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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1899)
v. the Conservative. Every gold standard GOLD STANDARD. dard democrat in Nebraska who wishes gold standard fire insurance to prevail and liquidate losses in Nebraska , instead of a sixteen-to-one- assessment fire insurance should vote against House Rent Holcomb. Every gold standard man who wishes the administration of justice in accord ance with the golden rule should vote for Manoah B. Reese for the supreme court. Every gold standard democrat should' vote against fusionista and fusion in Nebraska. Any gold democrat who may incline to vote the bologna-sausage ticket , made up out of three different meats , can before refusing , fusing or being refused , read the masterful speech of Colonel Bryan , made at Richmond , Virginia , in 1800 , in which the octopus orator says : "Lwant to warn you who are con templating deserting from the demo cratic party at this time , that the man who , in the face of such an enemy , either gops to the rear or is found in secret conference with the enemy , is a traitor upon wliom the brand fhall be placed and HE SHALL NOT COME BACK. " Colonel Bryan has forbidden the gold standard democrats of Nebraska voting for Holcomb or any other free silver howler. Do not disobey the mandates of Boss Bryan. The de-pulpit- A RAVING LUNATIC. ized preacher who runs the organ of Bryanarchy at Lincoln is now , if he may be judged by his language , a raving lunatic. His most menacing mania , however , is only brought on instantly , at the sight of truth he has vera-phobia. f > It never , throws him into convulsions as long as ho reads only his own writings , just as a dog in a desert , never has spasms of hydrophobia because ho sees ' no water. But when THE CONSEUVA- * TIVE is placed before the unfortunate , he has yelling paroxysms , horrible con tortions. "With vera-phobia the victim always acts thus in the presence of truth. Tire CONSEUVA- TO FARMERS. TIVE calls the at tention of farmers to the fact that , with their corn , wheat , oats , rye and barley , their hogs , horses and cattle , farmers are constantly buying money. The persons who buy the farm products are selling money. These money sellers demand cereals , meats and all other farm products , of such a high grade of excellence that they will compel demand for themselves in all the markets of the world. These money sellers never ex change for products that are of a doubt ful quality. "Why then should the farmer exchange for money of doubtful quality ? If the things he sells must be good enough for all the world why ( -m < > should ho not demand in exchange for thorn money good enough for all the world ? Why ask for silver , which fluctuates in purchasing power with the ups and downs of silver bullion , when , by asking , ho cnn get gold , the bullion value and mint value of which remains the same ? Buying money with the fruits of his field the farmer should de mand the best money in the world , or its interchangeable equivalent , gold. He should have a metallic money which , when it has been melted into bullion is worth as much as it was worth in coin. Silver in coin is § 1.29 an ounce ; in bul lion 57 cents an ounce. Gold is worth as much in nuggets as in coins. * " * * HEALTH DRINK. . J forty-year old Ne braska City paper the formula for a certain elixir in which our forerunners of that day wore firm believers ; they adhered to it as religiously as Don Quixote to his balsam , or d'Artagnan to the remedy he had from his mother. "Take one pint of whiskey ; stir it well with one spoonful of whiskey ; then add another pint of whiskey ; beat care fully with a spoon , and keep pouring in whiskey. Fill a largo bowl with water and have the servants put it out of your reach. Take a small tumbler , pour in two spoonfuls of water ; pour out the water , fill up with whiskey , and add to the above. Flavor with whiskey to your taste. " The good old days when prominent citizens went drunk to bed or-fought in the streets have gone by ; but a certain broad humor has gone with them , which could not so well bo spared. In his fnmou8 M a disou Square Garden ppeech of 180G , Colonel Bryan , economist , orator and prophet , declared : "Under bimetallism silver bullion will bo worth as much as silver coin , just as gold bullion is now worth as much as gold coin , and we believe that a silver dollar will be worth as much as a gold dollar. " Chapter ten of Proverbs , 81st verse , reads : "The month of the just bringeth forth wisdom ; but the froward tongue shall be cut out. " And again in Proverbs find : "A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth ; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. " The last text indicates that there were platform speakers in Biblical times who coined their conceits into cash. A new "exclusively literary" paper called Literary Life has just been started in New York. It uses the word "elec trocute" truly a shocking word in the second line of its salutatory , and becomes humorous in the fourth , calling the American congress by implication a place of torment. Many of the gold REMOVE IIOT1I EVILS. standard men of the national demo cratic party and sonic of the gold stand ard men of the national republican party realize the danger to the republic from McKinley imperialism. They regard it with the same dread that they viewed the attempted de basement of the currency of the United States in 189G by Bryanarchy. But they hope and believe that before the election of IflOO the fear of a debased currency and the dread of imperialism will be effaced. Neither McKinleyisui nor Bryanarchy will bo forced upon the anti-imperialist , gold standard voters of 11)00. ) 11)00.Not Not one of them should vote the fusion state ticket in Nebraska next week. Every vote for Holcomb is a vote for free silver. The day after UNHARNESSED. election there will be a number of unharnessed statesmen straying around in Nebraska looking for new issues and winter quarters. They will not prance as gaily nor kick as viciously as before the election or before the crime of 1873 was ignored. "Nineteen hundred SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. dred and eighty- seven voters lis tened in ecstatic rapture to Colonel Bryan in the beautiful and commodious opera house at Weeping "Water City. " HE HE LONGBUANCH. "Seventeen hundred and ten men , women and children , swayed by the matchless oratory of Colonel Bryan , howled in harmonious applause while he paralyzed Reese at Syracuse. " HA HA LONGBOW. "Colonel Bryan addressed the crowd from the rear end of a train near Dun- bar. There were five thousand present. The ears upon every corn stalk in an adja cent field crawled up onto a barbed-wire fence and listened to his super-Webster- ian oration. " B. MUNCHAUSEN. 1 'Fifteen thousand six hundred and ton persons welcomed Colonel Bryan to Holdrego on Saturday last. They wept so while he depicted the oppressions of railroads and other corporate diabol isms that the fall wheat and autumnal pasturage in that vicinity has been much improved. His defense and eulogy of House Rent Holcomb was a magnificent tribute from one great and good states man to another. 'The plain people' were in beatitudes , ordinary bliss was below par. " GULLIVER. Everybody knows that sunlight is a good thing for the skin , though few people ever expose much of their skin to its operation. But in Denmark the doctors are experimenting with a light- cure for consumption , , and find that concentrated light lulls the bacteria in a few seconds.