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The Conservative, 1900-12-20

silver by the general government. This
legislation is embodied in statute
passed on the 18th day of July, 1890,
which was the elimination of much
agitation on the subject involved, and
which many considered truce after
long struggle between the advocates of
free silver coinage and those intending
to be more conservative"
Congress convened and discussed the
silver question at great length. On
August II, 1898, bill was introduced
in the house of representatives by Will
liam l.. Wilson, of West Virginia,
which repealed the purchasing clause of
the Sherman act. This bill concluded
as follows:
"But this repeal shall not impair or in
any manner affect the legal tender
quality of the
standard silver dol
lar heretofore coined, and the faith and
credit of the United States are hereby
pledged to maintain the parity of the
standard gold and silver coins of the
United States at the present legal ratio
or such other ratio as may be established
by law"
The debate on this bill lasted until
August %, 1S93 Many motions were
made to add to it provision for the
free coinage of silver. Every one of
those motions was voted down, and on
the 28th of August, 1898, the bill passed
the house by vote of 239 to 100.
Then it went on to the senate, where
it was amended as to the last clause, so
that it read as follows:
"And it is hereby declared to be the
policy of the United States to continue
the use of both gold and silver into
money of equal intrinsic and exchange
able value, such equality to be secured
through international agreement or by
such safeguards of legislation as will
insure the maintenance of the parity in
value of coins of the two metals and the
equal power of every dollar at all times
in the markets and in the payment of
debts. And it is hereby further declared
that the efforts of the government
should be steadily directed to the estab-
lishment of such a safe system of
bimetallism as will maintain at all times
the equal power of every dollar coined
or issued by the United States in the
markets and in the payment of debts"
On October 30, 1898, the senate sub.
stitute bill was passed by vote of 43 to
80. The house concurred in that bill as
amended by the senate. with vote of 1914
to "a, and on the 1st day of November,
1898, Grover Cleveland affixed his sig
nature to the bill.
The foregoing is brief, correct con-
The Conservative, 1900-12-20
A recent article
SUGGESTIVE.

.roo "A recent article
in the Crete Demo.
crat is very suggestive as to the char
acter of many who made up the conglom-
crate opposition to the republican party
during the recent presidential campaign.
Colonel Bowlby, the able editor of that
journal, gives the expense account of the
republican treasurer of the state COM
mittee for Nebraska for the year 1900.
It shows total disbursements of fifty six
Thousand three hundred and sixty seven
dollars and eight cents 1856, ,367.OS),
and an outstanding indebtedness of one
thousand three hundred and sixty-one
dollars and thirteen cents ($l ,361.1O,
with remaining cash balance in the
hands of the treasurer of one thousand
seven hundred and eight dollars and
thirty three cents ($l, ,7O8.33). From
this statement the Colonel makes the fol.
lowing deductions
"a 81 900 placed in each of 80 counties
in the state would enable any ticket to
win. This is the republican way. One
leading pop paper states that the sum is
100000, which is probably true, for
Hanna had all the money he could use" f"
Does the Colonel mean to intimate
that the mass of voters for Bryanarchy
are in the market for cash? If he does
not mean to declare, by implication at
least, that majority can be bought in
any county in the state of Nebraska,
what does he mean? If the American
people vote for cash on delivery of the
ballots, why should anybody be proud
of this government and the institutions
which are maintained under it?
The Conservative, 1900-12-20
FINANCIAL,
HISTORY.

