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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1898)
13be Conservative * 21 CONThoro seems teAT AT bo } amid the din of OMAHA. arms , sufficient in terest in cuiToncy questions to nssuro a good list of speakers and a largo audi ence at the national currency conven tion , which will bo held in the auditor ium on the exposition grounds at Omaha , September" Iflj 14 nnd 1C , The exposition management Writds1 tlirii no * GVe'nt oon1- uected with the fair is attracting so much attention. The silver men appear to desire - sire to restate their position and to re affirm their faith in the white metal. The old greenbackers think that this is a good time to sound their ancient slogan about the superiority of government paper money over money issued by banks , and about the duty of the govern- UJOiifc to supply the people with all the Currency they needs T"hO gold-standard Klchi feel thiit they are challenged to mdiutuin tlleii1 grdiind w'itli fresh argu- iiients , tind believd tliat thd progress of § ve"nts since 1890 hns furnished them Witli a gOOd detil & iiow iiiatter for dis- eussidn ; The Confidence df the silver iridn thrtt they will bo given a fair show- IriJI ill tHp disthissitfu Has tteen gained by placing the debate on uie'irsille iill'iirii'go ' their ablest loaders ex-Con of one of , - gressman Chas. A.Towneof Duluthaud asldng him to designate his associates. Other prominent silver men who will take part in the debate ai'o Senator Jones of Arlca lisas , Congi'ossman Hartman - man of Montana , Hud H , F , Bartine , Editor Of the National Bimetttlist , The gr'o'uub'ab'ic UanhliitiOn Jvill > e dpened up by ex-Congressman A. . 3 : Wrirucl : bf Ohio. A committee has been created in Chicago to co-operato with Mr. Towne in securing silver speakers. There is also a committee of the National Bo- form Press Association , an organization which makes government pnpor money its lending financial doctrine , imd Greortfd H , Shipley of thd American In stitute Of Moiioy aild PriCC-d Will be On htind to advocate what ho calls "stable " which means money , govern ment paper with a unit of vnitio obtained by talcing the prices of the leading pro ducts of the country and finding a com mon denominator Efc'Governbr' fioies of Iowa will advocate his peculiar theory of a variable ratio. On the side of the Single gold standard and of bank notes OS against government paper money the speakers will bo Congress men McCleary of Minnesota , Fowler of New Jersey , and "Walker of Massachus etts , Governor Leslie M , Shaw of Iowa , ex-Senator J. M , Carey of "Wyoming , Platt Rogers and Louis R. Ehrich of Colorado , layman J. Gage , Secretary of the Treasury ; Horace White , George Foster Peabody , C. S. Fairchild. and William Dodsworth of Now York , W.O. Cornwell of Buffalo , Edward Atkinson and Henry W. Peabody of Boston , Prof. 1 J , Laurejigp Laugjilju , H , P. Robinson , jynd .Tamos H. Eojajtf of Chicago , M. E. ftwfflBKawgKCf L I'1 * * * * * Ingalls of Cincinnati , John P. Irish of San Francisco , and Judge M. L. Craw- ftirrt Of DallHs , Texas. The convention will bo in charge of the National Sound Money LelJgUO , and the members of this organization intend to put to the severest test of historical experience and of common sense all the the statements and arguments which may be advanced by the advocates of a clien'jJur' form of money than gold and of any kind of currency not vesting di rectly on the firm basis of the wOrltt's accepted money of exchange and meas ure of value. It is likely that the most interesting phase of the meeting will be the general debate , in short speeches , which will follow the formal addresses on each day. "Whoever expects to take part in this debate had better equip him self carefully with facts , or ho will be lilfely to bo tripped up by homo ready antagonist. _ _ _ T Ruskiii says : AND ftitciETV , "Government and cooperation arc in ( ill things the laws of life j ttuarchy and competition the laws of death , " "Government is a contrivance of hu- niaii wisdbm to provide for human wants. " Murkd ; "Government is a trust a'lld thd offi cers of a government are trustees ; both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. " Henry Clay. "Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. " Wendell Phillips. "Sooldty ifi tt masked ball where every one hides his real character , and reveals it fry" iiiding : " Emerson , But Victor M0 defclrired that "So ciety is a republic. Wheii itii individual endeavors to lift himself above his fel lows ho is dragged down by the mass , either by ridicule or calumny. " Emerson somewhere declared : "So ciety is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places. " Chamfort wittily proclaimed : "So ciety is composed of two great classes : those who have more dinners than ap petite1 and those who have more appetite than dinners , " "Gldry is safe when it is deserved. Ndt so popularity. The one lasts like mosaic ; the otliOi' iH effaced like a crayon drawing. " "Teach self-denial and make its prac tice pleasurable and you create for the - , . , ,1,1 /loef.i-iiv mnvn SublilllG tllttll OV01 * "V" issued from 'the brain of the wildest dreamer. " "That 'The ' voice of the common people ple is the voice of God' is as full of falsehood as commonness. For who sees not' that those blackmouthed hounds upon the more scent of opinion as freely spend their moiiths in hunting counter , or , like Acticon's dogs , in chas ing an innocent man to death , as if they followed the truth itself in a fresh Kcont ? ' ' Warwick. "Tho army is a good school in which the niggardly become generous and the generoxisbecome prodigal. " "Tho beloved of God arc the rich who have the humility of the poor and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. " "Tho best part of our knowledge is that which tenches us whore knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins. " Doc tor Holmes. Napoleon declared war "Tho trade of barbarians and the art of bringing the greatest physical force to bear on a sin gle point. " ' 'Ydit may overthrow a government in the twinkling tff an eye , as you can blow up a ship or upset and sink one ? biit yoxi can no more create- govern- ' ineut with a word than an ironCbuL" Ruskiii. CHKKALS AND sitVKK , Last year the1 M15AT AND GOLD. .state of No- brosloi alone produced foods on farms valued at 205 millions of dollars. One thousand farmers hundred and seventy-five mers caused the output of that enor mous amount. Colorado , on the West of Nebraska- prodxiced 35 million dollars' worth of silver and gold bullion. The state of Nebraska should not bo' made a party to a monetary system by which an artificial price is put on the product erf Colorado at the expense of the products ( it Nebraska , Wheat , corn , rye , oats and all othef output of value from the farms of Ne braska are the result of farm labor , manual and machine. These' efforts bring out from the soil every variety o staple food for the human family. Thtf prices of agricultural products are de termined by the relation of the supply of those products to the demand for those prOdufets/ Why should the gov ernment intol'po o mid , by statute , at tempt to make prices for the mineral or bullion output of Colorado , without at the same time attempting to fi * the > values of the food products of Nebraska 'j The total gold and silver production in. the United States equals only GO mil lions or thereabouts annually ; but the total agricultural output of Nebraska alouo is $205,240,000 annually. Why should silver , taken from the earth by the same land of muscular effort which gets com , wheat and rye out of the earth , be made the especial ward of the government and the silver laborer fav ored with a tax to be collected from the farm laborer ? It is a significant fact that the men who stand at the head of their classes in university life rarely achieve the highest distinction in after years. It is the close touch with human interests , not academic enthusiasm in "the little world within a world , " which tells tbo story. Such examples as John 0. Calhoun - houn at Vale and Gladstone at Oxford university are only exceptions Most valedictorians become country clergy men luul college professors.