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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1899)
.IJL'-itt . . 'Che Conservative. 11 of schools in Chicago ) ho says : "Never confuse such men as Brassoy , Do Les- seps , Cornell or Cornelius Vnnderbilt , simply because they ai'o rich , with vag abond millionaires or with the wealthy who have inherited all they own and never earned a cent. The diligent rich are our friends , the idle rich are our foes. They arc leeches upon the body industrial and suck its blood. They did nothing to create their wealth. " Pulpit T.otfh' . A Unitarian minister , in Massachus etts , recently addressed a meeting of socialists and among other things said : "Ono reason why there are so many unemployed in the world is that ( hero aie so many unemployed rich. Every man who secures a living without doing anything to secure that living by his own hands is taking something from the great storehouse from which the rest of us got our livelihood. No man has a right to live on earth who does no good work. We all know of people who are living on money which has been inher ited " Another Unitarian clergyman has given up his parish "to organize the forces of Christian socialism in Mas sachusetts. " Organize them against what ? Is it not against the moneymaking - making , nation-maintaining , self-pre serving , business ability of the land and its children ? And yet these people sup port those ignorant and fanatical anar chists in their positions. Truly , this is the "sweat curse" with applying a ven- geanco. It makes a child guilty for being born if his sire happens to have the ability to successfully servo millions of his race. If these unfortunate child ren could only be heirs to the million- making abilities of their fathers , there might bo something else than insanity in demanding that they give their mil lions for the support of the inability in the land. Unfortunately for the child ren it is seldom so. This is whore hu manity has yet to learn the lesson of natural selection in the ethical develop ment of the race. But are the children of inherited wealth such "foes" to the community ? When so much complaint is made of the demoralizing effects of competition are they not out of it ? Is not their inherited wealth largely in vested in stocks and bonds which repre sent the capital of labor-employing or ganizations ? Do they not largely em ploy labor on their places , on yachts , in their amusements , which in itself often helps support more needy relations ? Which is more disturbing to the equi librium of the public , the well-behaved man of inherited wealth who goes re spectably about his business , or the mil lionaire who has made his millions and disturbs the business world in endeav ors to add more to them ? Or the mil lionaire who in his reckless greed for more millions ruins himself and family and throws thousands out of work ? A Coiiiiumlruin. Who is it that stands in the way of the poor man's son , rich only in natural ability , is it the man of-inhorited wealth , or is it. the millionaire in active business fired with ambition , and strong in his intrenched might , to add to his wealth ? Certainly the courtesy of THE CON SERVATIVE has been encroached upon to the limits of sufferance. Has it not been shown that among us there is a large body of men outwardly clad in sheep's clothing who are inwardly rav ening wolves ? FUANK S. BILLINGS. Graf ton , Mass. ADVJCUSITY IS OUll HEST TEACHEK. "Culture and character como through suffering , " writes Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis , D. D. , on the "Pains that Polish Perfection , " in the Juno Ladies' Homo Journal. "Lifo is God's university ; happiness is the graduating point , but trouble and adversity are among the chosen teachers. The world is built for joy , but man comes to his full estate through the tutelage of sorrow. If man washes his eyes in tears and makes his garments white with blood , ho , too , is promised the throne and sceptre of the higher manhood. Suffering is an alche mist refining coarseness and transmuting bad into good , selfishness into sympathy. Steel is iron plus fire. Tools are steel plus gashing axes. Statues are marble plus the chisel , whoso every stroke makes sparks fly. Manhood is Nature plus the temptations that chisel out character. Bronze doors of old cathed rals are all of beaten handiwork , and character is hammered out on the anvil of adversity ; wino comes through crushing of grapes , and joy is a fine spirit oft distilled from bruised affec tions. Sin and selfishness dig great furrows in the face , so suffering is sent in to iron the lines out smooth again. From Paul to Livingstone , what heroic leader hath worn soft raiment ? What Luther or Lincoln was reared in kings' palaces ? It is wrestling against oppos ing winds that works toughness into trees and gianthood into men. If the poet's vision is ever fulfilled and wo judge the angels doing easy duty at homo , wo must first , as veterans of the old guard , achieve our scars and hold our tattered flags in fierce battles upon a far-off frontier. Optimists always , lot us not 'make believe' and play there are no troubles. Ono form of folly is always to drag the corpse into the ban quet ; another is to try and triumph over tragedies by averting our eyes. " KID CONVENTION. Dr. Henson of Chicago in a lecture the other day contended that the idea of the "consent of the governed" being necessary to a "just government" wasn't always literally true , and illus- trated it with the statement that as the father of a family ho didn't doom it requisite to call a "kid convention" be fore ho told the boys and girls what the household rules and regulations were. And now all the little American newspapers are abusing the doctor roundly for the villainous imperialist that ho is. " Nebraska State Journal. While the above may bo true parental government it is no less a form of abso lute despotism. It becomes a despotism where , as is too often the case , the par- outs do not consider the nature of the child. "A child should bo guided , not ruled , by the greater experience and in telligence of the parents. " Sensible Americans are thinking who is to pay for the piping of the American eagle in foreign lands ? This is the question and not what is to become of the Filipinos as those pouter pigeons of an inflated Americanism and traitors to constitutionalism assert. "A child should not bo subject to the will of ignorant parents" is the axiom that rnles in the ever augmenting con gregations of "little Americans , " who do not believe that patriotism consists in being for their "country , right or wrong" when they have to pay the bills for ignorant parentage as the Mncroniol Micronoplmlias affirm. ONE OF THE "Kins. " HEADING FOIl HUNCH AND HAlt. The bench and bar of Nebraska and the Northwest will bo surprised by the following telegrams from Grown Point and Wabash , Indiana , respec tively , under date of May 20. The profession purges itself : "H. B. Crawford , the former city judge of Hammond , was today found guilty of embezzlement ami malfeasance in office , and will bo Pont to the peni tentiary for from one to flvo years , under an indeterminate sentence. Mr. Crawford is nearly 75 years of ago and very feeble , and it wiis expected this would save him. His friends , at the time of his indictment , several months ago , declared the charges could never bo proved , but the ox-judgo's books and records demonstrated his guilt so con clusively that the jury had no hesita tion in bringing in a verdict of guilty. " Suit to DlHluir. "In the "Wabash circuit court today Omar Noff of Kosciusko county , a prom inent attorney , was charged , in a com plaint iu disbarment proceedings , with the forgery of a $600 dollar note , the altering of a deed after it was signed and previous to recording so that the purchaser of the laud lost $1,500 ; also the collecting attorney's fees twice on a note. The complaint is filed by three members of the Kosciusko county bar in disbarment proceedings. Judge Hay- mend , W. D. Frazier and Frank Bow ser have been appointed to investigate the charges.
