noble sire. Mr. Morton was a native
Nebraskan , having been born at Arbor
Lodge some thirty-odd years ago and
had resided there continuously until a
few mouths since , when business
interests called him temporarily from
home. His untiring industry and great
ability had done much for the advance
ment of Nebraska City , and bis untimely
demise is mourned as a public loss by
the entire state. St. Paul Republic.
Carl Morton , president and manager
of the United States Sugar Refinery at
Waukegan and youngest son of J.
Sterling Morton of Nebraska , died at
his home in Waukegan early yesterday
morning after an illness of only a week.
Although only 85 years old , Mr. Morton
was the head of the largest plant and had
600 men under his direction. His short
career was an example of what industry ,
well-directed energy and temperate
habits will accomplish.
Sorrow was expressed on dvery side at
Waukegan , Chicago and Nebraska City ,
where Carl Morton was known. He
was popular with business men and with
his employees. It was his close atten
tion to business and his wonderful
capacity for work which gained for him
his position in affairs. In 1890 he
branched out into large affairs by es
tablishing the Argo Starch Mannfaotnr
ing Company at Nebraska City.
Mr. Morton came to Waukegan in
February , 1900 , to accept the position of
vice-president and general manager of
the United States Sugar Refinery. Last
October he was made president of the
company. With his family he occupied
a pleasant home at 706 Sheridan road ,
on the bluff overlooking Lake Michigan.
Chicago Times-Herald , Jan. 8 , 1901.
The house of representatives of Ne
braska legislature passed resolutions of
respect over the death of Gail Morton
There is indeed nothing too good to be
said of the young and vigorous man
hood of Nebraska , of which Carl Morton
was a conspicuous type. Beatrice
Democrat.
MB. CLEVELAND'S SPEECH.
Mr. Cleveland's thoughtful speech at
the Holland Society dinner last night
had for its text "the saving grace of
conservatism. "
Reviewing the new national situation
created by the results of the Spanish
war , the ex-president said truly that "a
strange voyage had been entered upon ,
without count of cost and without charter
or compass. " And he is surely on in
disputable ground in his declaration
that , whatever the outcome of our
Philippine adventure may be , "our
country will never be the same again , "
because "for weal or woe we have irre
vocably passed beyond the old lines. "
g-r In his contrast of the position of the
; wo great English speaking nations less
iban five years ago , when a treaty of
arbitration and peace between them was
almost concluded , and their position to
day , Mr. Cleveland made a clear and
strong point. Great Britain and the
Jnited States , he said , "are still operat-
ng in parallel lines , one in the Philip
pines , 'the other in South Africa , but no
onger for peace and arbitration. Both
are killing the natives in an effort to
possess their lands. "
The effect on the future of the United
States of this departure from its historic
principles and policy is , Mr. Cleveland
remarks , more serious than the South
African war can be upon that of Eng
land , for with the latter country it is
not a new policy. "We can conquer the
Philippines and can probably govern
them , " he says , but "it is in the strain
upon our institutions , the demoraliza
tion of our people , the evasion of our
constitutional limitations and he per
version of our national mission that our
danger lies. "
From this danger the ex-president , in
common with other American states
men of the pre-imperial period , sees one
escape a revival of "the kind of con
servatism in which our constitution had
its birth , and which has thus far been
the source of our nation's safety and
strength the conservatism of justice , of
honor , of honesty , of industry , of
frugality and of contented homes. "
The speech will add to Mr. Cleveland's
reputation for saying the right thing at
the right time , and saying it in such a
strong and earnest way as to hold the
attention of the country. New York
World.
Ex-President Cleveland has followed
ex-President Harrison in addressing a
solemn warning to his countrymen
against departing from the ancient
landmarks of the republic , and especially
against indulging in the spirit of con
quest and aggression. Nothing could
be more impressive than his speech at
the dinner of the Holland Society , which
we print elsewhere. Some of his words
were esteemed by his hearers too pessi
mistic , and were received with some ex
pressions of dissent , although the speech
as a whole was vigorously applauded.
He said , among other things : "Our
country will never be the same again ;
for weal or woe we have already irre
vocably passed beyond the old lines. "
But he added "the
immediately , coun
try will in some sort be saved.1. ' The
question how it should be saved he die
not discuss , except that it must be by
means of the conservative spirit which
we have inherited from our ancestors on
the other side of the water. To these
admonitions , as to those of ex-President
Harrison , we give our hearty adhesion.
A carping critic , however , has pointdd
out the fact that President Harrison set
the first bad example of aggression when
iie proposed to take advantage of an act
of violence committed by an American ,
minister to annex the Hawaiian Islands.
Another critic might sav that Mr. Oleve-
and , when he sent his Venezuela mes
sage to congress , came somewhat short
of the spirit of conservatism which he
now so highly values. This would be
an argument in the tu-quoque order ,
which is not to be commended. Mr.
Cleveland has rendered greater services
to the country than any other president
since Lincoln , and it is to be hoped that
lie may live long to speak words of wis
dom to his countrymen like those which
fell from his lips at the Holland dinner.
New York Evening Post.
Nebraska needs
LOCAL ILLUS
TRATION. manuf aoturing
plants more than
it needs politicians. Nebraska can make
more fame out of corn foods than out of
the oratorical moods of mimic states
men. The state and all the people
therein can profit more by building up
milling and other industries than by
exalting the elocutionary , electioneering
autonomies who constantly declaim for
office.
The Nebraska City Cereal Mills in
three years have ground into meal ,
, , grits and flour
TC ilfXna1r rlt F °
nearly two million
bushels of corn , for which they paid in
round numbers five hundred thousand
gold standard dollars.
During the same period the same mills
ground into meal twelve hundred thous
and bushels of oats which cost over two
hundred and fifty thousand gold stand
ard dollars right here in Nebraska City.
Fifteen thousand tons of coal were
burned in turning the wheels and run
ning the machinery and a hundred and
odd thousand dollars were paid out for
labor by the same mills in the same
time. What politician has bestowed as
much practical benefit in the same time ?
What eloquence compares to the hum of
contented industry ? A lot more mills
in the commonwealth and a lot less
practical politicians will prove profitable.
THE CHANCES FOB AN AFRICAN
REPUBLIC.
The best parallel with South African
conditions may be found in certain
conditions of our Revolutionary War.
The Boer cause is not more desperate
than wa i that of the Americans during
the awful times at Valley Forge.
In North America , England once
planned to control the entire conti
nent. Instead , there arose here a mighty
republic. In Africa , she is planning to
control , first from the Cape to the
Mediterranean , and , this much gained ,
she would gradually dominate all Africa.
It would be but history repeating itself
if , instead , a republic should arise , with
its shores laved by the waters of two
oceans. Saturday Evening Post.
