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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1901)
Conservative * would have cast thorn about as fol lows : Alike for the sake of the good name of the slate , and from motives of enlightened self-interest , see to it that the stigma of repudiation be removed by making , with the creditors of the slate , such honorable sclllemcnl as they may be willing to freely accept. ( While on this point , it is duo to myself - self to say that I do not own , nor do I know any one who does own , a single bond of the state of Mississippi , except ing only the trustees of the Peabody ed ucational fund. Moreover , the Illinois Central railroad company and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad company are , and have been for very many years , probably over since they began operat ing railroads in the state , the largest payers of taxes in Mississippi. It will , therefore , bo on their shoulders that the heaviest part of the burden which I now invite will fall. ) I would say : Look forward and not backward. Bo mindful of your own future and that of your children , for both of which you are responsible. Let the dead past bury its dead. As Col. Henry Wattorson said some two or three years ago , "It is high time that the South stopped feeding on Cob webs. " Instead of further overstocking the learned professions , turn your well trained minds to the development of the vast latent resources of your own fav ored laud. Bring to bear upon com mercial , manufacturing , and what are now called business pursuits , the wealth of inherited and acquired intellectual capacity with which it has pleased God to endow you. Be mindful that to you much has boon given and that of you much will be required. Do not wrap your talent in a napkin and bury it in the ground of sloth and idle content ment. I would say with Horace Greeloy : "Young man , go West , " but I would not add , as he did , "and grow up with the country. " No , I would rather add , find out what of good there is in the West , which has within a generation made a desert blossom as the rose. Solve that riddle , bring the secret book to the far more favored land in which you had the fortune to be born , and apply it with energy and perseverance , and doubt not as to the outcome , alike for yourself and for the state. And , finally , I would say : Combine your capital ( which may not be in money , but consist of far more potent and valuable things , such as education , character , capacity , perseverance and honesty of purpose ) , with the capital of others , and , for their sake and yours and the good of the state , make com mon cause for mutual profit. ' 'In union < * there is strength. " Or as the -French -better express it' 'union makes strength. ' ' . - My dear Mr. Chancellor , iu closing let mo crave your indulgence for the many imperfections of this letter which has of necessity been written in the midst of frequent interruptions. If it contains a thought or a suggest ion of value to the state , or its univer sity , I shall be more than repaid. Thanking you again for the honor tendered , and again regretting that pressing engagements hero prevent niy saying by word of mouth to the mem bers of the university that with which my heart is big , I remain With great respect , STUYVESANT FISII , President of the Illinois Central rail road company. Now York , May 28 , .1901. A USE FOR CORN COBS. Corn cobs , says the St. Louis Globe- Democrat , arc to be utilized as a special kindling , and it has been demonstrated that fire engines can be fired to the point of steam with them in less time than anything else. Their process is unique. The cobs are first crushed and then saturated with a highly inflammable material composed partly of rosin. Then they are compressed and after wards sawed into blocks. They lose the appearance of the despised cob. While the process was invented at Waco , it will not be utilized there. A company will be established at Parsons , Kansas , in the midst of the corn belt , and there is no doubt it will prove a winner. COALS ON TORTOISE STATESMEN. The democratic party cannot live and stancTon the platforms of 189G and 1900. It cannot get rid of those platforms without shaking the few men who made them. They are back numbers , and as dry and sterile as last year's bird nests. In a few short years wo have changed from a buying nation to a selling nation. From an almost insignificant sum our exports of merchandise rose last year to the immense sum of $1,394,500,000 , whereas our imports have increased only about 25 per cent , in twenty years. Con ditions have changed changed very greatly. Agriculture , manufacturing , mining , trade , commerce , railroading , shipping all have made wonderful progress ; the arts and the sciences have bounded forward with the impulse of the new age ; knowledge grows with our growth , and the captains of industry mount to pinnacles not dreamed of in the wildest speculation of the youth of a half-generation ago. Everything and everybody moves except our statesmen our Bryans , our Altgelds , and our Tillmaus. They cling to the dead fetiohism of an age that is past. It mocks our poverty and disheartens our young men. There is no room for a new party in this country no third party ever amounted to anything but there is room for new life , new vigor , better things in the two old ones. If Me- Latirin succeeds in building fire on the backs of some of our snail moving tor toise statesmen , he will accomplish something. Macon , ( Ga ) . Telegraph , ( Dem ) . THE DECISION WITH THE PEOPLE. There is a general feeling at home that , the court having thrown now re sponsibility on congress , and greatly in creased its power as well as duty , the broad issue involved in the controversy must bo faced by the people in the com ing congressional elections. The election of a majority of congressmen favoring elastic construction of the constitution and an opportunist policy in dealing with territory which is not yet a terri tory , will bo taken as evidence of the will of the people to expand along lines more like those of the British empire than like those of our own national past. In so far as electors were farsighted - sighted enough to see this parting of the ways when they last voted , the next congress will reflect a definite popular opinion on this matter. But not until the coming elections are held , dissevered from all personal fears aroused by the candidacy of a man distrusted for his financial vagaries , will it bo possible to say with certainty what the people will wish our national policy to bo. The ( Boston ) Cougregatioualist. VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION. Every number of Mr. Morton's CON SERVATIVE is a valuable contribution to the pioneer history of Nebraska , which feature of itself is worth many times the cost. Gage County Democrat. mutLo-aSlLuafa to u place in imMBUtsmaiattaamwi the well paid professional fields of Civil. Mechanical or Electrical En gineering or Architecture , Is to qualify yourself quick ly for a posi tion where you can sup ports yourself and get ac quainted with the practice , whileyoulcarn the theory , of your profes sion by the study in your spare time of an I. C. 8 * Course by mail. We teach men and women who are em ployed , and also beginners. Write for free circular : Salaried Positions for Learners \Vo teach by mall Mechanical. Stcuni , Elec trical , Civil unil Mining Engineering ; Shop mid Foundry Practice : Mechanical l raw- Ing ; Architecture ; Architectural Drawing ; I'lumulnir , I lea tine and Ventilation ; ( Sheet Metal' Work ; Telephony ; Telegraphy ; Chemistry ; Ornamental Deitlgn ; Lettering ; llookkccptng ; Stenography ; Teaching ; English Hrunchcn ; Locomotive Itunnlng ( for engineers ami Ilrcinen only ) ; Electrothera peutics ( for phyilclani anil nurses only ) . When writing state subject In which Interested. INTERNATIONAL COHHEBrOSDKXrE SCHOOLS , Dox 1200 , 8CHANTOX , PA. Established 1891. Capital $1,500,000.
