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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1900)
Cbc Conservative. VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , JULY 19 , 1900. NO. 2. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OT POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 7,300 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 npon appli cation. Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898. TWO HOWARDS. . . ? . * ? ? lists of the name of Howard , now speaking in Nebraska , are not jointly or bothly running for congress against the Hon. Mavid Dercer of Omaha. The Howard from Alabama is a marked man who wrote : "What Would Christ Say if He Came to Wash ington 1" The Howard from Papillion is not marked , but hopes to be branded M. O. in the autumn , when he will probably write what Edgar said for Bryan's sake , and the pills he swallowed with a smile. BUILDERS. forces of Bryan- archy , in the state of Nebraska , have never been properly delineated , portrayed trayed and appreciated. The vast in dustrial plants , the great powers of con structive capital , in fabulous amounts , which the Aliens , Bryans , Edmistens and Tibbleses have caused or created for the material development of this com monwealth , have never been photo graphed , described or eulogized. The diabolical envy and the malignant enmity of the plutocratic press have obscured and hidden , in the blackness of its wrath , all the contented cottages and busy manufactories which the magic and creative hands of Bryanarohy and Allenarchy and Tibblesarohy have so generously and deftly founded and built upon these plains. Who are the build ers of the state ? The wretched gold bug imperialists ? No I No 1 my friends , sixteen orations to one day's work ; six teen efforts to get an office for a con glomerate partisan to one effort in behalf of patriotism. Those struggles made Nebraska. Sixteen to one , sixteen speeches to one thought , sixteen fallacies ; o one fact , built Nebraska. The Kansas City GOOD MONEY. convention howled for sixteen-to-one and yelled for Bryan. The populists of Nebraska took sixteen offices and gave one to Oldham for Bryan's sake. Good money will be used to circulate the gospel of sixteen-to-one- ism and thus pacify the engorged and half-digested democrats who are now kicking in the uneasy stomach of nauseated populism in Nebraska. The strength of WONDERFUL. Bryan as a dictator was marvelous at the Kansas City con vention , but not more wonderful than the weakness of the convention. The potency of a single mind , when exercised through the emotional nature , can con trol a tremendously turbulent mass of impetuous idiocy. It is not that the one is so strong , but that the many are so weak. Assumption can control feeble intellects. The K. O. convention proved that. Th6 PATHETIC AND BATHETIC.tearpumping sob-evolving state ment regarding the political conflict of 1900 could have been originated in no other than the great thought-factory of "that peerless leader. " W. J. Bryan , in welcoming the Bryan Home Guards and Traveling Men's Club on their return from the national convention , Saturday , July 7 , 1900 , said : "The fight this year will be to carry out the sentiment of that song we have so often repeated , "My Country , 'tis of Thee ; " if we lose , our children and our children's children will not succeed to the spirit of that song , and celebrations of the Fourth of July will pass away for the spirit of empire will be upon us. ' Down the long vista of Fourth-of- Jnlyless centuries the patriotic and un erring prophet of disaster beholds , with streaming eyes , "our children and our children's children" singing , "My Em peror 'tis of Thee , " and hears with far reaching ears the band playing Yankee Monarch instead of Yankee Doodle Who will fail to sob and paroxysmally to howl in anguish when treated to foaming eloquence like this ? The CHINESE who is in the heathen-converting business , declares and wires from Boston that , "The Chi nese farmers are not different from our own tillers of the soil in the West. t I When they find that the Americans are sending flour to China and selling it ; here cheaper than the price at which the natives can raise rice , they naturally object , just as the people of the Western states would if the Chinese were selling wheat in the United States at lower prices than they themselves could pro duce it. " It seems from the above that there are heathen as well as Christian believers in the doctrine of protection the religion , of high prices for the consumer to. pay and the producer to receive. An orien tal McKinley shuts the door of China to the competition and trade of foreign devils and some Dingley mandarin tells the poor , who pay artificial prices for the things they buy , how blessed a thing it is to shut out the wheat and flour of . the "pauper farmers" of America. CONSENT OF THEGOVEBNED.Olty Convention THEGOVEBNED. consented to be governed by a minority and the minor ity received its commission , to dictate , rule , manage and run the convention , from the self-constituted "boss" , at Lincoln. The Kansas City convention was the abject subject and slave of the imperator at Lincoln. David Bennett Hill was a mild and ineffectual protest against imperialism. But he was soon subdued by tooting brass band , cat-calls and other Bryan- archie means of getting the consent of the governed. OUT OF DEBT. DEBT.standard , which Mr. Bryan declared would "fill the future with blood , " the plain people , who were in debt , have been getting out of debt for three years. And even the state of Nebraska , where calamity has been deified , has paid off the last dollar of its indebtedness. How dare such monstrous enormities of liquidation materialize in controversion of the catastrophic prophecies , made in 1896 , by that statnteless statesman , clientless lawyer and gunless soldier , that exhortatory - tory emotionalist , that phonographic incarnation , Colonel Bryan ? ' " *