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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1901)
oleotioueered against the electors upon his own ticket. And those who did , ns democrats , support the Weaver electors , weakened , by dividing its strength , the democratic vote of that year. Some of them , notably , the sixteen-to-oneites , headed by the peerless Colonel Bryan , desired to weaken the honest moneyites and especially to rebuke , crush and pul verize the candidate for governor , who dared even in 1892 to then declare for the single gold standard. Looking backward , the Bee will ob serve that the Weaver electors were only , as a rule , given votes by those democrats who followed the money fallacies which Weaver incarnated and by those who desired to draw votes away from the gubernatorial candidate of the democracy. It is not a matter of much consequence ; but the truth may as well be published now , while the misstatement is young , so that all may know , who care to know , that the peerless populist supporter of Weaver in 1892 , who became the alleged democratic candidate for the presidency hi 189i ( and rehearsed again in the same character in 1900 , did not persuade the whole list of candidates to do the same tiling that lie did , and repudiate and attempt the defeat of the Cleveland electors of Ne braska in 1892. But there was a falling off in the vote for the democratic state ticket that year , brought about , intentionally the sixteen-to-oue zealots tionally , by - - and greatly to their delight , because , in their opinion , it properly punished the gold standard candidate for the gover norship. Before many SCHOOLS AND weeks THE CONS - EDUCATION. S B R VA T I V E Will have an issue , de voted to the schools and to education , containing able articles from experienced and practical men of affairs as well as from teachers of renown. It is probable that the common schools of the country as now administered may be sharply criticised. There seems to be a quite general opinion that the pub lic schools are very uncommon and that they commonly teach a little of too many things which are not absolutely necessary to success in everyday life and not enough of the few fundamental things like reading , spelling , arithme tic and geography which are essential to even moderate success in the hum blest avocations. It is not certain that the so-called high schools which graduate young men and women all The. High Schools , over the country who cannot even read English aloud , correctly , and much less speak or write it with accurate flu ency , will escape the rebuke of some of our contributors. The trend of the practical thinkers of this day and gener ation is toward technical education , The want of the age is men who know and do some one particular line of work , particularly well. There is a tremendous deus demand for skilled experts in every branch of modern industry and manu facture. The man who can do a lot of things just tolerably well , will starve alongside of the man who can do but one thing exceedingly well. The latter will command high remuneration and compel a competency. The "jack of all trades , " who is good in none , will fare badly in the Twentieth lentury and the schools that make him will fare worse. To learn to make a decent living is to be educated. The alleged de- CHAN6ED mooraoy which , APPETITE. with insatiable ap petite , fed on the issue of free silver coinage at the sacred ratio of 10 to 1 'in 1896 and 1900 , seems to have been nauseated. And its un- asy and perturbed intestinal convolu tions refuse , except in the smaller coils , like Iowa , to attempt the assimilation of any more Chicago and Kansas City f ree- silver-anti-government-by-injun c t i on - initiative-and-referendum bolognas as a steady diet. On the other hand , in Ohio , Pennsylvania and Virginia there is an insistent demand and a craving , a yearning for "state issues" served plain , without garnishment. But in Nebraska there is still , seemingly , a dominant de sire for political miscegenation among a ruling majority of the populists and the alleged democrats. This will result again , it is said , in fusion , confusion , de lusion and illusion. In 15)00 ) the hy brids were defeated by eighty-five hundred. Louisa McDermott IN OUR SCHOOLS , has a letter in this issue of THE CON SERVATIVE which treats of a very vital and entirely new proposition. She pro poses to have the common schools of the state of Nebraska teach some funda mental truths as to the wealth of the soil of the state , and to instruct youth as to how to plow , plant , cultivate , har vest and garner crops. This common wealth is almost entirely dependent xipon farms and farmers for its exist ence and prosperity and , therefore , it is urged , its schools should teach children the duties of farm folks. If as Her bert Spencer declares that education is the best which will enable a human be ing to live most completely in this world , then there must be something of value in the MoDermott argument. In any event THE CONSERVATIVE believes that the agitation and discussion of the question "Shall agriculture be primarily taught in the common schools of Ne braska ? " will do good. First readers for children , can in words of one syllable , impart valuable knowledge just as well as to inform the ' * > " urchin to "see ther-a-t. " "A" stands for "all" and all depends upon agri- cultur'e in Nebraska. Why not then begin early to teach how to farm in a state which must farm or perish ? The Iowa alleged SIXTEEN TO ONE. democracy , in state convention , declared for free silver , sixteen-to-one and the fallacies of 1896 and 1900 gener ally , as expressed by conventional hy steria of Chicago and Kansas City. The Iowa fellows have the desperation of men under sentence of death , who make bravado declarations from the scaffold and defy the living to harm them after execution. Long live the zebra-leopard agglomer ation of Iowa , striped and spotted , neither horse , cat nor mule , but full of the element of fool ! THE CONSERVA- GOVERNOR TIVE finds no ex- SAVAGE. ouse for many of the violent and vicious criticisms of Governor Savage as to his parole of Ex-State Treasurer Bortley. By law and under oath Savage is governor of the state of Nebraska. Exercising the functions of chief ex ecutive , he has acted deliberately and conscientiously. Until there are evil results from that action , newspapers that wish to be fair and just should not condemn. THE CONSERVATIVE believes in the honesty and good judgment of Governor Savage. The chances for SUCCESS IN the young man Ab- LIFE. vsalom iu the de veloping , elevation and advancement of modern industrial ism were very lucidly discussed in a recent number of THE CONSERVATIVE by able and experienced men of affairs. That discussion has evoked many comments , some of them very com mendatory. But the question has come to us again and again. "What is suc cess ? " And therefore the problem of what constitutes the success of a human life presents itself for solution. All the thinkers and readers of THE CONSERVA TIVE are requested to work out and write out for its columns their views , or an swers to this tremendous query. No man can perfectly succeed who is not born animally into health and strength. No man has succeeded except he has left the world better by his work. And no man is successful who has not contributed to the betterment of the citizenship of the republic. A man may achieve fortune , fame , and stand approved by his fellows , but if his life at Home is stormy instead of serene , and his children grow up in wayward idleness , to become men and women of utter uselessuesshe has made a lamentable failure ! The test of a life of success is the good it has ac complished for mankind.