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VOL. IV. NO. 2. NEBRASKA JULY 18,1901. , SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS.
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Entered at the postofflco at Nebraska City ,
Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29 , 1898.
The state derno-
CROWN AND cratic convention
CROSS. of Ohio , said in a
very firm and
exquisitely audible tone of voice :
, "We will not again press down
[ ' " the crown of nomination upon the
i ; brow of Blab. We shall not again
crucify common sense on a cross of
silver , nor make , unto ourselves , sixteen
* chances of defeat and disgrace to one of
honor and usefulness. "
There are in the
MILLIONS. United States
seven hundred and
eighty millions of wooden railroad ties.
Each year renewals take one hundred
and twelve millions more , and their
cost is sixty millions of dollars annually.
In the next twenty years the railroads
of this republic must have three thou
sand millions more of ties. Where will
they get them ? Why not utilize waste
right-of-way for growing catalpa ties
along all lines of railway in this
country ?
No American
A PSEUDOLOGIST. statesman has sur
passed , and only
very few have equalled the populist
candidate for the presidency in 1896
who was nominated a second time by
that party at Sioux Falls in 1900 in
attractive , captivating , and forceful
pseudology. It is only fair and frank
to admit that in pseudological oratory
Col. Bryan is peerless , and we make
this admission , with permission to all
populist papers to republish the same , if
they desire to do justice to a transcend
ent pseudomantist.
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THE CONSERVA-
RICH RETIVE ought to coolly
FRIGERATION. reproduce a few
canned prophecies
from the cold , calm pages of that most
glacial of all iced volumes , "The First
Battle , " for the purpose of serving the
weather frappe. Nothing this side the
North Pole is more chillingly frigid ,
cold , glacial than the on-ice forecasts as
to silver , prosperity and calamity , made
by the peerless one in 1896 and always
attainable in "The First Battle. "
The Daily Ohi-
PERSONAL. cage Tribune of
the 10th of July ,
1901 , contains a very correct portrait of
Joy Morton , a very complimentary no
tice of his character and achievements
as a man of business and some inconsequential
quential errors as to his boyhood and
youth at Arbor Lodge. Nevertheless ,
THE CONSERVATIVE is gratified to ob
serve that in Chicago , the "young man
Absalom , " even when grown on a Ne
braska farm , can , with industry , ability ,
truthfulness and honesty , get on and
win out , populism and its prophet , to the
contrary , notwithstanding.
There is no
A COMBINATION , capitalistic
combine in the
United States which makes so much out
of so small an invested amount o'f
money as the trust in pseudology at Lin
coln , Nebraska. It is owned and opera
ted by one man and pays enormously.
It contains aerated stock , is pseudopho-
nic , and irresistibly charming , when ex
pounded and explained , as to its purity
of unselfishness , its love of the plain
people , and its hatred of the dollar-
above-the-man , by that peerless pseu
domantist , whom the Honorable Gum
shoe Bills tone , of Missouri , with beauti
ful originality , delightfully describes as
a young eagle screaming and soaring
through the skies with the Stars and
Stripes naming from his stump-speak
ing beak.
The well-tilled
APPLES. orchards in Ne
braska will give
a far better yield , according to the ob
servation and experience of THE CON
SERVATIVE , in the year 1901 than those ,
which are in grass. Out of four orchards
at Arbor Lodge , the one which has
been most cultivated will make the best
and the one that has been least worked
the worst return.
The New York Evening Post of July
5th last says :
"Few people , probably , appreciate the
importance of the apple crop in this
country. In value it exceeds even the
wheat crop. Last year , for instance ,
the apple crop was 215,000,000 barrels ,
or 588,000,000 bushels. At a base of $2
per barrel , which is considered a con
servative estimate , the crop netted
$480,000,000 , or nearly one hundred and
seven million dollars more than the
value of the wheat. On a percentage
basis the apple crop reaches nearly 50
per cent , more than the wheat. Our
export of apples in the barrel exceeds
four million barrels a year , and is in
creasing enormously. Our apples have
a fixed value from Liverpool to St.
Petersburg , and last year shippers to
foreign ports experienced considerable
difficulty in supplying the demands. This
trade had grown for several years , but
took an enormous bound after the Paris
exposition , owing to the fine American
display and the manner and energy in
which American fruit-growers presented
the merits of the American apple.
If an allegedly
WHY NOT ? democratic conven
tion could and did
nominate a populist to the presidency ,
in 1896 and in 1900 , why may not the
same political agglomeration , under
hypnotic control and direction of its
former populist candidate , name Judge
John M. Harlau of the United States
supreme court , a republican , for the
presidency in 1904 ?
He has been suggested for the nomi
nation by the commoner sort of popu
lists already and "the plain people"
could soon come to regard him as more
than peerless. Like many gold demo
crats , Judge Harlan voted forMcKinley
and has , in fact , been always a republi
can. But , if having run a populist
twice for the presidency , the party now
puts up a republican it may , by evolu
tionary processes , finally place a demo
crat at the head of its national ticket ,
during the next decade. Why not ?
That great and good book , full of
truthfulness and exuberant prophecies ,
"The First Battle" , was not quoted at
the recent democratic convention at Co
lumbus , in the state of Ohio. Some of
those democrats , called gold-bugs , of
whom Bryan said : "They shall not
jorne back , " seemed to have crawled in
under the canvas and created a dis
turbance.
