The herald., 1896-03-23
THE nonsense We APPLAUD
EVIDENCES OF DEPLORABLE IGNORANCE
AND PROvINCIALISM
DID the Creator Of This Wheeling, Whirling.
sFicpping Universe Ordain That Certain
sFIops Of the Earth Should Be Holy and
Certain Other Elops Unhoiy9

Certain Other rIops UnhoIyP
What nonsense we Americans listen to
and applaud because of tine evident imme-
diate effort and well merited misery en-
duFed by alleged actors! fellow who
can commit few lines to memory and
can stand on his feet and deliver them
without serious inaccuracy, is called an
orator or an actor-according to his cos
tune and the locus of the place of deliv-
cry. We seem to consider that the repeti-
tion of the words is the only requisite to
perfect acting and orarory.
We are evidently paving the way for the
phenograph and the automaton. This de-
pl0rable ignorance and "provincialism" is
not confined to our villages and towns
New York. Boston, and Philadelphia are
no more erudito than Wayback and Nut
to4burR.
We allow one actor of real skill to gather
up herd of spouters and parade the
country as a ''great troupe" as an "aGgre-
CATION of talent such as the world has
never seen before and will not again be-
hold.''
We seem absolutely incapable of dis
tinguishing between talent and mere abll-
ity to escape the lunatlc asylum-between
the genius and the genuine gull.
Most OF the stuff that we rant about or
endure or permit to go unpublished, would
he hooted off the stage in any self-re-
specting European village.
1t may be right, according to our stand
ard. to endure ranter or dullard or
other insufferable chap for whole even-
ing rather than hiss him off the stage or
the platform, but such lunacy and false po-
liteness can do us no good except in the
way of punishment for our sins.
The amount of walking we do in place of
having telephone at every house proves
thst we are many generations behind the
Sandwish islanders, who are said to be so
sensible that they have telephone IN
every cabin, and save more time and
money by disregarding patents than we
gain by having patented monopolies that
retard our growth
, In this country a telephone is a luxury.
and each little wooden box with wire at
tached and located in an office draws
larger salary for monopolist than an
ahle-bodied farm hand draws for himself
and wife and children.
And we call ourselves advanced!
We are far advanced, but our faces are
turned in the direction opposite to the one
hoped for.
The feeding and clothing and educating
of the Cummings-Ferguson fraud by the
good people of University is another proof
OF the fact that decent lad may starve
where he was born while notorious fakir
will be fed and clothed aud toasted, and
married to his entire satisfaction in the
same pious community.
Such villains may go unpunished. but we
are made to endure the 'public morality"
pretensions of Councilman Kineery, who
evidently wishes to clip off the two last
! eyllabes of his name.
What have street posters and the Ala
media street public harems of private cit
liens and public officials to do with such
believing evils as Cummings-Ferguson?
''crib'' quarter. How about the other
quarter: How about the conduct of the
late notorious Paul Schultze who got away
with $2.OO0,O00 and blasted the lives of
thousands of innocent people?
What has little necessary Sunday work
to do with these things?
The pretensions of the Kingery person
were utterly paralyzed by the Seventh Day
Adventists. Did the Creator of this wheel
ing. whirling, Hopping universe ordain that
certain Hops of the earth should be holy
and certain other flops unholy, and that
the kingery squad should have a patent on
balance of us take his word for statement
concerning such monopoly?
We are told that the kingery person is
doing the best he can, that he does not
claim to be an astute statesman, and that
he is eelf-made man.
Ii he admits his own ignorance ne has no
right to persist in affecting tho public
Herewith. If he admits that he is not as
tute, he makes the matter worse by show.
ing that he is self-taught, thereby proving
that he is not astute, but ass-tutored.
vk =. A.
lot of misses to handle library books at
the expense of the public, but to put the
public to the delay, annoyance and incon-
venlence consequent upon their "public''
training and bungling practice is quite an
other matter. Last night / saw man who
was in great hurry TO catch a train lose
the use of book he was eager to read for
the reason that his card had been stamped
out of coun;enance long before its time.
Some plan should be arranged whereby
invalids who desire to read shall not be de-
prived of the use of the library because
they cannot 20 to the library to sign the
register.
Some of the lights of Stanford university
seem in fair way to brighten that insti-
tuition very much.
One of its ablest men writes that they
have punctured the Search bubble that
was inflated here last year without even
the use of soapsuds. He says that alleged
Searchlight "may do for backwoodsmen,
but that he has no idea of the intelligence
TO be found in university circles" An
other balloon gone up
The school desks supplied by the city
council for the new schoolhouses should
have been made and put together before
- children were required to sit in them.
Any one not in the newspaper business
would be astonished at the number of fools
who promise to give items on Sunday
morning at 8 o'clock to go in Sundays
paper.
Besides, think it necessary to fence in
the schoolhouses. Yours truly,
EDWARD L. HUTCHINSON,
POLITICAL POINTERS
The Democratic state executive COM
mittee meets at Nashville today, and the
session will be attended by many promin-
ent members of the party, including Sem
ator Harris and Congressman Richardson,
McDearmon, Cox and Mcmillan. The
only que stion of importance is the calling
of one or two conventions, the bulk of free