THE COURIER.
Insolvent, bunks, but ut any rate' the
directors who bud .subscribed n lialf
niilllon dollars, mudo no attempt to
Hull their worthless stock to strangers
or to connive in any way to maintain
the public impression that the Inven
tor had discovered a new, limitless,
and uhcap energy. Doubtless if the
president and Mrs. Kcolcy's attorney
had taken the stock abroad they
would have been able to soli it in the
London Exchange or on the Bourse.
Thus tltcy might liavo saved their
own property and escaped the obloquy
of betraying life long friends and
business associates. Hut with an
unanimity, whicii encourages an opti
mistic view of Philadelphia human
nature, tltcy decided, just as soon as
thoy were convinced of fraud, to dis
close It to everybody so that no one
else should beguiled as they had been.
Even if wo havo not readied that
standard hero it is encouraging to seo
that sleepy, slow Philadelphia has not
allowed admiration for business ac
tivity to decolvc her as to the differ
ence between honesty and dishonesty.
A new club has been organized in
Chicago called the Non-Sentimental
club. It is to be supposed from the
name that it is an organized cITort to
discourage sentimentalism, which is
a lung word for gush, and does not in
clude charity or deeds of mercy. The
mistakes which are caused by super
sentimentalism are mostly the work of
women. When a depraved murderer
is to be banged, we send him cut
flowers and act pieces representing tho
gates ajar, or a broken colunin or, a.
pillow. When a brave man leads a
forlorn hope or makes a stand In the
last ditch, If be escape, we surround
him, in public, and make ourselves
and him ridiculous by kissing him
and weeping over him. On the other
hand, if he be killed and his body be
not brought bopk instate, we dp not
retire to a private room and grieve for
the hero that is no more. Our exhi
bitions of sentimentalism are always
in public. Real feeling sometimes
overcomes one in public but genuine
grief longs for seclusion. Illogical
and unreasonable bursts of sentiment
alism discredit real occasions for pity
or public expressions of appreciation.
The outre scenes in Kansas City,
where over two hundred women got in'
line to kiss Hobson, were a disgrace to
the sex as well as to Hobson, who is
old enough to havo learned better..
The function of the Non-Sentimental
club will be one of calling the atten
tion of women to such unreasonable
and silly conduct. And it is not in:
Kansas City or Chicago alone that the
women need discipline in restraint.
Not so many years ago, in this city, a
man was arrested for shooting another'
who was unarmed and was sitting
down when the murderer shot him.
It was a cowardly, brutal murder, by a
man who claimed to be emotionally
insane at the time. During the trial
the court room was tilled with women
whose sympathies were all with the
murderer. Tho victim was buried and
his. family were too reserved to use
any factitious means for attracting
the sympathy of the Jury and tho pub
lic. The very able council of the mur
derer secured an 'acquittal. When
the judge announced the verdict of
the jury there was a rush by the
feminine portion of the audience for
the murderer's neck. The women
Kissed him, presented him with (low
ers and congratulated him as though
he deserved It. The man was a pol
troon in his treatment of his wife, he
allowed his little girl to be brought
into court and confronted with a mass
of pollution quite sufficient to forever
destroy the purity and innocence of
her thoughts. Hut none of these
things was sufficient to prevent a
number of women from exalting him
to a placo he could not possibly hold,
A club which should exact from its'
members conduct regulated by the
code of good sense might have a ten
dency to reduce hysteria in Lincoln;
which only uwaits an occasion to be as
strongly in evidence as in Kansas
City.- A sustained eirort to be reason
able, sober-and temperate In all things
is enjoined by the tenets of the Non
Sentimental club and if a successful
one could bo carried on here it might
roBUlt In a savinir of enerirv which
and not nutrlclous. It is thus fairly
well established that the meat was
unlit for consumption and the packers
shocked outcry when General Miles
called their beef embalmed, was but a
bluff, after all. There are many who
still say that even if General Miles
know the beef had been embalmed ho
should have kept still on account of
the Injury such a charge might Inflict
on American ueef exports. It is the
old question of the relative Importance
,of human beings and commerce. It
seems to mo that no crime is morn
could be expended in a constant effort abhorrent, than sending bad meat to
to make homos haimler. this c.itv
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cleaner, and tho condition of the poor
more tolerable and hopeful.
