Conservative.
News c oin os to
JOHN H. ADAMS. The Conservative
of the death of
Hon. John H. Adamsof CochraiitonPa.
Ho passed away ou August 20 , 1901. The
local papers credit him with doing a
great work , in behalf of good govern
ment and sound economics. All places
of business were closed , out of respect
to his memory.
In 1858 Mr. Adams was the private
secretary of Acting Governor Morton of
the Territory of Nebraska , and from
personal knowledge it is safe to say
that no more faithful and honorable
man. ever held a similar position , either
in this state or elsewhere. After more
than forty years , it is a great pleasure
to remember Mr. Adams , his industry ,
his integrity and his fidelity , with
emotions of the profouudest gratitude.
He was our first private secretary and
never has there been a more discreet and
deliberate gentleman in that position
during the half century which has
elapsed since he separated himself from
that service and from Nebraska to re
turn to his native Pennsylvania to live
and die.
The Conservative
SUCCESS. is indebted to some
thoughtful friend
for a copy of the Lincoln Daily Post of
October 9th , which contains tort and
terse criticisms of certain views which
it alleges are promulgated from time to
time in these columns. There are some
things in the aforesaid criticism which
are good and some that are new. But
those that are good are not new , and
those which are new are not good.
The Conservative has never held that
the mere getting of wealth is success.
It has not , however , denounced the
honest accumulation of property by in
dustry , economy and good judgment as a
crimeaud all the possessors of capital as
criminals. It has not endeavored to
make those who from lack of tact , in
dustry and frugality have become the
discontents of the country , hate , envy
and denounce all those who have been
more frugal and industrious and more
successfully acquisitive.
The Conservative has held and now
believes that the most precious posses
sions of a human
Wealth. life are in old age ,
the solacing
memories of altruistic efforts and
well-directed generosity. The man
who at three score and ton can count
many benefactions to individuals , whom
he has helped to rightly start on life's
journey ; and who can point truthfully
to acts for the public weal , the com
mon welfare which have originated in
his brains and proved an unmixed bless
ing to his race , is in contented happi
ness a more than multi-millionaire.
Thus Peter Cooper was a success over
and above all the Asters who have ever
lived ; Horace Greeley bigger and better
than any and all the Vauderbilts ; and
Carnegie superior to all the non-public
benefactors who have owned their mil
lions during the last hundred years.
Elihu Burritt , the learned blacksmith ,
was a success and died poor. Henry
Ward Beecher , Professor Swing of Chicago
cage , Philip Brooke , Miuot J. Savage ,
and scores of other teachers and preach
ers who have lived and died in rel
ative poverty have been , in the estima
tion of The Conservative , among the
loftiest examples of lustrous success in
all the centuries of man's historic ca
reer.
The Conservative repeats that "self-
forge tfuluess is the first duty of the
patriotic public man when he discusses
a question involving the institutions
and permanent welfare of the Repub
lic. " The man who for a cause , in be
half of a system of economics , can for a
life time withstand the blandishments
of power and the promptings of his own
ambitious and remain firm , steadfast
and militant , at great financial sacrifice
to himself and to his aspirations as a
publicist , is certainly able with calm and
serene disdain to easily withstand the
assaults and taunts of the Postuusoared
by the yelps of coyotes or the snarl
of oven larger and better wolves.
Under the head of
THE HOUSE THAT "The Farm" Mr.
GAB BUILT. Bryan makes the
following announce
ment in the Commoner :
"As the daily papers have seen fit to
make some comments upon the house
which I am building , it may not be out
of place to present the facts to the
readers of the Commoner. In the
spring of 1893 I purchased five acres of
ground about three miles southeast of
Lincoln. The laud is situated on the
top of a beautiful knoll overlooking the
Antelope valley. The view from this
spot is unsurpassed ; as far as the eye
can reach the land is under cultivation
and the colors change with the crops
and the seasons.
"In 1897 twenty acres were pur
chased adjoining the original five , and
in 1899 I began improving the place by
setting out an orchard and shade trees.
Since then , ten acres more have been
added , so that the farm now consists of
thirty-five acres. Our only son is now
past twelve and believing that life on a
farm will be beneficial to him as well as
pleasant to the rest of us , we are now
about to realise the plans made years
ago.
ago."The
"The first day of October was the
seventeenth anniversary of our mar
riage and the fourteenth anniversary of
my removal from Illinois to Nebraska.
To celebrate this double anniversary
Mrs. Bryan and I went out to the farm
on that day and helped to stake off the
ground for the house and took out the
first shovelful of dirt. The foundation
will be put in this fall so that the house
can bo completed early next spring.
When it is ready for occupancy a
picture of it will appear in the Com
moner until it is completed the plans
are subject to change. " State Journal.
Abbot Kinuoy , of
FOREST AND Los Angeles , Oali-
WATER. fornia , published in
1900 a volume en
titled "Forest and Water , " which ought
to be in the hands of intelligent , homebuilding -
building and hdme-loving citizens in
eacli state and territory of this forest-
destroying and drouth-creating repub
lic. The volume is worth more than
its weight in silver and no man or
woman who loves trees and groves and
forests can read it without infinite sat
isfaction.
It bears the imprint of the Los An
geles Post Publishing Company and
can be purchased thereof , no doubt , at
about one dollar and fifty cents , though
The Conservative has no authority for
saying so. The book is worth very
much to every friend of the forest and
stream. The literature of arboriculture
is enriched by this noble contribution to
its steadily accumulating treasures.
Get it. Read it. Act upon it.
A fault-fi 11 d i n g
RICH. contemporary avers
that a certain ed
itor is rich , that he got rich some way ,
that the editor of the contemporary
aforesaid cannot tell how. But wealth
is always relative. Beside of Rocke
feller the six richest men in Lincoln
a town which has germinated many
millionaires whom panics have frost
bitten , or financial drouths withered
are mere paupers. The richest man is
the man with the fewest wants. The
sure-enough rich man is the one who
is contented with his lot , his work , his
achievements , has a clear conscience ,
enjoys the friendship of the intelligent ,
rejoices in the enmity of the ignorant
and does not envy anybody or covet
anybody's goods.
There is no more
BEAUTIFUL soothing literature
THOUGHT. to be found , during
this terrible gold-
standard drouth of dollars in the United
States , than can be corraled within the
warm and glowing pages of that great
encyclopedia of canned prophecies en
titled "The First Battle , ' * by the peer
less one.
On page 595 read this delicious , self-
sacrificing sentence : "My hand has
been used until it is sore , but it can
handle a pen to sign a free-coinage bill
if I am elected. " Blessed comfort in
the little word "if" which is still guard
ing national credit and honor !
