! icy, and conduct a journal that would, in a way, relisct tho doings of current intsrest in the various broad fields of human activity, and thereafter The Couriek has had, strictly speaking, no policy. If its independent attitude and unconventional method of treating those subject! in which its readers aro inurestnl in contradistinc tion to the course pusued by its c,nt3m poraiies that tun on ball bearings in deep grooves, have seemed to invest it with a delinks policy that is not the concern of The Courier. There is no policy in fearlessness and independence and originalty. As I understand it Miss Fairbrother objects to The Courier because it docs not give enough attention to Woman's clubs. Undoubtedly this raajCit c lady has other objections, but this is the chief one. A comparison between the Courier and Miss Fairbrother's dainty publication will, I believe, show that the Woman's Weekly maj have a greater proportion of matter devoted to woman's clubs than has The Courier. But there is no paper in the sta'.o that has a gi cater claim to the considerat'on of the women than The Courier. It is owned and conducted by women. It deals in a spirited manner with tho.e subjects in which intelligent women are inteicsted. Itprint3 a laiga quantity of Woman's club news. Should the Etato federation make TheCourierUs oran the women of tho state would have a journal that would contain all tho news of their various organizations, at tho same time presenting the woman's point of vhw on the broad subjects with which all per sons, men and women are concerned. state. Nebraska is too big a state to be affected by such articles as thin. As a matter of fact the people of Nebraska have an exaggerated idea of tho import ance of literary or journalistic praieo or abuse. I sharei in tho popular view when I was in tho state. But I can see now that after nil it makes very little difference what people say. The think ing public Eomehow has an approximate idea of tho real facts and if it refuses to be- boomed by laudation it is equally slow to accept theEtatements of detract ors. It seemed to mo when I was west that tho state of Kansas must bo in particularly bad odor in the east, for no state has ben so persistently maligned and ridiculed. But it did not take me long to find that tho people hero know Kansas. They have no especial love for its politicians, but they know the slate and its resources, its achievments and its possibilitis. Tho stories that are printed every day have no appreciable effect on intelligent persons. And so with Nebraska. Tho Btato must stand on its own bottom and bo undismayed by puerile stories. Its prosperity must como from its soil and the industry of its people. AIiubo can. not make its broad acres sterilo or stay the industry of tho peop'e. and praise cannot givo to tho stato any quality it does not rossesB or impart any success it does not deserve. So let tho story writers spill their ink and scatter puny leaves broadcast over tho land; lot edi tors point their p'.t ful paragraphs with sickly lies; let them condemn and let them eulogize- Nebrcska will go on just the same, and as the years go by it will become stronger and stronger and the people will learn that quips and coddling do not make or unmako a ttdtC. Squalor and luxury go hand in hand tho world over. Misery nd happiness, sorrow and joy have a common habitat. Drouth and famine aro not the only lo cal color in Nebraska. The sunshine and tho blue sky and the pure nir, the eon; of the harvesters and the glory o! mountains of golden grain are just as much a pait of the picture as the bits that such writers as Mrs. Peattie and Misj French have present 'd aye they are, as ihe residents of the state knew, by far the larger part ot tho i k-turp. And other people those ouUideo' the stats know this too. They retain their knowledge cf the proportions of things after all the kippering scribblers have had their ray. New York, May 17, 1S07. W. MORTON SMITH. I have not road Miss Alice French's "Tho Spellbinder,' but it seems to mo that tho people of Nebraska allow them selves to be too much wrought up by publications of this so:t. I have heard several persons here speak of the story and 1 have been asked about the country about Valen tine; but no oi.ehes tak-n the story as retlectiug on Nebraska as a whole ar.d I do not think it has bad the Bhghcst ef fect in arousing prejudice against the Bryce Colonel Kaintuck is a lough diamond. Gryco Wo 1 you can't call him a gem of the Hist water. Mrs. G. Miss Yellowleaf is one man who never lies about her age. Mrs. C. -Yes, she never tells it. wo- MONEY LOANED on Diamonds, Pianos and any good personal security. Diamonds bought and sold. 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