13be Conservative * 21
CONThoro seems teAT
AT bo } amid the din of
OMAHA. arms , sufficient in
terest in cuiToncy questions to nssuro a
good list of speakers and a largo audi
ence at the national currency conven
tion , which will bo held in the auditor
ium on the exposition grounds at Omaha ,
September" Iflj 14 nnd 1C , The exposition
management Writds1 tlirii no * GVe'nt oon1-
uected with the fair is attracting so much
attention. The silver men appear to desire -
sire to restate their position and to re
affirm their faith in the white metal.
The old greenbackers think that this is
a good time to sound their ancient slogan
about the superiority of government
paper money over money issued by
banks , and about the duty of the govern-
UJOiifc to supply the people with all the
Currency they needs T"hO gold-standard
Klchi feel thiit they are challenged to
mdiutuin tlleii1 grdiind w'itli fresh argu-
iiients , tind believd tliat thd progress of
§ ve"nts since 1890 hns furnished them
Witli a gOOd detil & iiow iiiatter for dis-
eussidn ; The Confidence df the silver
iridn thrtt they will bo given a fair show-
IriJI ill tHp disthissitfu Has tteen gained by
placing the debate on uie'irsille iill'iirii'go '
their ablest loaders ex-Con
of one of , -
gressman Chas. A.Towneof Duluthaud
asldng him to designate his associates.
Other prominent silver men who will
take part in the debate ai'o Senator
Jones of Arlca lisas , Congi'ossman Hartman -
man of Montana , Hud H , F , Bartine ,
Editor Of the National Bimetttlist , The
gr'o'uub'ab'ic UanhliitiOn Jvill > e dpened up
by ex-Congressman A. . 3 : Wrirucl : bf
Ohio. A committee has been created in
Chicago to co-operato with Mr. Towne
in securing silver speakers. There is
also a committee of the National Bo-
form Press Association , an organization
which makes government pnpor money
its lending financial doctrine , imd
Greortfd H , Shipley of thd American In
stitute Of Moiioy aild PriCC-d Will be
On htind to advocate what ho calls
"stable " which means
money , govern
ment paper with a unit of vnitio obtained
by talcing the prices of the leading pro
ducts of the country and finding a com
mon denominator Efc'Governbr' fioies
of Iowa will advocate his peculiar
theory of a variable ratio. On the side
of the Single gold standard and of bank
notes OS against government paper
money the speakers will bo Congress
men McCleary of Minnesota , Fowler of
New Jersey , and "Walker of Massachus
etts , Governor Leslie M , Shaw of Iowa ,
ex-Senator J. M , Carey of "Wyoming ,
Platt Rogers and Louis R. Ehrich of
Colorado , layman J. Gage , Secretary of
the Treasury ; Horace White , George
Foster Peabody , C. S. Fairchild. and
William Dodsworth of Now York , W.O.
Cornwell of Buffalo , Edward Atkinson
and Henry W. Peabody of Boston , Prof.
1 J , Laurejigp Laugjilju , H , P. Robinson ,
jynd .Tamos H. Eojajtf of Chicago , M. E.
ftwfflBKawgKCf L I'1 * * * * *
Ingalls of Cincinnati , John P. Irish of
San Francisco , and Judge M. L. Craw-
ftirrt Of DallHs , Texas.
The convention will bo in charge of
the National Sound Money LelJgUO , and
the members of this organization intend
to put to the severest test of historical
experience and of common sense all the
the statements and arguments which
may be advanced by the advocates of
a clien'jJur' form of money than gold and
of any kind of currency not vesting di
rectly on the firm basis of the wOrltt's
accepted money of exchange and meas
ure of value. It is likely that the most
interesting phase of the meeting will be
the general debate , in short speeches ,
which will follow the formal addresses
on each day. "Whoever expects to take
part in this debate had better equip him
self carefully with facts , or ho will be
lilfely to bo tripped up by homo ready
antagonist. _ _ _
T Ruskiii says :
AND ftitciETV , "Government and
cooperation arc in ( ill things the laws of
life j ttuarchy and competition the laws
of death , "
"Government is a contrivance of hu-
niaii wisdbm to provide for human
wants. " Murkd ;
"Government is a trust a'lld thd offi
cers of a government are trustees ; both
the trust and the trustees are created for
the benefit of the people. " Henry Clay.
