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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1898)
8 'Cbe Conservative * We are glad to receive THE CONSER VATIVE , J. Sterling Morton's new paper , published nt Nebraska Gil } ' . Mr. Mor ton is one of the best writers in Ne braska or any other state. He is a man of force , with a broad and liberal educa tion and wide experience , and his per sonality dominates everything that he writes and makes it readable and in structive. THE CONSERVATIVE stands for all that its editor believes for the best , interests of the people of the West , and it will work for what it believes with no thought of yielding. In many things its teachings are , wo believe , along correct lines , and it will be wel comed and read with interest by all who admire good literature , whether they sanction its utterances or not. Seward Reporter. There comes to our table this week Nos. 1 and 2 , Vol. 1 , of THE CONSERVA TIVE , a weekly newspaper. It is pub lished at Nebraska City , and J. Sterling Morton is the editor. The editorial announcement is of wider range and more complete than a party platform. An inspection of its pages shows that it is under the management of a man of large brain who has vast stores of ac curate information at ready command and is skillful as a writer. In its treat ment of subjects it is philosophical and oratorical and evinces a fondness for historical data. Its devotion to the welfare of Nebraska is a most charming featxire and on the whole it is of a class of literature of great credit and benefit to the state. Central City Republican. J. Sterling Morton's new paper , TUB CONSERVATIVE , has reached us. TIIE CONSERVATIVE is all right. It is backed by brains and capital , and will get there with both feet. Douglas Enterprise. The Atlantic NOTES ON Monthly for September CURRENT LIT ERATURE. tember is a partic- xilarly interesting and instructive issue of that valuable magazine. The article entitled "New Opportunities for American Commerce , " by "Worthington C. Ford , the present editor of The Atlantic , is alone worth a year's subscription. The Bookman for September is on THE CONSERVATIVE dissecting table and opens up remarkably well. It is all in all one of the most entertaining and in structive of literary journals. An inter view with Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson is one of the pleasautest papers in that number. The Pall Mall Magazine is a constant visitor at the office of THE CONSERVATIVE and under the superb management o1 Mr. A. E. Keet it is rapidly growing in popular favor. The Now York Evening Post of a re cent date contained a speech by Prof Charles Eliot Norton which all Ameri cans might read with profit. The same number contains some re marks by the Rev. P. S. Moxoin , who antagonizes Professor Norton as to the iccessity and propriety of wars and battlefields amidst the civilization and Christianity of the XIX century. The Reverend Moxom with religious zeal and infinite fervor declares that the charge of the Second Massachusetts reg- ment at El Caney was inexpressibly ovely. Again Mr. Moxom proclaims lis belief that "God is driving the chariot. " Evidently Mr. M.OXOIII thinks ; hat righteousness , civilization and Christianity may be shot into barbarians or mauled into savages whenever the meek and lowly followers of Christ ; liiuk the time for shooting and pounding has arrived. Mr. Moxom's method of bringing about "peace and good will towards man on earth" is not : he one taught by the founder of Chrits- ianity. PROGRAM : or THE NATIONAL CUR RENCY CONVENTION. To be held in Omaha , Nebraska , in the Audi torium Building on the Grounds of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition , September 18 14 and 15 , 1898. ( Subject to slight modifications. ) FIRST DAY GOLD DAY. The convention will be called to order at 11 o'clock in the morning by J. Sterl ing Morton , of Nebraska , president of the National Sound Money League , who will preside and deliver the opening address. Addresses will follow in the following order : Horace White , editor of the New York Evening Post , on "The History of the Gold Standard. " Governor Leslie M. Shaw , of Iowa , on "The Farmer's Interest in Sound Money. " H. P. Robinson , of Chicago , editor of the Railway Age , on "The Gold Standard and Railroad Interests. " Louis R. Ehrich , of Colorado Springs , Colorado. Recess at 12:45 : until 2:80 : in the af ternoon. Addresses , mostly short , on the impor tance of maintaining the gold standard and in opposition to the free and un limited coinage of silver will be made by the following speakers and others : Edward Atkinson , of Boston , Mass. Hon. J. M. Carey , of Wyoming , sub ject , "The Gold Standard from the Standpoint of the Western States. " Judge M. L. Crawford , of Dallas , Texas. John P. Irish , of San Francisco , Cali fornia. In the evening there will be a general debate in speeches of not exceeding ten minutes each in length , on the argu ments advanced during the day in ad vocacy of the gold standard. SECOND DAY SILVER DAY. The convention will bo called to order at 11 o'clock and on invitation of the regular presiding officer , Mr. Morton , Hon. Chas. A. Towno , of Du- uth , will occupy the chair. Mr. Towne will deliver the opening address on "The Coinage and Use of Silver as Standard Money co-ordinately with Gold. " Mr. Towue will designate other speakers to follow him on the silver side , among them will be Senator James K. Jones , of Arkansas. Hon. 0. S. Hartman , M. C. , of Mon tana. H. F. Bartine , of Washington , D. O. , editor of The National Bimetallist. Hon. Horace Boies , of Iowa , will pre sent his plan for maintaining a bimet allic system of money. Hon. C. N. Fowler , M. C. , of New Jersey , will speak in opposition to the oinietallic double standard theory. The arguments of the silver speakers will be met also in speeches from the single gold standard point of view by able orators including the following : Hon. Platt Rogers , of Denver , Col. Hon.Edwin Burritt Smith , of Chicago. W. C. Cornwell , Buffalo. J. Adam Bede , of Duluth , Minnesota. H. L. Framing , of Ohio. The debate will be thrown open to all speakers who desire to talk for five or ten minutes each and will be pro longed into an evening session if the audience desires. Hon. C. A. Towne will close the discussions. THIRD DAY PAPER MONEY DAY. The convention will assemble at 11 o'clock. The opening address will be by Hon. A. J. Warner , of Ohio , who will advocate a paper currency com posed exclusively of government notes. Hon. J. H. Walker , of Massachusetts , Chairman of the House of Representa tives committee on Banking and Cur rency , will reply. After the noon recess addresses on "What is the Best Form of Paper Money" will be delivered by Hon. C. N. Fowler , of New Jersey. L. D. Reynolds , of Chicago. William Dodsworth , editor of the New York Journal of Commerce. Geo. H. Shibley , of the American Institute of Money and Prices , and by speakers invited by the Reform Press Association , of Chicago. Hon. J. H. McOleary , of Minnesota , will explain the provisions of the cur rency bill , generally known as the McCleary Bill , reported to the House at the last session of confess by the committee on banking and currency. Arguments in favor of government paper money will be met also by other able opponents of that system and up holders of the single gold standard. These will include George Francis Peabody , of New York City. M. E. Ingalls , of Cincinnati. H. W. Peabody , of Boston. A general debate will follow on gov ernment paper money versus bank money.