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VOL. II. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , JUNE 7 , 1900. NO. 48.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION
Or POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL
QUESTIONS.
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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 20th , 1808.
THE GERMAN
braska are produc
ing an immense amount of surplus beef
and pork. This goes largely to the Uni
ted Kingdom of Great Britain , but Ger
many has been a .very moderate con
sumer of American meats for many
years. The recent legislative action
shutting out certain meats of the Uni
ted States from the markets of the Ger
man Empire is purely retaliatory. The
Germans are simply giving us a dose of
our own prescription for commercial
ills , and , therefore , prepared this protec
tive bolus and crammed it down our
throats whether or no.
Nebraska City has been furnishing
since March 1st a large amount of sur
plus swine-flesh for the foreign markets.
During the two last weeks of May , we
are informed by Doctor Gibbs , veterin
arian , there were slaughtered by the
Chicago Packing & Provision Co. , 16,501
hogs , all of which had been carefully
inspected by the officers of the United
States bureau of animal industry and
passed upon as perfectly sound and
wholesome for food.
$100,000 PER BAY.
porter of Ameri
can products who gets each twenty-four
hours more than a hundred thousand
dollars in gold from the "blarsted for
eigners. " This American gold-getter in
Europe is exceedingly well equipped
for business and has been growing more
and more efficient as a horne-briuger of
gold for ton years. During that term of
years this grabber of English , German ,
French and other alien gold has , no
doubt , averaged a hundred thousand
dollars a day. It has ships by the score ,
and cars and tanks by the hundreds ,
and thus it has assaulted the oil trade of
all the world , and driven Russia and
other oil producers from the markets by
selling oil of better quality and at low
er rates than anybody else.
This is the Standard Oil Company.
This is a combination of energy , brains
and capital which the Attorney-Gener
al of Nebraska is trying to drive out of
the state so as to make an opportunity
for a candle factory. The crime of
brains , intelligent management and
capital combined , to make an article of
common use among plain people cheap
er , must be punished. Put out the oil
and light the candle !
RAILROADS.
. has long held
the government ought to own and oper
ate the railroads of the United States.
His magnanimity and generosity are
perhaps equalled by his experience and
successes in business affairs. Allen has
always been accustomed to the inaug
uration and management of enterprises
requiring great numbers of men and un
limited millions of dollars. Therefore ,
his judgment as to how a railroad ought
to be owned and managed is valuable
beyond that of any great economist and
constructionist in the United States.
Senator Allen , not long since , in an open
letter to the editor of THE CONSERVA
TIVE , himself admitted his superior
ability as a wealth-winner and capital-
manager. Senator Allen was very
modest and tenderly delicate in con
fessing his superiority in ability ,
honesty , acquisitiveness , and his exalted
characteristics as an employer of muscle ,
while diffidently , in a few columns , and ,
briefly , confiding to the public his
mastodonic powers of mentality and
morality. From Allen's latest speech
THE CONSERVATIVE is quite convinced
that "the plain people" would be bosl
served if the government would buy the
railroads and present them to Allen auc
family to operate.
Governor
STATE MIMTIA.
ter , if he be true to
the teachings of populism , will soon order
out the state militia to expel banks
bankers , and money in corporate form
everywhere , from the state of Nebraska
Country banks here in Otoe county with
only ten thousand dollars capital have
deposits of over a hundred thousand
dollars. And in Nebraska City are
more than a million of dollars constant-
y on deposit in four banks.
There is danger from this money
power , and Governor Poyiiter knows it ,
which is a menace to humanity. That
is , there is peril to the plain people in
this plutocratic trend , or the doctrines of
populism are false. Call out the militia !
[ ssue a proclamation against corporate
capital in Nebraska and banish it from
the commonwealth or admit that the
teachings of Bryauarchy are demagogic
and false in each and every particular !
Praise poverty 1 Damn thrift ! Laud ad
versity ! Denounce prosperity in Ne
braska !
The supreme
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SUPREME COURTS.
court of any state
which is advertised , and made famous
by the frequent quoting of its decisions in
other supreme courts , is much more
satisfying to the state pride of taxpaying
ing citizens than that supreme court
to which the public press , all over the
continent , refers with bitter satire ,
every day in the week. There are not
jails and prisons enough in Nebraska to
confine all the good citizens who hold in
utter contempt any court which is su
preme only in its prejudices and unerr
ing only when it exploits its own mean
littleness.
There are seven
SAD SIGHT.
ty-five millions of
people , more or less , in the Republic of
North America. They have schools ,
churches and colleges galore. They all
teach self-government. The Republic
itself is exhorter for
an self-govern
ment in the Philippine Islands and has
worked up a fervid revival , in those
summer lands , in favor of human free
dom by means of soldiers , powder , bul
lets , shot , shell and slaughter.
At homo the republic is run , political
ly , by a brace of machine oligarchies.
One of the machines furnishes the people
a McKinley ballot. The other supplies
a Bryan ballot. American voters must
take either one or the other. The nom
inating trusts permit no competition in
the production of candidates. The sad
millions of boss-
sight of seventy-odd -
governed is presented by the people of
the United States. No wonder the sun
takes an eclipse now and then to prevent
nausea. No wotider when the prescrip
tion is either Bill Me. or Bill B.