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The populists ,
AGREED. the Peter Cooper
greenback clubs
and the silver sixteen-to-one brand of
republicans , like Teller of Colorado , are
agreed as to their candidate for the
presidency in 1904 and "Barkis is
williu' " if "adherence to the princi
ples" which he advocated when nomi
nated at Sioux Falls and Kansas City in
1900 , demand a third candidature ! sacri
fice. For once the plutocracy , the
Mark-Honnoocracy and all the zealots
of Bryanarchy are in agreement as to
who should , in 1904 be nominated to rep
resent fusion , confusion , delusion , illu
sion and obtrusion.
There was never another auto-mobile
better in control of its master , its rider ,
its owner and engineer than the one
manufactured at Chicago in 1896 and re
inforced and repaired at Kansas City in
1900. It ought , however , to have pla
carded in long letters the legend , "It is
dangerous to stand upon the platform
while the campaign is in motion. ' ' That
the machine will run under the same
experienced guide to disaster , during the
campaign of 1904 no Bryanarchist
doubts. It is already steamed up and the
sound of its whistle becomes commoner
every week.
Who knows
SIXTEENwhat sixteen to
TO-ONE. one means ? Are
there political
archaeologists who can interpret the
"paramount issue" of the nineteenth
century ?
How did those who advocated sixteen-
to-oneism , one moment , and denounced
the gold standard the next moment ,
maintain self-consistency ?
When they said silver should be
corned in a certain relation , or ratio , to
gold , did they or did they not declare
that gold one , to be the standard of
value for that silver sixteen ? Did they
not proclaim and denounce the gold
standard in the same se'ntence ?
The one by which they proposed to
measure the sixteen , was gold. It was
the standard then. It is the standard
now. And yet we are not distressed.
The people are prosperous. None of the
disasters prophesied by the fanatics have
materialized. All the fallacies of finance
which were set up as the ark and
covenant of the safety of the republic ,
have been exposed. What is the next
vagary ? When will the peerless effront
ery of false leaders be abashed ?
The great numb -
ARBOREAL b e r o f pilgrims
INDICATIONS. from the grand
lodge of the An
cient Order of United Workmen of
America who came up through Morton
Park , last week , to visit Arbor Lodge ,
indicated a growing and almost univer
sal interest in tree-planting and home
embellishments , among the members of
that active and useful body of men.
THE CONSERVATIVE had talks with
many of the men and was gratified , be
yond expression , because of the en
thusiasm they manifested for Arbor
Day , for arboriculture and for for
estry. It is quite possible that
the trees hereabouts gestured and
talked more eloquently than could
any human being in behalf of foliage ,
flower , fruit and shade in summer and
fuel and shelter in winter.
There is abundant satisfaction in believ
ing that Arbor Day and THE CONSERV
ATIVE have accomplished a great and
good work towards the reafforestation of
the country and the conservation of the
few primeval forests still standing with
in its boundaries. If every type used in
THE CONSERVATIVE for the purpose of
energizing tree-planting produces a tree ,
within this commonwealth , Nebraska
will be a timber and lumber state before
the century ends. One tree for every
line in favor of trees found in THE CON
SERVATIVE during the last three years
will make a grand and glorious forest ,
illimitable in extent.
The vagarists of
GLOATING. Bryanarohy have
been gloating over
the alleged discontinuance of the Argo
Starch Manufactory at Nebraska City.
To behold the seeming verification of
even one prophecy , made in the cam
paign of 1900 by any of its great seers
and revelators , would be an ecstatic
beatitude for the zealots of discontent.
Therefore there was a grand chorus of
"didn't-we-tell-yon-so-last-fall , ' ' when
telegrams went out to the effect that the
Argo Starch works had been shut down
at Nebraska City. But now , when the
rumor has been proved false when
everybody knows that when the works
do close , it will be only for a few weeks
and for repairs and enlargements cost
ing fifty thousand dollars there is
wailing and gnashing of teeth among
fusionists , similar to that mentioned in
scripture as eternally going on in the
hot place , where fusion is forever and
forever , by fire.
These lamentations are indicative of
the fact that fusionists prefer a calami
tous verification of
Glad. a Bryanarchic
forecast , rather
than prosperity. They and their lead
ers , who fill them with mis-information ,
are glad when labor and capital fall
out. They rejoice when the fires in the
furnaces die out , the wheels stand still
and the rumble and roar of prosperous
industry is drowned in stagnant silence.
The J. Ham Lews and the Constan
tine Blarney , and "The Peerless" and
the Oldham quartet , who sang of death
and destruction to Nebraska City in
dustries last September , are weeping in
May , 1901 , because every forecast
chanted by them , then , has been proved
a lie today. All ! All were false , ab
solutely false 11
The republican
WHY LIE ? country press ,
which reads little ,
thinks less , and prances along after
plundering leaders , will never cease tell
ing lies about Grover Cleveland. They
continue to tell how he was made to
borrow money in time of peace to main
tain the government. But the "how"
which they give is a lie. The second
administration of Cleveland entered
upon office and found a bankrupt
treasury. The order for the printing of
bonds upon which to raise money , had
already been made by Harrison's secre
tary of the treasury , Mr. Calico Foster ,
of Ohio. There was not enough money
in the national treasury when Cleveland
was inaugurated , March 7 , 1893 , to pay
matured , outstanding obligations , meet
current expenses and accruing interest.
That is a fact provable by public
records.
Another favorite falsehood of repub
lican writers and speakers is that the
repeal of the MoKinley bill brought on
the panic of 1893. The panic incubated ,
hatched , feathered out and crowed
under the McKinley tariff , just as
the panic of 1873 did under the Merrill
tariff.
Why will the partisan press continue
to lie , when record evidence exposes
their malice and mendacity ?
THE CONSERVA-
WORKMEN. TIVE met very
many delegates to
the convention of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen , which was in session
at the Overland Theatre in/Nebraska
City last week. They are representa
tive men in the several communities
whence they came. They are home-
builders. Their ambitions for the bet
terment of themselves , their families
and the whole commonwealth are strong ,
sturdy and well-directed.
The interest in tree planting , arbori
culture , orcharding and home-adorn
ment which many
Trees. of the delegates
manifested by call
ing at Arbor Lodge and inspecting its
groves and orchards , was very gratify
ing. Never before , in a residence of
more than forty-five years , has THE
CONSERVATIVE witnessed so sensible and
strong a spirit of investigation as to tree
planting-and home decorations , among
the members of any Nebraska conven
tion. The Workmen were intense in
their quest for facts about forestry.
They went away pleased with the pros
pects held out for the tree-planters and
home-builders of the future. The object
lessons of the orchards , groves and
homes of Nebraska City have gone in
warm hearts and bright minds into
every county of Nebraska. They will
bear fruit. There are thousands of
miles of shade and shelter yet to exhale
from these fertile plains , as a sequence
