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"Che Conservative ,
AND . o think that
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lilt VAX.
Croker will be
charmed with the fncfc that Bryan de
clared so early in his political career
"I assure you it is the money that is in
the office and not the honor that attract
me. "
There is a Tammany tnste to the
grammar and a Tammany flavor to the
avowal of th > object of getting public
position which ought to give a Tweed-
like zest to the enthusiasm of a certain
class of Crokcrites.
If Tammany does not support Colonel
Bryan after reading his frank avowal
of the reason ho had for trying to become -
come secretary of the board of 11 ans-
portation for the .state of Nebraska , in
1880 , it will not be true to the Tweedish
proverb that "public office is a private
snap. "
"Why are the
1WYAN AND
DKFKAT. people not fright
ened about free
silver as they- wore in 1890 ? " asks the
Baltimore American , "when the hue
and cry about it paralyzed business in
the rifh st country in the world. " The
American answers its own question as
follows : "Because they know that if a
free silver candidate is nominated next ,
year lie will surely b beaten , and ,
knowing this , th y are assun d that the
currency will not be disturbed. They
go aleut their business , and let the
politicians , who appear to be incapable
of understanding the logic of events ,
si
talk and squabble as much as they
like. "
THADK.
MR. EDITOR : Your correspon
dent , Mr. Frank Heller , shows , accord
ing to a fallacy much in vogne. that
Great Britain must be getting poorer
all the time , since her imports exceed
her exports. There is no sound political
economist who regards an excess of ex
ports over imports as proof of increasing
wealth or vice verxa. If a merchant in
9ft : ' Now York ships goods to London worth
$10 000 and gets goods in return worth
$ 20.000 , the excess of imports is just
$10,000 ; but that does not show that our
country has lost that amount.
Respectfully ,
A. B. SMITH.
Little Rock , Ark. , Oct. 6 , 1899.
NOIILE DESCENDANTS.
EDITOR OF THE CONSERVATIVE :
Nebraska City , Nob.
If the census department would , while
taking the coming census , take an ac
count of the number of men who claim
descent from English. Scotch and Irish
lords , it would be mighty interesting
reading , particularly when referring to
the recent statement of Lord Charles
Beresford that there was not a legiti-
mate descendant of his family in the
United States , notwithstanding the
facts.
Ho Rays that there are people in this
country bearing his name and going so
far as to wear the crest of the family
How do these gentlemen feel at his
statement , if they are relatives of his
lordship ?
The late Lord Fitzmorris who wa
shot in Ireland had , it is stated , several
illegitimate relatives in this country.
If such were not the case he might ,
probably bo.living today ; but some poor
girl's relative took revenge upon this
rascal and his debauchery.
Yours truly ,
RALPH : WILSON.
The publication
N * LKTTKU.
of the letter of Mr.
Bryan inwhich he paid he wanted
a public office for the money there was
in it seems to have angered Bryan and
his friends. The contrast between the
sentiment expressed by Hon. T. B Reed
in regard to holding an office and that
sentiment of Colonel Bryan is not satis
fying to the latter and his followers.
But if Mr. Bryan had been less
abusive of his fellow citizens who have ,
by attention to business , acquired
money ; less vehement in denouncing as
1 greed" all legitimate attempts to
secure a competency in commercial or
professional life , his letter would not
appear to such disadvantage. It is only
in contrast with Bryan's assumption of
superior purity and a standard of
patriotism higher than that of any other
American citizen , as to his love of the
poor plain people , that the phrase "I
assure you it is the money that id in thu
office and not the honor that attract
me , " looks so paradoxical and miscon-
coptive of the higher motives which
should prompt all good citizens to wish
to serve and help the commonwealth.
The meekness of
MOSES. . . . . .
Moses has been a
model for all humble people during the
last two or three thousand years. But
whether Moses ever kept silence , while
charged with lying , and at the same
time hud a letter in his pocket from the
gentleman who made the charge , is not
recorded.
Bryanarchists seem to think that the
editor of THE CONSERVATIVE had neither
legal nor moral right to settle the ques
tion of veracity between himself and
Mr. Bryan by the introduction , as evi
dence , of the facsimiled letter of the
latter. But .with a humility and meek
ness that would knock the record of
Moses 'clear out , and a patience which
would make Job appear an irritable and
waspish old curmudgeon , the editor waste
to remain quiet and speechless and
evidonceless. But he was not so meek
nor so patient.
At the next annual -
OVKIU.AKD
nual meotmg of
the Nebraska State
Historical Society , which will be held
in Lincoln on the evenings of January 9
and 10 , one whole evening will be de
voted to the subjpct of the old overland
freighting business 1845-18G8. When
the program is printed , it will be sent to
all old freighters and settlers who mean
while send their addresses to the office
of the society. The opportunity to pre
serve information on the subject of
freighting is fast passing away. Those
who know best what freighting was and
who can tell most about it , have long
been gray , and their number is getting
fewer daily. All freighters are urged to
lose no time in writing what they can
recall of the days and sending it to the
society. Information need not be in
any special form. Diaries , notes , circu
lars , newspapers , anything relating to
freighting will be considered valuable
and very gladly accep.ed by the society.
Information is wanted on such subjects
as freight rates , kinds of goods hauled ,
wages of teamsters , profits of business ,
unusually large trains or hauls , time
made by the trains routes traveled ,
stations , condition of roads , amount of
feed and water , obsolete names and ex
pressions used by freighters , numbers of
freighters , wagons , oxen , etc. , and
special adventures. The names of all
the old freighters are wanted , as well as
when and where they were employed ,
and when they died , or whore they now
live. The society wants to place in its
fire-proof rooms any paintings and
pictures of freighting scenes and will be
under obligation to any one sending
such.
The subject of the old roads is of great
importance. All who can are asked to
help locate just where each of the roads
used in freighting and other traffic ,
crossed each county. If a few men in
each county will send the society a
tracing of the roads across their own
county , it will be very easy to record
the entire road system of this country
as it existed before the time of railroads
and section lines.
It is desired that all freighters who
can , will attend the meeting and talk
over the early days.
JAY AMOS BARRETT ,
Asst. Sec. and Librarian.
Office of the Society ,
Lincoln , Oct. 10 , 1899.
POLITICAL.
"Civil service reform is wise and just
and equitable , " says the Boston Journal
( rep. ) . "Those Pennsylvauiaus who denounce -
nounce it do not know what they do. It
is as absurd and futile to call for the re
peal of the reform law as it would bo to
demand the abrogation of the constitu
tional amendments against slavery. "