< g The Conservative * Anyone who 1ms young men who arc cnrning their first money , is likely to be painfully aware how many of them think nothing of borrowing small sums here and there , which they find it hard to repay. This is nothing new , however. Benjamin Franklin had the same state of things in his mind when he said "Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt. " To the same pur pose is the story of the broom-dealer in the old books "A proud , lazy young fellow came to him for a besom upon trust ; to whom the old man said , 'Friend , hast thou no money ? Borrow of thy back , and borrow of thy belly , they'll ne'er ask theo again , whereas I shall be dunning thco every day. ' " Iii its issue of APOLOGY. _ _ , November 8 , THE CONSEKVATIVE contained a splendidly just and well written article entitled "Real Patriots , " which ought to have been credited to the editorial columns of the New York Evening Post. The 11011- creditiug was purely accidental , and the editors of the Post , beside being thanked for the article , are asked to pardon the error. COIN HARVEY AS RECEIVER OF A FAILED POLITICAL TRUST. THE CONSERVATIVE recalls the former strong leadership of the democratic party of the United States , consisting of men like Bentou , Cass , Douglas , Rich ardson , Seymour , Tilden , Bayard and Cleveland , with sincere and patriotic satisfaction. In those days there were giants. In those days no leader of dem ocracy believed that it was a function of government to create values. All lead ers of political thought and all investiga tors of economic science then held that the best money for the American people was that having the least fluctuation in its purchasing power and which was current in all the commercial centers of the globe. Gold , under the then exist ing statutes , was the only money with which the public lauds could be pur chased , customs duties paid , or any debt to the government liquidated. Under the wise provisions of the then existing laws the government was constantly re ceiving gold and was therefore enabled to easily maintain all of its promises-to- pay at an equivalency with gold. One of the biggest blunders made by statesmen of the last generation was the one which repealed the law making goldenly only receivable for customs dues. No government can forever pay out gold , unless there bo some specific method for its talcing in gold without borrowing it , whenever that sort of coin is demanded in redemption of its promises. The antithesis between those states men who had then the welfare of the democratic party and all the people of the country at heart , and who in their day formulated the platforms , promul gated the policies and earned out the principles of an enlightened democracy ; and the Lilliputian law-givers , phrase mongers , declaimers , demagogues and time-servers of the present is towering and tremendous a row of ant-hills along the base of the Rocky mountains is not more insignificant by comparison. The old tenets of democracy have been abandoned. The political organization which claims to bo the democracy and which nominated a candidate at Chicago in 1896 , after endorsing all the money fallacies , and all the judicial vagaries of the proletariat , is fast losing its identity in each of the several states among the organizations and isms of populism. Disintegration has so far taken place and dissolution is so imminently near that a member of the United States senate from Arkansas , named Jones , who was the nominal chairman of the national democratic committee , has made an as signment of all his political party prop erty , functions and belongings. This assignment was aided , perfected and ratified by comniitteemen of the silver republican and populist national organi zations of the United States. By this transfer of responsibilities and deputiz ing of the duties of Jones to "Coin" Harvey of Chicago , the complete failure of the Chicago and St Louis conglomer ation of 1896 is officially admitted and proclaimed. It is only a question of time when the serious and deliberate thought of the misled citizenship which followed the communistic teachings of 1896 may rec tify the errors of that year. Then we may look for a realignment of all the voters of the United States. Then pa triotic men , without regard to previous political affiliation , may form themselves into a great party for the purpose of conserving all that is worth saving in a republican form of government. The conservatives of all parties may then bo brought into one grand political organi zation , the object of which shall be to see that the government of the United States is restored to its primitive hon esty of administration , and that its duties are merely to protect the lives , liberty and property of its citizens. Even now there is a general trend among thoughtful Americans towards the formation of a conservative party. All those who have good names , property and love of country which they wish to perpetuate and conserve are naturally coming together. The sooner wo have a conservative party in the United States the better for the conservation of all those rights and liberties for which our ancestors staked fortune , honor and life. When shall there bo a national com mittee of conservatives who shall con vene a national convention of conserva tives to meet in Independence hall , Phil adelphia , Pennsylvania ? The Atchison Globe GALL. _ , of November 8 , re marks : "A Topeka dispatch says that the republican bosses have turned down John J. Ingalls , and that ho will not | J close the campaign in Topeka or else- | J where. Ingalls' offence consisted in re ferring to Leland and the other bosses as 'boodling political bawds , whose lep rous infection no mercury , nor potash , nor Hot Springs , can cure. ' " Ingalls is by far the brainiest and brightest man who has ever represented Kansas in the senate of the United States , and his long association with the leading republicans of that state has given him reliable data from which to make his characteristic deductions. In galls is as bitter as gall , and it is said the family patronymic is derived from the fact that a not very remote paternal an cestor was called "gall" because of the acridity of his oratory. In gall he spoke and with gall he wrote and he has trans mitted the power of corrosive verbiage to John J. In-galls. Montesquieu HUMAN GOV- KRNMENT.says : "Chance , or fortune , does not govern the world. The truth of this position might be referred to the Ro mans , who eujoved a continued course of prosperity while their government was conducted on a certain plan , and an un interrupted series of reverses when they adopted a different one. There always exist certain general causes , either moral or physical , which act upon the affairs of every govern ment , raise it to grandeur , support it in prosperity , or precipitate it to its deca dence or dissolution. " Perhaps this is a good time for Amer icans , in view of the proposed policy of expansion , to read history and particul arly to investigate the rise and fall of all the republics which have perished from the earth. Before we undertake to adjust our civilization and Christianity to the bar barians and heathen of all or even a part of the Philippine islands perhaps we had better more perfectly adapt it to all the people of the United States , including Indians , negroes and Chinamen. When we shall have more nearly approximated justice at home we may be better pre pared to secure it to those in foreign countries. Mr. Allen may " eturnedtohe senate , or he may not bo returned to the senate. It will ! , make little difference which of the two results happens so far as Senator Allen's personal power for further mischief in the senate is concerned. That body will bo straight republican by a safe majority unless all sure signs fail , and all Sena tor Allen can do , even if he becomes his own successor , will be to saw the air and emit sonorous sounds.