Conservative *
Every thoughtful
THE FEDERAL
JUDICIARY. ful and patriotic
citizen of the
United States thanks God that the
federal judiciary is appointive and not
elective. The judges of the supreme
court of the circuit and the district
court of the American republic are the
best guards of liberty and humaii rights
on earth. They are able , great , just ,
honest men in whose care the rights of
the humblest will be conserved as care
fully as the interests of the highest.
That this is true of nearly all federal
judges and has been generally true from
the inception of our judicial system
every intelligent citizen who loves the
country and rejoices in the stability of
its government affirm and believes.
Eespect for courts and regard for laws
should be inculcated by teachers and
preachers and by newspapers and all
other periodicals all over the United
States.
And those journals which belie the
federal courts and circulate , like a con
tagion , disregard of federal laws and
institutions ought not to be patronized
by decent citizens. Among the most
atrocious advocates of the diabolism of
distrust of the federal courts , "The
World-Herald , " published at Omaha , is
preeminently virulent. In its Sunday
issue of December 3d , 1899 , is this
malignant morsel :
"John P. Reese must be a man of dull
comprehension , else he would have
learned a long time ago that ail ordi
nary coal miner like himself has no
rights which a federal judge is bound to
respect. "
Anarchy could Bay nothing more in-
citivo to insurrection against the carry
ing out of the mandates of a federal
court. The World-Herald has , however ,
so long championed Bryanarchy that its
present shameless espousal of anarchy
is only logical. But the paper which
declares that a laboring man "has no
rights which a federal judge is bound to
respect" ought to bo excluded from
public reading rooms and quarantined
by every household.
It is hard to
NEBRASKA CITY.
realize the extent
of our country , multiplicity of its re
sources and the marvelous complexity
and proportions of her industry. We
hear so much about centers of trade ,
metropolitan industries , etc. , which
talk generally suggests New York ,
Buffalo , Cincinnati , and perhaps the
most intelligent will think of Minne
apolis , Kansas City , maybe Omaha and
Denver , this side of the Rockies. It is
a shook to the intelligence to learn that
in a little side city of twelve thousand
in the now state of Nebraska , there is a
starch factory that converts between
two and three thousand bushels of corn
into starch every twenty-four hours and
that it runs without interruption about
eleven months a year , thus disposing of
about 715,000 bushels of corn in a year
in that local factory. In the same little
town ten thousand bushels of corn and
oats per day are converted into various
brands of breakfast foods , which makes
about 2,860,000 bushels per annum. The
same little town has a canning factory
that has an annual output of 1 ,200,000
cans of corn , tomatoes , apples , etc.
Incidentally the slaughter houses of this
town occasionally dispose of sixteen
hundred head of swine in an afternoon.
Most of our readers would grope help
lessly over the map in search of this
center of life if we did not name it ,
because Nebraska City is not unique
in its exhibit of industry , though per
haps few towns of its size present such
an aggregation. Still it is a typical
western town and suggests the over
whelming tides of life that we are called
upon to direct , revise and elevate within
our own borders. Unity , November
80 , 1899.
"THE KING. " .
TIVE is conscious
of a growing fear that young Mr.
Kipling who is not so young either as
he was formerly really touched high-
water mark with his much-quoted and
much - misunderstood ' ' Recessional. ' '
This is not a proposition to be lightly
ventured ; but every god has his day ,
and there seems to be a suggestion in
the wind of criticism , that this ten-year
divinity may by now have lost some
thing of his pristine splendor , and that
the public will soon or late call for a
new brazen image to be set up for its
adoration. Mr. Kipling's pleasant work
is apparently done and ended ; the in
human Stalky stories are hailed with
many diverse adjectives , but "pleasing"
has 'not been seen among them ; and
while the "Recessional" was admittedly
a great production , it has had no worthy
successor. The "Adam-Zad" poem was
a vicious thing , and the last one , called
"The King , " published in the Novem
ber McOlure's , is not likely to create
admirers for Mr. Kipling. It is a
knotty , crabbed , gristly composition ,
directed , as its expositors explain , at
Mr. Paul Kruger of South Africa , a
gentleman for whom most Americans
have quite a warm sympathy even if
he is "sloven , sullen , savage , secret , un
controlled , " as Mr. Kipling charges.
Mr. Kipling calls poor old Uncle Paul
many hard names , as no doubt a poet
has a right to do ; the privilege is
probably expressly granted in his poetic
license. But we would like to ask
Rudyard in all seriousness whether he
really proposes , as he grows older , to
make more and more such rhymes as
"peace and seas , " "mood and blood , "
"word and Lord , " "abuse ( the noun )
and use ( the verb ) " , "brain and again. "
For if he does , it is quite useless for him
to send any more manuscript to THE
CONSERVATIVE office ; we have to be
pretty strict , to suit the Nebraska taste.
TnE
.
TIVE wishes to se
cure , for historical purposes , a copy of
the original map of the steam wagon
road from Nebraska City to Forb Kear
ney , which was lithographed and
published in 1863. Any person who can
furnish the foregoing will confer a'great
favor and have the satisfaction of seeing
the map reproduced by THE CONSERVA
TIVE. In connection with the history of
freighting across the plains , prior to the
advent of railroads , the map referred to
is of great value and its reproduction
almost a necessity.
Mr. Julian Haw-
HAWTHORNE vs.
SHAKESPEARE.thorne , who has
lived much abroad ,
thinks that Americans know too little of
their own country , and that we should
have a trans-continental roadway , as
far as 'possible from the railroads , by
means of which we could traverse the
most picturesque parts of our land , on
foot or a-horseback , and independently
of time-tables. We could stride along
noiselessly , smoothly , rejoicingly , Mr.
Hawthorne considers , and reflect with
delight that we were in the heart of
Virginia , Kentucky or Colorado , aa the
cose might be.
THE CONSERVATIVE has tried this
method in various parts of the Union ;
and has always , of late years , found the
anticipated pleasure marred by a certain
pestilent scrap of Shakespeare , which
will intrude in the most promising
scenes :
"Ay , now am I in Arden ; the more
fool I ; when I was at home , I was in a
better place. "
Af * *
THE MONEY
POWER.shivermgs because
of the danger from
the power of money in the elections of
Nebraska the managers of the fusion
party in the state calmly show that they
with two committees only heard from
expended for the purpose of in
fluencing votes in the recent election
eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-
three dollars and seventy-six cents.
Among the plain people , who have been
impoverished because of non-prosperity ,
we notice that Colonel Bryan con
tributed five hundred dollars ; W. H.
Thompson , the petty giant of Grand
Island , one thousand dollars ; J. 0.
Dahlmau three hundred and forty dollars
lars ; and the editor who so valorously
declaims against the money power , G.
M. Hitchcock , one hundred dollars. The
generosity and the supreme self-abnega
tion , evinced , in such distressingly hard
times , by the aforenamed patriots indi
cate that if prosperity had pervaded
Nebraska during the year , they might
have donated many thousands more for
the purpose of reforming the ballot and
saving the state election from the bale
ful influences of money.