Conservative *
of the populist party , stands for. Do
the people of Nebraska wish to per
petuate this kind of an administration
of government ? Nearly every business
of any consequence in our state is
carried on by corporate rather than
individual capital , for the democratio
reason that few individuals have suffi
cient means , hence a combination in
corporate form of their limited fortunes.
Do the people of Nebraska , then , wish
to drive from the state a large portion of
our commercial activities ? If so , they
will most effectively accomplish it by
voting to continue populism. If they
wish to aid to make national the
deplorable conditions which are now
local they should vote for Mr. Bryan ,
who is pledged and determined to
prosecute all guilty of the iniquitous
crime of employing labor.
INTERNATIONAL a o c ep t a nee , Mr.
Bryan assumes
that international bimetallism and the
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1 are identical. Henri
Oernuschi who was one of the leading
bimetallists of Europe and an advocate
of international bimetallism said :
"The melting pot is the test of coined
money , and that which loses value in
melting is bad money and that which
does not is good money. "
Farmers and all other sensible folk
should demand , when they buy money
with their products or services , the
highest standard and quality of money.
And if gold and silver are to be coined
freely and in unlimited quantities by the
United States , then equity and honesty
must insist that :
"Any quantity of either metal in the
form of bullion must be of exactly the
same value as the same quantity of the
same metal in the form of coin. "
But if the unlimited and free coinage
of silver at the unphilosophical , illogical
and false ratio of 16 to 1 is to be insti
tuted and silver thus made a legal
tender at a mint and coin value which
is twice its bullion value , this basio
principle of rightful coinage will have
been abrogated and defied. Under the
operation of the Qresham law , gold will
disappear from the channels of Ameri
can commerce and silver will take its
place. All that we sell foreigners will
be paid for in silver , and all that we buy
from them will be paid for in gold , . and
we also will pay the premium on that
gold. In short , we will be monetarily
Mexicanized , and no class will suffer so
great a proportion of the calamitous
loss , which this will cause , as American
farmers.
TRUSTS WANTED. _ ? f
Oil Company ,
which brings into the United States
from Europe more than one hundred
thousand dollars in gold every day in
the year is a trust , let us have a dozen
more of the same sort. It takes American
oil to all the markets of Europe and
with it buys gold in competition with all
the oil sellers of the world , and brings
dome the gold , with which it is develop
ing the resources and wage-paying pow
ers of the republic. It sells oil for less
money than any other concern on earth ,
and it oppresses the consumer of oil no
where on earth. It pays its employees
generously and it has no strikes. The
oil it sells for fifteen cents a gallon de
livered in Nebraska , THE CONSERVATIVE
first saw the light from at $1.50 a gallon
right here at Arbor Lodge. We like
light. Give us more light on the enor
mities of the crimes of the combines of
capital upon the people of Nebraska.
In eleven years the Argo starch works
have expended for buildings , wages ,
coal , corn , lumber and machinery in
Nebraska City more than five millions
of dollars. This has harmed no one ex
cept the calamity orators of populism
and fusion. Nebraska Oity wishes more
such trusts. Nebraska Oity has not in
vited Smyth to destroy this industry.
Nebraska needs more such factories and
nothing prevents getting them except
the words and works of the Bryans ,
Aliens , Smyths , and other demagogues
who seek offices for the money that is in
them rather than for honor.
Nebraska wants more "trusts" which
build up and energize her capability to
grow rich and contented and less "trust"
in the dissembling deolaimers who en
deavor , by fallacies and sophistry , to
array the poor against the rich , the in
dolent against the industrious , and to
teach and bring about discontent and
anarchy. Eepnblished from the issue of
September 6.
Referring to Mr.
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BRYAN AND ,
THE SOUTH.Bryan's campaign
in the southern
states the New York Evening Post says :
"No candidate for the presidency was
ever treated with such contempt in the
section where he was supposed to be
strongest as'is Bryan by the South in
this campaign. All of the states below
the Potomac and the Ohio rivers , with
the possible exceptions of West Virginia
and Kentucky , are conceded to him by
everybody , and yet in all that region
there is scarcely any sign of warm sup
port , while leading democratic news
papers do nor hesitate to sneer at the
nominee of their party. Take as an
illustration these remarks by the Mont
gomery Advertiser , the most influential
journal in Alabama , upon Bryan's
recent claim that the coinage of silver
dollars by the MoKiuley administration
is a vindication of the " 16 to 1" doc
trine : "For the sake of the party , we
wish Mr. Bryan would stop making such
statements. Mr. Bryan knows that
such coinage has absolutely no connec
tion with free coinage at 16 to 1.
There's no excuse for such statements. "
It is evident that the sentiment of the
South regarding the financial issue has
changed greatly , and that the business
men of that section are now in no mood
for tampering with the gold standard.
This is one reason why the South is cool
towards a candidate who is committed
to the overthrow of that standard.
All of the earlier
CHIKF .JUSTICE
MASON. settlers of Otoo
county remember
Oliver Perry Mason , first as a young and
ambitious attorney of great ability in
logic and great power in oratory. After
that he is recalled as the first chief
justice who served the state of Ne
braska. Ho was peculiarly original in
thought and expression. On March 25 ,
1887 , the execution of a criminal was
ordered , and relative to it Judge Mason
wrote :
"This is the day the commonwealth
of Nebraska performs the Christian
rite of hanging a human being by the
neck. * * * Great world
this , great civilization.
"When shall we learn that the best of
all Eouncl morality lies in a proper
regard of physiological law , in a sound
human animal bred from ancestors in
whom there is no physical disease ?
"When the fact is known and
regarded we shall commence to eradi
cate crime , and not till then. The gal
lows and the gibbet will not stop it ;
they have been tried for eighteen hun
dred years and have proved a signal
failure. We ought to progress , but we
do not. In a land of boasted freedom
thought is chained and manacled by the
slavery of popular opinion. Sometimes
I think there is more liberty in Prussia
where you may freely discuss all
matters except the churches and the
government , than here. "
THE OCTOPUS
„ and
HUNTKK. teresting
suavely smug at
torney general of Nebraska , Smyth ,
has returned from an exciting hunt of
the oleaginous octopus in the wilderness
of New York Oity. But his expense
accounts had not been filed in the office
of the state auditor when THE CONSER
VATIVE last enquired for the per capita
cost of killing the Standard Oil trust ,
the ice trust , the silver smelter trust ,
the starch trust and the trust in popu
lism , Poynter and other fusion-for-office
patriots in Nebraska.
Will Smyth say what the dried pelt
of an octopus costs the state of Ne
braska ? Will the anti-trust tourist who
so recently charged upon Rockefeller in
his Wall Street den , state to the public
the expenses of his self-instituted and
itinerant antagonism to trusts ?
And will Smyth tell also when , how ,
by whom he became inspired to that
insatiable thirst for the blood of the
Standard Oil company in Nebraska , and
what number of aggrieved citizens
petitioned him to kill off these various
alleged trusts ? Republished from the
issue of September 6.