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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1899)
VOL. XIV., NO. XLVI. ESTABLISHED IN 1868 PRICE F1E CENTS BSBBS - SBBBBB'rSL ill JBkV .r mW LINCOLN, NBBR., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1809. -u0m Kntibuhn tbb ronomoi at Lincoln as BBCOWD CLABW MATTKK. PUBLISHED EVEBY SATDBDAY THE COURIER PRIpG D PUBLISHING GO Office 1132 N street, Up Stairs. Telephone 384. clical from Candidate Bryan address ed to nobody in particular. In it lie makes no mention of fusion. Ho fails to thank the democrats, populists, and silverltes for uniting upon one set of candidates. Ho writes nut a Mr. Peck writes book criticisms and discourses on various subjects. Wo men do not find his essays on '-What to Think, and How to Think It" es pecially edifying and as the macnzlno readers are mostly women Mr. Feck's word about gold or silver.. He neither product has not a high market value. ;TI,U' W11 tunmon people" or tho uelng one of that numerous class, over- p ain people," He attempts in a confident of the excellence of its own halt.ng way to obtain comfort from performance and extremely doubtful the electlon.returns In differentiates of the usefulness of or demand for but It is easily read betwYeV tile lines the -product' ofotlier,.workers. .Mr. 8ARAH B. HABBIS. Editor Subscription Kates In Advance. Per annum $1 00 8ix months 75 Three months 50 One month 20 Single copies.' 05 TnE Cousiss will not be responsible for ml untary communications unless accompanied by return postage. Communications, to rocolre attention, mast be signed by tno rail name of the writer, not merely as a guarantee of good faith, but for publication if adrisable, that the result is most unsatisfactory to him. What man is this who assumes to address the public through the me dium of signed communications pub lished in tho journals of tho day? Simply a common candidate for office. He was a successful candidate in '00 and '02; an unsucessful candidate in 04 and '00. He is a waiting candidate now ana ir ne lives lie win next year Peck's opinion of the vice of employ ing women to do even a part of the work men have done, arises from a di rect comparison of the market value of his own work with that of Miss Wlggln's, or with George Egbert Cradock's, or with Mrs. Feattie's or with thatof any other of the many de servedly famous women writers of this country. The bitterness of Mr Peck's remarks about the t L iSERVATIONS. 8 Hit Encyclical. Some years since Mr. Bryan inaugu rated the practice of writing a letter imraedlateljr;8u'cceadMig the -November election informing tho people where he was at. The first of these epistles wasaddrested To the Friends' and was Issued November 9, 1894, after he learned that the legislature would be republican and that his hope of be ing elected a senator from Nebraska had vanished. In that communica tion he vigorously advocated fusion In Nebraska as the only' possible means f defeating. the .Republican party. He notified the public and warned the legal fraternity that lie should resume tlie practice of law after the fourth of the succeeding March. He never resumed. On the Gth of November, 1890, after his defeat for the presidency he Issued ills second manifesto which he ad dressed "To the Bimetalllsts of the United States". In his first letter he remarked upon the faithfulness of the "common people" to hm. In his sec ond he changed tho language by ad verting to the "plain people" who had expressed by their action!, their affec tion for him. Ho said, that before the year 1000 arrived "the evil effects of a tfold standard will be even "more evi dent than they now are and the peo ple, then ready to' demand an A merl in financial policy for the American 1'eople, will Join With us in the Ini meti late restoration of the free ai.d unlimited coinage of gold and sliver il the present legu, ratio oM6to 1 Without waiting for the aid or con 'vraentof ony other nation." November has come again and with 11 not only an election but an ency- Infoplnr ta. be the .candidate of the Democratic, male intellect is a confession of his nartV. Hl ffanoiinPfia r.rnafa nnri vat. HIcKnntanf tint iiUI,MI. ..-n.. r ,, v.uttwi; u..u JVU muvvIIVVIIV) UUU Till II UIIU qUBIll'JT UI during his two terras in Congress he his own work but of his contempt of a public which fails to appreciate his work and keeps him on the' edgo of the magazine, where he can see what literary fame and reward is without ever being able to be one of the com pany with whom he claims to be so familiar. The Election. The .republicans expected to elect Judge Reese to the office introduced no measure which tended to restrict such combinations nor did he demand the enforcement of the ex istlnganti trust law. He can point to nojmeasure that he ever advocated, to no act that he ever performed which to any extent or to any degree tended to ameliorate the condition of human kind. Certainly the people of Nebraska are allured by sounding brass and clanging cymbals of suDreme Judue.becauseJie isan nhlp.ipnmpH in p. .omen and Their Crltki. 