Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-30
CURRENT rroucAY.

toward the futurc, observes the New York
World. Tho trouble is that as mon grow old
their capacity for enjoyment Is impaired.
But the world Is not In fact growing worss
nor weaker, and though we may not approcs-
ate their quality, there shall still be cakes
and ale, "ay, and ginger shall be hot 4 the
mouth, too" II Is a sad mistake TO wear
ones eyes in the back Of ones head. The
human race is not decaying, and there will
yet be "palmy days" as good as the old ones.
The babblers WHO babbe about the physi-
cal degeneracy Of the young women and
young men of America ought to have taken n
look last week mt the classes OF graduates
from Vassar college or Rutgers college or
Wells college or Barnard college or Smith
college or at the classes of masculine gradu-
ates from tho New York university or
Columbia college or Princeton university or
West Point academy or the New York
College of Physicians and Sur.
gcons or any Of tho hundred
other institutions Of learning that have
just held their commandments. II would be
hard TO tell where one could behold any array
OF young women with better physical devel-
opment, or any host of young mon with more
stalwart frames than were shown by tho
graduates of these institutions, SAYS the New
York Sun. BY the way, the babblers about
degeneracy can obtain information on the
subject by strolling along Broadway or Wall
street or any of our other highways, or by
taking q trip to Coney Island or Long Branch
or by visiting the public bath-houses. In the
July number of Harper's Magazine there in
is an essay entitled, us American Stamina
DeciiningW and the answer can be quickly
given. II Is not. in the Twilight club a few
evenings ago the members held debate upon
their inferiority to their grandfathers; but IL
must be evident to everybody who watches
the spectacle ut our outdoor sports ana ip our
athletic clubs that our ancestors were not
superior to their posterity in all respects.
Fair play for Young America!
Some person with a taste for statistics has
been examining the salary list of the Domin-
ION. and finds that the small population Of
Canaua pays enormously to support cum
bersome official machine of which its more
liberal people are gradually becoming very
weary, says the Boston Journal. 1t Ia often
laughingly remarked in England that Canada
must have vast deal Of legislation to at
tend to, since she finds it necessary to have
ffty-six legislators more than the mother
country, and so many departmental
heads that no Canadian outside of
politics can tell their number The
Canadian commons consists of 2l5 members,
who draw 81 900 each per session, and the
senate, which has little to do except to look
wise, has eighty members, who receive Sl0,-
600 each annually. Tho speakers of each
house of this immensely overpaid National
legislature receive $1,000 annually; the On
tario members and speaker, $50, 900; the
Quebec legislative council, legislature and
the two speakers, SIS, 900. Then the country
is saddled with a governor general who re-
ceives nearly sS5, 900 annually and spends as
little as possible in the country, sending TO
England for even the smallest articles Of
daily wear and consumption. His chief bus
ness seems to be not to comply with the
wishes Of tho people whenever he has q
chance to show his authority. There are
also lieutenant governors of Quebec and On.
tario and Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Bruns-
wick, the Northwest Territory and Prince
Edward Island, each of whom receives
larger salary than is given to the chief JUS
tice of the supreme court of the United
States. And as fringe around this circlo
Of costly officials, many of whom are utterly
useless, there is small army Of paid aids
de-camp, secretaries, etc, who have abun-
dant perquisites. The idea Of a country like
the Dominion, having forty-seven political
ministers" is certainly somewhat absurd.
II a man is of value to the world he lives
by divine right; if he is worthless he lives
by the impertinent claim of right which
does not exist. His value is not determined
by station, wealth or fame. The poorest may
IN some instances be hardly spared the rich
est in other instances may be spared easily.
It all depends. The nod-carrier who shoul-
ders his hod of bricks may be worth more to
civilization than the man who owns the
brick yard and makes poor bricks for large
profit. 1t is not necessary to live on Fifth
avenue in order to weigh heavily in the scales
of JUSTICE says the New York Herald.
Wealthy fraud goes up as feather weight,
while simple honesty pulls down the beam
like gold. What the world need is real men
ana women, not puppets in petticoats or
trousers.
In this country there IS no problem Of pow.
erty, in the sense in which the term is COM
monty employed, says the New York Com
mercial Advel tiser. There is no poverty of
the hopeless, helpless sort, that can be set
down to the account of false and unfair So
cial or Industrial conditions. 1t is the pow.
erty that actually suffers, the poverty Of
those who lack food for their bellies and
raiment for their backs. That kind of pow
erty exists among us, without doubt or aues-
ton, but IL exists not because of anything
amiss in the constitution of society, but by
reason OF causes within the control of the
sufferers themselves. In nearly all cases it
| is the direct consequence of drunkenness, in.
durable irdolenco and unthrift. In a small
proportion of cases il results from accident,
from prolonged illness or other such cause
| beyond the control of the sufferers, and in
those cases relief Is rightly demanded from
society. But society's provision for relief is
| ample, and more than ample, to meet every
| demand Of that character, IL we might in
any way guard that provision against tho
| raids of the undeserving who suffer by
reason Of their vices or their unwillingness
| to work for themselves.
The only real problem Of poverty in this
| country is how to make those keep sober and
work diligently who now get drunk and do
| no work at all.
There is a similarity in the development OF
great cities that is worthy of note. All OF
them-Loudon, Paris, New York-exhibit
nh In +hair pytanainu TIau