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4VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , DEC. 6 , 1900. NO. 22.
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FURNAS.
commonwealth of
Nebraska has out of his own mind ,
muscle and fortune accomplished more
for its agricultural , horticultural and
general material and mental develop
ment than ex-Governor Robert W.
Furnas , and some of his intimate friends
are asking why he would not , as a
United States Senator , reflect honor
upon this people , and why he may not
be elected ?
COURAGE.
. always just and
resolute , cannot be diverted from a
fixed purpose , either by the misdirected
criticisms of his fellow citizens or by
their threats of exile from popular favor.
Moral courage the power and ability
to follow one's own conclusions and to
fight for them against out-numbering
adversaries is much demanded and
little supplied in American politics.
In his reflections
revolution , , Ed
mund Burke says : "A disposition to
preserve , and an ability , to improve ,
taken together , would be my standard
of a statesman. " Nebraska in selecting
senators may find men who can preserve
the good name and fame of the state
and , at the same time , have the ability
to improve both in the estimation of wise
and thoughtful people. Brains wbioh
have thought , arms which have wronght ,
honors hot bought , advancement in the
public service unsought , are desirable
characteristics for a United States
Senator.
A COMPROMISE.
. . the Uni
ted States is a government of com
promise. The census of 1790 showed
that Delaware , the smallest state in the
union , contained 50,096 inhabitants.
Virginia was at that time the largest
and contained a population of 747,610.
Thus originally the constitution gave
twelve and one-half men in Virginia no
more voice in selecting one-thirteenth
of the senate than it did to each man in
Delaware.
The state of Nevada in 1900 contains
42,884 people , while New York shows a
population of 7,208,009. Thus 171 people
of New York count for only as much in
choosing United States senators as does
a solitary broncho-buster or cowboy in
the sage brush of Nevada.
From the above it is apparent that in
the beginning the inequality as to senators -
_ , , ators was almost as
Senatorial Inequality. . . . .
marked as it is to
day even when New York and Nevada
are cited. Inequalities in a republican
form of government are absolutely un
avoidable and nnerasable. Numerically
two states may have precisely the same
number of representatives in the house ,
but one state has in its delegation a Tom
Reed er a William R. Morrison , and the
other merely an assortment of Omar M.
Kerns. Thus the inequality of repre
sentation is intellectually explained
and mentally illuminated. It is im
possible for all states to furnish the
ability of Mr. Reed and the courage
and intellectuality of Mr. Morrison.
If representation in congress is now
actually based upon population , instead
of upon citizens , popnlational centers ,
like New York and Chicago , where there
are innumerable unnaturalized foreign
ers , hold a great advantage over those
rural districts where foreigners are not
numerous. The state of Massachusetts ,
perhaps , has almost as great an advan
tage in the disproportionate number of
females which it contains and who do
not vote , as South Carolina or North
Carolina may have in the number of
negroes which they hold , who are not
permitted to vote any more than women
are in Boston.
In 1896 Connecticut gave McKinley
six electoral votes. Each one of them
represented 29,065
The Electoral Vote. , , . . . ,
popular ballots. At
the same election Idaho gave Bryan three
electoral votes and each one of them
represented only 8,898 votes. At the
same election New York gave MoEinley
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thirty-six electoral votes , each one of
which represented 89,552 American citi
zens who had voted at that election. On
the same day of the same year Nevada
gave Bryan three electoral votes , paoh
one of which represented only 8,488
citizens.
These inequalities show that the
entire system of government for the
United States is based upon compromises
and inequality which sooner or later
may give rise to discussions and dissen-
tions which will bring about a recon
struction of the entire republic. THE
CONSERVATIVE will endeavor to calmly
discourse from time to time upon these
questions upon the proper solution of
which the perpetuity of the Federal
Union largely depends.
RICHARD.Misfortunes do
POOR RICHARD.
not come singly to
Mr. Orokar. His grief over political
reverses was indeed touching and
keenly pathetic. He sought to forget
his sorrows by leaving the scenes of his
humiliation and defeat and going abroad
to mingle with British sports amid the
pleasures of the race course. He had
hardly reached British soil with his
prize pugs and other congenial com
panions when the tax gatherer swooped
down upon him and deftly touched him
for an income tax. A goodly sum of
Tammany revenue went to swell the
exchequer of her majesty. Mr. Oroker
will soon be due for another outburst of
sympathy for the oppressed Boer. His
experience with the British revenue
officer , will , no doubt , materially inten
sify his kindly feeling for Kruger's
cause.
AFTER ELECTION. The late populist
candidate for the
presidency complacently remarked im
mediately after the re-choosing of
McKinley :
"I shall stay in politics as long as I
live. "
The Marine Register of an early day
contains a remark made by Commodore
Jonah immediately
Joimh. . .
subsequent to the
stomachic convulsions of the whale
which threw .him upon the shore' , a
reeking derelict :
"I intend to be in a whale as long as * \
I live no matter how hard he wishes to
spew me out. " t .
The Red Sea Record is constantly re- V'
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f erring to Pharaoh as the "peerless N
leader" notwithstanding he lured his
followers into an aqueous and remorse
less grave. Peerless Pharoah has pro
totypes in modern times.
