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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1899)
! * Che Conservative VOL. i. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , MAY n , 1899. NO. 44. WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. .1. STERLING MORTON , EIHTOH. A JOUUNATj DEVOTED TO THE DIBOttSBION OF POIjlTICATj , EOONOMIO AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 5,748 COPIES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One dollar and a half per year , in advance , postpaid , to any part of the United States 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 postofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 20th , 1898. AN ANCIENT FIATIST. deville , aii Eng lish knight of the 14th century , who spent a large part of his life in traveling through Africa and Asia , and in the course of his wanderings - ings saw as many things that did not exist as any traveler either before or after him , took pains when he came to the Great Khan's territories to investi gate the source of that monarch's fab ulous wealth ; and he found it to con sist in his use of an irredeemable paper currency. "This Emporour may dispenden als moche as he wile , " says Sir John , "with outen estymacion. For he despendeth not ne makothe no Money , but of Lether emprented , or of Papyre. And of that Moneye , is some of gretter Prys , nnd som of lasse prys , aftre the dyver- sitee of his Statutes. And when that Money hath ronne so longe , that it be- gynnethe to waste , than men beren it to the Emperoures Tresorye : and than they taken newe Money for the Olde. And that Money gothe thorghe out alle the contree and thorghe out alle his Provynces. For there and beyonde hem , thei make no Money nouther of Gold nor of Sylver.And therfor he may despende enow , and outrageously. " That is the trouble to this day ; when men discover that easy method of creat ing value out of the valueless , they be gin to dispenden outrageously. Sir John records some of the ways this Oriental potentate devised to squander his revenues ; he had Rubyes and Ghar- boncles of half a f ote long ; he main tained 200 Phisioyeus and 210 Leches ; he had his barn full of Olifauiitx , tame and othere , Babowyues , Apes and othere dyverse Bestes ; and so many wylde Gees and Gaudres and wylde Dokes and Swannes and Heirouns that they were not to be counted. CARLISLE ANI > HEED. Two of the ablest men who have ever served in the American house of repre sentatives and the two men who with pre-eminent ability presided over its de liberations are John G. Carlisle and Thomas B. Reed. They have both re tired from public life. Neither of them was ever an office-seeker. They are good lawyers. Mr. Carlisle is especially gifted in memory and in the power of analytical reasoning. He can quote literally , word for word , more court decisions than any other man in the United States. He can expose a sophism and dissect a fallacy so skilfully and with such clearness that the dullest can comprehend the error and discern the truth. Mr. Reed , like Mr. Carlisle , is pecul iarly strong in his individuality and not commonplace in anything. Neither of these eminent citizens has ever been charged with or suspected of corruption in all their long and luminous careers. Nor has anyone ever , even by implica tion , suggested that they are lacking in the highest and best characteristics of statesmanship. Carlisle and Reed are now residents of the city and state of New York. Either one of them would make a good , conservative candidate for the presi dency. Mr. Carlisle would no doubt be ably supported under present political conditions , no matter by whom nomin ated , by Mr. Thomas B. Reed ; and the latter , if named for the presidency , would count John G. Carlisle among his ardent advocates. These men are pat riots. They love their country more than party. About the last TASTE. . . , , , . joke made by the poet Heine was his answer to the phys ician who attended him on his death bed , when he asked him what land of a taste he had , meaning in his mouth. Heine replied that he had bad taste , like all Germans. This was merely a characteristic wit ticism , designed to please the French , among whom he spent his last days. It is by no means certain that the Ger mans have poorer taste than other na tions. The taste of a good many Ger- mnns , for one thing , has led them to throw in their lot with that of the American republic. And if one wns looking for bad taste , it would be hard to find a bettor exam ple than the verses recited by Captain Coghlau , of the United States navy , at a recent banquet of the Union League Club. These were a set of bumptious and impudent rhymes directed at Emperor William of Germany , reprosentiug him as boasting , in low-comedian dialect , what "Me und Gott" could do if they tried. They are offensive enough to displease anybody , and funny enough to make anyone laugh ; but there is apparently no more sense to them than to the humor the Spanish indulged in last year at the expense of Yankee Pigs. Captain Coghlan does not seem to be at all responsible for them , as it is said that they were constructed by an Englishman resident in Manila , and to have been recited on this occasion at the request of some of Coghlan's friends , who knew of their popularity in that quarter of the world ; but both their urgency and the captain's compliance , in so conspicuous an assemblage , were certainly very much out of place. ° f SPOKANE. peculiar advant ages of the English system of ortho graphy , that the harder a man tries to spell a word exactly according to its sound , the more obscure does his inten tion become. The following paragraph , from Rev. Samuel Parker's book , leaves the reader entirely in the dark as to the pronunciation of the word which the writer no doubt thought he had fixed with mathematical exactness : "The name of this nation is generally written Spokan , sometimes Spokane. I called them Spokans , but they corrected my pronunciation , and said Spokein , and this they repeated several times , until I was convinced that to give their name a correct pronunciation it should be written - ton Spokeiii. " This Parker was a missionary who made the journey from the Missouri river to Oregon and the coast in 1835 , or seven years before Fremont , the Path finder , set his foot upon the plains. He also accompanied Marcus Whitman , who , on his second trip across with his caravan of Oregon settlers , made the path that Fremont found.