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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1899)
Jd. tlbe Conservative * Nebraska h a s THE ELECTIONS. , . , , . , elected a populist to the supreme bench who has neither reputation as a great lawyer nor high standing , as a judge of risks , among the presidents of fire insurance companies. Kentucky is reported republican and GO are Now York , Pennsylvania , Ohio , Iowa , New Jersey and a few other inconsequential members of the Ameri can republic. Every indication cheers the preachers of free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 to continue their blessed work of humilia tion until not a vestige of real demo cracy , as taught by Jackson and other advocates of honest money , is left to encumber the earth. The marvelous prouunciameuto of paroxysmal politics put forth at Chicago in 1896 "is for all time , " saith Colonel Bryan. That being the fact , the defeat of the alleged democracy will also con tinue "for all time. " No counsel for , no exhorter for , a debased standard of value will ever bo president of the United States. TH * A NATIVE aUHGE. TIVE has lived to see a native born citizen of Otoe county elected judge of the district court for the counties of Cass and Otoe. Paul Jesseu has been chosen by a majority of about seven hundred. Ho was born 011 a farm adjacent to Nebraska City , September 16th , 1805. He has grown up , been educated , and admitted to the practice of law , and now raised to the judiciary , amidst a people who knew and esteemed his estimable parents and have now recognized and rewarded the character for temperance , industry , in tegrity and justice developed by their worthy son. Blood in men who are to become judges is as essential as blood in horses which are to be become winners. "Justice has no bandage about her eyes , and weighs not with scales , but with her own hands ; and weighs , not merely the shares and remunerations of men , but the worth of them ; and finding them worth this or that , gives them what they deserve death or honor. ' ' For the first time ASHAMED. , since the settle ment of Nebraska the sun diffidently , and in a very embarassiug sort of way , declined to shine upon the state , on Wednesday morning , November 8th , 1899. Solar inquiry , by skilled astrono mers , discovered that the dense and impenetrable fog which hung between the sun and Nebraska was composed of tears shed by angels over the election of House Rent Holcomb to a place 011 the supreme bench. The sun availed itself of this veil for two or three hours. It was ashamed to shine on a people who chose a mutual fire insurance officer for a justice of its supreme court instead of a jurist learned in the law and respected for his wise administration thereof. Tin : CONSEKVATIVE cannot censure the sun for being too ashamed to shine under such adverse conditions. EXPANSION. . bf.G ° rather joyous , or so the very nature of joy itself ? A man but ho feels ' - . " never gets happy feelslarger. Growth and progress ; enlargement of one's self or one's sphere ; without these , what scope of life , what inspiration for living ? We cannot swell always , but we can always expand. "While the body is growing fastest , the mind is getting along as it may ; it is when the mere physical process is about finished , jiud the stature sufficient , that the more essential part of man begins to approach its fulness , and to show for what it is in the world. But this is only opening a vista of infinite expansion , for the finite ouo that is closed. Nothing has borne greater part in the exultation with which Americans have regarded their country , than its mighty growth ; it has always been such an ex panding country. It has waxed in. terri tory , waxed in population , waxed in riches and resource of every sort. The extension of territory has gone far beyond the requirement of population ; we are about the thinliest settled of civilized nations , though hardly second to any in capacity of soil. Meanwhile , there has been expansion elsewhere , too , iu the world ; other countries , crowded in their narrow bounds , or bordering on vast and comparatively unoccupied ter ritory , have extended over such dispos able regions , till now the habitable globe has been effectively parcelled out. Africa , the great "unexplored region" of our youth , which bore all its civilized settlement as a mere horn about its bor der , is now to all intent preempted. No more grand prizes of new acquisition , unless by spoliation , now remain. The world is a farm fenced in. But it will bear a vast deal of improve ment. The old increase in breadth will more and more want to give place to an increase in depth as it were , and fulness ; the expansion of matter to that of mind. The United States perhaps beyond all other peoples it behooves to consider , whether the stature be not fairly filled , and the lines of expansion henceforth to be somewhat higher and less restricted. No huge domain , which could urge our outward growth hereafter iu emulation of other posvers , is now available , save by mere aggression ; we should but clutch their leavings , like a famished dog. But in the grander aims of growth , iu objects worthy of a far nobler ambi tion , in things that distinguish King Alfred from Genghis Khan , our field is as wide and open as the ocean or the sky. sky.The The mere material occupation and development of our favored laud , with all its capabilities above and below , is incentive such as few peoples can share in such measure. Still more the ad vancement of interests which would make us the beacon light of mankind , the expansion of ideals , might well fire the soul of every American with noblest aspiration. Thus alone we may carry on the work of our fathers , and not fear to fall short of them. Washington glows with the light of this high destiny seen from afar , when he writes : "It will be worthy of a free , enlightened , and at no distant period a great nation , to give mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and bone- voleuce. " He seems , however , to distinguish this "benevolence" from tinguish as similation. The crisis of decision is on us now , whether to advance upon this glorious path , or basely retreat. Are we to lower the standard of national righteousness and true glory which has been raised so high , or bear it on to ever loftier heights ? The air is full of back ward cells , to the ways of the post ; to foreign domination , aggressive war , contraction of our national character and mission. But there are those who think it the very occasion to assert and advance that character. Edward Atkinson wrote : "President McKiuley has the opportunity to make himself the great man of the century , could he comprehend his true mission and take advantage of the existing con ditions. All nations to have their cool ing stations , all nations to land their cables , all to have equal rights and no hostile shots to bo fired upon the land , and no contest upon the waters thereof. We can make the Philippine Islands the sanctuary of commerce ; we can aid the inhabitants to bring order out of chaos ; we can help them to work out their own national salvation ; and joined with the Czar wo can take the first measures for abating the hell of war upon the earth. " Edgar Howard IIITTKB BUT . HONEST. 1S a blfcter bufc honest editor and goes wrongly or rightly with great vigor. Going rightly he denounces Cornell and Holcomb and declares the former "has disgraced democrats by his official con duct. " Endorsing the paper of scalawags at bank is not more dangerous nor half as disastrous as endorsing populists for office when they seek it "for the money that is iu it. " Edgar Howard should study and ponder der the fact that from the day when political bigamy and trigamy were insti tuted and consecrated "for Bryan's sake" in Nebraska , the per cent of the vote opposing republicanism has steadily declined. It lost between 1892 and 1890 more than two per cent. Bryan's vote was that much less of the whole vote than the vote of Cleveland and Weaver in 1892. "Tl nfr ( M"iMl'
