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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1899)
I , If ' , Js I . * aj 't Che Conservative't VOL. i. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , MAY 18 , 1899. NO. 45- PUBLISHED WEEKIiY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. , T. STERLING MORTON , EDITOU. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OK POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 5,762 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 postoffice at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898. DEMAND MAKKS VALUES. In 1896 The World-Herald and all the other advocates of financial vagaries and economic fallacies in general con tended that value was the creation of law. The same sophists alleged that the country was going down the tobog gan-slide of disaster into everlasting an nihilation because of the gold standard , which was making land lower and money higher all the time. And now after three years more of the oppression of the gold standard the same journal declares in its issue of May 12 , 1899 : "That there is a growing demand for homes in Nebraska cannot be disputed. In all parts of the state is noticeable an increased inquiry and demand for farm and grazing lauds. These inquiries come largely from persons seeking homes for actual settlement. " How can this be true if the predic tions of Bryanarchists were true in 1896 ? Were not the farmers to starve because of low-priced products from their lands and labors ? Only speculative plutocrats , it was prophesied in 1896 , would purchase farms in Nebraska and the Northwest because under the gold standard con tinued , and the extortionate freight rates of railroads , no man could purchase or would purchase farms for the purpose of tilling them and making a living from their products. But now The World-Herald remarks in antagonism to its forecasts : "The speculative demand is not as great as in past years , the speculators' lands changing hands and going into the A * . ownership of persons who will culti vate and improve them. " HomcstciulorH Conic. And further along to show how little attention and how small credence has been given to populistic prophets and Bryauarchal presages the same organ of fiat currency announces : "In the Valentine laud office 10,685 acres were taken under homestead entry during the month of April , 1899. This is a record that has had no equal within the past twelve years , or since the homestead days of settling up the western part of the state. " Do the homesteaders come because of the cheerful pictures of farm life in Nebraska , under the tyranny of rail roads and money sharks which The World-Herald and its popnlistic coad jutors have been publishing for the last half dozen years ? Is the April record of more than ten thousand homestead acres taken at the Valentine office in a single month a re sult of the populistic style of depicting Nebraska , its lauds , its people , its courts , and its legislature , as the property of plutocrats and corporations ? How much have The World-Herald and other calumniators of the character of this commonwealth and its institu tions and people done to make a demand for Nebraska lauds at enhancing prices ? GREAT BUILDERS. BUILDERS.populism is its ar dor for plain poor people. Nearly all of the leading intellects in that conglomer ate organization , however , are dis tinguished as men of enterprise and capital. Their enterprise is talk and their capital words and wind. The mental dynamics of populism and fusion , which wiped out the distinctively dem ocratic party in Nebraska , are to be found under the hats of uncle Jake Wolfe , former Senator Allen , Olem Deaver , William Jennings Bryan , and other great upbuilders of the visible wealth of the state. When one permits himself to attempt to enumerate the famous factories , fruit ful farms , vast industrial plants , for working up the cereals and other raw products of the state into commodities , and to wander amazed among the rail road shops , depots , and car building es tablishments which these gigantic and typical builders of the populist party have caused to materialize in Nebraska admiration for their tremendous con- structive energies is almost transmuted to adoration. And when one contem plates what Nebraska would have been a howling wilderness and full of snakes and savages had " neither of these good and great men , who love the plain people for the votes they have , ever made his home here , the eye , oven of a sinful goldbug , blinks in brine , and sobs of exultant joy , because of the escaped calamity of their non-residence , arise from the emotional depths of the most diabolical plutocrat. Without the great leaders and state upbuilders of populism would trees grow , bloom and fruit in Nebraska ? Would a railroad be operated in Ne braska or a new one built except for the utilitarian influence of Allen , Olem Deaver and Bryan ? Did anything in the way of an industrial , man-employ ing , man-paying plant ever rear its head upon these plains except at the magic wand of the sixteen-to-oneites. the fusionists - ionists , the populists and the Bryanar chists ? Where is there a mill , a bank , a man ufacturing establishment , where is there capital working for profits and muscle intelligently working for wages any where in Nebraska except where led in and established by Bryan , Allen and Olem Deaver ? The great mercantile establishments at Omaha , Lincoln , Beatrice , Hastings , Plattsinouth , Fremont , Kearney , and the thriving mills and manufactories of Nebraska Oity are all the wonderful work of the leaders of populism in this state to whose alluring voices capital has answered with its potent presence. If a cyclone should visit each town in Nebraska and take out of it all the bus iness houses , all the beautiful homes , all the mills and factories built , or caused to be built by Allen , Deaver , Wolfe , Bryan and other philanthropic populists who are willing to die , or even hold office , for the plain people what would be left of the commonwealth ? Without f the great builders who preach populism in this state where could prosperity be found ? Without them how dead is industry , how thrift less the commonwealth ! A mad dog , running wild in the street , foaming at the mouth and snapping at everybody , is not a surer'scare nor more dangerous to the community than a pop- ulistio press preaching Bryauarchy is to investors and capital in Nebraska. V V