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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , AUGUST 3 , 1899. NO. 4
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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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.
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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. )