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VOL. II. 'NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , APRIL 26 , 1900. NO. 42.
PUBLISHED -WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898.
The ingratitude
INGRATITUDE. of the Republican
party of Nebraska towards our old and
esteemed fellow-citizen , the Hon. John
Melodramatic Thurstou , is so base that
the eyes of steel needles in every hard
ware and dry goods store of the state are
filled with tears. The fact that the
tremendous personality of this incan
descent intellect , which combines jurist ,
statesman , orator , poet and troubadour ,
should be permitted to wander in loneliness -
liness from county to county seeking
votes as a candidate for delegate to
the National Republican convention ,
wrenches the heart-strings and twists
the affections into paroxysms of an
guish.
The friends of silver who heard his
fervid orations in favor of its free coin
age at 16 to 1 should rally for Thnrston.
The friends of the gold standard who
remember the molten truths he poured
out in behalf of that righteous cause
during the campaign of 1896 , must indeed -
deed be calloused and cruel if they fail
to fight for Thurston.
The great and good men , like Tom
Cook , Seth Mobley and innumerable
chaps , full of canned patriotism and
government rations , whom the poet
nauseate of Nebraska has tied to the
feed boxes of patronage should , for a
moment , quit their holy work of evan
gelizing the heathen by Christian
example and come home to elect him
delegate-at-large to Philadelphia.
Where are the veterans of republican
ism in Nebraska , like J. B. West on , O.
P. Manderson , Charlie Green and scores
of other aggressive leaders , that they do
not beat the long roll , wave their ban-
ners and with exultant brass bands rally
around the voice , spectacles and ver
bosity of the sonorous senator ? Are
their hearts dead to the tuneful trouba
dour's sweet minstrelsy ? Have they
forgotten that as poet nauseate he lifted
his mellifluent voice on high and sang as
no other lyre ever did sing :
' 'I said to the rose 'Oh Rose ! sweet Rose J
Will you lie on my heart tonight ,
Will you nestle there , with your perfume
rare
And your petals pure and white1 "
Or have those antiques of the ancient
realms of respectability in political life
been smitten with petrifaction of the
emotions and fossilized as to sensibilities ?
Or have those ribald rioters , who
write parodies upon the fair fame of the
poet nauseate of this tree-planting state ,
poisoned , unto death , their love for the
vocal gymnastics of our melodramatic
statesman ?
Has the wicked and implicatory :
"I said to my nose , 'Oh Nose 1 Red Nose 1
Is there any relief in reach ?
Is there any old dye that I can buy ,
That will work as a nasal bleach1 "
saturated their souls with the idea of a
rubescence caused by stimulative irriga
tion of John's internal diversities ?
Or will they permit their loyalty to
poetry , statesmanship and oratory to be
enfeebled by that dogmatic effusion
which declared :
"I said to my lunch 'oh Lunch 1 late
Lunch I
Will you throb like a stone-bruised
toe ;
Will you double me up , like a poisoned
pup ,
And fill me with grief and woe ? ' "
Without the voice of Senator Thurston
at Philadelphia the mighty and holy
cohorts of McKinleyism will be only a
melancholy mass of appetite for pie
without soul to energize and direct it.
THE CONSERVATIVE forecasts the trium
phant election as delegate-at-large to the
National Republican convention of John
Melodramatic Thnrston.
The editor of THE
thanks friends who
by telegram and letter have congratula
ted him upon his sixty-eighth birthday ,
April 22 , 1000. He has great satisfaction
in telling them all that real comfort in
life is found in constancy to a permanent
location a fixed home. At twenty-
three the foundations of Arbor Lodge
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were laid , and at sixty-eight they remain
substantial and firm. The prairie has
vanished. The trees have appeared.
Stick to the home. Embellish the home.
[ t is the one earthly thing worth living
and working for. When the home is
right the state is right. The unit of the
republic is the American homo and the
republic is the composite homo of citizen
ship. The man who makes for himself
and family an attractive homo and
garnishes it with trees , flowers , books ,
music and contentment contributes vast
ly to the commonwealth. Schools and
colleges may do much for American
youth but homes do more. Masters for
boys are perhaps essential to develop the
manly citizens ; but mothers of ability ,
industry and commanding force are the
potential agencies which furnish leaders
for the race in all its multiform voca
tions. Forty-five years in the same
home give one authority to speak in be
half of such a safe anchorage , and to
exalt the benignant influence which it
exerts upon children , under the care of
a strong and enlightened mother.
SIXTEEN-TO-ONE.
Minnesota admits
that 16 to 1 cannot be made an issue in
the presidential campaign of 1900.
Everybody with the sense and foresight
of Gov. Boies of Iowa is ready to admit
16 to 1 a mistake and Bryan a mistake.
And nobody who wishes or hopes to
elect somebody else than McKiuley is in
favor of reenaotiug the mistakes of
1896.
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THE PROVISION
MARKET. MrOlancey , mis
sionary , reports
that in India "girls are being sold for 30
cents apiece to Mohammedans to save
them from starvation. "
This seems a low price , and it is most
satisfactory to reflect that there is no
need of any Mohammedan's perishing of
hunger so long as he has 30 cents.
But we think that many an American
housekeeper will shudder at the idea of
so reckless a consumption of girls. If
some Indian merchant would import a
cargo of this merchandise while the
market remains low , he could easily
dispose of them at say $10 per dozen ,
thus realizing a handsome profit and
notably simplifying the servant-girl
problem. For they could still be used
as food after they had become insuffer
able in the kitchen in any other
capacity.
