THE COURIER.
A
back over the four years, the self
control, faith and good judgment of
President McKinley are strikingly
exemplified. Not that he has not
made mistakes. lie is a man and he
has not been president before. He
will make a better president In his
second term, for added to his tem
peramental fitness he has now taken
a four year's course in administration.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Now that he has been nominated,
everybody recognizes his fitness. The
vice presidency will fit him for the
place he was originally designed to
fill. No other man suits the west
like Governor Roosevelt. To that
particular part of Nebraska in revolt
against a dirty republican machine
lie is and has been for a long time an
example, an aspiration, a proof that
some things can be done as well as
others and that now is the time and
we are the people to purify the party.
Roosevelt is young and brave, he is
energetic, he is not a dreamer. When
the machine will work for the accom
plishment of his plans he has sense
enough and influence enough to set it
to work. He is many sided. He ap
"peale to the east and to the west.
He is a scholar, a soldier, an author,
a statesman, a politician. More than
any other public man he satisfies the
ideal of a typical American. He can
fight with his hands, or with a gun;
he is a hunter, he loves horses, he has
written about the west and its quick
transformation from a desert into
-arable land. He is self-confident and
distrusts traditions which interfere
with the punishment of the bad and
the regulation of the criminally sel
fish rich man and tLe vicious and
murderous striker. His very self-confidence
is American. He is sure of
4iis destiny and his inspiration. So
'are the rest of his fellow-countrymen.
' 'His nomination has aroused the en
thusiastic ratification of the west as
no other vice presidential candidate
could.-
The vice president has a greater
potential than actual importance,
but as Governor Roosevelt has been
able to outwit and foil ooss Piatt, be
will even as vice president be influen
tial. Bossism is the hardest influence
"in America to fight and the Governor
of New York has fought and won as
many times as he has fought. Bossism
'will not stay licked acd as the Gov
"ernor would rather fight than be vice
president, it was a real disppomt
ment to him to accept the urgent
invitation from the republican party.
All things considered: Roosevelt's
Americanism, the temper of the peo
ple, the attitude of the south towards
the war, Roosevelt's war record and
his unbroken training for a fight, no
other man could be so completely
approved by the American people.
Chauncy Depew said that 99 per
cent of the first voters would vote for
Roosevelt. He is essentially a young
man's hero. He went to the war and
stayed with his company till it was
put out of commission. He was a
stern disciplinarian and a kind,
just officer. First voters are par
ticularly attracted by a man with no
nonsecse about him. When the Ne
braska troops came back from the
"Filipines and companies of the G. A.
R. marched in the same procession
with them, the young soldiers march
"ed with dignity. The old soldiers
laughed and talked, and were very
"free with jocular punches. Most of the
old soldiers walked with an unso'dier
ly lurch, and instead of "eyes front"
their necks suggested the distinctive
quality of India rubber. They are
'not the sort of men to inspire youth.
'But Roosevelt as he sits on his horse,
! accordiBg" to the regulations, because
he is a fighter and scorns weakness is
the hero of, the young men and the
time is at hand when the Roosevelt
bat, the Roosevelt smile and the
Roosevelt manner will be worn nat
urally by all young, ardent, impet
uous American.
Tsi An.
Mark Hanna said recently for pub
lication," "Imagine any congress on
earth waitiog upon the moods of a
wqman president." There is Queen
Victoria. She has responded to the
duties of her place better than any of
the Georges. Her reign is the longest
and best of any in the long list of
English kings and queens. When she
was still a young queen there was no
caprice or foolishness in her transac
tion of the business of the state.
There was Queen Elizabeth. Neither
men nor women were as wise in her
day as they are now, but she holds
her own with English sovereigns.
There has never been an American
woman president but it there Lad
been, a proportionate number, it is
doubtful if Mark Hanna could prove
their administrations silly, capricious,
and what feminine means to him.
Tsi An was a slave girl when she
asked the merchant and his wife who
had bought and educated her to
adopt her. She told them she had
decided to go to Pekin and appear
before the Emperor's jury as an ap
plicant for admission to his harem.
