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money fallacy profits upon their vagaries
and delusions.
Coin Harvey and others elaim that a
majority of the voters oven in 189(5 (
adhered to , had faith in and voted for
the free silver dogmas and were wicked
ly "counted out. " Now if that claim
be true , and the silver party has in
creased its numbers since then , there is
no need of this educational or enlighten
ment fund which the assignee of Jones ,
Teller and Allen demands. But the
amount asked for must bo , oven to the
Wall Street money-bags' minds marvel -
ously bewildering.
Coin Harvey , receiver of the assets of
Jones , Teller and Allen , and acting cus
todian of their political estates , claims
that there are six millions of free silver
voters. Now if one-sixth of them , one
million men , will contribute a dollar
each for twenty-four months , there will
be a roasouablj * generous fund for the
propaganda and oven fair compensation
for the patriotic Harvey. Twenty-four
millions of dollars for spreading an
epidemic , a pestilence ! But if only five
hundred thousand comply with the
importunate solicitation of Harvey there
will bo twelve millions for this purpose ;
and even with compliance on the part of
a quarter of a imllion of voters Harvey
will take in six millions of dollars.
Never before was a mendicant so modest
in demands , and never before did the
populists seem so universally concurrent
in holding that money is like manure
that must bo spread before it fertilizes.
This dogma is accepted when plowing
and planting for a crop of ballots.
THE CONSERVA-
SMITE A FACT . , , , ,
T1VB bought laud
WITH A ME.T1VB
in 1857 of the gen
eral government and paid for it , at the
U. S. laud office in Omaha , one dollai
and twenty-five cents an acre , in gold
In 1888 THE CONSEUVATIVE bought
laudad joining the tract aforementioned
of the state of Nebraska and paid for
the same in gold two hundred dollars
an acre. In 1857 two hundred dollars
in gold bought one quarter section aiu
iu 1888 it could buy only the ouo-hun
dred-aud-sixtieth part of a quarter sec
tion of land adjoining that bought in
1857.
That is a fact recorded in the books
of deeds in Otoo county. And HOAN
comes the lie to smite that fact :
Plenty of money to loan but not i
cent to invest in land. The people do
not want to borrow money. They wan
to biy money. Money is not cheap
when a dollar coats tu'ici1 an iimchitroperli
ax it did twenty years aijo. York Teller
This hits the nail on the head. Exeter
ter Enterprise.
THE CONSERVATIVE camped where
these two papers are published long be
fore any white people had settled there
The lauds iu their neighborhoods
which now sell for from twenty to forty
dollars an acie , twenty years ago were
ligh priced at half those figures. An
acre of land in Nebraska this day will
exchange for more gold than ever bo-
'oro. '
This fact stands. The lie falls.
And hero follows a volunteer truth ,
n a special dispatch to an Omaha daily
'ram York , under date of December IU ,
ippears this statement :
FARM SELLS FOR $10,000.
"E. D. Marcollus has sold his 20-acro
'arm , one and one-half miles from York
to Artomus Miller for $10,000. There
lave been a number of sales of York
county farms lately at advanced prices
over what the same land was offered at
one year ago. "
The smitor is smitten into smithereens.
Advice given by
N inexperience and
w 11 h o u t being
asked for , is generally of a cheap char
acter.
To advise the American people that
the treaty with Spain ought to bo rati
fied and that a resolution ought to ac
company the ratification pledging the
United States to the same policy with
regard to the Philippines that wo de
clared towards Cuba is rather silly.
The treaty ought to be fought from
start to finish. "Whether it is to bo rati
fied or rejected does not change obliga
tions and duties nor eradicate the indi
vidual responsibility of either senators
or citizens. \ '
The Philippine islands should not liave
been included in the treaty. They were
not embraced in the declaration of war
nor are they within its scope or intend-
ment. To incorporate them into the
Union is flat burglary. There is onlj
one solid reason given for such incorpor
ation and for the general doctrines o :
expansion and annexation now so preva
lent in congress and in some parts of the
country. That reason can only come
into vigor after the declaration of hide
pendonco and the constitiitiou have been
dumped into the obsolete. That reasoi
is that instead of a republic certain in
terests in the United States desire ai
empire. This is the time for couserva
tivo men of all parties to drop minor is
sues and unite in favor of maintaining
self-government for ourselves instead o :
attempting by force of arms to acquire
territory and savages to be hold and gov
erned by soldiers at our expense and the
possible cost of the life of the republic
IIOAV SHAUrKK THAN A SEUl'KXT'S
THANKS.
Under the above heading iu the Lane
of Sunshine that delightful and at
tractively edited and artistically printec
California periodical , published by Mr
Charles L. Lummis at Los Angeles THE
CONSERVATIVE finds the subjoined. I
depicts the abounding ingratitude o
the Cubans towards the government o
the United States which for the sake o
humanity and civilization wrenched the
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beautiful island frohlIjoMron grip ' of
Spain : . v ' . ,
"Not only republics but their veriest1
hadows seem to bo ungrateful. Noth-
ng could bo more disgusting than the
) aso ingratitude of the Cubans and Fil-
pinos. Didn't wo go to war to give
iberty to the oppressed ? And now
what do the oppressed mean by holding
up their hands and saying , 'Please
na'am I'd like my liberty1 Didn't the
stupids understand that 'liberty' meant
merely a swapping of masters ? Couldn't
they 'savvy' that when wo deal in hu
manity wo expect them to pay the
freight ? Wore they fond enough to
fancy that a 'republic' doesn't know 'a
good thing' just as well as any land-
grabbing monarchy does ?
"Within five shall be
years wo fight
ing these wretched ingrates , and for the
same reason that Spain did that they
will not yield to authority. They were
noble patriots to resist Spanish laws ;
but when they resist American law ah !
Wo shall rule them as we have never
once failed to rule the weaker ; and they
will like it as well as our Indians have
done. And wo shall have the same com
petent method to make them take their
medicine. They will go the way of the
aborigine. But our commerce will fat
ten on the soil we shall have irrigated
with their rebel blood. "
The Sfc Joseph
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Daily News of
December 2G , 1898 , contains a lengthy
and merited tribute to Louis Hax , who
died in that city on Christmas morning.
The editor of Tire CONSERVATIVE re
members Mr. Hax perfectly well as the"
proprietor of the first furniture store
and cabinet shop in Nebraska City. All
the commendations of the character and
life work of Mr. Hax as tersely set forth
in good taste by the St. Joseph News
are true and therefore justly bestowed.
In 1857 Mr. Hax became a resident of
Nebraska City. He remained hero however -
over only ono year when he removed to
St. Joseph. Frugal habits , industry and
sobriety , combined with unflinching
honesty , made Mr. Hax , under the gold
standard , a wealthy man. The News
says :
"Louis Hax was a capitalist , a pro
gressive man and was identified with
many of the enterprises that have helped
to place St Joseph in the place she occu
pies in the commercial and financial
world. It was in St. Joseph that his
wealth was acquired. Here ho met and
married his wife and hero their children
were all born.
"Tho deceased was born in Damstadt ,
Hesseu , Germany , April 18 , 1829. At
the ago of 14 years he came to America ,
preceding all the other members of his
family , who followed later. He came
hero without a relative in this country
and from , the day he landed made his
own way in the world. "