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 ?
