New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-05-11
CONSERVATISM DESTRUCTS
Prof. Bosky Says It's Application
Is Demoralizing.
Little Vices Responsible For Many
Modern Evils.
True Conservatism Based Upon
Principles of Truth.

ABUSE I'll pOSitiOuS VI puOiiC VI uoU
and shocking Indifference to individual
rights and privileges, as displayed by
modern leaders, are commented upon
be Prof. Ed. Boskyin communicat
which he has sent to the Review from
Chicago, where he is attending the
national socialist convention. His
effort is denunciation of the present
day methods ofapplying conserv atism
and is as follows:
1t is the ever-repeated song of the
so-called independent and honest bust
ness men that we need men in high I
Offices who are conservative. Now, I
will give you little description of
conservatism as it is practised now.
Here in Chicago they have conserved
they have conserved the wire netting
| overhead the people who walk the
| streets; they have conserved the un-
slightly signs on houses and across
streets; they have conserved the most
vulgar bill posting; they have con-
served the chewing habit in street cars,
giving a stranger the aspect of herd
of cattle on pasture; they have con-
served the dirty alleys; they have con-
served and improved the smoke nusi-
ance; they have conserved most of the
beasts in Lincoln Park and added some
more-butmany promising youths
are today fallen by the wayside, loaf
ing, smoking cigarettes and shooting
dice.
They have conserved all the little
1 beginnings of crimes, which grow into
big crimes; they have conserved the
Il board of trade, as we'll as the gambl
ing of the newsboys, the betting on the
races and the prize euchre parties in
the churches-they have produced the
:, thousands of nothings in the line of
fashions and fneries-luxuries with
which the rich produce envy in the
poor. They have conserved the 3d.
OOO, 900 court house which is as dark in
the daytime as in the night; they have
) built new government building for
1000, 900 dollars and have known to
conserve the science of delays in con-
struction, by which the renters of the
: ground of the temporary postoffice
make lots of money, as do the bankers
L who handle the money that was long
ago appropriated for the new build
/ ing.
Fine conserv atism, isn't it? But the
' consery atism of the great business men
is the same. They are all very con-
sentative in keeping an eye on the pre-
else accounts, but they are destructive
: in the means they apply through which
J. They conserve low wages for factory
V girls paled-faced and care-worn as
they are. They make an effortto cover
]. it up with good dress.
/, They conserve the custom of engag-
ing more and more young men, ever
t in the railroad service; they are more
daring, more reckless, more apt to lie
J. and stand in with the company-fol
promises. They conserve the agents
{. who do the business, because they car
t. tell the dirtiest stories or talk the mos
devilish refnements to ladies. ALLOW
me to remark here that do not dream
D In fact the conservatism is getting
SO that you can pick itup with a shove
n and, throw it anywhere you want to
in the light or in the dark, it will stinl
like a pest
And there are people yet who wonde
ID where corruption comes from. Toda,
- millionaire named Mckay committe,
r suicide, He belonged to one of til
e. reform clubs. 1 see you laugh! Blu
N [ always said that we will see no re
e form until the present conservatism
TO commits suicide.
a. Women who play cards every tim
rs they meet will bear children with til
III gambling and specializing habit Dor
into them and so it is with all crimes
at they all have roots. The roots com
at from the little tiny seeds planted in th
K early springtime of life in the shape {
IN idiotic habits such as dice, cards, bets
e etc. Novels and plays of ictitiou
ad stories are another thing to start col
rs ruption in the people. Corruption
I'M nothing but the outcome of an infecte
ne mind. Corruption cannot come out
ne men who have not been first infecte
ne by their surroundings.
True conservatism must be based Q
re principles of truth and not deception
ed or else it is not conserv atism. Honest
"a is not to give account for each &c,
lef and mark it correctly in the book
IS Oh, no! honesty asks if the deal was
ly just deal. Honesty and truth are a
ut universal term and are the first sprou
ON of the conservatism of nature.
is,