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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1901)
1 , v _ ARBOR DAY EDITION. s Cbe Conservative. VOL. III. NO. 40. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , APRIL II , 1901. SINGLE COPIES , $ CENTS. PUDMSHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOOTlNAIj DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF POIiITIOAIi , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK , 12,000 COPIES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One dollar and a half per year in advance , postpaid to any part of the United States or Canada. Remittances made payable to The Morton Printing Company. Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska City , Nebraska. Advertising rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29 , 1898. PLANT TREES , Some philan- ENDOWED thropic millionaire FORESTRY. ought to make a bequest or dona tion for the teaching of forestry by a regularly established periodical. A column every week upon arboriculture and forestry might , however , be pro vided for from a fund yielding twenty- five hundred dollars a year. Why not establish by will or gift while living a large fund from the in terest of which a Why ? propaganda for planting trees may be supported ? Who will now make a bequest or a donation for the continued and intelligent teaching of the utility of oroliards and groves without which all animal life must perish from the earth ? The recent seu- VENISON. atoriol election in Nebraska makes Messrs. Eosewater and Thompson agree with the huntsman's proverb that "he who quietly sits by the salt-lick gets more meat than he who swiftly and pantiiigly follows the deer over the hills and vales. " Millard and Dietrich did not chase the senatorships ; they lay in wait for them ; they ambushed and captured them as easily as Funstou took in Aguinaldo. The various EXPOSITION MAYOR , organs of 16 to 1 are very much oppressed by the election of gold stand ard Eolla Wells mayor of St. Louis. Among the most hysterical of the Bryan- archie vagarists , the Metcalf-Hitch- cook phonograph of Omaha , stands ravingly pre-eminent. It laments the election of Wells and reannounces its advocacy of Bryanorchy , and the peerless one for another presi dential campaign. The "sting of in gratitude" has been healed over and only a small scar is now visible on the embalmed boom for the seuatorship , which formerly gladdened the life of that-fortune-absorbing diurnal. When William Vincent Allen is made an offi cer of the state supreme court felicity will be complete. The continued THE ASSAULTS , criticism of Cleve land and the tire some reiteration of the lie as to his hav ing turned the national treasury over for looting to J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. , seem to have nauseated even the commoner followers of Bryanarchy. The puerile and petulant assaults of a vain , empty and unfortunate aspirant for the presidency upon Grover Cleve land , whom a united , honest-money democracy twice elected to that office , are in bad taste. The honest , fearless and righteous administration of the affairs of the government of the Ameri can people by Grover Cleveland will be admired and endorsed by millions long after the flabbergastic , highfalutiug soda pop oratory of the commoner brand of demagogue lias been forgotten. The wonder is already epidemic that so small a dynamo could have run the political machinery of the Chicago and Kansas City conventions. The feeble attacks upon the good name of the former president-for-two-terms of the United States by the chief microbe of Bryan- arohy , are eliciting smiles from sensible citizens. citizens.'r 'r * RAILROAD TREE PLANTING. EDITOU THE CONSERVATIVE : It occurs to the pioneer citizens of this vicinage that the fatal and expensive collision of freight and passenger trains east of this place , during the storm of the afternoon of Tuesday , the 19th of March , might have been prevented by the timely and intelligent planting and care of deciduous and evergreen shelter belts , on their right of way by the Bur lington management. Object Lesson. Within a mile or two of the wreck are several shelter belts which the enter prising farmers encouraged and directed by the pioneer experimenters , Morton , Masters , Furnos , and others , planted for the protection of their homes , orchards , and live stock. Men vs. Steers. It seems to us that the faitliful and heroic trainmen and helpless passengers are entitled to at least as much foresight and care as a bunch of steers and the attendant swine. Pioneers. We , who preceded the railroads to this fertile laud ; who , by our industry , have mode their operation profitable ; who have not bled them when we could ; or denounced them in political crazes ; who have helped to establish public credit ; respectfully ask the Burlington to examine carefully our plantings for protection and timber and consider our suggestions as that of intelligent friends , not ignorant enemies. We also suggest that in this neighbor hood we are law-abiding , careful about the setting and escape of fires , and will cordially welcome and carefully protect the plantings , calculated to reduce the danger , expense and interruption of traffic so disastrous to both the public and the corporation. Beauty and Utility. Aside from the home growth of ties , telegraph poles and eventually , sawed lumber , the increased beauty of a rood bordered , protected and shaded by a variety of trees , inhabited by beautiful songsters and lively rodents would at tract an increased and profitable passen ger traffic. The financial and esthetic value of the ethical effect on employees , neighbors and travelers cannot be over estimated in tliis opening year of the twentieth century. KA.UL ALDRIOH. Johnson , Nebraska , March 28 , 1901.