She was, as qualified to get her own
way when a slave as she is now. The
merchant and his wife adopted her,
bought her fine clothes and jewels
and Tsi An went to Pekin. She
pleased the Emperor, as Esther pleas
ed Auasuerus, and thenceforth she
lived in the palace. She worked her
way up, exactly as Mark Hanna has
worked his way to power, though the
latter has not, so far as we know,
been obliged to remove any one from
his way by poison, as Tsi An has had
to do but has accomplished it by guile,
bullying, by getting opponents into
tight places.and lastly by guile again.
In her whole career Tsi An has not
once shown the weakness of caprice or
once let her personal fancies or taste
influence her to a course which might
weaken her politically. Mark Hanna,
in her place, could not have done bet
ter. In a country where woman is
the slave of all she is the master of
all. She can depose the emperor and
execute the prime minister and all
the emperor's aids of whom she does
not approve. Whether she is a good
woman or a bad one is not the ques
tion. She is a woman, and a woman
in China where women are esteemed
as brother Bixby thinks they should
be, something not human, incapable
of thought and especially incapable
of bossing. Nevertneless Tsi An ig
nored the position of woman in China
and has bossed that empire for some
thing over twenty years. She did not
do it by favor. She was not born to
her position; she acquired it by the
force and keenness of her intellect
and by a sort of super-human selfish
ness and indifference to all moral
considerations which Mr. Hanna him--self
should have a sympathetic ap
preciation of. These examples of wo
men in executive positions are
brought to his attention because he
confessed that his imagination was
not strong enough to conceive a wo
man in an executive position perform
ing the duties of the position effec--tively.
A Disregarded Provision.
One of the sections of the new tele
phone ordinance, as of the old one,
reads as follows:
Section 3. Any person who shall
'interfere with, cut, 'injure, remove,
break or destroy any of the po'es.
wires, instruments, conduits or other
property of the Lincoln Independent
Telephone company within the city
6f Lincoln, or shall tack, paste or
fasten on the same any bill, notice or
advertisement of "any kind shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be fined
in any sum net exceeding one hun
dred dollars.
The clause in regard to posting
notices or advertisements on the poles
is disregarded. It has been flagrantly
ignored lately, not by a legitimate
patron of the bill boards or of news
papers, but by one of that class which
makes small loans to teachers and
other small salaried workers, who in
an emergency resort to a usurer who
charges them ten per cent a month
and upwards for the loan. Contempt
of the law in regard to legal interest
increases an innate lawlessness. Men
"who charge ten per cent a month for
loans are not apt to strain at a gnat
of a telephone pole. If the section
cannot be enforced why incorporate it
in new ordinances? A law,, which is
a dead letter, induces contempt of the
law.
The Martian.
George Du Maurler's hero, the Mar
tian who can turn to the north after
he has been blindfolded and whirled
about, who, except when he drank,
which was only once, never lost his
sense of direction, was not a myth ac
cording to the latest theory of the
French scientist, Reynaud. He says
nearly everyone has lost this sixth
sense which dogs, horses, and espec
ially cats and pigeons still possess.
The faculty is located, according to
Monsieur Reynaud, in the semi-circular
canals of the inner ear. These
canals are filled with a fluid called
endolymph and have nothing what
ever to do with hearing but are "as
sociated with equilibrium" and "fur
nish images of movement and dis
placement in space."
