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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1901)
Conservative. OBSOLETE PROTECTION. How long will the good people of these United States remain a passive prey to the system of "protection" which has become obsolete as a guard against foreign competition , and now exists only to foster and sustain tariff- trusts and monopolies at home and re strict our trade abroad ? How long shall we be made to occupy the fatuous attitude of clamoring for the "open door" abroad wlu'le shutting the door at 1 home ? Is it not time that fair-minded and patriotic men and journals inform the people and arouse public opinion as to the evil effects of such misnamed "protection ? " If the specimens TEACHERS , of abreviations in writing the Eng lish language , which the Nebraska Teacher uses on page 192 , of its April number , are evolutions of the school system of this state THE CONSERVATIVE is content with the oriticisims it has made of certain educational methods now in vigor , hereabouts. The schools should be more common ly noted for teaching arithmetic and geography graphy , with reading and spelh'ngthau for giving instruction in many things , but not thoroughly inculcating anything. Quality not quantity is the requisite. And when a teacher writes for publica tion , he should tell the truth and tell it in a language and style which his pupils may improvingly emulate. No one ever declared there could be a trust in teach- erships in Nebraska , except through a system which accepts the graduates of certain high schools into the University without examination , and authorizes a teacher's certificate without examina tion , to the graduate of the University. A Normal school is a good thing , but we do not need a dozen of them. The state needs no more tax-eating in stitutions at this time. Is a man who bets on - ELIGIBILITY , election in violation of the statute , and puts up a hundred dollars in state warrants as his wager on a state election in Nebraska , as the local papers in Burt county , declared W. J. Oldham did , in October , 1900 , a per fectly proper person for the supreme court of the commonwealth to make one of its officers in 1901 ? Is Mr. Oldham eligible , under the law prohibiting wagers upon elections in Nebraska , until he has purged himself by paying the penalty for such misdemeanor meaner , to act as a commissioner of the supreme court of this state ? Will the Burfc County press re-air the violation of the law as depicted last autumn in its columns , wherein the right , honorable Oldham , deputy attor ney-general , vociferously and realisti cally appears as a black leg or gambler ? The melancholy A SAD PAIR which has satura- OF PATRIOTS , ted .those twin mourners , Caspar and Bowlby , finds expression in the pair of yelps , hereunto appended , from their respective paineries from their indi vidual deposits of despair , so to speak : "Those who grunt and groan about the future of the democratic party must not forget the fact that no party can succeed against money. Two cam paigns have seen that demonstrated. What is the use of wailing over it. The money of the country own it. It is all right to speak for the truth , and vote for the truth , but the band wagon trimmings , which honest men spend their money for , in every campaign , might as well be dispensed with. " David City Press. "See the selection of Bank President Millard and Bank President Deitrich last week , by the corporations as U. S. senators to represent the people of Ne braska in the senate , as additional proof that money runs everything and the re publican party is nothing more than the exponent of money , as applied to affairs of state. " Crete Democrat. From the foregoing it is evident that Caspar regards the ballot as a mere col- lect-on-delivery commodity , which the majority of Americans put a price upon and sell , as they do eggs , without regard to color , odor , or previous condition. And then the wail of Bowlby that two bankers are sent to the United States senate and that , therefor , money runs everytliing , appeals to one's sympathy. And if two booksellers had been elected , Bowlby might have said , learning runs everything , for booksellers are as apt to be learned as bankers are to be rich. The hatred of wealth by the indigent is much like the feeling of the sick in re gard to health. They want it and some times envy those who have it. AW APPRECIATIVE READER. I wish to thank you for the very in teresting article published in THE CON SERVATIVE , March 28th , commencing at page 10. Recently I went up through Nebraska and noticed just enough of your archaeology elegy to fully comprehend how impor tant it is to your state and its history. Archaeology. As Mr. Blaokman seems to be the only one who is studying the question , your Historical Society and the press of Nebraska , ought to give him all the encouragement possible. I could not now say just when the first ancient man entered the region now encompassed by the boundaries of your state , but indications are certain that long before the time of Columbus , regular overland thoroughfares or portages tages were known and used between Kansas Valley and the Valley of the Platto. The Image. The Historical Society has sent to me for identification a hematite image found near Boca. It is of red hematite or blood-stone , bearing a high state of metallic lustre , and patin is in sufficient presence to show conclusively that the little human image made of hematite is of ancient origin and absolutely genuine. The two feathers at the scalp lock also indicate that it was made by In dians and the lustre shows much hand ling and usage. The inside color is deep red and the outside is of a dark red , patinated appearance. The two colors present , would surely indicate that the object is not a bogus produc tion , and the general appearance of age , is striking. We have here nearly fifty of these little images , found in America , and all of them are genuine and of an cient origin. Exploration. Please allow me to urge upon you the necessity to your state history , of fos tering and encouraging the studies and explorations so well commenced by Mr. Blackman. I am giving him all the assistance I can. Very truly yours , J. V. BROWER. St. Paul , Minn. , April 6,1901. SOME DEMOCRATS. LINCOLN , NEB. , Oct. 5 1893. J. STERLING MORTON , Secretary of Agriculture , Washington , D. C. The Democrat convention by a vote of four to one , adopted the following as part of their platform. "We , the representatives of the Dem ocratic party in Nebraska , in state con vention assembled , send hearty greet ings to our president , Grover Cleveland , and renew the expression of our confi dence and pride in his patriotism , cour age and wisdom. We heartily endorse the administration of President Cleveland. We reaffirm the truths so forcibly set forth by the president in his message to the special session of congress. We favor his recom mendation to congress therein made for the repeal of the silver purchase clause of the Sherman Act , and we call upon the United States senators to speedily pass the pending bill for the prompt and un conditional repeal of that vicious law , " Please deliver our greeting to the president , and accept assurance of our high regard for yourself. EUCLID MARTIN , JOHN A. McSHANE , J. B. SHEEHAN , O. S. MONTGOMERY , W. D. MoHuGH. About the time of that convention , who renounced Democracy and said he would "go out and serve his God and his country under some other flag ? " And what flag ? A tri-color , pop-silver- republican-10-to-l ? Where now is that flag ?
