'Cbc Conservative *
HOT AND DUSTY.Tho mercury has
been at 104 ° iuthe
shndo aud the Transmissouri country
has suffered for the last teu days from
heat and drouth. Dusty and dry are
the fields and roads in Kansas , western
Iowa , northwestern Missouri , and east
ern Nebraska. Every nervous man and
woman is irascible , excitable and pet
ulant because of the inhalation of the
dust of long-ago Indians whose pulver
ized remnants are floating in the air.
They ore full of embalmed warwhpops
and diabolical dances which make people
ple snappish and cross.
We have received numbers one and
two of J. Sterling Morton's CONSERVA
TIVE. It shows clearly the ex-secretary's
brand of democracy , which is the high
est typo of Jeffersoniaiiism ever shown
in the state. It is strong , clean aud con
sistent from its standpoint. It will bo
a welcome addition to the able journal
ism of the state. Every subscriber can
be sure that he will get sound doctrine
and never be treated to anything com
monplace. We've always gloried in J.
Sterling. When the state was over
whelmingly republican he was ever
ready to stand up as a candidate , for
anything his party was pleased to put
upon him ; not because ho expected to
get anything out of it , but to be sacri
ficed for the integrity of the party of
his choice , and to maintain its organiz
ation in the state. A man of that brand
is an honor to any party , for he is the
solid back bone of the organization.
Greeley Leader-Independent.
If we are told a man is religious , we
still ask what are his morals ; but if we
hear he has honest morals , we seldom
think of the other question , whether he
be religious.
THE CONSERVATIVE , the new paper
published by J. Sterling Morton , late
secretary of agriculture , is upon our
table. The name of the editor is a suf
ficient guarantee that in editorial ability
the new paper will be away above the
average. The prospectus announces the
policy of the paper in line with its name ,
conservative in dealing with all topics
of public interest , while the well-known
reputation of its editor is a guarantee
that its conservatism will not bo of the
non-progressive type. It starts out with
a paid-up circulation of four thousand
copies , a degree of success seldom mark
ing the beginning of a new publication.
There is plenty of room for just such a
paper and it will do good. Ashlauc
Gazette.
A man with knowledge but without
energy , is a house furnished but noi
inhabitated ; a man with energy but no
knowledge , a house liycd in but un
furnished.
The Democrat is in receipt of the firs
two numbers of THE CONSERVATIVE , J
Sterling Morton's new paper. Tim
CONSERVATIVE is a weekly publicatioi
printed in magazine style and is remark
ably strong in an editorial way. It
voices Mr. Morton's sentiments upon all
mblic questions with the fxill vigor of
ts editor , aud it is unnecessary to say
; hat it is mighty interesting reading.
Gage County Democrat.
If you pity rogues , you ore no great
Wend to honest men.
If doctors cure , the sun sees it ; if they
all , the earth hides it.
Idleness is the greatest extravagance
hat a human being can venture upon ,
10 matter what may be the magnitude
of his fortune.
PKOGIIAM OF THIS NATIONAL CUIt-
KENCY CONVENTION.
To bo held in Omaha , Nebraska , in the Audi
torium Building on the Grounds of the
Trans-Mississippi Exposition , September 18
14 and 15 , 1898.
( Subject to slight modifications. )
FIRST DAY GOLD DAY.
The convention will be called to order
at 11 o'clock in the morning by J. Sterl
ing Morton , of Nebraska , president of
the National Sound Money League , who
will preside and deliver the opening
address.
Addresses will follow in the following
order :
Horace Wliite , editor of the New
York Evening Post , on "The History of
the Gold Standard. "
Governor Leslie M. Shaw , of Iowa ,
on "Tho Farmer's Interest in Sound
Money. "
H. P. Robinson , of Chicago , editor
of the Railway Age , on "The Gold
Standard and Railroad Interests. "
Louis R. Ehrich , of Colorado Springs ,
Colorado.
Recess at 12:45 : until 2:80 : in the af
ternoon.
Addresses , mostly short , 011 the impor
tance of maintaining the gold standard
aud in opposition to the free and un
limited coinage of silver will bo made
by the following speakers and others :
Edward Atkinson , of Boston , Mass.
Hon. J. M. Carey , fof Wyoming , sub
ject , "The Gold Standard from the
Standpoint of the Western States. "
Judge M. L. Crawford , of Dallas ,
Texas.
John P. Irish , of San Francisco , Cali
fornia.
In the evening there will bo a general
debate in speeches of not exceeding ten
minutes each in length , on the argu
ments advanced during the day in ad
vocacy of the gold standard.
SECOND DAY SILVER DAY.
The convention will be called to
order at 11 o'clock and on invitation
of the regular presiding officer , Mr
Morton , Hon. Chas. A. Towno , of Duluth -
luth , will occupy the chair.
Mr. Towno will deliver the opening
address on "The Coinage and Use o
Silver as Standard Money co-ordinately
with Gold. "
Mr. Towno will designate other
speakers to follow him on the silver
side , among them will bo
Senator James K. Jones , of Arkansas.
Hon. O. S. Hartinan , M. O. , of Mon
tana.
H. F. Bartino , of Washington , D. O. ,
editor of The National Binietallist. M
Hon. Horace Boies , of Iowa , will present - %
sent his plan for maintaining a bimet
allic system of money. L
Hon. C. N. Fowler , M. O. , of New
Jersey , will speak in opposition to the
bimetallic double standard theory.
The arguments of the silver speakers
will be met also in speeches from the
single gold standard point of view by
able orators including the following : '
Hon. Platt Rogers , of Denver , Col.
Hon.Edwin Burritt Smith , of Chicago.
W. C. Cornwell , Buffalo.
J. Adam Bode , of Duluth , Minnesota. I/
H. L. Framing , of Ohio.
'
The debate will bo thrown open to '
all speakers who desire to talk for five
or ten minutes each and will be pro
longed into an evening session if the
audience desires. Hon. C. A. Towuo
will close the discussions.
THIRD DAY PAPER MONEY DAY.
The convention will assemble at 11 '
o'clock. The opening address will bo " '
by Hon. A. J. Warner , of Ohio , who
will advocate a paper currency com
posed exclusively of government notes.
Hon. J. H. Walker , of Massachusetts ,
Chairman of the House of Representa
tives committee on Banking and Cur
rency , will reply.
After the noon recess addresses on
"What is the Best Form of Paper
Money" will be delivered by
Hon. C. N. Fowler , of New Jersey.
L. D. Reynolds , of Chicago.
William Dodsworth , editor of the
New York Journal of Commerce.
Geo. H. Shibley , of the American
Institute of Money and Prices , and by
speakers invited by the Reform Press
Association , of Chicago.
Hon. J. H. McOleary , of Minnesota ,
will explain the provisions of the cur
rency bill , generally known as the
McCleary Bill , reported to the House
at the last session of congress by the
committee on banking and currency.
Arguments in favor of government
paper money will bo met also by other
able opponents of that system aud up
holders of the single gold standard.
These will include
George Francis Peabody , of New
York City.
M. E. Ingalls , of Cincinnati.
H. W. Peabody , of Boston.
A general debate will follow on gov
ernment paper money versus bank
money.
A man protesting against error is on
the way towards uniting himself with
all men who believe in truth.
If the devil ever laughs out loud it is
at pretenders and hypocrites , for they
are the most perfect dupes ho creates ,