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Volume 2, OMAHA, NEB., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1893. Number 43. YOUNG MEWS JOURNHL. JNO. M. HAZELTON, E DITOR. EDITORIAL. IT looks very much as though there were two sides to the Hawaii affair. There usually are two sides to such affairs. While it appears desirable that Hawaii should sustain a closer relation to the United States than it does at present, it would be well for the authorities to proceed cautiously. It would be better for us to spend our surplus resources in developing our own magnificent domain rather than in defending newly acquired appendages and quelling rebellions within their borders. WE commend the example of the town coun- Westport, a suburb of Kansas City, to our own honorable city fathers. Down there they recently passed an ordinance making it an offense punishable by a fine of from .$25 to $100 dollars per day for a street railroad company to fail to provide proper protection for trainmen from inclement weather. In our own city motormen and gripmen are entirely without shelter in the most severe weather, and no effort is made to protect them. If an appeal to humanity fails, it would be well to use some argument more convincing, as was done in the case referred to above. TnE length to which some would-be skeptics go to find an opportunity to rail against Christianity is often absurdly ridiculous. Their lightningrod isalways up, fair weather or foul, and if t here is any electricity in the air they are sure to receive a shock. For example one of o ur esteemed contemporaries, an excellent newspaper with the exception of i ts occasional illogical and uncalled for attacks upon the Christian system, recently took an article which appeared in the YOUNG MEN'S JOURNAL, in which there was no reference whatever to the Christian faith, as a point from which to launch an editorial tirade against Christianity, laden with time-worn and moss-covered relics of t he arguments of a ntedeluvian unbelievers. IT was hoped that the election of a United States senator would put an end to the horse play at Lincoln, and thatduringthe remaining days of t he session of the general assembly some practical legislation would be enacted. But no sooner was the senatorial fight ended than an investigation was trumped up for the purpose of killing time, squandering money and blocking legislation. The performance has progressed sufficiently to leave no grounds for doubt that the clown is to be the principal attraction, and to convince the observing voter that many of the attractions advertised during the campaign will not be forthcoming. The particularly discouraging feature about the affair is that the same gaudy posters announcing anti-monopoly reform legislation which have done duty to attract the voters for the past four years will be used with the same effect in the next campaign, and with the same result that none of the advertised attractions will appear. Verily, the voters like to be humbugged. THE spectacle of the venerable De Lesseps, at the age of e ighty-eight, consigned to prison for five years, and sentenced to a fine of 3,000 franc, the highest fine the court could impose, is one to wring sympathy- from xno Trrost fr.- different bosom. Only a few short months ago this man by his genius and ability challenged the admiration of the civilized world, and by his enthusiasm and aggressiveness won the confidence of all people in all lands. For years he has worn the grand cross of the Legion of Honor, and none has questioned his right to it. Today he is locked like a common felon in a prison cell. The revulsion of feeling against the sentence imposed upon De Lesseps is general. That he was guilty as charged, no one, except his enemies, will assume to believe. Not even in France, where the feeling against the Panama conspirators is strongest, is it France's grand old man party to this gigan-past eighty when cation of ch allenges to prize fights, the acceptance of t hem, the abetting of them by men who act as trainers or seconds of the principals to them, or as umpires, referees, or assistants of a ny kind to the fighters, penal offenses. Such a law, if e nforced, would prevent the recurrence of the disgraceful spectacle of two men punching each others' faces out of all semblance to humanity in the presence of would-be respectable men in one of our athletic clubs, a spectacle the odium of which will attach to the aforesaid club during the remainder of i ts existence. Canal be'ieved that was intentionally a tic steal. He was a man the canal enterprise was inaugurated, and in its later stages his connection with it was largely nominal. That his hopeful disposition, his faith in his hobby, made him an easy prey to designing men, is the general belief. This popular revulsion of fe eling against what is undoubtedly an unmerited humiliation and disgrace will make a speedy pardon by the president imperative. GAMBLING AND PRIZE PIGHTING. Two bills have recently been introduced into the Illinois House of ftepresentatives which we would commend to the members of the Nebraska and Kansas legislatures who seem spoiling for want of something to do. The first, by Representative Watson, does away with the trivial fine attached to keeping a gambling house, and makes the conducting of such an establishment an offense punishable by imprisonment for not less than two years. Such a law in this state, if e nforced, would give the Omaha guardians of the public peace and safety employment for several weeks. The other bill, by Representative Murdoch, relates to prize-fighting, and makes the publi- 0N THE MORAL EXCHANGE, On the moral exchange there appears to be continually a preponderance of bears—persons whose aim is to depreciate the market. With them acts of g oodness are passed hy without notice, or attributed to wrong motives, while one false step is flaunted before the world as an evidence "f 'iJaVfoS. !