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A FIRM STAND , ohango doubts Gov
ernor Taf t , and
wishes to know what stand the
Manila press takes. He is informed
that the Manila press , irrespective of
party affiliations , experiences some
difficulty in standing at all. With a
ball and chain attached to each leg ,
and the provost marshal's sedition
club held over its head , the Manila
press sits down in a dark corner , to
rise when it is ordered to and stand
where it is told.
Mayor Seth Low
WELL DONE , is doing things. To
an outsider it seems
a very small matter for a mayor to
close the dives of a city on the Sab
bath , but to the person who pauses to
consider that in New York the sys
tem of bribery and blackmail must be
overthrown , that police commission
ers , district overseers , captains and
thousands of patrolmen must stand
shoulder to shoulder in the fight to
throw off the yoke of servitude and
stand forth as guardians of the law ,
rather than abettors of crime , the
entire success of the attempt to give
New York a "dry" Sunday seems
little less than marvelous. If the
fusion administration accomplishes
nothing more , this practical illustra
tion of the fact that New York can
be well governed , is a long stride
toward real and lasting reform , and
presages the ultimate triumph of the
fusion administration over the heel
ers and grafters who have for years
absorbed the greater part of the
( * municipal taxes , and demanded tri
bute from thousands of evil-doers
who plied their vocations under the
protecting arm of the officers whose
sworn duty it was to bring them to
justice.
The Gonserva-
A HINT TO tive takes great
THE WISE. pride in the fact
that many of its
patrons preserve each copy for refer
ence , and in order to make this work
easy for them , wo have provided neat
files made especially for this journal
and bearing the name of the publica
tion across the front in large gilt
letters. The files are very handsome ,
and are so ingeniously constructed
that when full they look exactly like
a bound volume fit to grace any
library shelf.
We are often asked to replace old
numbers which have been lost or
mislaid , and while we are always
more than willing to accommodate
such appreciative readers , it is often
impossible to do so. With the file in
use , each number is placed in it as
soon as read , the volume is always
ready for use , and there is no possi
bility of losing a single page.
The Conservative does not care for
any profit upon the sale of this useful
article , its only object being to
furnish appreciative readers with the
means of preserving a complete file ,
at small cost. Price $1.00 to any
regular subscriber.
At every meet-
AN EASY WAY. ing of a state leg
islature , in any
of the western states , bills to abate
the noxious weed nuisance are intro
duced and usually one is passed.
Farmers always take great interest in
the movement to suppress the sun
flower , and many dollars have been
taken from slender road funds and
paid over to the destroyer of these
rank and lawless weeds.
Of course the modern habit of
regulating everything by law , in
stead of by the employment of a little
ingenuity , is hard to break off , but
if farmers will for this season forget
that there is such a clause as "be it
enacted , " and simply sow alfalfa , or
some equally hardy and profitable
product along the roadways , the sun
flower nuisance will abate itself ,
roadways will look neat and cheerful
and a few more dollars will rattle
into the farmer's till. This remedy ,
because of its simplicity , escapes the
vision of the modern law-worshipper ,
who persists in bringing scientific
knowledge and legal lore to bear
upon the evils which a little common
sense easily overcomes.
And now Eugene
CHILDISH CRITICS. F. Ware has
drawn the fire of
the preturnaturally good. They ac
cuse him of being an atheist , and
roundly score the President for hav
ing taken into his official household a
person who refuses to accept the or
thodox doctrine. All this because Mr.
Ware caused one of his characters to
say :
"For I don't believe a thing
Of the stories that are told
Of the miracles of old. "
Admitting that this is at least rank
heresy , it may be contended that so
long as Dickens was not punished for
the murder of "Bill Syncs' " much
abused "Nancy , " Scott was not
taken to task for the crimes com
mitted by his reckless " Eisingham , "
Oooper has never been placed in the
dock for the destruction of the
lamented Mohicans , and Dumas
escaped the wheel and guillotine
though the dark deeds of the crea
tures of his fertile imagination 611
many volumes , Ware may hope to
escape being punished for the unor
thodox utterances of his "Washer
woman , ' ' a person who existed only in
his own imagination.
The mayors of
STAND UP FOR several Nebraska
NEBRASKA. cities have been
requested to co
operate with an eastern innocent who
labors under the delusion that Nebraska
lias not a sufficient supply of eligible
femininityaud is preparing to introduce
a job lot of shelf-worn eastern females
with matrimonial aspirations.
This insinuation against the loveliness ,
lovmgness and lovability of the rosy-
cheeked daughters of the prairie is re
ceived with contempt , for the Nebraska
girl does not fear competition , nor ask
for a protective tariff or subsidy to en
able her to control the home market.
Nebraska has girls to marry , and
they marry whenever the spirit moves
them. Those who remain single do so
because they prefer single blessedness
to double querimonionsness ; never be
cause the gallants prefer the foreign
article.
The well-established economic rule
which forbids the importation of. an
article which can be produced at home ,
applies to Nebraska and the threatened
influx of eastern matrimonial oulliugs
into her well-stocked markets ; but let
them come , for the poor things may
make acceptable servants in , the man
sions where Nebraska girls will eventu
ally reign.
When a military
ROOSEVELT AND officer is given a
MILES. command , he is
told to adopt his
own methods of enforcing his orders ,
so long as they do not conflict with
general orders. His superiors do not
care how he governs the men , or who
is to blame if ho fails to govern
them at all. His sole directions an ? :
"Take these men and make soldiers
of them. ' ' If he fails to do this lie
will be relieved of command , no
matter if he is able to prove that the
men were stubborn , obstinate , un-
tractable and of low intellect.
General Miles stands in the same
relation to the entire army as does
the subordinate to the company !
battalion , regiment or brigade. ' I Ho
is supposed to promote harmony
among his inferiors and maintain cor
dial relations with his superiors. If
fdr any reason he is unable to do this
he is of no use to the army and his
presence at its head is not conducive
to the good of the service , neither
does it add lustre to his own official
record.
Mr. Roosevelt is commander in
chief of the American army ; Mr.
Miles his lieutenant. The former
can no more discharge his duties to
the army without the respectful co
operation of the latter , than Miles
could command a regiment , the com
pany officers of which were contin
ually encouraging insubordination and
rewarding disloyalty to the com
mander.