1st who has shown by life of probity Cynical magazine authors aTe un- and'the successful practise of law that usually active lately in recording he would make a good Judge. Republi- their objections to the business wo- cans know now that It was a mistake mj ry w prove oy nis election mat Ne braska approves of the war in the Fil. ipines. or that Bryan was poor officer and very unpopular in Nebraska. As between Judge Reese and Mr. Hoi- comb it is childishly easy to select the man. They asseverate that woman was designed to bear and to rear chil dren, which no one denies, and that all women who are not mothers are a nuisance and an error, which every amIao ! rtflfl o4 Sil Ias4 4-ttst mmi UUC UUUIU9 VTUU HUB OLUUItU IUC JJIIK ww w.ww vv Dortion of the male population to the one m08t fltted for tne responsibilities female, in many parts of this country, of a Jud8e bufc wen it became neces (in Massachusetts, for example). There' "' to make a cl,0,ce between Judge .. ....- ..i.- .iiA ...,!, , Reese on the one side nnrl Mr. Rrvon which the race will accept, even if the obdurate book critic cannot see the reason for the discrepancy between Miss Wlggln's income and his own. The competiticn of women as writers has stimulated the magazine essayists and a few editors to conclude, and to advortlFe their conclusion, that tho modern woman Is aggressively and im . .. and Mr. Holcomb on the other -even conscientious populists allowed them jives to bs over persuaded. Training and Profanity. Last week one of the ministers of this city, fond of athletics, was watch ing the game of football between the Omaha and Lincoln high school teams. ...wHV. - n v - - -- -- .. ....... ...n, ww www VVUIUOI pertinently seeking to drive out man He was driven away from the seats he from the professions because of her had selected by the profanity of the vanity and love of notoriety. young men decorated with purple and The spltefulest and most illogical white ribbons. Before leaving, he treatment of tiiia subject, that 1 havo p'easantly tried to check the oaths l I. a.--!... l T IPL.. Jl - .At. - . . - seeni'waswrnienoy-air. imrry.xHure proceeaing- iromntue disappointed ton Pecks and appeared in The Cos- youths, but only with the effect of di mopolitan. Mr. Peck Is not an author, reeling their curses to himself. The he Is not a business man. He Is pro- boys happened to wear Omaha high fcssional adviser and critic of the surue school colors and they were in bad class as, but of a trifle finer quality humor because their team was losing than the loungers who occupy, all-day If the positions and fortune of the long the corner of O and Twelfth and two teams had been reversed, it were Q-aad-TwHh t,reqt8, and wlp, (f you Jde, in the Jjght of .experience, to have never studied logic and have no hope that the ' Lincoln boys would Instinctive appreciation of Its Jaws, show any bettor breeding, can prove that the world, and especl- .Coaches and doctors of physical ally Lincoln, Isgolng to the bow wows culture or curators of gymnasiums (I d-; not know their title) have lately undertaken a crusade against profan ity. Their objections to the practice are not based on morality or etiquette hut strictly upon the effect which swearing has upon sight and judg ment. All prize-fighters know that a man who gets mad when ho is struck by his opponent is blinded. The little blood vessels which supply nourish ment to tho eyes become blood-shot or blood.clpgged.and tho figure of tho op ponent is blurred. Even pugs, who have cultivated profanity as an ornamental addition to thoir limited vocabulary and not exclusively as an expression of rage, do not swear while "at workM unleos they get angry. When rage conquers the pug the refereo's decln slos award'ng the fight to the other one is certain to follow. Investiga tion of this subject -by competent coaches and trainers has resulted in excluding profanity from the training -table andJronUlia Ufejtf .competitive teams. Swearing is only the sign tf rage or rather the sign of the encour agement of ragei and to the cool head ed belong all athletic prises. The horrible examples referred to in the anecdote of the first paragraph were not members of the team whose defeat exasperated them. They may not have been students of the high school whose colors they disgraced, for anyone, at such a tlnie, may wear the colors of tho team they hope will wlii; At any rate ;they were not sportsmanlike and they showed, aeon .tempt Jortho, presence oj'jjadies and gentlemen which under a, stricter, po lice system would have been followed by expulsion from the grounds. Profanity like the billingsgate of the fish wives is the ultimate expression of the essentially vulgar and undis ciplined. Self control will eventually conquer the outside world, for we fight ourselves at too close range, and the victory over one's self is the sharp est and rarest, but once fought and won the rest is easy. Cbls. Mrs Langworthy, the president last year of theNeb-aska State Federation of Women's clubs, expressed fully In . the address she made to the federa tion the animating motive of club life and club work.'' Although woman is sentimental and emotional and, at times, given to the intemperate use of poetical nomenclature, the spirit of auruism lias at once, more exprenslon and' rules more uninterruptedly In womens clubs than In any other hu jmanoranlzon.I know of except the church. Kindliness, forbearance, , the eagerness to bear one anothera burdens, to give confidence to the timid, and to Impart the strength of a'l 10 one, and together to make the world better Is the real secret' of wo men's clubs. This spirit has nowhere been more emphatically expressed than in Mrs. LaugWrthy's address printed In last week's Courier. Ovsr and over again at the' state meetings and at the general federation meet- r t - 4 , V t-. Jik .&u. ' .jtfti. -i t--L. i.di