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wo have to nearly every industrial plant
in this community.
Nebraska needs more capitalists. An
influx of forty or fifty millionaires
would be welcomed
MUllnnuiroH mid . , . , . , , / - , . , .
to Nebraska City
as permanent citi
zens with more enthusiasm than a
thousand taxless , workless and worthless
populists preaching calamity , envy ,
malice and strife between citizens of a
common country ; And when large in
corporations or small combinations of
capital come into Nebraska to do - business
ness and pay laborers and convert raw
products into commodities , they will
always be defended by THE CONSERVA
TIVE against the Bowlbys , Bryaus ,
Aliens , and Poynters who are everlast
ingly making war upon money and
money breeders in this commonwealth.
The consent of
CONSENT. , . , . ,
the governed , if
given by an intelligent and honest people
ple , is a good foundation for a govern
ment. But a rabble of vicious and
ignorant voters in the slums of great
cities whose consent is formulated and
controlled by a man like Croker , is not a
solid and wholesome basis , upon which
to erect just and righteous government.
A state prison , the rules , regulations
and management of which are based
upon the consent of the convicts , will
not be well managed , nor well discip
lined , nor will it afford satisfactory re
sults. But it will do as well for its in
mates as illiterate , wicked , dishonest ,
depraved and besotted voters can do for
a republican form of government by
giving it their unqualified consent.
George Wash-
A PARALLEL. . . , , .
ingtou wrote a let
ter to John Jay August 1st , 1786 , in
which he says :
"Nor could it be expected that my
sentiments and opinions would have
much weight on the minds of my coun
trymen. They have been neglected ,
though given as a last legacy in the most
solemn manner. I had , then , perhaps ,
some claims to public attention. I con
sider myself as having none at present. "
The admirers and friends of Grover
Cleveland will observe that he follows
with patriotic instinct the illustrious
example of George Washington.
Washington wrote Madison November
5 , 1786 , and remarked in that letter :
"The consequences of a lax or in
efficient government are too obvious tot
be dwelt upon ,
Not Purullel. . , . . .
thirteen sovereign
ties , pulling against each other , and all
tugging at the federal head , will soon
bring ruin on the whole ; whereas a
liberal and energetic constitution , well-
guarded and watched to prevent en
croachments , might restore us to that
degree of respectability and cense
quences to which we had a fair claim
and the brightest prospect of attaining. "
At Topeka , Kansas , on August 28 ,
1900 , a citizen of the United States ,
seeking the prosi-
A Presidential , ° , . .
Candidate , . deu ° y through tt
trinity of partisan
nominations , declared himself as fol
lows :
1 'It is not strange that the populists
should oppose militarism and imperial
ism , for both are antagonistic to the
principles which populists apply to other
questions. Looking at questions from
the standpoint of the producer of wealth ,
rather than from the standpoint of the
speculator , the populist recognizes in
militarism a constant and increasing
burden. The army worm which oc
casionally destroys a field of wheat is
not nearly so dangerous an enemy to the
farmer as a largo standing army , which
invades every field of industry and
exacts toll from every crop. "
"The contrast between General Wash
ington's views and Colonel Bryan's views
on "lax" government is refreshing.
With all due regard for Colonel Bryan ,
THE CONSERVATIVE is green enough and
mean enough to esteem the words of
Washington as the more wholesome ,
truthful and acceptable. Washington
had established and preserved a republic
evolved out of militarism , by an army.
He had no fears of too many patriotic
soldiers to defend and uphold an efficient
government.
The next issue
T IT I'1
CONSERVATIVE.f THE OONSERVA-
TIVE will begin the
publication of political views written
especially for its columns by Hon. John
P. Irish , John M. Palmer , Daniel S.
Sickles and other distinguished demo
crats of the honest money school.
With constantly increasing circula
tion , in the third year of its life , THE
CONSERVATIVE is becoming more and
more an admitted exponent of the
thoughtful , considerate and conscien
tious patriotism of the United States.
As a missionary among the financial
and economic heathen of populism and
pessimism , THE CONSERVATIVE has
courage and faith. It trusts , for vin
dication and verification , the inexorable
future and the merciless facts with
which it will inevitably confront and
confound the false prophets of the year
1900.
For many years
SILVER AND Oil * . _ , , - , ,
Col. Bryan has
been the acknowledged advocate and ,
some say and really believe , the paid
solicitor of the silver trust.
While a member of the lower house
of congress Bryan was the mouthpiece
of the silver mine and bullion owners
who , it is said , had contributed four
thousand dollars to secure his election.
The Omaha World-Herald never
kicked at Bryan for defending the silver
syndicate and the conspiracy to coin
silver at $1.29 an ounce when the market
bullion value of that metal was only
half that price. On the contrary it
cuddled to the silver crowd and bogged
it to take World-Herald stock and pay
for it and , it is said , men interested in
putting free coinage through did take
and pay for World-Herald stock.
When John M. Thurston of the upper
house openly not in disguise appears
in court to defend the Standard Oil
Company , Bryanarchy and nil its organs ,
including the World Herald , are thrown
into convulsions , and their paroxysms of
patriotism become a series of spasms.
Now , why condemn Thurstou and
praise Bryan ? Is oil more dangerous
than silver ?
at
NO MITIGATION. _
Lincoln after his
return from Indianapolis the fusion
candidate for the presidency said :
"I have discussed questions before
you in the past , but I have not been
called upon to take back an opinion
which I had expressed on these great
questions. "
In speaking of the dear farmer for
whom , as well as for common people ,
plain people and poor people , Col. Bryan
has always an intensely fervid solici
tude , that matchless month-worker said :
"It ( the gold standard ) will make it
more and more difficult for the farmer
to live. "
This doughnut of paramount wisdom
was dropped into the audience at Madi
son Square Garden while the peerless
was talking 16 to 1 and accepting the
nomination in 1896.
Now , do conditions and contentment
among farmers demand recantation of
that silly untruth or do they not ? Time
has given the cold , calm , irritating con
tradiction to that assertion. The farm
er is doing splendidly under the gold
standard and the lands of the farmer are
steadily enhancing in value in Nebraska
and elsewhere ?
Col. Bryan is called on to take back
that false statement.
An expert pen-
DELICATE
PENMANSHIP.mttn has been able
to write within
the circumference of a standard "silver
dollar the names of all the manu
facturers with large pay rolls , in the
state of Nebraska , who support Bryan
and Stevenson. The same skilled hand
writes the names of all the banks and
bankers ; n Nebraska , who advocate that
ticket , within the circle made by draw
ing a line around a silver half dollar.
There are sixteen wages-payers in
Nebraska against Brynnarohy to ona
favoring that fusion of vagaries and
paramount tautamounts.
