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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1898)
t- W- - y- .-, ev wr;-. v&$B&&rnt''V vst E f" .- " wr-vsri VOL.13. NO. 40. ISTABLISH1D IN 1886 PRICE FIVE CENTS. LINCOLN, NBBR., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1893. a trifle slower in criticising' systems by vhch they are entirely surrounded especially when the largest ocean on the map isolates them from every thing but the system and the army they may be "tempted -to find fault with. Although no complaints have come from the west, it cannot all be butter and cheese in one ocean and all varieties of hardship in another. If TIE GOiRIER PIMTIIG MD NUK GO lar army offcers make the difference in the reports from the east and the west, where it is possible, let the east ern wing" be supplied with officers educated for the job before the winter occupation begins in Cuba and Porto Rico. EXTKKEDIX THE POSTOmCK AT LINCOLN AS SECOND CLAM MATTKE. PUBLISHED EVEBY SAT OB DAY BT Office 1132 N street. Up Stairs Telephone 384. SARAH B.HARBIS, Editor Subscription Kates In Advance. Per annum f 1 00 8iz months 75 Three months 50 One month 20 Single copies 05 The Coubieb will not be responsi ble for voluntary communications un accompanied by return postage. Communications, to receive atten tion, must be signed by the full name of the writer, not merely as a guaran tee of good faith, but for publication if advisable. r 5 I OBSERVATIONS. 8 "When Chief of Police Hoagland was deputy sheriff, he attended to his business and did not confuse his duties with those of sheriff. But since he has been placed in control of the police he seems to believe that his function is judicial and that Police Judge Cbm stock is an upstart who has no right to an opinion of his own. Mr. Hong land's continued attempt to force the judge to accept an arrest by a police man as evidence of guilt is in very bad .form and The Courier believes that the only 'result for the chief will be complete discomfiture and damage to the reputation for sense and discre tion which led to his appointment as chief. , The Manila side of the campaign has a larger proportion of regular army officers and the result is appar ent in the better health of the men. The result is doubtless aided by the distance of the Philippines from this country. The war correspondents are Mrs. Belle M. Stoutenborough, presi dent of the Nebraska state federation, is chairman of arrangements for the congress of Trans-mississippi clubs at Omaha the 13th and 13th of next month. Her assisting committee con sists of the presidents of the state federations of Missouri, .Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Utah and Oklahoma. Mrs. James Scammon will preside at the congress on the 13th, Mrs. Julia C. Lathrop of Itockford, 111., will speak on state char ities, Mrs. Lyndon Evanns of Chicago will give her experience in organizing working girls clubs. Club life in Cal ifornia will be reported by Mrs. Willis Lord Moore, late of Santa Barbara, and Mrs. Selwyn Douglas, president of the Oklahoma and Indian territory federa tion, will present the dominating feat ures of the club movement in those localities. No despotism so complete as a mili tary, and none so hard to overthrow. France has worshipped the man on horseback until he has come near to stamping the life out of courts and the constitution. It is said the French officers are uncertain of the sympathies of the soldiers if the mili tary and civil authorities should both demand it from opposing camps. Or rather the officers are certain the sol diers would desert them if France, the France of homes, farms, schools, and churches, needed their help. It is dangerous for a republic to give the military the place of honor in its scheme of government. Such power destroys an officer's sense of propor tion and menaces all peaceable con vention and the real life that the military only exists to preserve. Tn acceding to the demand for the rehear ing of the Dreyfus case President Faure, who puts his trust in the sword, showed that he appreciated the power of the people as a last resort and as the basis of all institutions. Somethings is the matter with the French people. It may not be fatal, but it is certainly chronic and hard to cure. The cause of degeneration may be a gross materialism aggravated by a sensual literature, but a diagnosis by a foreigner is as worthless as con sultation by letter and prescriptions from a soothsayer. The parting between some volunteer officers and the privates will bear no resemblance to Washington's farewell to his army. No slave drivers or over seers were so cruel and tyrannical as the blacks who had been slaves. The volunteer officers who have had no previous military training, and who, for lack of ability and industry, have spent their time in loafing or in some inferior service until Uncle Sam gave them their commission, are answera ble for much disaffection as well as disease among their men. The incom petents are