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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1900)
illagggMMHHMa # " { t B r ; Che If VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , MARCH 22 , igoo. NO. 37. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. .T. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOUHNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION Of 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 upon appli cation. Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898. ARCHISOLD IN DEFENCE OF THE TRUSTS. John D. Archbold , a director of the Standard Oil company , has an article in this month's Independent on "Effect of Trusts on Labor. " Mr. Archbold be gins : ' 'I am requested to express my views relative to the charges so often made agaiust trusts that they decrease the number of workiugmen employed and oppress their employees by lowering their wages and depriving them of inde pendence. I confidently assert that the reverse of ill these charges is true. " The Standard Oil magnate thus Sums up his arguments : "I claim that aggregations of capital for industry by means of corporations , on a scale large enough to insure success through the use of the perfect means , are decidedly for the advancement of the laborer , as they increase the number employed , increase the rate and certain ty of wages , reduce the price of mater ials which the laborer consumes , and , to a greater extent than any other form of industry , distribute their profits among employees and other small in vestors. "Although much that I have said may seem to be mere theory , I know that it is all true of the business with which I am connected. It has reduced the price of its products , it has paid the best wages to its employees , and payment has been constant and certain. It has in creased the number of employed , and a more faithful and better contented army of employees never existed. "A great number of small concerns could never have created the costly ma chinery and plants , constructed the pipe lines , built the tanks , tank cars and tank vessels , opened the markets of the world , and built up the present oil busi ness. That required combination and capital , without which there would not be today 35,000 workmen drawing $100 , 000 per day in wages , thousands of per sons of moderate means interested in the business , and cheaper light in the palaces and huts of every continent. " . On the two-hun- CANT. , . . , . dred and eleventh page of Webster'sUnabridged Dictionary published in 1896 THE CONSERVATIVE finds "cant" defined aa : empty , solemn speech , implying what is not felt , hypo crisy. That estimable and staunch republican organ , the Indianapolis Journal , in a re cent issue makes the pertinent inquiry : Was it "cant" or "falsehood" when Pres ident McKinley , in his last message , de clared that "our plain duty is to abolish all customs tariffs between the United States and Puerto Rico and give her pro ducts access to our markets" and recom mended prompt legislation to that effect ? How can it bo anything else than "cant" ? Has McKinley on the tariff- on peace , on war , on insular policy or anything else given out anything beside ' 'cant' ' ? He began once to resist Hanna Quay , Platt and Elkins when they first took charge of him , but finally said : "I can't. " He is from Cant-on and will go on with "cant" to the end. The State of A PATRIOTIC Nebraska in gen- PHItANTHROPIST. eral and Grand Island in particular , should be tumultuously - uously and proudly grateful to the St. Joseph News of the 14th for thus men tioning the personality and the mental machinery which runs it , of a patriotic philanthropist : "Mr. Henry T. Oxnard of Grand Is land , Neb. , represents the Sugar trust in Washington. Mr. Oxnard is small in stature , but mighty in purpose , and one of the smoothest lobbyists ever known at the National Capital. He owns a beet sugar factory at Grand Island , which he built with money contributed by the farmers of that place , in order that they might have a market for their beets , and they have been fighting him ever since for reasonable prices. Whenever - over Congress is in session Mr. Oxnard remains in Washington watching the interests of the Sugar trust. " An engine without an engineer and Congress without Oxnard , are wrecked machines. The benefactions of Oxnard came down upon Nebraska years ago , like an avalanche of prosperity and lux ury. For the slightest subsidies , amounting to not more than twice their cost , Mr. Oxnard constructed two beet sugar factories in Nebraska. Whether they have ever profitably made any sugar , even with a state bounty of one to two cents a hundred pounds , nobody knows. But they have made votes for the Sugar trust. The beets have been used to beat , in Congress , all reduction of tariff duties on sugar. The Senators and Representatives from Nebraska have been oftener governed by Oxnard than by their constituents. STARRED THE METHODISTS.a well-known Francisco business man , created something of a sensation when he read a paper before the Metho dist Ministers' Union by saying that Methodism in San Francisco is on the down grade. He stated that after forty years of Methodism in San Francisco and out of a population of over 800,000 there are less than 8000 in the church. He charged that in the Methodist Church there is an aristocracy official ism ; that revival methods are stereo typed and the laity is careless of its ob ligations. Oakland Enquirer. IN IT FOR THE MONEY. , and I will tell you what we shall tell the people of this country : we are going to make all the money out of the transaction we can by enlarging our trade with Oriental coun tries. And we are going to embalm the doctrines of the Declaration of Indepen dence upon the statute-books of the Phil ippines j nst as quickly as we think the time has come to do it , and we are not going to do it one minute before. [ Con gressman Grosvenor of Ohio ( Imperial ist Rep. ) in the House of Represen tatives. Our flag does not WHAT THE FLAG MEANS. mean ° n ° thin& here and another thing in Cuba or Puerto Rico. [ Presi dent McKinley to 20,000 Methodists at Ocean Grove on August 25 , 1$99. ]