convened in extra
session by Grover Cleveland. 1t was
convened for the avowed purpose of
repeating the purchase clause of the
Sherman silver act. That act compelled
the United States to buy 100000
ounces of silver bullion each month. At
that time President Cleveland uttered
these words:
with plenteous crops, with abundant
promise of remunerative production and
manufacture, with unusual invitation
to safe investments and with satisfac-
tory assurance to business enterprise,
suddenly financial distrust and fear have
sprung up on every side. Numerous
moneyed institutions have suspended
because abundant assets were not i'm
mediately available to meet the demands
of frightened depositors. Surviving
corporations and individuals are content
to keep in the hand the money they are
usually anxious to loan, and those
engaged in legitimate business are sur
prised to find that the securities they
offer for loans, although heretofore
satisfactory, are no longer accepted.
Values supposed to be fixed are fast
becoming conjectural, and loss and
failure have invaded every branch of
business"
Let it be remembered that this panic
was under the Mckinley high-tariff act
and while that
measure was in
full vigor.
Further along in the same message
President Cleveland said:
II believe these things are principally
chargeable to congressional legislation
touching the purchase and coinage of
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The Conservative, 1900-12-20

Entered at the postofice at Nebraska City
Neb., as Second Glass matter, July 29th, 1893.
The Conservative, 1900-12-20
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
OFFICES: OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON, EDITOR.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION
OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL
QUESTIONS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29

ficient, as II Is not 80 much support
for the Republican party anyone is
seeking as II Ia emancipation Of the
best people Of the south from the in
tellectual slavery into which they have
fallen. On these grounds the Repub-
lican leaders refuse to countenance Mr..
Crumpacker's bill. Instead OF puni-
tive legislation they intend to do ev-
erything in their power to encourage
the best men of the south to join the
Republican party, and to strike down
the rule, once defensible but now fool
ish. that a southerner forfeits social
standing when he becomes a Republic
can. Southern men have always
claimed that II they could get the
negro question out Of the way the
south could be rationalized and nation
allied, so that campaigns and elections
would have the same significance with
them as In the north. Now that a
number Of southern states have appar-
emily solved the negro question through
constitutional amendments the con-
trolling powers in the national Repub-
lican party are determined to meet the
south half way with the olive branch
in hand"
This view of the situation Is un-
doubtedly an accurate one in it's state
ment Of intentions. There are many
Republicans of influence who have no
particle Of sympathy for the Jug
handled disfranchisement schemes now
prevalent in the south yet who con-
cur in the opinion of the Indianapolis
Press that "it is impossible to se.tle
the race question with a club" and
who therefore favor solution along
the lines of time and peaceful evolu-
ton. Unfortunately there is the plain
shall" Of the Fourteenth amendment;
word absolutely without qualification
in it's mandatory significance. Is it
safe to set or encourage a conspicuous
example of fiat disregard for consti-
tutional injunction? Would 1t not be
preferable at least to make the at
tempt to enforce or repeal the Four
teenth and Fifteenth amendments?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29
Weekly Letter on
Municipal affairs
xxX.-A COMPARISON OF THE
THREE LARGEST CITIES IN
THE COUNTRY.