thrust upon Uncle Sam by influential relatives who are wearied of giving advice and assistance to lazy young men who may be cousins or brothers or even sons, but who are incontestable burdens. Uncle Sam occasionally hires a good and clever man to do his work but our uncle has not much choice of employes. There are so many of the aforesaid exhausted relatives pleading in his ear all the time. Many of the volunteer officers who have had training under regular army officers, have been indefatiga ble in their efforts to deserve their rank and they will leave the army with the respect of their superior offi cers and of the private soldiers under them. There are others, first and sec ond lieutenants, who looked upon their soldier straps as marks of distinction, removing them from all further effort and from obligations of decency to privates. For all such mistakes of an atrocious system the day of reckoning is approaching. There will probably be few fatal easualities, but the ig norant, lazy, vain and tyrannical offi cer will have to run a gauntlet that will denude him of self satisfaction for some time. Touching appeals have frequently been made by missionaries returned from China who describe the condition of the Chinese woman as being much worse than her English or American sisters. They say the better halt of the great Chinese empire is not allowed to sit at meals with her lord but must wait upon him in silence, grateful that he condescends to eat the food pre pared by her or by her orders. They hare told us that she is always in im minent peril of being sent back to her mother, for trivial reasons by capri cious husbands, that she is not taught even the ancient and useless lore they teach the lads in that impossible land, that, in short, she is despised and used as a proverb for all that is foolish and servile and has not even the rights granted by poetry, chivalry and con cession to weakness, enjoyed by wo man in the land of the free. Yet the son of Heaven, from whoee glory all men shade their eyes when he leaves his palace grounds, whose authority is in theory and law unmitigated, has been thwarted by an ugly, littl-, old woman, the dowager empress of Chin.u There is no occidental female alive who could defy and perhaps dethrone a reigning prince, yet this old woman, in a country which binds and uistorts a girl's natural rights oh it does her natural feet, who sits behind a screen and gives orders through n shutter to ministers who have never seen lier, can, if she think best, oust the sacred person of the son of Heaven from po sition in which he is surrounded by an homage, an incomprehensible and frightened awe not accorded ary other human being. When the despised sex is able to triumph in sp.ie of a sys tem five thousand years old depriving it of freedom, physical and intellec tual, of the respect of men and of ac cess to affairs, it is a demonstration of intellectual supremacy which the new woman ought not to ignore when she is casting about for an answer to the sneers of unlielicf. It is customary for the drudges on the daily papers in this city to write at least a half column bi-monthly on Woman. This heiui-eolumn is as dry as the tail of a rattle snake and rattles resiwiusive to the will of the operator and with no more variation. It begins with seductive testimony to her charms of face and figure and her oc casional ability to cook and to make man happy by staying at home and not belonging to clulw, by studying his moods and by keeping still when he is thinking nnd thereby showing reverence for the mysterious processes of thought, and it gradually draws to a complacent period expatiating upon Her emotional nature and uncontrol lable habit of jumping at things in cluding conclusions. These summaries of the character and narrow limita tion of woman, though loose in lan guage and thought, apparently satisfy their authors, whose taste is, quite as obviouslj-, not fastidious. The object of their frequent reappearance is not quite clear. No knight has ever ap peared to affirm what they denounce and deny, and the objects of attack are mostly too busy to read what is said about them in general. The search for a national flower is still being prosecuted. It is one which is complicated by the various forms of hay fever suffered by a respectable fraction of the population. The unfor tunate selection of golden rod as the state flower of Nebraska has been the cause of acute suffering to hundreds who have unwittingly been caught in an auditorium or a house banked up with this floral sunshine, which dusts everybody with an impalpable yellow flour that teases the mucus mem brane of the pollen victims until their eyes are streams of water and their poor red noses are exhausted pumps. The sentimental gratiucation which many feel in the designation of a na tional or state flower is not to be weighed in the balance against the actual suffering which a flower with an abundance of light pollen inflicts upon a super-sensitive, mucous mem- .-'-1 L S6.
