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VOL. IV. NO. 40. NEBRASKA CITY , NEBRASKA , APRIL 10 , 1902 SINGLE COPIES , 5 CENTS :
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATER BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON. EDITOR.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION
OF POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL
QUESTIONS.
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Address , THE CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska
City , Nebraska.
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cation.
Entered at the postoffice at Nebraska City ,
Neb. , as Second Class matter. July 29. 1898.
Man is a slave to
USELESS habit. Aside from
BOYCOTT. his intemperate
habits , he becomes
attached to particular customs , and
long association with localities or
neighborhoods grows in him a love
for these spots , and he is loath to
give them up. This sentiment ,
worthy as it may be , is the source of
some annoyance to the postoffice de
partment , and causes some' opposition
to the rural delivery system. Often
the establishment of a route does
away with the necessity for some
obscure postoffice , the regular patrons
of which resent the innovation ,
even the convenience of sending and
receiving mail at their own door-step
failing to recompense them ade-
quatelv for the loss of their ac
customed evening trip to the post-
office store , there to wait for the
mail , meanwhile exchanging neigh
borhood gossip and crop predictions ,
in an atmosphere freighted with the
mingled odors of tobacco smoke and
dried codfish. In some instances the
carrier has been boycotted , and those
who were expected to be his patrons
have been known to drive a dozei
miles once a week for several months ,
in a hopeless effort to force the aban
donment of the route , and the re
establishment of the abandoned post
office. Postmasters thrown out
of employment by the in
novation , also suffering from a
loss of trade in the little store whicl
they usually run in connection
throw their personal popularity into
the balance and carry on a campaigi
of extermination against the car
riers. On the site of an abandoned
office called Luce , Nebraska , the inspector
specter found forty-five mail boxe
placed side by side and yawning for
; he freight of mail which the com
munity had been accustomed to re-
eive at Luce and proposed to con-
iinue receiving at Luce , carriers or
10 carriers. Nevertheless , a few
veeks of useless antagonism to the
ystem , and pouting over the demise
of the hamlet postoffice , usually
uffices , aud one by one the farmers
earn that they are vastly benefitted
jy the change , and withdraw their
opposition. Meanwhile , though the
people of Luce may be convinced that
ihey are causing the postmaster-gen
eral to regret that the system was
ever introduced , lie is probably bliss
fully unconscious that there ever was
such an office , but is fully aware that
; here are some people in that neigh-
jorhood to whom he is delivering
mail , whether they receive it allen
on one acre of land or on forty-five
different sections.
Carrie Nation
COWARDICE , visited Nebraska
City , and made the
rounds of its saloons or started to.
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One bartender failed to be impressed
witli her ideas , and engaged in an
altercation with her upon the virtues
of a work of art displayed behind the
bar. In the resulting fracas Carrie
was , in the saloon parlance ,
"bounced" ignominiously , and upon
reaching cue pure ar/mospnore outsiao
averred that she had been struck
twice in the face , and thrown out
with more violence than the circum
stances warranted.
This we are assured by severa'
citizens with elastic consciences ant
convenient memories , -was only one 01
Mrs. Nations's hallucinations , for ii
the first place the bartender missed
her both times ; in the second place
he did not strike at her at all ; and
in the third place he was not in towi
when the fight occurred. As to his
throwing her out violently , we are
assured that ho did nothing of the
kind ; that he being a courteous gen
tleman simply escorted her to the
door. It is said that he even pulled
back a trifle.
However that may bo Mrs. Nation'
nose was bumped in some manner
and she was so severely shocked tha
when she appeared at the bar o
justice to answer for the heinou
crime of having been whipped , sh
ergot to call the judge any hard
lames , and seemed only too glad to
vail herself of the twenty minutes
allowed in which to leave the city.
Now this may or may not be a fair
ample of the strenuous daily life of
his most strenuous woman , but it is
an instance in which there were
horns in her path. When on the
treet , or in the church , you hear a
trong , well-groomed , well-built man
express admiration for Mrs. Nation
and her work , just pass the word to
lim that it does not become a man to
stand in the background and hiss on
a grey-headed woman to do the work
ic is afraid to undertake. If he be
a clergyman , say to him that if he
) elieves that men can be turned from
heir evil ways with a stone , or that
people may be brought to Christ with
a hatchet , it is his duty to adopt
; hose weapons at once. Such work
as that should only be attempted by
able-bodied men , and theirs should
be the right to suffer the gibes ,
slurs , threats , beatings and im
prisonments connected with it.
The Texas anti-
ANOTHER. trust law , of which
we have heard so
much , has gone the way of all anti
trust laws , and joined the great ma
jority. Like the ineffective laws of
Illinois and Nebraska , the Texas law ex
empted stock and agricultural concerns
from the provisions of the act , wnion
section vitiates the entire law. "When
farmer legislators learn that the stat
utes of a state are not constructed for
their special benefit , and that a trust is
no less a trust because the stock in
trade chances to be live stock or farm
products , laws may be enacted which
will regulate or restrain combines ; but
so long as one class of men choose to
deny other classes the identical priv
ileges which they are so careful to se
cure to themselves , nothing can be ac
complished in this line.
Having made ab-
REFORMED j e c t apologies to
AGAIN. Thomas Jefferson ,
proved an alibi from
the recent Louisville meeting of Allied
Cranks of America and considerately
refrained from making any comment
upon the subject of barns , Mr. Allen is
again on the road to royal favor. It be
gins to look as though ho has been "dis
solved and absorbed. "
