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vc**. ^gajpj**>SJBJBJBJBaBBHBWBSVBaBSaaVBBM Vol. IV SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY \6f J9W No. J4 Seattle Mail and Herald published Every Saturday at 306-307 Bailey Bldg. I'hone Main 488. By The Mail Publishing; Co., Inc. Edgar L. Hampton Editor - ,,.„„,„,,„. I'rrs. B, W. Way. V.-P. '" A I,. Lalrig, Sec and I ri UU'l'l'iV KATES TwelTS Months, $1.00. Six Months, 50c. THE MAN WHO DID. General Charles King, writing in the Saturttdy Evening Post, uses his priestly prerogative to inform us that nothing Is wrong with the mill that turns out United States army officers al \v,.st Point, and that, therefore, it should not be tho subject of censure and public disapproval. In substantiation of his position he says that hazing is also practiced in other ols, which argument is certainly of the tirst class, since we know that hazing is practiced in other educational institutions of the country. In his i finale, he attempts: to smooth over the rutted feelings of the people l,v declaring thai the pastime referred to is simply a result of the overflow of youthful energy, and that "hoys will tx hoys." General King may have ons" for this kind of talk or he may not. It is at least possible that I, rty years of variegated life slipping noiselessly over his head have done much to dull the whilom keen edge of l:is recollections of the time when be; himself was a pleb,—and that the al is not nearly so young as he really thinks he is. At all events, he has run his argument squarely against the report of the congressional committee sent to investigate the Booz hazing. Jf This commitee dug extensively into the ruins of the past at West Point, and uncovered a graveyard of grue- Bome facts. 1*hey found a multitude of Ingenuous devices for student torture, and Innumerable cases where the novice had been driven into convulsions or unconsciousness, or maimed for life. The tolerance of a man who has written so many pleasant, tiresome books on life at the Point, as ('apt. Charles King has. can be understood, for his weakness in that direction is apparent, but his puny de- ver come with poor grape. He is right, however, in arguing that ether institutions of "learning" are not less excusable than his own fav- cred academy. Such institutions should be held more strictly responsible, at least by that very large class ol logicians who place a Christian minister's code of morals several notches above the grocer's or butch- < is. For the evident object of a military academy is to train man to be a mild sort of an educated brute, and they do not always succeed in holding him even within the bounds of this curriculum, while the object of the literary schools is avowedly in the other direction. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the educational institutions of all the "civilized" world persist in some form of hazing. In Germany it is oftenest the apish customs of dueling with padded swords which, however, were never known to draw blood. The hardy Englishmen are scarcely satisfied with this dainty sort of fun, and the hardier American, who goes raving mad in his desire to be first in everything, both good and bad; does not stop—as has been too often demonstrated, short of actual di struction of life. One of the arguments against civilization—and there have come to be a few arguments against it. whether serious or not we do not undertake to say—is the fact that the boys whom we have placed in college in order that they may come forth to leatl American thought and action onto higher planes, Been to have developed only sufficient breadth of mind to create a distaste for honest labor, seem only to have developed sufficient culture to enable them to see social classes and lines of destruction, seem only to have gained sufficient cunning for mod- t rn Shylocks, in shrewdness and exaction, and second American savages ii.' method and variety of torture. The knowledge that the students of •ui' niidical colleges grow vicious over the tlead bodies laid out on their dissecting tables, and tear tnem into chunks, ami pelt the novice with these dissevered feet, hands, livers, kidneys, and other human organs till he faints ""in fright and nausea, is not an encouraging aspect of modern civilization? Congress, however, has received the report of. the Bpoz investigating committee and legislation is already on the way. It is hoped that whatever measures are taken will be ample to cover all immediate needs. SOME ELABORATE ROT. Animated by the example of Mrs. Nation, a group of Dowieite women have wrecked a number of Chicago drugstores. They believe the use of drugs a greater evil than the use of liquors, and therefore claimed the same right to smash drug stores that Mrs. Nation nas to wreck joints. Well, there is considerable ground for their claim, for neither of the parties have any right" to smash either joints or drugstores. But the Spokesman-Review takes up the question, and makes a futile attempt to clinch an argument. It says: 'Here lies tin' mail) object to prohibition. It is the enterin.tr wedge againsi personal liberty. One element says you must not use Illinois, however sparingly. Another would forbid the use of