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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY NEB. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2 1899. NO. 17.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION
OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL
QUESTIONS.
CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 7,000 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 , 1898.
STEALAGE.The proposition
SILVER STEALAGE.
to coin silver in
unlimited quantities at a ratio with gold
of 16 to 1 is a proposition to plunder the
American people , by law.
Silver is worth about sixty cents an
ounce in the bullion markets of the
world. But Bryan and other learned
doctors of finance , with great solemnity ,
assert that the government can make it
worth a dollar and twenty-nine cents by
a mere enactment.
Is it any wiser or more honest for a
government to rob than for an indi
vidual ? If government , by law , puts an
artificial price either upon goods under
a protective tariff or silver under pro
tected coinage , is it not a robber of con
sumers or users ? In the divine com
mandment , "Thou shalt not steal , " if
well understood , is comprised the whole
Hebrew decalogue , with Solon's and
Lycurgns' constitutions , Justinian's pan
dects , the code Napoleon , and all codes ,
catechisms , divinities , moralities what
soever that man has devised ( and en
forced with altar-fire and gallows'ropes )
for his social guidance.
Robert W. Fur-
TWO MEN.
nas came from his
native Ohio in 1850 to untried and un
known Nebraska. He came filled with
the grand ambition to become a bene
factor to his county , to the whole com
monwealth. "With a natural inclination
for research in botany and horticulture
he took up their study with intense
ardor and unflagging persistency.
Every day , week and , mouth for more
than- forty years Robert W. Furnas
delved , thought , planned.and labored
for the floral and horticultural develop
ment of Nebraska. His neighbors , his
friends , the whole citizenship of Ne
braska became enthused for orchards
and flowers , for home embellishments.
The influence of Robert W. Furnas is
everywhere in Nebraska. It smiles
beuiguantly from orchards ablaze with
glowing fruit , from groves , and with
compassionate tenderness beautifies our
cemeteries and adorns the graves of our
loved and lost. Never while the sun
shines and the earth revolves will the
beneficence which Robert W. Fnrnas
has bestowed by teachings , example and
influence in the fields of arboriculture ,
orcharding and floriculture , cease to
caress and bless the people of this state.
He has made his influence for practical
good , for utility and for beauty , ever
lasting , deathless.
William J. Bryan is another eminent
Nebraskan. Instead of trees and flowers
he has planted and cultivated words.
The parallel between the works of
Governor Furuas on the one hand and
the words of Colonel Bryan on the other
is like a parallel between a wall of
adamant utility and a pleasant summer
wind. The trees of Furnas live and
bless posterity with shade , shelter and
fruit. The words of Bryan , like winds
over the ocean , arouse discontent , make
industrial wrecks and , subsiding , are lost
and forgotten in the flat expanse. Like
stars , the works of Furnas will endure
a constant blessing. Like summer
insects and soft drinks the words of
Bryan perish with the year and are
forgotten.
_ _ _ Is the sixteen-to-
SICIv. , , , .
one stalwartism in
a decline ? What is the matter ? Why
are the organs of Bryauarchy so silent
about the Heaven-born , God-given ratio ?
They should be stronger and more
positive than ever concerning their
theories of coinage. Their leader has
proved that even candidature for office
is good "for the money that is in it ; "
because breath has been , by him , trans
muted into dollars 1 Husking corn al
three cents a bushel is not so profitable
an industry as husking the vocabulary
of the English tongue from , pigmy
thought-nubbins at a hundred dollars an
hourl
When mere words are thus coined
into cash by Colonel Bryan , why shoulc
his followers weaken on the free coinage
of silver in unlimited quantities at the
ratio of 10 to 1 ? Who is sick of silver ?
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In 1890 Colonel
FALLS CITY.
Bryan wept at ,
Falls City because of the low prices of
exchangeable things. But in 1899 the
same lachrymose lecturer sheds more
tears at that town because prices are
high. At Falls City Colonel Bryan
always weeps.
All his followers should whoop it up
for free trade and lower prices one day ,
and yell for free coinage and higher
prices the next. Then they will prove
true to Bryan as other wind-vanes to Vlr
other winds.
Some months
BRYAN'S TRUTH. * * 2
ago THE CONSER
VATIVE , criticising the Bryanic methods
of denouncing anything and everything
which , in the form of incorporated or
other capital was striving to get
money , suggested that the wholesale
derision of money , "the money power"
and people who worked for money , ill-
became a man who first sought public
with the avowal ' 'I
place : assure you
it is the money that is in the office and
not the honor that attract me. "
Then the friends of Mr. Bryan de
clared and proclaimed that Bryan had
never uttered such a thought. With
unanimity the gunless colonels , clientless -
less lawyers , and other integrals of the
composite discontent , for which Colonel
Bryan makes war upon the prosperity of
the country , pronounced THE CONSER
VATIVE all kinds of an unattractive liar.
To their denials THE CONSERVATIVE
paid no attention , although it published
a few samples of their maledictions , for
future use. But at last the great law
giver himself , the man with more words
and fewer thoughts than any living : > !
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talker , the lawyer with no clients , the v , V. .
statesman with no imprint on the
statutes , the financier who never made
a dollar , except as other promoters
make money by gab , the soldier who
enlisted to resign , whose battles are of
words , only , personally and sweepiugly
denied the charge and laid the lie to
THE CONSERVATIVE. The issue was
thus made up. Bryan's facsimiled
letter settled the issue. Bryan's truth
is in that letter : "I assure you it is the
money in the office that attract me. "
Bank clearings for last week showed
a gain of 81 per cent over the same week
in 1898 , of 42 per cent over 1897 , of 87
per cent over 1890 , and of 100 per cent
over 1898.