cbe Conservative.
In a majestic and
HOGS UP. nmstorful outburst
of oratory , the late
peerless populist candidate for the presi
dency , at Broken Bo\v , remarked : "I
hate to think that a farmer who be
lieves in silver , independence of govern
ment , and is against imperialism , will
vote the republican ticket because hogs
are up and wheat is high. " But how
long is it since , by declaring that hogs
would bo down and wheat low if a gold
standard was adhered to , he sought
votes , by bearing the markets ? And
now that hogs are up and corn , wheat ,
oats , and hay high , why should the
farmers , manufacturers , mechanics and
well-paid laborers generally be in favor
of a fallacious monetary system' , an
untried experiment in finance , recom
mended to them by a statesman of so
many words and so few deeds ? Why
should the American voter bo led into
new and untried financial paths by a
prophet in pin-feathers whose attempts
at forecasting have invariably resulted
in conviction for mendacity , mediocrity
as a truth-teller , or general incapacity
for correct statement of facts ?
The farmer who believes in silver at
16 to 1 as expounded in 1896 and 1900by
the talkingist of all the talkers who
have ever talked , is as rare in Nebraska
as native grown bananas. The farmer
who believes in a debased currency is
not doing business in this common
wealth.
The farmer who "believes in inde
pendence of government" is , however ,
very numerous hereabouts and he disbe
lieves in Bossooraoy either by Croker or
the man who said"GreatisTammany and
Oroker is its prophet ! " and he seems to
have been out on election day , Novem
ber , 1901 , all over Nebraska , depositing
ballots against all the vagaries , all the
utopianisms , all the sophisms which are
embodied in Bryanarchy , too independ
ent to be led by the nose or driven with
a switch in order that gain and glory
may accrue to the leader or driver.
The Nebraska farmer is against all
sorts of imperialism and especially in
imical to that pinchbeck kind , tnat
silver-plated variety of upstart imper
ialism which in a kingly way would set
up an empire of mere words and en
throne a despotism of platitudes to
govern the politics of this state.
The vote which elected Sedgwick to
the Supreme Court last week is a guar
antee that the dynasty of vainglorious
egotism and perpetual tongue-wagging
is tottering and that reason and patriot
ism may resume sway.
The whirlwind
MORE SPEAKING. campaign of the
peerless one dur
ing the ten days preceding the election ,
seems to have boon efficient in elimin
ating votes from the bologna-sausage
ticket at the rate of sixteen apostates
to each prophetic proclamation.
Nature is pretty
INDIAN QUESTION , sure in time to
take care of the
most troublesome problems. The
Indians have been bothering us
and we have been bothering
them for nearly throe hundred years ;
but nature Indian nature and white
nature has been working out a solu
tion all the time. In individual cases
wo have usually compromised on the
extermination of the Indian ; on a
largo scale , we have allowed that law
of nature to work which General Sher
man recognized , when he suggested
leaving unlimited quanities of whis
key whore the Indians could steal it ,
saying that they would all be dead in
a couple of years. Living at a dist
ance , as we do , wo are rather sorry
just at present for the Wiunebago
tribe in northern Nebraska , who it
seems are likely to be wiped out this
winter by the smallpox ; that same
agency that some 20 years ago removed
the "gentlemanly" Maudaus from
the list of existing nations. The
Winuebagos are dying pretty fast ,
and as they refuse to be vaccinated ,
it is not likely that anything will
stop the disease until there are no
more Indians on that reservation.
We made some friends among them
in Omaha in 1898 ; and we hate to
think of them , stripped of their
finery , dying in misery in their dingy
dwellings. We acknowledge , of
course that we know of no good that
they do in the world , and that our in
terest in them is purely sentimental.
Some scientific
CURIOUS IDEA , feller down east is
said to have fig
ured out , from statistics which
he has gathered , that we are all
tending towards the physical type
of the Amercian Indian. We
don't believe he knows what he is
talking about , if there is any such
man , because we don't believe any
such tendency would be perceptible
in any period for which there are
records ; the curve is too largo to be
apparent. But there might be reason
at the bottom of his idea , neverthe
less. If the American Indian type
was produced by its environment , the
same soil and climate would again
bring forth the same type , one would
imagine , out of any fresh material im
ported ; and our descendants of a thous
and years hence would have straight
black hair , high cheek bones and cop
per-colored hides. At the same time
our cousins who have settled in Afri
ca will have turned black and those in
Asia yellow.
Is it more than a coincidence that
the late Bishop Whipplo , lifelong mis
sionary to the Indians , had such strik
ingly Indian features as his pictures
representPaint him up and any body
would call him a remarkably fine look
ing Sioux chief.
It seems queer
AN AMERICAN to anyone famil-
IDEA. iar with factory
methods in this
country to read of the trouble
foreign employers have to keep
their men sober. . Apparently
there is no thought of employ
ing men who don't get drunk
all they can hope to do is to keep
enough of them sufficiently sober part
of the time to get their work done.
Holidays mean two or three days off ;
long enough to get good and drunk
and sober off again. One British firm
estimates its time-loss from this cause
at 20 per cent. This must be very
discouraging to a continental man
ufacturer , when added to his other
troubles. It explains a large part of
the advantage that American men
and methods have over their foreign
competitors. Every American work
ing man understands that he can't
hold his job long if he gets drunk ;
and it is no longer thought wonderful
if an employer , as some of the rail
roads do , refuse to hire any drinking
men at all. *
Is the State going
TOO FAR. too far when it
pays for producing
doctors and lawyers at the University
and certificates them as ready and com
petent to practice ? Is it the duty of the
State to expend five hundred dollars in
preparing a man to practice law or
medicine any more than it is the duty
of the State to present another man
five hundred dollars with which to
begin the grocery business or purchase
ten acres of land for a home ?
Since the repub-
IOWA. lican majority in
Iowa has been
about doubled by the religions adher
ence of the alleged democracy of that
state to the free coinage of silver , at the
ratio of sixteen to one , each member of
that bologna-sausage-like aggregation
may truthfully exclaim : "I owe a debt
of defeat to peerlessness in a leadership
of blab , gab and blather 1" Shall we
try fusion until confusion and refnsion
are made everlasting ?
Every town in
NEEDED. Nebraska needs one
or more citizens of
mature judgment who will cheerfully
take time and make efforts to guide , di
rect and aid decent young men and
self-reliant women to secure repu
table and remunerative employment.
The Conservative counts the satisfac
tion of thus aiding any capable persons
just starting in the fight of life , more
precious than much gold and great
wealth. It is infinitely solacing to
quietly enumerate the people whom one
has aided and a real comfort to admire
those whom one has helped to complete
success.
