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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1899)
THE COUl..c. com ratios who labor at Ills side arc Swedish, Irish and American. Yet among them there are no race troubles or animosities. They speak pleasanMy to each other and the if resistible laugh of the darkles is the only sign of a stumble and a spilled barrow. The clothing of the men Is wet through with perspiration, all day long they are bent over and are lifting heavy burdens. At six o'clock their back bone must feel like an ulcerated tooth three feet long. Yet among them there Is not a deadened, hopeless face. Any one of them standing beside the man with the hoe would, make Mr Marram's poem seem, as applied to the American workman, as absurd as it is. Trusts. Against trusts war to tin knife and the knire to the hilt Is likely to be the slogan of both parties next year. The trust, however, Is compound of good and evil. It accomplishes large results and makes large profits by a minimum expenditure of energy and capital. It is a labor and time living invention in methods and operation, and since men Hrst began to work they have been inventing machines to do handwork and to lessen the cost of production by making fewer workmen necessary. The years of adjustment, after the introduction of any great machine, have been full of suffering to workmen, their opposition has failed to Interefere with its use. The Jaw of development and discovery and of combination to lessen friction is as indestructible and as little under the control of man as the movement of the heavenly bodies. It is doubtful if any political party can destroy trusts because they have all the char acteristics of the best machines, even in the suffering they cause The party which advocates their abolition should be called upon by the doubting voter to explain how their destruction is to be accomplished and by what means, under the constitution, men are to bo prevented from going into business together and pooling their prolits, losses, and expenses. There is no question but that our present com mercial system is unjust, and oppres sive, but It is less apalling than the tyranny of the socialists, system of es pionage and restraint of the individ ual citizen. The Nude in Advertising. Illinois club women have tried this past year to prevent the use of the pictures of the nude female tigure on tobacco and liquor advertisements, Their efforts might be extended to the Notobac company, the Indecency of whoso advertising posters shock a decent man trying to stop chewing and smoking. The postmaster gen eral has shown his desire to co operate with the women in their efforts forde coney and has suppressed a number of advertisements which have heretofore gone unchallenged. The women's clubs of every town in Nebraska might undertake as part of their win ter's work the Inspection of posters. tiio very tactot inspection and inter est will raise the value its well as the character of billboard and other ad vertising. For the club women of the United Slates arc buyersof family sup plies. Man -the ordinary man, not the sissies who accompany their wives on their shopping tours -audespecially the western man, Is too busy to do the marketing and buying fo the house hold. Moreover lie accepts the fact that a dollar spent for the children or in careful marketing oy his wife is worth two of his own expenditure. If the woman be the careful housewife described in Proverbs, and most Ne braska women are, she knows the exact condition of each child's ward- pondents whose despatches are not tive and peremptory as it is fitting robe, she knows the supplies in cup- sent until one In the morning and that a c.ommander of armies nliuuld board and Ice box, she knows the dltll- who must be at the court by half past be. Besides, no living general has cultlesof tlie several appetites of the six of that morning. That is a very made the war record written down inembcrsof her family, and she knows early hour for judges, whose long against the nafnc of General Miles in best how to adapt its slenderness or terms and the habit of reflection in- the civil war and in Indian cam plethora to the necessities of ward- duces American judges to assemble paigns. Si far In the war it cannot robe, Ice box, servants, and furnish court at ten or half past ten in the be contradicted that General Miles lugs. Tlie incornesof tills country arc morning. The sleepiness of the cor- lias not played