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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1902)
)2 ) 'Cbe Conservative , Ward's Horn of Plenty Our famous no'middlemen system of providing all the luxuries and necessities of life has been adopted by two million people who appreciate our ability to help them make four dollars do the work of five. THE HORN OF PLENTY IS OPEW TO YOU-WILL YOU TRY IT ? ANNOUNCEMENT The spring and summer edition of our catalogue No. 7O will be ready March 15th. It will be the finest and most complete book of its kind ever pub * lished , containing over ltOOO pages and I7OOO illustra * fions. It costs us almost a dollar to publish and distribute this catalogue , but we will send it to you for ISc , by mailer or express prepaid JUmost any family can save $ IOO.QO a year by having our catalogue. Send for it today and enclose IS cents to partially pay postage or expressage. If you already have our No. 7O catalogue don't send for another as we intend to mail you the supplement mentioned below. IF YOU HJtVE ORDERED goods front us In the past year , we tvltl send you a. lOO'page supplement containing all additions to our stock since JVo. 7O catalogue was Issued. It will not be necessary for you to ask for this supplement as we want you to have It and will send It anyway. IF YOU HJtVE NEVER ORDERED goods from us or had our big cata logue , send ISc today and get our latest , It's the key to the door of prosperity. Montgomery Ward fr Co. , Chicago The House thmt tells the truth. special private interests have manufac tures been retarded , while , as a rule , such specially protected arts have led a fitful and feverish existence , subject to constant fluctuation and frequent fail ure. In wool and woolen industry , ad verse conditions still exist. It is impos sible to establish and maintain woolen and worsted manufactures without the untaxed import of * the wools of the world. The more foreign wool we have the more domestic wool wo may use. It is a matter of climate , soil , and con ditions. "Wo may ultimately become exporters of wool of many kinds when the protection of intelligence is extend ed throughout our laud , and the evil in fluence of indirect efforts to grant boun ties is removed. In proof of the truth of the general principle that high relative wages are the consequent or correlative to the low labor cost of production , and not the an tecedent , it is only necessary to cite the facts in regard to our present exports. We are now exporting crude , partly manufactured , and finished goods of every typo to every part of the world , except those products which are burden ed with heavy taxes on necessary ma terials of foreign origin. We are ex porting cotton and cotton fabrics , corn , cordage , wheat and flour , provisions , machinery and metallic products of every kind , clocks , watches , and mis cellaneous articles. If the rate of i | wages governed the cost of labor in the product , not one dollar's worth of any of these goods could leave our shores. The earnings of the Fellaheen of Egypt and the Ryots of India are not one- fourth , the earnings of the laborers in cotton fields one-tenth including our , hardly - , cluding Russia , those of the laborers in rt. " our wheat fiVlds ; yet our cotton and our wheat constitute the chief supply of the world. The cotton of Egypt , limited in quantity by the area of available laud , fills a temporary place in competi tion with ours because it is ginned , prepared , baled and sent to market in a condition that puts our former methods to shame. When our southern cotton growers give equal attention to quality and preparation as they have given to quantity , we shall cease to depend upon Egypt even for the cotton needed in our finest work. When the cur dog is sup pressed and the attention of intelligent men is given to sheep "breeding on the cotton-fields of the Piedmont district , wool will be protected. We will the'n compete on more than even terms with the semi-barbarous methods of the ranches of Australia and the pampas of South America. AN INTERESTING RELIC. The following letter is self-explana tory , and The Conservative gladly gives to its readers a few extracts from the old Mormon book which Mr. Harder's generosity has placed in our hands : St. George , Utah , Feb. 23 , 1902. The Conservative , Nebraska City , Neb. Dear Sir : In tearing down a portion tion of an old adobe house built by one of the earliest Mormon emi grants , I found a portion of a book which includes some' experience of traveling in Nebraska in 1852. The sketch of the river at Omaha , Council Bluffs , the account of Winter Quarters ( Florence ) and description of the road through , now to mo familiar portions of Nebraska , I found quite interest- ing.From From this same source I am much surprised to learn that in 1853 the Mormons had in Salt Lake , a beet sugar factory that gave a daily out put of- two and one-half tons of sugar. I enclose the pages regarding' Ne braska. Respectfully , ' - H. H. HARDER. -3 ' ya Some Extracts. "Tho company being ready , wo drove down to Ferryville , or Council Bluffs ferry , 12 miles distant from and immediately opposite Winter Quar ters , at which point wo crossed the Missouri river. The ferry boats are flat-bottomed and large enough to car ry 2 wagons. The starting point is usually chosen at a considerable dis tance up the stream so that the cur rent may assist in convoying the boats to the opposite side of the river. The camping place on the west side of the riyer was about a mile from the lauding , in the vicinity oftwo * springs and near the site of Winter Quarters. I paid a visit to the old place and found that some person had set fire to the last house that remained of the once flourishing settlement. From an elevation near by I made a sketch of Council Bluffs and the Missouri river. ' ' "It was decided by Elders Miller and Cooley that we would start on the 9th of Juno. Operations wore com menced by yoking the refractory cat tle , and initiating the green-horns into the art and mystery of teaming. Elder Miller was hero and there and everywhere giving untrained teams and teamsters many practical illus trations of the art. 'Geoing' 'and 'hawing' was most forcefully taught and of course learned , in.proportion