The Conservative *
The organ of the
GLORIOUS
Brynnarchists at
CALAMITY.
Lincoln which ,
curiously enough , was baptized into the
family of journalism as The "Wealth
Makers is jubilant over the discovery
of some suburban boom property for
sale at about one-fourth the price paid
for it during the real estate mania of
1887.
It attributes the shrinkage directly to
the money trust and the diabolism of
the gold standard.
It is , however , fortunate that people
under the gold standard are permitted
to recover from illusions as to values of
real estate , to repent their errors of
judgment and to become again per
fectly sane. But the glee with which
that organ of vagarists , unfrocked
priests and political pothunters gloats
over two or three sporadic cases of
shrinking prices when swelling values
are epidemic is anomalous. In disaster
it sees possibilities for populism. In
prosperity populists never prosper.
The best thing
TRUSTS.
the alleged educa
tional bureaus of populism can do for the
enlightenment of the i delators of the
gold standard , the rights of corporate
capital and the diabolism of the writ of
injunction is to issue a dictionary.
This new economic lexicon should tell
what "a trust" is made up out of and
what the term "trust" as the same is
used by agitators really means ! Mean
while we hope that some learned expon
ent of Byranarchy will give the world a
succinct statement as to what consti
tutes a trust.
What is the reason the alleged trust
is so dangerous to the plain people ?
How are the continuing combinations of
capital to be prohibited ?
What is the moral difference between
a trades-union trust in muscle and a
bankers-union trust in money ?
If wages may be properly enhanced
by a combine of muscle why may not
the profits of capital be properly en
hanced by a combine of money ?
The block house
THE OLD
. at old Fort Kearney
BLOCK HOUSE.
ney which stooc
on the west bank of the Missouri river
upon the tableland , between North and
South Table creeks , which became the
townsite of Nebraska City in 1854 , was
constructed by Oapt. Stewart Van
Vliet , U. S. A. , in 1846. It was torn
down and removed , by order of the
mayor of Nebraska City , from the center
tor of Fifth street , just south of Mainer
or Central avenue , in 1807.
In the corner-stone of the block housi
aforesaid there were found upon its de
molitiou two coins a Mexican dollar
minted in 1885 and well preserved , and
an old Spanish quarter of a dollar worn
so smooth that only four or five letters
n various places on the piece could be
listinguished , together with the figures
78 on one side. The inference is that
; he quarter must have been coined bo-
ween the years 1780 and 1789.
These coins passed into the hands of
Horace Metcalf , together with the fol-
owing certificate :
'ToHorace Metcalf , jr. ,
"A Mexican dollar and Spanish quar-
; er , being the coins deposited in the
corner-stone of the government block
louse built at Fort Kearney ( Nebraska
City ) in 1840. This was the first build-
ng , public or private , erected in what is
low the state of Nebraska. My information
mation is derived from the United
States quartermaster who was stationed
lero at the time. ( Signed )
"D. J. McCANN.
"December 25 , 18G7. "
THE CONSERVATIVE corrects the state
ment that the block house at old Fort
Kearney was the first building , public
or private , erected in what is now
the state of Nebraska. There were
; hree mission houses one up the Platte ,
one at Bellevue and one near the Kan
sas line , erected in Nebraska before the
block house aforesaid. Fort Atkinson
and Fort Calhoun , above Omaha on the
Missouri river , both preceded the block
louse on the present site of Nebraska
City.
The American Fur Company construc
ted their buildings at Bellevue , Nebras
ka , as early as 1828.
So much for the correction of Ne
braska history as stated in the certifi
cate given to Horace Metcalf , jr. , rela
tive to the Mexican dollar and the
Spanish quarter-dollar found in the old
block house of Nebraska City when it
was torn down in 1867.
"TlIE CONSERV-
IIIT. . . .
ATIVE will pay a
round sum in gold coin for proof that
any leader of fusion and confusion in
the state of Nebraska has ever , by any
effort , mental or manual , outside oi
endeavors to get or hold office , made
twenty-five hundred dollars in a single
year.
"Tire CONSERVATIVE will pay in gold
coin a reward for the discovery of any
capital in manufacture or farming
which has been brought into Nebraska
and made productive by populism
Who of all its leaders has accomplished
anything for the general welfare of Nebraska
braska ? "
The preceding paragraphs appeared
sometime since in this journal. The ;
have aroused the wrath and ambition o
the editor of The Burtoniau at Tokamah
That worthy gentleman , therefore , as i
answering for "any leader of fusion and
confusion" in Nebraska , names som
good farmers in his county who vote th
fusion ticket , and have an annual in
come of more than twenty-five hun
dred dollars. But those good and
hrifty citizens have never been reputed
eaders of fusion in this commonwealth
and therefore do not come under the
lass depicted by TIIE CONSERVATIVE.
The Burtouiau , by publishing truths
rom TIIE CONSERVATIVE , is doing edu-
ational work among those misguided
voters of Nebraska who have followed
he money fallacies and had faith in the
Bryanarchists of Nebraska. But it haslet
lot yet attempted to "discover" any
capital in manufacture , or fanning ,
vhich has been brought into Nebraska
and made productive by populism.
THE CONSERVATIVE refers always to
eaders like Kem , Bill Dech , Bryan ,
Senator Allen and D. Clem Deaver
vhen it inquires for industrial plants
vhich populism has erected in Nebraska.
Notwithstand-
THE JURY-FIXER. . , . , , .
ing that there is
a present crusade against him , the jury-
fixer in Chicago may survive the grand
ury which strives to indict him. The
one now in session has gathered in a
few of the breed , and is out with its
scoopnet for more , as if it had just dis-
overed that such a crime and criminal
existed. It finds out that both abound ,
that many have got rich and retired ,
and are living abroad on the fortunes
they took out of the business. It is late
in the day to begin the work of his ex
tirpation , but the effort deserves sym
pathy and encouragement , even if it is
sues only in a limited and transient
success. New York Tribune.
The Omaha
THAT SCHOOT , . _ , , TT . ,
World-Herald ,
which has shown miraculous incapabil
ity for understanding either currency ,
finance or business methods and which
has , in its own career , demonstrated
the impossibility of giving value to pa
per by the mere act of printing on it , is
anxious for more contributions to its
"World-Herald Educational Fund. "
THE CONSERVATIVE commends its
importunity to kindly consideration on
the part of all populists and fusionists
the school Bill-Dech-Kem-
who wish of - - -
Allen-Holcomb & Co. to prosper.
Only those having certificates of id
iocy , or diplomas for imbecility , granted
by Coin's School for Fools , are permit
ted to put in contributions over their
own signatures. The smelters and re
finers of silver are expected to chip in
under fictitious cognomens. David
Moffett , Guy Barton , J. B. Grant and
other silver kings are requested to not
appear as the friends of 16 to 1.
The individual or nation that is not
true to the necessity of self-preservation
can never be true to others.
Expansion , which is not the result of
self-preserving internal necessity , is
ever at the peril of the body expanding.