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r, r w VOL. XVI., NO. XXIX ESTABLISHED IN 18Sti PRICE FIVE CENTS THE COURIER, EKTUKOIN THE FOSTOFFICE AT LINCOLN SECOND CLASS MATTES. AS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BT TIE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO Office 1132 N street, Up Staire. Telephone 384. SARAH B. HARRIS, : : : EDITOR Subscription Rates. Per annum fl 50 Six monthB 1 00 Rebate of fifty cents on cash payments. Single copies 05 The Courier will not be responsible for vol notary communications unless accompanied by retnrn postage. Communications, to receive attention, must be turned by tbe full name of the writer, not merely as a guarantee of good faith, but for publication if advisable. 1 : 9 OBSERVATIONS. The Young Man's Epoch. A few months ago Richard Croker said, in one of his few communicative and epigrammatic moments, that owing to trusts and commercial com binations the youth of the land no longer had a fair chance to earn a living. This is a misleading state ment. This is the day and this the hour of the young man. All older men who have tried to get jobs can testify that everywhere the young man blocks their way. Fifty years ago, young men were just as brilliant but they had not the same opportunities. The young man Schwab with a news-paper-attested salary of a million dol lars a year, would have been an im possibility in the earlier period. Competent young men are scarce. With the mills and factories running overtime, with electricity filling ali the nooks and crannies of heretofore -waste space, young men with techni cally qualified hands and heads are more in demand than ever. Proof of this was shown at the recent an nual commencement exercises of the Stevens Institute of Technolog at Hoboken, New Jersey. Out of forty graduates only a dozen were present to receive their diplomas. President LINCOLN. NEBR.. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1901. the largest railroad combination in before tlie treasurer was arrested he he was arrested and finally sentenced the world is said to be prejudiced began paying back into the state to the state penitentiary for twenty against old men. After a man has treasury the money which the people yielded up the overwhelming impetus elected him to take charge of. and energy of youth, inspiration and He proposed to continue paying it invention often fail and the young back but when he was arrested the man who is waiting for his job some- payments ceased. It is supposed that times gets it. He has a much greater Governor Savage has paroled him years, an excessive sentenceconsider ing how corrupt were the traditions of the office he held and that all his predecessors had sought to enrich themselves, regardless of the law, and had escaped without even the ex- chance of displacing his superior hoping that a temporary and restrict- pressed contempt of the people who than the youth of fift years ago had. Then, the young man did not expect to make a fortune before he reached the age of fifty. Now he makes up his mind that the times are opposed to the advancement of young men un less he acquires a competency while the fires of youth are still alight. The trusts and the organizations of cap ital stimulate production. They have also economized the cost of produc tion to'such an extent that the com petition of America is the most seri- still remaining silent on this ous commercial problem which Eng- the Governor will be censured ed freedom will induce the man who is still a priaonpr of the state, to as sist the state officers in recovering a part of the half million dollars that was not returned to the treasury of Nebraska during Hartley's adminis tration. Before receiving a pardon elected them. The forty-five months which this man has spsnt in prison is in partial atonement not alone for the money he stole himself, but for the administration of the treasurer's of fice by his predecessors. The people were thoroughly exasperated and the Mr. Bartley should tell the Governor sentence of Bartley to twenty years who were the creditors of the state in the state's prison retlected the im from whom he was receiving ten patience of a people repeatedly wrong thousand dollars a day when he was ed. robbed and betrayed. Stoically, arrested. If he is pardoned, while silently, he has borne his cumulative point, sentence, although it has been bitter by all and humiliating to so proud a man. land, "the mistress of the seas," is studying now. The market for our products.indefinitely extended, means increased production to supply that market and the employment of more men to handle the products. It is often charged against the trusts that by combining plants and destroying competition they have thrown a very large number of men out of employ ment. It was undoubtedly true at one time. The overwhelming expan sion of the market due to an econom ic system of production has made it possible to enlarge the market and compete with England. There is a growing prospect, if the present con ditions continue, that no truthful, in dustrious man will for long be out of a job. Immediately consequent upon the organization of the trusts the price of labor rose. The strikes, based on a demand for higher wages, area proof of this. During the hard times, a period of restricted produc tion, there were no strikes. But as soon as the demand for labor is im perative, as soon as the market is expanding at an unprecedented rate labor demands its share of the