an heroic part. He spent by women. Men buy their own respondents may account for the tire- lias never been unequivocally in charge clothing alter taking samples homo some and pointless reports of the trial of the army In the field. Ho ought to and consulting thclrpurehaslng agent, Even the conscientious, peruse the be put In charge of it or if he be not they buy tobacco, they occasionally long repor s without being able to equal to anything but the honorary buy horses and carriages, though as find out what it is all about and where enjoyment of his title, he should be in the case of their own clothing rare- the head line writer found his infor- superceded by the commander-in-chief Iy withoutconsultatlon with and the matlon. The witnesses are allowed In fact and activity, whoever that approval of their buyers They arc to tell what they think like the hero- maybe. trusted to buy theatre tickets occa- inesofthe state university English Mr. John F. Bass, the Harper's slonally with a limited choice as to lo- department students, and like them Weekly correspondent says that out cation of sea's, etc, and finally as rent the witnesses fail to relate anything of MO miles of railroad, we have only is a fixed sum and is not to be lowered that Dreyfus really did. Their tes'i- .') miles or less than one third. "The by managing, men are often allowed niony is only what they think he did value ot the railroad is of the utmost to pay It. Besides the Items mention and are sure he did because he is a. lew importance to the enemy and en ed a man's importance as a purchaser and wanted to know things and was ablcs them to transport their troops is limited to tobaccos and liquors. If always asking questions. That must and provisions. Besides that all of it were not for men the saloons would have been a funny scene the other day the territory above San Fernando is close and there would be no prohibi- when two Journalist of international rice land and furnishes them with tion patty because there would hn remi'ation dronnod their tmavv ennns nrovisinns" Tiinn Mr n,s ....i... tlr.tliltw .. t.iiklilKt. mi 1 . 1 .1. ...... .1 ... ...... . . nu uciiisii uu uieiioor wnue asleep, wny it is tnat tlie American outlook Who audience awoke startled, think- is blacker now than it has been since ing, in is dazed condition, that some the beginning of tlie war. General outrage had been committed. Since Otis has never been out on the lines then the gendarmes have carefully nor seen the troons in action. mi... gaiucreci up an canes and umbrellas." The correspondents, that moment ffun dreamland, fancied themselves in the midst of a melee and grasped their Slicks U-ltll tlm Inti.ntlnn nf oil. ingliarnessl.and vchiclesiiroaflfliv'ssofi liur their llvns :is ilnsiriv m nnuuiiiin to wnnip.n iinrl If Mm rwl vipt lLntw..-.r. .... Tim clmr...!. .,.... ...i.i..i 4.1...1 - w -ii.MKuuiviii.uiuuunuie ..v-oiniii.TuutaB miiiuu j'jm.ii upon uuuuaiiuiug uiiiLeis are necessary KllOclvirifr to I lifitr unnc.t nf tlm lli.r.lt.i Mlnm ivlinn lm f,.....,l ,.... . l. . ..-,.,..! "., I .!. it . .. - "v."-v- v.. -ii viifcinu.) ...... ....v.. ..iuj -uuiiM vim uiu nue --i-u'- vjuut;iii vis. ne is cue only of their sex,theadvcrtisorwill know it cause of their alarm was like that of American officer of the original army by the loss of their custom, which is the hypnotized when the snap of tlie in the Filipines who has not seen a of far greater bulk and importance "professor's" fingers brings them out fight or a skirmish, yet he parslsts in than Unit, of men. Tlie nude in art is of tliclr trance. There is a satisfaction, dictating the detail of movements to uu '6u-ii-8ui;ijw.ivt: umpioy- nuuui, iu uiu rentiers wno nave an army in ueiits entirely unknown labored through the reports without to him How different was the con getting an idea of the proceedings, in duct of the great Napoleon whose knowing that they are written b" successes were due to the rapid move sleepy men who weic sound asleep ont of his troops over ground he when most of the testimony, they re- had examined and learned by heart. coia, was iaien. The Cry from Luzon. The "Washington correspondents report that General Miles will sail for the Filipinos the last of October, nothing to prohibit. The antieiirai rette leagues would also disperse for lack of raison d'etre. The conclusion from this state of affairs is that advertisements of gro ceries and provisions, dry goods, fur nishing goods, buots and shoes, boys' clothing, medicines, and all kinds "of drugs and perfumes, confections, trunks, and all leather goods except maps are very poor but he relies on them rather than on his ollicers' de scriptors and the maps are most inaccurate. Mr. Bass says "Generals and other ollicers have repeatedly told me that as things are now, no commanding ollicers are necessary men 1. 