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VOL. IV. NO. 8. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , AUGUST 29,1901 , SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
, T. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION
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Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska
City , Nebraska.
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cation.
Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City ,
Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29 , 1808.
The first venture
GOVERNMENT of the government
SHOWS. of the United
States as a Mrs.
Jarley , with wax-works on exhibition ,
was in 1876 , at Philadelphia. Then the
government was only au endorser and
a leaner of money to the centennial ex
position.
Subsequently , paroxysmal patriotism
in congress , voted large sums of money
for a United States show at New Or
leans and , then again a few millions for
the World's Fair and Columbian Circus
of Chicago in 1892and then for Atlanta ,
Georgia , and then for Nashville , Ten
nessee and then for Omaha and at last
for Buffalo and St. Louis. These at
tempts at the show-business by the gen
eral government at home , to say noth
ing about its luscious representation at
the Paris Exposition in 1899 , have cost
the people several millions of dollars.
And besides the amounts expended by
the national government , millions more
have been disbursed for the same shows
by the governments of the several
states.
The business of government is not
the show business , to be operated either
i n Philadelphia ,
Not Right. New Orleans , Ohi-
c ag o , Atlanta ,
Nashville , Omaha , Buffalo or St.
Louis. It is not right to take taxes
from all the people and bestow them
upon expositions for the pleasure and
profit of a few of the people. These
shows generally are promoted by per
sons who wish to easily make money
out of the general public. The appro
priations for then : maintenance are se
cured by log-rolling lobbyists who make
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their livelihood by digging just such
ditches into the reservoirs of the national
and state treasuries.
It is altogether wrong for a member
of any state legislature to originate and
push through such
Wrong. an appropriation ,
and then be ap
pointed a salaried showman by the state
executive , to draw pay out of the fund
of his own origination. But , if wrong
for state legislatorsis it right for nation
al law-makers to get the appointments
and emoluments out of offices they have
freshly created and for which they have
voted as senators and representatives ,
liberal appropriations ?
Did not Senators Thurstou and Carter
vote the millions for the St. Louis
Louisiana purchase show ? . And have
they .not each felicitously begun to draw
five thousand dollars a year in positions
their votes created and salaried ?
And private John Alleuof Mississippi ,
in the house of representatives , did he
not help the bill , andj is he not now
quietly chewing the cud of salary which
his ruminative vote brought to the
surface from the depths of the congres
sional stomach ?
How many years before all lawmakers
ers , state and national , will be making
offices for theni-
How Long. selves , and with
good salaries at
tached , in the long string of nationally-
appropriated-for-and-state-taxed-for ex
positions which loom up among the pos
sibilities of the next half century ?
And in this connection let some Wash
ington correspondent of some live Chicago
cage newspaper publish a list of the
names of the patriotic citizens who rep
resented the United States government
at Paris last year. Who were they ?
How many of them could speak
French ?
What nepotism appointed some of
them , and how much salary did each
get over and above expenses , and what
were the expenses of each ? The Ameri
can people paid the bills and therefore
they ought ; to see the bills.
An esteemed cor-
AT BUFFALO. respondent of THE
CONSERVATIVE
writing from Buffalo remarks , with an
enthusiasm for governmentally-estab-
lished and operated expositions , in which
we do not share , that in the agricultural
building the "Nebraska headquarters
are maintained , and visitors are enter-
tained and made to feel at home. This
exhibit is in the immediate charge of
Commissioner Vance himself , assisted
by Hon. T. E. Hibbert of Gage county ,
who twos chairman of the committee that
had charge of the bill in the last legisla
ture , that provided for the exhibit , and
appropriated $10,000 therefor. There is
also at the headquarters that veteran
immigration agent , R. R. Randall , of
Lincoln , without whom , no Nebraska
exhibit would be complete. Mr. Rand
all is a walking cyclopedia of informa
tion concerning the growth , develop
ment , and products of Nebraska , and is
never so happy as when extolling the ad
vantages and beauties of the state to
groups of interested listeners , whom he
never fails to interest and favorably im
press.
"Miss Leona Bntterfield , of Omaha ,
whose artistic taste is everywhere appar-
rent in the arrangement of the exhibit
does the honors as hostess , having filled
the same position with grace and credit
at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition.
"Nebraska's exhibit of fruit products
is located in the Horticulture building ,
and is in charge of Mr. J. H. Hadkinson ,
of Omaha , assisted by his wife. Here a.
splendid exhibit has been made of fresh ,
native grown fruits , tastefully arranged ;
and here as at the other booth , visitors ,
are entertained , and attractive advertis
ing of the state is distributed. "
THE CONSERVATIVE can not refrain
from calling attention to the italicised
statesmanship of Mr. Hibbert , of Gage ,
as above illuminated. There used to be
a constitutional objection to an office be
ing held by the legislator who caused its
creation within the year after that
office's creation.
In a recent edi
HISTORICAL torial the Omaha
POLITICS. Bee which usual
ly has reliable per
sonal and historical data at hand made
the mistake of asserting that Morton ,
the regularly nominated candidate of
the democracy for the governorship in
1892 , supported the Weaver electors.
That during that campaignbeginning at
Funk's opera house at Lincoln , . Mor
ton made gold standard speeches , near
ly all his hearers will remember , and
that he also worked for and supported
the Cleveland electors , whose names ap
peared just over his own on the tickets
of the Nebraska democracy , will be
quite generally recollected.
It would have been sucidal to have
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