The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, July 09, 1898, Page 3, Image 3
P3i955i5!P THE COURIER. ADDITIONAL. OBSERVATIONS. During his first term of office Gov ernor Ilolcomb made appointments quite freely, without exacting prom ises for any of the customary return services. During his second term ex perience has taught him that his fu ture interests will be best served by a clear understanding with appointees. The complications which will arise from a third term candidacy are nu merous; and concern Governor Ilol comb so intimately, that his usually rather clouded vision has compre hended with sufficient clearness to make him anxious to attach more closely to himself the chief men of his own tribe. Jay Burrows was very anxious for a commission in the Third Nebraska, lie went to Omaha and passed acreditable physical examina tion, then lie was repeatedly advised to "see the governor." He did not see him, neither did he get the com mission. The development of politi cal sagacity in the governor of Ne braska, although still interrupted by a crude belief in destiny, is proceeding quite rapidly under the influence of the impending difficulties of a third term and the number of candidates who want the chance to steer the state. Ex-Treasurer Bartley arrived on a midnight train last Wednesday and was taken by the sheriff out to the penitentiary, live miles south of Lin coln. Withouta word, except a cheer ful reply to a greeting from a news paper reporter, Mr. Bartley stepped into a hack which waited to take him to the beginning of his twenty years sentence. The composure and dig nity of Mr. Bartley's bearing are ad mirable. Cansidering Auditor Moore's melodramatic conduct, and his final escape from a punishment which he certainiy deserved as much as Mr. Bartley, the latter's qniet acceptance of hissentence.and the non-appearance of Mrs. Bartley in court, emphasize a certain manliness and brave submis sion to the inevitable, which is char acteristic of the man. He did no more than other state treasurers have done, but the dishonest system during his incumbency of the treasurer's office reached a climax (all systems reach a culmination which prove their worth or viciousness), he was unable to evade or prolong as his predeces sors had done, and he is now suffering vicariously, as well as for his own sins. He neither invented nor inaugurated the system which was his undoing. The sentence he received, considering all these things, and those who have gone scot free for more deliberate and original plundering, is excessive and unjust. Even-handed justice will not condemn a man to twenty years' in carceration in a penitentiary because the people of the state are exasperated at a succession of state officers who have plundered or who are suspected of having plundered the state for a number of years. Such a concession to clamor, even the clamorers will ad mit in those rare Hashes of judicial reflection, which even clamorers have, U unworthy a judge. As between the French and Spanish, the latter have twice demonstrated their braverv, while the former have now twice signalized their cowardice. In the fire which occurred in the charity bazaar at Paris, where the men and women were of gentle birth and breeding, when the cry of lire was raised the noblemen struck their moth ers, sisters and fiancees in the face with their fists and trampled on their bodies to reach the exit, and only a few women succeeded in eluding the lists and feet belonging to "what they call men in France, and had time enough left to escape from the burning building. The steamer Burgognc went down off the Grand Banks on July 4, with 725 souls on board. Only 200 jiassengers were saved, and of these one was 'a woman. The boats and rafts were taken possession of by the French crew, who beat back the pas sengers with oars and clubs. In these two accidents the cowardice of the French, gentle and simple, is illus trated. In the annals of American river, lake and ocean maritime service there are scorccs of instances in which tho captain and crew have helped first the women and children into the boats of a burning vessel, then the rest of the passengers, and taken what was left themselves, or gone down with their ship. But these French officers had not force of character enough to shoot some of the crew who were beat ing of the helpless passengers, and compel the rest to stand by while the boats were launched and the weak saved first. When a nation is cowardly, atheis tic and unchaste it is burned up, not as Sodom and Gomorrah were, but ethnologically the degenerate people deteriorate till their virtue is an echo from the time of a founder like Char lemagne. Statistics of the population of France show no annual increase in numbers. Births and deaths are in the same ratio. Such symptoms, ac cording to the materia medica of his tory, accompany the death of a race. The strength of France has been sapped by long wars, which have tak en first the strongest and healthiest young men, and later the older and feebler, thus impoverishing the next generation, which in turn is called upon to furnish its best to the army. The wars of England and Germany have not had so perceptible an effect