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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1899)
tbe Conservative. forty towns in Colorado have 'assur ances' that their beets beat all beets for beet sugar and a little more bonus is all that is lacking. Not a stone will bo laid until these towns have sent members to the next legislature pledged to 'encour age' this infant industry and vote a tax upon the state for the benefit of the Ox- uards. Then thirty-nine of the 'ossur- ances' will collapse. It is strange how the lightning rod man will always find suckers. " THE CONSERVATIVE rejoices in the evidently receptive frame of mind which has settled down upon the editorial cranium of the Journal. It begins to be a repentant protectionist. Light is streaming in upon the Journal. While the lamp holds out to burn even the edi torial staff of that hitherto hide-bound advocate of subsidies , bounties and pro tective duties may return to the true doctrines of commercial freedom , and at last be saved and sing paeans forever to free men , free schools , free soil and free trade , in a land that is fairer than this and to which all foreign-made and even pauper-made piety is invited to enter upon and locate forever and ever , with out money and without price , notwith standing the whole thing streets , harps and throne is upon a gold basis. ATKINSON'S LETTER. To the Attorney-General of the United States : Sir : It is alleged in the public press that I am charged by yourself and other members of tlie cabinet with having sent seditious matter through the mail to the United States soldiers in the Philippine islands. Orders are said to have been given to take this matter from , the mail. To this charge I reply : 1. I have sent no pamphlets , letters or other documents nor any telegraphic message or verbal communication of any kind to any private soldier or regimental officer of the United States in the Phil ippine islands or to any Filipino in the Philippine islands or elsewhere , directly or indirectly , by mail or otherwise. 2. The two pamphlets which it is alleged are or will be taken from the mail are not seditious pamphlets. Quo I know to have been , and upon the au thority of Senator Caffery the other I believe to have been , presented to the senate of the United States , and to have been printed as senate or public docu ments , from the first editions : subse quent additions the same in form with addenda in support. 8. It was reported to me upon what was considered good authority that the parents of Nebraska volunteers had not been allowed to communicate with their sons on duty in the Philippine islands. This statement I have not seen denied. 4. Moved by a sense of profound in dignation at such a state of affairs and for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the United States mails were or were not open to the citizens of the United States residing in Manila , I ad dressed on April 22 a letter to the secre tary of war in the following terms : "I desire to send a largo number of the enclosed pamphlets ( naming the pamphlets and enclosing copies of them ) o the officers and privates in the Phil- ppiuo islands. I therefore desire to know whether or not these documents can bo sent directly through the war de partment or may be forwarded in due course by mail. A list of regiments is desired , and if there are printed lists of officers available they would servo me a very useful purpose. " I received no reply to this letter. 5. On April 24 and 25 I put into the United States mail as a test eight (8) ( ) copies , one of each of these two pam phlets , addressed to the following per sons : Admiral George Dewey , Presi dent Sohurman , Professor Worcester , General H. G. Otis , General Lawtou , General Miller , and J. F. Bass correspondent pendent of "Harper's Weekly" ( two copies ) . I now understand that the above gentlemen are not to be allowed by the cabinet of the United States to read these documents even if they cared to do so. G. I informed the Anti-Imperialist League of Boston , of which I was an officer , of the above facts. Without consultation with me , and moved by what motive is now immaterial , they addressed a letter disclaiming any re sponsibility for any action that I might take , which letter was made public. 7. Since then I have been subjected to the grossest misrepresentation both of my motives and my actions in a certain portion of the press of the country. This has culminated in the recent action of the cabinet of the United States , upon the wisdom ot which the public will pass judgment. 8. This action of the cabinet being the first and only answer of any kind which I have received to the letter above referred to I shall act in accor dance with its mandates. 9. It is said that the circulation of these pamphlets in the United States will be permitted. I shall continue to use the United States mail for their transmission in this country , deeming my action not a matter of permission but a matter of right. 10. Such being the facts I send this letter to you and also address it through the press. Respectfully , EDWARD ATKINSON. Boston , May 5 , 1899. If you can find any good results of the crusade against manufactures and com merce , against capital and any legiti mate profits therefor as carried on in Nebraska by the Bryanarchists , please report them for publication in THE CONSERVATIVE. Tell where some new plant , some great enterprise , some vast sum of money for Nebraska develop ment has been lured into this common wealth by Bryan and other populists ? CORN STALKS AGAIN. Tin : MARSDEN COMPANY , 850 DREXEL BUILDING , PHILADELPHIA , May 18 , 1899. Editor. Dear Sir : In an article pub lished in THE CONSERVATIVE oil May 11 , 1899 , "Corn From the Kernel to the Stalk , " I notice that you say : "Up to this time no perfect machine for the purpose indicated has been brought to the pubic notice. It is true that the Marsden Company of Phila delphia , organized some years since , and established at Owensboro , Ky. , Rockford - ford , 111. , and Chester , Pa. , some manu factories , which were intended to util ize this waste product of the corn fields of the country. The Marsdon company propose to make out of corn stover a re frigerator lining , tile blocks , water proofing compounds , gunpowder , leath er enamelling and linoleum. Whether or not that corporation has succeeded , THE CONSERVATIVE is unable state. " Permit me to say as an officer of the Marsdeu Company that the said Mars- den Company have in very active oper ation machinery which entirely meets the requirements for the conversion of corn stalks into celuloso for battleships , cattle feeds of different kinds for spe cific purposes , smokeless powder , Pyrox- olyne , enamelling for leathers , plain and polished , and many other commercial uses. This company is also furnishing celulose for the United States and Eur- pean governments. Wo have arranged for smokeless powder trials for the United States and European govern- rnents also. I make this statement to furnish you the information which will enable you to complete your article. Thanking you 111 advance for the trouble I have given you , permit me to remain , Very truly yours , HENRY O. WATTS , Assistant President. At what price can the Marsdeu ma chine above described be sold to farm ers ? Can it be put up on every farm and the stover and the pith separated and each made valuable ? THE CONSERVATIVE proposes to find and introduce a stover-saving machine which shall confer a direct benefit upon all the farmers of the corn-growing states. If the Marsden Company has such a machine it should be manufactured in large numbers and placed upon the market in Nebraska , Iowa , Illinois , Kansas , Missouri , Indiana and Ohio. If the Marsden Company has not such a machine , who has ? It is said that a citizen of Nebraska is the inventor , patentee and proprietor of precisely such a machine. And that with it a man and horse can manipu late and reduce to edible stover and commercial pith four tons of stalks in ten hours.
