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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1901)
M I'OL. ATI, iW. jtlif LimJULN, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 3j&X ESTABLISHED IN 188G y J fk OBSERVATIONS BY SARAH B. HARRIS ON Monday of this week the stock of The Courier Printing and Publishing Company was trans ferred to the State Journal Company. The paper will continue to be edited by Miss Harris, who has been the edi tor for five years. The Courier was founded in 188C by Mr. Lew Wessel and Mr. Harry T. Dobbins, who sold it to Mr. Morton Smith, who in turn, in 1890, after a short period of jnint ownership, sold it to the re cent owner. A weekly paper is a curiously per sonal piece of property. It should not be sold or transferred to a person or corporation who will not conduct it, in the opinion of the owner, to the entire satisfaction of the subscribers. Or rather, for no paper was ever en tirely satisfactory to the subscribers, the owner must see to it, in trans ferring his circulation, that the pa k per or magazine still possesses the fea . tures for which the subscribers were f induced to take it year after year. Tiie Courier has been sold with I exactly this creed in mind. Un- der the present and much more able management the typographical and mechanical defects which have morti i fied the owner of the paper and an noyed the subscribers will be entirely corrected. The advertising will appeal to over three thous and readers. If there were rea sons, and there were sound ones, for advertising in what is already the old Courier, these reasons are reenforced and multiplied for advertising 'in the new Courier. In retiring from the management of The Courier, Miss Harris is very (,'rateful for the kindness and cour tesy so uniformly shown her. The business wor'd has a code, signs, lan guage, methods, conventions of its own. There is nothiDg like it in church or society or associations founded on relationship. In society People meet on a somewhat false basis. Everybody pretends to be fonder of everyone els6 than he really is. There are elaborate conventions which no one is deceived by, but in which it is rude not to occasionally pretend to believe. In business the realities are nearer the surface. A business man under stands the code, and that hypocrisy accomplishes nothing. He competes with everyone else in business. And this is one reason why it is so ex tremely difficult for one individual to conduct more than one business, r to have many intimate friends or to be a social success and a banker, for instance. Every relationship wakes more complicated the duties and essential administration of com , rnercial management. No tale or i y about the laws and conduct of business can make it intelligible to a tyro and no business college can imi tate its vital function. But in spite of its rigid code and merciless lessons, in spite of the inevitable destruction of pleasing illusions, every man and woman who humbly tries to learn the ways and language of the business world is benefitted thereby. It is a Mr. J. C. Seacrest, t:.e publisher of The Courier, besides possessing busi ness acumen of a high order, has de veloped a special knowledge of pub lishing which distinguishes him a mong the publishers of the west. He has the ability, the knowledge and the will to make The Courier rank with the best weekly papers, and Its immediate improvement under his supervision is assured. 9 9 9 DeGustibus. In a matter of taste there can be no dispute. No man from the north can convince a man from the south that it is de rigeur to dine with col- vJrVwiMKk3 '" - 'R? i VbkebbshYSHk i ,r ' Jb9&9vBVaVBf flHJHHHHHHHK 'E!r)g7'raHHHV HVBHVBHVBHY JUDGE S. U. SEDGWICK, YORK, NEBRASKA. region of the. realities first of all, and realities are good for the soul. Busi ness teaches humility and democracy. The economic value of an individual is frequently quite different from his social value, but one who looks at the world from the vantage of social or family position never learns that his basis of classification is as false as dicers' oaths. In retiring from the business man agement of The Courier.therefore. the editor and sometime owner is grate ful to the original impulse.to obedience, which introduced her to the veri. ties of life and to the real inhabi tants of the world. She is also grate ful to the many friends and wellwishers whose patience and courtesy enabled her to complete her apprenticeship- ored men. To be sure Frederick Douglas and Booker Washington have been invited to dine and have dined with the most distinguished Euro peans. In Europe the matter of col or is not an insurmountable bar to social acquaintance or intercourse. Othello, a Moor, once married a daughter of a doge of Venice. The mother of Alexandre Dumas was a negress. He had kinky hair, thick lips and the spreading nostrils of bis mother's race, yet in Paris he was welcome to the tables of the nobility and of the lion-hunting rich. Du mas' inexhaustible fertility and his opulent imagination he owed to his mother. But unless he had also in herited a sense of form and stability from a white father, it is probable that be would not have accomplished anything In the world of letters whose laws are the most rigorous and most mercilessly enforced of any realm we know anything about. I think there is not a single instance in history of a pure black genius, un less it be the Moor of Venice, and his victories belong rather to romance than to history. Frederick Douglas and Alexandre Dumas were onlv half black and Booker Washington him self inherits his stable quality, ad ministrative ability, logic and clear vision from a white ancestor. The people of the south know these facts and they also know the valuable qualities of the pure-blooded negro better than wc of the north do. Now, as in the days before the war, they object to any solution of the negro question by the north. Interference from this side of the line is not eth ically importunate in these last days of 1001 as it was in 18G0. The negroes will not obtain social recognition in the south till they have earned it, and that will be several hundred years hence. In the meanwhile it is of little consequence how the north treats the negro, for he does not live north in sufficient numbers to make his social status our problem. Next to making a present of some thing which does not belong to us is the pleasure of reforming some one or some section remote "from our own. Some portion of the money subscribed to missionary lunds owes its dona tion to the pleasure everyone feels in reforming other people. Armies of men and women spend energy enough to earn millions of dollars in one year trying to bring around other men and women to their way of thinking. Dearer than a dollar, more precious than old-fashioned salvation, is the consciousness that our oratory has convinced some one. This particular temptation has been too much for Massachusetts ever since the articles of confederation were signed. Mas sachusetts, more than any other state in the Union, was responsible for the civil conflict. The war was, perhaps, inevitable any way ;but Daniel Webster the senator from Massachusetts and one of the most prescient statesmen of his day, was willing to make fur ther concessions to the south in order to avert a conflict. But his seventh of March speech in reply to Hayne alienated all Massachusetts from him and hastened the development of the' underground railway and the progress of a fatal misunderstanding. At the present moment there is great reason for gentleness and tact in the bearing of the north toward the south. We are just beginning to get on good terms again with Eng land, although the Revolution is more than a century and a quarter deep in time. The estrangement with south erners is not healed. The scar is very apparent and at the least excitement it glows red and angry. National unity is a vital matter. Race development proceeds from within. Philanthro pists a long way off from the Indian used to think that lm could be civi lized by dressing him la white man's clothes and teaching him the white t i tl i4 1 i a m ! M s J 4 i; i si i i H