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city , county or state of their adoption.
And senators and members alike have
represented Nebraska who never did , and
never can , point out a single acre or spot
of ground which has been improved or
made better by their coming and living
here. Many have been elected like
the notorious Kem who had not a del
lar's ' interest in the state or people and
who never did anything except hold
offices and draw salaries out of tax-
raised funds.
The question "What has he done for
the public good ? " should be asked as to
every candidate tipon every ticket in
Nebraska. Those who have clone noth
ing ; who have improved no real estate ;
who have founded and embellished no
homes ; who have not tied up with the
lands and anchored in the soil of the
commonwealth , ought not to be voted
for by anybody. Good government can
only be secured by the election of in
telligent , conscientious and competent
men who can show something that they
have done for the common good while
discharging the duties of private citizen
ship. Let us have no more deserting
Kerns who carry away their earnings to
another state.
The farmer who cultivates ten acres
perfectly , is more desirable than one
who only half-cultivates a thousand
acres. The former helps pay taxes ; the
latter cannot.
Surgeon-General
TIIK NUKSE
QUESTION. Steniberg's state
ment in regard to
the presence of women in field-hospitals
is as follows :
"My position with reference to the
inadvisability of sending female nurses
to our camps of instruction or with our
armies in the field has given great of
fense to some members of the Red Cross
society.
I have gladly accepted the assistance
offered us in the way of delicacies for
the sick , etc. , and we have now a large
number of trained female nurses on
duty at our general hospitals , where
they are giving great satisfaction ; but
I see no reason to change my views with
reference to the sending of female
nurses with our troops in the field.
They are an encumbrance to an army
mobilized for active operations. This
objection does not apply to the sending
of immune female nurses to our yellow-
fever hospitals near Santiago , and 11mvo
already sent nearly one hundred. "
The wounded soldiers would perhaps
not vote with the surgeon-general in
tins matter.
No modern
GEORGE ELIOT. . , , ,
writer evolver
more epigrams than George Eliot. And
having attended a communistic camp
meeting , where leading populists airec
their eloquence , and vast avalanches o :
tumid metaphors of thorn-crowns and
gold crosses slid down onto innocent
and ninssctl discontent like
avn from the verbal volcanoes in crup-
ion , George Eliot , with intense descriptiveness -
scriptivoness , wrote :
"Blessed is the man who , having
lothing to say , abstains from giving us
wordy evidence of the fact. "
How nmch speaking will populistic
enders do in Nebraska or elsewhere
this autumn , on the money question if
; hey "abstain from giving us wordy
evidence of the fact" that they have
nothing to say ?
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AX INJUNCTION. .
junction should be
invoked in behalf of the taxpayers of
every county in Nebraska where the
commissioners permit the payment of
uiiitemized , unspccilic and unbusiness
like accounts. Every board of county
commissioners should bo enjoined from
paying out public fnud.3 except in liquid
ation of definitely stated and precisely
detailed liabilities.
In Otoe county no charges for bridge
repairs should be paid until the bridge
mended shall have been located as to
quarter section , section , town and
range and a detailed statement of the
labor and material required and con
sumed in the repairing sworn to by the
claimant. An injunction upon Otoe
county commissioners to preclude the
payment of any bills except those veri
fied as above suggested should issue at
once and be made permanent.
The man who knows and is constantly
telling all about how to build xip a city
or improve the common weal , and takes
delight in criticising those who deal in
deeds rather than words , is invariably a
drone , a burden and a nuisance.
This now tree will
Tin : i or
produce sixteen
APPJ..K T EE. \ . . . ,
bushels of fruit
where one is grown now. But the now
apples will be so much inferior to the
standard varieties , like the Jonathan ,
Winesap , Rome Beauty and Rawles1
Genet , that it will require twice a
many of them to make a pie or a burro'
of cider , or to buy a gold dollar. Quan
tity in apples and quantity in dollars is
not as desirable as quality , and statutes
can make people prefer poor apples to
good apples just as easily as .statutes
can render the silver bullion in a dollai
of that metal equally desired with the
gold bullion in a dollar of Hint metal
Legislation can produce apples by enactment
actment as readily as it can , by that
process , evolve values.
Many men do not allow their princi
pics to take root , but pull them up ovorj
now and then , as children do flowers
they have planted , to see if they art ?
growing. THE CONSKUVATIVK cai
count a largo number of public mei
who have been distinctively successful ii
pulling up set after set of political prin
ciples and replacing them with now
ones that grew until they took root in
official places. They have looked upon
politics which yielded no offices , as
'armors ' look upon fields too infertile for
crops. The mendicant who asks alms
Because of poverty is moro honest and
worthy , generally , than the man who
lemands office as pay for having ad-
lercd to a political principle. Ho who
isles remuneration for being honest and
steadfast is not honest and steadfast at
ill.
Elderly citizens
TI IK MTTLJ5 JO It-
UK POLITICAL. remember the fam
ous thro e-c a r d
Monte games played by the celebrated
Canada Bill on the pioneer passenger
trains of the Union Pacific and other
railroads in this propinquity. The skill
with which Bill manipulated the cards ,
the celerity with which ho flung them
upon the table , faces down , and the
urbanity with which in an alluring
voice he said : "Now gentlemen ,
where is the jack ? " "Who will bet mo
ton dollars thai lie can find the little
joker" have never been surpassed.
But all are equalled by the great
three-card Monte assemblage which con- . ,
voued at Lincoln on August 2 , 1808.
At this political Monte Carlo the deft
dealer is populism. The cards are
handled with consummate skill. They
arc thrown face down. And the invi
tation to turn and show up the jack ,
democrat , and also "tho little joker" of
a silver republican is delivered to the
public witli the most persuasive suavity
of tone. Fairness and equity to the
memory of Canada Bill , however , com
pel us to admit that , while he , as an in
dividual , was an incomparable and peer
less blackleg , the composite gambler
conventioned at Lincoln , in a trinity of
chances political , threw the cards more
adroitly and with a tact more bewilder
ing than the deceased William ever
exercised. Three-card Monte politics
are a puzzle. Those who do not bet
upon them may bo .secure from embar
rassment and disasters.
The Democrat has received , T. Sterl
ing Morton's new paper , Tin : CONSEK-
VATIVI : . The paper is interesting , be
cause nothing thai Mr. Morton writes
lacks interest , oven though one disa
grees with much it contains. TJUCON : -
SKKVATIVK is to 1)0 issued weoklj' "in
the interest of the conservation of all
that is deemed desirable in the social ,
industrial and political life of the
" The will "de
United States. paper
clare for the continuance of the gold
standard" and "combat the free coin
age of silver a't J ( > to 1. " This appears
to be the real purpose of the paper , and
wo know of none so capable of defend
ing the gold standard as Mr. Morton.
His diction is elegant , his rhetoric
alluring and his sophistry the boldest
of any writer defending the destruction
of one of the country's metallic money.
Adams County Democrat.
