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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1902)
Conservative. 5 r * lu his maiden UNCOMPLIs p o o o h Senator MENTARY. Dietrich argued that the Filipinos are surely friendly , because certain of the dusky senoritas danced with Gen eral Funston , Without touching upon the virtues of the astute gentleman's aigument , it is certainly no compli ment to Funstou's terpsichoreau abil ities to assert that to dance or not to dance with him is the crucial test of the mestizo belles' loyalty. A com mon mortal seems to see why a school girl might one-two-three over the waxed floor , even with Fuustou , with out Being particularly desirous of be ing annexed to the United States , but perhaps the perspicacious mind of the potent , grave and reverend legislator sees things that are not to us re vealed. Minister Wu Ting UNREASON- Fang , in his late im- ABLE. promptu debate with Ex-Mayor Phelanof San Francisco , advised the latter to "go away back off the earth and sit down , " which feat of aerial balancing the dig nified Californian discourteously refused to do. Mr. Wu certainly has room to be provoked that his countrymen , no matter of what grade or condition should be excluded from America , and for China to retaliate by excluding all Americans would be but simple justice , as it is no more proper for the two races to mix upon the other shore of the Pa cific than upon this side ; furthermore , if we have the right to appropriate a large proportion of the earth's surface for our own exclusive use , the Celestials certainly have a similar sovereignty over their own already sadly overpopulated lated domain. Yet we think it unrea sonable in Mr. Wu to ask an American of prominence to perform aerial contortions tions which to date have only been at | tempted by M. Santos Dnmont. I Prince Henry EXIT HENRY , has come and gone , taking with him many good wishes and pleasant evi dences of the esteem in which he is held by those who lately had the honor of entertaining him , and leav ing behind him as many pleasing re minders of his visit. Of all the many speeches with which he was regal.ed or bored while touring the country , that of Mayor Rose , of Milwaukee , stands out pre-eminently the best. While the prince was the recipient of fulsome flattery from some quarters , and no doubt the faint , distant cries of "flunkyism" and "toadyism" were wafted to his royal ears from other directions , Mayor Rose's speech is the golden mesne between the two extremes : snobbishness .and bigotry. Conceding to the .people of the Ger- manEmpiro their inalienable right to adopt and continue ( or , at least tolerate erate ) such form of government fas they may , Mr. Rose points proudly to American laws and institutions , and portrays the Yankee as "the ruler of his own djestiuy ; the king of his own fortune ; the lord of his own . ' ' The entire manor. speech rings with true patriotism , yet passes no criticism upon the peoples of other countries who are as loyr.l to their own forms of government , and those who execute them. , You have all AN OLD TRICK , seen the man who goe& to the circus simply because the children wish to see the elephant , and he has to go along to take care of the children , and many a woman has purchased corn salve or hair dye ' 'for a friend" which was surreptitiously used by herself. In this connection we quote the following from The Commoner : "A reader of The Commoner desires to know where he can find a book en titled'The Way Out of the Wilderness. ' If any one knows and will send the in formation to The Commoner on a postal card , it will be forwarded to the in quirer. " We suggest that inasmuch as it is possible that the "inquirer" is really not a myth , janjone having the book had best send two copies , as there is room for real apprehension that if only one is sent , it will never get out of The Com moner office. March 17 , 1903 , SIXTY-FIVE Ex-P resident YEARS OLD. Grover Cleveland j is sixty-five years of age. His political record as Mayor of Buffalo , Sheriff of Erie county , Governor of the state of New York , and President of the United States , "heightens as the years roll over it. There has been no man in public life in this country during the last one hundred years who has served the people with a more disinterested and patriotic purpose. Practical politi cians , trimmers , moral cowards , and opportunists generally , deserted Mr. Cleveland , because during his last ad ministration ho pronouncedly adhered to commercial freedom and honest money. Perhaps he ought to have vetoed the so-called Wilson Bill ? It was not like him to permit the bill to become a law without either vetoing or without signing it. The judgment of the editor of The Conservative was against permitting the bill to become a law at all and .in favor of its veto. Subsequent events seem to ratify and approve that judgment. Few men , however , can celebrate a birthday this , year with a more ap proving conscience than can Grover Cleveland , and few Americans com mand so universally the respect , and admiration and confidence of the best citizenship of the republic of the United States. Mr. Aster's al- THANKLESS loged remark that BENEFICIARIES , no man can bo a gentleman with out a college education , is rebuked by the Chicago Record-Herald in these words "Poor Lincoln : Washington , poor coln , poor old John Jacob Astor , the fur peddler. " Cornelius Vanderbilt was once taken to task by his daughter who protested against his habit of tipping his hat to a certain lady , whom the daughter was pleased to describe as ig norant and illiterate. The young pre ceptress wound up her lecture by , saying , "Father , in future you do not know her. " "But I do know her , " re plied this gentleman of the old school. "I have known her ever since the days when her mother used to buy oysters of your mother. " It was the old Asters and the old Vauderbilts , without college educations , who laid the foundations for the fortunes which have reared themselves with little aid from the pres ent generation of golf enthusiasts and yachting experts. Are not these pioneer financiers and gentlemen who had no capital other than stout hearts and wil ling hands entitled to a mite of consid eration ? However , The Conservative is not inclined to criticise Mr. Astor , for we are firmly convinced that ho is too level-headed to make such a remark , but is probably the victim of modern sallow - hued journalism. "But while Mr. Astor is probably innocent of making any such foolish statement , there are other sous of sturdy fathers who are fond of waving their sheep-skin diplomas ahead of them wherever they go , and loudly proclaiming that a man without a col lege education is but half a man , while as'a matter of fact there is scarcely one one of them but traces his lineage back' to some long-headed old tradesman with iron in his blood , and whoso business and social education was begun in , the little red school house , and finished in that greatest of all schools the world. AN ERROR. Through the accidental mingling of a private letter with a communica- ation . for publication , an article in last week's Conservative was improp erly credited to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Morton , for which we wish to beg the forgiveness of all parties interested , and on account of which we are willing to have the entire force of employees lectured by the first man wo meet who . has never made a mistake.