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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1901)
whoso hands it may bo , of one and a hnlf to two and a half per cent. If any attempt is to be made to solve the difficulty through the medium of the national banking A Solution. system , the small banks will certainly have to be strictly limited to bo perfectly safe investments on the one hand , and relieved from , all taxation on the other. This may seem , at a first view , im possible. But it must be remembered that one of the loading demands , in cer tain political platforms , is the establish ment of postal savings banks. They cannot expect that these banks should be taxed , for tiny could not live a minute if they were. The system of banks which is here suggested , would be sub stantially a savings bank system , with the addition of checks and exchanges. Is it possible to reconcile all conflicting interests somewhere along this line ? The people of E. ELLERY Nebraska City ANDERSON. have long known the estimable and learned lawyer , and gentleman whose name precedes these remarks. Mr. Anderson , some years since , purchased a controlling interest for himself and friends in the Nebraska City Water & Light Co. , and has , during the last eighteen months , made many improve ments and additions upon that plant. Therefore , his views ore of interest in this neighborhod. ' On the 15th of April , in an interview which was telegraphed to the Chicago Daily Chronicle , speaking of the demo cratic party , Mr. Anderson said : "The rank and file of a party have a right to demand new leaders , in national and civic aifairs. We can , base our de mand on the fact that since 1898-4 , when Grover Cleveland was deserted by his friends , we have simply been led from one defeat to another. We have to demand new leaders leaders who can announce a victory instead of de feat. We have followed false prophets , and , Mr. Bryan in the nation , and Mr. Croker in the city , having cried false' wares , should now stand aside. " , The of democrat impertinence a gold-bug crat , prompting him to advise learned , experienced and successful statesmen of the highest type , like Cryan and Broker , will astonish the average sixteen-to-ono- ite throughout this western country. The reference to Grover OleveltJd and the fact that , twice since the civil war , he lias led the democracy in 'triumph , will be as gall and wormwood to that vast multitude of conglomerates , who prefer defeat with fallacies rather than victory with principles. Mr. Anderson ought to know , by this time , that the con glomerated forces of socialism , popu lism , communism , sixteen-to-one- ism and Bryanarohy have deter mine , to try to again force their candidate upon a national conven tion , and to again nominate him for the presidency. Probably nothing that Mr. Andersonor any other sensiblepractical , democratic citizen can suggest to the contrary , will prevent the nominational success , in a national conventionof that Impulsive aggregation. Bryanarchy , like some other nostrums , must bo taken until the patient "throws up , " and , it seems , now , that the uneasy stomach effusion fusion may perform , emetically , after one more dose. THE CITY ELECTION IN ST. LOUIS. The St. Louis Republic , a rather inde pendent democratic newspaper , says that the late municipal election in that city acquired national iniportance through the work of outsiders , who in terfered to defeat Eolla Wells , the dem ocratic candidate for mayor. Without the interference of prominent politicians from other states , the election would have been a matter of mere local inter est as the result affected city policies. In fact , while the democrats and re publicans had party candidates in the field , and there was an independent ticket , seeking votes , there was a gen eral desire that extreme partisian feel ing should not be aroused. The entire population was anxious that nothing should occur in the campaign which would cloud the prospects of the Louis iana purchase fair , which means so much to St. Louis in 1908. The Republic describes the mischie vous interposition of W. J. Bryan and ex-Governor Altgeld in the campaign and says that their meddlesomeness was angrily resented by democrats and voters of all classes. It remarks"The meddling outsiders who unwarrantably interfered for the purpose of defeating Mr. Wells have themselves to thank for their present chagrin and humilation. They insisted upon a St. Louis decision between themselves and Mr. Wells. They have received the verdict upon which they insisted. " Chicago Chroni cle , April 12. A PREDICTION. The future of Chicago was thus fore casted , in 1828 , by Major Lang's scien tific exploring , party , as recorded by William H. Keating , A. M. & O. , geolo gist and historiographer to the expedi tion : "The village presents no cheering prospect , as , notwithstanding its antiquity , it consists of but few huts , inhabited by a miserable race of men , scarcely equal to the Indians , from whom they are descended. Their log or bark houses are low , filthy and disgust ing , displaying not the least trace of comfort. Chicago is , perhaps , one of the oldest settlements in the Indian country ; ji fort is said to have formerly existed there. The number of tribes , centering all at this spot , and their ap parent antiquity , indicate that this was probably , for a long while , the site of a large Indian village. As a place of business , it offers no inducement to the settler ; for the whole annual amount of the trade on the lake , did not exceed the cargo of five or six schooners , even at the time when the garrison ( of Fort Dearborn ) received its supplies from Mackinaw. It is not impossible , that , at some distant day , when the banks of the Illinois shall have boon covered with a dense population , and when the low prairies , which extend between that river and Fort Wayne , ( Indiana ) shall have acquired a population , proportionate tionate to the produce which they can yield , that Chicago may become one of the points in the direct line of com munication between the northern lakes and the Mississippi ; but even the inter course , which will be carried on through this communication , will , we think , at all times , be a limited one ; the dangers , attending the navigation of the lakes , and the scarcity of harbors along the shore , must ever provo a serious obstacle to the increase of the commer cial importance of Chicago. The extent of the sand banks , which are formed on the eastern and southern shore , by the prevailing north , and northwesterly winds , will , likewise , prevent any im portant works from being undertaken to improve the post of Chicago. " MR. BRYAN AND MAYOR WELLS. [ To the Editor of The Chicago Chronicle. ] CINCINNATI , O. , April 18. I see Mr. Bryan has declared , in the Commoner , that the election of Rolla Wells , as mayor of St. Louis , is a national cala mity to the democratic party , and alleges a conspiracy to "republicanize the party , " to which the election of Wells is the first step. Now , what grounds has he for making such a charge ? A short time since he asked Grover Cleveland openly to de fine what he meant by "a return to democratic first principles , " and , in fact , offered a prize for such definition. I ask that Mr. Bryan drop his generali ties in alleging conspiracy and treachery , on the part of certain consistent demo crats , who have the interest of the party as much to heart as himself , and give specifications and proof of what he claims. Such unwarranted statements and allegations may be expected from Altgeld , but I am chagrined and disap pointed to see Bryan stoop to such tac tics , for he is thereby losing the respect of a large following , who have always stood by him , but who desire the suc cess of the party and its principles , rather than that of any man or set of men. men.No No one has been more loyal to Mr. Bryan , in the last five years , than the undersigned ; in fact , he was my favor ite for the nomination in 1890 , oven before - ' fore the convention met , but , if his leadership , or even his active participation - - tion in the affairs of the party , is to again bring it down to defeat , as such a course as he is pursuing surely will- for one , shall decline longer to give him my support. L. 0. NOTLEY. . ,