"Governments exist to protect the
rights of minorities. " Wendell Phillips.
"Sooldty ifi tt masked ball where every
one hides his real character , and reveals
it fry" iiiding : " Emerson ,
But Victor M0 defclrired that "So
ciety is a republic. Wheii itii individual
endeavors to lift himself above his fel
lows ho is dragged down by the mass ,
either by ridicule or calumny. "
Emerson somewhere declared : "So
ciety is a troop of thinkers and the best
heads among them take the best places. "
Chamfort wittily proclaimed : "So
ciety is composed of two great classes :
those who have more dinners than ap
petite1 and those who have more appetite
than dinners , "
"Gldry is safe when it is deserved.
Ndt so popularity. The one lasts like
mosaic ; the otliOi' iH effaced like a
crayon drawing. "
"Teach self-denial and make its prac
tice pleasurable and you create for the
- , . , ,1,1 /loef.i-iiv mnvn SublilllG tllttll OV01 *
"V"
issued from 'the brain of the wildest
dreamer. "
"That 'The ' voice of the common people
ple is the voice of God' is as full of
falsehood as commonness. For who
sees not' that those blackmouthed
hounds upon the more scent of opinion
as freely spend their moiiths in hunting
counter , or , like Acticon's dogs , in chas
ing an innocent man to death , as if they
followed the truth itself in a fresh
Kcont ? ' ' Warwick.
"Tho army is a good school in which
the niggardly become generous and the
generoxisbecome prodigal. "
"Tho beloved of God arc the rich
who have the humility of the poor and
the poor who have the magnanimity of
the rich. "
"Tho best part of our knowledge is
that which tenches us whore knowledge
leaves off and ignorance begins. " Doc
tor Holmes.
Napoleon declared war "Tho trade of
barbarians and the art of bringing the
greatest physical force to bear on a sin
gle point. "
' 'Ydit may overthrow a government
in the twinkling tff an eye , as you can
blow up a ship or upset and sink one ?
biit yoxi can no more create- govern- '
ineut with a word than an ironCbuL"
Ruskiii.
CHKKALS AND sitVKK , Last year the1
M15AT AND GOLD. .state of No-
brosloi alone produced foods on farms
valued at 205 millions of dollars. One
thousand farmers
hundred and seventy-five
mers caused the output of that enor
mous amount.
Colorado , on the West of Nebraska-
prodxiced 35 million dollars' worth of
silver and gold bullion.
The state of Nebraska should not bo'
made a party to a monetary system
by which an artificial price is put on the
product erf Colorado at the expense of
the products ( it Nebraska ,
Wheat , corn , rye , oats and all othef
output of value from the farms of Ne
braska are the result of farm labor ,
manual and machine. These' efforts
bring out from the soil every variety o
staple food for the human family. Thtf
prices of agricultural products are de
termined by the relation of the supply
of those products to the demand for
those prOdufets/ Why should the gov
ernment intol'po o mid , by statute , at
tempt to make prices for the mineral
or bullion output of Colorado , without
at the same time attempting to fi * the >
values of the food products of Nebraska 'j
The total gold and silver production
in. the United States equals only GO mil
lions or thereabouts annually ; but the
total agricultural output of Nebraska
alouo is $205,240,000 annually. Why
should silver , taken from the earth by
the same land of muscular effort which
gets com , wheat and rye out of the
earth , be made the especial ward of the
government and the silver laborer fav
ored with a tax to be collected from the
farm laborer ?
It is a significant fact that the men
who stand at the head of their classes
in university life rarely achieve the
highest distinction in after years. It is
the close touch with human interests ,
not academic enthusiasm in "the little
world within a world , " which tells tbo
story. Such examples as John 0. Calhoun -
houn at Vale and Gladstone at Oxford
university are only exceptions Most
valedictorians become country clergy
men luul college professors.
