University of Nebraska College of Law - Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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POLITICAL SNAP srrocrs 49 suffrage would be prolific of much domestic trouble, therefore I oppose it. 7' If General Colby concludes to go to Cuba to fight for 'iCuba libre 77 he will do well to establish a recruiting station near the University, so the warlike disciples of Blackstone may have an opportunity to enlist. Six members of the class, only, are in favor of allowing the dusky Cubans to fight out their own salva- tion. Twenty-three are in favor of the United States interfering and compelling Spain to withdraw, while the other six, headed by the little Miles Standish of the class, Matthews, are in favor of Uncle Samls simply taking the island for his own. Says Matthews: HGive me ten such men as Mousel and Gustin, arm us with six-shooters such as Buffalo Bill uses, give us a butcher knife and a skillet apiece, and fifteen years' provisions and I'll guarantee to run Weyler and his hirelings into the sea or worry them to death? He continues: U The great drawback to an en- ergdic campaign in Cuba is a species of quasi-vertebrata known as the wma ccotesbicma, which in the daytime betake themselves to the fastnesses of the mountains and the marshes and in the night, under cover of the darkness find their way into the camp of the soldiers and swallow half-a-dozen apiece. This is ve1'y discour- aging to the soldiery and hinders much. Then sickness did ham- per the Spaniard a good deal, but Weyler's 4 troehas' have almost overcome that? Miss Madeen makes a suggestion which savers of the practical. it Why not, she says, L' trade the west- ern po1'tion of Nebraska and Kansas for Cuba and then raise sugar beets and populists down there. It would save us two very expensive luxuries at home and put the island to a good use? Risser, True, Ridgeley, and Miller discussed the question care- fully and evolved this: HThe United States should annex Cuba and then endeavor to establish a sort of a reciprocity in a trade of ice cream and palm leaf fans. Just think of it! lfVe could get fans for half a cent apiece if it were not for the tarii which we pay. And then the increased exportation of milk and cream would encourage the farmers to raise more cows and put in more pumps, thus increasing our business, giving employment to thousands of idle men, women, and children, and resulting ulti- mately in a restoration of conlidence and giving to the McKinley administration an opportunity to redeem its pledgesf,

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48 THE DIGEST platform. D. L. 'Wilson, 'G Shakespeare has Iago say to Rod- erigo, iPut money in thy purse': now it is evident since the spa- cific gravity of gold is greater than that of silver that he did not mean for Laertes to carry the heavier metal about with him but the lighter hence we have the great authority of Shakespeare on the side of silver with many authorities which Iimight mention .chief among which I am whomf? Wfomanis suffrage has received more or less attention, as it should, from the bright intellects of the embryo lawyers. Seven- teen are in favor of women receiving no franchise whatever, and, strangely enough, the married men are all on this side, while twelve think women should receive even and equal rights with men. Six of the younger members, Creigh, Flaherty, Manville, C. O. Brown, I-Iassler, and Thompson, say they have not had time to think the matter over and prefer to give no opinion. A few of the reasons given are so philosophical that they should be included. Miss Goff, MI do not believe specially in woman's rightis but human rights. VVomen are human and therefor it fol- lows, as the night the day, that they should receive the same rights? F. E. Brown, UI have always thought that, 5 Nil sine magno ' Vita labore dedit mortatibusf' Coleman, HI believe that sweet, gentle woman, she with the syl- phan form and eyes of heavenly light-she whose image is ever before me, sleeping or waking-is far too frail and fragile to have the cumbrous affairs of state thrust upon her to weary her -delicate sensibilities and therefore I discountenance it. If she should ever be placed before the ballot box with a ballot in her hand I should feel justified to declare in the words of the poet: No more will I endure love's pleasing pains, Or 'round my heartis leg tie his galling chain.-Selah. Placek, HI donit know that I am much opposed to suiirage my- self, but Meine mutter hat's gewollt, Dasz ich anders denken sol1t. Hayward, H If we were to allow women to vote they would all get to wearing bloomers, so I am opposed to it. ' Carr, c'Paul says 'women obey your husband,' and I am afraid

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QDne Gibinglcmno another No one will deny that life with the law student is a serious matter. Every one has noticed that while other students hasten to their daily duties with flying feet, the disciple of Blackstone ap- proaches the Pierian spring with measured step and slow. If you search in the domain of society for these persons the return of mm est ivwentus must be made. Do you wonder that a man borne down with the burden of the law seeks no relaxation in society? These embryo jurists have learned that life is a series of contracts express or implied, and he that would avoid serious complications must walk circumspectly. Some have learned this from books, others in the stern school of experience. Here and there are married men who, like Goodner, assert that marriage is not, as Mr. Robbins says, a civil contract but a simple one. Almost all of us have learned that he who follows in the train of society, and strives to keep pace with the flying fashions has neither strength to handle the ponderous tomes nor time in which to seek principles deftly concealed therein. But despite such solemnity we havehad pleasures. In the hurry of life many things have been forgotten Cwe learned that in the real property examinationjg but a few still cling to us. Who can recall the answers of Dad Coleman, often more ingenious than accurate, without wishing that a phonographic record had been kept? C. L. Wilson, from 4' down on the Nernahaw nearly bankrupted the Merchants Hotel during his first week in town, but balanced the account by being sick three days as a re- sult of his voracity. 'cChief Justice Miller, the man who always knew of several real cases like that down homej' furnished the most clear, cogent, succinct, and persuasive 77 reasons for his studying law. The exposure to the elements while in the grocery business the drove the wagonj, coupled with a predisposition to lung trouble, led him to choose the law that he might always be near the stove.