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

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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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A Dolitical Snap Shots If the members of 797 were followers of Brahma and believed that their ultimate end was a condition in which they should be alike and thus become re-absorbed into Brahma,their political views would be very seriously in the way, and the ideal state could only be obtained by a very rigorous course of asoeticism. Nearly every political party in the heavens above 01' the earth beneath or the waters under the earth, has its followers in the class from the gold democrats, by Green, to the woman's suffra- gists, by Babcock, and the old adage that 4' great minds run in the same channel '7 is proven to be false. The political personnel of the class is about the following, republicans, twenty-one, silver re- publicans, three, democrats, six, gold' democrats, oneg populists, four. However, the members do not agree with their respective parties entirely upon the leading questions. On the question of protection and free trade, twenty-three favor the first and eleven the latter. On the money question the members are hard to clas- sify-as hard for themselves as for the writer. Twenty-two are bimetallists, five are mono-metallists, and the other eight are un- decided but take their stand unqualiiiedly on the St. Louis plat- form. Their reasons for their beliefs are such as would make Mc- Kinley or Bryan turn green with envy. Here are a few: Gates, 'CI am for gold because we read in the good Book 'And Aaron made unto the children of lsreal a golden calf and set it up before them and they fell down and worshipped it.'7' Goodner, UI be- lieve in the eternal principles laid down by our forefathers that ' all men are created free and equal. TVhite, I am for silver be- cause it is and has been the money of the Chinese for the last ten thousand yearsf' Parker, 'C I am a believer in the New Testament, and is it not written that Judas sold his master for thirty pieces of silver, proving beyond a doubt that silver has always been rec- ognized as money? 3' Jones, HI am a believer in bimetallism, l--l mean a mono-metallist,,'-well, I stand on the St. Louis

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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,