8 Conservative *
nil remember how the president pointed
out the "plain duty" of free trade with
our outlying provinces. But the tobacco
trust raised the alarm of the utter ruin
to our tobacco planters that such a policy
would induce. Congress "protected"
our infant tobacco interests against the
Porto Rican octopus until the people
had parted with their crop to American
speculators , and now the flue "Italian
hand" is shown by admission of this
! entire crop , practically free. The Aineri-
; i can infants are growing fat under the
jj " constant use of tariff pabulum. We
shall soon expect to see pictures of the
tobacco and sugar twins , labeled "Tariff
Food Babies. "
The Commoner , with every succeed
ing issue , emphasizes its determination
to live up to its name. T. M. S.
"The seventh
VALUABLE biennial report of
STATISTICS. the Bureau of
Labor and Indus
trial Statistics of Nebraska , for the years
1899 and 1900 , in their report of manu
factures , for the years 1898 and 1899 , on
page 241 , table 18 , do not include , in the
list of industries for the year 1898 ,
cereal mills or starch factories. On page
242 , the3T state that they have received
reports from five packing house com
panies. On pages 280 and 281 they give
statistics for three canning companies ,
one not incorporated , and two incorpora
ted. The reports for packing house
products will be found on pages 284 and
285.
285.On
On page 328 , it is stated that six pack
ing houses report , only three of which
give amount of capital invested. Pack
ing house products are reported on pages
846 and 847. In the list of manufac
turers in the state of Nebraska , obtained
from postmasters and manufacturers'
reports , four canning factories are men
tioned , one each in Beatrice , Blair ,
Edgar and Grand Island ; no Nebraska
City canning factory is included. On
page 897 , the Chicago Packing and
Provision Co. is mentioned ; also one at
Lincoln and several at South Omaha.
No cereal mills or starch factories are
mentioned among the list of manufac
tures. On page 400. under the list , head
ed "Miscellaneoxis , " the Nebraska City
canning factory is mentioned. This is
a complete statement of everything ,
which appears in the report , of interest
to Nebraska City industries. "
The above , from a careful man , indi
cates the value of labor statistics under
populistic manipulation. In Nebraska
City , where the National Starch Com
pany is employing two hundred persons ,
the Cereal Mills more than one hundred ,
and the Morton-Gregson Packing House
another hundred and more , the labor
bureau found no industrial plants out
side of the cannery which is incident
ally mentioned. But the populist can
didate for the presidency and all his
staff orators know of the industries at
Nebraska City and campaigned in favor
of shutting them up. Every intelligent
citizen of Nebraska knows that in Ne
braska City there are more-dinner pails
going and coming , each day , from suc-
cessful manufactories , of one kind or
another , than in any similar town in the
commonwealth.
This last day of April , 1901 , there are
more than four hundred and seventy-
five (475) ( ) persons
Four Hundred and on the pay-rolls of
Seventy-five. three incorpora
tions in Nebraska
City. They did not shut up. They
did not shut down. Is this the reason
populistic compilers of labor statistics
omit them from their publications ?
The idea of oom-
TOM L. JOHNSON. . bination seems to
have gained a mo
mentum , which has carried it beyond
an application to the industrial world.
Witness the recent nomination of Bryan
by the conglomerate parties of all color ,
shades and beliefs last summer.
The recent election of Tom L. John
son to the mayoralty in Cleveland ,
Ohio , has set the "president makers" to
figuring. Much discussion has been
occasioned by this event , as to whether
Johnson will not be the "logical" can
didate before the next agglomerated
assemblage of distinguished and "rep
resentative" thinkers and platform
builders.
Mr. Johnson , himself , maintains a
sphinx-like silence , upon this sub
ject of presidential
Silence. possibilities , but
his friends are
loudly declaiming in his behalf. The
great "Single Taxer's" silence might be
construed.as a virtual consent , had his
late career , as a politician , not been
built largely upon his "mindinghis own
business" and "keeping counsel with
himself. "
Mr. W. F. Cooling , a prominent
"Single Taxer , " in an address
before the Chicago
He Cannot be a Single Tax Club ,
Candidate. commented upon
Mr. Johnson's
silent attitude. He argued that
Johnson was not a democrat , and
that , although the adherents to a'belief
in Single Tax had always worked within
the democratic party , they were "not of
it , "
Upon this basis , he disposed of John-
sou as a presidential democratic possi
bility , a republican nomination being
out of reason.
Using Mr. Cooling's argument , one
would be induced to believe that the
ultimate success of
Least Resistance , a Single Taxwould
be along , and
within the party line which afforded
the least resistance.
The present , and recent history of
fusiouism would , it appears , invite such
a political scheme. There seems to
exist a disposition on the part of those
who have usurped the prerogatives of
the untarnished democracy , to offer the
minimum of resistance to anything
which savors of attractiveness , sense or
nonsense , wisdom or foolisliness. Single
tax will , undoitbtedly be launched , if
launched at all , in the rank and file of
the great politicocratio combination of
Bryan , Altgeld & Co.
Woe be unto Johnson , if he consents
to become a silent partner in this Trust !
The packing
STILL RUNNING , houses.cold storage
plant , cereal mills ,
National Starch Company , Nebraska
City canning factory , King Drill works ,
Wale & Eccleston's foundry , Kees trunk
factory , and Schminke's big flouring
mills at Nebraska City are running full
head and with expansion in view ,
Bryan , Sniythe , Oldham & Co. to the
prophetic contrary notwithstanding.
THE CONSERVA-
CHARACTER OF TIVE again calls at-
ADVERTISERS. tention to the char
acter of the bank
ing institutions , manufacturing con
cerns and , also , to the individuals who
advertise from week to week in its
columns. There is no weekly journal
in the Northwest which can show a more
decent and purer lot of business adver
tisements. Not one of them is among
the commoner class , such as : "If you
want to make $75 a month and expenses ,
without address So-and-
any experience , - -
so , Cincinnati , Ohio , " nor are there any
bankers , either in Williamsportor Phila
delphia , Pa. , advertised within these
columns who are not "rated" or
"quoted" by either Dun or Bradstreefc
as being worthy of public confidence.
For the character of every advertiser in
THE CONSERVATIVE , its patrons are re
ferred to the commercial reports of Dun ,
Bradstreet , or any other "commercial
rating company" in the United States.
We challenge all weekly periodicals
to find a single concern advertised by
THE CONSERVATIVE which , under the
most thorough investigation , cannot
prove itself to be reputable , solid , sol
vent and honest. Is there any list of
advertisers in any other weekly which
contains the names of firms not quoted ,
not reputable ? This question can be
solved through customers of Dun or
Bradstreet.
BRYAN AN EEL.
Mr. William J. Bryan excites a hope
when he begins an answer to a ques
tion regarding his intentions by saying ,
"I am not planning for another presi
dential nomination , " but he dashes it
immediately when ho follows this with
the sentence : "If I ever become a
candidate again it will be because it
seems necessary , " etc. This is always
the way with Bryan's apparent with
drawals ; no eel can double half a dozen
times in his own length more nimbly
than con W. J. B. Oakland Enquirer ,
April 26,1901. ,