>v Good reports Gteiaer Ptthiveyf'. rm, Cayh ylet-aHn to an appreciation oi * lit moral market, while evil reports are magnified and scattered broadcast that they may lead the world to believe that it is fast approaching a state in which redemption is impossible. When a hopeful individual attempts to bull the market by pointing to the evidences of progress around him, he is denounced by the bearish element as an enthusiast—a crank—a dangerous man to be allowed to run at large. With this class of people all charitable acts are bids for notoriety, all good deeds cloaks for infamy. They point with pride to the inconsistency of c hurch members, and when a man who has previously borne a good name yields to temptation, his shortcomings are painted in letters of fire upon the heavens. A certain class of n ewspapers are ever ready to perpetuate this bearish feeling in the moral exchange. Thousands of benificent deeds are daily passed by without mention, while thousands of petty crimes are written up with display head-lines. They are ever on the alert to find some flaw in the moral structure—some broken thread in the warp and woof of soc iety. A straight line is laid down as the path of the churchman, and the slightest deviation therefrom is accepted as sufficient evidence of moral laxity. In the commercial markets, the bear is the man who is "short," and who is striving to depress the market in order that he may buy at a reduced price to protect himself from loss. He has no other object in circulating unfavorable reports about the article he is interested in, than to secure it at a price which will be sufficiently low to protect him from the results of indiscreet speculation. It is just possible that some of these people who are "bearing" the moral market are doing so in order to protect their own reputations, hoping to escape the results of t heir moral laxity not by striving to elevate themselves to a higher plane, but by striving to pull everybody else down to their own level. What the world needs today is a large number of men and women who are "long" on morality and rectitude, who will "bull" the moral market, and elevate the tone of so ciety.
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Title | Young Men's Journal, Vol.2, No.43 |
Creator | YMCA of Greater Omaha |
Description | Young Men's Journal, Omaha, Neb., Friday,February 17, 1893 |
Subject | Nebraska; Omaha (Neb.); YMCA; records (documents); |
Date | 1893 February 17 |
Repository | UNO Libraries' Archives & Special Collections |
Repository Collection | YMCA of Greater Omaha records: http://unomaha-public.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/4/resources/413 |
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Date Digital | 4/6/2016 |
Publisher | UNO Libraries |
Resource Identifier | Young_Mens_Journal_No43_1893 |
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Title | Young_Mens_Journal_No43_1893 1 |
Transcript | Volume 2, OMAHA, NEB., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1893. Number 43. YOUNG MEWS JOURNHL. JNO. M. HAZELTON, E DITOR. EDITORIAL. IT looks very much as though there were two sides to the Hawaii affair. There usually are two sides to such affairs. While it appears desirable that Hawaii should sustain a closer relation to the United States than it does at present, it would be well for the authorities to proceed cautiously. It would be better for us to spend our surplus resources in developing our own magnificent domain rather than in defending newly acquired appendages and quelling rebellions within their borders. WE commend the example of the town coun- Westport, a suburb of Kansas City, to our own honorable city fathers. Down there they recently passed an ordinance making it an offense punishable by a fine of from .$25 to $100 dollars per day for a street railroad company to fail to provide proper protection for trainmen from inclement weather. In our own city motormen and gripmen are entirely without shelter in the most severe weather, and no effort is made to protect them. If an appeal to humanity fails, it would be well to use some argument more convincing, as was done in the case referred to above. TnE length to which some would-be skeptics go to find an opportunity to rail against Christianity is often absurdly ridiculous. Their lightningrod isalways up, fair weather or foul, and if t here is any electricity in the air they are sure to receive a shock. For example one of o ur esteemed contemporaries, an excellent newspaper with the exception of i ts occasional illogical and uncalled for attacks upon the Christian system, recently took an article which appeared in the YOUNG MEN'S JOURNAL, in which there was no reference whatever to the Christian faith, as a point from which to launch an editorial tirade against Christianity, laden with time-worn and moss-covered relics of t he arguments of a ntedeluvian unbelievers. IT was hoped that the election of a United States senator would put an end to the horse play at Lincoln, and thatduringthe remaining days of t he session of the general assembly some practical legislation would be enacted. But no sooner was the senatorial fight ended than an investigation was trumped up for the purpose of killing time, squandering money and blocking legislation. The performance has progressed sufficiently to leave no grounds for doubt that the clown is to be the principal attraction, and to convince the observing voter that many of the attractions advertised during the campaign will not be forthcoming. The particularly discouraging feature about the affair is that the same gaudy posters announcing anti-monopoly reform legislation which have done duty to attract the voters for the past four years will be used with the same effect in the next campaign, and with the same result that none of the advertised attractions will appear. Verily, the voters like to be humbugged. THE spectacle of the venerable De Lesseps, at the age of e ighty-eight, consigned to prison for five years, and sentenced to a fine of 3,000 franc, the highest fine the court could impose, is one to wring sympathy- from xno Trrost fr.