its. Considering all these tilings it is easy to prove, a priori, that the de mand for a keen intelligence has nev er been so great. Richard Croker is not an economist. In the minds of his followers he is anything he pre tends to be. They come to him with all sorts of problems, though a black smith can regulate a watch quite as frank, unprejudiced minds. And the pardon of Bartley will become a cam paign issue of greater importance than his defalcation immediately aft er the disclosures which followed his arrest. Mr. Bartley succeeded to an oilice that had been conducted for years for the enrichment of politi cians. The state funds entrusted to the care of the state treasurer were placed in this bank or that one for the interest they paid the treasurer and also to secure the intluence of the favored banks for the second term campaign of the treasurer. Mr. Bart ley did not originate the system, but he acquiesced in and adopted it. Ac tually he was no better and no worse than the ordinary politician who ex pects to make a very good living, which means more than his salary,out of a public oilice. The treasurer un der discussion incurred the liability of a sentence to the penitentiary by placing the funds in his care in depos itories undesignated by law. Other Nebraska state treasurers who now walk the streets did the same thing, prof- but they were not succeeded by a treasurer elected by another party, as Mr. Bartley was. Bartley is popular ly supposed to have converted to his own use about one half million dol lars. Really part of that sum was already lost when he assumed the of fice. It was represented by certifi cates of deposits in llirasy banks, But it seems to me his punishment should continue until he makes all ptssible reparation to the people from whom he has stolen half a million dollars. The old Jewish idea of atonement by sacrifice is not obsolete. To the sacrificial lamb it is absurd to keep alive so old a custom. But vicarious punishment is visited upon a criminal now-a-days who is convicted of a crime at the end of a sequence of like crimes committed by men no less vicious, but who have escaped. We demand a sacrifice for sin and the first man caught must expiate his own crime and the crimes of the fugi tives who have fled from punishment. The twenty years' sentence visited upon Bartley is in the way of an lsraelitish atonement. He is guilty as charged, but it he had been the first offender, if his crime had not entailed such severe consequences upon so many innocent people, judg ing by the law of parallelisms, he would have escaped with a lighter sentence. Contemporary Justice. Justice tempered with too much mercy is cruel to the unaccused, to the helpless, to men consumed by hatred for some one whose life they would take if it were not for the cer tainty of punishment. Punishment for breaking the laws of nature is Nevertheless, such is the etiquette swift' and meted alike to the rich and- existing between the new and the old treasurers of the same party that in (.ntUfimtfirilv ns Mr. Ornkfir can ans- Morton explained that the twenty- wer questions which involve econom- every previous biennial settlement the eight other young men had been of- i(. elements nis range is bounded by new treasurer receipted to the old fered lucrative and responsible posi- tiie limitations of the political mar- treasurer for this paper as though it tions within a month of commence- ket of New York city Whea con. was m0ney. Between a populist and mentand had depurted to begin their fronted by tne actUal growing demand a republican treasurer there are no professional duties at once. He add- fnr ti,0 enrnrp? nf vimny mpn. his ec- strict rules of etiouette and Mpsprvo. W. W.w WW. ..-www w- J w wy J - - - - w, me poor, ir -Mr. Piernont Monran fell off a precipice he would break his neck and crush his bones as com pletely as though the fallen body were that of a tramp. But if Mr. Morgan killed a man the chances are that he would not be hung for his crime. So lomr as a man's rnn ed that the whole forty could have ture on ti18 subject and his statement the populist treasurer, refused to play, is lare enough he is not likely to be secured positions also if they had chosen to consider the propositions which had been made them. The tre mendous expansion of the last five years requires the energy and pro fessional skill of all the young men this country can produce, Croker to the contrary, notwithstanding. The president and joint-creator of as all the other treasurers had, that uunj' Ior tne commission of the most certain certificates of deposit were atrocious crime, that is, if he lives long money. Besides.Mr. Bartley bad add- enough, after its commission, for the ed to the sins of his predecessors and law?ers to reach him. When an en made some eccentric and unauthor- raKed mo gets hold of him first, rich ized loans. The hard times had stin- or Por it is likely his doom is senlori. month of a twenty years' sentence, ped the free circulation of money and and that he will die by fire or stran-ex-state treasurer Bartley has been it was impossible for Bartley to make gulation. Barring accidents, it is paroled by Governor .Savage. Just a settlement with his successor. Then safe for the very rich to indulge in that the demand for them is decreas ing, is demonstrably inaccurate. The Bartley Case. After serving four years and one '.'! u M IMs u M ;i i m M r IN; 4 1 i ft Ftf i- If ' 1-fc T, i :i , i i i t If. 1 ; n ?! ii ; l' '1 I 'A I - v -II VI . i