Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 16, 1890, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ARCH 16, The boom for Furniture, Carpets and Stove Our fine agsortments, low prices and easy terms, 18 t nish your house from parlor to kitchen, in a very comf our assertions, come and see tor yourselves and we wi tickets furnished those living at a distance. ‘Wood Seat Chairs worth 65c.....this week 28¢ Kitchen Safes worth $6,50 ....this week $3.45 Bedsteads worth $3.50 ........this week $1.45 Chamber Suits worth $20 ....this week $13.50 Chamber Suits worth $30.....this week $19.50 Ingrain Carpets worth 40c .... ..thic week 23c Matting worth 40c ................this week 16¢ Brussels Carpets worth $i........thisweek 67c Stair Carpet worth 40c............this week 18¢c Rugs worth $3.50 Comforts worth $2 Pillows worth $1 Lace Curtains worth $3 Chenille Curtains worth $8 . this week $4.50 Sideboards worth $25 Hall Racks worth $12 . .. . Ceeieeeees...this week $1.90 Parlor Suits worth $40 Plush Rockers worth $14 _this week $23.75 ..this week $8.50 ..this week $1.25 this week 40c ..this week $1.50 this week $14.00 _this week $8 First Grand f3 he talk ot the town. fortable style, at a very mo Il not only convince you but s #F *Note Our Easy Terms.f $10 worth of goods 81 a week or $4 a month. $25 worth of goods $1.60 a 250 worth of goods $2 a week or #8 a month. worth of goods & #100 worth of goods $3 £200 worth of oods #5 a week or $20 a month. veek or $6 a month, ) a weel or $10 a month. a week or $12 a month. Come at once to avoid the rush. No trouble to show goods. OUR MOTTO: POLITENESS, PROMPTNESS AND POPU TELEPHONE 727. B. ROSENTHAL & CO, Props. sold on easy payments to South Omaha and Council Bluffs. s has come. Our Grand Spring Opening last week was an immense success, Our sales last week were more than double than the same week a ye derate cost, and you can take your o wn time to pay ior them. how you the finest line ever brought to Omaha. Cook Stoves worth $14 Cook Stoves worth $20 Ranges worth $35 Wash Boilers worth $2 Potts’ Irons (per set) worth $4 this week $1.60 Big Bargains in Every Department. & Baby Carriages worth $15 Baby Carriages worth $20 this week §12.50 Bookcases worth $3 Bookcases worth $10 Gasoline Stoves worth $8 Folding Beds worth $35 Folding Beds worth $50 Lounges worth $9.50 Bed Lounges worth $§14 Bed Lounges worth $i9 __this week $12.50 Wood Pails worth 25¢. . Hanging Lamps worth $§3.50 _ this week $1.85 Wardrobes worth $13 . . . . Rally For Low Prices. . WE ARE NOW READY FOR BUSINESS %% people were actually turned away. ar ago. If you doubt any of Free delivery for 100 miles. Car this week $12.50 ... this week 10c No extra charge for collecting. Nointerest charged. All goods delivered free of charge and ~ LAR PRICES. OPEN AT NIGHT ... this week $6 _this week 89._50 We will fur- this week $9.25 this week $25 this week 88c_ this week $9.50 this week $3.75 this week $54 this week $5.75 _this week $25 this week $35 this week $7.50 THE RIGHTS OF THE STATE, Ex-Minister Benjamin on the Dan- gers of Over-Legislation. THE EXAMPLE OF SPARTA. AlCompleto Subjugation of the Rights of the !lndividual—The Princi- ple on Which Our Gov- ernment is Based. Magnifying the State. % From the beginning of the world to the present day no question has re- ceived more constant and general at- tention than the solution of the vrob- lem of government. The happiness of every man 18 at stake in this question. Strange to say, notwithstanding that some approximation towards a sntisfac- tory solutign of this perplexing subject appears to have been reuched by sev- eral nations, thus offering a model for others to follow, vet the question has never been more earnestly discussod than now; this may ve in part because of the greater general freedom permit- ted to the people in the direction of government affairs, But in this coun- try at least it is also due in part to the fact that, while the true principles of government are better understood at presont, many dotails relating to the practical application of those principles ave still in a nebulous or experimental state. Thore have been few sovereigns who would be willing to admit that they were inspired by other motives than the welfare of their people even in their most arbitrary acts. Even the czar of Russia, when he undertakes, in this ninoteonth century, to torce all his subjects under the stress of horrible pen- alties to bow at one shrine, tospeak but one language, and to avoid political discussion or the seeking after individ- ual liberty, would doubtless vehem- ently assort that he is moved by syrong patriotic motives alone. Most sov- ereigns, whether good or bad, have been blinded by such specious pre- tenses, ignorant of the tricks which our mysterious human nature will play o us. MAGNIFYING THE STATE. The fact remains, however, that gov- ernment has beeu alimost everywhere in all