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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1899)
12 Conservative. MAY. With her winning graces Conies the lovely Mtiy , Countless treasures flinging OVr her charming way ; On the lonely forest Falls a veil of green. All about the meadows Starry flowers are seen ; Folded yellow petals Lift their cheery heads ; Little ferns are springing From their mossy beds. Children in the orchards Seek the blossoms gay , Tying pretty garlands , Singing while at play. 8un ° hino gilds the trcotops Swaying in the air ; Sunshine with its blessing Falling everywhere. All the world seems golden , Like a fairy dream , Every shadow brightened With a shining beam. Happy birds are Fonring Upwnrd to the sky Or , mid green leaves singing , Rest in flitting by. Every note is telling All their story sweet Of the nests they're making , Of their joy complete. Breezes soft are blowing Over bloom of May , Balmy days are coming ; Winter's far away. MAUY FRENCH MORTON. THE GOOD LIVES AFTER THEM. The Omaha Daily Bee of May 1 , pub lishes the following : "THE CONSERVATIVE will be pleased to publish any good acts , or improved laws or repeals of bad laws by the last legis lature of Nebraska. And if any intelli gent member of that deliberative body will carefully prepare and send to THE CONSERVATIVE a historical sketch of its good deeds , together with its numerous sins of omission , the same shall be pub lished in good style. We wish to do only justice to that lamented collection of law-givers. If they abolished any sinecure offices , reduced any taxes , wisely saved any public money , amended any unjust laws or did anything besides make appropriations and elect a United States senator , the public desires to be informed. J. Sterling Morton's CON SERVATIVE. "Why not be fair , Mr. Morton ? While the late legislature did not come up fully to all expectations , to intimate that it was productive of no good to the people ple is to close the eyes to facts known to every intelligent man. "The good deeds of the late legisla ture are neither few nor unimportant , and they would have numbered more were it not for the interposition of the governor's veto to several meritorious measures , among them a bill providing for the election of county commissioners by the people of the whole county , for which Mr. Morton has been so energeti cally agitating. "The legislature enacted a complete and comprehensive revision of our insur ance laws , divorcing the insurance depart ment from the hold-up office of auditor. This measure also constitutes one step in revenue reform by giving the insur ance companies greater and more just representation in the tax list of the state. "Tholegislature abolished the abomin able emblem blanket ballot and restored the original Australian bnllot requiring the exercise of sufficient intelligence on the part of the voter to mark a cross after the name of each person for whom ho wishes to cast his ballot. "The legislature enacted a law for the regulation of primary elections designed to prevent persons from , voting at the primaries of all parties. "Tho legislature has thrown up new statutory safeguards against corrupt practices at elections. "The legislature has fixed more strin gent regulation of the employment of women and children in factories and in dustrial establishments. "The legislature has re-enacted the free high school law with corrections to meet former defects. "The legislature passed an improved building-loan association law. "The legislature passed a law making the office of clerk of the district court a salaried instead of a fee position. "These are only a few of the credit marks that belong to the late legislature. When the session laws are compiled they will disclose many others. " THE CONSERVATIVE rejoices in fair ness. Therefore it republishes the Bee's enumeration of the eight eminently wise acts of legislation which it declares fruits of the [ recent republican legisla ture. ture.Will Will the Bee kindly inform the taxpaying - paying public about how much that much decent legislation cost ? Will the Bee frankly and fairly state what proportion of the time of the ses sion was devoted to electing a United States senator and what proportion was consumed in endeavoring to revise and improve the laws ? Was the ratio about sixteen in making a senator to one of trying to benefit the commonwealth ? CROMWELL AND LONG PARLIAMENT. [ Samuel Harden Church in the Atlantic ] , Sir Peter Wentworth was the only man who dared to rise amid Cromwell's tempest of wrath. He said that this was the first time he had ever heard such unbecoming language given to the parliament , and that it was the more horrid in that it carne from their ser vant their servant whom they had so highly trusted and obliged. But when Wentworth had gone thus far , Crom well clupped on his hat and interrupted him with , "Come , come , we have had enough of this 1" He walked furiously up and down the floor. "I will put an end to your prating , " he cried in a high voice. Ho stamped his feet upon the floor no man had ever seen the like of such rage in a parliament before. "It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You are no parliament ! I say you are no parliament 1" To an officer he cried , "Call them in ; call them in ; " and the grim companions of his battles entered , with eyes alert and guns ready , and waited his further orders. "I say you are no parliament 1" They are on their feet now , their faces blaz ing with amazement. Sir Harry Vane gravely speaks : "This is not honest ; yea , it is against morality and common hon esty. " Cromwell is all passion. "Sir Harry Vane , Sir Harry Vane I The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane 1" He glares on Tom Challoner , and says , "Some of you are drunkards ! " His eye lights on Harry Marten , and he cries , "Some of you are lewd livers , living in open contempt of God's com mandments ! " His flashing eyes pass from fane to face , and he says , "Some of you nre corrupt , unjust persons ; scandalous to the profession of the gos pel. " As the once great parliament stands cowering before him , he thunders out their final doom : "Depart , I say 1" They began to go out. There was no gainsaying the man. They understood , then , perhaps , why he had never been defeated in his battles. His eye fell ' upon the mace , the emblem of author ity , but it aroused no respect in his mind. "Take away that bauble , " he said to one of his soldiers. Leuthall still sat in the speaker's chair. His dig nity was imperturbable ; and when Cromwell ordered him to come down he tarried. Harrison then took him by the hand and helped him down and he vanished. Th ° WINTER WHEAT. wheat fields of Nebraska are not encouraging to the farmers who plowed and drilled them , last autumn. A recent trip from Ne braska City to Kearney convinced Tim CONSERVATIVE that ninety per cent of the acreage is hardly worth saving. It had better be plowed up and planted in corn. It has been an exceptionally se vere winter upon all vegetable organ isms. Evergreen trees , especially exotic conifers , like the Siberian , Japanese and Chinese arborvitaos , have been very gen erally injured and many of them killed. And white pines , Scotch pines and other varieties which went into the winter with their roots very dry have suffered in Otoe and Nemaha counties ; many oven old and mature trees being killed out right. Governor Furnas of Noinaha reports large losses and we wish ho would send THE CONSERVATIVE an article telling why this loss came to Nebraska arbori culturists in the winter of 1898 and 1899 and never before.
