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1 [ " > Che Conservative. VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , SEPT. 6 , 1900. NO. 9. WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOHRNATj DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION Or POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND BOofoliOOIOATj QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 18,000 COPIES. ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One dollar and a half per year , In advance , postpaid , to any part of the United States or Canada. Remittances made payable to The Morton Printing Company. Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska City , Neb. Advertising Rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1808. " * StMldard TRUSTS WANTED. n" Jf Oil Company , which brings into the United States from Europe more than one hundred thousand dollars in gold every day in the year is a trust , let us have a dozen more of the same sort. It takes American oil to all the markets of Europe and with it buys gold in competition with all the oil sellers of the world , and brings home the gold , with which it is develop ing the resources and wage-paying pow ers of the republic. It sells oil for less money than any other concern on earth , and it oppresses the consumer of oil no where on earth. It pays its employees generously and it has no strikes. The oil it soils for fifteen cents a gallon de livered in Nebraska , THE CONSERVATIVE first saw the light from at $1.50 a gallon right here at Arbor Lodge. We like light. Give us more light on the enor mities of the crimes of the combines of capital upon the people of Nebraska. In'oven years the Argo starch works have expended for buildings , wages , coal , corn , lumber and machinery in Nebraska City more than five millions of dollars. This has harmed no one ex cept the calamity orators of populism and fusion. Nebraska City wishes more such trusts. Nebraska City has not in vited Sm-y-the to destroy this industry. Nebraska needs more such factories and nothing prevents getting them except the words and works of the Bryans , Aliens , Srn-y-thes and other demagogues who seek offices for the money that is in them rather than for honor. Nebraska wants more "trusts" which build up and energize her capability to grow rich and contented and less "trust" in the dissembling declaimers who en deavor , by fallacies and sophistry , to array the poor against the rich , the in dolent against the industrious , and to teach and bring about discontent and anarchy. At THEN AND NOW. convention m 1896 in closing the debate on that infamous platform and in answering Mr. Hill's plea for compromise , Mr. Bryan , with intense fervor and dogmatism , said : "Now , my friends , let us come to the great paramount issue. If they ask us here why it is we say more on the money question than we say on the tariff ques tion I reply that if protection has slain its thousands the gold standard has slain its tens of thousands. If they ask us why we did not embody all these things in our platform which we believe , we reply to them that when we have re stored the money of the constitution all other necessary reforms will be possible , and that , until that is done , there is no reform that can be accomplished. " t And "until that is done" Mr. Bryan is sixteen to one for "that" over and above all other things. The free coinage of silver in unlimited quantities at 16 to 1 brought Bryan fame and fortune. It is Bryan and Bryan is 16 to 1. They are inseparable. If one wins , both win. If one is whipped so is the other. THE OCTOPUS HUNTER. teresting and suavely smug at torney general of Nebraska , Sm-y-the , has returned from an exciting hunt of the oleaginous octopus in the wilderness of New York City. But his expense accounts had not been filed in the office of the state auditor when THE CONSER VATIVE last enquired for the per capita cost of killing the Standard Oil trust , the ice trust , the silver smelter trust , the starch trust and the trust in populism , Poynter and other fusion-for-offlce pat riots in Nebraska. Will Sm-y-the say what the dried pelt of an octopus costs the state of Ne braska ? Will the anti-trust tourist who so recently charged upon Rockefeller in his Wall street den , state to the public the expenses of his self-instituted and itinerant antagonism to trusts ? And will Sm-y-the tell also when , how , by whom he became inspired to that insatiable thirst for the blood of the Standard Oil company in Nebraska , and what number of aggrieved citizens petitioned him to kill off these various alleged trusts ? The peerless can. BE IT mcmsn- , IIERED. didato for the presidency who is claimed to be the consolidated reincar nation of Jefferson and Lincoln and the moral combine of all the saints in the calendar , said in 1896 , at Richmond , Va. , to and of the gold standard demo crats : "They are branded as traitors. They shall not comeback. " Is the same tongue which hurled de fiant hatred at the sensible democrats who would not accept vagaries as prin ciples and egotistic effrontery for leader ship in 1896 , now pleading for harmony , for peace , for the ballots of gold stand ard democrats ? And are gold standard democrats or any other kind of patriots who regard honesty in finance as essential to national integrity , ready to follow and vote for the zealot who , in 1896 , said : "The democratic party has begun a war of extermination against the gold standard. We ask no quarter , we give no quarter. We shall prosecute our warfare until there is not an American citizen that dares to advocate a gold standard policy. You ask why ? We reply that the gold standard is a conspi racy against the human race , and that we should no more join it than wo would an army marching to destroy our homes and to destroy our families. " If Bryan has changed he has given no sign of a change. He said then that which he declares now. Without a reaffirmation - affirmation of that zealotry against the gold standard , he declined re-nomina tion. Be it remembered by all gold standard democrats. Bryan hated and denounced them in 1896 and he has not changed. Recently a re publican editor of northern Nebraska apostatised and in his paper declared : "Thus , with a firm and unflinching reliance in the Great Ruler above , who rules alike the destiny of the individual as well as nations , we go forth to battle for Bryan and humanity , for God and the right. " That settles the election , and Bryan and God are congratulated , no doubt , by all the good spirits of earth , air and water.