VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , DECEMBER 28 , 1899.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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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. "