drills; another tobacco; another would smash your billiard table: ami >«*• another would storm your house and smash the tables at wliieli 'your gueStfl were playing euchre. There is scarcely a limit to the possible curtailment of Individual freedom." The Mail and Herald does not believe prohibition of the liquor traffic practicable or possible, therefore it does not advocate it. But the Spokesman Review has taken a ridiculous attitude on the question. The Spokesman-Review's argument followed backward, would easily prove to us that to apprehend the thief, the adulterer, the murderer also would be acting against personal liberty. The Spokesman-Review will probably say that these above named things are recognizer evils condemned by law, and that is exactly the point. So are the saloons of Topeka recognized evils condemned by law. Their destruction would not be permitted otherwise. The operation of drug- is not contrary to law, and their destruction could always be prohibited. The use of tobacco and cards are not contrary to law, and therefore could not possibly be interfered with until such a time as laws were passed placing them under ban,—and such a time will probably never be. As a matter of fact the will of the people is still and should always be the law of a country, and the law of a country should always be respected and enforced. There is no use for the Spokesman-Review to attempt to complicate matters. The proposition is very plain. It is simply to enforce such laws as a majority of the people are able tc enact. It is not given to the Spokesman-Review, or to any one individual or institution, to say how far those laws shall extend. BAIT FOR "SUCKERS." "Mr. r.yran Forgo! Lincoln Did So\ Mention His Name, but Talked Polities at Columbus Celebration.'' Such is a Post-Intelligencer headline concocted for "sucker" consumption. There are those in this dollar- marked age. who, having themselves forgotten Lincoln and abandoned the principles for which he lived and died, would like to have Mr. Bryan and other leaders of the people cease to remind them of their fall by reviving the memories of the Martyred President. Had the "head-line editor" read ols dispatch, he would have noticed that Mr. Bryan was one of a half dozen speakers assigned to answer certain set "toasts." His subject was "■b'fferson." The closing "toast" was Lincoln," and the response was assigned to Hon. Charles A. Towne. Mr. Bryan, with his usual tact and unfailing regard for others, undoubtedly refrained from trenching upon the subject assigned to another. It is needless to say that both Mr. Bryan and Mr. Towne did their subjects justice, and demonstrated—as Mr. Lincoln himself often asserted—that the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson and the Republicanism of Abraham Lincoln were one and the same thing. But the opportunity to throw a fling or cast a slur upon Mr. Bryan is too tempting for partisan Republican papers to resist. For three months we have been daily told that Mr. Bryan was down and out. The hypocritical talk about "re-organized Democracy" has been coddled and petted into publicity under Republican nursing. If these party editors believe Mr. Bryan is "down," why take every op- opportunity to slur and strike a fallen foe? They convict themselves daily either of cowardice or false statement —and usually both. The lady who told her friend the past week that she relied more on the opinion of the Seattle Mail and Herald than of any paper in the city, belongs to the majority, not the minority, of Seattle ladies, and it's good to b< in the majority: The Times thinks that Charles M. Sheldon. who recently preached against Mrs. Nation, could get points from the joint smasher that would be of incalculable value to him in carrying out his Christ-like newspaper schemes. The spirit that prompted England to prosecute the Catholics, and Quakers, is still a part of that government's policy, judging from the fact that King Edward VII has been compelled to forswear the Catholic religion before he could lawfully inherit the English crown. The inconsistency of the British government Is apparent. It runs in the editor's mind that England is making strident efforts to hold down a certain nation in South Africa—partly because that nation refused certain outsiders a privilege of voting, and partly because they would not let a Catholic confess his sins in the country. It is the same old Taxation without Representation, question still alive under Edward VII. A dozen of the wealthiest capitalists of the country are arranging to tell the readers of the Saturday Evening Post how sorry they are that they have the burden and responsibility of wealth upon their shoulders. No doubt, unless they are different from those capitalists who have written on such subjects hitherto, they will raise a sad. old cry and try to create sympathy. They're all right, too. They need sympathy. But not more than the rest of us. The fact is that contentment doesn't depend either upon wealth or poverty. It is the exclusive property of the man who is enough a philosopher and master of his own mind to always do his best and be satisfied with the results. A clean liver and a good stomach also have to do with it.
