Conservative *
The discontent
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of laborers in the
United States is largely due to in
cendiary oratory. The politicians who
irritate those who have little by pointing
with malicious criticism to those who
have by industry , temperance and
frugality amassed a competence , are no
better than incendiaries. They are
guilty of arson as to the political and
social fabrb. Any man , high or low ,
who incites discontent and antagonism
between the classes is not a friend of
his country.
A largo majority of the strikes have
been produced by politicians seeking to
control the votes of
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laborers. The men
who with tongue and pen stir up dis
content and breed strikes and mobs , are
no better than house-breakers or con
spirators against the public peace. The
country at this time is filled with these
political walking delegates. They seek
office. They would acquire it even at
the sacrifice of the best industries of the
country. Nebraska City has recently
experienced the logical results of dis
content , as aroused , stimulated and
controlled by the fusionists and popu
lists of this state.
The Starch Works at Nebraska Oity
have been of incalculable benefit to the
corn-growers and
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the wage earners ,
both male and female , in this section of
Nebraska. These works began nine
years ago. They started with a capacity
of 250 bushels of corn a day ; they met
all competition , combines and trusts ,
so-called , in struggling for markets for
their output of starch. The evidence of
their success is that they now grind
about 8,000 bushels of corn every day ;
that , in competition with the larger
concerns , by careful and economical
management , by the manufacture of
pure goods , and by decent and honest
commercial character , they have risen
to be the first , the largest and the best
manufacturing works devoted ex
clusively to starch in the entire United
States of North America. The output
of this factory stands high among the
merchants of the world. It is sold from
London to Hong Kong , in Australia and
Alaska. There are men and women at
work in this factory at Nebraska Oity
who will tell you of their constant ,
steady employment at remunerative
wages. Under a classified service , the
most skilled laborers those who have
the best ability and do the most work
get the biggest pay. Thus there is no
pooling of the dullard with the expert
on a per diem basis. ' If dullards are
employed they get dullards' wages , and
skilled laborers get wages of experts.
There are women in these works who
make more annually as starch breakers
than Oolonel Bryan ever averaged for a
term of seven years as a lawyer. There
are also women engaged in packing
starch who make more per day , per
mouth and per year than the average
candidate for attorney-general on th3
fusion or.populist ticket in this state has
ever been able to earn in the practioa of
law. In fact , the average ability of the
operatives in the starch factory at Ne
braska Oity along the lines which they
pursue for a livelihood , is b9tter than the
ability of the average candidate on the
fusion ticket for any position along the
line of office-hunting and salary-grab
bing.
Every vote given to Oolonel Bryan
and his disciples of discontent and
_ , . destruction is a
Votes.
vote to shut down
industrial plants at Nebraska Oity and
everywhere else Oolonel Bryan opposes
combined capital wherever found , no
matter how legitimate the business in
which it may bo engaged. He kindly
declares , however , that he is not an
tagonizing honestly-acquired money.
By this he means money acquired by
political candidature , public speaking
and the publication of "first battles"
which were never fought and never
won. Money made out of one's month
is honest money. Money made by muscle
and mind , combining to skillful acquire
ment and economical saving , is dis
honest money. Talking is honest.
Working is dishonest. To build up
industries is "imperialism , " to tear
down industries is the "patriotism" of
Bry anarchy.
CORPORATIONS.
acceptance Mr.
Bryan makes the following distinction
between corporations :
"The democratic party makes no war
upon honestly acquired wealth ; neither
does it seek to embarrass corporations
engaged in legitimate business , but it
does protest against corporations enter
ing politics and attempting to assume
control of the instrumentalities of gov
ernment. A corporation is not organ
ized for political purposes , and should
be compelled to confine itself to the
business described in its charter. Honest
corporations engaged in an honest busi
ness will find it to their advantage to aid
in the enactment of such legislation as
will protect them from the undeserved
odium which will be brought upon them
by these corporations which enter the
political arena. "
The people of Nebraska Oity have an
object lesson of the manner in which
' _ . . . _ Mr. Bryan would
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apply the princi
ples of his platform and how he would
exterminate corporations and the kind of
corporations he would destroy. The at
toruey-general of this state , a firm be
liever in Mr. Bryan's platform , an
official after Mr. Bryan's own heart and
a probable attorney-general in Mr.
Bryan's cabinet in the event of his elec
tion , has applied to the highest court of
the dtate for a decree to close and shut
down the starch works in Nebraska
Oity. Mr. Bryan says :
"The democratic party makes no war
upon honestly acquired wealth. "
Does the infallible seer in statecraft
mean to assert that it is dishonest for
men to pay out money to Nebraska
farmers for corn and , by the use of
machinery and well-paid labor , to con
vert that corn into starch ? If not why
prosecute those who are doing this ?
The mighty one soothingly continues :
"Nor does the democratic party seek
to embarrass corporations engaged in a
legitimate business. "
When did the manufacture of a staple
food product become illegitimate ?
_ . Oan populist
Piracy. .
no t
officials by im
perial decree outlaw a business that
harms no one , that employs labor at
good wages , that brings prosperity to a
community ? Is it the royal prerogative
of Smjth to place such an enterprise
on a par with piracy and robbery ? If
not why this action against the starch
works ?
The statesman in embryo further
saith :
"But the democratic party does pro
test against corporations entering
politics and attempting to assume con
trol of the instrumentalities of govern
ment. "
The st arch works has never "entered
politics. " It has never asked the state
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any bounty , bonus
or special privilege of any description.
It has never sought in any way , direct
or indirect , to secure or influence legis
lation favorable to its interests. But this
did not secure for it immunity against
the tyrannical prosecution and persecu
tion of the advocates of the old Chicago
platform lately rechristened at Kansas
Oity. Instead of this corporation having
entered politics , politicians have inter
fered with and now seek to destroy it.
The action instituted by the attorney
general shows Mr. Bryan's hand. He
seeks to crush out
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Hand. a corporation that
has committed no
crime , that has violated no law , that has
done none of those things which Mr.
Bryan says a corporation shall not do.
Mr. Bryan's meaning is now clearer
than words could possibly have ex
pressed. By trusts he means corpora
tions and by corporations he means all
corporations. Instead of wrong doing
being the basis for an action against a
corporation , the mere proof of the
existence of the corporation is sufficient
to warrant its destruction. It means
that corporate capital is no longer safe
within the jurisdiction of populism.
Instead of government existing to pro
tect this form of property it is , as
administered by populists , to persecute
it. This is what Mr. Bryan , the leader