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NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER i , 1898.
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J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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THE CONSERVATIVE. , , , 'V.e
thousand sub
scribers and constantly increasing pat
ronage THE'CONSERVATIVE has no hesi
tation in declaring unevasively and with
out any reservation whatever that the
American republic , if it is to be perpet
uated , must be a government of the in
telligent by the intelligent for the intel
ligent.
THE CONSERVATIVE solicits the sup
port of good citizens everywhere in the
United States who concur in this senti
ment.
BARBARISM AND In a state of bar-
CAPITAL. : bar is in savages
never created capital. It was impos
sible that they should. Savages prac
tise no self-control , and only a sort of
bestial self-reliance. Commerce is the
commencement and advancement of
civilization. Until a people begin to
trade , and use an intermediary com
modity , as money , for the facilitation
of exchanges , they are barbarians.
From gainful trade capital is accumu
lated. Capital is as essential as air and
breath to labor. It pays the effort and
the muscle which constitute it ; it com
pensates the intelligence which directs
it. Capital is to labor as steam , water
and electricity to engines. Moveless
machinery without a propelling power
is inert and inutile. Muscle unemployed
labor without capital to hire it is
equally useless.
Edward Everett
PROPHECY ANI >
FULFILMENT. Hale > m the At'
1 an tic Monthly ,
December , 1808 , on the rebel leaders :
"I know too , that their punishment , as
they vegetate through what is left of
life to them in wretched Boulognes and
Leicester squares , where they are des-
bined to upbraid each other until they
die , will have all the agony of Nolan's ,
with the added pang that everyone who
sees them will see them to despise and
to execrate them. "
All the newspapers , in August , 1898 ,
on the ex-confederate General Wheeler :
"General Wheeler is the idol of the
United States army. " "
The moral of this , as one thinks it
over , seems to be that the thirteen ori
ginal colonies are no longer the
United States.
ANOTHER Mr. W. Whit-
PROPHECY. man , in a Wash
ington paper , about 1868 :
"Race of Veterans race of Victors !
Race of the soil ready for conflict race of
the conquering march )
( No more credulity's race , abiding-tempered
race. )
Race henceforth owning no law but the law
of itself.
Race of passion and the storm. "
BEVELNot distant from
POWER BEVEL-
OPED BY THE CONSERVA-
CAPITAL. TIVE office and
along the beautiful bluffs upon which
prosperous and contented towns and
cities thrive , the sullen and tawny tide
of the Missouri river has for centuries
poured towards the Gulf. It always
represented power , force , undeveloped
utility. But in recent years capital
came in and planted water works sys
tems for many places , among them Ne
braska City. And now each day mil
lions of gallons are distributed to our
starch works , packing houses , cereal
mills , and other manufactories. Each
day Missouri river water , converted
into steam , is chained and ironed to
labor in 'the conversion of raw products
to food supplies. Each day the en
slaved currents of the big river hand
over to commerce commodities to go
into all the markets of the globe. To
day the developed and disciplined mo
tive powers of the Missouri river , under
the management and guidance of capi
tal , make possible remunerative employ
ment to many hundreds of industrious ,
efficient and self-reliant men and women
along its banks who are hopefully found
ing or joyously completing and embel
lishing their own homes.
Capital carries civilization and Chris
tianity to the uttermost parts of the
earth. Capital is as essential to civiliz
ation and Christianity as are light and
air and water to animal life and growth.
But without self-reliance , combined
with self-control and self-denial , the
world could never have acquired that
capital ; without which civilization and
Christianity are impossible.
Talleyrand said :
THE SCIENCE OF
"The art of
GOVERNMENT. put
ting the right men
in the right places is the first science of
government ; but that of finding places
for the discontented is the most
cult. "
The absorption of the savagery of the
Philippines , and the assimilation of the
semi-barbarism of the Sandwich Islands
by the United States , will make the
study of the Science of Government the
duty of every thoughtful American.
How can this representative form of
government , dependent upon the intel
ligence and morality of the governed
for its existence and perpetuation , be
maintained for the ignorant and bestial
millions of the Pacific Islands ?
Branding a man
CRIME is NON-
PARTISAN , populist , demo
crat or republican
does not change his moral nature. The
political organization in any state which
attains a position of such domination
that a nomination to office means an
election will always most attract and
best serve those men who seek office for
a livelihood.
Where the majority is so large that
any nominee can be elected the quality
of nominees declines in ability and in
tegrity ; and rascals soon achieve places
where they plunder the public. Any
party which attains a very large
majority in any state is unfortun
ate because that party is sure to soon
find rattcals at its head ; and mediocrity
and knavishness directing its affairs
towards certain and merited defeat.
All history verifies the statement that
crime is non-partisan. The majority in
each party in the United States is un
doubtedly inclined to honesty and fair
play. Some leaders in each party , how
ever , have been convicted of rottenness
in office. But that does not make all
members of all parties in the United
States corrupt. There is no politics in
larceny.
The art of presistency is the very
finest of fine arts because it alone can
develop artists.
Nature may produce a fool but a pop
ulist is always his own making , for his
money theory is that something can be
made out of nothing.