ages, a magnifying of the state and a minimizing of the people and the individual. The state has been every- thing and the individual nothing. This might not always have resulted in evil especially in small or new communities, hike the Greek republic or Rome in early days. But the trouble has been that in most cases the hered- itary soverign has been de [facto if ot in theory an epitome of tho state. ‘“‘L’etat, c’est moi,”—I am the siate—the famous dictum of Louis the XIV—if somewhat too flatly ppt, is still in point of fact a corvect definition of government as it has been practiced the world over during these thousands of years past. KEven the so-called republics of Greece and Italy were actually oligarchies in which the government was roally vested fn the hands of a fow ruling families who lived off the state and for whom the state practically existed. THE EXAMPLE OF SPARTA. The most remarkable example of this form of government, in which the iden- tity .and the rights of the individusl | ulating this be citizen or subject were merged in the state, was that of Sparta. This example is the more noteworthy because before the declaration of inde- pendence by the continental congress of the United States there never was any more deliberate, more carefully sidered or more thoroughly tested un experiment in formulating a~ theory of government than the plan said to have been iuvented by Lycurgus and put into practice during several cen- turies at Sparta. Although nominally a monarchy, the government of Sparta was really an armed camp, whose sovereign was a hereditary general-in-chief and whose citizens wero soidiers who surrendered very identity as it were to the state, They sat at common public mess tables; both sexes, belonging from birth to the state which had arranged the sclection of the parents, were obliged to exercise naked at the vigor- ous public cxercises of the gymnasium, while those who were constitutionally feeble or deformed were kilied lest they become a burden to the state. To such an extreme was this principle of the supreme importance of the state cavried that during the protracted Messinian war, when many of the adult males were slain, a number of vigorous young men were selected from the army and ordered to return to Spavta for the express purpose of rear- ing a new generation of soldiers; for the good of the state the women, whether married or singlo, submitted to this promiscuous intercour In Sparta then the state was everything, the individual nothing. The state, which is merely 2n abstract fig- ment of the brain, was elevated to be the chief 'end of gov- ernment. The same error was made in thoe case of the Pharisees, who assumed that man was do for the Sabbath. What wi ult? Sparta left no acts, no sciences, no litsrature; she made no lasting impression in the progress of the race, and when she fell, her citizens were the most s h and corrupt in Gre They had been taught but oune principle, physical courage aad strength developed for the state. OTHER AMPLES, Most governments existing since then, which have shown evidence of vigor on the part of the rulers, have practically trented the people as if they existed only for the stute, just as the church has too often treated the world, as though the people were for the church and not the church for the 1n- dividual soul. Enormous crimes, ap- palling cruelities, have been perpetrat- ed by both church and state for the pu pose of forcing men to accept this prin- ciple of civil and spiritual govern- ment, This all wrong. Society exists for the benefit of every unit that composes it, Government or the state exists not for itself, but for the individual, andiis then only what it should be when it al- lows the greatest possible liberty con- sistent with ordertoevery individual ci izen, The state should be like the heart; man does not exist for the heart, butthe heart for man; so long as the laws of hygiene are observed, the heart per- forms its duty of sustaining the life of the individual in a quiet, invisible way never interfering with the thought or the action of the being whose action it sustains. The Sabbath is made for man and not mun for the Sabbath, So a government is ordained for man indi- vidually and not man for the govern ment. Only on this theory can that liberty be preserved for which our fathers fought and without which life is well nigh intolerable to the thinking men and women of this generation, It was exactly for tne purpose of form- asal principle of govern- ment that the colonies rebelied and formulated the constitution whose adop- tion marked the greatest era in the progress of free government since the decline of Sparta. It is the rights of the individual and not the glory of the state which the constitution lays down a foundation principle of good go ment—a government ‘‘by the people for the people.’” These facts aro so patent to our peo- ple who have now for crations