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Title | Seattle Mail and Herald, v. 4, no. 14, Feb. 16, 1901 |
Catalog Title | The Seattle Mail and Herald |
Identifier | spl_mh_198239_1901_04_14 |
Subjects | Seattle (Wash.)--Periodicals |
Creator | Hampton, Edgar L. |
Date | 1901-02-16 |
Decade | 1900/1909 |
Publisher | The Mail Publishing Co., Inc. |
Volume | 4 |
Issue | 14 |
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Notes | Volume 4 (1901) missing issue 13. |
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Subjects | Seattle (Wash.)--Periodicals |
Date | 1901-02-16 |
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Transcript | vc**. ^gajpj**>SJBJBJBJBaBBHBWBSVBaBSaaVBBM Vol. IV SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY \6f J9W No. J4 Seattle Mail and Herald published Every Saturday at 306-307 Bailey Bldg. I'hone Main 488. By The Mail Publishing; Co., Inc. Edgar L. Hampton Editor - ,,.„„,„,,„. I'rrs. B, W. Way. V.-P. '" A I,. Lalrig, Sec and I ri UU'l'l'iV KATES TwelTS Months, $1.00. Six Months, 50c. THE MAN WHO DID. General Charles King, writing in the Saturttdy Evening Post, uses his priestly prerogative to inform us that nothing Is wrong with the mill that turns out United States army officers al \v,.st Point, and that, therefore, it should not be tho subject of censure and public disapproval. In substantiation of his position he says that hazing is also practiced in other ols, which argument is certainly of the tirst class, since we know that hazing is practiced in other educational institutions of the country. In his i finale, he attempts: to smooth over the rutted feelings of the people l,v declaring thai the pastime referred to is simply a result of the overflow of youthful energy, and that "hoys will tx hoys." General King may have ons" for this kind of talk or he may not. It is at least possible that I, rty years of variegated life slipping noiselessly over his head have done much to dull the whilom keen edge of l:is recollections of the time when be; himself was a pleb,—and that the al is not nearly so young as he really thinks he is. At all events, he has run his argument squarely against the report of the congressional committee sent to investigate the Booz hazing. Jf This commitee dug extensively into the ruins of the past at West Point, and uncovered a graveyard of grue- Bome facts. 1*hey found a multitude of Ingenuous devices for student torture, and Innumerable cases where the novice had been driven into convulsions or unconsciousness, or maimed for life. The tolerance of a man who has written so many pleasant, tiresome books on life at the Point, as ('apt. Charles King has. can be understood, for his weakness in that direction is apparent, but his puny de- ver come with poor grape. He is right, however, in arguing that ether institutions of "learning" are not less excusable than his own fav- cred academy. Such institutions should be held more strictly responsible, at least by that very large class ol logicians who place a Christian minister's code of morals several notches above the grocer's or butch- < is. For the evident object of a military academy is to train man to be a mild sort of an educated brute, and they do not always succeed in holding him even within the bounds of this curriculum, while the object of the literary schools is avowedly in the other direction. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the educational institutions of all the "civilized" world persist in some form of hazing. In Germany it is oftenest the apish customs of dueling with padded swords which, however, were never known to draw blood. The hardy Englishmen are scarcely satisfied with this dainty sort of fun, and the hardier American, who goes raving mad in his desire to be first in everything, both good and bad; does not stop—as has been too often demonstrated, short of actual di struction of life. One of the arguments against civilization—and there have come to be a few arguments against it. whether serious or not we do not undertake to say—is the fact that the boys whom we have placed in college in order that they may come forth to leatl American thought and action onto higher planes, Been to have developed only sufficient breadth of mind to create a distaste for honest labor, seem only to have developed sufficient culture to enable them to see social classes and lines of destruction, seem only to have gained sufficient cunning for mod- t rn Shylocks, in shrewdness and exaction, and second American savages ii.' method and variety of torture. The knowledge that the students of •ui' niidical colleges grow vicious over the tlead bodies laid out on their dissecting tables, and tear tnem into chunks, ami pelt the novice with these dissevered feet, hands, livers, kidneys, and other human organs till he faints ""in fright and nausea, is not an encouraging aspect of modern civilization? Congress, however, has received the report of. the Bpoz investigating committee and legislation is already on the way. It is hoped that whatever measures are taken will be ample to cover all immediate needs. SOME ELABORATE ROT. Animated by the example of Mrs. Nation, a group of Dowieite women have wrecked a number of Chicago drugstores. They believe the use of drugs a greater evil than the use of liquors, and therefore claimed the same right to smash drug stores that Mrs. Nation nas to wreck joints. Well, there is considerable ground for their claim, for neither of the parties have any right" to smash either joints or