if
'Cbe Conservative.
Because some citizens
SALARIES , have acquired , by
studying their own ex
periences , the art of doing certain things ,
in the industrial world , with skill ,
economy of production , and almost per
fectly , they are in demand and at
big salaries. Corporations , for gainful
purposes , are criticised by common day
laborers , who are unskilled , and by com
moner blatherskites , who are ignorant
of economics , as very extravagant in
salaries paid to some of their managers
of departments , and to some general
managers. But there is no corporation
which does not pay as little salary as
possible and secure efficiency.
The supply of men , skilled and
equipped , in a business , which can be
learned only by years of hard study and
hard work , in the school of the business
itself , is hardly ever up to the demand for
such men. However , those vocations
which require little application , few in
tellectual giftsj and only a short ser
vice for proficiency , are generally
crowded.
The supply of stablemen is always in
excess of the demand , while the supply
of engravers upon steel is always limited.
Almost anybody has brains enough to
easily learn the duties , and perform the
work of a stable boy. But to become
an engraver upon steel , requires ability ,
application and patient industry. It is
easy to become a switchman for a rail
road , but it is difficult to become a good
traffic manager. Human nature gener
ally seeks the easiest and quickest route
for livelihood , and is content to take
that livelihood with the least possible
effort , and the least possible luxury and
comfort , rather than to begin a career
which can lead up to influence , only
through years of persistent , patient and
intelligent labor. Human nature is to
be blamed , and not the gainful corpora
tions , because the soon-learned , and
least brain-requiring callings are
crowded so as to make wages lower ;
and the hard-to-understand and
- - , a-long-
time-to-learn duties of the higher and
niore-mind-requiring places are avoided
so as to make salaries higher.
The schools are free
Schools. to all. The paths to
the highest salaried
places in manufacture , commerce and
the professions , beset as they are , with
asperities , are open to all. But 'schools
cannot make brains , ambition , and that
persistent pluck , for fools , which wins
success. The system of education ,
which the state furnishes , is as incap
able of making indolent dunces equal
to hard working , bright students , as a
horse trainer is incapable of making
draft horses trot in the same class with
the standard bred.
Government is an in-
Public Salaries , corporation for the pro
tection of life , liberty
and property. But the government pays
relatively , very meagre salaries for the
highest character of services , and rela
tively , for common services , the most ex-
; ravagant compensation. A door-keeper
may get eight hundred dollars a year ,
and a bacteriologist twenty-two hun
dred dollars in the agricultural depart
ment at Washington. Doorkeepers are
never called to higher pay in non-gover-
mental places. But each bacteriolo-
jist is called to Yale , Cornell or some
other institution , as soon as his skill
and scientific attainments have made
lim known to the country. Public
salaries are too small for those services ,
which can be rendered only by men of
irreproachable , moral character and
great experience and attainments , and
for the and watchman
; oo large door-keeper
man class.
The absurdity of the schedule of sal
aries by the state is grotesquely illus
trated by the supreme court of Nebraska ,
whose judges get twenty-five hundred
dollars a year , and their clerk some
where between ten and fifty thousand
dollars a year. Few men are really
well-qualified for supreme court judges.
But there are scores and scores of men
able to do the duties of the clerk of that
court.
The pay of judges should be quad
rupled , and the pay of clerks reduced.
Then , the most experienced and ablest
members of the legal profession may be
induced to accept judgeships , and then
the chances in litigation may be
reduced , the expenses of the court
lessened , and the reputation of the
state judiciary exalted.
When the corporation , called govern
ment , copies the gainful corporation ,
and , by paying big salaries , gets big
men into its service , taxes will be
lessened , laws better administered and
prosperity prolonged.
The false notion
EDUCATION. that a college or
university can be
stow education upon a dunce or convert
the hereditary , moral and mental im
becile into a strenuous and useful man ,
is very strong among the newly-rich ,
and quite dominant among a large class
who send their progeny to the state uni
versity because it costs nothing.
The teachings , most valued and most
useful in this world , are inculcated in
the school of ex-
Experience , perience which is
superintended by
inexorable laws in nature and in econo
mics. The sooner a young man or
young woman can be made to fully
understand that , for the violation of
either , there is a penalty which nothing
can avert , the better the chances o :
that human being to attain a satisfactory
success and consummate termination of
endeavors.
The heights of triumph and luxury
are in reach of all the youth of America
who will look up ,
Look upl and aspire , and
work industriously
and persistently to scale and hold them.
Chose who teach vagaries in economics ,
warn the youth against trying to accom
plish anything at all , and are therefore ,
amenable for encouraging discourage
ment everywhere. Lookup ! Go ahead !
Work and win 1
THE CONSERVATIVE
CHARACTER OF has attracted to its
CONSERVATIVE a d v e r t i s i n g col-
ADVERTISERS. umns , some of the
best banking and
manufacturing concerns in the United
States. THE CONSERVATIVE has not
'made careful inquiry as to the standing
and business methods of those who ad
vertise in its columns , " because , it is
as unnecessary , and as much a work of
supererogation , as to enquire whether
ight and heat come from the sun.
But , "readers are asked to report any dis-
lonesty or unfairness practised by the
commoner advertisers herein , " and the
cadavers of all persons bludgeoned ,
sand-bagged , or otherwise murdered by
advertisers in THE CONSERVATIVE , are
especially requested to report , and to
always mention THE CONSERVATIVE
when corresponding with different sec
tions of this globe.
The towns and
EMBELLISHMENT , all suburban and
rural homes in Ne
braska are needing decoration in the
way of landscape gardening. There is
no state in the Union which will respond
more readily to intelligent arboriculture
and floriculture than our own. The
gently undulating lands of eastern Ne
braska present possibilities in adornment
which should stimulate every lover of
the beautiful to create a public senti
ment and popular movement towards
village and home improvement. THE
CONSERVATIVE congratulates Nebraska
City upon being the first in this field of
usefulness , as it was in the founding
and upbuilding of a free public library.
Let efficient and judicious activity along
these lines be increased and intensified.
Aaron Burr
RECOMMENDATION , came within eight
votes of beating
Thomas Jefferson for the presidency ,
and then , he went out "to serve his coun
try and his God under some other flag. "
But history does not very strenuously
recommend Mr , Burr as a model for
young statesmen in America to emulate.
After his defeat for the presidency , Mr.
Burr , although a gifted and enchanting
orator , became quite infamous among
the commoner classes of the discontent
ed and adventurous. The Burr style of
statesmen is not entirely out of date nor
fully lacking in popular recommenda
tion.
