'Che Conservative.
& Millord more tlmn forty years ago
before the crime of 1878 had oven been
conceived in the diabolism of the
plutocratic inind at two per cent a
month shall never bo forgotten. Wo
rejoice that ho loaned and ho rejoices
that he got it back again , with twenty-
four per cent per annum interest. It
did us good and did him good. It was
rapacious reciprocity.
Before working in n bank Joe worked
in a laud office , before working in n
land office lie worked in a country store
and before working in a country store
lie worked on a farm and he has been
strenuously working all the forty odd
years that we have enjoyed his friend
ship. He is now in the prime of age
and will celebrate his sixty-fif tli birthday
this month. Whether work steady ,
earnest , honest work entitles a man to
be called one of the common people or
not , in this day of explosive exhorters ,
or whether any sort of effort , except of
the mouth , is admissible among public
men THE CONSERVATIVE dare not declare.
But it hopes that Mr. Millard will more
than realize all that his nearest friends
expect him to be as a United States
senator from Nebraska.
THE CONSERVA-
TREASON TIVE laments the
IN LINCOLN. melancholy fact
that right in the
neighborhood of the peerless prophet , in
the city of Lincoln , treason to the com
mon people is rampant. A large proper
ty owner in that city seems to be entire
ly without the fear of the prophet before
his eyes and altogether reckless as to the
possibilities of plutocracy. Recalling
the promise of "shutting up" the starch
factory at Nebraska City , which was
given to the taxpayers of that town by
the firm of Smytham , Lewis and Bryan
during a flood of oratory which poured
down upon this community from their
guileless lips one evening in September
last , this Lincoln gentleman says :
"It is gratifying to learn that the
National Starch Co. will enlarge the
capacity of the Argo works at Nebraska
City. Such an institution , backed by
plenty of capital and managed by such
public-spirited gentlemen as have the
work in charge , is a boon not onlyto
your city but to the entire state. I wish
that some national company or trust of
gigantic proportions would plant itself
in Lincoln , even at the risk of its pres
ence producing a withering blast upon
the prosperity of this community. "
It is lamentable that , contrary to all
the teachings of the peerless professor
of economics , who sheds his luster upon
all the vexed questions of civil and mili
tary management in and about the capi
tal city of the state of Nebraska such
importunate demands should bo made
for the planting of plutocracy in the
midst of that community. However ,
attention is called to the fact that they
already have in their midst a large
establishment , not for the purpose of
grinding up the corn and oats , nor for
the killing of the swine which abound
in that propinquity , but for the higher ,
more'patriotic and philanthropic pur
pose of hatching out now vagaries in
finance to be feathered with new falla
cies in government.
It was a lanA -
A LESSON guorous day in the
IN DUTY. leafy month of
June. The air was
tranquil and the birds were singing in
the trees about the sunbathed cottage.
Within , upon her bed , a woman was
sick almost unto death. Her large brown
eyes were bright with hope ; a smile of
patient and submissive resignation
lighted up her wan but beautiful
features ; she was tracing retrospects into
a happy childhood , then into a life of
helpfulness when , as a bride , she came
to make her home 011 the plains of
Nebraska. The founding , the growth
and the embellishment of that home , its
prairies turned into orchards and groves
of trees and its lawns flecked with
shrubs and bright-colored flowers of
sweet perfume all pleasant memories
and the images of her dear sons who
had grown to cheer and bless her heart
even in the agonies of an incurable
disease , were flitting through her mind.
Peace and silence like that of profound
sleep was all about her.
"A great fire in town. The Elephant
stable and corral has burned down. John
Jackson rushed into the barn when the
flames were high and brought out two
horses. He tried to get out some more
and went in again and the roof fell in
and he was burned up. "
This was given out with all the
vivacity and eagerness of youth by her
son Carl , a boy of
The Mother sixteen , as he came
suddenly into the
sick room. Then the pallor left her
cheeks and the flush of seeming health
mounted in its place. With supreme
effort she gathered her mental and
physical energies to impart one more
lesson to her boy and said :
"My son , John Jackson died in the
discharge of duty. His place was not a
high one. But the character of positions
in this world is determined by the spirit
and the fidelity that enters into those
who occupy them. John Jackson died
a hero because he gave his life to duty.
A great general leading an army in the
righteous service of his country can done
no more. The real courage of this world
is that which makes men fearless in
doing their duty. Those who do that ,
without fear and with faith in the
efficacy of self-sacrifice as the plainest
way to cultivate the noble qualities , are
the best of our race. John Jackson
should have a monument because he
died for duty , ho died like a brave man.
Give mo my check book ; ' and , being
obeyed , she wrote a check for the
beginning of a subscription to erect a
memorial stone to the lowly hero and
Carl circulated it successfully. The
monument was secured. In Wyuka ,
among the evergreens and flowers ,
amidst the loved and lost of two genera
tions , it remains today. Not far away
from it the mother who taught it ;
and the son who learned and practiced
the lesson in duty , are asleep , and
the writer tenderly recalls preceptress
and pupil with the hope that the lesson
in fidelity may be learned by us all. It is
not what one has but what one really is
that determines human character.
Is it or is it not
IS IT TRUE. true that a very
large majority of
the voters of the state of Nebraska are
opposed to the so-called ship-subsidy
legislation proposed by Mark Hannaan
the fifty-sixth congress of the United
States ? Is there any better or more
effective way to find out regardless of
all party prejudices how Nebraska
citizens stand on the question than by
circulating for their signatures protests
against the steamship subsidy and
petitions for the steamship subsidy ?
If a majority of the voters of Nebraska
protest against giving millions of dollars ,
out of the treasury of the United States ,
to steamship companies , will the two
new senators vote for giving away those
millions of dollars to steamship
companies ?
The only way to solve that conundrum
is to circulate the protests and begin the
circulation for signatures right away ,
now. Possibly a state convention against
subsidies , regardless of partyism , could
be convened and aline of warfare against
subsidies be planned and inaugurated ?
Gen. Funs ton ,
BOTANICAL who has just
CURIOS. plucked Aguinaldo
from the cluster of
Philippine leaders , was commissioned in
1893 , a special agent of the United
States deparment of agriculture to
investigate the flora and fauna of
Alaska and made up a very beau
tiful herbarium from the flowers
of that far-away territory. He now
adds to his collection of botanical
curios the blooming Aguinaldo. The
secretary of agriculture who appointed
Funston , had no idea that he would
gather specimens with sword and gun.
Prosperity and
DEMONETIZED , an abundant cir
culation of gold
standard currency have demonetized
Coin Harvey and all the financial falla
cies of Bryanarchy. They are out of
circulation. The crime-of 1878 and the
crime of 1896 and tho'crime of 1900 are
a trinity of triumph for common sense
among the common people. * *
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