10 Conservative ,
WINTER WHEAT IN NEBRASKA.
' ' A great man is one who looks into
the future , perceives its needs and
has the force of character necessary to
accomplish that which brings about
the desired results , ' ' remarked Arthur
B. Smith , who recently resigned as
asisstant general passenger agent of
the Burlington route. ' ' A man who
causes two blades of grass to grow
where one grew before is the best
kind of a benefactor. This fact is forc
ibly impressed upon me in studying
the estimates of the 1901 crops of Ne
braska. The saving clause is : 'Winter
wheat , 50,000,000 bushels. ' And it
was only ton years ago that practically
no winter wheat was grown in Ne
braska and not much of any variety.
We were then a corn community
absolutely.
"If the citizens of Nebraska could
realize how much they owe to the
foresight and force of character of
one man , they would honor him even
more than they do. This man is Dr.
George L. Miller , who for years has
been going about doing good to his
fellow men. In the spring of 1890 I
was called into the office of General
Manager Holdrege , and there met Dr.
Miller , who submitted this proposi
tion : First , winter wheat is success
fully grown east of us , beginning with
New York and extending westward
between the same parallels ; second ,
the soil of Nebraska ( which he had
carefully analyzed ) has the qualities
necessary for raising it ; third , the
climate hero is adapted to its pro
duction. His reasoning was by anal
ogy , and it has since been abundant
ly proved. At that time the need of
diversified crops in Nebraska was
great , but notwithstanding this need
the plan of growing wheat proposed
by Dr. Miller was regarded by every
one as altogether impracticable. After
a full discussion , Mr. Holdrege , al
ways optimistic and ready to try any
thing which win benefit Nebraska , de
cided to thoroughly investigate it. On
a trip through the state made shortly
after , I asked a great many farmers
what they thought about it. All
r' shook their heads and said : ' Im
possible ! Winter wheat can't be
raised in Nebraska. The climate is
wrong ; there is not snow enough and
the soil is not adapted to it. '
Demonstration a Success.
"It was a discouraging report I
brought back , but 'Dr. Miller's faith
was unshaken. With the earnest co
operation of Mr. Holdrege , several ex
perimental farms'were established and
winter wheat was planted , but with
press drills , instead of being sown
broadcast as before. This manner of
seeding was a revolution to Nebras-
kaus. The wheat put in that fall took
deep root , grow and lived through the
winter in good condition. The next
July a large yield gave joy to all in
terested in the development and pro
gress of this state. Winter wheat had
beyond a doubt been established as
a Nebraska crop.
"Then came more hard work , in
which Dr. Miller was especially en
ergetic. He addressed state and county
agricultural societies , setting forth
the need of diversified crops , the cer
tainty of a winter wheat crop and the
desirability of proclaiming the good
news. The benefits of his work as
sisted by the press and the Burling
ton railroad can now be fully esti
mated. My part 'in these meetings
was with the dry statistics , showing
what had been done at the experiment
al farms and therefore what could be
done by anyone.
' ' To understand the increase of the
wheat crop in this state , it is only
necessary to glance at these figures :
Year. Acres. Bushels.
1890 995,950 9,103,601
1891 1,205,350 18,080,000
1899. . . , . . 2,574,360 29,333,914
1900 2,721,517 39,701,635
1901 ( estimated ) 50,000,000
In 1890 , nearly all spring wheat ; in
1891 , partly winter wheat ; in 1899 more
winter wheat : in900 and 1901 , nearly
all winter wheat.
' ' This year the partial failure of our
corn crop illustrates very fully the
value of winter wheat to Nebraska
and the wonderfully beneficent work
of the man with foresight. The good
that men do lives after them , and the
waving fields of winter wheat in Ne
braska will ever be a monument to
one of the state's greatest bene
factors. ' ' Omaha Bee.
TEACHERS OF MALICE.
[ FoR THE CONSERVATIVE. ]
The death of President McKinley is
not directly chargeable to any political
party or individual other than the
assassin Gzolgosz.
There , however , can be no question
as to the nature , effect and tendency of
slanderous utterances , directed at law ,
government and society.
It is surprising that in Nebraska ,
where every form of treasonable lan
guage and violence of speech has been
coined and used to further the ambition
of political parasites and plain people
sycophants , that some of the seeds of
anarchistic teachings have not fallen on
one whose narrow brain is already
soaked in the poison of anarchy , or the
diappointments of a political insanity.
The awful "crime of ' "
78 , the de
struction of law , order and government
by a simple court process called "in
junction , " the crucifixion of the plain
common people on a "cross of gold , "
the robbery of the poor "voters" by the
rich plutocrats , the hopeless gospel of
despair preached by the Peerless Apostle
of political revolutions ; and utterances
of this character , so numerous that no
book could contain them all , together
with dishonest and dishonorable teach
ings , have left their deep , dark , deadly
marks and baneful influence on thous
ands of previously honest , honorable
and peaceful citizens. No one can esti
mate the moral and financial injury
done by these political mountebanks to
thousands of their deluded and mis
guided followers.
Men who otherwise would have done
their duty and remained in the State of
Nebraska , during the drouth and panic ,
keeping their small holdings in cattle
and chattels , were driven to despair by
these ranting hypocrites , and tosell
their cattle for little or nothing , and
worse still , made to believe they were
on the verge of "moral , political and
financial ruin , " Hundreds of these
men under the sinister spell of these
mercenary demagogues and political
poltroons , were discouraged and incited
to leave good homes and seek homes
abroad , only to return later on at a
great sacrifice , to retrieve their losses ,
caused by these anarchistic teachings.
Those who remained in Nebraska , keep
ing their homes and small holdings in
cattle , are in good financial condition
today. Many others of those driven
from their homes by these political
assassins of their honor and credit , have
since returned and rebuilt and redeemed
from debt their homes. Others were
never able to get back , having spent
their all , and have only those to blame
who counselled them to despair. No
one who lived through that period
of gloom and despair , wrought into ex
istence by these windy ranters , can
deny one word of these statements.
Men who teach repudiation , who teach
others to violate their sacred obliga
tions , who teach it is right for the
debtor to cheat , beat and defraud the
creditor ; who teach the borrower to
hate the banker , the laborer to hate the
employer , who teach government by
"injunction , " who teaches that he is
the only political Christ and there is no
other , who teaches anarchists to vote
for this savior , who teaches that the
Supreme Court are paid hirelings of the
money power , who teaches Altgeld and
Tillman , who teaches money is half
fiction , who teaches there will be no
more Fourth of Julys , no more songs of
"My Country 'Tis of Thee , " who
teaches the few are getting rich and are
getting fewer , that the poor are getting
poorer and the rich are getting richer ,
who teaches all kinds of false proph
ecies , paradoxes , paraphrases , parables
and paramounts. Who teaches the
doctrine of hate and envy of classes.
He is the greatest Dr. Hyde and Jeckel
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politics has yet produced. Who teaches
the populist party , who teaches the Kan
sas City Convention the platform to