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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1898)
ft 'Cbe Conservative. EXPANSION ANI > ( PROTECTION , subjected to n very embarass ing exposure - posure when war began and move rev enues were required for the daily use of the government. This exposure dis closed the fact that a tariff for protec tion affords no revenue and that a tariff for revenue affords no protection. And revenue being imperatively demanded , protection could not get a hearing among the tumultuous law-givers who were looking for ways and means of increas ing the national income. But now comes embarrassment num ber two. Protectionists have grown hoarse in denouncing free trade , for the reason , they said , that it made American labor compete with foreign pauper and foreign ignorant labor. The two things hardest for the intelligent and well-fed workers of the United States to contend with were ignorance and pauperism do miciled outside of the republic. And now these same patriotic citizens , who so ardently love American Labor and yearn with such affectionate solici tude for its protection against the invad ing competition of ignorance and pov erty from abror.d , are fervidly exerting themselves in favor of the absorption of a largo mass of this foreign labor into the organism of this government. XlSlanila , the Philippines , Porto Rico 'and ' the Hawaiian islands ( the lot hav ing more than ten millions of ignorant and pauperized semi-barbarians and other repulsive hybrids of humanity ) these protection-annexationists now seek / citizonize in the United States. More V than that they propose to put these sav ages and paupers on a perfect equality with our own flesh and blood in all the labor markets of this republic. Protec tion and expansion joined together are a two-headed diabolism which plain people and all people of sense should an tagonize. , * " * COIN IIAKVEY'S BOOTLESS QUEST. Coin Harvey in his capacity of receiver as J. Sterling Morton very properly calls him of that bankrupt concern known ns the silver democracy , is abroad in the land making pleas for funds to carry on the next silver campaign. Nat urally he is commencing his campaign in Ohio in the expectation that the "Ohio ideu" concerning money is still preva lent in those parts. Undoubtedly Mr. Harvey will find plenty of suckers one is born every minute , the confidence men say to give up their good gold money to a cause that if it possibly could be successful would depreciate whatever remaining money they had , but wo doubt \vhether ho will make much more than a living at it. Men are not stumbling over each other to get to the contribution plate for a cause that will bo as dead as Julius Ccesar before 1900 comes around. "When the first rotten money scheme of greoubackism had its life crushed out _ by the national elections of J808 and 1870 there wore a good many political prophets then , like Bryan. Altgeld and Jones now , who declared that the " cause" still issue "greenback was a living sue , but neither of the great parties ever touched it again. Other issues more vital to the country came up and the "rag baby" was left to bo fondled bv the side-show parties that sprung up from time to time. So it will bo with free coinnge , if the sound money majority in the next con gress will perform the duty for which it was elected. Mr.IIarvoy will find his mis sion ended long before the next presi dential election. Chicago Times-Her ald. Mr. J. Sterling Morton , in his weekly paper , THE CONSERVATIVE , aplly styles the transfer of the democratic party machinery to "Coin" receiver chinery Harvey as a ship. This assignment was effected pub licly by Senator Jones of Arkansas and his colleagues of the populist and silver republican organizations , about a month before the recent election. The convey ance was made by an instrument of writing whereby Harvey was invited to take charge of all the apparatus possessed by the three parties for spreading the gospel of silver among the voters of the United States. In other words , "Coin" was to carry his Financial School to all parts of this great republic in the name and on behalf of the parties aforesaid. Coin accepted the receivership and opened the school to the general public at once , but with less happy results than those which attended his first efforts in the Art hall on the lake front in Chi cago. For whereas , during the first term of the school he either converted or silenced Secretary Gage , Prof. Laughlin , and most of the notable gold-bugs of Chicago , a large number of his former pupils and converts have now broken away from him and gone over to the enemy. Among the immediate results of the receivership are the loss of several "Western states that were carried by Bryan two years ago , and the unseating of that portentous demagogue Allen of Nebraska and the equally offensive Lewis of Washington , and a largo num ber of lesser pupils of "Coin's Financial School. " If things go on this way there will bo need of an issue of receiver's cer tificates before long. New York Even ing Post , November 15 , 1898. The recently TO 'OMAHA ? COndlllG(1 ° "mlm exposition w a s a great success. It exploited the capa bilities , industrial and commercial , of all the mid-continent states of the American republic in an efficient , en tertaining , and instructive manner. It was also an incalculably valuable tonic to the local business and prosperity of Omaha. But it cannot bo denied that the increased retail trade of 0 malm was largely taken from the merchants in other towns of the state of Nebraska. At least merchants along Iho lines of the U. P. , B. & M. and M. P. complain that their trade , in September and Oc tober , was ruined by their bust cus tomers going to the exposition and doing their shopping at Omaha. In view of these allegations frankness to Omaha requires THE CONSERVATIVE to tell the good people of that city , and especially its wholesale merchants , that an attempt to continue an exposition there during the coming year will moot with no encouragement and much bit ter opposition from other localities in Nebraska. Enough is enough. Having hit the bull's-evo and runir the bell. Omaha had bettor not shoot again , right away , It might wound its job- bing trade. Mr. "W.T. Stead , is THIS THE of London , writing TENDENCY ? ing a short time ago on "British Problems , " expressed himself as follows : "We are , it would seem , on the verge of a strong reaction against the old ac cepted formulas of democratic govern ment. The faith of the people in the people as the agency to be used for gov erning the people has been rudely shaken. The ballot-box is no longer the heaven-sent panacea which it once ap peared in the eyes of the multitude. There is everywhere a perceptible reac tion in favor of government by the cap able as opposed to government by the counting of noses. To find your capa- able man , to put him in power after having found him , and then , after hav ing installed him , to give ever more and more power to his elbow , is becom ing to an increasing extent the domin ant instinct of the new time. " Some statistics are given out from one of the girls' colleges in the East , where special attention is given to physical training , giving a comparison of the girls of 1897 with those of a few years before. The ] 897 girls are % inch taller , being 5 feet 4 inches on an average : their chesls are 2 inches larger in girth and their waists 2j , inches ; their upper arms \yA inches larger , their forearms nejirly y incli. A slight increase is ob served in the Lrendth of their shoulders , and their chests are \ % inches deeper. The capacity of their lungs is 10 per cent more than formerly , and the strength of their backs 21 per cent greater. This may bo due to the exer cise those particular girls take in their gymnasium , or on the other hand there may bo something in the prevalent be lief that women today are larger and stronger than their mothers. In any case it promises well for their health and happiness , and their children's.