Che Coneervac.
VOL IV. NO. 38. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , MARCH 27 , 1902 SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS'
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J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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A recent decision of
ANTI-TRUST the supreme court of
LAWS. .the United States
threw the anti-trust
law of Nebraska into "innocuous desue-
\Jude. ; " Evidently Judge Harlan and
other members of that judicial body had
never heard or' perfectly comprehended
the stupendous arguments against the
Starch trust in this state , as made by
the peerless Bryan , the smithless Smyth
and the antique Oldhani. Those dis
tinguished populists who in the fall of
1900 , at Syracuse in the state of Nebras
ka , originated the brilliant idea that a
fight by them against the best material
interests of the state would redound to
the glory of the conglomerate party
which they represented , have awakened
from a very bad case of nightmare.
They begin to realize now that this
' country does not desire to be Mexioan-
ized as to its currency , nor pulverized
, as to all of its manufacturing interests.
' The intension of that raid upon the
Starch works was to crush out one of
the largest , most productive and prom
ising industries in the entire common
wealth of Nebraska. The idea of the
development of a great material indus
try never entered into the sconces of
those rainbow-chasing statesman , and
/ therefore its destruction was a matter
to them of no consequence , except as a
means of advancing and elevating the
cause of all the financial and economic
v vagaries which they advocated.
But the Standard Oil Co. , the Nation
al Starch Co. , the Great Western Cereal
Co. , and scores of other equally import
ant concerns , continue to do business in
Nebraska , to extend the field of their
ft operations , and to add new glories to
the commercial and manufacturing
j interests of the commonwealth.
If Bryan , Smyth , Oldham and Com-
-
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! pany had been successful , every manu
facturing wheel in Nebraska would
stand still , the puff 0 $ the factory en
gine would be heard no more. To those
impraoticals the state was created for
the purpose of making offices , advancing
ignoramuses to emoluments , and certi
fying to the statesmanship of blowhards -
hards and talkers who have never in any
part of the commonwealth by their own
efforts added , a single dollar to its pro
ductive capabilities.
F i n a u ciers of
THE OBSTACLE. Missouri and Ne
braska arc con
sidering ways and means to navigate
the Missouri river from St. Louis to
Sioux City. Capital and energy are
not- wanting , and people along the
banks of the turbid stream unani
mously favor the scheme to make it
bear a burden of products toward the
sea , but there is strong opposition
from one quarter the river itself ,
which totally ignores the demands
of commerce , and stubbornly refuses
to work. There is a sentimentality
connected with river steam-boating
that surpasses even ocean trips , and
the people whose homes line the
shores of this turbulent stream have
an unaccountable longing to hear
again the long-drawn toot of the
steamboat siren , but as to the practi
cability of the scheme , residents of
Nebraska and Iowa , for' once , join
with the people of incredulous old
in " shown. ' '
Missouri asking to be
The man who
IMPERTINENCE , twice led his par
ty on to victory ,
in the face of what seemed over
whelming defeat , is accused by the
man who twice led his party on to
overwhelming defeat under circum
stances and conditions which seemed
to insure a glorious victory , of hav
ing " betrayed" the party. Betrayed
his party , by making a campaign in a
dignified manner becoming to the can
didate of a great political power ; be
trayed his party by being triumph
antly elected in opposition to the
strongest candidates of a well-organ
ized opposition ; betrayed his party
by giving his country a conservative ,
business-like administration which
is just beginning to be appreciated
over the laud , and will be looked upon
with favor after the last vapid utter
ance of school-boy statesmen has been
forgotten for a century ; betrayed his
party by warning it against dema
gogues , political heretics and unsafe
leaders who now have the imperti
nence to accuse him of betraying the
party they have themselves pushed
over the precipice by blind , unreas
oning adherence to policies and so-
called principles which civilization
looks upon with abhorrence , and be
nighted peoples are striving to rid
themselves of as rapidly as possible ;
betrayed his party by tearing the
mask of hypocrisy from the face of its
tradncer , and proving to the world
that the democratic party is not the
vehicle in which fanatical exhorters
or unprincipled political adventurers - I I
may take passage for the White
House ; betrayed his party by walking
to the polls and depositing an honest
ballot for honest government , and ' .
with probably 2,000,000 other demo
crats who loved their country above
mere party victory , administering to
one certain boy orator of the shallow ,
placid , smiling , useless , treacherous ,
wasteful , and crooked Platte , the
worst political drubbing ever inflict
ed upon an American candidate. If
that be treason , make the most of it.
It has heretofore
COMPLICATIONS , been supp9sed that
the patriots who
founded the American republic did
their work well , and that later gen
erations have strengthened , rather
tlian weakened the structure. But
complications have arisenand a crisis
is at hand. We have been forced to
the conclusion that after the year
1904 , the country will either be with
out an executive , or an inferior person
will fill that important position. The
prospective candidates for this office
have in turn submitted their creden
tials to the wiseacre at Lincoln , and
he has spurned them all. In turn he
has submitted his name to the people
upon two occasions , and the peop6
have with increasing vehemence de
clared him incapable.This "Mene
mene tekel upharsin" verdict is be
ing delivered with such monotonous
frequency that there is ground for a
grave apprehension that the people of
the United States have grown so good ,
so great , that no man can be found
to instruct or lead them ,
Sualified
an it be that we will bo forced to
import an executive from China or
some other favored clime where the
science of government is better un
derstood ?
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