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to It and tbe club will not pluck or
condition, though there are certain
rewards of appreciation and recogni
tion that members bestow on able and
conscientious work thai are not de
spised by the most ambitious.
In considering the benefits and
emoluments of culture clubs, I have
heard of a number of young women
graduated by the university of Ne
braska who have returned to their
homes in the small western towns of
Jie state and refused to join the clubs
established with a view to help them
selves and others by women who love
culture, but who have lacked the col
legiate opportunity toacquireit. The
reason given was the insufficient one
that university graduates had nothing
to gain from associating with those
who were trying to make up to them
selves what fortune had refused them
earlier.
Now culture that cannot be shared
with or used for society is not worth
the price that each graduate costs
the state. A student who returns to
the farming or village community
which has been taxed for his educa
tion and scornfully refuses to con
tribute in any way to the society
whose foresight is educating the
youth of tbe state, repudiates his debt
and hinders evolution. He is a thank
less beggar because he has been asso
ciating with the best writers on eco
nomics, with Shakspcie, Homer and
Dante, all of whom gave back again
to our use that which God gave them.
A truly learned soul yearns to share,
to help and to express the first and
the last lesson of culture: "Help one
another." Besides, it is not true that
the unlettered cannot teach the col
lege graduate, who has been sepa
rated from the toiling masses in the
cloisters of learning. The humble
learn more than the haughty though
they cannot always spell it. They
have been living, loving and tolling,
while the student has only been read
ing and the latter has yet to prove
that he has learned anything worth
what we have spent on him.
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The result of the election is a vindi
cation of those who oppose what is
known as the administration party in
this city. The three republicans who
were defeated can serve their fellow
citizens best by retiring into private
life along with the other members of
the ring which has disgraced the ad
ministration. There never was a time
till now in the political history of this
city when practically all of the re
spectable portion of the population
took a personal interest in the choice
of good and capable men to adminis
ter the affairs of the city. The defeat
of Pinley in the first, refuted the slan
der that a bar tender waB good enough
to represent that ward and e.mpha.
sized the fact that even in the first
the opponents of the administration
are in the majority. Myer's defeat in
the seventh is due to the same distrust
of the administration and determina
tion to work it out of our system as
fast as possible.
"With the new council there "is every
reason for cheerfulness in regard to
the water system. The professional
experience of the new water commis
sioner prepares him for the duties of
the office which demands more techni
cal knowledge than has been possessed
by the politicians who have heretofore
farmed it out. H. W. Brown and J.
C Harpham can be trusted to manage
tbe police and fire departments and
the saloons, according to the dictates
of a good conscience and an enlight
ened and uncommon common sense.
Police Judge Comstock has made a
reputation as a champion of justice
and i ight which will be put to many a
strain in the police court. But he will
be so closely watched by the enemies
be has made that the insidious assaults
of police court routine may only
toughen tbe fibre which has helped
him to be such a good friend to the
taxpayers during his term in the coun.
cil. Judge Webster ha? the respect of
the bar and that is what no dishonest
or incompetent lawyer can obtain.
The inexcusable assaults made upon
his character by the Call, undoubtedly
increased his majority. There is no
unprejudiced citizen who does not be
lieve that the interests which the city
has entrusted to him are safe. The
members of tbe board of education
are especially fitted to administrate
school affairs. Taken altogether it
looks as if the city's income would be
wisely expended in the coming two
years.
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The scholarly editor of the Omaha
Excelsior published a translation of
Heine's well known poem- Die Lorelei,
which was so literal that nobody who
was familiar with tbe much copied
German poem could fail to recognize
it. But Mr. Chase, in his airy, grace
ful style, said:
Tbe following original poem, contrib
uted by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton de
Peyster, shows that richly endowed
woman to be possessed of gifts of fancy
and of versification as great as they are
uncommon, and which we cordially com
mend to those of our frieuds who write
verges and who contemplate favoring us
with the fruit of their dalliance with the
muse:
The next week when the misrepre
sented translator had informed, him
that tbe poem was so palpable a trans
lation that she had thought it un
necessary to label it, Mr. Chase an
nounced that Mrs. Alexander Hamil
ton de Peyster's poem is a translation
of Heine's Lorelei.
