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OBSERVATIONS. 2
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The eastern mails are delayed at Chica
go, one for six hours and one for nine
hours in order to accommodate four
-Chicago newspapers. The Omaha
"World-Herald complainB that such dis--crimination
is unjust and unbusiness
like, and the latter paper hath its quar
rel just. That the earlier arrival of the
Chicago papers has cut into the busi
ness of the Nebraska dailies is not to the
.point, though it may be the reason why
the Bee's and the World-Herald's sense
of justice has been aroused to vigorous
resistance. Notwithstanding this, the
holding back of the two through, fast
mails at Chicago for six and nine hours
respectively, until the Chicago presses
have accomplished their daily labor, i3
an injustice to all the country west of
Chicago which has any business east o
Chicago. The Omaha papers are fight
ing the cause of the who!e west Iowa,
Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, the
Pacific dates, and even the who!e of
Illinois west of Chicago, against four
newspapers in Chicago. The Journal
in refusing to join with the Omaha
papers in an-attempt to right a wrong is
deserting the cause of the state and the
west because more powerful and more
successful livals are the first champions
of a most righteous cause.. The Cour
ier, though a humble neighbor and in
another field, takes pleasure in recogniz
ing and applauding truth and justice
which are certainly on the side of the
World-Herald and the Bee. The fol
lowing from Sunday's World-Herald, is
in reply to recent editorials in the Jour
nal accusing the World-Herald of self
fishness. The Journal judges other newspapers
by its own standard. The movement to
secure batter mail cervice for Omaha
am' other western citifs originated from
no such selfish motives as the Journal
insinuates. It was originated by the
business men of this and other place?.
The World-Herald, true to its mission
as the advocate of of the business men of
Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado. Wyoming
and the weft, ranged itseif on the side
of the commercial interetts of the coun
try. The email advantage, if any, insur
ing t) the newspapers of a community
is a bagatelle to the great benefit to the
country between the Atlantic and Pa
cific by the betterment of the fast mail
service.
Suppose the western newspapers may
be directly or indirectly benefitted by
brioging the so-called fast mail train to
the Missouri river at 8 a. m. and to
Denver and Cheyenne at 9 o'clock the
following night by operating the train
as it should be, when did it become a
crime for a western newspaper to re
ceive a benefit from the poetoffice de
partment by having the mails run on
business principles?
As four Chicago morning papers are
exclusively benefitted by having the al
leged fast mail train manipulated in their
interetts, regardless of the interests of
all othsr enterprises, the charge of sel
fishness will nit hold good against the
Omaha papers. In demanding that the
fast mail train be made what it purports
to b9 and what the people are paying
for a fast mail train the Omaha pa
pers are only making a just demand
that the business interests of the east
and west be placed upon an equal
footing with the newspaper interest of
four Chicago" publishers.
The Journal is ignorant or designing.
The business men of Lincoln and Ne
braska have the chance to teach it a
needed lesson and make it faithful to
the people it assumes to represent.
Whenever fashion perfects or custom
evolves something humanly perfect, it
is immediately attacked by a parasite
which ha3 grown with its growth and
does not cease growing when the fashion
has reached the height of beauty, and
the custom has perfected a satisfactory
and comfortable final product. In con
sequence the finished result of evolu
tion is doomeJ, no matter how
smsll the enemy in the first place.
Perhaps coffee is a greater satis
faction to more people than any other
of the minor an e-iities of life. To a very
few it is a poisjn. But that is no reason
why the oilier nircty and nine should
be forced to di ink n potion made from
parched corn. It would be just as fair
to put all the sine people in asylums
and leave the world for the insane.
Coffee invigorates, cheers, brightens and
encouinges the normal individual. It
has taken centuries to learn how to
ccok it and serve it. With a spoonful
of cream it has reconciled the drunkard
to temperance and kept the prohibitionist
contented with his diet. This being so and
everybody happy, the papers are sudden
ly filled with advertisements for a sub
Btitute for a drink which can not be
improved; breakfast table chat all at
once degenerates into depressing dis
cussions about the best way to cook
parched corn, and the one who loathes
it and resents the insult the mixture is
offering to an honor-d friend, is urged
to try it. Coffee wi'I not go down be
fore the insidious attacka of a manu
facturer who has made a fortune out
of burnt corn, but the people who are
always looking for a new doctor, minis
ter, medicine or treatment have ban
ished coffee for the sake of tasteless and
ineffectual corn and the rest of the
world is obliged to listen to its praises.