New York. Dec. 90.
THE THREE most corrupt and wickedcst
cities in the New World are New York,
= Chicago and Philadelphia, and the great.
est of these is New York, Collectively
they may he called the politicians paradise.
This is largely due to their rapid growth and i'm
mense wealth. The assets Of New York city
alone foot up to more than 1851 600 900. which is
nearly S2OOUh,O00 more than the largest
cities in the United States, exclusive
of Boston, are worth. These ten cities
have a total population of more than
q, 600, 900, as opposed to New York's 3,400,-
0OO The assets include the amount Of cash in
the treasury, uncolected taxes, cash and bonds
in sinking fund, valuation of all public build.
ings, lands and apparatus, such as the city hall,
police, fire and park departments, public schools,
librares art galleries, etc, jails, work houses.
reformatories, etc. hospitals, asylums aims
houses etc., docks, wharfs, markets and vari-
Gus other public utilities. The total assets OF
Chicago amount to $l40,00O,0O0, and those Of
Philadelphia to SS5 900, exclusive OF libraries,
ferries, bridges and sl2 OOOO 900 that has been ap.
propriated for the improvement Of the water
system.
The income OF New York in 1899, was over
S205, ,0OOOO0 Chicago, $33, ZOO, 600; Philadelphia,
S6,O0O,0O0 New Yorks income exceeds the az.
gregatc income Of the next ten largest cities
In the country by more than Sl3, 600 600, and is
The expenditures are equally enormous. the city
having dshursed more than 1856, 900, 600 in 1890,
while the next ten largest cities got rid OF a
trfe over >sl6l, ,0OO.0o0 during the same period
Chicago's expenditures amounted to over $780,
00O,0O0, and Phiadephia's about s2s, ,OOO,OO
These figures cover construction and maintenance
The total indebtedness Of New York city. in
cluding the bonded and floating obligations,
amounts to s362, ,2O9l43. which Is about 500, ,OOO-
600 more than the next ten largest cities. Chi
easo's total foots up to more than s3l 200, ,OO0
while Philadephia's is over SD. 600, 600 The net
debt OF these three cities is 1851 600 0OO s29 OOO
600 and Sii, 900 OO0 respectively. As IN offset to
this fabulous debt, and as a basis for the income
which must be realized to support these cor
porations, the three cities have an assessed yala-
tion OF property, as follows: New. York, real
s2a32, ,ii5,+Gi; personal, S5i5. .oO6, ,5G5 Chicago,
real, $500, ,26J,ojs; personal, Ssi, 36I Phila.
delphia, real, SsI0205,S5J; personal 81, $3.50, ,0lO
New Nork's valuation Of real Is based on 20 per
cent OF the full value and the personal on 100
per cent; Chicago, 20 per cent real and per.
sonal; Philadelphia, so and 100 per cent, re-
spectively.
The police forces Of these three cities are no.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29

Y VIGOROUS and uncompromis-
" ing enforcement of law is
y called for in those parts of
the city where disorderly
characters assemble in large numbers
to hurl missiles at passing street cars.
jostle and endanger passers- by and use
language offensive to public decency.
These rowdies do not help, they hurt
the cause of the strikers. The latter
have been sustained by public opinion
partly because of the element of justice
in their complaint at the unreasonable
hours of service required of them but
largely on account of their excellent
behavior. To compromise them unfair
ly by fool boisterousness and violence
Is to work them a cruel injury
But the question of law and order Is
broader than any special interest; it is
fundamental. Every man. woman and
child in this city is interested in having
lawlessness suppressed, in having pro-
perty safeguarded and in having our
public thoroughfares kept clear for the
orderly transaction of business.
Let the hand of the law fall firmly
upon every disturber of the public
peace. Let every friend of honest labor
put forth his power to restrain in it's
incipiency the tendency to substitute
mob spirit for common sense.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

The German Empire in 1890 had 1,336 strikes.
Cincinnati is the greatest hardwood market ir
the United States.
Maine has 115 factories in which fish and veg
ctables are canned.
In Cincinnati there is talk of automobile lines
to compete with the street cars
Holland has nine miles OF canal for every lN
square miles of surface 2,1o0 miles in all.
The German Agricultural society Of Berlin has
offered prizes of 800. s75 and $50 for plans Of
model pigsties
The bolo, or Filipino knife, is almost like the
American corn knife, only it has slight curve
in it and is pointed.
In Illinois wages not vet earned cannot be as
signed. Courts hold that such assignment would
be illegal and void.
A course Of lectures for ourneymen electrical
workers has been arranged to lie given at the
New York Trade school.
Tie state Of Ohio spends $4,000, 900 annually
on its l,200,D00 school children. OF this fund
Cincinnati pays $l.0OO0O0.
The growth Of the telephone system in Russia
is now considerable. although 1t has been slow
as compared with other countries.
A curious criminal law exists in Greece. A
man who Is there sentenced to death waits
two years before the execution of the sentence.
Recent sales Of real estate in Galveston show
that current property values are held at only
storm.
Properly qualified teachers OF whist are in such
demand in New York that those known to lie
competent have more applicants as scholars
than they can possibly attend to.
A movement is on foot in New York to have
the city buy Faunce's tavern. the sole Rcyol'i-
ti0nary relic in the downtown district 1t was
there that Washington bade farewell to his Off
GERS Dec. I, 1873.
There is a quaint little hsh which haunts the
weed tracts Of the gulf stream and there builds
its nest and lays its eggs like bird rather
than fish. This ani,nal-thc antennarius --
initiates in color the weed it lives in and, like
the chameleon, constantly changes its color.
An experimental power garbage crcmatory is
to be built in Chicago. The idea in mind is
to ascertain whether the heat developed by
burning the city's garbage can be utilized TO
make an adequate return upon the capital in
vested. This plan is in operation in several
European cities of smaller size.
Servants in GERMANY lave their "charact"r
books" duly stamped by the police, and in these
are written full particulars Of their conduct when
In service. Tht employer keeps the book until
the servant leaves when il is handed over after
an account Of the servants behavior and the
reason for leaving have been entered
fresh impression Of the ilnn,ensity Of London
that little world by itself-is gained from the
statement that in 1899 the killed and wounded
in the London streets numbered 0,SOl, of whom
2O7 We're killed outright. No battle in the
South African war can show large a total
Of losses as this list of casualties in the streets
OF peaceful London.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29


