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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , JULY 13 , 1899. NO. i.
POTHYIBIIED WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
.T. STERLING MORTON , EDITOU.
A JOUIlNAIj DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION
OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOOIOtOQIOATj
QUESTIONS.
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Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 20th , 1898.
MISSOURI
STATESMEN.TIVE notes that ex
Governor Blarney-
Stone of Missouri recently distinguished
himself again by chasing a newspaper
reporter , named Reavis , down three
pairs of stairs for the purpose of
carving his liver or performing heroic
surgery relating to his pericardium.
He has a reputation for sixteen
words to one deed , and heretofore re
joiced in the distinction of having ,
without flaw , or default , maintained
the ratio of sixteen speeches to one
thought without regard to any other
orator on earth. But if the knife with
which Governor Stone intended to oper
ate upon Reporter Reavis was no shar
per than Governor Stone's logic the
cutting would have been exceedingly
shallow.
Between Stone , Do Armond , Ohump
Clark and Col. Joe Rickey , the latter
evidently , and beyond all comparison , is
the most stimulative of statesmanlike
utterances. A real Joe Rickey , shaken
before taken , is sure to awaken in the
Missouri voter genuine enthusiasm.
Beside the Joe Rickey , the root-beer
oratory of Chump Clark and the soft
summer-soda-pop eloquence of De Ar-
moud are as slummed milk to old rye.
CONSERVA-
THAT EDUCA-
TIONAI , FUND.TIVE regards the
attempt to edu
cate the populists by contributing to The
World-Herald fund at Omaha with gen
uine curiosity.
The institution of the fund is a con
fession that a majority of the people of
the United States cannot be led into
fallacies without first being blindfolded.
The contributions are from people
who are honest , and from those who are
dishonest , in their attempts to reform
the government and retrench its ex
penses. But a rigid analysis of the mo
tives of the contributors scientifically
made and truthfully published would ,
no doubt , show about sixteen seeking
office to one seeking the uplifting and
advancement of the republic.
Under "assumed names" all of the
silver-bullion syndicates , smelter com
bines and refiners' guilds may humbly
contribute their mites of millions of
dollars. If the fund can be made large
enough to educate a majority of the
voters of the United States to believe
that a fixed legal ratio between the
coins can control and fix the relative
value of the metals out of which the
coins are madeCoin Harvey's school for
fools will have proved a success. The
financial experience of more than five
centuries will have been ignored. The
accepted common sense notion of an
cient times that the market value of
silver and gold bullion regulates the
value of the coins will have been cruci
fied on a cross of ignorance.
If , after atmos-
A POSSIBLE .
FORECAST. Phenc Perturba
tions which have
commingled with tumultuous roarings ,
the lightning , the cyclone and the thun
der , the weather-bureau observer notes
rising of the barometer he generally
predicts fairer weather , cloudless skies ,
sunshine and no wind.
There seems to be a rising barometer
in and about the politics of some hereto
fore able and zealous supporters of fn-
sionjin the state of Nebraska. There have
been thunder , lightning , and cyclone in
the inkstand of Hon. Edgar Howard of
Sarpy county. His pen has conducted
electrical condemnation and punish
ment to several prominent populist of
fice-holders.
Judge Howard has sentenced to elec
trocution all those alleged democrats
who propose further deglutition , masti
cation , digestion and extrusion of the
remnants of the former democracy of
Nebraska by the insatiable appetite of
the party of Clem Deaver , W. V. Allen ,
Bill Dech , Bryan and Kem.
Is it possible that Judge Howard and
his followers indicate a return to prin
ciples after the storm and disaster effusion
fusion have ceased ?
The American
IIEKO WORSHIP.
people are inclined
to the idolatry of individuals. No na
tion is exempt from the bacteria of hero-
worship and every little while the United
States has an epidemic outbreak thereof.
Sometimes the infection arises in a
yacht race and the captain of the De
fender or the owner of the Puritan is
temporarily an idol.
Another time the disease breaks out on
the race course and Robert Bonner the
owner or Bud Doble the jockey is ex
alted for worship.
Again it exhales from the prize ring
and Oorbett or Jeffries is set up as
a saint for American adoration.
Recently the navy and the army have
generated , in spite of canned or em
balmed beef , a delirious revival of hero-
worship and exalted enough idols to
satiate the pious patriotism of all the
most intense and zealous praise-makers
of our common country. There is merit
in extolling merit. It makes our child
ren more ambitious. It inspires them
to goodness and greatness.
But the heroism of private citizens in
commercial life is often of the most ex
alted and consecrated
True HorocH.
crated type. The
heroism of honesty in peace is as
worthy of emulation as that of fortitude
and courage in war. The heroism which
for pride in a good name , for pride in
one's own family because of its pure
record and guileless history , will sacri
fice hundreds of thousands of dollars to
maintain the credit of a bank or other
institution with which that name has
been even involuntarily connected , is
grander and more majestic mentally and
morally than the heroism of the battle
field.
Right here in Nebraska THE CONSER
VATIVE has been an eye-witness of an
instance of financial and patriotic hero
ism which for the sake of a good name ,
and without legal compulsion being
possible , put up voluntarily more than
a million of dollars and saved many a
bank and business house from failure in
this young state during the panic of a
few years ago. It required more grit ,
more character of the choicest kind ,
more wholesome pride , more self-abne
gation than a charge upon a battery
spouting bullets and shells.
The American people and especially
the citizens of Nebraska are too often
ignorant of the acts of heroism in their
own midst most worthy of their adula
tion , imitation and gratitude.