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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1902)
The Conservative. Many of the pop- THE GOVERNulists and quite a ORSHIP. number of other , Bryanarohists i n this state nro selecting candidates for the governorship. The election trans pires next autumn. These early birds are expected to gobble the worms of nomination. However , their cater pillars and other crawling grubs stand very little chance of transformation into winged and brilliant butterflies. A small minority A PART of the American BIGGER THAN people are engaged THE WHOLE. in the manufacture of sugar. All the American people use sugar. The Ox- nards and other patriotic producers of sugar desire the law made so as to benefit - \ ' \ efit themselves by making sugar higher I * to all the masses ; that is to say , in po litical economy it is right enough by statute to make a part of the commun ity more important and powerful than all of the community. Everybody who uses sugar must be taxed , according to these learned patriots , for the purpose of enriching those who make sugar. Thus the mathematical absurdity that ' "a part is greater than the whole" is to be established , ratified , and sanctified by the statute-spawners in congress. The patriotic Ox- SWEET SUGAR. nards and other al leged philanthropists - ' pists engaged in making sugar out of beets are very solicitous lest cheap sugar from Cuba reduce "the profits on beet sugar. Sugar has" a specific purchasing power ; it will buy money only of those who want sugar. Cuban sugar is said to be the product of cheap labor and cheap capital and that , therefore , it is impossible for American beet sugar to profitably compete with it in American markets. But Mr. Oxnard and his coparceners do not object to Australian gold coming into the United States , al- 1 though it is , like Cuban sugar , the re- suit of cheaper labor and cheaper cap ital combined than can be secured in this republic. Gold has a universal , instead - stead of a specific , purchasing power. ' It-Will buy anything that is for sale in the United States or elsewhere in the civilized world. Why should laws be L-y made to shut out sugar on the grounds named ; and no law be made to shut out foreign , cheaply-made gold ? The first has only a specific purchasing power 'and the second a general purchasing power. Tomorrow's issue WILL STATE , of the Commander will declare that David Bennett Hill of New York is in noways connected with the'"everlasting hills" spoken of in scripture. The lat ter family are all in favor of the ever astiug nomination of Colonel William Jennings Bryan to the presidency. No other family of hills will bo permitted representation in the Chicago and Kan sas City renaissance which is to mate rialize for the Third Battle in 1904. No delegates will be permitted seats in that sauhedrin except those who originally favored the ratification of the Paris treaty with Spain and subsequently re pudiated the results of that treaty. Nor will any person be admitted to the councils of that third-time nominating convention except those who adhere zealously to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. "Six-sevenths of SOCIALISM AND the IP borer's earu- ANARCHY. ings are absorbed by his employers. " "If you don't vote right this fall , you will not vote at all in 1904 ; your ballots will wad the guns which shoot you down. " These words fell upon the writer's ear as he entered a knot of men upon a street corner , and he foolishly thought that he was listening to an an archist. He was mistaken , for it was pointed out to him that anarchistic and socialistic doctrines are absolutely the opposite. Yes , the opposite in theory , one be ing based upon the proposition that there should be no government , the other that the government should be everything. But while there is this marked dissimilarity in the two schools' theory , practically they work toward a common end. Socialism is the preparatory school wherein the formerly contented laborer learns to hate and envy his employer , who was probably once as poor as him self , but whose rise was accomplished by industrious effort and careful atten tion to the interests of his emplrers ; no man ever rose while standing upon the streets cursing the government , the capitalists in general and his own em- ployerin particular. Anarchy is merely the advanced grade wherein this same pupil's hand is nerved to do the bidding of his frenzied : brain and avenge the fancied injuries of which he has been told in botli schools. While innocenl enough in theory , socialism is equally responsible with anarchy for the crimes against government. The same work man who will turn with abhorrence from the suggestion of the employment of dynamite or dagger , may be'begnilec into the socialistic school and there taught the vicious untruth that either labor or capital must be throttled When he has acquired sufficient hatrec for his employer and contempt for his government , he is ripe for promotion into the anarchistic school to ultimately graduate upon the scaffold , while the sleek agitator , the meek exponent of law and order , the high-collaredwhite handed , black-hearted "working-man' who from the street-corner goods-box preached him his first pernicious doc- Tine , led him his first step toward des- ruction , still plays the same old game upon the streets and in the dark alleys , combing contentment from the minds of lis hearers and planting malice in its stead , teaching formerly contented men the discipline of ruin , instilling into heir minds the principles which fit ; hem for earthly suffering and eternal lamnation. This man is the "laborer's friend , " the innocent , well-meaning socialist , so different from an anarch ist. Out of the coffers THE TER of the hater of RIBLE TURK. Christians must come the ransom price paid for the release of Miss Stone , tt is another reading of the riddle : "Out of the eater came forth meat ; out of the strong came forth sweetness. " To collect the money , will , however , de mand the best diplomacy of the state de partment , and probably necessitate a naval demonstration of considerable di mensions , as the Forte gives up goldenly only at the cannon's mouth. Meanwhile Miss Stone will confer a favor if she will kindly consent to remain captured by the Missionaries , as it is feared that a repetition of her recent escapade , will seriously cripple the Turk's financesand compel him to adopt extreme measures in order to force the money out of the Christians within his domain , which is the mussulman's method of settling these little matters. Governor Taf t esti WILY MOR- mates the number of ROS. slaves held in the Philippines to be about 25,000. He contends that the Americans are gradually acquiring an influence that will eventually result in freeing all of them , but says that to at tempt to emancipate them by force would draw the fire of both masters and slavesas the latter have been under sub jection so long that to them "liberty" is a strange wordand they will have none of it. According to Governor Taft , the commission at one time made prepara tions to purchase all the slaves and set them free , but encountered an unex pected and exceedingly peculiar obsta cle. The Malays caught a scent of what was brewing , and every man jack of them announced himself as a slave , and some of them went so far as to actually play the part , in order to get themselves sold to the white man , as they saw a chance to finger some of the Americanos pesos which their pseudo masters were to be paid for their pretended release. To those familiar with Malay character , this move on the part of the wily peons seems characteristicbut what is wanting in the governor's report is the day and date when the shackles will be stricken from the wrists and ankles of these people ple , whether they will or no.