01 it in an ativeitisome.it quite aoothcr. The coming winter If the members of the woman's club will Immediately protest against Indecent bill board pictures or against objectionable ad vertisements insoried in the local papers, one of the very useful and community elevating functions of clubs will be at once apparent. In the last five years bill board advertis ing has grown to unknown pronortlons with no intentions of. or orders to .i .. t --.-., J.IIU UIUVUIUM JJUS ed to make them success is proved by the number of army and will have a supervision of eyes which arc riveted upon the huge Held operations. '-He will direct the bill boards as their owners hurry on assignment of the different regi- their way The bill boards arc com- ments," though, "and participate in petitorof ncwspapes,neverthelessitis mapping out plans of campaigns." If ir.ifirl flnrl n . I in. I ttr- wl .... tl -. Mitt l .. I. I.. .. bv,u. ...u ui.Kium. auc-i usmg. 11 -mo uu ou 1. i me overture to a Impertinent Yellowness. Newport women are compelled to wear thick barege veils to prevent reporters of the yellow papars from securing their photoirranhs. No place and no occasion is sacred, but poster artist are employ percecle General Otis. He will however , e u,ld " 0(Jcllsi(m Is sacred, but em attractive and their act in his capacity of general or the t,,e poor Viuirlorbllbs and Wideners )ved by the number of army and will have a minm-visim. r aml Ioul,es are snap shotted as they come out of church, as they stroll on the pier or as their carts stop in the mldstreet that the young ladies who drive them may exchange greetings and tlie customary gossip A veil thick enough to effectually disguise adonted tlie lass resort. Their fathers are talking of special legislatiort.asniigis. trates refuse to hold culprits brought before them for taking pictures with out asking the consent of the sitter, holding that no copyright on ones own face Is recognized. pick out a suggestive poster a week and duties begin and the boundaries after it has been hung by the legends areas undetermined and unsurveyed written on it by the gamins or by the and as sure to cause trouble in Luzon unceremonious way they have torn it. as in Cuba. It is supposed by the We have not any light, for greeds common people that General Miles sake, to hang a millstone about the ranks every other olllcer In the army, gamin's neck, even though he may And yet if he be sent to thn Filipinos' like millstones. under such ambiguous orders, it will It is timely, therefore, for women bo the second time during this war to remember their overbalancing eco- that the war department has walked nomic importance as purchasers, their into an impossible situation with its privileges to cut out any advertise eyes open. merit from any paper and send it to There is still another report that the postmaster general protesting General Merrltt has been asked by against its obscenity or inriocfuwv the nrosldanr. to im nmr . t.i.,. mih , .. , - . "" " w,v" " "" J' in- ui uivnizitlion. In tllo citv whttrn it In unci Its consequent bud effect on t.i., nines and keen mo nvn , n.,..,.i -w. u..... . ' """iy wwre h ib you,,,-, or to pronto ,o ,,,yr .L ..p., ,,t JuT Um n Zl , 1 Z Z 1 u-5rafssss 23":rrf! Er-ssrasj nesses arc not excited to the p.ln of 0 In n JeLXr 11 ? . .T1 BP?,Ctab, bUflineBa "oa whoBO bualD0B9 shrieking. A droning, rcas Table the i ko ml 7 T Wlt ',l,b W,U not bo boneHtted by lh(J f"jr a' c0' impartial witness lv,8 SSo c U.e I lo S ?t " ? rCd to raake dontttiono- St, Louis in the midst of snores. Thcaudenec 1 - Is ets? '7f U'? V6 ,,rPOrtlon f tho wealthy mor- is mostly composed of foreign cores ImLlo sn V "h, T" ,ind 'liantB tt PP to the fair for thoao " UrrC8- "U,nblc 8I)lr,L 'oyaro self asser- and other local roaaonB. Thoy doub The St. Louis World's Fair. St. Louie is having the usual prelimi nary BcrapB which precedo and attend a world'n fair. A world'ri fair as an exposi tion or show is an ovoroatiinutodeloinont of civllizution. lnthocitv whwru it is . ttlvLDvAamlAi, 'nT-.TriwMTizjKEiKijusiKiitrrTi ' ' ' , i -..''.?;. ;rjs2ei5 BBWWWWflMrtirtiiM. my