drugstores. But the Spokesman-Review takes up the question, and makes a futile attempt to clinch an argument. It says: 'Here lies tin' mail) object to prohibition. It is the enterin.tr wedge againsi personal liberty. One element says you must not use Illinois, however sparingly. Another would forbid the use of drills; another tobacco; another would smash your billiard table: ami >«*• another would storm your house and smash the tables at wliieli 'your gueStfl were playing euchre. There is scarcely a limit to the possible curtailment of Individual freedom." The Mail and Herald does not believe prohibition of the liquor traffic practicable or possible, therefore it does not advocate it. But the Spokesman Review has taken a ridiculous attitude on the question. The Spokesman-Review's argument followed backward, would easily prove to us that to apprehend the thief, the adulterer, the murderer also would be acting against personal liberty. The Spokesman-Review will probably say that these above named things are recognizer evils condemned by law, and that is exactly the point. So are the saloons of Topeka recognized evils condemned by law. Their destruction would not be permitted otherwise. The operation of drug- is not contrary to law, and their destruction could always be prohibited. The use of tobacco and cards are not contrary to law, and therefore could not possibly be interfered with until such a time as laws were passed placing them under ban,—and such a time will probably never be. As a matter of fact the will of the people is still and should always be the law of a country, and the law of a country should always be respected and enforced. There is no use for the Spokesman-Review to attempt to complicate matters. The proposition is very plain. It is simply to enforce such laws as a majority of the people are able tc enact. It is not given to the Spokesman-Review, or to any one individual or institution, to say how far those laws shall extend. BAIT FOR "SUCKERS." "Mr. r.yran Forgo! Lincoln Did So\ Mention His Name, but Talked Polities at Columbus Celebration.'' Such is a Post-Intelligencer headline concocted for "sucker" consumption. There are those in this dollar- marked age. who, having themselves forgotten Lincoln and abandoned the principles for which he lived and died, would like to have Mr. Bryan and other leaders of the people cease to remind them of their fall by reviving the memories of the Martyred President. Had the "head-line editor" read ols dispatch, he would have noticed that Mr. Bryan was one of a half dozen speakers assigned to answer certain set "toasts." His subject was "■b'fferson." The closing "toast" was Lincoln," and the response was assigned to Hon. Charles A. Towne. Mr. Bryan, with his usual tact and unfailing regard for others, undoubtedly refrained from trenching upon the subject assigned to another. It is needless to say that both Mr. Bryan and Mr. Towne did their subjects justice, and demonstrated—as Mr. Lincoln himself often asserted—that the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson and the Republicanism of Abraham Lincoln were one and the same thing. But the opportunity to throw a fling or cast a slur upon Mr. Bryan is too tempting for partisan Republican papers to resist. For three months we have been daily told that Mr. Bryan was down and out. The hypocritical talk about "re-organized Democracy" has been coddled and petted into publicity under Republican nursing. If these party editors believe Mr. Bryan is "down," why take every op- opportunity to slur and strike a fallen foe? They convict themselves daily either of cowardice or false statement —and usually both. The lady who told her friend the past week that she relied more on the opinion of the Seattle Mail and Herald than of any paper in the city, belongs to the majority, not the minority, of Seattle ladies, and it's good to b< in the majority: The Times thinks that Charles M. Sheldon. who recently preached against Mrs. Nation, could get points from the joint smasher that would be of incalculable value to him in carrying out his Christ-like newspaper schemes. The spirit that prompted England to prosecute the Catholics, and Quakers, is still a part of that government's policy, judging from the fact that King Edward VII has been compelled to forswear the Catholic religion before he could lawfully inherit the English crown. The inconsistency of the British government Is apparent. It runs in the editor's mind that England is making strident efforts to hold down a certain nation in South Africa—partly because that nation refused certain outsiders a privilege of voting, and partly because they would not let a Catholic confess his sins in the country. It is the same old Taxation without Representation, question still alive under Edward VII. A dozen of the wealthiest capitalists of the country are arranging to tell the readers of the Saturday Evening Post how sorry they are that they have the burden and responsibility of wealth upon their shoulders. No doubt, unless they are different from those capitalists who have written on such subjects hitherto, they will raise a sad. old cry and try to create sympathy. They're all right, too. They need sympathy. But not more than the rest of us. The fact is that contentment doesn't depend either upon wealth or poverty. It is the exclusive property of the man who is enough a philosopher and master of his own mind to always do his best and be satisfied with the results. A clean liver and a good stomach also have to do with it. |