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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1900)
VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , JANUARY 25 , 1900. NO. 29. 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 7,141 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 npon appli cation. Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898. MEDICINE. . . sick they take medicine that is sometimes exceedingly nauseating. When the country is sick and shakes with the fever and ague that the malarias and vagaries of communism have given it , and there seems to be danger of a collapse of the entire finan cial system , many thoughtful voters who do not believe in McKinleyism will sustain it , take the entire dose , rather than aid in forcing the money fallacies of Bryanarchy upon the country. President MoKinley has faults and lacks individual courage when questions of right and wrong may be determined by his own conscience , instead of being turned over to Hanna , Elkins and Quay for solution. But it is better to have the gold standard with McKinley than the free and unlimited coinage of silver at sixteen to one without McKinley. The medicine is bitter , nauseating , disgusting , but it is better for the United States than financial death. As a dose it may be continued intermittent ly. But as a chronic diet or nourish ment it cannot be endured except by the insane. NOT DISCERNIBLE. . in Nebraska there were a thousand pair of moccasins worn by its inhabitants to one pair of boots. Sixteen to one was not the ratio of Indian to white feet. But the tracks made upon the plains and along the valleys by the aborigines , either bare footed or in moccasins , have been effaced and their trails are forever obliterated. The plow and the railroad , the village and the city , the farms and the homes of civilization have erased every vestige of the savages. It is not possible to reproduce the. imprints that barbarians had made upon these prairies prior to their settlement by the pioneers. Those imprints have been rubbed out by the sharp attrition which agriculture , commerce and manufacture have brought to bear upon Nebraska. They have been made forever illegible and those who follow the Indians are their superiors only by so much as they better human conditions and environ ments. The best citizens those who do most for themselves and their families within the limits of the public good , that is without encroaching upon the rights of others , will be longest remem bered and respected. They write per manent and indelible autographs upon the records of the state and are by the immortality of benignant influences forever interwoven with the texture of its mental and material development. But the walking delegates , the broad cast sewers of discontent , who merely find fault with whatever is and declaim in favor of the impossible , which can never be , will soon be forgotten or only remembered as a scourge just as famines and pestilences are recalled. Thirty years hence and the deeds and results of the malcontents who are now endeavor ing to stir up wrath among the people , by arraying class against class , will be as invisible in Nebraska as are now the moccasin tracks of the Indians made fifty years ago. When THE SEBVA.TIVE settled upon Nebraska prairie in 1854 the coyote was a majority of the animal world along the west bank of the Missouri. A little further towards sun set , just beyond where Lincoln , em bellished with statesmen , salt wells , universities and the penitentiary , now flourishes , were vast herds of buffalo , bands of innumerable antelope and great droves of deer. But the coyote was discontented. There was not enough meat , per capita , in circulation from his wolfish and indolent standpoint of view. The coyote was the original walking delegate. He never worked except to destroy. He never sought any job except a job of feeding , eating , devour ing something which he did not earn. And even when his stomach was full of stolen food he would uncomfortably seat himself on a knob of prairie and raising his wicked eyes and bad little face towards Heaven , like a populist orator talking of the money octopus- howl his discordant discontent at the starry skies. The coyote was the primitive populist and original howler of Nebraska. But ho perished from the earth. He could not fatten on discon tent. The politicians who imitate the coyote will likewise vanish from sight and like him only be remembered as a nuisance. Ifc is P ° 83ibl ° for FAME. a man to be a can didate for the presidency , and then within four years to find himself merely a humorous figure in contemporary literature. We have observed the fol lowing veiled , but sufficiently scandal ous , allusion in a story by Mr. Owen Wister , in the January Harper's , about a baby-show : "The mother of Thomas Jefferson Brayiu Lucas showed us a framed letter from the statesman for whom her child was called. The letter reeked with gratitude , and said that offspring was man's proudest privilege ; that a souvenir sixteeu-to-one spoon would have been cheerfully sent , but 428 babies had been named after Mr. Brayiu since .January. It congratulated the swelling army of the People's Cause. " Theanti-octopus AN ISSUE. cohorts m the state of Montana where Mr. Clark and his agents made an analysis of the relative value of the "dollar-made man and the God-made man" are about to declare j for a larger per capita circulation of j currency for the plain people in the state ' which has been swallowed by an anaconda. It is proposed that the pec capita circulation among the members j of the Montana legislature , which is , proved to have been maintained pending the election of United States Senator , Clark , be and the same is declared the normal and rightful per capita due of every "God-made man" in the state ; all the "dollar-made" men and dollar-made senators to the contrary notwithstand ing. This is worth while. Marrying many dollars in Montana may not prove as disqualifying for a senator as marry ing many wives in Utah does for a representative in the popular branch of congress. And yet "money talks" in Montana elections as much as do women in the elections and selections of Utah.
