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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1899)
. , . .w. . . , , . . . . . . . , e Conservative VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , NOVEMBER g , 1899. NO. 18. \ PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOU. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 7,023 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 CONBEIIVATIVE , Nebraska City , Neb. Advertising Rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1808. COAI , SCARCITY. Ohump Olark , bird-of-freedom orator from Missouri , is a "heeler" for Bryaii- archy , and , ill his zeal for the cause , declares Bryan himself , a "divine healer , " the -hem of whose garments multitudes of Missourians endeavored to "touch , " in the presence of Olark and another chump , who were meekly fol lowing through the streets this political Schlatter. The first fruit of discontent and the opposing of labor to capital as taught by Holcornb , Allen , Bryan & Co. is visible in the coal scarcity. The coal miners were getting the wages they themselves demanded. But to antagonize business , suppress manufacture and injure rail roads they have deliberately created a famine in coal. It will throw thousands out of employment. It will bring hunger and cold to women and children. It is a first fruit of Bryauarchy. THE CONSERVATIVE THE TROUBLE IN KANSAS. TIVE has always held that Kansas was constantly in paroxysmal politics and sociological contortions by heredity. The territory was settled by car loads of job-lot humanity sent in by the southern fire-eaters of the South and the Beecher Rifle and Bible clubs of the North. From such a beginning has been bred jv race of quick-action emotionals who can give one year eighty thousand republican - . can majority and the next elect an ex- confederate colonel congressman at large over a federal republican general. These electric reversals of popular senti ment in Kansas , .which como with spasmodic irregularity , und operate as political cyclones and social earthquakes are now , however , attributed to bad cooks by W. A. White , who in a recent number of the Atchison Globe , says : "What Kansas needs is cooks. There is too much monkey business going on about this , that or the other cause. Give men and women good wholesome food and they will have good wholesome minds to consider public questions in a good , wholesome sensible manner. Populism is the outward and visible sign of the frying pan. If the women of Kansas had known how to broil meat on a hot gridiron , the men of Kansas would not have made the state a laugh ing stock for half a decade and pounded the price of real estate down to a humili ating point. Fried steak has no more nutriment than fried shavings , yet thousands of pounds are chucked into the sour stomachs of this town every mouth. When men break down under such treatment and fail to make enough money to let their wives go to conven tions to help the cause the men are abused for being parsimonious old brutes , aud the wife's kin point to other men , who live on wholesome food , and regret that such a good girl should throw herself away so. " If platitudes were riches Colonel Bryan would be the wealthiest man on earth. Aside from the crop of gold and the crown of thorns , which were looted from the literature of another , the bequests of Colonel Bryan to the rhetoric and oratory of the United States are un appreciated. When a dentist advertises to fill six teen teeth with silver at the same rate charged for one filled with gold ho is a practical bimetallist , not only with his own mouth but with the mouth of everybody else. The fact that Nebraska City is the manufacturing town of Nebraska , which consumes , by conversion into com modities , more than twelve thousand bushels of cereals every day , is begin ning to be noised about. From London to Hong Kong , Argo starch and Nebras ka City Cereal Mills oat meal , Quail Brand , are in constant demand. Thirty tons of the latter are put up every day ; thirty-three tons of .the former every twenty-four hours. . , But not by oratory , nor partyism. : ' . Whenever a POPUUSTIO _ 1'oi.iTKNKSS. Dourneyman word- slinger , who utters words for revenue only , is interviewed by a newspaper reporter and denounces you as a calumniator and a liar , keep quiet. By silence sweetly admit the charge. You may have an autograph letter of the thrifty talker to prove that the liar is the denier , and not yourself. But remain silent as the tomb while the battleless colonels from Crete to Platts- mouth call you all varieties of a varlet , vagabond and falsifier. Never defend your own character for truth by proving that the man who assailed was himself troubled with an incurable impediment in his veracity. The Omaha Evening News reaches THE CONSERVATIVE with regularity. It is a bright up-to-date journal of passing events. The editorials are crisp and clear as an autumn morning. Neville of North Platte was a gold democrat until his commission as a land officer under Grover Cleveland expired. He enjoyed being a gold standard office holder for five years. Then he became a howling advocate of free silver at 10 to 1 and enjoyed a judgeship under that brand of political fidelity. And now he seeks election to congress by the votes of gold standardites , fiat moneyites , free silverites , and all the representatives of all the isms which he has ever espoused , declaring himself a simple aud pure democrat , seeking the salvation of public place for Bryan's sake. Amen 1 The late Mrs. Bloomer of Council Bluffs , who bloomed before au amazed world in breeches just fifty years ago , was celebrated on the proper date by some distinguished English women , who rode about on bicycles and then had a dinner. The observers found the spectacle "neither exhilarating nor amusing. " Besides , it rained on them. The toast to her majesty was omitted at the feast , "because the queen is not in favor of rational dress. " A conference of German Lutheran ministers has declared life insurance to be sinful. "It takes a man's trust off God and places it in the insurance com pany. " Truth being self-knowledge is why so few are born "in the image of God. " ' . . . 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