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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1901)
taV * 'V * v I * 'Cbe Conservative * first-class posts worth 26 ceuts each. 510 trees removed make 1,020 posts , worth $265 , being double original cost with total expenses , leaving the planta tion fully paid , including twenty years interest and taxes. The remaining 170 trees will , by the twentieth year , produce 850 cross-ties worth , at GO cents , $510 , or 260 feet of lumber per tree , 42,500 feet , b. m. , which , at $20 per 1,000 , is $850. The value of the land having been greatly improved , and a permanent in come assured from the continued growths ( as the trees are quickly re newed from the stumps ) equal to a capi tal investment of $1,000 at 8 per cent , interest. UNCLASSIFIED. People never realized the terrible ef fects of the drouth until Missouri sug gested it was time to pray. The Ohio democratic convention left Bryan looking very much as if he had held a seance with Came Nation. The Commoner says : "Ohio republi cans have learned that it is not their part to think , but to accept. " A close attention to the rumbling would have caused the peerless to notice that Ohio democrats have the ability to think and the judgment to act. Their attachment to ancient history is not pronounced. Last year the republicans insisted that the price of wool was directly caused by the tariff. Today they assure us that the price is depressed by "destiny , " the "will of God" and other well known at tributes of republican politicians. "The identity of the democratic can didate for president in 1904 is not yet known , but it is known that who ever he is , he will not be a democrat nominated by populists for populist purposes only. " The above is stolen bodily from the Commoner with the change of but two words. It is gratifying to find that journal come within two of being right. Mr. Bryan does not seem to compre hend how our currency has increased $100,000,000 in amount of circulation when he had figured that inflation was the only method of increase. Once set tled that he and his vagaries were rele gated to the shelves of the antiquary , $100,000,000 of sound money came out of hiding , where it was driven by the popu- listic tornado of 1890. Pennsylvania is the most intensely re publican state in the union , and Phila delphia its most republican city. As we gaze at them , can we blame Croker for rolling his eyes to Heaven with that "I am holier than thou" look ! Quay is doing his best to make Oroker respect able , a thing the Almighty failed to do. A corporation has been organized un der the laws of New Jersey to do busi ness hi the Philippines. This illustrates how much superior to to the constitu tion are the laws of Now Jersey. The republicans are very nervous fox- fear that any agitation of the question of taxation will unsettle values and de moralize business. One would scarcely have expected the great slump in the stock market that followed the July 1st abolition of tax /oArc hewing-gum. Gradually the.publicjirb'beginning to seeKrugerin his'neW light. A stub born , selfish , avaricious-brute. With his twenty-five millions of'political ' plunder he is safely housed hi Belgum , and refuses to listen to the pleadings of Mrs. Botha , who has come thousands of miles to advocate the cessation of a war that means only death and desolation to those who did not follow the cowardly president in his flight. Even his poor wife , who had honestly struggled by his side for years , was left to die alone amid the horrors of a useless and hopeless war While his precious body and fortune are safe he cries frantically for all oth ers to risk their lives and sink their all in the struggle. From the very outset of the trouble his obstinacy and covet- uousness produced , he never ceased to quote pious psalms and plunder. At the first approach of danger he resigned his commission , but left not one dollar of his ill-gotten wealth to aid the cause he claims to represent. Benedict Ar nold and Aaron Burr at least had the imaginary or real excuse that their great services to the country had been re quited by neglect and abuse. Kruger was simply a South African populist who had the temporary power to attach by legislative robbery every species of suc cessful enterprise within his grasp. Cor rupt enough to amass a fortune of $25- 000,000 in office , coward enough to flee , and audacity enough to pose as a stand ard bearer of liberty. Even from Mr. Bryan's ' statement it is evident that Aguinaldo and his friends thought the contract would be more binding if they could plead a valuable consideration , A man who would not make a speech in behalf of his own candidacy except on a O. O. D. basis , cannot blame the poor Filipinos if they wanted to bolster up the prom ises of the Kansas City platform with * those tangible beauties so dear to the prudent peerless. It looks now as if nature , resenting the presumption of the administration was about to give us an object lesson , whereby we may judge whether pros perity is the result of her bounties or those dealt out to the steel and sugar infants by the tariff , that well known agent of the Almighty in distributing blessings to such as contribute with alacrity and sufficiency to the campaign fund. There is somethiug sublime in the pecksnifficau complacency with which Mark Hauna and his lieutenp uts assume that they are vice-gereuts of providence carrying out the decrees and destinies of the All-wise , who , until very recently was compelled to forward the civiliza tion of mankind unaided. The consti tution being taught to know its place and keep it , has removed a gretit ob stacle from the path of the Almighty and "destiny" and soft jobs can walk hand in hand in the dependencies. The administration following the example of the patriarchs will "make a covenant with the Most High , " and agree to not interfere with "destiny" so long as the soft'job's are as the sands of the sea for ( multitude. O/'EtVtu , Brute ! " is said to have been 'the exclamation of the peerless when Charlie Towne became "satisfied that silver is dead. " It is alleged that Charlie is making good money in New York , and does not want any foolish ness to reduce it to a silver basis. How often Bryan must think of those words of Ney when Napoleon , on the retreat of Moscow , asked him , "Where is the rearguard ? " "I am the rearguard" said the old hero as he remembered that all but him had fallen in that awful re treat. As Bryan looks back and sees Hogg , of'Texas , a bloated millionaire , Petti- grew , the headland front of a soulless corporation , Charlie Towne forgetting the "masses" as he rolls in the lap of luxury , the New York Journal gone over to the gold mammon , the holy prophet , Croker , an exile in the laud of the Philistines , Tillman politically dead from a base imitation of his leader's resignation , and so have fallen all those who once waked the echoes when the crown of thorns was torn from the sacred head to do duty in the vilest ag gregation ever gathered in America for political plunder. Well , con Bryan pose before the pub lic after his political Moscow , and say , "I am the rear guard , " with all the em phasis upon the rear. T. M. S. FARM , STOCK AND HOME. 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