The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, June 30, 1900, Page 2, Image 2
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. V H -v n y - A aafeaafc&:Ji&- a&-