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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1899)
jk&m ! * * * t3be Conservative * of a remedy. As Oockran had declared that among the means of reducing the power of a trust tariff protection should bo withdrawn from it , Bryan , in order to antagonize him , disputed this , and his supporters will bo pained to have such a big spoke knocked out of their wheel. For the rest ho contented him self with running up and down the gamut of "solemn warnings" and "viewing with alarm. " The situation affected him badly , and there ran through his speech an undertone of con viction that Bryan himself in the remrdy for all public evils. Ho is evidently of opinion that ho is a pill that will cure the national liver of its torpidity , and a nerve and bone liniment which will set right the sprains and bruises of the national body. When he speaks he thinks , but his thought is : "Take me. I am the arnica and the Pond's extract ; the liver pad and porous plaster ; thr cliolagocjue and emulsion ; no other re quired. " His quackery , like all quackery , de pends on words , high-sounding terms and phrases. Cockrau measured him perfectly when he said : "I am free to confess that when you have called an aggregation of capital a combination , 'a hydra-headed monster , an octopus , ' you cost no light that can illuminate my pathway. I can understand how the use of these phrases can have some effect , as nothing frightens people so much as in comprehensible names. Let a noise be made now that we do not understand and we will all bo looking out of the win dows. Men can be put to intellectual flight by the terrifying noises of sound. " That is the correct estimate of Mr. Bryan as a tocsin , a drumhead , a gourd full of peas , make a noise that is inex pressive of thought. His ideas of poli tics is copied from the Chinese idea of war. Instead of inventing defensive arms and paying attention to tactics , the Chinese military establishment en courages the invention of gongs , tom toms and other racket-producing instru ments which can make such a jargon of sound as to terrify the enemy with a noise which it never heard before and therefore is afraid of. But Mr Bryan is not a new invention. He emitted sound and propagated fury in 1896 , and has been at it ever since. His noises are all registered and known and excite no more terror than the vesper braying of the useful jtvck or the matin gurgle of a Shanghai rooster. San Francisco Call. ' ' ThoDouglas THE MONEY POWER. County organ of populism , fusion. confusion , illusion and delusion is evi dently a worshiper , an adorer of "The Money Power" as a vote-compelling agenoy. In a late issue it gives notice to the world in general and heralds to the republicans in Nebraska especially , i ; ho fnot that the eruptions of Coin Harvey in this state have resulted in raising corruption funds as follows : "Tho campaign fund of the people of Nebraska , for 1000 , being raised under the auspices of the national ways and means committee , by counties , as re ported through the Puckers' National bank of South Omaha , to which all money and pledges are sent is up to date as follows : Total cash to date , f 2,058.50. Total subscriptions , fl4,535.75. "The World-Herald will publish the list by counties , from time to time , with additions , as they are made. The table printed gives the vote for Bryan in 1890 , and compares therewith the cash and total subscriptions by percentage. "It will bo observed that Greeley county has , up to this time , subscribed the equivalent of 74 cents for each vote for Bryan in 1896 , and by percentage stands at the head of the list of counties For cash , Richardson county has $167.50 to its credit , or 6 % cents p r voter , and , for cash paid in , ranks first over all other counties. " ZOLA AND NKBKASKA CITY. M. Emile Zola , of France and Switzer land , has been writing novels for a score of years with the purpose of telling the whole truth about life as it is now lived , for the benefit of both contem poraries and posterity. As there is a great deal in real life of a certain class of phenomena which may , for con venience , bo called the unbashful , so M. Zola's fiction notoriously contains a largo unbashful element. His work appears to have boon laid out , however , on such a plan that whereas his early books are composed of much unbashfulnoss and a little wisdom , the wisdom distinctly predominates in those which came later. Along with his program in this scheme has naturally gone a corresponding change in the make-up of M. Zola's audience. His last book has for its moral the duty of having children. Things have come to such a pass in his own land that it is known as "childless France , " and successive censuses show a decreasing population. Nothing could be plainer than the proposition that those who have children shall inherit the earth , and yet there are many people nowadays who are quite content to let their line end with themselves. Not only in France , but in very many communities in our own country , there is an appall ing number , how great only the physi cians know , who are unwilling , and even no longer able , to bear and raise children. M. Zola's warning , that the large families must inevitably prevail over their competitors in the long-run , may well therefore cause many people to reflect elsewhere than in Franco. And here comes a Nebraska City doctor with the statement , extremely gratifying to THE CONSERVATIVE , who sees in it a promise of great things for the future , that the women of Nebraska City are of a singularly high degree of physical pHrfectiou ; and this he says not alone of the women of the working class but of the well-to do also. In no other place of his acquaintance has he seen children so generally desired , or even welcome ; and where children are thought to bo an evil , there will a train of counter evils arise , by which the physicians thrive , but which are the root of untold misery to individuals , and of incalculable ultimate harm to the community. CLUBBING KATES. THE CONSERVATIVE and the Daily and Sunday Kansas City Star for one year for $4.25 ; or THE CONSERVATIVE and Wenkly Star for one year for $1.60. Address , Tun CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska City , Neb. The constitution of the United States reads : ' ' "We , the people of the United States , in order to form a more perfect " ourselves "insure Union" ( between ) domest io tranquillity" ( among ourselves ) "provide for the common defense" ( of ourselves ) "promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves" ( individually ) "and to our posterity" ( individually ) "do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America. "
