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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1900)
THE COURIER. K 5 cause the pungent phrase of Omur sticks in the mind of a commercial traveler, even as in the mind of Lang, who fancies that he likes it because lie is Lang, and not because he is human like Omar and the men he addresses. The Anew-Had. The Arrow-Head isltn illustrated" fortnightly published by students of the university. Mr. Johnson, the illustrator, is an original draughts nan, with a talent for catching a likeness whkk makes the labels super 4kiou8,that all cartoonists tack on their models. This is a busy world, iM it takes so little tlmeto get the meaning of a page of pictures, that letter-press is takiog a more and mece inconspicuous place. The Ar-rew-Head's models are members of the faculty, doubtless unwillingly, JMtt the students are more interested in them than they are in the presi dent's cabinet, in Bryan, Croker or any other professional model of the winute. Therefore a college maga zlae illustrator's models are liuited to the faculty and bis topics to those discussed,,, on the campus.- -To. those jwho know the university professors aad undergraduates, the Arrow-Head 4s interesting. The effort of the publishers to get out a breezy, pointed periodical is very evident and they demonstrate their success. jt J A Study of Commerce Tie Parceb Part. 1 have received a pamphlet contain ing the two addresses whose titles are printed at the head of this paragraph. 'A Study of Commerce' was delivered hj Mr. J. C. Stubbs before the Na tional Association of Merchants and Travelers, in Chicago, on August 21, 1900. Mr. Stubbs shows that Ameri can enterprise stops short on the coast. We trade with other countries, but foreign ships carry oar imports and exports. Americans are keen enough to carry on any business in which there is profit. Only large sub sidies from the American people, to ; ship owners can develop United States ship tonnage. Js it worth a subsidy? Under the present condi tions the United States is not a rival of England, Germany or France in the ocean freighting business. In 1807 our foreign commerce was valued at 248,843.000, ninety-two per cent of wbidnwas-carriedjin Ameri--; can vessels. In 1811, through the dep redations of British and French cruis .ers, it bad fallen away to $114,716,800, and the proportion carried in Ameri can ships was reduced to eighty eight per cent. In 1814, the last year of the war, the value of our foreign com nerce shrank to 120,000,000 and Amer ican ships carried only fifty-four per cent of it. In 183S our foreign-corn raerce, for the first time, reached the volume of 1807. Since then the ton nage has not equaled the 1807 mark, except for two years. England, which continues the greatest maritime pow er in the world, developed it, in the irst place, by navigation acts, grant ing subsidies to ship owners. "But, one by one," Mr. Stubbs says, "the protection laws of Great Britain were modified or revoked, in consideration of 8imUar-legIsat4ons by. the United States." Thus EnglaWre-estaWlshed teer prestige -which the American suc cesses in the war of 1813 had threat 'ened by demonstrating the. superior seamanship and marksmanship of the American masters and sailors. ' There is no question that the great aations of the past, as Mr. Stubbs ays, have commanded the sea. Marl 'time supremacy was attained by the Babylonians, who were surpassed by the Phoenicians, whom Carthage rivalled and excelled. After the dark ages, wherein men ceased to travel and trade across seas, Venice and Gen oa were the harbors of the Mediter ranean. Then Holland, Spain and Portugal controlled the seas. From the middle of the seventeenth cen tury, Engiand has, with occasional threats, done the-bulkof the water- way business. Mr." Stubbs believes' that the people of the United States should encourage American foreign commerce by passing law which will entitle the American ship-owner to a subsidy, which will make up to him for going to sea in competition with the English or German sea captains. If the English can do business at a profit with protected America, there issometbingdeticientin the American captain or ship-owner if he cannot trade, and make money by it, with free-trade England. Subsidies, where the whole people get under one man or corporation and boost, are increas ingly repugnant to the American mind. If the ocean carrying business cannot be carried on by Americans, unassisted by