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sided In the giltlcd point which had purposely
been sent from Rome hy the Hoy Father. y
Morvoau was several years in advance of his
neishhors In the Use OF lightning rod Of his
own construction.
Polytyping, n method in one OF the branches
Of printing, was invented. The apparatus some.
r,Eht guides about six feet higl' and pulley at
,hc top which elevated by means OF rope a
neavE plate in an inverted position. At the
loot OF the machine was a substantial iron bed.
upon which the operator placed some molten
trlX with It's weight attached was elevated to
tne TOP OF the machine, when 1t was suddenly
allowed to fall. The result was similar to that
made on metal ny means OF die--a perfect re.
production OF matrix in relief, which was
method was said to he more rapid than the or
dinary stereotype process.
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years old continued to attract attention through.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29

CCOfDlNS 10 waiter Well.
~ man there is absolutely no
~ hope for the enactment Of
Representative Crumpack-
er's bill to reduce the representation Of
those southern states which have un-
dertaken to nullify the Fifteenth
for this evasion of the plain mandate
of the Constitution is that the Repub-
lican leaders at Washington are plan
ming the creation of white mans Re-
publican party in the south.
men who knows the south we'll are
satisfied" Mr.. Wellmar reports, that
a revolution Is going on in that sec
tion, and that nothing but a blunder
on the part of the Republican party
can stop 1t. The south is becoming
more and more Republican in it's lean
ings as to the questions of the day.
1t is for the gold standard, for expan-
sion, for protection, for the Nicaragua
canal, for a vigorous foreign policy, for
colonialism OF anything else that will
build up the American republic and
afford markets for American products.
On every vital question of the day the
sympathies of a majority of the lead
ing men OF the new south are with the
Republican party. The best men of
the south are as much disgusted with
Bryanism as the best men of the north.
Their disgust was shown in the recent
election, partly in the small majorities
for Bryan, hut more pointedly in the
small total vote cast in nearly all of
the southern states.
"From talks with many southern
men. who know the sentiment in their
section, am satisfied that the men
of brains and business in the south
feel deeply Inundated by the fact that
in the recent campaign their hands
We're tied; that they were unable to
vote their real sentiments: that while
they believed In nothing that Bryan
stood for and did believe in almost ev-
erything that Mckinley stood for they
We're forced to keep still and to walk
up and vote like sheep. Why? The
'nigger question: and the belief which
has sprung up on account of it that
a southern man cannot be both a Re-
publican and o gentleman. Southern
men admit thatthis 'nigger' domination
question Is a ghost, tigment of the
imagination. and that no real danger
of negro control. in states, municipali-
ties or anywhere, now exists, But
from the old days when 1t was living
question they have acquired prejudices
and habits of thought which drive
them on in the old rut, even to the
ridiculous extent that they cease to be
iiscriminative. Independent voters. but
intellectually and morally slaves to
their anti-'nigger cult.
mo one expects the south is going
TO be revolutionized to the extent that
It will become Republican as 1t is now
Democratic, But 1t is believed that
this old fetich of the 'nigger question
may be so destroyed that southern
men. like northern men, will be able to
vote according to their opinions and
their interests. There will be real
campaigns In the south. elections which
mean something, not mere hollow
forms, as AZ present. If occasionally
the issues are such that few southern
states so Republican, that Will be suf-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29
First Place as an
Exporting Nation

