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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1901)
Conservative * J. Sterling Mor- \ NOT TRUE. ton objects to Mr. Bryan hiring the \ Conunouer printed instead of investing in a printing plant himself. Fremont Herald. Our respected friend , Deacon Smails , who edits the above-named periodical , is laboring under a mistake. Wisdom would hire for such a purpose. "Print ing plants" are permanent things and cost a deal of money. Therefore , they axe too expensive for merely ephemeral publication. Common stock is danger ous enough , in many inflated corpora tions of these not-enough-gold-in-the- world-to-do-business-with times but - - - - ; commoner stock might be more than dangerous. Especially when the Fourth of July , the Star Spangled Banner and the Declaration of Independence have disappeared forever , is it unsafe to plant a printing plant for the common people. Common reform REFORM. in New York City is represented by Dick Croker , the chief of the Tammany savages. Commoner reform in Colorado is impersonated by Tom Patterson , a long-ago democrat , recent populist and new convert to Bryanarchy , who has just succeeded Edward Wolcott as Uni ted States senator. But the commonest Icind of reform is found in the person of that great political purist , Senator Clark of Montana whose anti-plutocracy and the and anti-corruptiou-of - - legislature efforts pro-consecration-of-the-ballot-box have made him forever famous. If Bryauarchy could have conquered MoKinleyism and Croker been given the > federal patronage of New York , Patter son that of Colorado , and Clark that of Montana , what a delicious reformation t there might have been in American poli- i tics. But 1904 will see the samereform- ers nominate the same sixteen-to-ono ! candidate and once more listen for the last time to "My Country , 'Tisof Thee" , and the explosions of Fourth of July I fire crackers , "for the spirit of empire ' is upon us. " On March 1st , HULL OF IOWA. 1901 , in the House of Representatives of the American Congress the state of Iowa was disgraced by one of its mem bers. His name is Hull ; he is chairman of the committee on military affairs , a position which has made him potential in all matters pertaining to the military management of the Philippine Islands. This Hull on the date given brazenly boasts that he is a stockholder in the Philippine Lumber Company and with Thespian ardor declares , in relation to his speculative operations in the de nudation of those islands : "I would prefer to leave congress to being a drone dependent only on politics for my living. ' ' Did Hull ever achieve prominence , social or pecuniary , except by being a "drone ? " A "drone , " according to the spotless Hull of Iowa , is a person who lives off from and in pursuit of public place "for the money that is in it. " Will some Iowa friend proceed to disinfect Hull of the pelf-microbes and the avarice-bacilli which seem to permeate his personality ? By his own statement , he is in a lumber business which he would not have been in if as a condi tion precedent ho had not been in Con gress and chairman of the committee on military affairs. He had better have sawed wood and said nothing than to thus publicly have boasted the prostitu tion of his political power. THE CONSEUVA- CROUNSE. TIVE is pleased to read remarks by Senator Crounse relative to the reckless extravagance of proposed appropriations for two more state normal schools. Crounse is correct , conscientious and conservative and if he is found in a minority of the legislatxtre and the diabolism and idiocy of peanut politics pass the bill , it is hoped and believed that Governor Dietrich will veto the same with courageous alacrity. Crounse declares the republicans in power only on probation , and it is only fair to say that , in the estimation of a few thousand gold standard democrats , who made even a trial on probation pos sible , they are behaving very badly. In truth some of the republican legislators seem to forget that senatorships were created not for the benefit of individuals nor to exalt persons but for the benefit of the state and for the exaltation of a pure and undefiled republican form of government. Let each representative and senator in Nebraska remember that offices were intended as utilities for the commonwealth and not as mere decora tions for individuals who may have acquired personal and other property called wealth. The difference CROW. between the al leged detectives of the United States on the one hand and the alleged democracy on the other is that the former live in hopes of getting Pat Crowe and the latter is dieting on Fat Crow. Pat Crowe nourishes anarchy and Fat Crow feeds Bryanarchy. A crow diet is more easily secured than a Crowe reward. Nebraska needs LAWMAKERS. legislators who will repeal about one hundred statutes , amend fifty and adjourn without enacting any ex cept a revenue law and an act providing qualifications for electors and electees. No man ought to vote who has paid no taxes. He is not a contributor to the corporation called government although it protects his life , liberty and property. A Chicago tele- QUITE SURPRISING , gram to the newspapers - papers of the country dated March 7th ref en-ing to the recent populist nominee for the presi dency , says : "Mr. Bryan was not disposed to dis cuss general politics , but departed from the rule to some extent when asked re garding the outcome of the senatorial fight in his state 'The trouble seems to be , ' he said , 'that there are not enough senatorial positions to go around among her railroads. ' " Can this utterance be from the same mouth that importuned , upon a time , Harwood & Ames , attorneys at Lin coln , for the Union Pacific railroad to exert their influence to nominate him for congress , at the same time suggesting that another man talked of for the nomination was a B. & M. man ? Can the prophetic and peerless afore said be identified as a man who once , when running for congress in Nebraska , asked a division superintendent of a rail road to find out how many of his men , who would not vote a certain way , he could prevent from voting at all ? Is it the same man whose defeat abolished the Fourth of July , the Star Spangled Banner and invited and permitted the spirit of empire to settle down , in the former land of the free and home of the brave ? An Otoe county MATERNALISM. farmer telling of the precocious fecundity of his Jersey cattle , declared that he had a cow of that breed which was giving lacteal nourishment to her eighteen mouths old heifer calf and the heifer's calf at the same time , and thought it a phenomenal instance of ma- ternalisin. With John M. Thurston get ting five thousand dollars a year as com missioner to the St. Louis fair and his son drawing financial nourishment from the dugs of the some treasury as a consul to the Argentine Eepublic , it is demon strated that the Jerseys are equaled , as to the maternal instinct , by our own beloved and benevolent government , which simulates them by suckling two generations simultaneously. No cheap-John A GREAT SALVA- statesman of mod- TION SERMON. ern times has achieved as much by a single oration , declamation , mono logue or soliloquy as Tom Carter of Montana. His exhortation in the United States senate , March 4th , 1901 , antagon izing the stupendous steal of fifty mil lions of dollars for rivers and harbors , out-lasted the legal term of the fifty- sixth' congress , and asphyxiated that leg islative larceny. Mr. Carter made a salvation sermon and saved the tax payers fifty millions of dollars. Few other speeches have been so salutary.