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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , JANUARY 4 , 1900. NO. 26.
PUBLISHED "WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON , EuiTOlt.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION
OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL
QUESTIONS.
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Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska
City , Neb.
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cation.
Entered at the postomce at Nebraska City ,
Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898.
The History of
HISTORY.
Nebraska , upon
which Dr. Geo. L. Miller and the editor
of THE CONSERVATIVE are bestowing
editorial attention , will not , in all
probability , be published before Decem
ber , 1000.
To keep out fancies and fictions
and to put in the facts and the
truths of Nebraska's settlement and
development in a perfectly justi
fiable manner is a work requiring time ,
tranquillity and conscientious investi
gation.
The attempt to make the work really
and completely reliable will be continued
by the editors whose final revision of its
pages will be made without fear , favorer
or affection.
November 15th ,
riONKEK
PRINTERS. 1854 , the first
newspaper ever
printed in Nebraska was issued from
the McKinney house at Bellevue. It
was called the Nebraska Palladium and
its editor was D. E. Reed , a teacher in
the Presbyterian Mission School.
The first stick full of type was set up
by Thomas Morton. He evidently
realized that he was a sort of John the
Baptist for the type-setting fraternity
in the prairie wilderness of that day.
Therefore he said : "This is the first
column of reading matter set in the
territory. This was put in type on the
l'4th day of November , 1864 , by Thomas
Morton. " It is a prophetic column
because it pertains almost wholly to
agriculture.
' -The other type-setters on the Palla
dium of that issue were A. D. Long and
Dan Carpenter. The latter was subse
quently associated with Doctor George
L. Miller when he established the Omaha
Daily Herald. And now there are more
printers in the state than there were at
that time citizens in the territory and
more newspapers than there were fonts
of type in that olflce a hundred times
over.
Hell > 8
UELI/S CANYON.
a poem of the
camps , by N. K. Griggs , has recently
been issued by the Schult Publishing
Co. , Chicago.
The verses , with their illustrations by
W. S. Phillips , bring most vividly before
one the wild and depraved scones of
isolated camp life , amidst which are
portrayed characters such as Bret
Harte's pen has made familiar to the
world.
There is a poetical touch in the way
the surrounding nature , from majestic
mountain to flowing brooklet , is made
to shine forth with sunlit joy over the
lesson of purity which a wandering
missionary brings with him when he
chances to stray into the place so aptly
named Hell's Canyon.
THE BLATHER- a popu-
SKITE.
democrat or a
canting communist he poses before the
multitude as the only one , of pulchri
tude , who opposes the down-tramping
of the plain people , exposes the wrongs
which the money power proposes
vehemently deposes that he is the
peculiar instrument with which God
proposes to bring about reposes for the
weary and heavy-laden everywhere and
supposes many will follow him , howl
for him and vote for him until the
century closes. He is a blatherskite.
That makes him very popular in a popu
lar form of government. And , while
the corn crop in Nebraska is generally
astonishingly abundant , the acreage
and yield of the blatherskite crop are
stupendously , gigantically greater. A
department for the teaching of blather
skite oratory in the state university has
been suggested by a populist paper.
But blatherskites are born , not made.
Ex-Senator Peffer of Kansas is a 33d
degree example of the breed and Nebras
ka contains several who are his equal
in wind , whiskers and general idiocy as
to government and its functions.
United States
ASIATIC
LABORERS , Circuit Court
Judge Morrow in
1898 held that "the territories of the
United States are entirely subject to the
authority of congress. "
If the supreme court of the United
States affirms Judge Morrow , how can
the laborers of the Asiatic islands be
excluded from any party of the United
States ? How can the products of that
labor be excluded from competition with
the products of labor in other states ?
Urged on by Bailey , Bryan and other
explosive patriots of the sixteeu-to-oue
breed , has the McKiuley administration
made Asiatic laborers a part of the
reserve muscular force of the United
States ? And taking in these millions of
Asiatics to compete with Americans in
all the working fields of life , is the con
clusion of the spectacular and long-
drawn-out parade for the "protection of
the laboring man" about whom the
unctuous McKiuley and the pious Hanua
have passed sleepless nights and shed
quarts of tears ?
If the Philippines are now a part of
this country must their inhabitants
have , or not have , all the rights and
privileges that the inhabitants of the
territory of Nebraska had before statehood - ,
hood ? And did not these latter have
the right to freely go into any state and
ask for employment in competition with
any and all other citizens ? What can
interpose against an influx of Orientals
to offer their labor anywhere in the
United States ? Will some expansion
organ answer ?
The Nebraska
GOOD
SUGGESTIONS. Farmer of Decem
ber 21 , 1899 , con
tains , on page 842 , an article entitled
"Meeting New Demands , " which is well
worth careful perusal. Our state board
of agriculture can be made very useful.
Kansas has been fortunate in this re
spect and the reports of Secretary
Cobnrn are an authority as to all Kan
sas resources and products.
Commenting on the signs of a reaction
in Pennsylvania against extreme pro- '
tectiou , the Boston Transcript ( rep. )
says : "It is a great satisfaction to re
ceive assurances from that catnp that
the time is almost here when we can
divest our industries of their swaddling
clothes , and enjoy the sight of them
revelling in their own strength. "