- different bosom. Only a few short months ago this man by his genius and ability challenged the admiration of the civilized world, and by his enthusiasm and aggressiveness won the confidence of all people in all lands. For years he has worn the grand cross of the Legion of Honor, and none has questioned his right to it. Today he is locked like a common felon in a prison cell. The revulsion of feeling against the sentence imposed upon De Lesseps is general. That he was guilty as charged, no one, except his enemies, will assume to believe. Not even in France, where the feeling against the Panama conspirators is strongest, is it France's grand old man party to this gigan-past eighty when cation of ch allenges to prize fights, the acceptance of t hem, the abetting of them by men who act as trainers or seconds of the principals to them, or as umpires, referees, or assistants of a ny kind to the fighters, penal offenses. Such a law, if e nforced, would prevent the recurrence of the disgraceful spectacle of two men punching each others' faces out of all semblance to humanity in the presence of would-be respectable men in one of our athletic clubs, a spectacle the odium of which will attach to the aforesaid club during the remainder of i ts existence. Canal be'ieved that was intentionally a tic steal. He was a man the canal enterprise was inaugurated, and in its later stages his connection with it was largely nominal. That his hopeful disposition, his faith in his hobby, made him an easy prey to designing men, is the general belief. This popular revulsion of fe eling against what is undoubtedly an unmerited humiliation and disgrace will make a speedy pardon by the president imperative. GAMBLING AND PRIZE PIGHTING. Two bills have recently been introduced into the Illinois House of ftepresentatives which we would commend to the members of the Nebraska and Kansas legislatures who seem spoiling for want of something to do. The first, by Representative Watson, does away with the trivial fine attached to keeping a gambling house, and makes the conducting of such an establishment an offense punishable by imprisonment for not less than two years. Such a law in this state, if e nforced, would give the Omaha guardians of the public peace and safety employment for several weeks. The other bill, by Representative Murdoch, relates to prize-fighting, and makes the publi- 0N THE MORAL EXCHANGE, On the moral exchange there appears to be continually a preponderance of bears—persons whose aim is to depreciate the market. With them acts of g oodness are passed hy without notice, or attributed to wrong motives, while one false step is flaunted before the world as an evidence "f 'iJaVfoS. !>v Good reports Gteiaer Ptthiveyf'. rm, Cayh ylet-aHn to an appreciation oi * lit moral market, while evil reports are magnified and scattered broadcast that they may lead the world to believe that it is fast approaching a state in which redemption is impossible. When a hopeful individual attempts to bull the market by pointing to the evidences of progress around him, he is denounced by the bearish element as an enthusiast—a crank—a dangerous man to be allowed to run at large. With this class of people all charitable acts are bids for notoriety, all good deeds cloaks for infamy. They point with pride to the inconsistency of c hurch members, and when a man who has previously borne a good name yields to temptation, his shortcomings are painted in letters of fire upon the heavens. A certain class of n ewspapers are ever ready to perpetuate this bearish feeling in the moral exchange. Thousands of benificent deeds are daily passed by without mention, while thousands of petty crimes are written up with display head-lines. They are ever on the alert to find some flaw in the moral structure—some broken thread in the warp and woof of soc iety. A straight line is laid down as the path of the churchman, and the slightest deviation therefrom is accepted as sufficient evidence of moral laxity. In the commercial markets, the bear is the man who is "short" and who is striving to depress the market in order that he may buy at a reduced price to protect himself from loss. He has no other object in circulating unfavorable reports about the article he is interested in, than to secure it at a price which will be sufficiently low to protect him from the results of indiscreet speculation. It is just possible that some of these people who are "bearing" the moral market are doing so in order to protect their own reputations, hoping to escape the results of t heir moral laxity not by striving to elevate themselves to a higher plane, but by striving to pull everybody else down to their own level. What the world needs today is a large number of men and women who are "long" on morality and rectitude, who will "bull" the moral market, and elevate the tone of so ciety. |
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