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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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