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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1901)
TTbe Conservative * 11 CREMATION. EDITOR THE CONSERVATIVE : As you are getting up a cremation company in your city , you will probably be interested in the enclosed translation of the report of the Hamburg ( Ger many ) cremation society. Respectfully , WALTER BUEEN. Omaha , Neb. , June 7 , 1901. The death record of the Hamburg crematory from 1892 to 1899. [ TRANSLATION. ] Under the above heading has recently appeared a carefully tabulated state ment , prepared by the president of the cremation society , D. Edward Braoken- hoeft , covering the record of the first 500 cremations which took place at that crematory during that period. The ages of those who were cremated were as follows : In ages of 0 to 10 years 0 " 10 to 20 years 8 " 20 to 80 years 18 " 80 to 40 years 80 " 40 to 50 years 70 " , 50 to 60 years 92 " 00 to 70 years 180 112 27 8 Total 500 It is to be remarked that more than four-fifths of the ages of above individ uals ranged from 40 to 80 years. As it is most unlikely that a single one of these was sent to the crematory without the consent ( in life ) of the de ceased , and as people , in these mature years are not apt to specify a wish for cremation without having duly weighed and considered this method of disposing of their bodies , it follows that the fre quent assertion which one hears , "that incineration is a passing fad" is not in consonance with facts. The sex of those cremated is as follows : Number of men cremated 331 , num ber of women cremated 169. A proportion tion of two-thirds to one-third - men - wo men. Of the latter sex the following information is given : 65 were married women , 46 were un married , 56 were widows , 2 were di vorced. The religious beliefs of the 500 show : 891 Evangelical Lutheran ( state church ) , 13 Reformed church , 14 Catholics , 1 Old Catholic , 1 Church of England , 2 Mennonites - nonites , 62 Jews , 16 Freethinkers. POLITICAL. "Protection , so called , has become a means through which high prices are maintained at home while goods are sold at lower prices abroad , " says the Port land Oregoniau ( Rep. ) It has always been an abuse ; it is the mother of trusts and plutocracy ; and now in its logical development puts a tax on homo consumers , that foreign consumers may get low prices. This last phase will be the death of the system. " "If wo expect the economic suprem acy we are claiming , we must be a lib eral nation , " argues the Philadelphia Times ( Ind. ) "When our own tariff tricks are turned against us , we shall have not only our manufacturers but our farmers also to reckon with. If we ex pect to trade with other nations , we must at least show our willingness to let them trade with us. " "If we add to the army of nearly one million pensioners the soldiers in the field , the sailors in the navy , and the great array of names borne on the civil list , it will be found that about one person in ten of the adult male popula tion of the country has a direct pecuni ary relation to our paternal federal gov ernment , " notes the Philadelphia Rec ord ( Ind. Dem ) . "The proportion of taxeaters to taxpayers cannot be much further enlarged without grave dan ger. " Judging from what the president said on his recent tour , the Boston Evening Transcript ( Rep. ) is inclined to believe M. Jules Siegfried's report of his talk with the president , wherein the latter said that he was not now the extreme pro tectionist he once was. It cannot under stand why Mr. Hanna should contradict it. "Many people , " it adds , "regard Mr. Hanna as if he were all the govern ment , and sometimes Mr. Hanna' acts and talks as if he were himself laboring under this delusion. " "Thirty-five years ago the Northern states turned the government of eleven Southern states over to ex-slaves and outsiders , when 95 per cent , of the ne groes were illiterate and unable to take care of themselves , much less to control a state intelligently , " premises the De troit Tribune ( Ind. ) "This dangerous error did not cause half the alarm in the country that is now exhibited over granting the limited rights of a terri tory to Porto Rico and the Philip pines. " "The supreme court has said that everything in the settlement of the colonial nial relations of the country depends upon congress , and he must be an unin telligent student of affairs who fails to appreciate what this means , " the Boston Herald ( Ind. ) says : ' 'It means that the attention of the people must be ab sorbed in the policy which congress is to create and establish. It is to be set tled as to whether that policy shall con form to our character as a republic , or shall be that of a monarchy towards subject peoples. " "It indicates a great advance in pub lic sentiment , " says the Kansas City Star ( Ind. ) , with reference to the ad dress in Detroit of President Search , of the national association of manufac turers , "when the president of a manu facturers' association publicly refers to the tariff policy as selfishness for which the country may bo punished , and de clares that that as a result of the sen ate's failure to approve of reciprocity the beginning of free trade the posi tion of the people is 'humiliating. ' Fifteen years ago manufacturers did not look on the tariff in this light. " "To belittle the tariff issue is out of the power of the MoLaurins and other more or less disguised protectionists in the democratic camp who are seeking , with the Hanna steamship - subsidy scheme , to put a new cornice on the edi fice of spoliation , " says the Philadelphia Record ( Ind. Dem. ) "The democratic party is the party of tariff reform , and the issue is ready -at hand for the next congressional campaign. There can be no averting the conflict unless the re publicans in the next congress shall an ticipate it by substantially revising the tariff on the plan of Representative Babcock. " "It thus appears that everybody inter ested in the case the republican lead ers in the house and senate , the demo cratic leaders in the house and senate , the eminent" counsel for the importers and against the administration , the emi nent counsel for the administration and against the importers all of these ap parently differing gentlemen seem to bo pleased with the decision , and unani mously in its favor , " comments the San Francisco Argonaut ( Ind. ) "In short , the only persons who seem to bo dissatisfied with the decision of the su preme court , and inclined to question its soundness , are the justices of the supreme court. " GROWTH OF FORESTRY IN THE UNITED STATES. The merging of the Indiana Forestry Association into the new and enlarged organization of the International So ciety of Arboriculture , which took place at Connersville , Saturday , afforded an opportunity to the secretary of the old association to review the work that it has done. There is abundant encourage ment in the report , for further effort. With the renewed attention which va rious states and the general government are giving to the subject , the efforts of such associations as this , will be made easier , and we may hope for an exten sion of knowledge on the subject to awaken popular interest. One practical extension of tree planting , it seems to us , could be made by providing that trees should be planted along the high ways and by-ways of the stateas part of the road work. Thus millions of trees could be planted , and yet no land needed for farming encroached on. And wo should in time get the advantage that comes from the great growth of trees , besides having roads that in' summer time would be shaded.