im- no- g of government, that it almost seems ab- surd to recapitulato them again. And yet it is necessary from time to time to recall them, for the reason that there is areal and growing danger that those very liberties which have been assured tous in this way may be stolen from us through thoughtlessness or failure to perceive some of tho dangers which threaten our dearly bought independence. There is unquestion- able dangerthat we may drift back to the mistalien and most deplorable the- ory that man is for the state and not the state for man. It is not likely that outside of the ranks of the organized hierarchy of some branches of the church, anyone could be found to ad- mit such notion. And yet the 1ll-con- sidered efforts and practice of too many are leading precisely to such a result. If it comes, we as individual citizens cannot evade the responsibility of con- tributing to bring it about eithe negligence or by not suffiziently seruti- nizing the character of the men who make and adwinister the laws for us. TOO MANY LAW ‘Without looking at other cau: let us reflect for a moment that besides the two houses of congress there are no less than forty.two legisiatures grinding out law for this long-suffering people; most of them engaged in this tremen- 5 c annual Forty-three legisla- lily making new laws or tin- kering with old ones,for a nation having not twice as many people as France! Law is o good and necessary thing; so is medicine; but one may have too much ot either, A Aside from the fact that we have twice as many laws as we need, many of these laws are positively bad, bad us law and bad in practice. It is quite possible that a people may become so enmeshed with various petty laws, that either it is bound hand and foot if it ob- serves them all, or it becomes a nation of law-breakers; for it is impossible ior such a multitude of laws to be always strictly observed even by law-abidi citizens. ‘Lhe greatest caution is quisite in logislating regarding matters which are not in themselves bad, al- though perhaps liable to abuse. Better that such abuse should follow some- times, than to hamper respectable zens with a law whoso force they fail to appreciate and for that reason fina it hard to obserye. Man is not made for the state, but the state for man, EVILS OF OVER-LEGISLATION, The danger from this cause is two- fold, In the first place the common- weal is imperiled when too much law leads to a disregard of some of the laws, and hence a disrespect in general towards the majesty of the law: and in the second place, danger arises from the resultant mdifference to the character of those whom we delegate to make our laws. Granting that a certain propor- tion of our logislators are men of sound practical sense, high principle and pure patriotism, the fact remains that by far too many of them are either hopelessly partisan” or they are steeped in ignorance and besotted with their own self-conceit; or they are men feeble in will power, or trimmers, who, for the sake of retaining office, make that the guiding principle of action; or, worse than all, they are ranting fanaties, who are elected or get themselves elected to such responsible positions with the dis- tinet purpose of forcing on the people the p e of some pet theory or im- practicable so-called reform of their own on the spacious plea that it is for the good of the state. Most great re- formors are men of earnest vi who by dintof theirsingle-mindedness,their arrogant, determined bearing, and everlusting persistency suceeed 1n over- coming all opposition and great ultimate public bene fortunately, while most tyled ve- formers are men of such character, bat few of such churacter fight in a thoroughly good cause or :dvocate theories that would prove of benelit to any but themselves. They are, however, by far the most dange ous men we send to our legislatures, for they possess the very qualities that insure success, and when they do not conyince they ly win by dintof per- sistent hammering.” These are the men who, for the so-called benefit of the state, are willing to sacrifice the rights of tho individual and throw to the winds the dearly bougit liberties for whicheour fathers fought and died. To them tho state is _everything, the indi- vidual nothing. In Spurta they would have been tyrants, in Spain inguisitors, in this country they arc—legisiators. NATURAL RESULT. The natural result of this condition of things is a growing tendency to resort to what is called moral or sumptuary logisiation. The experience of past ages has shown how ravely such legisle tion proves beneficial or permanent, al- though it 1 be expedient in rare cases. Besides weuakening the influ- ence und responsibility of both families and individuals,and lowering the moral influence of the church when functions belonging exclusivoly to re- ligion ave relegated to the eivil aw, the final outcoms of this form of paternal government