Cbc Conservative.
VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , JULY 19 , 1900. NO. 2.
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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 ? ' " *
