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SARAH B. HARRIS.
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I OBSERVATIONS.
To repeat a remark of a few weeks
ago, it is not possible for a man, how
ever distinguished himself, to provide
a halo for his whole family. By way
of cheap newspaper cuts the family of
a hero, a statesman or a writer can
become known to the world. But
such fame is shared by murderers and
freaks. Fame worth having is more
exclusive. To be known as a brother
of General Merritt is a distinction
possessed by a Nebraska farmer. It is
his only refulgence. He has allowed
the opportunities of his life to pass
him by trusting to his brother's gen
erosity for a living and to his fame to
gain him bis neighbor's respect. Tbe
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one lias not kept his weeds down, nor
lias tbe other given him the possession
that makes life supportable self re
spect. This fable would not be urged
if the example of men and women who
beg to remind one of the obligations
this country is under to an ancestor
of theirs long dead and gone to dust
or of. the deeds and intellect and pos
sessions of contemporary kinfolk, were
not so recurrent. Straneers onlv can
be impressed by our relation to some-
iningwnicn, wnen it was blood ana
bones and flesh, thrilled the heart of
the world. To the small circle of our
acquaintance we are futile or precious
because of our deeds and hearts the
rest is vanity.
Judge Comstock is trying to admin
ister the law according to the statutes
and his own conscience. He was
elected to the office of police judge by
the people, who had confidence in his
judgment and .integrity, to try the
petty malefactors brought before him
by the police. A writer on the News
advises the judge to listen to what the
chief of police says in regard to the
prisoners brought before him and to
follow his recommendations in dispos
ing of them. Now, if 1 he police judge
is to be the mouthpiece o! the chief of
police, tbe functions of the two might
as well be united io one man and the
municipality be saved the judge's
salary. If the lawrelating to vagrants
is too general it can be revised, but
the advice given the judge by the
flippant .daily is unworthy serious
consideration and The Courier is
very glad to note that Judge Com
stock is still self-reliant and bent on
exercising that judgment whicti the
votes of the people have declared
sound. The police and judiciary were
separated by the founders of our demo
cratic system of government. There
are many obvious reasons why the man
who makes the arrest is unfit to award
the punishment for the petty offense
or suspicion of offense, for which the
ragged beggar was run in. The
statutes concerning vagrancy and
kindred offenses were made by the
well fed and warmed and temperate
for the hungry and freezing and
ill-born. They are not too mercirul.
and when, perchance, a judge is
elected who is willing to hear the
vagrant's side of the question and who
has sworn not only with his lips to do
exact justice, then forsooth, the
penny-a-liners advise him, out of their
ignorance of law and the institutions
of our country, to turn his back upon
the people and justice and do his
worst to the cringing results of an im
properly adjusted society, which the
men with tbe club have cast before
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him. Such advice is worthy of a paper
which attacks a wandering crippled
soap merchant and attempts to destroy
his reputation and the reputation of
bis wares because the merchant will
not advertise on that self-same page
But the judge will gang his gait. He
is content to wait for the verdict of
that time, when he shall have turned
over his office to a successor, who, let
us hope, will be equally anxious to do
no one. however helpless, an injustice.
The deaths of Gladstone and Bis
marck will stimulate the professional
biographers, memoir compilers and
editors of letters to a feverish industry.
Gladstone might have been eminent
in the church or in literature if he
had not been prime minister He had
the, memory and the minute painstak
ing habits of a scientific student. It
may be noted, however, that special
ists in science concede bisemir.ence in
literature and statesmanship, that
the masters of literature are willing
to admit bim a profound scientist and
only politicians and statesmen admit
that he was a pre-eminent statesman.
It is therefore fairly to be concluded
that he was a dilletant in literature,
an amateur scientist, and head and
shoulders above the politicians of all
parties. With an unlimited capacity
to assimilate all kinds of knowledge
to be used on demand, Mr. Gladstone
was, first of all, a great speaker and
special pleader. Added to this quali
fication were ambition, love of ap
plause and a capacity for affairs, and
that desire to direct events which has
induced men of even inferior ability
to sieze a lucky chance leading to
eminence. Bismarck cared not for
literature or art. They were well
enough for effeminate men and
women. He cared only for power over
men and kingdoms. Like the knights
of old who dispised monks and clerks
who knew how to write, Bismarck's
trust was in the army, though occa
sionally, for the sake or making a
period in the Reichstag, lie would say
that he trusted in God whom he be
lieved held all Germans in tbe high
est esteem. What he really believed
in was the strong arm and in making
combinations to force the hand of the
weak. His doctrine of the divine
right of kings ended fatally for him.
The young William learned it so thor
oughly, that as soon as the coronation
services were dver, Bismarck began to
learn that the emperor thought there
was none greater, no. not one, not
even Bismarck who made Germany and
himself, and revived and strengthened
the doctrine of the divine right of
kings. Never was a more apt pupil
than William II. Bismarck, exiled
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from court these eight years, must
have thought of the doctrine he has
taught the German people and three
generations of Hohenzollerns so well.
And then while he smoked his long
pipe has he not reflected that he
should have taught tbe Hohenzollerns
the exception to the rule? Germany
has so many exceptions, no system caa
be truly Teutonic without tiem, not
even the one that the iron Chancellor
was twenty years in teaching the
Hohenxollcrn family.
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The long widowhood and retirement
from society of Queen Victoria works
hardship to the merchants of Eng
land. The queen avoids London and
if it were not for the voluntary as
sumption by the Prince of Wales of
the tiresome and burdenoome func
tions of royalty, the mutteringsof the
shopkeepers and tradesmen of Eng
land might have become a serious
menace to tbe crown. The Prince of
Wales has entertained his mother's
guests, has patronized the theatre
and art, has been a liberal patron of
the sports which all Englishmen lore.
Without a king's revenue and a king's
influence and a king's reward, he has
not flinched, for the glory of England,
to do a king's part. When Queen
Victoria finally lays down the sceptre,
and none can say she has not ruled
wisely, King Edward VII will not be
found wanting in those qualities
which have distinguished the best of
England's monarchs.
The queen has not visited Ireland
for many years. When the Prince I
king those who know his views in re
gard to Ireland say that lie will reside
in Dublin a part of each year. Such
a residence would increase knowledge
and 'friendliness and strengthen the
unity (which is now only diversity)
between the two islands under one
king. Union is as essential to Eng
land and Ireland as to this cottntry.
The Irish do not hate the English
any more than the south hated the
north twenty ears before the war.
which forcibly and unsatisfactorily
united the two sections. Nor are
tbey any the less united by
commercial interests, tradition, pro
pinquity and race than the peo
ple of the north and the south.
Disunion and separation would be un
wise for both and in the case of the
smaller island would destroy govern
ment and injure commerce. However
much the Irish may object to the over
lordship of England such an alliance
has kept all other nations off and pro
vided the islanders with politics up to
their eyes and the latter is no small
favor considering the tendencies of
the Celts of Ireland.
It is not contended that Ireland has
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