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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1899)
VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , AUGUST 17 , 1899. NO. 6. runr.TsnED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 6,082 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 postofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1808. * * * * * * * CEREAL PLANTS. answered as to "who built the Cereal Mills and Starch Works at Nebraska City , which give steady and remunerative employment to three hundred persons ? " These successful and valuable manu factories , which convert more than a million of bushels of coarse grains , at Nebraska City , into human food every ten mouths , were not originated , founded nor completed by sixteen-to-one-free- coinage-of-silver-in-unlimited-quantities disciples. They are not owned and either middle-of-the-road operated by - - - populists or fusioucrats. They were not built up here because the kindly economic theories of Allen , Bryan , Bill Deoh and D. Olem Deaver invited capital to plant itself at this place or anywhere else in Nebraska. THE CONSERVATIVE gladly answers the question and renews one : " When , where and how did Allen , Bryan , Hoi- comb , Bill Dech or Kem induce a dollar to put itself into any business in Nebras ka except office seeking ? " POLITICAL MULES. de-pulpitized preacher upon the place and pelf-hunting politician makes a partisan mule of great vice. One of the latest blasts of bathos from this braying brotherhood in Nebraska is found in the consolidated Wealth-Maker and Independent of August 10th. Head : "When the Burlington magnates con clude to raise taxation in this state it don't take them long to do it. They don't consult anyone and make no fuss about the matter. The other day the directors concluded to issue $85,000,000 of bonds in addition to the enormous amount outstanding. The interest on those bonds will have to be paid by the people residing along their lines. They will be taxed just that much more thau they have been for the benefit of the bondholders. The mullet heads will never have sense enough to find it out. All they will know is that times have grown a little harder. The directors of the Burlington sized them up about right. They know that these republican idiots will never be able to find out that the Burlington has raised their rate of taxation. " Suppose the new issue of bonds builds double tracks and makes betterments of transportation for the people ? The old bonds "before the crime of 1878" drew eight and ten per cent interest. Under the maintained gold standard the new bonds draw four per cent interest. If "the interest on those bonds will have to be paid by the people residing along their lines" how outraged those people will feel at the beggarly low rate of interest compared to that paid ' 'before the crime of 1878 ! " "Idiots will never be able to find out that the Burlington has raised their rate of taxation by lowering the rate of interest on its own bonds. " Even depulpitized preachers ought to know that old bonds taken up by new bonds drawing less interest lessen taxation 1 LIFE INSURANCE AND LOW INTEREST. A policy taken out in the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York for three thousand dollars to be paid for in full in ten years carried at the age of thirty-two , in 18G5 , an annual prem ium of $148.50. The same sort of policy , on same age , to be paid in same term of years , taken in the same company in 1899 will cost for same amount of money about one hundred and seventy dollars ( $170) ) . Eates of interest have declined so precipitously , since the crime of 1878 , that the rates of life insurance have been greatly enhanced. As the rates for the use of money decline the prem iums on life insurance must advance , rise. Life insurance companies cannot realize the incomes from investments in 1899 that they did in 1805. The crime of 1878 has put up the cost of life in surance ! The reason for SILVER FUSION. fusing the incon gruous elements of IG-to-l democracy and populism in Nebraska , it is bravely proclaimed , is a desire and ambition to get offices. Like the leader of the six- teeii-to-ono forces , Mr. Bryan , the average fusion-populist avows with re frigerating frankness that "it is not the honor but the money in the office" that attracts. The combination is like that of the Standard Oil or Silver syndicate to get money. The disciples and advocates of this "trust , " to get a monopoly of offices , declare it very proper and patriotic. Nevertheless if republicans and gold standard democrats in Nebraska should make a fusion for the same purpose the sixteeu-to-oue amalgamationists would be wild with denunciation of such an alliance. And if the republicans should nominate one gold democrat to parallel the nomination by the populists of the one silver democrat , what a howl of derision would rend the skies 1 If the republican ticket , with a single gold democrat on it , should claim to be the gold standard democracy's ticket , how everybody would giggle 1 The editor of A COMPLIMENT. THE CONSERVA TIVE is so susceptible to flattery that he cannot refrain from reproducing the following from the Stanton Register : "As soon as Judge Howard of the Papilliou Times found out that his course in criticising Holcomb was pleas ing to J. Sterling Morton , he quit. What pleases Morton is sure to injure reform. " The kind of reform represented by the gentlemen who seek offices "for the money" that is in them , rather than with an honorable ambition to efficient ly serve the country , is always shocked and damaged by any citizen who , in a public position , saves public money and covers it back into the public treasury. And a man who , while secretary of agriculture , covered back into the treas ury more than nineteen per cent of the appropriations for that department , and so saved to tax-payers more than two millions of dollars , is particularly "in jurious" to the Holcomb style of house- rent reform and likewise to that ballot- fixing reform which attempted to rape justice and debauch liberty by counting in two populist members of the supreme court of the state.