In the carrier pigeon this organ is
morefully developed than in other
animals. That perfect combination
of springF muscles and tendons, the
cat can find her way back to a home
from which she has been carried in a
bag by a route never before traversed
by her. The migratory birds, the
homesick dog and the hungry, thirsty
horse use the same organ. Monsieur
Reynaud says it is still found in
savage races. They tread dim, unfa
miliar forests without a compass or a
chart as surely as the reign in the
neighborhood of their huts. The skill
ful navigator who directs his ship into
strange waters by the aid of charts,
compass and the many wonderful
navigation instruments is no surer of
the islands, channels, rocks and har
bors of his route than is the little
Australian wild man guided by his
trusty little ear canals filled with
sensitive endolymph. Lucky for
them the savages do not know how
they know or why they can go where
they like without a chart or a police
man. If they began to study the
elusive subject, they could easily con
vince themselves there was no such
thing and that they and their ances
tors had never really knowu where
they were at. The lenses and nerves
of the eye, the palate, the ear with its
sounding board, the nostrils and all
the sensory organs have been studied,
dissected, given Latin names, and we
think we understand them. Nobody
thinks of denying that almost every
one has five senses and five correspond
ing organs. There may be, and there
is some not- indisputable evidence
that there is, a sixth and seventh
sense. The Martian had this sixth
sense, and the people who have re
curring and continually verified in
'tuitive revelations about distant
friends and places, have a seventh.
Physiologists have not admitted that
these exceptional senses had any cor
responding organ. They imply, some
of them that-nobody can account for
the vagaries of a diseased organ. But
animals and savages are healthiest of
all and the motor of migratory birds,
carrier pigeons, of home-returning
cats, arid of the self-confident savage
in an unexplored forest has not until
lately been dissected and classified,
and it'has not yet been named.
Mr. Bryan's Query. -.
In a letter to the Knoxville Sentinel,
Mr. Bryan asks:
"How can we justify the sacrifice of Ameri
can soldiers and the killing of Fllpinos merely
to show that we can whip them ?"
The object of the war, The Sun
says, as Mr. Bryan might have learn
ed by addressing his inquiry to any
Lincoln schoolboy, has been to main
tain the right and title and authority
ofJ;he P'ted States in the Filipi Jes.
The United States has been put
ting down rebellion there just as it
put down rebellion in the Southern
States. To speak of "the killing of
Fllpinos merely to show that we can
whip then" is. with the highest re
spect to Mr. Bryan, not true and not
sensible.
It Is an unfortunate fact that the
sacrifice of American soldiers which
Mr. Bryan so much deplores has been
unwittingly encouraged by himself.
The Crime of Discovery.
Mr. Croker's feelings are justifiably
outraged, not because the mayor and
deputy president of Tammany own
ice stock in an ice trust which the
mayor'-s veto of a dock bill has made
into a monopoly, but because they
neglected ordinary precautions such
as having the stock made out in the
name of a brother-in-law or a de
ceased wife's aunt. Mr. Croker's prl
vate reproaches to his subordinates,
the mayor and other city officers of
Xew York City for being found out
are severe as befits an English landed
proprietor who is, at the same time a
magistrate. Perhaps if he had stayed
in the city which he has farmed the
bungling tyros who try to fill his
place would not have so embarrassed
him, and the campaign about to be
gin. Wherever a democrat denounces
trusts raised in a republican nursery
he is sure to hear a terrible cry of ice.
The democratic mayor who was faith
less and cruel to the poor whose votes
under the leadership of Tammany
elected him has embarrassed the
campaign. Richard Croker deeply
regrets the exposed facade of Tam
many when the storm broke. Not
that his moral nature has been pro
foundly shocked, not that he cares for
the sick little children in the fetid
tenement houses who must now fore
go the soothing, cooling ice, but to
have his own immediate remunera
tive connection with the city of New
York and democratic supremacy en
dangered by which that steady flow
into his pocket is maintained, this it
is which causes his indignant voice to
tremble when he addresses Tammany
Hall on current events.
THE RAINBO V AT SUNSET
The clouds where the storm is raving
Glow red on the hills unrolled ,
And the tops of the tall trees waving,
Are yellowed with sunset gold.
And hollow the voice of thunder
Calls down from the gilded clouds,
And shouts to the lightnings under
Pale spirits in flame-rent shrouds.
They leap through the long cloud-spaces
The gold on the forest thins ,
The high hills darken their faces,
The long night rain begins.
Katharine A. M click.
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