their countrymen, as the Englishman is unassisted by bis coujntrymen,vI hope the latter will continue to do the business, as he de serves to. Mr. Lewis B. Boswell of Quincy, Illinois, delivered an address on "The Parcels Post" before this same associ ation. There is no parcels post, prop er, in tli is country, though small -bundles, weighing less than four pounds, at rate and of restricted size and cuntentr-are carried-by the postal service. In England and Germany the rates and admissable packages are as follows: For parcels not exceeding 1 pound in weight 6 cents 5 " " 8cents 3 " " lOcents 4 " ' IScents f " " 14 cents 6 " " 16cents 7 " " IScents 8 " " .aocents 22 npntH 11 " ?t cents In the German Empire the domes tic rates and weights applying to Par cels' Post are as follows: For parcels not exceeding 5 kilogram!) ( 1 kilogram equals 2 lbs. 2 oz.) or 11 pounds for distances not exceeding 10 geographical miles, 25 pfenning or 6H cents Parcels not exceeding 11 pounds in weight, for distances exceeding 10 geographical miles 12J4 cents Parcels exceeding 11 pounds and not . exceeding 110 pounds: For the first 11 pounds, 10 miles . ... 6J cents For every additional 2 lbs. 3 oz. or fraction not exceeding 10 geograph- ""lcal miles. in cents From 10 to 20 geographical miles 2J4 cents 20 to 50 ' 5 cents SO to 100 " " 7tf cents 100 to ISO " 10 cents Orer 150 ,l " 12J4 cents The prospect of getting and sending bundles from distant parts of the country so cheaply is fascinating. But, after all, we should pay.the bill. According to the annual report of the Postmaster-General for 1899, the excess of expenditures over receipts was W.610,776. The Parcels Post, therefore, "besides 'bankrupting the express companies, would not pay the government. The small stores in every small town would have to com pete still more directly with city de partment stores. It is curious - that these two ad dresses should be bound together, the first one advocating subsidies and the second one denouncing a plan which involves the application of the same principle. J j The State Feieratioo. The program of the Federation amounts to a discussion of how to get, and help others get, the most out of life, by the most practical women of the state the club women. I look in vain for essays and papers concerning the rise and fall off the Roman Em pire, for essays with titles derived from the abstract virtues, for purely literary discussions that are much better left to doctors of literature or to professional essayists. The mem- for this year when he wrote the letter. It is a disappointment to find anyone so sure of himself and his sound and exalted Americanism, so conclusively inconsistent. The party, Mr. Olney says, is worth the immolation, and it is not impossible that the sacrifice may be remembered at an opportune time. A man can do more than die bersof-the State Federation. are as- for a cause."He-can make-hmtself sembllng- to 'hear reports of a - year's 'ridiculous which is much more than work, and to talk over the prospects dying, and takes more grit. and plans of life in Nebraska. An evening is devoted to pottery and to the pictures of the Paris exposition, with illustrations, the latter by Mrs. F. to. Hall, who has just returned from Paris. One afternoon has been divided into musical moments, and talented musicianTf rbm Plattsmouth, York, Omaha and Lincoln will demon strate bow they have made life me lodious in those cities. On Thursday, the discussions are about woman's work in cooking, home-making, home ethics, and about the school laws of Nebraska. And Miss Alice French's lecture will conclude the Thursday daylight session. On Thursday eve ning, industrial economics will still be the topic, and on this occasion Mrs .Decker of Denver will speak on "Club Revolution." The good will and sympathy en gendered by a state meeting for dis cussion of ways and means of making life more worth while, and less a drudgery, and in the aesthetic possi bilities of music and art in the home is the most important consequence and pleasure of such a gathering. If the. papers read andjectures delivered were upon recent discoveries in Pom peii or speculations on the lost arms of the Yenus found upon the Island of Milo, the largest part of the value of the meeting would still be pre served. By the perpetual wind that roughens and darkens our skin, by the sun that shines forever in Nebraska, and by the corn that rustles all sum mer and gives a dash of cribbed lemon yellow to all the