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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , " &EB. , THURSDAY , MARCH 15 , 1900. NO. 36.
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-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 ?
