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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1901)
Che servatm. VOL. IV. NO. 10. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA JMIBER12,1901. SINGLE 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 , 13,752 , 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. ' Oratory is not al- THE TRUTH. ways the truth and eloquence deals fre quently in fiction. Thus in his labor day platitudes the peerless Bryan re marks : "Each decade in our history shows greater production of wealth , and the men who produce it have less to show for it. " In Otoe county and in all South East ern Nebraska the last "decade shows greater production of wealth and the men who produce it" have farms which will sell , on the average , for fifty per cent , more than they would have sold in 1891. And the majority of the farms in Eastern and South Eastern Nebraska are held this day by the same families which owned them ten years ago. Those families are relatively rich. Many of them were represented at the gathering of "the old settlers" at Mor ton Park , Nebraska City , on September 2nd , 1901 , when Hon. H. P. Beuuet and other pioneers addressed them upon their prosperity and contentment. There were one hundred and ninety- three buggies , surreys , spring wagons and carriages of their own among the "old sutlers" of Otoe county who that day attended the picnic of the pioneers. The vehicles and gearing , together with the teams hauling them that day , cost more money than all Otoe county property , real and personal , was as sessed for during the first decade of civil government on these prairies. The old settlers in attendance at Morton Park represented and owned , without iuoninbrauce , on Sept. 2nd , 1901 , ten times more of real and personal value than they possessed in the decade be ginning with 1878. Wages are rising. Interest rates are * * declining. Transportation , for freight and passengers , is lower in the United States , and traveling facilities better , than anywhere else on the great globe. Under these conditions it is not true that "the poor are getting poorer. " Neither is it true that the rich are all getting richer nor true that all are getting rich. But the great mass of humanity in the United States lives better now than ever before and with less daily hard work. There'are ' men who never knew good times aria who never will know good times because they are only talkers , not workers ; grumblers , not grubbers. To them Col. Bryan may very appropriate ly address his lachrymose monologues. He is a master workman among phrase- molders and a paragon among the skilled mouth-workers of this decade. But his own income from voice-culture gives the lie to the statement about the "poor getting poorer" while in a meas ure it verifies his statement that "the men who produce wealth" have it gob bled up from them by men ( gabbers ) who do not produce wealth. Only a few days JOHN F , BUCK , ago the editor of THE CONSERVATIVE received a very cheerful note from Mr. John F. Buck , of Buck's Grove , Cass county , Nebraska. It was for the pur pose of renewing his subscription to THE CONSERVATIVE , and for the further gratification of telling him that in good health he was on that day of his writ ing precisely eighty-six years of age. Since then , while driving to the old settlers' convocation and picnic at Union , his team became unmanageable , ran away , threw Mr. Buck from the vehicle , and his death ensued within a few minutes. John F. Buck was a typical pioneer of the most rigidly religious -and puri tanic type. He was strong in his con victions , honest in his actions , and in every way a most reputable and valu able citizen. Because the Argo COMMUNITY Starch Manufac- OF INTERESTS , tory was sold to the National Starch Company Colonel Bryan with a Salva tion Army composed of J. Ham Lewis , ex. M. O.from Washington , Blarney Smythe , Odor Oldham , and their emo tional evangelists of the Church of Dis- content invaded Nebraska City and ex horted and prophesied of certain calam ity. All sorts of dire disasters were to follow the terrible amalgamation of these two great concerns. But now the telegrams announce the purchase of the "National Watchman and Silver Plume" Another. by the peerless Bryan for the pur pose of consolidating the same with his Commoner organ at Lincoln. Here is "a trust. " Here is "a commun ity of interest , " a tremendous monopoly ely of wind and cheek , brass and blab , all owned by one mental and moral Rockefeller ! Is there no protection for the poor in spirit , the * weak in lungs , the timid in tongue , the unaggressive citizenship of this great republic ? The combination of rhetoric.oratory , fiction , vagaries , flapdoodleism , effrontery and gall thus telegraphed to the country is enough to paralyze the infant indus tries of prophecy , declamation and candidature among the pin-feathered statesmen of Nebraska and the Nation. Affairs social arid ABSENT. commercial called the editor of THE CONSERVATIVE to Chicago and he will be absent for some days. The attempt made ARE WE TO by a Polish anar BLAME ? chist on the life of the chief executive of our nation has exasperated the best feelings of every citizen's heart most keenly ; but while this just indignation that a contemptible alien should lay his hands on our most sacred public trust thus is fresh in our hearts , let us ask ourselves whether we are altogether blameless in the matter. Do we not , by too great freedom of speech toward our public men , encourage others to believe that we hold too lightly by them ? Not only during the acrimonious heat of campaigns , but in the peaceful interval between , our newspaper writers and our public speakers use such language of our best and greatest men as to indi cate to an outsider that they are things of little worth ; what wonder then that this idea should grow , in the narrow , cramped brain of a serf-born foreigner , into a belief that his murderous im pulses were in accord with ours ? Let us thank God that this man has failed ; and hereafter bridle our own tongues. V
