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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1900)
t3be Conservative * SIMPLE TREASURES. Was over lofty motint so high Among the Alpine ranges As Grandsiro's woodpile , still in sight Beyond the long years' changes ! Wore over brarer tourists known Than wo whoso hearts were quaking While climbing up with slipping feet That kept the sticks all shaking ! Till there we sat perched on the top In breathless joy and pleasure , Such happy lads and lassies midst A store of simple treasure. Wo tore the crackling shagbark up In pieces long and brittle ; Soft bits for boats from cottonwood Were broken off to whittle. Beneath the bark the logs were white And smooth like satin lining ; Above lay flecks of velvet moss Like jewels in their shining. When o'er the rough pile's jagged edge Our eager eyes tried peeping , Like honey lay the drops of sap From out the now logs creeping. About us was our childish world , The lane that seemed ne'er ending , The corn house near , the great red barn Where joys untold were blending. We smiled down at the clucking hona With tiny chicks of yellow , And jeered the gobbler as ho passed , A strutting , cross old fellow. Sweet forest odors filled the air Like those we mot when playing That we wore Gypsy vagrants bold And through the woods went straying. Ah , wella-day 1 We still look back Like wistful lads and lassies And smile e'en though that woodpile stands Before our tear-dimmed glasses. MARY FRENCH MORTON. President M o WANTED A Kinley lacks back VEKTEBRA. bone. He is a creature of impulse , with a different policy for each day. He recommended free trade for Porto Rico. That was right. The next day , because of opposition in congress , lie gave it out that ho did not care whether his recommendations were fol lowed or not and that he would cheer- fully sign any measure presented to him. Another day later ho is as enthusiastic for the House tariff bill as he was for free trade not forty-eight hours before. We have confronting us questions for con stitutional interpretation , having a far reaching effect upon our republic. We have as our president in this national crisis a man who is not of the same mind forty-eight hours. The president should be a leader and not a mere puppet in the hands of a con gressional majority. He should bo a man imbued with a determination to carry out his convictions and not change with every little congressional zephyr. He should be a man of the Cleveland stamp. Presi dent Cleveland recommended to con gress that the national credit demanded the repeal of the Sherman law. In spite of a more determined congressional opposition than McKinley had to face , he adhered to his recommendation and finally secured the needed patriotic leg islation. His influence was directed to have congress do what ho wanted and not what somebody else wanted. Had McKinley the moral courage of a Cleveland , congress would have given Porto Rico free trade and the presi dent would be credited with qualities of genuine statesmanship. A Reverend Shel- A YELLOW PULPITEER Aon is editing for one week , the Topeka - peka Daily Capital and showing how Christ would run a newspaper. The pious expounder is severe in his denun ciation of "yellow" journalism. He believes the newspaper panders too much to the curious , maudlin impulse aud-appeals too little to calm , intelli gent judgment. "Yellow" is just as much in evidence in the pulpit as it is in the press , of which the quixotic at tempt of this pulpiteer is abundant proof. Preachers would be doing a greater service to humanity by first ob literating their own jaundice. United States THAT STINGEE. Senator Gilbert Monell Hitchcock would by this time have distinguished the state of Nebraska had ho not met with the misfortune of a sting. It was not the sting of the Bee , but the deadly and malignant sting of ingratitude that politically disfigured with pestilent pustules the fair and stately candidature of Mr. Hitchcock. And now.the sting ing has become epi-democratic in Oma ha where Mr. Hitchcock so generously publishes a non-partisan "independent" journal. This "independent news paper" has made a large fortune for Mr. Hitchcock an independent fortune and illustrated the fact that an inde pendent is one that can not be depended upon , posing either as a journalist , a friend or a politician. Not to be de pended upon is to be an independent. DECLINING DIVIDENDS.TimesHerald which heretofore has been a fervid fanatic , experiencing ecstacies and beatitudes , even at the mention of Saint McKinley , has pub lished recently some severe criticisms of that statesmanette. And yet the Times-Herald was one of the original syndicate that paid up the debts of the bankrupt McKiuley for the purpose of making him a candidate for the presidency. Something like sixty thousand dollars was advanced for that patriotic purpose it is believed by H. H. Kholsaat during the month of Feb ruary 1898. The debts of the Napoleon- otto having boon thus paid by the enter prising promoters and stock holders who included , it is said , Bellamy Storor and Mark Hanua , they put up enough assessments to elect him. For the first time the president of the United States was known and recognized as ' 'a corpor ation. " Dividends began at once. The Chicago end of the corporation named the Secretary of the Treasury. Since then it has been handed a United Cir cuit Judgeship and other returns. But the Times-Herald indicates now "a passing of the dividend" period. The McKinley presidential trust stock is declining in value. Ben Harrison stock is in demand and may go up to par. WICKED. demnable for a gold standard democrat to vote for a re publican , who agrees with him in finance. But it is very commendable for a silver standard democrat to vote for a repub lican who harmonizes with him on the question of coinage. And they are quite worthy of fervid praise when the two silver citizens vote for a populist who advocates irredeemable paper money and repudiates all metalic cur rency. A protectionist silver republican can always depend upon a free trade silver democrat for support. But the populist who cries for fiat currency , made of paper , can command the votes of the twin paradoxes above named at any and all times. They squeal for and he fattens upon offices. ISLEMANIA. symptoms of isle- mania broke out when the Hawaiian Islands and their lepers became objects desired by the jingoes of the United States. Since then the intensity and. accuteness of the disease have been marked by the Porto Eico and Philip pine contagions. The disease has become so chronic that Denmark offers a job lot of West India Islands to the government with perfect faith in soiling. All the island sellers on the globe seek the American market. The twenty millions paid for the Philippines after getting them by conquest has stimulated all the bunko island peddlers of the earth to try and confidence Uncle Sam. The islemania may develop a reaction and a wild de sire to sell islands. The power to pur chase implies the power to sell. Why not have an auction sale of islandsWhy not realize on our insular assets ? Peter Cooper and MODERN CIIAHITY. other noted phil anthropists of the last generation will blush for shame at the crndeness of their methods when they look down and contemplate the broad humanity of President McKiuley in returning the Porto Rican revenues. With them , giving without reward or expectation of return was an indication of philanthropy. Now it is philan thropic to give back a part of what ouo has taken.
