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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1901)
v j-sp " ' * ' , ) * .i S' " , v ffep I * ? "C" Conservative.I 1 I r * VOL IV. NO. 7. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , AUGUST 22,1901. COPIES , 5 CENTS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. , T. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK , 13,500 COPIES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One dollar and a half per year in advance , postpaid to any part of the United States or Canada. Remittances made payable to The Morton Printing Company. Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska City , Nebraska. Advertising rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29 , 1898. There is perhaps COBURN VERSUS no mail iu all the WILSON. Northwest , bet ter prepared to defend the productivity of Kan sas and Nebraska than F. D. Co- burn , secretary of the state board of ag riculture of the first-named state. In an interview published August 4 , in the Kansas Oity Journal , Mr. Ooburn sets forth very tersely , the facts relative to the two states as corn producers. He repudiates the assumption of the secre tary of agriculture , as to the "semi-arid uncertain territory where conditions can never be counted on" being in either Kansas or Nebraska. In support of his statements Mr. Coburn shows that in the past five years Illinois produced corn values of a little more than 361 mil lions of dollars ; Iowa $320,700,000 ; Mis- suri $300,000,000 ; Nebraska over $801- 000,000 ; and Kansas , "semi-arid and uncertain" as Nebraska , produced in the same time $378,033,347 worth of corn , much of which was made into whiskey at Peoria , Illinois , and at other points , and also many bushels of which were "wasted" in making Johnny-cake and corn bread. As a statistician and general econo mist Mr. Ooburu is a bad man to con tradict when the value of Kansas and Nebraska soils is questioned. The ceremonial at TO POSTERITY. Colorado Springs on Sunday , August 4th 1901 , when the century chest was filled and sealed in the library building of the university and consigned in a fire-proo : brick wall , to the people who will in mbit Colorado Springs iu 2001 A. D. , was most impressive. The thought originated with Mr. Louis R. Ehrich , whose speech and whose verse , on that very interesting ransuiission of mail to the people not yet born , were of the best and purest. Sometime in the future THE CONSER VATIVE will tell more about this unique and thought-suggesting initiative of a new and intelligent manner of corresponding pending with our descendants who may living at the beginning of the 21st century. The people of Ne- PUBLIC braska begin to UTILITIES. realize that state , county , city and precinct offices were created for use fulness for the convenience of tax payers , and to serve the purposes of government. For a long time it seemed that offices wore created only for the purpose of putting persons into them , to draw salaries , and be exalted in the sight of the multitude. Every office in the beginning of this government was for a public purpose. No office was unnecessarily created by the founders so as to give some partisan a place and pay in the service of the state. But of late years the constitu tion of the state has been evaded , and its provisions avoided by devious meth ods of legislation. Thus , oil inspectors , railway commissioners and numerous other salaried citizens have been fed out of the taxes gathered in this common wealth. It is time to have a new funda mental law for Nebraska , or it is time to stop violating the spirit and letter of the present one. The power to have , in ef fect , nine additional judges , on the su preme court bench , when the organic law provides for only three has been found somewhere by somebody , and so our supreme court today , to all intents and purposes , consists of twelve mem bers. Each one has been appointed 01 elected for partisan reasons , with per haps three exceptions. But the highest judicial tribunal of the state ought to be free from all party- taint , political bias The Judiciary. or trend. Can it be thus free under the present system of partisan nominations made in political conventions':1 : Can Nebraska continue a career o politics which thus far has too often re suited in disappointment , in extrava gaut litigation , in defalcations , in dis- loiior and disgrace V What have national issues like the arilt' or the money question to do with ; he fitness of a man for the supreme court , the regency of the university , the ireasurership of the state or even for the governorship itself ? The administration of justice by the : ourts is not facilitated by partisan judges. The honesty and efficiency for a regent is not necessarily to be found only in the nominees of a party. And experience teaches the tax-payers of Ne braska with the siucerest expostulation and the most intense object lessons that ireasurers are not always honest , no matter what party may have nominated and elected them. Why not begin to select men for office who , by character , ability and fitness are qualified ? Why ontinue the terrible mistakes and mis fortunes with which bitter partyism has given Nebraska unspeakable shame and almost unbearable taxation ? Will the legal profession nominate a supreme judge ? In 1806 General SEEING STARS. Rapp , on his return from the siege of Dantzic , having occasion to speak to the Emperor , entered his study without be ing announced. He found him so ab sorbed that his entry was unperceived. The General , seeing the Emperor con tinue motionless , thought he might be ill , and purposely made a noise. Na poleon immediately roused himself , and without any preamble , seizing Rapp by the arm , said to him , pointing to the sky , "Look up there ! What do you see ? " The General remained silent , but on being Basked a second time , he answered that he per ceived nothing. "What ! " replied the Emperor "You do not see it ? It is my "star ; it is before you , brilliant ; it has "never abandoned me ; I see it on all "great occasions ; it commands me to go "forward ; audit is a constant sign of "good fortune to me. " In these days there are many star- seeing American politicians. To one of them in the state of New York the character of General Rapp is assigned , and he can not see the "star" of sixteen- to-oue. . But another in Nebraska , be holds its resplendent light , asleep and awake , and not even Waterloos and St. Helenas dim it ,
