J.
Conservative *
has gone a-slumming I wish to speak a
word of sympathy for the man who suc
ceeds the man who , against great odds ,
hns directed the efforts of others , and
having succeeded , finds there's nothing
in it : nothing but bare board and
clothes.
Rugs Not Necessarily a Recommendation.
I have carried a dinner pail and
worked for day's wages , and I have also
been an employer of labor , and I know
there is something to be said ou both
sides. There is no excellence , per se , in
poverty ; rngs are no recommendation ;
and all employers are not rapacious and
high-handed , any more than all poor
men are virtuous.
Good Men are Al\\ajs Needed.
My heart goes out to the man who
does his work when the "boss" is awny ,
as well as when he is at home. And the
man , who , when given a letter for Gar
cia , quietly takes the missive , without
asking any idiotic questions , and with
no lurking intention of chucking it into
the nearest sewer , or of doing aught else
but deliver it , never gets "laid off , ' * nor
has to go on a strike for higher wages.
Civilization is one long anxious search
for just such individuals. Anything
such a man asks shall be granted ; his
kind is so rare that no employer can
afford to let him go. He is wanted in
every city , town and village in every
office , shop , store and factory.
Needed Today and Needed Badly a Man !
The world cries out for such : ho is
needed , and needed badly the man
who can carry a message to Garcia.
EVIDENT !
COKNEO. Globe
ber 7th contains the
following from a former resident of this
propinquity which may be of interest to
the readers of THE CONSERVATIVE :
In accepting an invitation to attend
the Corn Carnival , Paul Morton says :
"What a glorious thing it would be for
Kansas and Nebraska , and other corn
producing states , if wo had the ingenuity
to work up a demand in the Orient for
our corn , substituting American maize
for rice in the stomachs of four or five
hundred million Celestials. A few
years ago , the wise men especially the
U. S. consuls who wrote reports ou the
subject said it was of no use for the
United States to try to export flour to
China and Japan , but a trade in this
product has already developed that
amounts to over $6,000,000 per year.
Why don't you organize a campaign
among the leading Missouri river news
papers for the purpose of agitating an
introduction of American corn foods in
Asia ? It would bo a grand thing for
Kansas and Nebraska , and , indirectly , I
do not see that any evil could come to
the transcontinental railroads , in one of
which I am quite interested. Yours for
corn , Paul'Morton. "
JONES OF TOLEDO.
There are several Joneses in the
country who have become more or less
notorious. There is "old Bill Jones"
who never told a lie , Sam Jones , the re
vivalist , who cannot lie ; J. K. Jones of
Arkansas , tender to Bryauarchy loco
motive ; Jones of Binghumton who
always pays the freight , " and Jones of
Toledo who has the political bee in his
bonnet This Jones is the most inter
esting in the lot. Like Artemus Ward's
coon ho is a "koorus kind of a kups. "
He has a platform of his own , a sort of
automobile machine. Among other
things he demands :
Equality of Opportunity for All
as if there was a shortage in the oppor
tunity market. Jones and his socialistic
ilk do not seem aware that it is not
opportunity that is lacking , but rather
opportunity has a poor chance with so
many ill-fits and misfits. There is a
vast difference between a country of
thirty or forty million people and one of
seventy or eighty. Opportunity multi
plies fast but cannot compete in pro-
lificity with the unfits and misfits.
What Jones and the socialists are trying
to do is to increase the overflowing army
of unfits and misfits at the cost of the
fits. There is no lack of opportunity
for the fits. There is a cryiug demand
for them everywhere. It is the unfits
and misfits only who are cryiug for
opportunity. Politicians do most of the
bawling.
Jones Cries for Self-Covcrnmcnt
totally blind to the fact that self-govern
ment begins at home. Ho says :
"The right of self government through
the abolition of political parties , by
direct nomination of candidates by the
people , and by direct making of laws by
the people. "
Prime's crop report -
. . _
port , issued on
September 2 , says of this cereal :
' 'Fourteen days now of high tempera
ture accompanied by total absence of
rain in the central and southern portions
tions of the corn belt have dried up the
crop , reduced the quality , aud shortened
the yield. These conditions are today
apparent over a much wider area of the
country than I have yet reported. Early
corn out of the way of frost from the
tenth to the fifteenth of September , late
corn about the first of October. Re
serves of the 1898 crop have been very
largely reduced during August. "
Zt seoms' if one
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.1
nmv behove the
newspapers , that
there is a school furniture trust doing
business in Nebraska and that the vigi
lant attorney-general is about to bring
an action to make it quit the state.
When the first sod school-houses
were constructed on these prairies the
money power and the wicked combines
for making desks and beaches had not
materialized. Then slab seats and plain
board desks , manufactured by indige
nous furniture -makers , adorned every
district. That , however , may have
been because "the crime of 1873" had
not then been perpetrated. In any
event the school furniture trust is not
more pronouncedly in favor of higher
prices than is the silver smelter trust.
And when will proceedings begin against
the latter doing business in Omaha ?
riONEEK DAY.
The following explains itself :
OMAHA , Neb. , Sept. 11 , 1899.
EDITOR THE CONSERVATIVE :
Arrangements have been made with
Doctor Miller , president of the Expo
sition Association , for Territorial
Pioneer Days on October fourth and
fifth , thus giving those in attendance
upon the meeting an opportunity of
seeing the Exposition at reduced rates.
The meeting will open at 11 o'clock a.
m. , October the fourth in the Audi
torium building on the grounds. I have
published a notice in the "Pioneer" at
Lincoln stating that Governor Fnrnas ,
J. Sterling Morton , Doctor Miller ,
Orlando Teft and others would address
the association. It is hoped that we
will secure a junnber of the old pioneers
to make short addresses and thus create
new interest in the State Historical
Society. Shall be glad to hear from
you upon the subject.
Very truly yours ,
DANIEL H. WUEELER ,
Acting Secretary.
This is the last opportunity of the
century for the pioneers of Nebraska to
have a reunion. Every one of them ,
should endeavor to bo present for an
interchange of experiences and re
miniscences.
( The Nebraska Territorial Pioneers is
an organization composed of Classes
A and B. Class A consists of those
who located in , or were born in ,
Nebraska prior to March 1 , 1867.
Class B consists of the children
and grand-children of members in Class
A. Deceased persons may be registered
if eligible when living. In each case
the register-card must be filed , and the
register-fee of one dollar paid , to secure
membership. There are no dues and no
salaries ) .
"If McLean is not beaten at the polls
by a tremendous majority Ohio should
emblazon the scarlet letter upon her
shield and border it with muck rakes , "
says the Memphis Scimitar ( dom. ) .
"Ohio politics has never been of the
highest order , but it never before reached
the depth of malodorous fame to which
this nomination forces it to descend. " '