the soldiers of a renublic. who serve
.their country from motives of the
purest patriotism, only to be poisoned
and starved by the agents of the gov
ernment in collusion and contract
witli beef contractors. If the secre
tary of war and the commissary gen
eral were ignorant of the kind of
canned meat sent to Cuba the fault is
The costume of the soldiers in tho
present war conducted in the tropics
on two sides of the world, is pictur
esque as well as comfortable. The can-
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belt and the tight loggings about the' only 8liKtly modified. The hundreds
calf, make an ensemble which should of dead men P,8oned by the kind of
be nernctuated in sculnture. If the rations issued to them forbid the
wasting, or any sentiment upon the
heads of departments responsible
for it.
legislature should conclude to erect
some memorial to the soldiers who
died in the war, the form it shall take
would be ono of the first considera
tions. Harvard university erected a
memorial hull and in the central nave
or court which divides the two parts,
placed the tablets containing the
names of the undergraduates who en
listed and died- in the war. Nebraska
The excuse for General Eagan's in
efficient conduct of the commissaay
department is that which is generally
alleged for the purely ornamental
charactor of staff officers. They are
without practical experience and they
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might build a state library and su. we their position to pull rather than
preme court memorial building and in to ability and knowledge. ButGen
the rottfnda place a statue of the vol- eral Eagan's blackguardism of hissu
unteer of '08 and Inscribe their names Peror officer, while tho country is still
hi a nutiu vi wur, una not oven tills
excuse. If staff, officers are drilled in
anything, It is In .etiquette and all
forms, symbols and observances of
military convention, and General
on ine wans, xue subject is one
worthy of favorable consideration and
should,' at least, be presented to the
legislature.
. A large number of the papers of tho E?g.ann nw pw serious his offense
statd and almost without exception was ,w,iien he said that he would say
the leaders of the republican party, wojds that would cause either hlra
are'oppdsefl to the 'canaiaacrfMr-. l tpr.Gjsneral Miles, to be.drlv,en,out
D. E. Thompson.1' TheVglslature can 5?e aiyfc tU0UBht lfc wo.uld
ignore this righteous sentiraen't which ,bc Gene-ral Mlle8
grows stronger every day',' but' only' at ' ' -
the expense'bf republicanism. The Representative Joseph Burns has in
only' hope' of Mr. Thompson and Mb troduced a bill in the house providing
men Is in 'a caucus with a secret bal- an appropriation of two hundred
lot. A vote is not of much' Value to thousand dollars to begin the publl
the man who casts If for some one cation of school text books by the
else but If tho man who needs It to fitate. These books "are to be compiled
become United States senator is will- ky the. state superintendent, the chan
ing to pay a thousand dollars for it,' ceuor ty the university and the gov
it Is not for a canny and prudent ernqr and printed on a job press owned
member of a caucus to assume a stage by the state. The Fremont Tribune
hero attitude and to pretend to reject 8av8 feelingly, that:
with scorn, what he really needs in his . When tho text books are thus
business, especially considering the RF.utJ?!. AhlP?"tlc.89' Jhe staA?
v w iiiu v - .! irru n w nn - mb
valuelessness of his vote unless ho sells
it when there is a strong demand for
it. And of course a caucus is a nri-
create an unprecedented political en
thusiasm among the school ma'ams
and school children of the state. Bal-
vate arrangement amoK the les.ala- d pTa'lXlT. Wner Kl
.. v.........u . v...... v.uuw t UUUy ana nruiueeiy uiustraten. He-
discovered, there would be nothing ille
gal in selling a caucus vote. But re
publican sentiment is even more op.
posed to a secret caucus than to Mr.
Thompson himself, and if Mr. Thomp
son is elected by such means tho re
sentment will be increased rather
than softened, because of the indirec
tion and concealment of individual
tween editing these books, appointing
political heelers to public places, ap
proving bonds, regulating state in
vestments and making campaign and
other speeches the governor will find
his time well occupied, though ho will
probably permit nothing to interfere
with his getfing out an Interesting
spelling book and a good reader set
ting fortli the beauties of the initia
tive and referendum and a circulation
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responsibility which characterize this of anv old kl,,d of monoy up to 950 per
method of electing a United States cttDUa'
senator.
