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Our intermittent
SYMPTOMS. friend , Colonel
Bowlby , of the
Crete Democrat , defines "symptoms of
republicanism. " He avers that any one
who has "frequently , of late years
openly supported the republican party
and its ticket , " has decided symptoms
of republicanism. By a parity of reason
ing , then , Colonel Bowlby would assert
that any one who , of late Jyearshas sup
ported the populist party and its ticket
has symptoms of populism and that any
one who has of late years supported the
silver republican party and its ticket has
symptoms of argentiferous republican
ism , complicated with indications of
protectionism of a virulent type. The
admixture with these isms of the irre
deemable currency theories of the
populists , for all of which political
medley Colonel Bowlbykhasin late years ,
labored , constitute alarming symptoms
of a malignant appetite for the loaves
and fishes of office. This motor for
propelling the politics of Colonel Bowlby
whistles in this sentence , referring to a
man who for forty years never feared
to accept the nominations of the minority
of the voters in Nebraska , and , at his
own expense , to make campaigns foi
certain economic and administrative
principles , knowing that their repre
sentative could not be elected in this
state.
"Yet , he , ( Morton ) regardless of the
cold potato diet , the republicans have
dished up to him , time and again , joined
hands with Orounse to kill off Van
Wyck. "
The colonel's chronology is mixed.
The scramble for the United States
senatorship , to which he so pathetically
alludes , came in the winter of 1892 and
1898 , after the democratic candidate for
governor of 1892 had made the canvass
in which Crounso and Van Wyck figured
so successfully. But there was no big
or little "hope" of a United States
senatorship warming the ambition of
"the sucker , " as the colonel felicitously
styles the democratic gubernatorial
candidate of 1892. He had been an
apprentice first , and then a journeyman ,
in the art of making political campaigns ,
where , over the door of candidature ,
had been written , in flaming italics :
"Let all who enter here leave Hope
behind ; " and take a check for it , re
turnable after the election. He never
asked any man to help nominate him ,
and after nomination he never asked
any man to vote for him. He always
was an impersonal candidate , merely
the representative of a set of political
principles , which can not be held
honestly , nor honestly supported , either
by real populists or by real silver repub
licans. Against protective tariffs and
all class legislation , of whatsoever
variety , that man has remained steadfast
and defiant. He has opposed the making
of artificial prices by law , whether those
prices were to affect iron or silver. He
opposed making railroad steel sell at one
hundred and twenty-eight dollars a ton ,
by statute , just as he opposed forcing
silver to one hundred and twenty-nine
cents an ounce by the same process.
But Colonel Bowlby sees in public life ,
only diet. He laments the' 'cold potato"
and yearns for the
Diet. terrapin stew , the
large , cold bottle
and the small , hot bird of the rich man's
table , the republican restaurant for
political pot hunters. But offices for
the "money that is in them instead of
the honors" were not the ambition of
democracy as taught by the ancients.
Colonel Bowlby evolves words and
assertions , only upon the corporations ,
all of which he
Trusts. terms trusts. He
assumes to expose
the "one object of trusts , " and then to
denounce them all vigorously and with
out mercy. But any trust or combina
tion , too highly capitalized will fail ,
just as the free coinage of silver at 16 to
1 would fail to enhance silver bullion to
$1.29 an ounce. That something can bo
made out of nothing , is a self-evident
absurdity. That any "something" can
be expanded , attenuated , and aerated
indefinitely without diminishing its
value , is as evident as the fact that the
moon cannot compete , in lighting the
world at midday , with the sun , which
las a trust for lighting the globe at that
nour.
No corporation or combination for
manufacture can succeed except it be
capitalized honestly. No combination
can succeed which attempts extortion.
No combination can succeed which is
not honestly and economically managed
by skilled and intelligent men.
If Colonel Bowlby will visit Nebraska
City and examine the Starch Works and
the Cereal Millshe
Locally. will find them ex
panding , running
full head and proving a great benefit.
He will find that each of these plants
grew to adult influence in competition
with all the world and all the world's
combinations in such industries. He
will find that starch sells now for one
half the price it brought ten years ago ,
and that cereal goods rise and fall gen
erally , with the fluctuations in corn
prices. He will find no advances in the
outputs of Nebraska City industrial
establishments because of "trusts. "
There is recorded a fool who hod a
goose which laid golden eggs. He killed
the bird to see how
Not Fools. the eggs were
sprouted. The
owners of the manufactories at Ne
braska City are not fools. They will
not , by extortion , bad management , or
from malice , kill patronage which will
pay profits. No man , woman , or child
has been wronged by the combinations
at Nebraska City. The owners and
managers of these institutions propose
to merit , to get , and to hold a constantly-
growing patronage , and to themselves
keep pace with it in steady and sturdy
growth. This they will accomplish by
making their commodities pure , straight
and good goods , by honest dealing and
by not being undersold. The world of
cereals is wide. There is no monopoly
possible in the manufacture of its
products. Competition is free. The
markets are open to all. Anybody and
everybody is at liberty to come into
Nebraska City and establish similar
plants. The more corn and other grains
consumed , the bigger our trade , our
town , and the prosperity of all of its
inhabitants. But the moment that ex
tortion picks pockets in any one of our
industries , that moment the arrest of
growth and thrift is accomplished.
