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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1900)
S3T4 fyf Cbe o . t- < i te tef , -f VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , " &EB. , THURSDAY , MARCH 15 , 1900. NO. 36. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A. JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION Or POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 7,200 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 poatofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898. -butter MORALS AND GREASE. combine known as the National Dairymen's Association has appeared before the agricultural committees of congress and demanded a tax of ten cents a pound npon bntterine. These unctuous patriots do not act from selfish motives but are moved by ardent and sleepless solicitude for the public morals. It is not to make their own pocketbooks - books fatter but the tender stomachs of the dear people healthier , sweeter and less prone to damnable dyspepsia that inspires tke zealous dairymen , with Governor Hoard of Wisconsin as their chief , to invade "Washington. And in the frenzy of philanthropy they have employed a Doctor Peck , who is , by his own admission , a learned scientist , to testify before the agricultural com mittees , which are always made up of practical farmers and chemists of renown , as to the moral degradation which inevitably follows the oleomar garine or butterine habit. And this body-and-soul-saving Doctor Peck , under oath , declares that the use of these sub stitutes for butter are regular stomach wreckers. That oleomargarine and bntterine glide into the guileless stomachs of American citizens and am bush , like diabolical Filipinos , all other nutrients and then deliberately tear down the paper-hangings , linings and draperies on the walls of the delicate and beautiful stomachs aforenamed. Doctor Peck swears that bntterine and oleomargarine are doing more to drive , . . , . stomachs out of TOir Not -r T * Whiskey In It , 4 > , , . legitimate diges- 1 tion than whiskey. Doctor Peck depicts the decline of morals , the blunting of the sensibilities and the complete destruction of the conscience which must inevitably overtake and overwhelm the victim of the butteriue habit in a manner so vivid that tears come unbidden even into the eyes of congressmen. Doctor Peck , by implication , tells the trembling and butterine-consutning stomachs of the United States that spreading bread with glutinous alcohol , smearing biscuit with morphine or cocaine would mitigate the suffering that butterine brings. Delirium tremens are according to Doctor Peck mild and gentle exhilara tions compared to the diabolism of the contortions , convulsions , paroxysms and writhings that must at last wrench the confirmed consumer of butteriue from head to toes. EXPOSITIONS. . the promotion of expositions and securing for them ap propriations of public funds has become a profession. It was first initiated at Philadelphia , crept down to New Or leans , walked to the world's fair at Chicago to celebrate an accident that happened in 1492 to Christopher Colum bus ; and to show , feed and clothe the Spanish Duke of "Vagrants , "who was a reputed decendant of Colonel Columbus , at the expense of the people of the United States. Having paid out a vast amount of money in Chicago as an amateur show man Uncle Sam skipped down to At lanta and made a brief money losing stand. Thence governmental show business began again at Memphis and next year the performance will open at Buffalo , New York , with St. Louis al ready announced for a big show and an appropriation in 1903. Meantime the United States congress appropriates between one and three millions of dollars . , . . . . for the privilege of becoming an addenda annex or ex pansiou dependency of a great spectac ular show of the French people in 1900. All the people pay for , a few of the people make money out of , the govern mental show trade , wax works and cir cuses. The pretext that these expositions are only for exploiting and advertising American products and manufactures is diaphanous. Anybody can see through the declared motive and see naked greed and deceit. Greed for travel at the public cost and deceit and falsehood to bring it about. The declaration that corn food will be gratuitously cooked for and fed to the French and other Europeans at Paris next summer so deftly and deliciously that a universal demand for corn bread , hasty pudding and pone cakes will per vade the continent is absurd bosh. The government of the United States ap pointing cooks , waiters and dish-washers to serve in Paris as emissaries and prosy- lites for the European consumption of Indian maize foods is a spectacle of pa ternalism on a drunken excursion. The real manufacturers of food pro ducts from corn or from oats or from any other American cereal never asked for this governmental drumming of the markets of the earth. The real and en ergetic manufacturers of corn goods in the United States furnish their own agents and support out of their own pockets their own salesmen in Great Britain and all over Europe. They never asked the congress of the United States to make Ferd Peck and Mrs. Potter Palmer , Mrs. Roher and Mr. Dodge and hundreds of others equally estimable and practical persons their agents and pay them out of tax-gather ed mouey belonging to the people. SEMI-KDUCATED. system supple mented by the free University has in duced indolent persons of mediocre brains to attempt the impossible. There are a lot of semi-educated , half-led-out minds and individualities in the state of Nebraska and through out the United States. These persons have attempted to pass off certificates and diplomas for wisdom. They are educated enough to make them scorn daily manual labor. But they are not sufficiently developed mentally to be able to render an intellectual service which the world demands. Such per sons criticise , those who succeed and acquire fame or fortune , as tricksters and scoundrels , and those who fail , as incompetents and fools. They uncon sciously reason from exhaustive intro spection. Anti-gravy laws will soon be demanded by the butter-makers trust. Many people ple prefer good gravy to poor butter and are using gravy instead of butter. Shall this indignity to the American cow be. permitted ?
