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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1899)
A yi UJL : Ox a-rsOv I1 VOL. i. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , JANUARYS , 1899. NO. 26. VtrilLlSHEI ) OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. , T. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A .JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OK POLITICAL , KCONOM1O AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 5,398 COPIES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One dollar and a half per year , in advance , postpaid , to any part of th United Status or Canada. Remittances made payable to The Morton Printing Company. Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska City , Neb. Advertising Rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the postolllce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 20th , 1898. Sometimes , biit LAWYERS AND seldom , i 11 these CL1ENTS. modern days , law yers forget that fidelity to clients is the first essential for success in their honor able profession. Even in Nebraska cases are alleged to have been developed showing that attorneys have not been always loyal to their clients. Infidelity of this sort it is reported has been shown where the client was a corporation and had been sued for personal damages by an administrator. The bar of Nebraska numbers some of the ablest lawyers of the United States among itlTnftfriibers. And all reputable attorneys hold with Lord Bacon that : ' 'The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. For in other confidences , men commit the parts of life ; their lands , their goods , their children , their credit , some partic ular aft'air ; but to such as they make their counsellors , they commit the whole ; by how much the more they are obliged to all faith and integrity. " Any attorney found guilty of breaking "all faith" and " ing obliterating "integ rity" between himself and the client ho has sworn to loyally serve ought to bo kicked out of court , disbarred and sent to the penitentiary. Lord Bacon was PLACE AND a philosopher who POWER. thought much and well upon the relation of the individual to the state. No other writer has so lucidly set forth the duties and annoy ances of public position ; and although these wise words were first written in 1012 and revised in 1025 more than two hundred and fifty years ago they are still in vigorraud'applicft Ux . ' "Men in great places are thrice ser vants ; servants of the sovereign or state , servants of fame , and servants of busi ness ; so as they have no freedom , neither in their persons , nor in their actions , nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious , and by pains , men come to greater pains ; and it is sometimes base , and by indignities , men come to dignities. The standing is slippery , and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse , which is a melancholy thing. When you ore no longer what you were , you lose interest in life. Nay , retire 'inen ' cannot when they would , neither will they when it were reason , but are impatient of pri- vateuess , even hi age and , sickness , which require the shadow ; like old townsmen , that will be sitting at their street door though they thereby offer age to scorn. " It is a sincere HON. A. ,1. . . SAWYER. pleasure to con gratulate Mr. Sawyer upon the efficient and con scientious methods with which he has conducted his office during a period of more than four years. Without reflec tion upon any of his predecessors , Tins CONSERVATIVE , w ith no fear of success ful contradiction , declares that no other United States district attorney for the state of Nebraska ever bestowed so much diligent labor , and earnest , researchful study , upon the discharge of the duties of that important office , and no one ever became a better or more inexorable servitor of justice. Everywhere in Nebraska Mr. Sawyer has been recognized as an able expounder - pounder and defender of the law and a fearless prosecutor of all violators of the law. His services to the country have honored him , honored President Cleveland - land , for having commissioned him , and honored the great brotherhood of the legal profession. Somewhere Dickens says of somebody that which it is right and proper to say of A. , T. Sawyer : "Ho was simply and stanchly true to his duty , alike in the largo case and in the small. So all true souls over are. So every true soul ever was , over is , and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit. " On the 10th of SILVFU IN Jiepoiiiber , 1898 , The St. Louis Re public which was , and perhaps is still , an advocate of the free coinage of silver at 10 to 1 in unlimited quantities "with out regard to any other nation , " pub lished a very lengthy cablegram from L. L. Redding , dated at Havana the day before. In his financial forecast Mr. Redding says : "It is further announced that Spanish silver will circulate at 50 cents on the dollar , compared with American money , which means that all Spanish silver will be at once returned to Spain. In its place must come American silver. Wage workers here do not have any deeper understanding of the money question than that the silver dollar is to pay for one day's work , and that the pay they must have is the Spanish dollar lar , now worth 08 cents American money. Sugar planters employing from 000 to 1,000 men each say they will bo compelled to give their men American silver when it comim into nae here , which maann an incmwt of ,10 i > cr cent in the iiKit/e scale. " Thus it is shown that silver coin of the United States , maintained at an equal ity with gold , by taking the place of Spanish silver which is not convertible into gold , or at a parity with gold , will increase wages HO per cent in Cuba ! How can the gold s'tandard ruin and de grade labor in the United States and , at the same time , prosper and exalt labor in Cuba ? The Country . SEEDS FREE. Gentle m a n in a recent issue speaks plainly and forcibly relative to that hoary-headed humbugtho gratuitous distribution of common gar den and flower seeds by members of con gress and denounces the same as a curse. "The reason it is a curse is not that it affects seedsmen either benefic ially or injuriously , but that it is , ipno facto , a perversion. It does not do what it was intended to do disseminate 'new and rare plants , seeds and bulbs. ' Therefore to say that it is good for seedsmen , or that it helps 'to keep alive the interest in gardening and vegetable growing' is hardly an adequate de fence. Why not help to keep alive the interest in manufacturing by govern ment distribution of free raw materials ? " And THE CONSERVATIVE adds , why not help to keep alive the interest in the importance and necessity of the presor-