upon the population because the vices hereinbefore referred to have not drained the freshness, hope and strength of those nations. The Eng lish, the pure Saxon race, has a staj ing capacity, a recuperative verility, and a productiveness that will in time either rehabilitate or push off the earth, the thinner blooded Romance peoples who have fallen into evil ways. French society, French men, French literature, the French drama, is deca dent. o healthy mind can examine French institutions without a warn ing from the nostrils of the presence of decay. Zola has written of the French people as they are and they will not let him into the academy be cause he has told on them. There will come a time, unless some outside influence destroys Frenchiness (how we do hate it) in France, when the deatli rate and the birth rate will no lougcrbalance. Then the blue-eyed Saxon will go in and possess the land, and the sooner that day comes the better for the whole race. The pond with a green scum may be interesting to a botanist, but we need the ground. Besides it hatches poisonous insects and allows malarious, wraiths to es cape from it. It should be drained. The endorsement of Mr. Burkett for congress by the Lancaster county con vention was and is still a surprise to Lincoln people who did not and do not yet fully understand just who, and just what Mr. Burkett is and just how it happened that he, all of a sud den, sprung into prominence and in to nomination for congress by the Lancaster county convention. If republicans will stop a moment and think, they will remember, how, in the spring there was an effort to lift Lincoln politics to a higher plain and which succeeded to the satisfac- W9CT9r94'WWW9TC-9Tt- DO YOU WEAR J X 9HCf "" Wo have thorn in all tho popular up to date styles at popular prices. fj Our 3 cincl I3.&0 Slioen ore tlie 13 j WEBSTER AN ROGERS, 104S O (SXTCISISI i CCCtCwCClC4CCCtCCCCCC4- . 1 en i u co. 508 North Fourteenth St. Sells all kinds of fresh vegetables and strawberries at lowest prices for honest goods. Three car loads of best flour bought before the ad vance. Our prices are right. eses MM tion of all good citizens who love hon est government and decency in poll tics. When the result of the city election was known, the gang who have manipulated and plundered this city for years, under the leadership of those who have grown rich in coal and gas set about to get even with the so called silk stocking reformers and the late Lancaster county conven tion was the result. It was a conven tion organized, planned and controlled by those who will debauch the next legislature if they can, and who are interested in foisting upon the public not only through the republican par ty, but through the so called reform party as well, political tools who will do in the legislature, in the city council, in the state government and in the national congress at Washing ton what they are told to do. Republicans throughout the district may as well understand now, that the attempt to put Burkett into congress is a part of the game by the same manipulators who are putting Burns iuto the legislature and if onsumat ed is sure in the end to bringdisgrace and disaster to the party. The people of Lincoln who know this young man Burkett laugh at the idea of his being a congressman. Up to the meeting of the Lancaster coun ty convention his candidacy was con sidered a joke. The Coukieu warns the republicans of the district to in vestigate the Burkett deal before they endorse it Tho contemporary estimate or an ar tist's worth is always of problematical valuo, and in tho case of tho late Sir Edward Burno Jones the proverbial disagreement of critics was intensified by tho fervor of the quarrel over tho Kcsetti school, well remembered in ar tistic circles. The emphatic popular SIR TDWjnD B0C2.E-J0.NES favor accorded Burne-Jone's work, how over, both in this country and in Eng land, cannot be doubted, and his recent death, at the age of sixty-five, excited general regret among his many Ameri can admirers. n excellent portrait of the late academician is published in Harper's Weekly for July 2, together with a comprehensive account c! b;s life and work Inte.-pretlojr a Froverb. "Do you believe that whistling in dicates that a man has an empty head?" asked the affable devotee to "Sweet Marie." "It indicates that ne will have one if I can reach his head with a club," replied tho person who can't be industrious without be ne irritable. FrlTate Access. What a blessing no man can hinder pur private access to God. Every man tan build a chapel in his breast, him self the priest, his heart the sacrifice nd the earth he treads on the altar. hracny Taylor. One Fah!on Kxplalned. Little Dot Mamma says when she iras a girl little girls wore white stock Cn'a wat didn't make their feets all black like these do. Little Djck Then wot did they begin wearin' black stockin's far? Little Dot (after some thought) I Cess it's because it's easier to vfash :U than to wash stockin's. Get Health- Juror. Jirason I wouldn't hang a man on ny "expert" testimony of doctors. Would you? Jainson Not if I were in good aealth. Humph! What's that to do with it? I haven't much faith in doctors when I'm welL