"the Conservative.
( those only excepted , who are not
able to support -themselves in any
| < t community ) may live within his
income , and thereby preserve his inde
pendence. If a man is poor , his taxes
are small , unless he holds an estate
which he cannot pay for. In such case
he docs not own it , and therefore ought
to let the owner take it.
"Industry and economy will forever
triumph over hard times , and disap
point poverty. Therefore , the general
cry , that we cannot pay the taxes and
live , is absolutely false.
"It is true , wo feel , and we ought to
feel , some difficulties in paying for the
glorious prize , independence. The
! taxes will bo only temporary but the
prize immortal. And he is unworthy of
freedom , wrho repines at paying his
money , when so many patriots and
heroes have laid down their lives to pur
chase it for their country.
"I shall conclude with an extract from
a sermon preached by a sound divine :
" 'The scarcity of money is the only
thing that will save this people. This
alone can produce industry and eco
nomy , without which no people can be
virtuous and happy. This is an univer
sal truth , applicable to all people in
every country. It is impossible to be
happy without industry , economy , and
virtue ; and as experience evinces that
these are produced by what we call hard
times , or the scarcity of money , we
ought certainly to be thankful when we
see the causes of public happiness oper
ating.Therefore , let this circumstance
excite in us gratitude to a kind Provi
dence , for connecting future prosper
ity with present scarcity , and so order
ing causes and events , that good shall
come out of evil , necessity produce re
formation , and hard times , good times. ' "
The science of
EUGENICS.
improving stock ,
whether human or brute , is one which
should be taught in all the higher insti
tutions of learning in the United States.
This science is called eugenics.
To observe carefully the fact that like
begets like , and to avoid intensifying
faults , weaknesses , or perverse tenden
cies , by studying and obeying the law of
heredity , is a duty.
If half the care bo taken , during the
fifty coming years in properly perpetu
ating the best traits of physical and in
tellectual character of the American
people , that has been given to the breed
ing of trotting horses during the fifty
years which make the last half of the
nineteenth century ; the middle of the
twentieth century will show men and
women superior in beauty of body and
intellect to any individual Americans
now living.
Galton says"Euergy is the capacity foi
labor. It is consistent with all the robust
virtues , and makes a largo practice of
them possible. It is the measure of full
ness of life ; the more energy the more
abundance of it ; no energy at all is
death ; idiots are feeble and listless.
# # * #
Energy is an attribute of the higher
races , being favored beyond all other
qualities by natural selection. Wo arc
goaded into activity by the conditions
and struggles of life. They afford stim
uli that oppress and worry the weakly ,
who complain and bewail ; and it may
be succumb to them , but which the
energetic man welcomes with a good-
humored shrug , and is the better for it
in the end.
"The stimuli may be of any descrip
tion ; the only important matter is that
all of the faculties should bo kept work
ing to prevent their perishing by dis
use. If the faculties bo few , very
simple stimuli will suffice. Even that
of fleas will go a long way. A dog is
continually scratching himself , and a
bird pluming itself whenever they are
not occupied by food , hunting , fighting ,
or love. In those blank times there is
very little for them to attend to besides
their varied cutaneous irritations. It is
a matter of observation that well washed
and combed domestic pets grow dull ;
they miss the stimulus of fleas. If ani
mals did not prosper through the agency
of their insect plagues.it seems probable
that their races would have long since
been so modified that their bodies should
have ceased to afford a pasture ground
for parasites.
It does not seem to follow that be
cause men are capable of. doing hard
work they like it. Some , indeed , fidget
and fret if they cannot work off their
superfluous steam ; but on the other hand
there are many big lazy fellows who
will not got up their steam to full pres
sure except under compulsion. Again
the character of the stimulus that in
duces hard work differs greatly in dif
ferent persons ; it may be wealth , am
bition , or other objects of passion. The
solitary hard workers , under no encour
agement , or compulsion except theii
sense of duty to their generation , are
unfortunately , still rare among us.
It may be objected that if the race
were too healthy and energetic there
would be insufficient call for the exercise
cise of the pitying and self-denying vir
tues and the character of men would
grow harder in consequence. But it does
not seem reasonable to preserve sickly
breeds for the solo purpose of tending
them , as the breed of foxes is preservec
solely for sport and its attendant ad
vantages. There is little fear that
misery will over cense from the land or
that the compassionate will fail to fine
objects for their compassion ; but a
present the supply vastly exceeds the
demand ; the land is overstocked witl
the listless and the incapable.
In any scheme of eugenics , energy is
the most important quality to favor ; i
is , as wo have seen , the basis of living
action , and it is eminently trausmissable
by descent.
4 V
A PANIC BY ,
bov nild woman
who drinks malt ,
'inous , or spirituous beverages in the
United States should swear off tomor- , -
' '
'ow morning and abstain from their > '
iso forever there would bo an immed- , b
ate and very gigantic diminution of the /
evonues of the general government and
'
of state governments while many nm- Ls ,
licipalities would bo bankrupted.
If all the men and boys of the United
States stop smoking tobacco tomorrow
morning and all stop chewing at the
same time the revenues of the United c
States would bo still further reduced.
And if the American people should
permanently and altogether abstain
from the use of whiskey , beer , wine and
tobacco there would be a general panic.
Upon stimulants and narcotics the na
tional treasury depends very largely for
its income. Upon two vices the
American republic rests with unctuous
self-complacency and in oleaginous
phrases talks of extending the blessings
of our superior civilization and exalted
Christianity to the Spanish-oppressed
savages of the Pacific.
Is a civilization which expends two or
three times as much money every year
for tobacco and drinks as it does for
food justified in self-glorification and its
newspapers in a universal Chadband-
ism ? Where righteous reform would
mnke a panic and re venues rest on vices ,
why brag ?
TUE
THE OMAHA
EXPOSITION.T1VE rejoices in the
triumphs achieved
by the Omaha Exposition. , It was a
complete and perfect representation of
the industrial capabilities of the mid-
continent West. Its success was due ,
very largely , to the ability and executive -
tivo force which managed its "promotion
and publicity" bureau. And it will not
be charged that the writer hereof is
moved by either personal relations or
political obligations in declaring that , to
Mr. Edward Rosewater , editor and pro
prietor of The Omaha Bee , more than to
any other one man , the Omaha Exposi
tion owes its phenomenal success. Mr.
Rosewater has brains , pluck and seem
ingly the tirelessness of metal moved by
steam.
° f fche mosfc
A. vn i . .J . . . , ,
INCIDENT.forcible and sensi
ble addresses de
livered at the auditorium during the
Peace Jubilee at the Exposition was
that of the Chinese minister. No other
man's oratory on that occasion elicited
such universal and continuous applause
as did that of the eminent Chinaman at
that particular moment when , with im
pressive earnestness and eloquence , ho
declared that "tho oldest nation" was
for peace. Whether the vast audience
appreciated the evident rebuke intended
by the Heathen from Peking to the sur
rounding glorification of wholesale mur
der which the modern Christian nations
sometimes call war , and at other times
"hell , " remains an unsettled .question.
