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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1901)
-5 . , S3S3iKpg ! ! 1 ' " * * 1 V ' 1 ' > - * V V " * I Conscrvatm. 9 7 vironments are far more to be1 pitied than those rugged and ragged young- 'stors who first saw daylight in the rude cabins and dugouts of the Ne braska frontier. Here they had the stimulant of poverty which braces "mankind to self-helpfulness and keys up to self-reliance and plucky inde pendence. Poverty is a plain but practical teacher. It gives great les sons. It teaches the value of self con trol and self-denial. It writes on hu man life as on a slate the proverbs and rules for usefulness and happi ness. The children born in Nebraska thirty and forty years ago very soon came to understand that life was a battle. They speedily saw that each individuality must win because of its ov , 11 disciplined strength and persist ency or fail and lose because of its own weakness and purposelessuess. The rough asperities which surround ed the pioneer children of the terri tory and state impressively and stern ly taught them that they must rely for fortune and fame entirely upon themselves. Their parents were obliged to impose burdens of labor up on them. Those burdens were larger and heavier than are imposed upon children of similar age in the older and wealthier states. And so the pioneer neer childhood came to understand that a good home and its comforts where'the .family should be domiciled , necessarily meant self-denial on the part of the then dwellers in dugouts and cabins. They soon comprehended the fact that if parents did not deny themselves desired things , which they seemed to really need , no fund could be accumulated with which to buy schoolbooks , pay for the preemption tion claim and build the hoped-for dwelling. All through those early years of the settlement of Nebraska every child and youth had the ad vantage of a primitive object lesson environment. It told in acts of self- control , self-denial , self-reliance and self-respect the despotic necessity of those virtues in the attainment of sub stantial and solid success. The vis ible truth , that every human home , every vast manufacturing plant , every grand railway system , all incorpor ated capital , represents self-reliance and self-denial on the part of some human being , or human beings , eith er in this , or some preceding genera tion , stands out an economic Gibral tar , against which the waves of de clamatory socialism and communism roar in vain. The pioneers of Nebras ka and their children stood on this great fundamental fact in sociology and from it very many climbed up to competence and the satisfying com forts of contented and refined homes. There are few BLIND CONmen who would DUCTORS. risk traveling on a ra i1 road train drawn by an engine in charge of a jlind engineer and a blind fireman. There are few lovers of music who would entrust the conduct of an or chestra to a deaf and dumb leader. But a railroad train managed by the blind and an orchestra led by a deaf man would be as safe and successful as a financial system founded by the fanatics of free silver at sixteen to one. one.Only Only those who can see may man age engines and run railroads. . Only those who can hear and speak may conduct orchestras. Only those who have learned by diligent study and experience that the circulation of a country must be pure and sound as an essential precedent to national , health and prosperity may be permitted to prescribe laws relative to money. No man who dreams and talks in his sleep , to the effect that law is the sole creator of money and that law can evoke value from nothingness , should be elected to any legislative body in America. No man .who has not thought enough and read enough to know that in all its civilized career the race has never successfully used for money anything which did not have value as a com modity before it became money is fit to help make laws in this country. Too many blind men , too many deaf men have been running the lawmaking ing business and leading the indus trial music of the United States. Only men of merit whose eyes have carefully reviewed history and economics ought to be elected legisla tors. And all those deaf to the voices of the past which recite the woes of fiat finance from France to Mississippi should be excluded from the list of law givers. The one quality COURAGE IN which above all PUBLIC LIFK. others wins the love and admir ation of man is that thoroughgoing independence of thought , speech and act commonly 'illed civic courage. It is the prevailing characteristic in the life of every man who has won dis tinction in the public service of his country. Without it no man may hope to be a leader in the highest sense of the word one who discerns the true lines of his country's development and labors energetically , faithfully and hopefully to accomplish his pur poses. Intense energy , profound faith , abiding hope require nothing so much as civic courage a power to sustain and strengthen in the face of every difiiculty and against the most dis heartening opposition. Commercial Advertiser. The standard THE UNIT. unit of coin which measures the value of all exchangeable property must bo made of only one metal. And that metal should be gold. It should be coined unlimitedly free from all mint charges. In this way the value of the bullion and the value of the coin in the country doing the minting must remain precisely the same. The owner of the bullion pays no seignior age. The government has merely transmuted his bullion into coin and certificated its weight and fineness. But the government 1ms added no value to the metal. The fact that government stamping confers no value to gold is daily demonstrated by the bank of England. It handles and treats all gold coins , except those of Eng land , as bullion. The Bank of Eng land pays for United States gold coins 7(5 ( shillings , 4 and * < > ponce an ounce. It sells the same at 7(5 ( shillings , 8 pence per ounce. But the Bank of England pays for gold bars ( .999 fine ) 77 shillings 9 pence an ounce and will not sell said gold bars at less than 77 shillings and 11 ponce an ounce. Thus it is seen that .999 fine gold bullion , in the greatest monetary center of the globe , is worth more than coin governmentally - mentally minted and stamped by the United States or by any other power foreign to Great Britain. Gold makes the best unit of value. The consummate THE END OP fruit of civilization PROGRESS. and Christianity and the culmina tion and end of human progress is to approximate justice. An immutable law of the intellectual advancement , and the moral advancement of man kind , is that we must nearer and nearer come to the right interpretation and dispensation of justice. Therefore the advocates of a just cause may with sublime faitli predict its ultimate triumphs. The conscious ness of being right ; and the unfaltering belief that their words and works will have certainly achieved benefactions for posterity , anticipate all the happi ness and satisfactions of the praise of posterity. The intellectual exultations of right- doing are a feast to the soul an invisi ble and everlasting luxury. The denun ciations of the mob cannot lessen this supreme felicity. The plaudits of the multitude cannot enhance it. The coward may live and enjoy today. But the brave and the wise live for to morrow and for the betterment of those who shall then exist. Justice for all humanity in all the world is the aim and end of progress. When justice shall have encircled the globe , Heaven will have begun upon earth and man will have reached the highest possible evolution.
