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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY NEB. THURSDAY FEBRUARY i 1900. NO. 30.
PUBLISHED -WEEKLY.
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J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska
City , Neb.
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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.
