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the purposes of. taxation. But the rail
road itself has no right , saith Bryan-
orchy , to issue any paper to show an
increased value proportional to that
which the .state for tlio benefit of its
own revenue lias set upon it.
In another article TIIE CONSERVATIVE
will endeavor to more thoroughly
elaborate the value of terminal proper
ties belonging to railroads in Nebraska
and other prosperous states. The object
of discussion along this line is to dem
onstrate the ignorance , demagogy and
malice which . animate the average
vote-seeking , class-creating , envy-en
gendering oratorical candidates. After
awhile citizens generally may be able to
detect the non-value of mere assertion
aerated with hot air. And at last they
may conclude that inflation of the lungs
for the purpose of lodging fallacies and
falsehoods about corporate capital on
the credulity of the public is quite as
common as watered stocks or com
moner.
Judge Samuel
JUDGE MAXWELL. Maxwell died at
his home in Fre
mont , Neb. , on Tuesday , Feb. 12 , 1901.
He had been long identified with the ter
ritorial and state history of Nebraska.
THE CONSERVATIVE first came to know
the judge intimately and well during
the session of the legislative assembly of
the territory of Nebraska in 1858-59. In
that body Judge Maxwell represented
the county of Cass and was one of the
most diligent and hard-working mem
bers of the house of representatives. He
with great care and labor drafted and
passed at that session the law regulating
line fences , providing for the division of
the cost thereof between the owners of
lands adjacent to each other , and the
statute still remains in force.
Judge Maxwell was also a member of
the last legislative assembly of the terri
tory , which convened in Omaha in the
summer of 1866 , and was very influen
tial in bringing about the admission of
Nebraska to the Union , which followed
in March , 1867.
Entering the legal profession quite
late in life , by diligent attention to his
books and careful investigation of all
cases which were entrusted to his man
agement , he became quite a successful
attorney , and was soon called to a seat
in the supreme court of the state , where
in he served for many years , always dis
tinguished for his honesty and integrity
of purpose , as well as for his painstaking
investigation of each cause upon which
he had to pass.
Among the pioneers of Nebraska who
first wrote the autograph of prosperity
upon these plains with the point of the
plow , Judge Maxwell had his most sin
cere admirers and devoted friends. His
career , from the humblest beginnings ,
from obscurity , to the chief justiceship of
the supreme court of the common-
wealth , by dint of honest labor , ex
emplifies the fact that to the ybnng
men of courage , industry , and good in
tellectual and moral character who look
upward , the way to the highest summits
of human attainment is an open and
plain road. No man in all the history
of the territory and state better exem
plifies the possibilities for acquirement ,
achievement , honors and dignities that
are open to and reachable by the sons
of the common people , everywhere ,
than did Judge Samuel Maxwell.
The distinguished
WILLIAM VINCENT proprietor of the
ALLEN. expanding , con
tracting and eruc-
tatory lungs and of the tenacious and
warranted-not-to-fail-or-fade voice who
- - - - - ,
has illuminated Nebraska manners
and morals in the United States
senate for some time , will go March
Fourth into a jobless and unfeel
ing world. William Vincent Allen
has uses as well as abuses in public life.
His friends propose to stand him along
side of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty
Enlightening the World in New York
harbor Allen to talk while Liberty
holds the candle , and to bet two to one
that Liberty quits before Allen tires his
tongue , weakens his jaw or quenches his
thirst.
Thurston and Allen and Allen and
Thurston leaving the United States
senate the same day will make that col
loquial club very lonesome. The loss to
rose culture and poetry and the bereave
ment to irrigation and the especial saloon
adversaries of Mrs. Nation will be irre
parable and unassnageable.
Every depart-
RIOTOUS ment of the gov-
EXTRAVAGANCE. ernment of the
United States and
every legislature of each state of the
republic inclines to riotous extravagance.
Unnecessary appropriations are demand
ed at Washington and at the capital of
every state. Even stalwart partisans
are alarmed , as this colloquy in the
United States senate , when extravagance
was brought to view by Hale of Maine ,
indicates :
"Mr. Hale The tide , immensely
swollen heretofore , is more swollen and
more turgid.
"Mr. Spooner And still rising.
"Mr. Hale And still rising.
"Mr. Allison And rapidly rising.
"Mr. Hale And rapidly rising. The
country knows nothing about it. "
This reads almost like an antiphoual
chant. It is worth preserving and
studying until the country knows some
thing about it , and until the congress of
the United States does something about
it. At Lincoln the demands are equally
unreasonable. It remains for Governor
Dietrich to veto all the attempted loot
ings of the state treasury- and , it is said ,
he lias the courage to do his duty.
\
Salted beef which
HASH. has' been boiled ,
allowed to cool and
then been chopped up with boiled pota
toes , at the ratio of one of beef to three
of potatoes , is edible hash. It is a nu
trient , and sustains strength in the
physical man who feeds thereupon.
Therefore corned-beef hash is a favorite
ration with some citizens of this great
and glorious nation of heavy eaters.
There is a hash intellectual which is
commoner. It is made of warmed-over
campaign orations at the ratio of ninety
parts of fallacies to five parts of hot
air and five of tumultuous emotions.
Here is a mouthful of this enervating
mental pabulum :
"The fight this year -will be to carry
out the sentiment of that song you have
so often repeated , 'My country , 'Tis of
Thee. ' If we lose , our children's child
ren will not stick to the spirit of that
song , and celebrations of the Fourth of
July will pass away , for the spirit of the
empire will be upon us. "
The above delicious morsel of retro
spective and succulent hash for the soul ,
is taken from the bill of fare tendered
the voters of the United States last
autumn by the peerlf-ss populist chef
who acted as purveyor to prejudice then
and is now catering , at Lincoln , to the
commoner instincts of malice and envy.
Horace G. Burt ,
PRESIDENT BURT. the president of the
Union Pacific Bail-
road company , is established in the
esteem of good people of all classes as
an able'and honest man. But because
he will not divulge the plans , business
and methods of his directors to the
Omaha World-Herald , that delectable
organ of sixteen-to-one-ism blackguards ,
derides and reviles Mr. Burt in the most
elaborately ornate style of billingsgate.
Mr. Bnrt is not the first eminent man to
be sincerely congratulated upon the
enemies he has made. Until he is com
mended by those now seeking to belittle
him , his corporation , his friends , and
the general public may be assured that
he is faithfully doing his duty.
THE CONSERVA-
F. W. LEHMAN. TIVE has received
the masterly oration
tion of Mr. Fred W. Lehman on John
Marshall. It was delivered at Des
Moines , Iowa , on the 4th instant , and is
worthy in every respect the good name
and fame of its able author.
Mr. Lehman studied law at Nebraska
City in the oflice of former Chief Justice
Oliver P. Mason and will be pleasantly
remembered by many old citizens who
will rejoice in knowing that he stands
now near the head of the St. Louis bar
and is acknowledged to be one , of the
leading lawyers of the United States.
THE CONSERVATIVE will quote from
Mr. Lehman in the future.
