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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one which repealed the law making goldenly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.
