'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.