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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1901)
M * Conservative. of the old American idea that n government - , ment of absolute powers is an intolera ble thing , and , under the constitution of the United States , an impossible thing. " We agree with him that this view "will not limit the power of territorial expansion L * pansion ; but it will lead us to limit the use of that power to regions that may safely become part of the United States , and to peoples whose American citizen ship may bo allowed. " 'Wo urge all lovers of freedom to or ganise in defense of human rights now threatened by the greatest free govern ment in history. Let every citizen study the facts and make his conclusion known , combining with his neighbors to influence congress to stand true to the principles of the declaration by which this government was founded and under which it has grown so great. The gravest danger our country has known 'til ) now , has come from a denial of those principles. We appeal from those who for the moment exercise the power of the nation to the people who are the nation that-nation which , on July 4 , J.770 , was "conceived in liberty and ded icated to the proposition that all men are created equal. " AMERICAN ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAOUE , George S. Boutwell , President By Edwin Burritt Smith , Chairman Ex ecutive Committee , and W. J. Mize , Secretary. NEW E N a L A N D ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE By Erving Wiustow , Secre tary. ANTI - IMPERIALIST LEAGUE , of New York By Ernest H. Crosby , Presi dent , and E. W. Ordway , Sec'y. AMERICAN LEAGUE , of Philadelphia By George G. Mercer , President , and * Samuel Miliken , Secretary. WASHINGTON ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE By W. A. Cruffut , President. CINCINNATI ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE ' By Charles B. Wilby , Chairman Ex ecutive Com. We concur in the above address : Carl Schurz , New York. Morfleld Storey , Boston. Herbert Welsh , Philadelphia. J. Sterling Morton , Nebraska City , Nebraska. t r. Nearly every THE PIONEERS , county in Nebraska has an organiza tion of its first settlers. The pioneers along the Missouri river the eastern rim of the commonwealth are becom ing more alert and active in making up packets of reminiscences of the early settlements in Richardson , Nemaha , Otoe , Cass , SarpyDouglas , Washington , Burt , Dakota , Dixon , Cedar and L'eau qui Court ( now Kiiox ) counties , and transmitting them to the State Histori cal Society at Lincoln. Those Argo nauts who first sheared golden crops from these fertile plains are swiftly passing away. They must do their his torical work soon , or never. Out of the six hundred and odd men who voted at the first territorial election in Nebraska on that tranquil November day in 1854 few , very few , remain. They were the founders of civil government. They were the advance guard of the million and a quarter of inhabitants who now , in health and prosperty , send up , from factory and farm , from city and vil lage , every day , the constant hum of contented industry , and , from thous ands of beautiful homes , the rythmic hymn of satisfied happiness. To have led the way , to have been in the fore front of settling a commonwealth like Nebraska , and to have seen it evolve from savagery into civilization , and to have aided or accelerated that evolution is a glory , an honor. It is so because the judgment of the early settlers as to the soil and its possibilities has been vindicated , verified by crops of two hundred millions of bushels of corn for a series of years. It is a glorious thing to live long enough to see all of ones highest hopes and richest forecasts as to a wilderness more than triumphantly , and , even miraculously realized by hu man occupancy. Forty-seven years ago the first settlers were permitted to enter Nebraska for permanent settlement upon its lands. In that time while crops have been six times "short , " in the river counties , there has never been a complete failure ; nineteen crops have been "bumpers" and twenty have been merely good. When the editor of THE CONSERVATIVE first occupied Arbor Lodge , the one hundred and sixty acres of land , where he has ever since lived , it was more than three hundred miles to a railroad. That was in June , 1855 , before the United States had surveyed Nebraska and two years before a land office was opened in the territory. Nearly half a century has e'apsed. ' The changes that have trans pired are miraculous. Now , in the state there are five thousand , seven hundred and six miles of railways and eighteen million acres of tilled land. "That great mystery of Timewere there no other ; the illimitable , silent , never- resting thing called Time , rolling , rush ing on , swift , silent , like an all-embrac ing ocean-tide , on which wo and all the universe swim like exhalations , like ap paritions which are and then are not ; this is forever , very literally , a miracle ; a thing to strike us dumb , for we have no word to speak about it. " But the mere flight of time does not make history. For centuries and tens and thousands of centuries the vast plains , stretching from the Missouri to the Rocky Mountains saw summer sun and winter storm. But they had no history. Barbarism is incapable of his tory. History is the biography of * civili zation. It is the story of the life of men , human integrals , chiefly narratives of able and conspicuous men. Oompositely , history is the life of all men. But an in dividual who has no energy , no educa tion , no ambition , no altruism , termi nates at his grave. He has said nothing , to be remembered , accomplished nothing , and the clay out of which he was formed was inutile and wasted. History has no solicitude for the do-nothing breeds of men. History conserves the records of those , only , who have earned its authoritative considera tion through industry and utility. The pioneers of all now territories , state , or colonies have been , in the main , repre sentatives of the best blood and brain of the communities whence they migrated. Nebraska , as her annals demonstrate , was opened up by sturdy , intelligent , far-seeing men. Shall the common wealth continue development under similar guidance and control ? THE CONSERVA- ADELBERT S. HAY. TIVE has been al ways an admirer and friend of Secretary of State Hay. His terrible bereavement enters the hearts of those of his friends who have suffered similarly in recent months as a renewal of their own personal affliction. The New York Evening Post of Mon day , June 20th , expresses the sentiments of THE CONSERVATIVE as follows : "We are sure that all hearts are full of sympathy with the Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay in view of the sud den and appalling calamity that has be fallen them. As a general rule , public sympathy in such cases can best be shown by a discreet silence. In this in stance we may be permitted to express the common hope that the father , whose own health has been somewhat im paired by the labors and auxietie's of a trying office , may not be so crushed by this unexpected blow that his useful ness to the country will bo sensibly im paired. Mr. Hay has rendered such good service to the nation during the past four years , and with such uncon sciousness of merit on his own part , that he has won the admiration of his ene mies , if he had any. It is the hope of the whole people , we think , that he may be able to continue the work which he has so well discharged thus far , and hence that he may not be utterly over whelmed by the grief which has visited him in the loss of a dearly loved and promising sou. " The question A GREAT PROBLEM , now agitating the soul of the aver age populist is , "shall we again press down the crown of nomination upon the brow of Blab , and once more crucify success upon a cross of silver ? " CHANGED HIS POLITICS. David Holt , former editor of a demo cratic paper in Macomb City , Miss. , has changed his politics , and is to issue a re publican paper in Jackson , Miss. s V
