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V J h- K v - ) A A VOL. XV., NO. LI i.- -vj , - " - -j , ft , . , ,. : i "a -. THE COURIER, Jk SXTEUDIX THE rOSTOFflCE AT LINCOLN AS SECOND CLASS MATTER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY r BT IK OWNER MM AID PSBLISIIM CO Office 1132 N street. Up Stain. Telephone 384. I 8ARAH B. HARRIS.' Editor Subscription Kate In Advance. Per annum $ 1 00 8ix months 75 Three months 50 One month 20 Single copies 05 The Cockier will not be responsible for toI tiBtary communications unless accompanied by retain ottae.- Communications, to receive attention, must be timed bjrtbe (ulL name, p( the writer, not merely as a guarantee of good faith, but for publication if advisable, I OBSERVATIONS. Political. Interest in the approaching sena torial election gradually increases. It whs published in last week's papers that Mr. Rosewater, in a moment of forgetfuloess, had returned to the beaten path and was indulging in those well known political methods which he had decideded to abaudon during his senatorial candidacy. While in that state of nature an in herent tendency to domineer and boss unrestrainedly he declared that if he 'were not elected senator he would 'forthwith organize a new party and forever and forever destroy the repub lican organization in Nebraska, the publication of the report intensely ex cited the profane tendencies of the 'Rosewater temperament and elicited a lurid denial. Probably the report was entirely without foundation. It was published in the State Journal, the proprietors of which are industriously engaged in putting stone bruises on the senatorial candidacy of D. E. Thompson in the morning and an notating the abrasions with healing "salve in the evening. How remark able, how powerful the influence of commercialism in shaping and direct ing human action! It is true that Mr. Rosewater has repeatedly mot only threatened the party withbis extreme displeasure, but that lie lias sought, more or less successfully, to compiss its defeat when nominating conventions refused to submit to his dictation. Neverthe less, it is not at all probable that he is now indulging in threats. He is a ..politician and a candidate and no one 'knows better than he that for the 1 present his natural imperialistic ten dencies must be' repressed and re pressed they will be unless, perchance, he shafl forget to remember. No per -o ti kkEau' bsssst zssssssacvambr ff. sptfssssiK'BlBssBssaBsssH bssss bssbssm LINCOLN. NBBR.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 22 1900. son versed in the history of Nebraska politics will permit himself to doubt for a moment the course which Mr. Rosewater will pursue in the event of his defeat. He will assail the party, not unlikely the national administra tion, and through the columns of his paper attack individuals. It is quite likely that he will meet defeat and defeat will be a sufficient incentive to attack on lilspart. There are in Ne braska hundreds of republicans who have waited for years for the oppor tunity which now approaches and which may never recur to do to this man what he lias repeatedly, regard less of merit or feeling. done toothers; make him feel the burning sting of disappointment; make him sore and sick at heart because of defeated, of unsatisfied ambition. Not many will rejoice if he is successful; few, few indeed, will mingle their tears with bis if he is defeated. D. E. Thompson is still a prominent figure in the political arena. Indus triously, sedulously, strenuously lie pursues this object of his ambition, a seat with honorable men in an hono1 able position. He aspires to a positic i occupied by a Manderson, a Thurston; to till which a Hay ward was chosen. Those men entered the senate because of their recognized fitness for the place, their high character, their ability, their public servfee. They represented Nebraska. If this man enters the senate it will be with the aid of a jimmy. He represents noth ing, nobody but himself. The Eve ning News of the thirteenth instant published a telegram from New York stating that the Journal of that city was in receipt of a telegram from an inside source in Nebraska to the effect that W. J Bryan and D. E. Thomp son would combine for the purpose of electing themselves to the senate. That Mr. Bryan, it was understood, had agreed to accept the place as the only way of preventing the election of two republicans. Of the truth of this report there comes no denial'from Mr. Thompson, but a gentleman whom the News said was very near to that sen atorial candidate pronounced the re port absurd and untrue This "near" gentleman who furnished the denial expressed a desire to ascertain from woence the report emanated because it was evident to him that it came from some enemy vho hoped to dis credit Mr. Thompson with the repub licans of the state. What act could an enemy perform half as discredit able as the one which Mr. Thompson himself performed immediately alter Judge Hay ward was made the sena torial candidate by the republican caucus in March, 1809, when he bolted the caucus which had rejected his candidacy and pledged his solemn word of honor to the fusionlsts that if elected senator by their votes he would support many of their prin ciples and keep out of republican cau cuses? Repeatedly has it been charged thrtt Mr. Thompson made such an agreement and signed his name there ESTABLISHED IN 1886 i. to. Reputable citizens have stated under oath