Fashion had produced a sleeve that was
becoming to the fat and the lean. It bs
came eventually a little too large, 'but
it has been superceded by a tight sleeve,
which is at once ugly and uncomfort
able. It reveals imperfections which the
large sleeve mercifully concealed, and
it prevents free movements of the limb
which in bony and muscular structure
is the freest and most perfect in mechan
ical arrangement of any part of tho
body. Thus do the microbes of style
and commercial gain get in their deadly
work.
A recent review in speaking of the
characteristics of universities in Ameri
ca says that "The university of the
west is undoubtedly the university of
the future. It is a hard thing to say,
and one that would be widely disputed,
but it Is a fact that the man from the
western university has that great thing,
modernity, far above the eastern gradu
ate. Observing people have been con
vinced of this fact and we are already
on the edge of the time when students
from the west will not attend eastern
schools and when students in the
middle west will turn their faces to
ward the great institutions that lie in
the direction of the Pacific."
The writer of the foregoing knows
enough about the English and German
universities, about those situated in the
south, the east, the west and the middle
west in this country to characterize
hem. As, for instinre in the following.
"Each university i tamps its charac
teristics upon its cuiJents. The uni
versity of Virginia gi estbem a subdu d
gentleness combined with cordiality
and an open hearted i e pn u 1 bea-ing
a gentleman of the old scho 1. Johns
Hopkins give an interest in re ei a and
a cosmopolitan spiri ;Princetju. a ter
tain dignity of bearing, more interested
in philosophy than science; Harvard, an
air ot assurance that he has been
properly instructed; Vale a trifle acg es
give. West of the Alleghenie. such
colleges as Washington and Jefferson
make theirstudents what wecall Ameri
can, of which Blaine and Quay are
representatives. These sudents are away
from the infiuences of English univer
sities, on which the eastern s;hoo's
are founded. They are ambitious, in
terested in American history, and ate in
the midst of the new center of national
life. The Ann Arbor university is very
democratic. It is remarkably cosmo
politan. It wa3 the first great school in
this country to use the elective system aa
it is used in Germany. The Wisconsin
university is rapiply becoming onoot the
strongest institutions in the country. It
is developing Yankee ideas with western
push and new life. In history it is ono
of the very best. The universities of
Chicago, Missouri, Nebraska and Kan
sas are all marked schools. Those of
Minnesota and California rank with that
of Wisconsin.
Only one who knows the modern uni
versity practically and comparatively
can tell if the types are here hit off cor
rectly. The western university is much
more like the German university than
like the e; siTn. It is jealous of the
east and will not receive inspiration
from that part of the country. Nebras-
kat especially is under the direct infiu
enca'of Germany. The professors who
confess the greatness of Cambridge or
England are ridiculed. The west holds
that it is only a truckling spirit who ac
knowledges that the east can set us a
pattern in literature, manners or cus
toms. In the years of the seventies
when Professor Woodberry arrived from
Cambridge with a cane, a cigarette, a
Harvard swing, a Bcston accent and in
dentally great learning and talent, which
has already made hinr. the foremost
critical writer in this country, the
students and some of tho faculty bitter
ly resented the accent, the wa'kand the
airs, which after all were nothing more
than an ordinary college man's uplift
over the herd but held in suspension in
his case a .little longer because it
was the Boston kind. After indigna
tion at the regents for daring to get
anything eastern out here had subsid
ed somewhat, Prof. Woodberry's bril
liant qualities as a teacher of literature
were revealed. Sometime after a man
arrived from Brown university by the
name of Bennett. He wore glasses,
never pronounced the letter "r" and had
certain ideas about class room decorum
which in connection with his eastern
origin was enough to stigmatize him as
"stuck up." Having sent a man out or
his classroom for some horse play the
members ot the class went to the chan
cellor and demanded that Prof. Bennett
be given his time. The only reason they
could give when questioned as to why
they thought he should not enjoy the
privtlege of instructing them any longer
in Lat'n and Greek was that he was try
ing t j introduce eastern customs in the
west. This 6torm blew over, the student i
and the professor got acquainted to .
their mutual benefit and real
pleasure. Chancellor Canfield was
eenmimes accused of trying to induce
Nebraska university to become more
eastern, but I have heard him deny the
charge with some heat. Professor Fry
is the latest suspect. He has many char
acteristics of the Cambridge schcoi
which the Nebraska student has said
over and over again he will not suffer in
a lecturer. A'though the Nebraska
university student allows greater liber-