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2 OBSERVATIONS.
The English and American people
are two representatives of the same
race. American or Englishman, it
does not matter, they draw their con
stitutional and literary inspiration
from the same source. The French
man, Russian, German, Spaniard,
Turk, with his Semitic brothers, and
all dwellers in the north European
countries, God rest them all and give
them peace, but they are not of us,
We are bone of England's bone and
fiesh of her flesh. The English people
themselves realize this truth more
keenly than we do. Threatened by
any other nation they are our natural
allies. All Europe is not so near to
England as America. And all Europe
is opposed commercially and by racial
antagonism to the English sneaking
people on two continents. In the re
cent avowal by a member of the Brit
ish government of sympathy with
America as against Spain or anyother
nation, the Englishman generously
ignored recent disputes over the seals
and the Canadian fish boats, and ex
pressed his country's kinship with
America and opposition to her foes.
Perhaps much of the speech was diplo
matic oratory, but it was founded on
the logic of the situation. England is
racially as well as geographically iso
lated from Europe. An alliance with
the United States is indicated, as the
astrologers say. And although it is
against our policy to mix in European
wars, mostly waged to acquire more
territory, we can give to England our
moral support as against any triple or
quadruple alliance which Europe may
form against her. Should war be de
clared by the United States against
Spain, and England refuse all aid to
our enemies, should loan us money
and sell us ships, the value of recog
nition of that which maTces English
men and Americans essentially one
people would be apparent.
A saloon keeper cannot adequately
represent any ward even one which
contains a score of saloons. In Amer
ica a man who keeps a saloon must be
without self respect. He can repre
sent only the depraved and criminal
classes. Most of the corruption in
Chicago and New York is due to the
fact that many councilmen are saloon
keepers. Their saloons are the meet
ing places of the vicious, there the
campaign is planned, between drinks,
there those who can assist are invited
and bribed by cheap, bad whiskey, to
work for the saloon candidate. All
students of American politics admit
that the saloon is the greatest hin
drance to an honest and efficient ad
ministration. The saloon keeper in
the council will vote to protect and
sustain the saloon as an institution
regardless of the laws which have
been made to protect the young from
their influence. The Courier is op
posed to the saloon in politics and to
the saloon keeper. His influence is
bad and opposed at all times to the
interests of the city. Whether he
comes from the first or any other,
there is certainly in that ward a man
to whom the interests of minors and
the innocent and helpless women and
children can much more safely be in
trusted. A man who sells liquor in
this country has blunted his moral
sense until that department of a nor
mal human being no longer exists in
him. When upon such a man is con
ferred a representative office an injus
tice is done every man and woman in
his district above his grade. The men
of the first ward will soon have an op
portunity to say whether they wish to
be represented by an individual of a
class which makes a living from other
men's weaknesses. If the women of tiie
First ward could vote, a saloon keeper
would stand little chance of e'ection.
The wages whicii would keep their
children decently clothed and fed, and
themselves from "days wjrk" in some
other woman's house have been spent
at the candidate's oar; and women,
however poor, resent to the last the
cause which has degraded them in the
social; scale. But the mothers have
nothing to say about it, only their
husbands, who are frequently in the
saloon keeper's debt, are allowed to
ratify or reject the choice of the pri
maries. J
The woman question is not without
at least two sides to it, and there are
those who claim to have proved that
it has a fourth dimension.The principle
objection to most women as clerks or
as agents is their refusal to accept the
ordinary rules of procedure as estab
lished by men in centuries of com
mercial experience Women lack a
sense of responsibility. They will fre
quently agree to perform a certain
service, like makinga report, and they
mean to do it, but they will claim a
headache, a .dressmaker, or the ab
sence of a servant prevented them.
Moreover they will make no attempt
to provide a substitute. Sunday school
superintendants find that in conse
quence of this almost universal fem
inine trait the hour of the Sunday
school arrives and a number of pupils
are unsupplied with teachers whose
place it is then too late to supply. The
secretaries of state federations of
women's clubs have found it nearly
impossible to acquire accurate infor
mation about the number and char
acter of the clubs from which to make
up their report. Writing to the many
secretaries lias produced only a frac
tional reply. After many appeals,
which record consumes provokingly
the unrecompensed secretary s time,
she has only succeeded in getting the
information for a partial report which
otherwise would become a valuable
of the history and statistics of the
club movement. A woman who has
acquired a reputation for "great ex
ecutive ability" more than likely has
acquired it by learning what consti
tute3 ordinary business procedure and
putting it in practice. Promptness,
reliable performance on each recur
ring occasion of a duty once under
taken, and accuracy, are accomplish
ments which are characteristics of the
most commonplace little men and
frequently underestimated by the
most gifted women. But until the
day comes when women recognize that
steady performance accomplishes what
brilliant sorties can not, man will con
tinue to rule alone.
The Hatchet, a publication in the
interest of a fund for the erection and
maintenance of the Girls and Boys
building of the Trans-Mississippi ex
position, has at last been issued. It
is called The natchet because it was
intended to be in the hands of custom
ers by the fourteenth of February. It
is only a month late, and the tardiness
is explained by the number of babies'
pictures which form the larger part of
the illustrations. It takes a long time
to get the baby's picture. It takes a
longer time for the mother to select
the proof she likes best. After she
has the photograph and lias sent it to
the printer it must be exchanged for
another which does the darling more
justice, even if it be necessary to cel
ebrate Washington's birthday on
the fourteenth of March.
The paper typographically is very
handsome. Its contents are stories of
and for children, and their bright
sayings. A short story by Mrs. Eka
Matheson on the first page deserves
the place of honor given it. No one
who has not tried to write a children's
story realizes that it takes a mas
ter hand to create the atmosphere
of childhood. Mrs. Matheson has ac
complished it with ease and the little
sketch is a real story of a child to the
little girl cradled in the arms of the
story teller. The portraits of the In
fants on the cover and scattered
through the inside pages are very at
tractive. The stories and poems
for girls and boys by such
able writers as Mrs. Peattie,
James- Whitcomb Riley and Will
Maupin make it altogether the
most attractive juvenile publication
ever printed in Nebraska. The edi
tors have assigned a thousand copies
to Mrs. Allen W. Field to be disposed
of in this district. She will be as
sisted by the children of the c'ity
schools, who control a more potent
direct,and withall legitimate influence
than anybody else.
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A correspondent in St. Louis says
she thinks the women of that section
are very much interested in the ap
proaching June meeting of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's clubs at
Denver. Regarding the presidency
she says that the St. Louis women are
inclined to think the east entitled to
a president this time and consequently
Mrs. Breeze lias the best chance.- With
a candidate in the west. Mrs. Piatt
one from Louisville. Ky.t one from the
extreme east and one from the north
west, it may be necessary to compro
mise. "In that event our Mrs. Moore
will undoubtedly win. She is a good
representative of the courtesv of
the south, the culture or ' the
east and the alertness of the
west and would be a most effic
ient officer. I had an opportunity at
the A ednesday club reception to talk
with representatives of the different
sections of the country and this is the
consensus of opinion. There are half
a million of people in the General
Federation-very few Nebraska clubs "
My correspondent is a woman of good
judgment ana keen perceptions and
can be trusted for a correct estimate of
the field within her vision. It is to
be regretted that more of the Ne-