YOLIV. N0..37. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , MARCH 20,1902 , SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS
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J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska
City , Nebraska.
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cation.
Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City ,
Neb. , as Second Class matter , Julv 29 ,
A citizen who seems to
HANDY have the good of the ooun-
MONEY. try at heart , as most oiti ;
A J zens have , has devised a
I , new method of sending small sums
I through the mails , with little inconven-
Y ienoe to sender or receiver. Bills simi
lar to the present one , two and five dollar
lar paper , are issued by the government ,
exactly upon the present plan. Upon
the face of each are two dotted linesthe
use of which we will explain further
on. At first the money may be circu
lated in the ordinary way , but when it1
becomes necessary for a small amount to
be sent through the mails , instead of
spending $2 worth of time in the pur
chase of a $1 postoffioe order , you have
merely to open your wallet , take out a
bill , insert in one of the blank spaces
the name of the person to whom you
wish payment to be made , sign your
name in the blank line below , attach
and cancel a 2-cent internal revenue
stamp , and there you have a perfect
mode of transmitting money , as safe as
a draft , as it will only be redeemed upon
the identification of the person presenting -
* ing it at a bank window. The money
\ | J having reached the payee , it is endorsed
r ; * by him , offered and accepted at the
, HI bank , and in due course of time sent to
I { * the United States treasury , where it is
i destroyed and a new note issued in its
II stead , the government having already
been reimbursed for its trouble by the
money received for the revenue stamp
attached by the payor. This is no
"wild-cat" money scheme ; it does not
increase the circulation ; it in no wise
conflicts with the system now in vogue ,
but it seems to offer a safe , convenient
way of transmitting money through the
mails , and as the average American
business man is either too busy or too
azy to purchase the money orders now j
in use , it is possible that the genius who
invented the scheme will in future be
mown as a public benefactor. Will
some one kindly point out' the defects ?
Governor Savage ,
AT BAY ! after being trailed for
many weary weeks
by the crying pack of immaculate Re
publican editors , has turned at bay , and
lias already severely gashed a brace of
his tormentors. The State Journal
having maintained a discreet silence in
its editorial columns , but allowed its
exchange columns to serve as the sewer
through which flowed the spewings of a
bilious country press , the governor.calls
attention to the fact that in the list of
signers to the petition praying for the
pardon Hartley , appear the talismanio
names of the Journal's corps of opinion-
moulders , philosophers , poets and para-
graphers.
M. A. Brown , editor of the Kearney
( Neb. ) Hub , having been intemperate in
his denunciation of the governor's
course , and having with extreme dis
courtesy , published a personal letter
written to him by the latter asking for
a private conversation and an opportuni
ty to justify the pardon , Mr. Savage
in a letter to the public in general , and
Mr. Brown in particular , informs the
people that the chaste editor of the vir
tuous Hub borrowed nearly $14,000 from
a bank in which state funds had been
deposited , and suggests that Mr. Brown
pay the bank , that the 'bank may pay
Bartley , and Bartley reimburse the
state.
There are other Browns in Nebraska
and all of them are in the. pack that is
yapping on the governor's trail ; some
of them will be sore about the ribs be
fore the game is brought to bag.
Which man do you think the more
worthy of public sympathy , he who
weakly trusted those who came to woo
from him the funds within his vaults , or
he who with fair promises and under
false pretenses of fidelity secured pos
session of the people's cash , and now
advances the statutes of limitations in
estoppel , at the same time bawling for
the punishment of the state treasurer
who merely opened the door and allowed
them to take what they wanted , trust
ing them to return it in time to prevent
loss to the state , and disgrace to himself
and family ? Such a situation leads one
to doubt that there really is honor
among gentlemen.
Miss Roosevelt hav-
DIVERTBD ing insisted upon at-
FIRB. tending the corona
tion as Alice Roosevelt
velt , of Washington , D. 0. , and the en
thusiastic British peers having obsti
nately persisted in their determination
to receive her as the Princess Alice , of
the United States of America , the
young lady with a willfulness truly
Rooseveltian , has decided not to go at
all , which has caused a horde of politi
cal gunners to draw their charges of
heavy shot intended for the presidential
family , and reload their guns with
grape and canister , intended to scatter
sufficiently to strike all American spec
tators at the royal show , including
Whitelaw Reid and his already "famous
coronation trousers.
The good , old , col
ANOTHER ored divine had lost
COMPLIMENT. his umbrella , and
from the pulpit he
announced the crime and electrified his
congregation by announcing that he-
knew the thief. "Now , " said the indig
nant evangelist , suddenly producing a
large stone from his capacious coat-tail
pocket , "I's gwine swat dat man wid
dis yer rock. " A deacon in the front
row ducked his head and raised his
elbow. , The unanimous verdict of the
congregation was "guilty. ' '
In The Conservative's treatment of
Congressman Wheeler's late insult to
the German as well as the American
people , the editor asserted that there
were people other than Wheeler , who
needed lambasting. There was a head
ducked and an elbow upraised away out
at Upland wherever that may be , if it
be anywhere the contortionist being
one F. K. Willoughby whoever he may
be , if he be anybody who writes as the
duly accredited representative of what
he calls the "common push" of Upland.
As there is a confliotion between the re
liable American history which we have
at hand , and the Uplaudish and out
landish history furnished us by this in
tellectual champion of Uplauderdom's
unshackled oommon-pushocracy , The
Conservative has decided to allow its re
marks to stand , content with the sooth
ing reflection that it has smoked out
this admirer of Wheeler's self-cooking
jingoism , besides receiving many com
pliments and congratulations npon the
article in question from full-fledged
American citizens , who are neither Up-
lauders , Outlanders nor "common push"
reasoners or anti-reasoners.