The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1900-08-25
SCORED BYT MEL SON PAGE.

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Hundred ir New York"
81 have always been struck by the
sincerity which l have found in the
American. Unfortunately for our repu-
tstion. the phase Of home life which IL
most frequently brought into publ:
notice. is one which, il it. can be called
home life at all, is certainly not repre-
sentative Of American home life 1t is
that which is found in certain peculiar
circles of certain large cities in this
country. This is the home life which is
most frequently referred to and ad-
vanced in the public prints, possibly be-
cause it is the most extraordinary form
that domestic life has ever taken in this
country. Unhappily for US. it goes
abroad as being constituent part OF
our home life; and very ridiculously it
is imagined, perhaps because it 80 i'm.
AGNES itself and asserts itself. to be the
highest form OF our home life. thso ok
God for my part that it is not Only not
the highest form OF American life. but
that 1t is no part whatever OF American
home life. 1t is only counterfeit pre-
sentiment OF what it esteems 10 be form
of foreign fashionable life. 1t has not
even the virtue Of having its vices sin
cere.
"a preacher, and l have no doubt q
good preacher and good man. preached
the other day before this people or that
segment OF them that goes to church
sermon calling their attention to their
duties in plain and vigorous language
for which he has been much and justly
praised in the newspapers OF the coun-
try. But the Rev DR.. Hamilton is the
rector Of a New York church, and the
New York in which his church is stu
sted is not the least provincial section
in this country. 1t arrogates itself to
be sort Of sacred and forbidden city
within the outer city Of New York
proper.
1.-THE msior portion Of the congrega-
ton which he addressed at Newport the
other day belongs to that New York, and
to such sycophants as can buy holding
within it's borders; and the reverend
preacher, in order to make his sermon
60 down with bis congregation. used an
argument, which, in the interest Of
American civiliz atom, must repudi-
ate. He told them that they must re-
member that 50 100000 American PEG.
had their gaze fastened upon them and
looked to them as their exemplars, ap-
plying their energies and spending their
lives in endeavoring to emulate them.
know not how to characterize such
nonsense except ih the plain venacular.
With such inseusate hattery pouring into
their ears no wonder that little set of
gilded imitators lose their bearings. be-
come blinded and fall into the ditch Of
folly and profiigacy.
IL make 90 bold as to assert that there
are not only not so 600. 600 Of people in
this country who sit with en- vious, il not
adoring, gaze fastened upon that spec
tacle OF divorced and doubly divorced
men and women and their sycophants
and parasites; but that outside Of their
own circle. there are not more than
50 600 people in all America who do not
reprobste and deride their arrogance.
1t is true that their doings are chron-
icled and doubtless read by millions il
the weekly journals, but so are the acts
OF freaks ard malefactors, including
characters who are unmentlonable.
And the reverend preacher doubtless