must inevitably prove disastrous to that respect for in- dividual liberty which so strongly dif- ferentiats our government from that of different periods or of many other na tions. The perfect systom does not ist and probably never will in this world. Henee great caution shoxld be »d that in avoiding one apparent evil, we do not fall intoone far more serious and permanent. We admit that as e impraves it bhecomes more complicated; just as the tic steamship of today is far moro ite and complexan affair than the ship in which Columbus came to America. Butyet it can never be for- gotten that however yast be the in- crease of detail in the mechanism and nization of such a steamship, the first thing and the last thing to con- sider in that avonderful fabric are the rights and privileges of the passenger 50 for whom it was built and for whose benelit the company was chartered. ike manner, if our republic pre- sents far more complicated stem than the governments of other ages, it should still never be forgotten that the state was four.ded for the people and not the people for the statr, We have far too much legislation; vemedy for this whether by reducing the number of legislatiye ions or by exorcising ation in the selection of our , or otherwise, is it not time for us to consider the drift of events? Is it not time for the people to emph size anew the fact that man is not for the state, but the state for every indi- vidual man? W. BENJAMIN, more logislator - Hair—Paps, it's raioiog. Papa (somewhat annoyed by work in haud) Well, let it r Little Flaxen Hair (tmidly)—I was goiug to. Little Flaxen CONNUBIALITIES. hin the last twenty years the courts in insas have granted 7,101 divoraes. A man who had clopad from Easton, Pa., seat his wife a note from Jersey. City telling her to {zke care of the baby. James G. and Ann Tomlinson of Plam- field county, Iudjana, lately celebrated ths seventy 1irst anniversary of their marriage. “The husbaud is 100 and the wife nin A Jackson county (Mo.) man is suing for a divorce from the woman he wedded thirty- cight years ago. He said his wife made him 3o the washing and the general housework. A widow in New York has, it is said. brought a suit for damages against & well- known ueurologist for tuking her husband’s bram, and also for violating an alleged con- Lract to give her $1.000 for using her hu as a-medical object lesson. De Trompy (toa former flamo who been a party to a May and December riage)—ls marriage o failure? Former Flame—(with a glance toward her husband xt room)—Not a failure. Only a v embarrassment. Rufus Thompson of West Swanzey, N.H., the father of tke actor. Deninan Thompson, was married & few davs ago to Mrs, Sarat A. Vialker of Westminster West, Vt. Mr. Thompson is eighty-three years of age and tho bride is eight years his junior. There is a men at Crawfordsville, Ind., who has left his wifo four times. ‘Tho first time he was gono seventeen years, five years the second time, two years the third and a yoar the fourth timo. After leaving tho fourth time his wife obtained a divorce and now he is back again. Sho has always made her own livenhood. A man and wife residing in North Minne- apolis, who own forty acres of. land within the city limits, were offered $200,000 for 1t five yoars ago. The husband wished to sell, but ihe wife refused to_sign the deed. I result was u quarrel betwi which time not a word has passed them. The wife cooks for both, but they their meals at separate tables and sleep in saparate beds. An Englishman who ca > to this country thirty vears ago, leaving u wife at howme to whom he soon ter ceased writing, was wmazed Sunday at his boarding house, in ace to fuce witt er for a moment had been searching Cohocs. her. ‘They eyod ea and then ombraced for years for him, going sl over the country, He was 4 went to Cohoes from Philadelyhia, An Enghsh court has just decided thata wife murried in Jopan after the fashion of that couatry is o logal wifo in Engiand, on the ground tk apan has Jong been nized us o civilized country.” A pr decision in a case where the wife was a Hottentot and was married after the Hottou- tot fushion had upset the union on the ground that the Hottentots were heathens and polygamists, and did not know what marriage, in a civilized sense, meant. An old bachelor of sove the name of Neillof Wata d 10 marry Miss ) young girl seventeen y the girl better than his own life, and rofused to id pleaded with 1 sho never in by coming loved when he proposed to her she warry hun, He beggec ber, and finally she told b tendaed to speak to him again. Neil immedi- ately went away, and sccuring an ax, ho Jaid his right hand across a log aud with ono stroke cut it off at_the wrist, saying tnat it would be a mark of afiliction upon hun for learning to love & youug girl whom he ought to huve known would never marry him, - - An Absolute Cure. 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