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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1901)
'Cbe Conservative * The peerless MORE INSTRUCT- leader , instructor , IONS NEEDED. preceptor and imperator - perator of de mocracy in America recently is sued didactic directions for the management of a state democratic con vention at Columbus , Ohio. But his in structions wore not heeded. They were violated sixteen times and not obeyed one time. Other states will soon hold democratic conventions , and more or ders should be issued by the modest but peerless , and sent out in some commoner form , so that "the plain people" may understand and follow them. Governor Savage HARTLEY. has the confidence of the conserva tive citizenship of Nebraska , and his Release of ex-State Treasurer Joseph J. Bartley from the penitentiary will in all probability prove that it is not mis placed. In any event Mr. Bartley had been a vicarious sacrifice to save sinful republicans , who are as yet un-named , from exposure and penalties , if we may credit common report. .Bartley has been punished enough , and to inflict further sufferings upon his family would be barbaric revenge , not civilized justice. Women and children should not be punished for the sins of another. Sometimes THE TAKING CHILDREN CONSERVATIVE TO THE CIRCUS. wonders whether the itinerant educators caters of the country , who are con stantly in hysterics for fear the up- growing generation may not be properly developed , morally and intellectually , are not really more solicitous about po sitions and salaries for teachers than they are for the children. The old story of two braces of grand-parents going to the circus for the purpose of pleasing one or two grand-children seems to be paralleled in the anxiety of certain peripatetic educators who are constantly assaulting boards of educa- tion in every city and state for the pur pose of introducing new books and new. methods of teaching , all on account of their affectionate solicitude for the proper mental and ethical development of pupils in the public schools. The Honorable CHURCH HOWE. Church Howe , long an able rep resentative and leader of republicanism in Nebraska , will be welcomed home to Nemaha county on July 80th , 1901 , by a very large and enthusiastic assemblage of his fellow citizens. Mr. Howe , after an absence in the consular service of the country at Palermo and at Shef field , England , is coming home on a brief visit. He will receive an ovation from his old friends and neighbors. T h e Fremont SUPREME JUDGE. Herald suggests that , instead of nominating Colonel Bryan for governor , he bo named for the supreme court , to succeed Norval. It is a very good sug gestion , but there is no law to prevent bis being nominated for chief justice , governor , and president , all at the same convention , and thereby saving a good deal of expense and unnecessary travel. That great con- IF ? stitutionol lawyer whose only dis tinguished client , in all his enormous , varied and lucrative practice , is the Constitution itself , declares that , if the supreme court had rendered its Porto , Ricau decision prior to the election of 1900 , the great and self-sacrificing Bryan would have been president instead of wobbly Willie McKinley. Nobody but an orator and a prophet could say so wise a thing. In epigrammatic terse ness the peerless leader wisely and beau tifully remarked : "If things had been otherwise they would have been dif ferent ! " Wisdom on tap served frappe by a boy from the Platte. The only paper THE WORLDin Nebraska ever HERALD. edited by a nomi nee for the presi dency is the Omaha World - Herald. That fact is the sole distinction in jour nalism it ever achieved outside of its re cent endorsement and proposed canoniza tion of some man employed by the Stand ard Oil company , who is alleged to have stolen five hundred dollars from that corporation. This larceny has been eu logized as a saintly virtue. The sting of ingratitude has seemingly poisoned and enervated the mind which animates and directs that Jesse James of journalism to raid corporations and capital wherever found. It should silver up again , and advocate sixteen-to-one , oppose govern ment by injunction , and declare for gov ernment ownership of railroads and other public utilities. Possibly it may establish a constant column entitled "How to steal successfully from the Standard Oil Company and other corpo rations ? " The Crete ViA - A PERMANENT dette , which has ROAD FUND. long been ably edited by H. M. Wells , after speaking very favorably of the tree-planting agitation and the in stitution of Arbor Day , commends THE CONSERVATIVE for advocating the sale of 88 feet off from each one of the 66- feet-in-width roads of the state of Ne braska , the money to bo used for a permanent road fund. The Vidette thoroughly appreciates the great benefit which would come to Nebraska if a law providing for the narrowing of the roads to 88 feet could be passed and put into vigor. The Vidette proceeds to show clearly by figures that the sale of one-half of the roadway in each of the 64 road districts of Saline county would give on aggregate of 4,488 acres , and this amount of land at $80 an acre would supply each road district of nine sections with $2,100 in cash , with which to better the highways. It is very gratifying to have such uni versal co-operation in the movement for ensmalling the roads of the state from 66 feet in width to 88 feet , by the sale of 16J feet on each side of each high way to the owners of the land adjoin ing. The government AGRICULTURAL of the United EXPERIMENT States pays into STATION. each state and territory annually $16,000 for the purpose of running agri cultural experiment stations. THE CON SERVATIVE has just received the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Ex periment station , located at Lincoln , Nebraska , which is in charge of E. Benjamin Andrews , director. This gentleman states that under the act of congress approved March 2 , 1887 , and the act of the general assembly of the state of Nebraska , approved March 81 , 1887 , establishing and regulating an experi ment station , he submits fourteenth . annual report. That is to say , for four teen years Nebraska has been thie recipi ent annually of $16,000 for an experi ment station. The aggregate bounty which Nebraska has received for the ex periment station foots up $210,000 , and the report for this year shows that out of the $15,000 , there was disbursed for salaries $9,108.18 , leaving $5,891.82 for experiments ; but out of the latter sum there was paid for labor $1,928.97. Now , having paid for work , we have left $3,967.85 , and out of this was paid for stationery and postage $468.89 , and for publications $857.16 , and for freight and express $126.57 , leaving a very small sum for the carrying on of experiments. "Whether the agricultural experiment station connected with the University of Nebraska , for which the general government has paid $210,000 , and for which the state has paid an unknown sum , is compensatory to the tax-payers is a question yet to be solved. According to the NOT A RIGHT. Omaha World- Herald corporate capital has no right that a burglar or thief is bound to respect. In fact the World-Herald proposes re wards for thieves who will steal from the Standard Oil company , and by im plication encourages defalcations , de ficits and larcenies among all employes of incorporated capital.