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tlmt it is;iti unusual case, but the
uiitliority of the nflirer over the
Mtlflicr is.Mt abxilutc that unless the
court of :ipical judge lietween them
with Impartiality the tendency of all
self resiiectlrg Americans, who alone
ran make soldiers worth having, will
lie away from a jioHioii in which
they are treated like slaves. 1 f Lieu
tenant Lovering is court martialed,
Judge and jury will Ikj officers. If lie
is punished, as t lie whole civil world
thinks he should be it will signify to
the world outside as well as inside
that although discipline must Iks
maintained, an officer's authority is
lKtunded by law and that a private
has rights as well as duties. The
private In this particular instance
was in the wrong from the start. He
was a deserter in the first place. When
put in the guardhouse awaiting the
time when he should le called to the
court to lie tried for a military crime,
he refused to work. The officer in
charge of the court which corres
ponds to the police court of civil law
ent, an offieer to bring him before the
court to answer to the charge of dis
obedience in refusing to work and
the soldier refused to cjiue. Here
are three serious military offenses
committed one after another by the
same man. Even the undisciplined
civilian will admit that force was
necessary at this point to bring the
incorrigible private to terms. Lieu
tenant Lovering was exasperated by
the man's repeated breaches of disci
plineand not possessing the temper of
.an angel he ordered him dragged to
the court in the most exieditious and
humiliating nianer that occurred to
him. The man's final ref usal was a
cumulative offence and the officer's
wrath was righteous, even if there
were Impropriety in the expression of
it.
The victory of the women in St.
Louis who went to the Street Com
missioner of that city and demanded
the appointment of women on the
street inspecting force, is worthy of
comment liecause the positions they
asked for commanded good salaries.
Usually when women receive munici
pal appointments there is no salary
attached. There is a great prejudice
against women holding any office
which involves the handlingof money
or in which her services are iaid for.
There are a few complimentary, orna
mental, entirely gratuitous offices to
which the ordiuary politician will
grant you that it does not unsex a wo
man 'to be appointed. But a good
thing at three dollars a day
is held to threaten home,
mother and native land, if giv
en to a woman. But the St. Louis
Commissioner was afraid he would
hise his job if these women started in
to defeat him as they said they would.
November is too near to make any
new enemies, so the commissioner
yielded and agreed that ten of the
forty inspectors should lie women,
recommended by the chairman of the
committee who visited him. provided
the mayor approved the apjiointmcut.
.He added that the women would have
to do the same work the men are do
ing. A few months ago when Tiik Cor u
lEit contemplated and dreaded, as
well as hojied. to become the organ of
the Women's chilis or thi f.iate. its
editor wrote the following allegory,
but as it turned out, fears of divided
rcsKtisIbility were groundless.
The occupation of pirate, although
possessing objectionable features, and
very properly warred against by all
governments, had some fascinating
features that are still attractive to
the conventionalizwl machines of the
nineteenth century. The wildness
and the freedom of a pirate captain's
existence make it a boy's dream of
happiness and a lioy dreams true. He.
of all created beings, represents pri
njal instincts, unsjioilcd selfishness,
and his ideal of a luMipy state, modi
fied by altruism, approaches perfee
Hon. To sail about in unknown seas,
to owe allegiance to no one, to select
one's foes, to conquer, to despoil, to
lie supreme. Can maturity picture
anything more satisfying? But occa
sionally a pirate reformed and entered
the service of some nation. There
after he was subject to control, and
although .the approval of his con
science was worth some sacrifice, he
was never really happy again. Not
that happiness matters as much as
oilier things. A newspaper which
has no job office in connection with it.
which belongs to no particular party,
which lias seized the censorship of
manners and morals as an innocent
pirate sails the seas, liecause he likes
to sail and liecause no one is at hand
to prevent him, may in time acquire a
job office, or may liecoine a respectable
memlier of society by serving the
needs of some organization. In this
way the ncwsiiaper is perhaps of more
importance, but happiness has lied
with freedom, and the weight of
opinious and advice is hard for the
genuine pirate to liear.
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Hundreds of editorials have been
written on Charles A. Dana since his
death last Sunday, the seventeenth of
Octolier. They all agree in the esti
mate of his culture, intelligence, wit
and literary style. But few recognize
the fact that it was personality more
than any intellectual gift, that made
him, for so many years, the foremost
editor in this country. Young uews
jiaper writers without numlier select
ed Mr. Dana as their model. The
style of Tlie Sun1 editorials, whether
written by the editor in chief or not,
and the character of the whole paper
was an expression of Mr. Dana's jier
sonality. With the rise of ncwsjiaiiers
which depend entirely on the swift
collection of news and sensational
pictures.of it, personal journalism, of
which the two greatest examples are
Mr. Dana and Mr. Greeley, isno longer
a commercial possibility. The whole
staff of writers could be changed on
any of the great metroiiolitau dailies
and the readers of the paper would
not immediately know the difference.
Subscribers take a daily newspaiier for
the luws. They want all the news as
soon as possible, and they want it un
colored by the opinions of the man
who transcribes it. A good many
have lieen taught by yellow journal,
ism to want the news luridly illus
trated. Such a personality as Mr. Dana's in
the nature of it. is controlled by the
emotions. There are many instances
of his opposition to a man founded on
nothing but a dislike which he could
not explain to himself or others. In
stinct in such cases is not trust worthy
iieeaiiM! of the fact of temperamental
repulsion from which many an es
timable person has suffeied loss of
preferment at the hand of one who
"did not like him." Mr. Dana's ixili
tics and principles were the result of
his temperament. The Sun's influence
was unlimited liecause every reader
knew that the editor would sjieak his
mind uninfluenced by policy. The
editorials were not written in the
counting room and in this case the
counting room received the lienefit. It
is to be regretted that with Mr. Dana's
death the era of great newsjiajier
writers lias closed.
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fcsow what your are talking about and,
ecor1 '"aom you are talking tc.
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