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VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , SEPT 27 , 1900. NO. 12.
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" e campaign
MORE c At AMITY .
of 1896 , Mr. Bryan
made this calamitous prediction if he
were defeated :
"If MoKinley and the republican
party are successful and put in power
for the next four years , wages will be
decreased , hard times will come upon
us , and over the land the price of wheat
will go down and the price of gold will
go up ; mortgages on our homes will be
forclosed by the money lenders ; shops
and factories will close. We will ex
port no goods and we will import from
foreign lands all the goods we use ; thus
will ruin , want and misery be with us. "
Not content with the ruin which he
predicted in 1896 and the fact that his
prediction was false , he now goes one
step farther and predicts the complete
overthrow and ruin of the republic in
the following words :
"Today we are engaged in a contro
versy which will determine whether we
are to have a republic in which the gov
ernment derives its just powers from
the consent of the governed , or an em
pire in which brute force is the only
recognized source of power. When
such an issue is raised there can be only
two parties the party , whatever its
name may be , which believes in a
republic , and a party , whatever its
name , which believesjn an empire. "
Intelligent people will not notice the
idle vaporings of the false prophet and
seer who deceived them in 1896.
Forty-two years
wno ABB
THE RICH ? aB ° ° ne of the
ablest and most
philanthropic of the present financiers of
Chicago was a traveling salesman. His
recent donations to establish for the
"plain people" an instructive and useful
museum are of criminal magnitude ,
according to the declamatory delu-
sionists of silver sentimentalism. Have
those dollars , generously donated for the
educational refinement of the people ,
purchased too much ? Another dan
gerous citizen living in the west ,
dangerous because successful , began
life as a California miner delving for
gold. Today his benificence adorns the
streets of his home town with free
chapels and free institutions of educa
tion.
Only two of our railway presidents
obtained their positions by inheritance
while the rest of these plutocratic mag
nates began their railway careers as
office boys , brakemen and in other menial
employments and by the application of
patient industry and determined energy ,
criminally worked themselves up to
their present positions. What splendid
good fortune it is that these men do not
live in Nebraska , within reach of the
all-consuming wrath and vengeful ire of
his "imperial empty ness. " By their
nonresidence only do they avoid indict
ment by Nebraska's curio , that exhibit
of unalloyed lunacy , Constantine J.
Smythe.
A11 corporations
OUT
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which are called
trusts and assaulted as trusts by the
asinine attorney-general of the state
have the right to take their money and
themselves into other states and to pro
ceed therein with the oil , starch and
other business unmolested by idiocy in
office. Some plants are offered large
cash inducements to leave Nebraska and
settle down to business in Missouri.
THB CONSERVATIVE does not hesitate
to advise the removal from Nebraska of
any and all legitimate corporate in
dustries which the attorney-general pro
ceeds against as trusts and attempts to
drive out of the state. That officious
and inane manakiu has endeavored .to
drive out , banish from Nebraska , the
Standard Oil company and the Starch
Company. These two most useful and
efficient wage-payers Smyth assails as
trusts. These two money-scattering-
among - the - wage earners institutions
Smyth fights and orders into exile. The
law of Smyth is politics. He thinks to
get votes for Bryan and to swell the
ranks of "fusion" by destroying capital
and silencing industrial plants.
Any money expended by the Standard
Oil Company or the Starch Company to
_ , . . . defend the right to
. . .
Rlnckmall. , , . . ,
do legitimate busi
ness in Nebraska is no better than cash
paid to a common blackmailer. The
whole scheme of Smyth and his
masters is a scheme to force voters to
support Bryanarchy.
Bather than submit both incorpora
tions should leave the state. Rather
. , than be annoyed
Go Out. . . . , .
with the fleas ,
mosquitoes and other predatory vermin
of populism and fusion , capital should
seek other fields.
If the Standard Oil Company will re
tire , oil will be in demand from other
, but
, purveyors
„ . r . . .
Result. , . . ,
what will be the
price ? It will be much higher. There
is no doubt of it. Try it and see. We
advise the Standard Oil folks to quit
Nebraska and give its people an object
lesson in applied populism , in practiced
Bryanarohy.
The Starch Manufacturing Company
here in Nebraska City cannot afford to
hire lawyers and expend money to de
fend its inalienable right to buy corn ,
buy coal , employ muscle and mind and
pay wages and salaries. The starch-
makers can move out and leave the
town to the care of the vigilant Smyth
and the peerless Bryan , or the domina
ting dunces of fusion can withdraw
their prosecutions and dismiss their
suits. The discharge of the great guns
of Bryanarchy against industrial plants
in Nebraska will not kill politically so
many in front as their recoil will
slaughter in the rear.
Millions for liberty to do business , de
velop the state and pay wages , but not
one cent for defence against Smyth ,
Poynter and Bryan.
THE DIAMOND
SYNDICATE.Tiv ® again calls
the attention of
Mr. Bryan and his attorney-general to
the diamond syndicate at Lincoln , which
takes $1.25 per week from patrons and
at the end of seventy weeks , if they
continue that long , promises to pay them
$160.00 , but , in the event of lapse within
the period , the syndicate appropriates all
that has been paid. It is a polite meth
od of swindling. Why does not Smyth
try to suppress the Lincoln company ?
Has the conversion of Mr. Talbot , the
former law partner of Mr. Bryan and
president of the company , to Bryan
archy , established the immunity of his
company ?