that they saw the agree ment and that Thompson s signature was signed thereto. (Possibly this "near"' gentleman who stands very close to Mr. Thompson may desire to call the men who gave publicitv to the agreement toaccount;he wilt find them easily.) Mr. Thompson has not denied that he will combine with the fusion lsts provided it will secure his elec tion. He is after the position. He made one proposition to combine. What has since occurred to indicate that he is less willing to make an other! Will there be a senatorial caucus, is a question frequently asked. Ordi narily the question would be readily answered in the affirmative but under existing conditions candidates hesi tate. Two years ago there was a cau cus which after nearly fifty days bal loting selected a candidate. In that action every candidate save oneacqui esced. That one sought to defeat the nominee. He is a candidate now. If defeated in caucus will he abide by the result? Judging the probabilities of his future action by his past con duct the only answer which can be gl en is an emphatic no. Will the other candidates, honorable gentle men, be willing to go into a caucus with a man whose inability to appre ciate the obligations of truth and honor has been so firmly established by his own voluntary act? Greatest Books of the Century. Mr. James bryce, historian and essayist, Mr. Henry Van Dyke, profes sor of English literature at Princeton, Dr. Edward Everett Ha!e, Rev. George Gordon, pastor of the Old South church, Boston, President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale university, Dr. Fair bairn, principal of Mansfield college Oxford, President Stanley Hale, of Clark university. President Hyde of Bjwtfoin, President Tucker of Dart mouth, and Mr. ThqiJas Wentworth Hlgginsonof Boston, have each sent to The Outlook a list of the ten books of the nineteenth century which have most influenced its thought ai.d activ ities. Every one of the ten selected Darwin's Origin of Species. Eight selected Hegel, four voting for history of Logic, two for the history of philos ophy one each for the encyclopedia of philosophical sciences, and for the philosophy of religion. There were seven votes for Goethe's Faust. Five for Emerson in his various manifes tations, four for Scott's Waverly, five for Carlyle. five for Uncle Tom's Cabin, three each for Compte's Social Philosophy, Les Miserables, Words worth's Excursions, for Buskin and Spencer, and one or two votes apiec for Mazzini Karl Marx, De Maistre, De Toqueville, Malthus, Bryce, Kenan, Coleridge, Mill, Hamilton, Daniel "Webster. T. H. Green, Napoleon's Civil Code, Schopenhauer, Froebel, St. Birouve Niebuhr, Chalmers, Schleiermacher. Newman, Strauss, PRICE F1VB CENTS - -. - r. 1 Wagner, Heine, Tolstoy. Hawthorne and Browning. Here are ten men, doctors, of philos ophy and literature. They agree only upon one man Darwin as being one of the ten most influential authors of the century. Authority Is something we are all fond of quoting. 1 heard a woman once address a large meeting on the subject of the four or perhaps it was a dozen best pictures in the world. She had located them herself and delivered her list dogmatically to the audience without admitting a question of its authenticity It is per haps possible to obtain a list of the ten best pictures by a vote of the artists of the world, but the tellers must be given time. This question of the ten most influential books of the century has only been one tenth set tled by an assorted group of college presidents and literati. It only shows that this and every other dis cussion about the exact rank in value, influence and merit of creative work is difficult. Beware of authority. Have the courage of your own convic tiocs. No two people see the same rainbow. Mine is as likely to be as many hued 'and widely banded as yours or bis. These tin men selected over fifty books as the ten most influ ential oooks of the century, and yet. each man is doubtless quoted by large and lesser circles as final authorities upon whatever literary discussion arises. It is only occasionally when the undistinguished and illiterate get a chance to read -the contradictory dicta of the men quoted in diction aries that these humble ones realize the worth and integrity of their own opinions. Lchrfreiheit and Lemfrtihdt. Professors are in the attitude of in struction from Monday morning to Saturday night. Occasionally the at titude is persisted in over Sunday. The insidious habit of talking down to younger, and more ignorant under graduates sometimes permeates an un wary lecturer's manner until the or dinary business man, banker butcher, baker, or whatever, is unpleasantly conscious when selling bonds, a steak, or a loaf of bread to his patron profes sional man that the latter is contem plating him and the transaction from a frigid altitude. The temptation to be instructive and the attractiveness of the appearance of profunity is strong to every human being, but to a theorist who is ued to occupying a dais raised a foot above those lie in structs, the temptation is insidiously and increasingly strong. .Teachers draw their salaries without re gard to the condition of the times. Men who earn iifteeo hundred or two thousand, or three or four thous and dollars working for some commer c'al corporation watch the markets and the course of current history. The issues of a war in Africa, or in the Fihpines or of a coal or railroad strike may affect them immediately &-.