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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1899)
VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , DECEMBER 28 , 1899. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 7,110 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 CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska City , Neb. Advertising Rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the postofflco at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 20th , 1808. T.h e Nebraska EDUCATION BY _ . THE STATE.University has a dairy school at tachment. Men and women are therein taught to make butter and cheese. Whether an oleomargarine academy will , at last , be developed nobody can tell. tell.Specific Specific education by the state for farmers , implies the power of the state to furnish , likewise , free education in the art of boot and shoemaking. Why not have nil trades and avocations developed at the university at public expense ? Why should one class of people be educated in their particular lines by taxing all the other classes ? Why not tax for a state blacksmith shop or state carpenter shop in which to develop those callings ? TWO FOR ONE. . bankers are the recipients of more vile and unfounded calumniation , at the hands of popnlistio demagogues , than any other class of reputable citizens. The fact that every stockholder in a national bank is liable for twice the amount of the face value of his stock is never considered by these journeymen slanderers. The fact that if the bank fails every stockholder is liable to lose two dollars for each one invested in that bank is never alluded to by these malcontents. How would farmers and merchants like a law which should make them also liable , upon a failure of crops , or a mer cantile concern , for twice the value of the labor and money invested ? And would they , under such a law , be anxious for panics and commercial disasters ? The Kansas state KANSAS PLUTOCRATS. board of agricul ture has just made its report for the quarter ending Decem ber , 1899. It is a clear , concise and most interesting and instructive docu ment. It shows that Kansas owns thirty-six millions and two hundred and fifty-six thousand and five hundred and fifty dollars worth of mules and horses. It values the milch cows of that state at twenty-two millions and other cattle at sixty-six millions of dollars. The sheep and swine of Kansas aggre gate a valuation of more than thirteen millions of dollars. But the cereals and other products of the soil in the year 1899 are estimated at one hundred and sixty-nine millions of dollars. With such a showing of thrift and wealth , Kansas plutocracy will soon surpass that of Wall Street and the "money power" crush out all the croakers and populists who preach poverty in that state. THE CONSERVA TIVE thanks Mr. P. D. Coburn , secre tary of the board , for its copy. Nevlle ; who was an ardent advocate of sound finance while holding a laud officer's position and drawing his salary under President Cleveland , is now a sixteen-to-oue congressman , an evolution from Nebraska fusion. His terseness and lucidity , as au economist , became incandescent on Friday even ing , December 15th , when he illuminated the money question , in a speech before the house of representatives at Wash ington , as follows : "Under bimetallism , if a distressed nation was compelled to overbid for one of the metals as it went out , would not the other come in in exchange for it and remain with us to keep up con fidence and prices , enable us to do business at the old stand , and prevent the disaster of competition in products and labor with a nation forced by dis tress to bid ? " This coruscating perspicacity has no peer except in a story by Will Vissoher , as.follows , about an Omaha pioneer who , in the early days of that city , made a visit thence to his old home in the Mohawk Valley. His name was John Staley. He was a hearty , lusty frontiers man. And sitting in the shade on the banks of the Mohawk he descanted with enthusiasm and genuine admiration of his new home in the growing West. And in closing a eulogy upon Omaha and the enterprise and push of its citizens , he glowingly said : "I tell yon that you are asleep here in this New York village. A town in Nebraska with only five hundred popu lation gets up earlier in the morning , does more business , makes more noise and drives ahead more projects in twenty-four hours than a town of five thousand population in the Mohawk Valley in a week. " There was a dead silence until a heavy-sterned burgher , scratching his bald pate , philosophically and perspicu ously remarked : 14Veil , Staley , don't you dank dot dose towns , expressly dose western cities , vere dor vimen and shildren is more dan all der oder inhabitants is bigger dan smaller blaces of der same size in der eastern states mit greater boperlations ? " Until Neville of Nebraska spoke in congress upon the money question the clear-cut lucidity of that Dutchman had never been matched. REMINISCENCE.A Correspondent A REMINISCENCE. asks the THE CON SERVATIVE to tell him how many demo cratic voters there are in Nebraska. He might have requested one seeing a per son voraciously devouring a bologna sausage to tell him how much beef , pork , mutton , mule or dog meat it con tained. No one could analyze a sausage or plate of hotel hash by seeing some body else eat it nor tell how little good pork or sound beef or how much mule or dog meat it contained. And the most acute observer cannot tell by counting the votes cast for a delusion , fusion , illusion and confusion ticket in Nebraska how many of those votes were formerly democratic. But it is entirely within the bounds of absolute truth testate state , positively , that there is no demo cratic party in Nebraska which has an existence independent of any other political party. There is no democratic party in Nebraska , which , for a prin ciple , or a policy , or a faith , names candidates for office , without regard to getting those candidates endorsed by some other political party. The demo cratic party of Nebraska is only a reminiscence. Long since it was swallowed by populism. Long since it became an integral in a composite which is merely an abnormal appetite for the emoluments of office for "money , not honor. "