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Iu every county
BUILD THE BEST , in Nebraska the
commis s i o 11 e r s
should build the best bridges. They are
the cheapest. The culvert made of vitri
fied brick or of iron sewer-pipes should
be placed instead of bridges wherever a
gulch is crossed in which no water
course flows. In Nebraska Oity there is
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a steel bridge which has been in constant
use night and day for thirty years. It
is the best and cheapest bridge Otoe
county ever owned.
THE CONSERVA-
TREE PLANTING. TIVE practices tree-
planting every
year , and preaches tree-planting every
week. Each township in Otoe county
and each township in every other coun
ty in Nebraska ought to organize a tree
planting society. In the long evenings
of winterarboriculture should be studied
and discussed intelligently in every
school district of the commonwealth ,
and in each family circle. THE CON
SERVATIVE will continue to print arti
cles about orchards , groves and forests
that are interesting , instructive and
useful.
There is and al-
THE THIRD ways has been , a
PARTY. large and inde
pendent class of
American citizens , owing no allegiance
to any political party. They think and
act for themselves. Their numbers in
crease with the enlightenment of the
age. In proportion to the votes now
cast there are more unbought and un-
bullied ballots in the United States this
day than ever before. They determined
the presidential elections in 1896 and
1900. They will elect a President or
name an Emperor in 1904.
The World-Her-
COMPLICATED. old , which is in
scribed "An Inde
pendent Newspaper" at the head of its
editorial page , is giving daily signs of
a complication of diseases. Many good
judges of mono-manias declare that the
mental perturbations , illusions , delu
sions , confusions and vagaries which
have become chronic in its columns , are
the logical symptoms and sequences of
blood-poisoning by "the sting of ingrat
itude. "
Other doctors assert that The World-
Herald raves because a combine of the
microbes and bacilli of personal ambi
tion has formed a malicious and com
petition-killing trust for the purpose of
making a United States senator out of
the accomplished young gentleman who
was "stung" when William V. Allen
was named to fill the last vacancy. In
any event , it is a pitiful case of demen
tia arising from a misfit in confidential
relations and in senatorial candidates.
The common
COMMON ROADS , roads of Nebraska
are sixty-six feet
in width. That is an unnecessary waste
of good laud and a constant method of
weed-propagation. Legislation per
mitting county commissioners to sell
one-half and make all roads in the state
only thirty-three feet in width would be
beneficial. The laud money thus accumu
lated would make a permanent road
fund. If this cannot be done , compel
the planting of trees on either side of
the road until thirty-three feet is uti
lized for arboriculture.
Let those who
BE IT REMEM- find fault as to
BERED. the genuineness
and sincerity of
the populism of the gallant and peerless
Colonel Bryan distinguished in war
by his battlelessuess ; in law by his
brieflessness ; in statesmanship by his
successlessness remember that in 1892
he voted for the Weaver presidential
electors. He never voted for the Cleve
land electors. This great fact was known
to the National populistic conventions in
189(5 ( and in 1900. That is a record un
stained by democratic symptoms. Be it
remembered 1
A member of
THANKS. the faculty of one
of the eastern col
leges writes as follows :
"It seems to me that you people , with
your letters and articles on western
archaeology , pioneer-history and lore ,
have opened up a very promising vein.
It furnishes not only excellent reading ,
but does for the nearer West what I
should think a high-class journal would
like to do it does not merely represent
the region in its commercial today , but
helps to give it background and color
ing. I hope you may keep on , and the
idea prove successful. "
There is a style
STRIKERS. of humanity in
every rank of life
which studies , creates and disciplines
discontent. In religion , politics and the
mechanical arts and trades these men
frequently dominate. They scatter the
seeds of envy , distrust and malice
wherever they can find lodgment for
the sowing. They are never satisfied
with that which exists. They con
stantly insist upon something which
does not exist "and never can exist. They
pray for the advent of the impossible.
If they were in heaven they would
find fault with the music. They would
repudiate the golden streets of the New
Jerusalem as not fit for thoroughfares.
They would strike for contracts of
greater length than eternity and favor
an eight-hour day for singers in the
heavenly choirs.
THE CONSERVA-
NAMELESS TIVE experiences
LETTERS. an influx now and
then of nameless
letters of a very abusive charac
ter , and they are generally written by
ardent and zealous workers in the fore
casting colleges of Bryanarchy. They
flay the editor of this journal with dull
knives. They bathe his lacerated
epidermis in rank brine , and pour tur
pentine and wrath into his wounds with
satanic glee. Really their barbaric
tortures in words are hideous , but never
signed by their savage authors. Why
not autograph your ravings ?
Those who criti-
THE CONSERVAcise THE CONSER-
TIVE. VATIVE as a non-
democratic peri
odical are entirely correct in their as
sumption of the non-partisan character
of this periodical. And those who de
nounce THE CONSERVATIVE as an ex
ponent of the views , of the independent
thinkers , workers and voters of the
country ore equally in the right. Tliis
journal is not run in the interest of
partisans. It is not conducted by sec
tarians. But it works and wars for
lawful freedom in all things , political ,
economic and ethical.
It believes that capital has equal
rights with labor to the protection of
justly administered laws. It is not
afraid of the truth nor backward in
telling the truth. It is not a caucus-
governed journal.
The New Eng-
FREE READING , land Free Trade
League , Tremont
building , Boston , will mail any of its
instructive tariff trust articles to any
one requesting them , and remitting two
cents postage , or all for ten cents.
The articles and writers are as fol
lows :
"An Important Discussion , " Henry
W. Lamb ; "The Remedies of Trusts , "
Prof. John Bascom ; "The Ship Subsidy
Trust , " Hazard Stevens ; "Free Ships , "
Osborne Howe ; "Free Trade and For
eign Markets , " Hazard Stevens ; "Pro
tectionism , " Prof. A. L. Perry ; "The
Plate Glass Trust , " Henry W. Lamb ;
"Warning Voices on Tariff Trusts , "
The Oregonian et al ; "Russian Retalia
tion , " Norman F. Hesseltine ; "Exports
and Retaliation , " Calvin Tompkins ;
"A Typical Protection Victory , " A. B.
Farquhar ; "Protective Tariffs and Pub
lic Virtue , " Franklin Pierce ; "Pro
tection for Infant Industries Outgrown , "
Arthur Scott Gilnmu ; "The Paper
Trust , " John Norris ; "The Industrial
Situation , " Gov. Horace Boies ; "Reci
procity with Canada , " Hon. John
Charltou et al.
THE CONSERVATIVE commends the
foregoing economic literature to all
who seek for the truths of commerce.