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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1901)
. ! , , ! r t r 1 Che Conservative. ' VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , JAN. 24 , 1901. NO 29. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OT POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 9,700 COPIES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One dollar and a half per year , in advance , postpaid , to any part of the United States or Canada. Remittances made payable to The Morton Printing Company. Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska City , Neb. Advertising Rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the postoffice at Nebraska City Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898. In e WOrk of THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH.3&meB Brycs on the government of the United States , which every thought ful and patriotic citizen ought to read , THE CONSERVATIVE finds the following , which members of the Nebraska legis lature may , at this critical juncture of a contest for two United States senators , study with possible profit : "The smallness and permanence of the senate have , however , another important influence on its character. They con tribute to one main cause of its success , tba superior intellectual quality of its members. Every European who has described it has dwelt on the capacity of those who compose it , and most have followed De Tocqueville in attributing this capacity to the method of double election. The choice of senators by the state legislatures is supposed to have proved a better means than direct choice by the people of discovering and select ing the fittest men. " * # * # "It is no more surprising that the average capacity of the senate should surpass that of the house , than that the average cabinet minister of Europe should be abler than the average mem ber of the legislature. " # * * # "A man must have had considerable experience of affairs , and of human nature in its less engaging aspects , before he enters this august conclave. " Among the manyf prominent candi dates now before the legislature at Lincoln are some men who quite accept ably fill the measure for United States ia senators , described by Mr. Bryce. Ifc is ] / ; hoped by all who have patriotic pride in the citizenship of Nebraska that senators of the best and highest character intellectual and social men distin guished for straightforward honesty may be speedily elected. The honor and the conscience of the state should be incarnated in its senators. Originally there THE UNITED onlv twenty- STATES SENATE. were six members of the United States senate. In the beginning it was a small body of large men and in recent years it has , at times , been a large body of small men. During the first five years of its existence the senate sat with closed doors. It discussed treaties , appoint ments by the executive , and made such discussion and private conferences with members of the cabinet and the presi dent the chief duties and occupation of senators. Not until 1816 did the United States senate create standing committees. The senate of today is an evolution. It has gained legislative authority without losing executive powers relating to treaties and appointments. It is the only legislative assembly in the world exercising legislative , executive and judicial functions. It ought to be com posed of men who , within constitutional limitations , can intelligently and efficiently assist the senate to wisely use all of its powers. I 1856NewEng. COMMUNAL HEREDITY. land was sending Yankees , Beecher rifles and bibles to Kansas in carload lots to make it a free state. The same year the slaveholding South was ship ping into Kansas bowie knives , guns and a game lot of fighting cavaliers to make it a slave state. Thus the com monwealth of Kansas came into exist ence through turmoil , strife and blood shed. The territorial or pre-natal condition of the state made an indelible birth-mark upon its emotional and intellectual nature. Kansas has always been , from the date of. its admission to the Union in 1861 , phenomenally hyster ical. It has gone from the paroxysmal convulsions of prohibition on one day into the idiotic contortions and gyrations of populism the next day. It has been most radically republican one year , giving eighty thousand majority for that party , while denouncing , with in- tensest bigotry and intolerance , all ex- confederate soldiers as worthy of dam nation , and another year electing an ex-confederate colonel to represent it in the United States senate. In the early days Kansas welcomed negroes to become its citizens and with fervor advocated the rights of Africans as equal to those of Caucasians ; and now Kansas burns negroes at the stake and howls in savage glee while the flesh of the victim crackles in the flames. Verily there is such a thing as com munal heredity. THE REFORM The Independent ARMY. which is the prin cipal populist per iodical in Nebraska speaks of "the different sections of the reform army. " But that valuable illustrator of vagaries fails to tell the wondering public whether it belongs to the eastern division of the reform army , commanded by General Croker of New York , or the western division of the same , which is com manded and glorified by Senator Clark of Montana. "Great is Tammany and Croker is its prophet , " and when reforming in columns is required , for campaign pur poses , Oroker is the cheering chum of the presidential candidate of all popu lism. And for contributions to the cause of reform , who gave more than Senator Clark of Montana ? Croker , Clark and reform forever ! THE PATRONAGE. TIVE is ambitious to conserve the best interests of the social , professional and industrial life of the people. The wider its circulation , and the more general and generous its patronage the better it can promote those interests. THE CONSERVATIVE is not a partisan periodical. It tries to teach the importance of a refined and intellectual home-life. It endeavors to make all classes of the American people understand the interdependence of labor and capital. It antagonizes class legis lation for any industry , 'sect , creed or association of whatsoever kind. But it has the courage also to stand up for the rights of incorporations as well as for . those of individuals. It sees and knows how incorporations have dared and risked and vanquished in struggles with natural obstacles , with the asperities of the mountains and the plains , where private persons and individual capital stood aghast and powerless. THE CONSERVA TIVE is in the field for honest money , for arboriculture , for the elevation and embellishment of American homes. THE CONSERVATIVE desires a larger and con stantly increasing patronage ,
