The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-09-21
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are rusty and are constantly slip
ping cogs. They rattle and are gener-
ally clumsy and out of date. A
proper machine that would turn out
editorials and other matter would be
a boon to the Journal. The ones now
in use could be presented to backwoods
and fresh water colleges for use in
Schools of Journalism.
The local newspaper situation Is just
now very much perturbed. The News,
which for years has been a union Office,
that is an Office employing printers who
are members of the Typographical
union, in order to keep pace with the
progress now making in the newspaper
business all over the country, put in
two type-setting machines, and was
compelled to dispense with some of
its old employees. That most autocrat-
ic body on the broad earth, the Fed
eral Union, was Immediately torn from
center to circumference, and out of the
perturbation came an order condemning
the News. The paper that has fought
the battles Of the union for years is
turned upon and pursued with malice
and 'vindictiveness. Putting in ma
chimes was simply a question of bust
ness with the News. There was nothing
dishonorable I'm il, no treachery to the
cause of labor. The News faced an
emergency that every progressive news
paper, daily or weekly, will be forced
to meet in the near future. 1t has al
ways been friendly to organized labor,
and is honestly entitled to consideration
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hand composition and employed union
men at a greater cost than was neces-
sary.
The Federal Union at the same time
that it turned upon the News, took up
another afternoon paper that has re-
Gently had a very small claim upon la
Dor, and proclaimed il the champion of
the workingman. The paper that paid
high prices to its men, employed the
largest number, and paid all wages in
full, is spat upon, while the paper that
has employed a small force, paid the
lowest possible wages, and forced many
of its employees to get their money by
legal process, is endorsed by the union.
This is certainly queer state of
things.
1t may be interesting 20 know that
the business manager of the Journal
is anxious to sever his connection with
that paper. He has for months been
looking for another opening. a suita-
bic opportunity for the unrestricted dis
play of those great talents that gave a
spectacular setting to the passing of
the Globe and other papers. 1t is said
that Mr.. Seacrest. who. since his jour-
neyings to New York to the annualmeet
ings Of the American Publishers asso-
has really become a Great Man.
Is said to be negotiating for the purchase
OF the Call. 1t is good thing for great
men to succeed in their plans, but if
Mr. Seacrest should obtain possession
of the Call, consider the effect on the
Journal! What. in heavens name would
become OF the Journal If Mr.. Seacrest
left it? The prospect is fearful to
1t would be no ordinary
disaster. 1t would perchance. drop back
into the fearful condition in which it
was at the time Mr.. Seacrest came along
and discovered it and saved it. On the
whole, IL is to be hoped that Mr.. Sea-
crest will not desert the Journal and
leave it standing alone and webbing.
The Hayden Art club has done much
to raise the standard of art in Lincoln.
So much that the kind of pictures ex-
hibited at the Lancaster county fair
last week, is inexcusable Amateurs
who have painted for six months, sent
their work there and expected to take
prize. There is nothing so bad as
bad art. A gulf is fixed between an
artist and an artisan that the latter
cross without years Of conscien-
tious study. A man may have very good
ideas Of color and fat decoration, and
earn good wages as a frescoer, and vet
be unable to paint a COW in a pasture
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