6 Conservative *
The vnst variety
DESICCATED
OKATOUY. of conserved foods
which nro cnnned
nncl kept for use in American homes ,
hotels , nrmy cnmps , nncl on board men-
of-war suggests the desiccation of elo
quence.
Warmed-over speeches , rich , juicy ,
luscious and swimming in the gravy of
Bpellbinderism are among the luxuries
of which the readers of THE CONSERVA
TIVE are cordially invited to partake.
At Lincoln , September 8 , 185)6 ) , Col
onel Bryan exclaimed with vocal fervor :
"Talk about trusts in various articles
we produce ! My friends , all the trusts
put together fall into insignificance
when compared to the money trust. "
There is a very piquant flavor to this
intellectual edible. The fact that , with
out dread of "the money power , " Col
onel Bryan , at that date , had already
begun to receive contributions of cash ,
with which to illustrate the value of
"the money power" in steaming up and
putting in motion , all possible machin
ery for vote-getting , gives peculiar zest
and spice to this taste of desiccated elo
quence. And possibly the remembrance
that the silver mine and bullion owners
unselfishly chipped in a few hundred
thousand dollars from month to month ,
as the campaign progressed , to help
Colonel Bryan "break down" the
"money power" may also affix a feli
citous flavor to this delicious morsel.
Then again the recollection of the
division of the gate receipts of money ,
at bucolic fairs , wherebv Colonel Brvan
bearded "the money power" right in
the midst of prize bulls , boars and stal
lions , and took his share of gate cash
without the slightest fear of plutocratic
contagion with refrigerated calmness
and tranquillity lends this tid-bit a
palate-satisfying power. Perhaps no
short sentence , so perfectly preserved ,
in the desiccated oratory of 1896 , so beau
tifully illuminates the incisive force of
analytical statement.
At Knowlsville , N. Y. , August 28 ,
1806 , Colonel Bryan gave utterance to a
sentiment which he , however , seems to
have personally ever since ignored :
"The great common people do not
need any particular class to tell them
what they shall do. . "
This conies out of the can perfectly
pure and wholesome and the Colonel
may ruminate. It is a cud worth his
chewing.
Nothing in the way of conserved con
fections , like candied ginger and citron ,
however , opens up
.
Desiccated Smile *
more lusci o u s 1 y
than some of the desiccated smiles of
Colonel Bryan which , after being shut
up in darkness for nearly three years ,
are as sweet and alluring as when fresh
from his mobile mouth. A specimen
gob of sugared pabulum , especially for
farm , use , is found in a very able and
exhaustive speech made by Colonel
Bryan at Lexington , September 15,1896.
THE CONSERVATIVE cuts a cold slice
out of this saccharine solid : "Nature
smiles upon your husbandry. Your
soil gives forth in rich profusion , but
according to the experience of the
farmer , with all ho can do , with all
liis industry , with his economy , with
all his patient toil ho finds that the load
of the American farmer grows every
year. "
What a rare flavor and what a delic
ious aroma pertain to this delicacy.
The load grows every year sometimes
many , many loads ; alas ! poor fanners.
Since January 1,1899 , Colonel Reeves ,
a farmer within ten miles of Nebraska
City , has sold sur-
Loails of Money. , , .
plus corn from his
crop of 1898 to the Argo Starch manu
factory at Nebraska City for more than
ten thousand dollars. If ho had been
paid for the same in sixteen-to-one sil
ver dollars they would aggregate a
weight of more than seven hundred and
sixteen pounds and Colonel Reeves
could not carry his money home in his
fine light carriage. He would bo
obliged to have this metallic specific
against the infection of "the money
power" taken to his domicile in a lumber
wagon with a mule motor.
This crop dividend , evolved by Col
onel Reeves from fertile land , through
intelligent tillage and good manage
ment , averages forty bushels to the
acre. And his corn brought him twelve
dollars an acre ( thirty cents a bushel )
while the laud upon which it was pro
duced is worth fifty dollars an acre.
That is to say the cash dividend on the
money of Colonel Reeves , invested in
each acre of corn laud , has been at the
rate of twenty-four per cent per annum
for 1898. In this computation 110 allow
ance is made for the cost of tillage
which will bo partly paid for , by the
standing stalks eaten by cattle in the
fields. Colonel Reeves must agree with
Colonel Bryan that "the load of the
American farmer grows every year"
the load of money. Seven hundred and
sixteen pounds of silver dollars make
more than a buggy load ! Poor farmer
crushed , crucified farmer why did
you repudiate the financial fancies and
fallacies of Colonel Bryan in 1896 ?
With corn selling at about thirty
cents a bushel it makes THE CONSERVA
TIVE melancholy
Some More , , , ,
Growing tourta.to enumerate the
following farmers ,
all of them within ten miles of Nebraska
City who have witnessed their "loads
growing" during the last twelve months.
Each one has on hand "loads" as fol
lows :
BUSHELS.
Mike Gordon 20,000
Jacob Payne 40,000
Mat O'Brien 40,000
Col. Reeves 20,000
Mrs. M. U. Payne 60,000
\ t
B. O. Wilkinson 20,000
Pat Reeves 10,000
Geo. Gilmore 10,000
B. O. Gibbins 40,000
total "load" for these
Mailing a op
pressed and downtrodden subjects of
"the money power" of just an even two
hundred and fifty thousand bushels of
corn. And strangest of all the strange
thinking in this Western wilderness
the farmers really think that rain and
sunshine , compounded with intelligent
work and sensible economical manage
ment , have more to do with making
them prosperous and happy than has
even oratory , whether fresh , canned or
desiccated. Without dread , with no
signs of alarm , these muscular , healthy
and well-read farmers contemplate with
tranquillity the statement of Col. Bryan
which THE CONSERVATIVE now reprints ,
that "the load of the American farmer
grows every year ! " More than that
these same farmers calmly challenge the
diabolism of "the " to
money power" con
tinue , if it dare , to raise the price of
corn , and take corn away from them !
During the last ten days sixteen farm
ers whom THE CONSERVATIVE could
name and who live
Consumed by Cnsli. . . . ,
within twelve
miles of the Nebraska City Cereal Mills
and the Argo Starch manufactory have
sold more than forty thousand dollars'
worth of com for the rollers and wheels
of those grinding institutions , to work
up into human food. Thus the poor
land tillers have their substance snatched
from them by "the money power. "
Among the most abject of American
citizens , whose hard fate elicits floods
_ of sympathetic erA -
A Tenant. . , ,
atory from Colonel
Bryan , is the tenant farmer. Only last
week one of those manacled serfs
dropped in at the Argo factory and sold
his share one-third of the corn he
raised last year , on another man's laud ,
for twenty-seven hundred dollars in
gold standard currency. Poor fellow !
He too feels that "the load of the Amer
ican farmer grows every year 1"
wh °
THE TKUE TEST.
ted the populist
members of the last senate certainly got
their money's worth , inasmuch as four
of those statesmen are credited with
one-sixth of the entire consumption of
the English language accomplished at
the last session. Senator Allen getaway
away with 5) < per cent of the gross
amount , taking 170 lineal feet , accord
ing to the standard measurement of the
Congressional Record , out of the 8,000
feet in which the entire senate effected
its deliberations. Senator Allen's elo
quence can now uncoil itself in perfect
freedom over the Nobi aska prairies , but
it will not give the impression of magni
tude that it produced when the senate-
chamber resounded with it , nor will
there be anybody to measure it in feet
and inches.
