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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1899)
tH- eConservative. , . J JT VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , AUGUST 3 , 1899. NO. 4 PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EuiTOK. A JOUUNAT * DKVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OB1 POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 6,040 COPIES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One dollar and a half per year , in advance , postpaid , to any part of the United States or Canada. Remittances made payable to The Morton Printing Company. Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska City , Neb. Advertising Rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the postomco at Nebraska City , Nob. , as Second Class matter , July 20th , 1808. IIAILIIOAU KCONOMY. The Scientific American departs ( with apologies ) from its custom , to comment on the performance of the bicycle rider who lately , on Long Island , followed a railroad train going at 04 miles an hour over a measured mile , and then overtook it and climbed upon the rear platform. This it does , not for the sporting interest of the event , but because of the terrific significance of the achievement to rail road managers ; a class who are usually given credit for being fairly progressive , but who , the Scientific American says , have shown "extraordinary conserva tism' ' in the matter of diminishing air- pressure on moving trains. The train in front of this bicycler , by removing the air from before him , enabled him to do what would otherwise have culled for the expenditure of seven horse-power , one horso-powor being in reality more than the strongest man can exert ou a wheel ; and the conclusion , reached after careful figuring , is that air-resist ance makes much more than half the load that the engine of a fast train haste to overcome. And yet , says the writer , nothing whatever has been done siuco the beginning of railroading to decrease this enormous load , by smoothing down and closing in the exterior of the train the locomotive goes squarely against the air and each succeeding car presents a fresh square front , with every step , window frame and brake-beam also doing its best to retard progress. It would be interesting to know what railroad men have to say to this allega tion , which is equivalent to charging them with wasting half the power oJ ; heir engines. If any such saving as is indicated can bo effected , the public should rejoice , for it is the beneficiary from economies in railroad management. Railroads do not declare largo dividends ; o their stockholders ; when a road makes a little money , it goes into bettor station buildings , heavier rails , safer bridges , double trades , stronger and swifter locomotives , or bettor glass in the car-windows , through which one may observe the country without risk of a headache ; and this is all to the direct benefit of the public at largo. ! ° f wour 1forfciity1 Nebraska barley CHOP. , corn , wheat , oat , rye and beet fields is surpassed by the fecundity of its wolf dons. Next after the bounty for getting chicory into the coffee markets , the bounty provided by the Nebraska legis lature for wolf scalps is the most idiotic. The law-givers appropriated forty-five thousand dollars last winter for pay ment of bounties upon wolf-scalps taken in Nebraska. Nearly the entire sum has already boon absorbed. A bitch wolf with scalps cashable at three dollars lars each is more valuable as a money- breeder , under this encouragement , than a Poland-China sow. Farmers who cannot raise wolf pups to scalping ago , at three dollars each , ought to quit live stock entirely. The wolf crop increases yearly. It pays splendidly. It is encouraged along with chicory and beet sugar by a gen erous and indefensible bounty. Grow wolves ! The humble but Judge Allen o 1 Madison , who always had a moro-than- law twouty-Hve-hundred-dollars-a-year practice , is now tilling a big farm and employing more men and paying bigger wages than any railroad , or other dam nable capitalistic conspiracy in the state of Nebraska. "Whether the judgeship supports the farm or the farm supports the judgeship is a matter of incon sequence. The judge has only one fauli in either oratory or rhetoric. Ho is habitually too brief. The United States senate sobbed in paroxysmal anguish when , after only fourteen hours talking he ( Senator Allen ) brought the exordium of one of his shortest speeches to a close He never reached the peroration of tha liscourso. It was impossible in a single six years' term. But THE CONSERVATIVE merely sot out ; o congratulate Judge Allen upon his leolaration of agreement with THK CONSERVATIVE in antagonizing "a pro- ectivo tariff. ' ' The judge is temporarily n good company. Ho has thoughts that breathe though Home-times there is in ; ho breath a scented suggestion of stimn- ated activity. The judge and THK CONSERVATIVE oppose a protective tariff because , by law , it puts an artificial price on things wo need. And THE CONSERVATIVE consist ently opposes the free coinage of silver at sixteen to one because by law it puts an artificial price on silver. That metal is worth , now , in the bullion markets of the world about sixty cents an ounce. But Bryan and Alien would , by law , if they could , make it worth a dollar and twonty-nino cents an ounce. To coin silver in unlimited quantities at the ratio and in the manner proscribed by Bryanarchy is to domesticate the principle of protection and apply it to in ternal instead of foreign trade. THE CONSERVATIVE proclaims , with out fear of successful coutroversion by Allen , Bryan , or any other populist or fusionist , that Any quantity of gold in bullion or any quantity of silver in bul lion should be of exactly the same value an the name quantity of ijold or the same quantity of silver in coin. "Tho molting pot is the test of coined money. That which loses value in melting is bad money. And that which does not lose is good money. " The most bitter critic of the Philippine policy at home has not boon able to frame an indictment approaching in force that convoyed by this statement from the front. A press censorship is alleged to have been conducted , not for the legitimate purpose of preventing premature publication of military information mation , but in the vain expectation of controlling public opinion in the United States. The American people are al leged to have been systematically and deliberately misled by means of this censorship. Such acts would imply the belief among those responsible for them tliat , not merely the Filipinos , but the American people are unfit for self-rule. There is more aid and comfort for the enemy in the inevitable effects of such a deception than in anything which the anti-imperialists could say or do. Buf falo Express ( rep. )