'Cbe Conservative.
The State Her i-
STATE HORTI oultural S o c i -
CULTURAL SO ety convenes at
CIETY. Kearney , Ne
braska , on the
16th of July. Horticulture and for
estry will be the principal topics for
consideration. THE CONSERVATIVE
hopes that every tax-paying citizen of
the state who is interested in arbori
culture , and can afford the time , will
be in attendance.
The supreme
INFALLIBLE. court of the
United States is
infallible. Its infallibility is founded on
the fact that there is no appeal from its
decisions. It is the highest judicial
body known to our system of govern
ment. After it has construed the laws
and determined any casewhatsoever , all
parties are precluded from an appeal tea
a higher tribunal. It is the duty of
every good citizen to abide by the de
cisions of the supreme court of the
United States , just as it is the duty of
every good Catholic to liold to the in
fallibility of the Pope , who is the high
est , earthly tribunal in the Roman
Church.
The state of Ne-
TREES. braska is foremost
among the tim
ber-planting states of the republic. It
has the honor of having instituted a
special day for .tree-planting , and is
very generally known as the "Arbor
Day" or "Tree-planting" common
wealth. It is a singular fact that in all
the traditions of barbaric as well as
of civilized nations , a blessed hereafter
and life to come is always depicted as
embellished with beautiful streams and
ever-living trees and flowers. There
* . - has never been any conception of a de
sirable life to come that has not simu
lated the rural life and environments as
experienced by humanity on this globe.
$
fe * . On the contrary , hell is always de
picted as treeless and waterless.
The usual hue and
CROPS. cry about the crop
lessuess is now epi
demic on the boards of trade in New
York and Chicago. But here in Otoe
county , in the state of Nebraska , the
corn crop is very promising indeed. It
is backward , but the stand ie uniformly
good , and unless some unprecedentedly
disastrous drought should ensue , the
average yield will be entirely satis
factory. Oats promise to be short as to
straw , and possibly not very heavy as to
grains. The winter wheat crop , which
"is about harvested , is the biggest and
best ever garnered in this common
wealth. All together , the people of
this propinquity are prosperous. There
is every element of contentment pres
ent , which Bryanarchy assured us
would be absent.
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'THE CONSERVA-
ROADS. TIVE is gratified
because of the
general interest manifested by .the press
of the state in the road question. It is
generally conceded that the common
roadways of Nebraska are too wide.
An ordinary wagon road by our law is
66 feet in width. Passing for a half
mile between two quarter sections it
akes 88 feet off each quarter. That is
o say , it takes four acres for a highway
for a half mile. This area ought to be
reduced to two acres. Sixteen and one-
lalf feet off each quarter section on
either side of the road , instead of 83
ieet would reduce the thoroughfare to a
practical breadth. This would preclude
; he weed culture along the roadside.
If , however , a law cannot be passed
which shall permit the county com
missioners of each county to sell sixteen
and one-half feet on either side of the
road to adjacent owners , then there
ought to be a law which shall compel
the planting of trees for at least sixteen
and one-half feet on each side of every
road in the state of Nebraska. It isa
wicked waste of valuable fertile soil
two acres to each half mile under our
present road system.
The d i s t i n -
"WHAT OF.THE guishedNebraskan
YOUNG MAN who was running
ABSALOM ? " for president in
1900 , frequently
alluded to the barriers which capital
was setting up to prevent the advance
ment of young men in this country.
Persons , however , as distinguished in
manufacture and industrial pursuits
generally , as he is among statesmen ,
seem to differ with him materially. It
is believed by practical men , connected
with industrial pursuits , that the oppor
tunities for the young man with techni
cal knowledge are today more numer
ous and inviting than they ever were
before. Illustrative of this fact , we
find in a recent letter addressed to the
editor of THE CONSERVATIVE by Mr.
George F. Peabody , president of the
Pettibone-Peabody Co. , of Appleton ,
Wis. , the following statement :
"There never was the opportunity
that there is at present for young men ,
but this means thoughtful , industrious ,
patient" , hard-working men , wljo can
wrap themselves up , so to speak , in
their occupation , turning it over and
over in their minds , getting new light .
constantly , and new enthusiasm. It is
simply to do the thing that they are do
ing better than it has been done. That
is all. A few months ago while in
New York , in a conversation with Rob
ert Ogden ( the managing partner , the '
moving spirit of the great Wanamaker
business ) I said to him : 'It is strange
one can not find earnest , useful young
men ; I want one to slip into .a $5,000
position. ' Mr. Ogden turned to me and
said : 'I want four men to take $60,000
* . ' '
' * * *
T'f - - r - e
a'year positions. ' Within two weeks a
prominent E man connected with the
largest retail dry-goods house of Chicago
, cage \ , in writing to me said : 'We would
like . to fill two places , and would pay
the proper man from $25,000 to $50,000
a year. ' The same firm has twenty
places to fill at from $5,000 to $15,000 a
year , and not ten of the twenty are
filled. This condition exists all over the
country. The harvest is ripe , but the
laborers are few. "
Mr. Peabody is thoroughly convers
ant with the industries of the country ,
and distinguished as a very successful
business-man. His opinion , on a question - ,
tion of manufacture or business of any
kind , will be accepted by the leading
thinkers on economics , in the United
States , as of far greater value than that
of a mere peerless orator , whose princi
pal business is stump-speaking. Mr.
Peabody believes in those men who do
something for the state.i instead of in
those who expect the state to do some
thing for them.
There is at .Oma-
PRACTICAL h a a periodical
BRYANARCHY. known as "The
World - Herald. "
It acquired its greatest notoriety when
edited by the populist candidate for the
presidency , Colonel William Jennings
Bryan. Since that eminent talker has
left the profession of journalism , and
become a practical , perpetual candidate
for the presidency on the populist plat
form , the World-Herald has not been
edited with the same amount of dynam
ic intellect that energizes the peerless
colonel. But it has never for a moment
deserted the doctrines , inculcated by
that eminent agitator. In a very recent
number , the World-Herald notes the
fact that an agent or manager of one of
the Standard Oil agencies in Nebraska
had stolen $500 of the company's
money. Upon this theft , the paper ,
which has been so distinguished because
of its .blood-poisoning' from the . "sting
of ingratitude , " declares :
"If the Standard Oil Co. can prove it
[ that is , that one of its agents stole $500
of its money ] Nebraska should embalm
the man's name in blessed memory. "
Thus anarchy and Bryanarchy agree
that it is no crime to rob rich corpora
tions. In fact , the World-Herald com
mends larceny as a virtue , and suggests
the pleasant perpetuation of the name
and fame of any man who can success
fully steal from the Standard Oil Co.
The World-Herald has never more ex
plicitly , truthfully and tersely stated its
political creed. The citizens of Omaha
who have incorporated property can
easily see that peculation , robberies ,
.confiscations , larcenies , from such
propeities are taught by the chief organ
of Bryanarchy in the state of Nebraska.
How long will it be before we have in-
stitates established for the inculcation
of larceny from incorporations ; insti
tutes to be addressed by successful
'thieves who have graduated from the
penitentiaries of the country ? It would
be less dangerous to society than those
journals which pretendfto apvocate the
rights of property , and to Uphold law
and order while they inculcate doctrines
of communism and anarchy