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.