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In considering the Spanish question
a writer in one of tbe month's maga
zines says, that properly speaking
Spain is not a civilized country and
that in blowing up the Maine the
Spaniards were but complying with
their traditions. Should we go to war
with Spain, that country's history in
which poisoning and all other treach
erous means of injuring an enemy is
recognized as legitimate, our soldiers
and sailors would, of course, fight like
brave men, not like cowardly savages
who have no code in .regard to an
enemy except to kill him by any means
at hand. Tbe Americans would be
hampered by their code. The Span
iards can count at all limes upon
meeting men. The Americans can
only safely arrange their campaign
upon the basis that their enemies are
savages who have shown that they are
capable of blowing up a ship full of
sailors which was the property of a
friendly nation. The Spaniards are
as rapacious as, the Turks, but unlike
the Moslem the Spaniards are not con
trolled by the rules of temperance
which makes of the good Mahometan
a man not without conscience. The
cruel treatment of the Armenians was
partly the result of a religious frenzy.
The Cuban insurgents are of tbe same
nationality, the same religion, the
same race as their butchers. The
Spaniards have shown no mercy to the
non-combatants, to women or to chil
dren and have no right to appeal to
the law of nations. When war is de
clared Americans can safely track
their enemies with tbe caution and
dispatch they would show to wild
beasts or venomous serpents.
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The wise diplomacy of the president
in consulting congress and taking pkins
to inform himself of the opinions of the
6enate and house has cooled down the
impatient and warlike in congress and
out of it. The procedure of President
Cleveland waa so different that we find
ourselves unprepared for such considera
tion. Mr. Cleveland considered himself
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the state and when he was once con
vinced that he was right, and those oc
casions were very rare when he was
troubled with doubts, he paid no atten
tion to the dissenting arguments of the
representatives of sixty million people.
For the past few weeks the special
Washington correspondents have been
relating how deputations of congress
men belonging to the war party have
visited the president determined to tell
him they would not stand any more
foolishness in this Spanish business and
how they have been listened to by him
with such gracious cocsideration, and
how they have been convinced before
they left that the president was anxious
to do the will of the house of representa
tives, the senate and tbe people of the
United States. Many have gone to nee
him, but all have left his presence de
termined to give him the time he asked
for and impressed with his exalted
patriotism and singleness of motive.
President McKinley has been able to
sink his own personality in his office. In
his public papers pronouns of the
first person singular are infre
quent and in personal interviews
with those who disagree with him on
matters of policy his opponents are not
irritated by any exhibitions of the im
penetrable egotism which characterized
his predecessor in the presidential office.
As for giving Spain her ultimatum
more quickly, the street corner warriors
who advocate war do not expect to fight,
and they are at liberty to say what they
like without tbe chance of their words
accomplishing anything more than set.
ting in motion a wave of air which wil
not stop, it is said, until it reaches
China. Having reached the antipodes
the little air wave will subside, in spite
of ths long distance it has come without
accomplishing anything. The greater
the responsibility tbe fewer air waves
are set in motion. The tendency of men
in whom thousands of other men have
put' their trust is to keep still and act
only upon deliberation. The president
has been giving directions, which, when
he finally says the word, wiil make a
declaration of war with Spain, a very
serious matter for Spain. We have seen
that it requires several years for the two
most celebrated citizens of this country
to arrange a little meeting which will
settle the dispute as to which is the beet
man. Such meetings seldom result
fatally yet experts do not consider two
years an unreasonable time in which to
arrange a bloody but not mortal combat
between two pugilists. Upon the presi
dent's decision depend hundreds of
really brave men's lives, millions of
money and a nation's honor and reputa
tion. He would be blamed and would
deserve blame if he did not try every
honorable resource of diplomacy oefore
declaring war. If war is finally averted
jt will be because of the. president's de
lays which have given us time to enlist
men, get ar shipa ready, build coast de
fences and sink mines for harbor pro
tection. With a complete armament on
land and aca the United States can de
mand the independence of Cuba from
HnSi8" ,fl , BJron Probability
that it will be conceded.
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