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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1900)
13be Conservative * n In pnrtS ° f IoWft | _ , . . _ . Missouri , Kansas nncl southern Nebraska the smallpox is provnlont. At Dubois , in Pawnee county - ty , Nebraska , a Mr. Cope recently died of this drearl disease. Those who have never bnou vaccina ted should , at once , call upon a compe tent physician and have that operation performed. Remember the scourge of a year ago , when Nebraska City had more than two hundred ca os on hand , and ex pended thousands of dollars to eradicate the epidemic. And remembering , act quickly , and wisely , so as to avoid a re currence of such a paralysis of trade , of schools , theatres nnd churches as be numbed this community in 1899. K OF THIS MORMON CHURCH. Beyond a doubt , says Rollin Lynde Hart in the February Atlantic , the Mor mon church is , considered purely as a political economist's scheme , "today nearer to being a successful effort to inaugurate the Brotherhood of Man than anything ever tried. " Hero then is a social and political force to bo reckoned with. Marvelous in its power over the individual , it is rapidly becoming an actual menace to the nation. Already it numbers a million adherents , ib owns Utah. It holds the balance of power in Idaho , in Wyoming , iu Colorado , in California , and in Ne vada. When Arizona and Now Mexico are admitted to the Union , it will con trol them also. CONSERVATISMS. Self-sacrifice , except to save self , is suicide. Revelation is the sudden awakening to self-knowledge. The imbecile and the pauper are alone indebted to the state. Conceit is built on ignorance of self and fears its own shadow. Ho who requires a inoimment has done nothing worthy of remembrance. Virtue is self restraint within the limits of rational self-preservation. The public is n greater deadbeat than the pauper nnd imbecile it perpetuates. Dmnocritus , Epicurus , Plato , Aris totle , Socrates need no monuments. No man owes more to the state than the state owes him generally not so much. "Tho laborer is worthy of his hire" whether ho works for the individual or the public. Monuments to martyrs and public benefactors are the vicarious atonements of iugrates. There is no such thing as fatalism ; there is such a thing as the inevitability of sequence. The public blesses its dead benefactors whom it cursed , persecuted or ignored while living. No man owes an iota more to the public than ho does to the individuals composing it. The question of the century is to les son the per contago of fools by intelli gent stirpiculture and thorough educa tion. "If I could pave the world by pulling out a single hair I would not lift a finger until the word paid for the hair. " Yang Tschu. The public is the great deadbeat octo pus stretching its hungry maw and grasping arms for beneficences it never earned , or served a day to merit. The public , disorganized as it seemingly is , is the most destructive and grasping of all trusts. There are three kinds of fools ; young fools who know it all , old fools who have forgotten what little they may have known , and all-fools who never know anything. These three kinds of fools constitute the great dead weight in the path of aggressive intelligence. FRANK S. BILLINGS. Sharon , Mass. AN O1JJKCT I KSSON. Ill earlier days , when discussion on the tariff was active , The Herald con stantly took the ground that American resources , if left to themselves , without the meddling of legislation , would pro vide for the nation superiority in the markets of the world. The inventive faculty of Americans had long been pre eminent , and if there was any people in the world that excelled ours in capacity for trading , they had not been heard of. The late David A. Wells once said to the writer that he wont to Europe n pro tectionist , in the days of the civil war , and , after considering the machinery there in comparison with our own , came homo with the belief that the interest of our nation was to have free trade. Hero is what ( London ) Engineering says of that which is soeu in England now : "Take a walk along the American docks at Liverpool , London or Glasgow , and you see cases and packages innum erable , not of hams and beef only , but of manufactured goods , in great part machinery that the general public will never see , but which is an eloquent testimony to the way British machinists lag behind in the industrial race ; and the great bulk of this machinery and these other goods are products of super iority in invention. * * * The elec tric light is literally turning our cities upside down , vastly to the profit of the Americans , who were the pioneers ; sowing machines are in every laborer's cottage , and find a place in all other honses to the highest in the * land ; elec tric traction seems to have sealed the doom of the tram horse ; improvements in weapons and munitions of war have raised acres of new factories. Fifteen years ago the useful and costly type writer was almost unknown in Britain ; this year the imports of typewriters and parts will probably amount to $1,000,000 , every penny of their money value being dead losq to this country from the pro ductive standpoint. In our engineering shops and factories , almost without ex ception , American inventions meet the eye on all sides. " Wo are inclined to ask , in view of what is depicted above , if any one is loft who attributes this to American tariffs , passing over the American skill and energy that have brought it to pass ? Boston Herald. frieilds the HISTORY REPEATS. English are cer tainly having a bad time in South Africa , and there are many , like those who consider each suc cessive winter the coldest they ever lived through , who suppose that revers es at the outset are a new thing for the British army. But the following para graph , taken from the notes of a travel er who halted in Calcutta in the summer of 1857 , reminds one that these things have happened before : "Two commanders in-chief had already succumbed before Delhi ; our army was dwindling away under its walls , and its leaders re-enforce urgently demanding - ments which did not exist. Agra was besieged by a mutinous army , and men feared for the unhappy garrison a repiti- tion of the Cawnpore tragedy. This frightful catastrophe appeared to im pend still more surely over the devoted baud at Luckuow , whose deliverance at one time was considered hopeless. At Dinapore our troops had just mot with a disaster. The gallant little army under General Havelook , despairing of re en forcements , decimated by cholera , and worn out by battles and hardships , were compelled to retire on Cawnpore. Oude , Rohilcund , Bundelcund , were lost to us ; the disaffection threatened to spread in to the other presidencies ; everywhere the mutineers seemed triumphant ; sta tion after station was being deserted and plundered ; each week steamers full of fugitives arrived from up the country , with additional horrors to recount , and more disaffection to report. All com munication was stopped with the north west ; from Bnrdwan to Delhi , the country was infested with mutineers ; and every regiment but two in the Bengal army had either been disarmed , disbanded , or had mutinied. With the exception of the small China force , no European troops had arrived , or were expected to arrive for two months. Meantime the hot weather was all against us , and all in favor of the rebels. " "Mr. Littlofield is absolutely sound when he says that the House cannot add to the requirements provided by the constitution for admission , and that the only constitutional remedy is to admit Roberts and then expel him on the finding of the facts , " the Chicago Times-Herald ( Rop. ) says. "This case is likely to es tablish a very dangerous precedent , which may be put to a bad use later when the partisan control of the House is at stake. "