A secret voto for a candidate by a
voter who represents only himself has
admirable features. Hut the vote, of
a representative is different and the
people for whom he casts his vote
have a right to know whether ho ful
filled his trust or sold it.
Surgeons and , inspectors have con-
January 27, 1809.
Editor Courier:
Some time ago I noticed your article
on the management of county and city
government, as well as the attempted
reply of the Evening News. It is to be
regretted that 'you could not have at
your disposal all tho facts. Because we
hear so little about the county govern-
mpnk la thn nrinninnl noonn ...V... I.
firmed the testimony of General Miles considered better. I shall undertake to
in regard to the army meat. Governor present a fow factB and comparisons
Roosevelt and Richard nardlng Davis 8nd leave your readers to judge for
under their own signatures in current themselves as to their relative economy
magazine articles, also say tho meat, Twenty yoars ago the county commie'
when not offonslve, was unpalatable sionors were paid by the day and for
time actually spent in tho servico of tho
county and never did we know of their
drawing over 13,000, and the county was
just as well governed then as it is now
when we pBy 83.400 per year. Next, '
take the county clerk's office. The law
says his salary shall bo $2,500 poryear,
he to bo allowed a deputy and clerk pro
vided the fees of the office will pay them
all, and yet this year, without authority
of law, tho commissioners levy a tax of
$1,200 to pay the deputy county clerk.
So we have the county clerk's office cost
ing bb follows:
Clerk, 82.500; deputy, 81,200; a clerk,
8700, and making tax duplicate 8800
more; total, $5,200 as tho cost of the
office to the county, or 8700 more than
under the former clerk, as against
82,100 total cost of the city for clerk and
deputy, who also tnako the tax duplicate
without extra coet to the city.
The next office is that of countv at
torney, which cost the county $4,600 in
tho year 1808, as compared to 82,100 for
tho city attorney and his deputy and
extra help in two ctsea. And notJne
who keepB track of affaire will deny
that the city has had far more costly
and important legislation than tho
county has had, and it has been con
ducted at about half the cobt.
I cannot well make a comparison bf
the county treasurer with the city treas
urer for the reason that the county
treasurer collects part of the city taxes,
and while the present efficient county
treasurer is collecting more delinquent
taxes than his predecessors, yet his office
is costing more than at any other time.
So it is in the- sheriff's office and the
office of county judge. We do not say '
this is wrong, but will ask where is the
much boasted of economy practiced
As to the work of the comraiBiioners '
in spending the road and bridge funds
,.it is about as follows: The totcl'le'vy''
for roads raised about $19,350, of which
the county commissioners control $6,500"
tin round rigurea anJth'e'clerk',Bfr1gAelf
given out show that the commissioners'
pent over $12,600 or nearly double what
they should have spent. ''
The natural roads of Nebraska arV
better than any made road except in?
low places, where the steam grader im-'
proved the roads and at somewhat less
expense than by the old way, but it is
doubtful, when all the cost is figured,"
whether it is not dearer. For instance, in
one place where the road was good they
graded about two miles with the steam
grader and it took seventeen new cul
verts, mostly made of ash lumber. And
when you take the $1,200 Yankee Hill
bridge and the Oak Creek bridge ot the
same cost, with do publio roads, it is
hard to see how the city government
could have done worse. The county is
getting in better condition financially
and so ia the city, and the reason is be.
cauBe people are paying their taxes.
What we want more and more as the
years go by is to have all public officers
paid just the same as private person's
pay for same service and exact from
them the same faithful performance of
the duties imposed.
XXX
"What,'' thundered Mr. Mookfon's
wife, "do you think of thin man who
married three wives, and then wants to
como to congress!''
"Well, Henrietta," he answered, as he
gloomily tapped the edge of th& table,
"I dunno's I blame him for wanting to
get away from home and come to Wash
ington for a little while."
THE ORATOR.
I law him stand upon the Judgment Day ',
Who in his life all human wrath ,
had braved,
The appealing angel in his voice, and say
If but one soul be lost, how
is man saved?
-George E. Woodbury in the Century.
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