The Conservative.
Addressing itself
UNEEDA THOUGHT , to the lenders of
t h o proletariats
THE CONSERVATIVE paraphrases Uneeda
biscuit and remarks to thorn and all other
denouncers and revilers of corporate
capital Uueedn thought.
The National Biscuit Company , which
lias more than $23,000,000 of preferred
stock , invites the wage-earners in its
employ to sit at the table with its direc
tors and officers. To all its employees
the National Biscuit Company says :
"Uneeda share of our preferred stock.
This company will buy you ono share
and as many more as you are prepared
to partially pay for whenever you apply
for the same and accompany the appli
cation with five dollars to be receipted
for on account of purchase. An account
will be opened between you and the
company , and all your payments made
against your purchase of stock will be
credited to this account. On each par
tial payment the company will allow
you four per cent interest dating from
the first day of the mouth after it is
made. "When you have paid up iu full
the stock will bo transferred to you on
the company's books and the shares de
livered to you. Then you will
have a vote at stockholders' meetings. "
What democracy can be fairer than
this Uneeda biscuit trust ? What is the
matter with this
Plutocracy. plan of cooperation
tion which plu
tocracy proposes for labor and capital ?
On February 21st , 1901 , Mr. A. W.
Green , chairman of the board of direc
tors of this nggre-
When ? gation of bread ,
biscuit , cracker ,
and cake-making muscle and money ,
issued a circular letter to all men ,
women and youth working for the com
pany offering them stock on these most
liberal terms. It is dated at the National
Biscuit Company's general offices , 205
La Salle street , Chicago , Illinois.
The stock can be bought for about
ninety-five cents on the dollar. It pays
seven per cent on
Seven Per Cent. par. The man who
cannot see safety
in that investment for each steady and
intelligent worker for the company , may
need a guardian.
Already more than a thousand women
are stockholders , and managers and ex-
managers of plants
Ten Million Dollars , and directors , offi
cers , of the Na
tional Biscuit Company and their fam
ilies own more than ten million dollars
of the stock which has paid seven per
cent for more than three years , and the
census of these shareholders shows nearly
four thousand individual owners.
The company offers , when an employee
who has made partial payments , is un
able to make any
Fair. more , to return his
money. It offers
to take cash for the stock at market
price and without cost of brokerage to
the buying employee. It opens the way
for the employee to enter the directors
board. It invites the biscuit-beaters , the
dough-luicaders and the bakers to walk
into the highest positions , be seated and
draw their salaries whenever they have
a majority of the shares.
If Uneeda biscuit when you are hungry
Uiieeda shore of seven per cent stock
when you are sick.
If ? If you have been
industrious ,
healthy and temperate , you can always
buy the biscuit. If you can save ninety-
five dollars in a year and by partial pay
ments get it into a seven per cent stock
yoii become a capitalist subject to the
condemnation of Bryanarchy.
By the scheme which Mr. Green pro
poses for-the National Biscuit Company ,
all its employees are
All Owners. invited to become
owners. The same
scheme applied generally by incorpora
tions will make owners out of all their
employees. Universal cooperation be
tween labor and capital thus being
established whom will the mouth-work
ers seek to make discontented ? They will
need-a new bugaboo. They will ueed-a
biscuit and need it badlytoo , before labor
divorces itself from capital to which it
has been married by the high priest of
enlightened selfishness. And the separa
tion and annulment of the union will be
all the more difficult after a few fat
dividends have been born to it and
dimpled coupons are smiling at the
parents.
Some menda-
NOT IN cious disciple of
CONVENTION. Bryanarchy re
cently sent tele
grams to the newspapers describing a
bolt in an alleged democratic city con
vention led by J. Sterling Morton. But
Morton lives out of town , at Arbor Lodge ,
never voted in Nebraska City elections
nor ever attended the described urban
convention. He , therefore , never led a
bolt therefrom except in the imagination
of the telegram-dispensing disciple above
depicted , who has a very malignant im
pediment in his veracity.
Hon. James E.
THE PAWNEES. North , referring
to the statement
of E. E. Blaclonan in THE CONSERVA
TIVE of a recent date , says that the ruins
of Indian lodges near Fullerton in Ne
braska are the last visible remnants of a
village which was there in 1882 and oc
cupied by the Pawnees down into the
forties , while Mr. Allis was government
interpreter for that tribe. During the
same occupancy I. W. Platte and wife
were government teachers to the Paw
nees at that village. Mrs. Platte is still
living. Her residence is at Oberlin ,
Ohio. The editor of THE CONSERVA
TIVE was personally well acquainted with
all the persons named by Mr. North and
is now in direct correspondence with a
son of Interpreter Allis who resides on
a farm near Council Bluffs , Iowa. It is
hoped that valuable manuscript and
data relating to the Pawnees may soon
be made available to the readers of this
journal.
It is proper in this
PERFECTLY free country , uot-
PROPER. withstanding the
brutal tyranny of
gold standard democrats , for a presiden
tial candidate to get nominations and sup
port from three or four political parties.
But it is very improper for a United
States senator to bo nominated o'r voted
for by more than one. THE CONSERVA
TIVE would like to see a law passed
making the betrayal of principles a penal
offense. THE CONSERVATIVE can see
little good in a man who attempts to
represent sixteen-to-one and sound
money ; democracy and representative
government ; the initiative and referen
dum ; the greenback party and the I-
class
want-the-office-for-the-nioney-in-it
all at the same time. Fusion for the
presidency is right ; fusion for a senator-
ship is wrong 1 Thus saith the peerless
prophet.
BUILDING A NEW ROAD.
"By January of next year , " says a
Burlington official , "there will not be
left a vestige of the old track between
Chicago and Omaha , except a few
stretches of five or six miles each. The
entire line for 810 miles west of Chicago ,
has been rebuilt except the stretch of
five miles of track near Ottumwa , and
the contract for this was awarded a few
days ago. It is estimated that the aver
age cost per mile of the now track will
be in the neighborhood of $100.000.
Several steam shovels and about 850
men will be given employment for more
than a year. In many places the origin
al right of way has been abandoned ,
and the rails have been laid a mile , and
in some cases , a mile and a .half away ,
from their former position. It is likely
that a saving of four or five miles in the
distance between Chicago and the Mis
souri river will be effected by the new
track. The principal improvement for
the company , however , will bo the
elimination of curves and the reduction
of grades. The work now being done
near Murray is of enormous extent.
The cost will run into the millions of
dollars. The present line will be aban
doned for ono which shoots straight
over the valleys and through the hills ,
making a reduction of about three-
quarters of a mile in the distance and
giving an almost gradeless track. "