stations in Nebraska, we are citizens of the same state. The line is not merely political; sun, wind, prairie, the corn crop, citizen ship and membership. in thesame-or,-ganization. make Nebraska women members of one family. If they did not meet occasionally, they might forget their essential identity, and Omaha and Lincoln might develop a misunderstanding and antagonisms. Therefore, women of Omaha, Grand Island, Tork and the other duchies of the state, remember that we meet together in October to recognize our points of contact and to enlarge their number, to deepen our fellowship and strengthen it by new evidence. . J Mr. OlnevV' Reason." Mr. Richard Olney said in a letter to'his interested countrymen, explain ing why he-had made up his mind to vote for Bryan, that "If one citizen may properly withhold his vote, all may, and all the wheels of govern ment be stopped," and that "to de cline voting because practically as sured that others will vote, is but to give the latter an undue share of political power and toforrelt the right to complain of any abuse." He said, besides, that "The obligations of citi zenship are avoided, not performed, by standing neutral in an election," and that "The voting power is a trust which calls for use. and is violated by the neglect to use." All this sounds very high-minded and patriotic, but just aa soon as it was in print, busybodies (ttfere are so many busybodies looking up a man's jt J Tke Stotsenburg Fund. I have received from Mr. Rudge, treasurer of G. A. R. fund, 836.55, which is the unexpended surplus from the reunion, contributed by Messrs. John B. Wright. O. J. King, Bayard & Guerin, Buckstaff Bros.,L. A. Ksensky, B. Wittmann & Co., and Lincoln Drug Co. Contributors by letters are Mr. Charles B. Lewis, late First Lieu tenant, First Colorado Volunteers; Mrs O. E.Miller, Lincoln; Laura Cars tensen, Leigh, Nebr.; Claude Shank land, Aurora, Nebr, C. A. Phillips, Second Lieutenant, Co. H. Second Regiment, N. N. G., Aurora; Tim F. McCarthy, Aurora; Blanche Marble, Hampton; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Lin coln 139.25; total collected, 3936.44. Correspondents who have received letters concerning this fund are urged to respond immediatedly. It is only procrastination, and no lack of gen erosity on the part of Nebraskans, that 'delays the remittance of a worthy sum to Mrs. Stotscnburg, the widow of the man who made the name of the First Nebraska an inspiration to all soldiers. A Big Banquet President Loubet's banquet to 22.000 mayors of France was a success. Its overseer was a woman. In the land of chefs and caterers, a woman was selected to see that 22.000 men were waited on properly by 20.000 waiters, and that the 4,000 other men, coffee boilersand messengers, respond ed to the demands of the occasion. Not a French mayor waited for his course, but the eieven miles of guests were served simultaneously, and with out an accident or omission, the courses prepared for them by the Re public of France. Behind each table was erected a series of five shelves, and each shelf held a course. Coffee was served hot. Of necessity, everything else was cold. It has long been a re proach, that mankind has not hesi tated to address to the sex, that the best dressmakers, the best cooks, the best caterers were men. Surely the president of France resides in the city of mast distinguished caterers. With out regard to sex or politics, he select ed the individual who could be en trusted with the preparation and serv ing of a banquet to 22,000 people. This individual chanced to be a wo man, and the finish and smoothness of her performance has excited the admiration of at least two continents. J j The Absconding Kruger. Paul Kruger has gone to Europe, taking the money of the Transvaal re public with him. A fugitive is never heroic, but when he flees with money belonging to a bank or to a people, he is inglorious. Quotations from the Psalms canmo longer-5 attract sympa thy to Kruger. The Boer soldiers, privates and generals, have fought with true patriotism and admirable bravery. But their heroism is not to be confused with Kruger's discretion. Joubert.Crooje and De Wet are heroes. record about election; time) found-out- They are great generals whose ability that Mr. Richard Olney was not a reg? is recognized by soldiers the world istered voter from 1896 to 1899, inclu- over. But this is Kruger's war. If sive, and that he had not registered he had not been blind to expediency -H X 4. r ' ' I V. '
