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The romarknblo
CORN J'uo- nml fervid interest
JIOTKKS. . . . .
in circiiluhug corn-
foods nmidsfc the ignorant nnd hungry
musses of Europe which lins recently
developed , among patriotic citizens , who
wish to attend the Paris exposition , ut
the expense of the general government ,
is delightful to contemplate.
To read the screeds in praise of Johnny
cake , the eulogies upon mush and milk ,
and the panegyrics upon popcorn now
floating up and down the tides of jour
nalism in the United States , one must bo
convinced that ambrosia and nectar
upon which the Olympian gods fed were
an Indian maize product.
The truth is that England , Germany
and other European states together with
China , have been taking corn foods ,
and oatmeal too , quite freely from this
country for some years and the market
is strengthening nnd broadening with
increasing and intensifying demand.
But neither the government nor gov
ernment traveling men have made that
demand for American cereal goods
abroad. That demand and that market
have been evolved by the quick commer
cial instincts of American millers and
starch-makers. They have not relied
upon government aid to extend and ad
vertise their business and products.
In the city of London for something
more than two years the great cereal
mills of Nebraska
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City , which have
n capacity of eleven thousand and five
hundred bushels of grain per day , have
been well and successfully represented.
Our cereal mills have ground and are
now grinding seven thousand bushels of
corn twonty-
Our Ore-ill inn . . , every . _ . .
lour hours. They
make corn-grits , hominy flakes and
many grades of wholesome and nutritious
meal. No edibles are more palatable
and healthful. But the government is
not begged to make a market for these
enormous outputs of corn-food from
Nebraska City , in the beautiful and fer
tile county of Otoe. These goods are so
clean , so attractive and so honest and
deserving , because of their palatable and
nutritive qualities , that they talk for
themselves , and walk for themselves
into millions of human mouths every
day in the year and all over the world.
They do not need nor ask government
to aid them by a popinjay procession of
peddlers who shall perambulate Paris
under pay. and proclaim popcorn as a
panacea for headaches and cornmeal a
euro for all kinds of hunger and thirst.
The Nebraska City Cereal Mills , be
sides making so many dainty edibles
out of corn as to consume seven thousand
bushels of that cereal each day these
splendid and unsurpassed up-to-date
mills convert also every twenty-foui
hours forty-five hundred bushels of fine ,
white , plump , pure Nebraska oats into
the famous "Quail Brand" of oatmeal.
And this oatmeal is demanded in Scot-
and , the original and formerly the only
oatmeal-consuming country on the
jlobe. But this product puts itself on
; he market , and into innumerable hu
man stomachs on its own merits. It is
perfectly pure , clean and most agreeable
to the taste , while its superb protein is
recognized by nil reputable chemists.
Nebraska oatmeal " "
City "QuailBrand"
needs no more aid from government
to make it popular on the market than
does "quail on toast. "
The plan , now about perfected , for
luiving floor-walkers at the Paris exposition -
. , , , , , , , . . sition to yell corn ,
I'llld Kxrurslonltts. , ,
hot corn , popcorn ,
cornbread , johnny cake , and corn starch
is merely a subterfuge under which fav
orites , political and personal , may make
European excursions at the expense of
the general government. All the hot
twaddle , now being served up by bam
boozled newspaper editors , and by paid
emissaries of the organized raiders of
the public treasury , in favor of corn ,
king corn , and corn-foods , is merely to
attract public attention and prepare the
way for another chunk of grand larceny
called an exposition appropriation.
American cereal goods and American
millers ask no governmental subsidies.
There is not need of cornbread evange
lists , who must be paid by the govern
ment , to try and convert the earth and
all the people thereof to a strictly corn-
food diet.
Why is it that so many steals from the
national treasury are undertaken in the
guise of attempts to help agriculture
and in efforts to build up the farmer of
the United States ?
Why should the free seed humbug be
forever a model for the management of
the interests of agriculture ?
There are ( luito
TIIKVMimi . . . - . . . . .
a rare job-lot or
communists , cranks and pseudo parsons
throughout the Northwest , and especi
ally in Nebraska , who are endeavoring
to make a living by arraying all the idle
dissipated and discontented against the
industrious , temperate and contented.
The fact that the first class named , be
cause of their own indolence and thrift-
lessneos , have neither property , nor
character , nor cash , makes them very re
sponsive to soda-pop loquacity in favoi
of "the poor man ; " and exceedingly re
ceptive to that delicious eloquence in
behalf of "the plain people" which is
everlastingly flooding this country fron
several active brewers of emotional f rotl
and foam.
But the second class , / . c. those who
intelligently attend to their own busi
ness instead of trying to teach every
body else the manner in which everybody
else's business ought to bo conducted
seem undisturbed by the billingsgate
and drivel which , mixed in about equal
quantities , the aforesaid populistic pro
paganda are constantly hurling at all do
cent people who are clean , contented ,
out of debt and industrious. Citizens
who are in that desirable condition gen
erally have both credit and cash at bank
md they are therefore reviled and lied
about as "the money power" in the
principal organs of populism , through
out the country.
Nebraska however seems to have syn
dicated a very large lot of these pious
trauds into one grand trust for the man
ufacture of slanders and the circulation
of fallacies , and to have located its big
gest plant at Lincoln. From that city
through its megaphone the voice of or-
; anized discontent bewails all things
that are now , all things which have been
and all things which may be ; upon the
round that labor and capital have
thrived , continue to thrive , and will al-
way go on thriving without regard to
that indolence and poverty which are
evolved from personal inefficiency and
congenital imbecility.
Once , months and years ago , the vu-
porings and vagaries of these ancient
ministers of evil were menacing. They
gained so much credence , in 1806 , that
for a time they alarmed the best citizens
of the republic , lest , by fallacies in
finance and in legal construction as to
the functions of the federal courts , they
might destroy self-government. But
now they are only ridiculous and amus
ing ; just as before the cabinet is broken
into by the police , the materializations
of spirits are weird and awful , but after
wards when the wigs , false-faces and
other disguises are exposed they become
ludicrous and laughable. The populist
cabinet is bursted. The masks and false
hair are visible everywhere.
Lincoln said this government could
not endure part free and part slave.
And those who pretend to follow Lin
coln now declare that it can exist ! partly
by the consent of the governed and
partly without the consent of the gov
erned. Republicanism avers now , with
great solemnity , that the United States
may purchase nations buy millions of
human beings , from Spain at about
twenty millions of dollars for the wholn
job-lot and govern them whether the
purchased population consents or not.
During the last week Creneral Isaac
Coe , for more than forty years a promi
nent and forceful figure in the growth ,
affairs and industries of Nebraska ,
"passed on" to the great beyond. Ho
died at Columbus , Ohio. He was eighty-
two years of age. Ho was a man of
vast vigor of mind and body. He was
respected for his probity and prompt
ness. His remains were buried at
Wyuka cemetery , Nebraska City , on
Thursday , January 10 , 18 ! ) ! ) . His fam
ily , consisting of Mr. Frank Coe , his
daughter , Mrs. Ireland , and his widow ,
Mrs. Sarah Coo , command the respect
and sympathy of many friends.
