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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1901)
Che Conservative VOL. IV. NO. 17. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , OCTOBER 81,1901. Sirffi COPIES , 5 CENTS - PUBIiISHEDVEEKLY. . , OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIO AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK , 13,900 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 npon appli cation. Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29 , 1898. Theodore Roose- HONESTY IN velt is an honest GOVERNMENT , man. As the Pres ident of the United States he will sincerely strive to bring efficient , experienced , qualified , honest men into every branch of the ' public service. Largely the United States Civil Service Commission of which President Roosevelt was himself the chairman in 1898 will aid the Presi dent in securing the best types of citi zenship for public places. No honest man will permit extrava gance in a Department over which he has control. Ex- Economy , travagance is gild ed dishonesty , sugarcoatedtrascality. . The govern ment officer who will retain uu-needed clerks , employ as laborers , men and women who have no work to do except to draw their stipends from the Nation al Treasury , is not honest. The head of a Department who know ingly pays out , as wages , money belong ing to the Govern- Altruistic ment , to men and Larceny. women whom he knows are not need ed and whom he knows do not earn the money , is guilty of altruistic larceny. He could have stolen for himself and put in his own pocket all the money thus paid out , just as honestly. Ego tistic larceny , auto-thievery is no worse and no better than larceny permitted by , or made for , others. How many unnecessary employees are there at Washington in each De partnient of the Government ? Is it no a duty of the President of the United States to cut down extravagance in every branch of the Government ? As an honest man , he can not be otherwise than a vigorous , strenuous enemy to wastefulness and extravagance. During the sec- CORTELYOU. oud administration 0 of Grove'r Oleve- aud , through the classified service , ihere was in the Post Office De partment a very efficient and eminently 'aithful ' clerk named George B. Cortel- you. His abilities and merits were irouounced , and thus he came to the notice of President Cleveland , who drafted him into the service of the Executive of the United States and in stalled him among the Secretaries at the White House , where he has made a most remarkable record for doing the right thing rightly at the right time , under all sorts of judgment-testing emergencies. Mr. Cortelyou is a splendid demon stration of the enormous value to the people of the United States of a Civil Service based upon merit , fitness and adaptation. He honors the system and reflects credit upon the position which he now holds under a civil service re forming President the former Chair man of the Civil Service Commission of the United States Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Webster , al- DANIEL though he graduat- WEBSTER. ed from Dartmouth without having achieved distinction as a foot-ballist , a lawn tennist or quartet singer , was by some enlightened and worthy folk re garded as a man of commanding force in oratory and logic. In 1824 Mr. Web ster as one may find by looking on page 861 of State Papers , by F. W. Taussig made an anti-protective tar iff speech in which he declared : "Some other gentlemen in the course of the debate have spoken of the price paid for every foreign manufactured article as so much given for the encour agement of foreign labor to the preju dice of our own. But is not every such article the product of our own labor as truly as if we had manufactured it our selves ? Our labor has earned it and paid the price for it. It is so much added to the stock of national wealth If the commodity were dollars nobody would doubt the truth of this remark and it is precisely as correct in its ap plication to any other commodity as to silver. One man makes a yard of clotl at home , another raises agricultural products and buys a yard of imported cloth. Both these are eqtfally the earn ings of domestic industry , and the only questions that arise in the case are two. Phe firat is , which is the best mode under all the circumstances of obtain- ug the article ; the second is , how'far this question is proper to be decided by government , and how far it is proper to > e left to individual discretion. There is no foundation for the distinction which attributes to certain employments the peculiar appellation of American in dustry , and it is , in my judgment , ex- ; remely unwise to attempt such dis- criminations. " The lucidity of statement and the cogency of the foregoing cannot , of course , have much weight with ponderous derous protectionists like Allison and Dolliver , of Iowa , and yet Mr. Webster is by many men respected as a patriotic statesman. His mental powers were , to t > e sure , not just like those of the great Grosvenor and other Ohio teachers of protection , and yet he has his place in history and in the esteem of quite a number of intelligent Americans. Loie Fuller in SHADOW her enchanting POSTURES. skirt dances amidst the fleeting , change ful and coruscating colorings of stage- made "shadows" achieved an interna tional fame. But Willie Bryan only once announced himself an expert prophet in "a shadow , " and that was at Nebraska City , September 26,1900 , when he mellifluently murmured "I am not afraid to speak in the shadow of the Starch Works. " Since that mem orable revelation made by the peerless prophet of the Platte , the Starch Works "shadow" has been expanded , at a cost of | 50,000 , to meet the necessities of Willie Bryan's increased political personality - sonality and he is welcome to come once more , vieing with Loie Fuller , and posture in that "shadow. " The sensible oiti- MORE NOT LESS. . zenship of Nebraska - ka wants more , not less , capital to come into the state , es tablish manufactories , pay out wages and convert raw products into commodi ties. That citizenship ought therefore to vote against Holleubeck and all the other nominees on the populist ticket a ticket supported by every Bryanarch- ist , communist , socialist and anarchist in Nebraska. Nebraska needs more , not less , incorporated capital engaged in manufacture. Call it in by voting against those who would .drive , it out.