Washington, Dec %.
- HE UNITED STATES seems likely to stand
at the head of the worlds list OF exporting
i nations in the year 1900. One by one the
great nations have fallen behind in the race
for this distinction until during the past Ave
years only the United Kingdom and the United
States could be considered as competitors for
the distinction of being the worlds greatest
exporter of articles of home production. In 1894
the United Kingdom led the United States by
nearly $3.50 1000, 900, and in 1897 the United
States had rapidly gained that she was but
1880 900 600 behind In 1898 the United States took
first place. our exports in that year exceeding
those Of the United Kingdom by nearly $lOO,0OO,-
900. In 1907 the United Kingdom again stood
at the head of the list, her exports exceeding
those of the United States by nearly $780, 0O00 600.
In the eleven months Of 1900, whose figures have
been received by the Treasury Bureau OF Statis
tics, the domestic exports Of the United States
exceed those OF the United Kingdom by $5,473..
670, and should this rate of gain be maintained
in December the United States will in the year
1900 show a larger expectation Of domestic pro.
ducts than any other nation in the world.
Even this distinction, however, of heading the
worlds list of exporting nations but partially
tells the story OF the wonderful growth of our
export trade as measured by that OF other ma
tons Comparing the growth of our exports dur
ing the last quarter Of the century with those Of
the other great nations of the world, we are
able to better measure the wonderful progress
shown. France shows no increase in her exports
of domestic merchandise in the closing quarter
OF the century; Germany shows during the same
period an increase of about 80 per cent, and
the United Kingdom shows from 1875 to 1900
an increase of nearly 40 per cent, while the
United States during that time an increase OF
practically 200 per cent
The following table, compiled from official
reports. shows the exports OF domestic mer-
chandise from the United States and the United
Kingdom, respectively, in each calendar year
from 1878 to 1899, and eleven months Of the
year 1900:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29
TALKS BY THE PUBLISHER.

EACH Saturday for the past few weeks VIC have
L had something to say concerning the fiat rate
for advertising" Such a rate has many ad
vantages to an advertiser, whether he wishes to
insert an ad. for few days or to make a con.
tract for longer period. In the first instance he
can run an ad. of any size for day or week
without paying prehibitive price for what some
publishers term 'short time business. On the
other hand he can agree to use 1000 or more
inches within year at a reduction per inch and
can use those inches just he likes He can
publish a small ad. every day larger one
every other day, once or twice a week, or he
can drop out entirely for a time, using his ac.
cumulated space in quarter, half or full page an.
nouncements
There is deal Of satisfaction, too, in knowing
that he is receiving exactly the same treatment
as every OTHER advertiser in the paper. You can.
not help having certain respect for man who
has price which he refuses to cut, courteously
explaining that he is treating all alike and when
you find man does cut the price he first names,
are you ever sure that he has given you his low
est figure, or that your neighbor is not securing
. still lower rate? The Tribune does not send
out men with imperative instructions to "get
the business" meaning, II you can't get your
price. get the best price you can, but "get the
business"
The Tribune prints its rates for advertising at
the head of the first column on this page. The
prices were fixed after most careful consideration,
and are only raised a fair percentage above cost
OF production. There is vast difference between
these rates and those of the old style card. I
doubt il one advertiser out of twenty-five ever
saw the rate cards of other local papers. And
even if they had they would be but little wiser,
as none of those cards was made to keep. As an
example, here are few figures taken from the
card Of Scranton paper and compared with The
Tribunes fat rate.