, . < , ,
> / * *
, . , , i v 1 Yl *
Cbe Conservative *
The party of fu-
POl'UOSM. . . .
sion , populism and
confusion in Nebraska and throughout
the United States is made up , as a rule ,
of apostates from the principles of good
government and common sense who
have become the idolaters of rotund
rant and vociferation.
Declamation and elocution are the
motors of the populist organization and
never since the world began has so much
machinery been run by wind. Thought ,
argument , analysis and logical methods
are as foreign to the expedients of pop
ulism as January is in daily tempera
ture from July. Nebraska more than
any other state in the Union has been
privileged to observe the utter incapac
ity of the leaders of the fusionists for
useful and practical reforms in either
local or state government. Offices and
emoluments for the few ; taxation , vex
ation , agitation and irritation for the
many only that and nothing more. No
capability except for blunders , no abil
ity except for public funds.
EXTKAVACANCE.
true that the bill
appropriating something like twenty
thousand dollars with which to pay the
bounty for chicory frauds and adulter
ants was vetoed by Governor Holcomb
and then passed over that veto by a re
publican legislature ?
Who is responsible for this raid on the
public treasury ? Was it made by pop-
ocracy or g.-o.-pnrtyism ? "The grand
old party" has enough grand old steals
to answer for in Nebraska without as
suming liabilities for the fusionists.
If the present fusion auditor has nerve
combined with an honest ambition to
serve the taxpayers of the state , he will
refuse to issue a warrant for the chicory
bounty swindle. Let him refuse 1 Let
the claimants sue out a mandamus to
compel him to issue the warrant , if any
court will grant them that writ after
hearing the case.
Tampa -
STANDARD OH ,
pa Herald takes as
perfectly truthful any testimony against
the Standard Oil Company and again
declares that all the directors of that
oleaginous corporation "ought to be be
hind the bars" for the remainder of
tlfeir lives. And yet the testimony is
exclusively from their rivals and com
petitors in the oil trade. Would Editor
Calhouii take as gospel truth all North
ern allegations as to the treatment of
federal prisoners by the confederate
authorities during the civil war ?
Tire CONSERVATIVE knows no man
personally connected with the Standard
Oil magnates nor has it any correspond
ence with them. THE CONSERVATIVE
has no doubt as to the Standard Oil hav
ing crushed by competition innny com
petitors. In Nebraska before the crush
ing THE CONSERVATIVE paid fifty cents
a gallon for oil which it now buys at
nine cents. The great multitude of con
sumers are more important than the
small dealers who were crushed by cruel
competition.
THE CONSERVATIVE saw millions of
nioiioy.in ox and mule trains engaged in
transcontinental freighting between
1854 and 18G6. And it saw cruel capital
embody itself in the Union Pacific rail
road and drive oxen and mules and their
owners out of the transportation busi
ness across the plains. But the country
at large is benefited.
INTKOSPJECTION.
INTKOSPJECTION.number of lazy ,
roadingless , thoughtless people in the
world who never toil consecutively with
either hand or head. These intermittent
laborers are frequently found denuncia
tory of those who steadily , day in and
day out , make efforts , both manual and
mental , to better their conditions and
by thrift and frugality amass a com
petency.
The inert and unthrifty , looking into
themselves , observe that if they could
steal with impunity , they could and
would become talented thieves. And
from this introspection they conclude
that all competencies are in the hands of
their owners by virtue of larceny and
robbery. Thus these mal-contents , who
are mentally stagnant , morally putrescent -
scent and physically intensely indolent ,
ore damning all those who succeed in
life as rascals and knaves.
By this same introspective school of
censors all men without fortune are pro
nounced idiots and all with fortunes vil
lains. Take your choice. You are to
be damned anyway by these infernal
introspectiouists.
Some sickly sen-
tiinentalists have
NATION. . .
inquired through
the sensational yellow-kid pulpiteers and
journalists :
"Is this a Christian nation ? "
How can any sane citizen mnke that
inquiry ?
The United States is not only a Chris
tian nation but it is more than that
conspicuously pious ! It has Christian
ity up to and over the brim of this small
continent. It slops over onto the West
India islands and leaks out upon the
Pacific heathen of the Philippines.
This is a nation full of piousness.
Christianity which permits lyuchings
from Omaha to Atlanta and sweetly
winks at Quayism in Pennsylvania ,
Plattism in New York and endorses
corpse-making under the euphemism of
"benevolent assimilation" ought to bo
scattered as a moral fertilizer all over
this savage and unregenerated globe.
Religious ! Christian 1 Pious ! Look
nt our politics , our president , our sena
tors mid representatives , our Hannas ,
our saints !
TIIK OHIOKOBY
HOUNTY. legislatures of 1895
and 1899 provided
a bounty to be paid persons raising and
manufacturing chickory in Nebraska.
Chickory is an adulterant of coffee.
The American Ohickory Company has
been favored by these legislatures with
the exercise of the taxing power of the
state in its behalf. On February 15 ,
1899 , The American Ohickory Company
filed a claim in the auditor's office of
the state of Nebraska for $19,090.12.
In April , 1899 , however , The American
Chickory Company filed a now and re
vised claim for $17,840.23. The latter
is the sum appropriated by the last leg
islature in House Roll No. 603 for The
American Chickory Company.
The act creating this fraud upon tax
payers and coffee-drinkers and encour
aging this swindle by taxing all the people
ple to pay it , is found in the session
laws of 1895 and is entitled House Roll
No. 67 ( see page 57) ) . But the consum
mation of this legalized larceny from
the state of Nebraska is found in House
Roll No. 603 , which was approved on
April 5 , 1899.
This bounty act is unconstitutional.
It ought to be declared null and void.
Where are the men who will join THE
CONSERVATIVE in enjoining the pay
ment of this $17,840.28 to The Ameri
can Ohickory Company ?
Is it not a duty of this generation to
provide against unconstitutional and
unlawful taxation for itself and the
generation to come ? Ought this legis
lative-looting of the public treasury to
be encouraged or discouraged ?
THE CONSERVATIVE believes that it is
the duty of taxpayers throughout the
state to combine and employ intelligent
attorneys of high character for the pur
pose of enjoining the payment of this
money to The American Ohickory Com
pany. Under the Constitution of the
state of Nebraska this legislation is ab
solutely void , but if we submit to it and
the taxation which it entails , what
guaranty is there that bounties will not
soon be offered and paid by the state for
a thousand other adulterants and frauds
upon commerce ?
THE CONSERVATIVE notes that this
law which taxes all honest industries to
encourage a dishonest one , provides that
no manufacturer shall get a bounty
upon any of his chickory made out of
raw chickory for which he shall have
paid the grower less than ten dollars
and fifty ceats a ton !
How many farmers in Holt and other
chickory-raisiug counties have received
that price for chickory ?
It is the duty of the secretary of state
to solve that problem !
The title of the act giving bounties
for chickory and sugar is misleading.
It is not constitutional. It conceals the
creation of a new office at five dollars a
day. The whole thing is robbery by
law. Stop its consummation !