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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1899)
"Che Conservative. THE CONSERVATIVE JUDGK NKVIM.K. TIVE is pleased to observe the versatility and also the fidelity to principle which distinguish and gild with sm ared-on glory the political career of Judge Neville , Cleve land register - of the land-office - gold- standard democrat in 1894 ; Olem- Deaver-populist judge in 1897 ; and Har rington-democrat and- Bryan combina tion get-there-Eli candidate for congress hi 1899. Whoever said "the leopard cannot change his spots nor the African his skin" impugned the kaleidoscopic capa bilities of Neville. And any man who mistakes that great and good judge for a leopard or an African is himself no judge of zoological phenomena ! There is said to PKACTICAT , POLITICS. he a neighbor of Ju dge William Vincent Allen formerly the long-dis- tance-Mephone orator in the United States senate from Nebraska who has laid by ten cents every time he has heard William Vincent aforesaid pro claim the robbery of farmers by rail roads and the importance to the govern ment of purchasing , owning and rtfnning said railroads. The result is a bank account of seven hundred and ten dollars lars and ten cents which he calls "the Allen penance fund. " The man who avers that Judge Allen , sole proprietor of political positions in northern Nebraska , has not benefited his neighbors would no doubt seek office for "the money in it rather than the honor. " BAI.ANCK OF TKADK. OMATTA , Neb. , Sept. 29 , 1899. EDITOR OF THE CONSERVATIVE : The writer desires to have elucidated , by competent authority , the meaning and significance of the term "balance of trade. " It is claimed by prominent periodicals that the greater the "balance of trade" is iu "our favor , " the greater is our prosperity. In other words , the meas tire of our prosperity is the excess of our exports over imports ; if the excess is. say. four million d illars during the past year , that represents our gnhi ; con versely , that amount represents our /o.s/t. / The former leads to wealth and afflu ence , the latter to the poor house. Is the above proposition correct as to commodities like gold and silver ? If not , why not ? And if not , why to com modities like copper , nickel , wheat , iron and corn ? They are alike the products of labor and alike subject , in degree , to the equal laws of trade ? It does seem to the. writer , at times , that , excessive exports ar indicia of an excessive desire to sell and consequent quent low home prices "bearing" the market. Conversely , excessive imports indicate an increasing desire to buy and consequent rising home prices "bull ing" the market. And would not the possession of a greater number of the "good things of the earth" conduce to our greater well-being ? It is not a question of increasing ex ports and imports over former years , but , that the nature and the size of this "balance" is the measure the barometer meter of our economic condition. "We know , approximately , this "bal ance" as far is the United States are concerned. Following is a report show ing the situation in Great Britain and Ireland for five months ending May 01 , 1895 and J89G : Imports , 1805 $820.inO,9fll. ( 1890 ? 881,223ai > 0. Exports , 1S95 ? 551,25o,0fi3. ; 1890 ? < 102,13'iU7. ! "In the liolc , " * 275-i0112S. { $ I > SO,093,033. The foregoing has been practically the relative "balance" of Great Britain for the last fifty years. Prior to 1846 it was the reverse. According to the above proposition , and the. figures , how long will it take Great Britain to wind up in the hands of a receiver ? Other interesting phases will suggest themselves to a competent eluoidator of this question. FRANK HELLER. NEPOTISM. 1 * ? certain that the Hon. William Vincent Allen ever billeted a nephew on the pay roll of Uncle Sam. it is alleged with positiveness , by certain persons now in Washington , that the aforesaid pure and patriotic exemplar of reform populism did manage to provide for a fair share of the members of his household by hitching them to the money-drawing power of public places. How many ? Who were they ? Give us the nomenclature of the Allen appointees about the United States senate and at the state house iu Lincoln ! Has he kindred with jobs or does he work them all on his big farm which the railroads and other corporate cormorants are rob bing ? THKK r. abl ° tlm > "K of ad mirers and follow ers of Bryan are each one of them to plant a tree next Arbor Day for every time they have been able to hear or see in a speech of Colonel Bryan the phrase " lain . " 1 people. ( It is estimated that nine-tenths of the American continent \\ill thus in asiugle d y be devoted to arboriculture. Should a tree bo planted for every financial fallacy which has been uttered by the gallant Colonel during his di dactic pereurinations of the last four years the United States would all bo "in the woods ! " If the inane words uttered by Bryan had turned into trees since 1890 there would bo no prairies , plains , garden sites or other bare spots on the globe. , , , , . , , A statesman at DIYKIISIONS. . . , TTT Washington , who formerly graced the United States senate , is said to have been exceedingly fond of liquids and melodies mixed. For days , three days at a time , he would linger about the haunts of music and champagne and in his most ecstatic moments demand the rendering of that majestic and solemn hymn , "Nearer My God to Thee. " The tastes and habits of reformers are not wholly bad , nor yet , entirely beyond criticism. if" is really true , as the Springfield Republican says , that most of the recruits for service in the army nowadays are drawn in merely by the prospect of travel and adventure ? Why not rredit them with a little patriotism , oven if one is agin the war ? " Boston Herald. THE CONSERVATIVE agrees with the Springfield Republican. Will the Bos ton Herald explain or dare it assert that there has been or is one fact , one condi tion in this war , from the day of its declaration against Spain until today , which in any way calls on the American people to feel or show an idea of patriot ism ? Big-headism , Americanism or national pride is not patriotism. It often destroys it. While no one but an ass or an idiot thought , thinks or be lieves there has been or is anything humanitarian in this war ; still , had there been , humanitarianism is not patriotism. It is generally quite the other thing. Patriotism is intelligent self-hood. It is studying the welfare of all for self preservation. Anything else is emotional insanity , bravado or ex treme selfishness. THE CONSERVA- Kill. AIV . UISAIM'OINTMENT.TIVE published that when Wm. J. Bryan first began asking for office in Nebraska , in the year 1889 , he assured a person that "it is the money that is iu the office and not the honor that attract me. " It was supposed that TUB CON SERVATIVE could prove , by a person whom Mr. Bryan's friends would not attempt to impeach , that such assurance was given by William J. Bryan. But circumstances at present prevent intro ducing the evidence of the individual who would establish the truth of what THE CONSERVATIVE has heretofore as serted , i. e. that Mr. Bryan was seeking to become the secretary of the railroad commission for the state of Nebraska ; that ho ( Bryan ) said he wanted the office for the money and not the honor which attached to it. Pos-ibly in some future issue of THE CONSERVATIVE the evidence of the portion referred to ( a parson , by the way , of whom Mr. Bryan thinks a great deal ) may bo secured and published.
