Conservative.
Bluff.s mid return , or to St. Marys ( in
MDls conny ( ) and return , taking letters
to mail and bringing back ( hose jfrom
the old homes in the East.
The result , therefore , of having placed
confidence in those rude , unlettered
savages , was the development in them
of a self-reliance to do and perform in
numerable services entirely unknown to
them in a state of savagery. More than
this , from the confidence thus reposed ,
there grew up , in addition to the sturdy
self-reliance , the beautiful flower of
Fidelity. Faithfulness is only readily
evolved out of irnl tires fertilized by be
stowed confidence. The unfortunates
in human life those whom wo call
criminals and paupers have , as a rule ,
never experienced generously reposed
confideiice. How can any human nature
improve itself , be stimulated ( o endeavor
to attain a higher place in the social and
political fabric , without being trusted
by his fellows ? If any youth feels that
he or she is distrusted by parents and
friends , how can that youth have cour
age to seize opportunity for advance
ment , or have thd determined depen
dence upon himself or herself to attempt
high and honorable achievements ?
° f COUrS ° ' lh ° re
KXCKITIOXS.
will be isolated cases
of intense individuality which obstacles
and opposition render all the more
strenuous and strong in their efforts for
success. But these combative charac
ters are not in the majority. They arc
only a small percent of the uncounted
myriads of humanity. It is consequently
quently incumbent upon parents , and
grandparents and teachers to instruct
children and youth as to the best meth
ods of commanding the confidence ,
esteem and encouragement of those by
whom they are surrounded. Nothing
is so facile and expert in making friends
as frankness , open-hcartedness and fre
quent acts which indicate a desire to be
generally useful. Constant consider
ation , expressed in deeds , for the com
fort and happiness of those with whom
you are associated will give you pro
found pleasure ; it will also secure to you
the esteem and good will of your ac
quaintances. They will place trust in
you. That makes you self-reliant. The
more you help others the better you
understand how able you are to help
yourself.
In these modern
WEALTH A J11S-
ern times it is
rOUTUXE.
the misfortune of
children born' into opulence and all
the circumstances of wealth and
luxury which accompany it , that they
are generally brought up and trained in
helplessness. The child who is con
stantly waited upon by servants , who.se
meat and bread are prepared for it at
the table , whose shoes and stockings are
put on and oil' , and whose raiment is
adjusted by serving people , is in immin
ent peril of.entering upon maturer years
an utterly helpless and therefore worth
less member of society.
Under the customs and fashions of
these modern days of showy extrava
gance it is a disaster to any human
being , having only ordinary intellectual
and moral tendencies , to bo born into
wealth and its surroundings. It is
vulgarly considered by many of the
newly-rich quite improper and disgrace
ful for their children to be useful or
even to wait upon themselves. There is
an idiotic contest among the incompe
tent , ignorant and silly wealthy of the
United States to sec in what extreme
and accentuated idleness they can bring
up their children.
In the estima-
suolbery
absolute helplessness on the part of either
a boy or a girl is a charming accomplish
ment. Children of sur-h parentage and
environments are far more to be pitied
than those rugged and ragged youngsters
who first saw daylight in the rude
cabins and dugouts of the Nebraska
frontier. Hero they had the stimulant
of poverty which braces mankind to
self-helpfulness and keys up to self-
reliance and plucky indcpendenco.
Poverty is a plain but practical teacher.
It gives great lessons. It teaches the
value of self-control and .self-denial.
It writes on human life as on a slate the
proverbs and rules for usefulness and
happiness. The children born in Ne
braska thirty and forty years ago very
soon came to iinderstand that life was a
battle. They speedily saw that each
individuality must win because of its
own disciplined strength and persistency
or fail and lose because of its own
weakness and piu-poselessncss. The
rough asperities which surrounded the
pioneer children of the territory and
state impressively and sternly taught
them-that they must , rely for fortune
and fame entirely upon themselves.
Their parents were obliged to impose
burdens of labor upon them. Those
burdens were larger and heavier than
are imposed upon children of similiai
age in the older and wealthier states.
And so the pioneer childhood came to
understand that a good home and its
comforts where the family should be
domiciled , necessarily meant self-denial
on the par ! of the then dwellers in dug
outs and cabins. They soon compre
hended the fact that if parents did not
deny themselves desired things , which
they even scorned to really need , no
fund could bo accumulated with which
to buy schoolbooks , pay for the pre
emption claim and build the hoped-for
dwelling. All through those early years
of the settlement of Nebraska every
child and youth had the advantage of a
primitive object lesson environment. It
told in acts of self-control , solt'-dimial ,
self-relianco and solf-rcspect the des
potic necessity of those virtues in the
attainment of substantial and solid suc
cess. The visible truth , thai every hu
man home , every vast manufacturing
plant , every grand railway system , all
incorporated capital , represents self-
reliance and self-denial on the part of
some human being , or human beings ,
either in this , or some preceding gener
ation , stands out an economic Gibraltar ,
against which the waves of declama
tory socialism and communism roar in
vain. The pioneers of Nebraska and
their children stood on this great fund
amental fact in sociology and from it
very many climbed up to competence
and the satisfying comforts of contented
and refined homes.
TWO KINDS. A new country
j'lSKMANKNT attracts always
ANJ > THANtwo kinds of ad-
. .
.SIKNT.
venturers to come
within its borders. Nebraska demon
strated between the year 1854 , when
Tan COXSEKVATIVE first contemplated
life and the possibility of a permanent
home on these prairies , and the year
1874 , the existence of two distinct classes
of pioneers in staying qualities.
The first class and the smallest in
numbers came to make permanent
homes and to become a part of the polit
ical , financial and social fabric of a
state.
The second came to quickly make
some money out of the frontier , and to
return to the old homes in the East.
This class was a majority over the first.
It favored every artificial means of forc
ing material development. It proposed
and voted the evidences of public debt
in the form of precinct , city and county
bonds to private corporations. It was
always ready to vote debts and obliga
tions upon posterity. And being in a
majority it created nearly all the inter
est-bearing debts now owed by any part
of Kansas or Nebraska.
The transients made the debts. They
led the populace ; they denounced all
opposition as old fogy. The permanents ,
the solid home-builders who were so
characterized are now paying the debts
then created.
When we settle in another new coun
try wo shall straightway find out who
come to remain and who come to spec
ulate and return. Only those who make
a declaration of a permanent homebuilding -
building intention should manage the
revenues and finances of any country ,
now or old.
When political
COMMON GOOD ? candidates to the
people and solicit
votes for them it is very pertinent to
inquire as to the character , ability and
work of each seeker after a place in the
public service. But- how seldom is this
reasonable inquiry made ! Hero in Ne
braska wo have now , and have often had
bo fore Congressmen who never did a day's
work which resulted in any good to the
