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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1900)
* -fc& Che Conservative . . , . , , , . . . VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY NEB. THURSDAY FEBRUARY i 1900. NO. 30. 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 7,150 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 postofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898. THE CONSERVATIVE - THE POOR. TIVE , by request , publishes the address of the Supreme Council of the 'jAmerican Equal Wage Union. " "The * poor are neglected or considered only incidentally , " saith the address. But poverty and wealth are relative terms. Who is a poor man ? Who is a rich man ? Preachers and politicians denounce the rich in one breath and in the next ask them to give to the poor. The rich , from the press and pulpit , are pounded for their wickedness every week. The poor are praised for being poor and con gratulated upon their increased chances of getting into heaven easily , while the rich man is assured that a camel stands a better chance of trotting through the eye of a needle than a rich man has of entering the kingdom. But the rich seem to enjoy being abused and to give all the more gener ously after a sound drubbing from the pulpit or a roast from the press. If all were poor and there were no accumula ted riches in the country , how would taxes be gathered ; how would govern ment be sustained ; how would hospit als , free colleges , homes for the indigent , aged and the incurably diseased be es tablished and maintained ? The poorest "are the proper and ] legit imate objects of our first concern , " saith the circular again. Whose concern ? Who are the " poorest" ? The address re- Sutisfy Hunger. marksalso : "When the panic comes , who shall attempt , with logic , to satisfy the pleadings of hun ger ? " , ; Nolxdy ) besides the theorists , who 'orget that frngilityand temperance have something saved up with which to meet adversity. Nobody , except those who ; hink that the industrious and econom ical , who save up fortunes , should pay a penalty for doing so by being taxed to maintain the indolent , the improvident and wasteful. The address ap- striirciiiiK eals for , the re. Millions. 5. lief of the strug gling millions , whose lives are being sacrificed that the few may enjoy , in ex cessive measure , the privileges and im munities which are the common herit age and of right should be the equal joy of all. " But it does not identify , de scribe or point out even one "struggling million. " THE CONSERVATIVE calls for a bill of particulars. Where is there an American laborer who is not paid enough for his toil "to provide for him , at least the common necessities" ? What is his calling ? Is he a walking delegate ? What is the business of each signer of the address of The Supreme Council ? Where does each one reside ? Who made this Supreme Council ? At the afternoon CONTRASTS. , . , , , meeting of the Ed itors' Association for the State of Ne braska on January 24th , 1900 , Advertis ing Agencies were discussed at some length. The fact which flashed the most light upon the debate was the con trast made between the offices and their furnishings of the agents on one hand and that of the offices of the country editors and their furnishings on the other. The latter were , by comparison with the former , small , inconvenient , comfortless and repellent. And the fact , that all the money to maintain the lux uriously appointed offices of advertising agents comes out of the proprietors ol periodicals , is rather unpleasant. It shows that the latter are not always shrewd business men. The administra- READERS. tion ne ws p a p e r s tell us , with ex ceedingly fervid unanimity , that the Filipinos are utterly ignorant and inca pable of self-government. The same organs of , McKinleyism likewise inform us that the speeches of Senator Hoar relative to constitutional limitations and the principles proclaimed in the Declara tion of Independence , have been uni versally read , studied upon , pondered and digested by the same Filipinos who are distinguished as omnivorous readers. The result has been war prolonged , ) lood in floods and deaths innumerable , which the godly and truthful partisan press attributes directly to the baleful influence of the speeches of Senator Hoar. His speeches have been too much for the strategy of Otis , the courage of his troops'and the calibre of his guns. The war was induced by speakers and lias been prolonged by speakers who Lave dared wickedly and rebelliously to demur to the policies of the administra tion. This is the statement made by such saints as Lodge of Massachusetts , Quay of Pennsylvania , Platt of New York , Elkins of West Virginia , and other of "crim too-loyal-to-livo disciples inal aggression" and "benevolent assim ilation. " The soda-pop speech of the sparkling senator from Indiana , just delivered , as the out-put of 'all Beverhigo. the brains and pat riotism of McKinley - ley and his advisers , ranks highly among summer soft-drinks , and no other bever age can be so harmlessly exhilarating. Every weekly paper attached to the McKinley party , throughout the conn- try , is publishing Beveridge's plea for plunder and pillage , as a supplement. And if the circulation of Hoar's speech created and prolonged the uprising of the insurgents , may not the distribu tion of the speech of Beveridge among those reading Filipinos conclude the in cident ? War made by oratory should be ended by oratory. But whether war or oratory is most agonizing is a great question. ' 'Neb ska is famous - OTHER WINTERS. mous for fine weather ; and among the pleasantest seasons with us is our winters. This is third winter with us , and we have never seen anywhere milder and pleasautor weather. Mild suns and genial skies , a pure and bracing atmosphere and roads equal to any McAdamtaed roads in the world , make our Nebraska winters de lightful in the extreme. " This is from the News of January 21 , 1861. To temper the amazement of the incredulous reader , however , it should be explained that the roads of that time were not section-line roads , laid out with a ruler , but the natural roads fol lowing the lay of the land , which were promptly abandoned with the increase of enlightenment.