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then state socialism , at least to the ex
tent of the public control of semi or
natural monopolies , will have a more
serious hearing than it has yet obtained *
ALRERT W ATKINS.
Lincoln , Neb.
Mr >
CROKKU WIM.
correspondent of
AID GOEIIKI , .
the New York
World , closes his account of Mr. Bryan's
Kentucky tour with this significant
paragraph :
"The Goebel democrats of Kentucky
have built great hopes upon Mr. Bryan's
visit to the state , but they want more
money. National Committeeman Urey
"Woodson left tonight for New York ,
and it is said that he carries a letter
from Mr. Bryan to Mr. Oroker , who is
expected to help in raisiiig funds. "
This money , which is to come from
Oroker's political treasury , is blackmail
and blood money. In New York the
houses of ill-repute , the gambling
houses , the vicious dives of every kind
and character , all pay tribute to Croker.
Thieves and burglars purchase freedom
with money. Great corporations pur
chase peace and freedom from inter
ference by tribute to Croker. To Oroker
Mr. Goebel now appeals , and his appeal
is backed by Mr. Bryan.
Let Kentucky democrats think of this
new alliance. Goebel , Bryan and
Croker. Time was when in Kentucky
Mr. Bryan was considered the exponent
of a democracy that was at eternal war
with all for which Croker stands ; now
he introduces Goebel's messenger to
this modern Tweed , and asks Croker to
help Goebel.
On the very day that Bryan was send
ing Woodson to Croker , Judge Daly , in
New York , was thus describing Oroker
and the Croker dynasty :
"It is a power which has practically
destroyed our political institutions and
substituted the will of one man for the
will of the people.
"There is no need to rehearse the dis
creditable catalogue of ills from which
we suffer. It seems incredible , that
with so much that is good , honest ,
charitable , pure and brave among us ,
we should continue to suffer such ills.
It should be inconceivable that any man
should be permitted , by the simple
scheme of using votes as an industry , to
hold the purses and property of the
whole community as his personal emolu-
ent. It is even more astonishing that
when the remedy is in the hands of the
citizen when he has only to register
and vote in order to regain control of his
government and rule his municipal ser
vants instead of being ruled by them
that any man should be found so sloth
ful or negligent as to refrain from that
alight exertion to preserve his rights. "
The difference between the Oroker
dynasty and the Goebel dynasty is that
in New York the people have still au
untrammeled ballot ; in Kentucky
Goebel has tried in advance to deny to
the people an apppeal to the polls.
It becomes clearer every day that
Oroker , McLean , Harrison and Goobel ,
all belong to one organization , and that
they intend to establish their Oligarchy
on the ruins of the democratic party.
While Woodson is in New York beg
ging aid of Oroker , let the people of
Kentucky arouse themselves to a last
struggle with these foes of personal free
dom. We have beaten Goebol ; we have
beaten Blackburn ; we have drawn the
fangs of the Force bill ; we have heard
unmoved Mr Bryan's appeal to us to
sacrifice honor and morality to political
expediency ; now wo have to meet the
war fund of Oroker and Tammany Hall.
But unless we are greatly mistaken ,
there is not money enough at Oroker's
command to buy Kentucky. Louisville
Post.
The following
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from the New
York Herald , early in 1800 , revives the
memory of a project for the benefit of
the desert we inhabit , which was plaus
ible indeed , but of which nothing ever
came.
"From the Mississippi valley and the
Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean ,
over a territorial area exceeding in ex
tent a million of square miles , the camel
may be multiplied by thousands , with a
still increasing demand for more. Dis
tribute him liberally among those inter
vening deserts , and he will soon people
them with industrious settlements , and
reduce immensely the present esti
mates of the cost of a Pacific railroad.
We regard the introduction of the
camel , in this view , as equivalent to the
transformation of our Western desert
wastes into fruitful and populous dis
tricts ; and we think , too , in this con
nection , and that at no distant day , our
former consuls in Egypt Gliddon and
McOauley will be enrolled among the
great benefactors of mankind , on ac
count of their services in bringing the
camel to the favorable attention of our
government. "
So far as THE CONSERVATIVE is aware ,
none of the cities of the plains have ever
erected statues to Messrs. Gliddon and
McOauley ; and we are of the opinion
that the late P. T. Barnum introduced
the camel to more Americans , or more
Americans to the camel , than those
gentlemen ever did. It is true that at
tempts have been made , particularly in
the southwest , to make commercial use
of the camel ; but the Pacific road wor
ried through , and the industrious settle
ments struggled up , without his aid.
One wonders , however , what Nebraska
Oity would have been like in the freight
ing days , with her streets full of Arabs
and camels in place of the violent bull-
whacker and his unostentatious ox-
team ?
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"THE KOUTKS TO TIIK GOI/D MINES. " ' &
During the freighting days , while *
each of the river-towns was striving to
become the metropolis , the local news
papers were scattered through the older
settlements , filled with suitable reading-
matter , in the hope of attracting immi
gration. The Nebraska City papers
were as active in this work as any of
their neighbors. We reprint below a
synopsis of the various routes across the
plains , which was published in the early
spring of 1860 ; it gives an outline of the
geography of the period , which is timely v ' ' , /jt
in view of the revived interest in matters - * " .
tors to the . * %
pertaining pre-railroad days. * %
"The principal routes to the Nebraska *
Gold Mines are four in number , viz :
from Omaha , from Nebraska City , from :
St. Joseph ( by the Leavenworth trail )
and from Kansas City by the way of the
Arkansas river and Bent's fort.
The Council Bluffs and Omaha routes
cross the Papillions , the Elkhorn and
Loup fork , three large and bad streams ,
and a great number of smaller ones , and
the Plalle , the worst river to ford in the
West , and is nearly GOO miles long. t ,
The St. Joseph and Leavenworth
route crosses the Soldier , the Grasshop
per , the Nemaha , the Walmit , the Big
Blue , the Sandy , the Little Blue , and , .
many other tributaries of the Kansas
river , at points where there are no
bridges , and which are difficult to ford.
This route is from 650 to 700 miles.
From Kansas Oity the route leads up
the Kanpas and Arkansas rivers , over a
bad and very roundabout road. It is a
feasible , and the best route for emigrants '
from Texas , Arkansas and southern
Missouri. From Kansas City to the
mouth of Cherry Creek the road is about
900 miles.
The road from Nebraska City , which r
is the westermost point on the Missouri
river , runs upon a "divide" between the
southern tributaries of the Platte and
the northern ones of the Kansas , and
crosses but one stream of more than a i
few inches of water on the whole route. *
It is well timbered and watered along
the whole route for camping purposes ,
and has an abundant supply of grazing
the whole distance. It is about 500
miles the road has not ( nor have any )
been measured , but we judge from the
time of travel ; ox teams have come
from Aurora to Nebraska City in
twenty-five days.
One of the best ferries on the river is
located at Nebraska Oity. "
This ferry was that operated , under a
charter from the territorial legislature ,
by Captain John B. Boulware , from
whom the glen in which the Vitrified * .
Brick works lie had its name of Boul-
ware's Hollow. Later several steam
ferry-boats were kept busy at this
crossing.
Fruit trees along the highways in
Belgium made a return of $3,000,000
last year.