10 Conservative.
nncl corrupted the choicest interests of
onr country more and done more injus
tice than oven tlic nnns nncl artifices of
our enemies. "
Strange that these lessons of history
cannot bo learned. Stntngc indeed that
these futile fallacies of flat money , this
ignorance of the simplest principles of
monetary science and this perversion of
the powers of public law to purposes of
private gain should recur again and
again with each generation , making it
necessary to repeat and enforce the
truth which I have attempted to present
in this essay.
The vice of legal-tender is that it de
prives men of their right to free con
tract and that it enforces fraud upon an
unwilling and ignorant community
whether its members desire to cheat
each other or not. It is a bar to integ
rity on the part of the nation and its
people alike. The sincerity of its promoters
meters can only be sustained at the ex
pense of their repute for common sense.
Captain Charles King does not seem
to have any stories running at present.
Maybe he is in the shop being re-
Kiplinged before he tackles the Spanish
war.
war.At
At South Omaha , once or twice , per
sons serving the Agricultural Depart
ment have been separated from the
Bureau of Animal Industry. Such per
sons were in the classified Civil Service
of the United States. They claim that
they were removed for believing that
forty cents worth of silver bullion could
be made worth a hundred cents by the
necromancy of a stamp. They pose as
martyrs to the sacred dogma that one
ounce of gold is worth sixteen ounces of
silver and no more. They hold that
paying any laborer or producer or any
body else more than sixteen ounces of
silver when one ounce of gold is owing
to him would bo a great wrong and
damage to him. That is to say if in
stead of paying in an ounce of gold one
should insist upon paying with thirty-
four ounces of silver it would be a rob
bery of the creditor.
Such fanaticism should be fostered.
Those innocent /ealots ought to bo re
stored to the service immediately. The
sooner the authority which removed them
is reproved for the non-protection of
those patriotic and candid men and
women the better for all who get back.
There are good men in all parties.
But generally the meanest man in any
party is the one who has tried getting
an office in all the others and joined anew
now one to try again. That fellow is
always loudest in condemnation of the
forces ho has deserted. He always de
clares that ho left this party or that
party because it became too corrupt for
his conscience. Senator William Vin
cent Allen has already held office as a
democrat , as a republican and as a pop
ulist. He is a very able man. He
knows just -\vlien to leave one organiza
tion and when to fuse with another.
In Iowa and in Nebraska Allen's career
is marked by an incandescent sagacity ,
which has led him as naturally to the
cover of offices as a pointer dog's nose
leads him to a covey of quail. Mr.
Allen's instinctions arc unerring when
ho hunts an office.
If the microbes of millionairiMSiii and
the bacilli of frugality together with the
germs of avarice invaded and infested
the curious convolutions of the corporeal
system of the great and good Kern , pop
ulist member of congress from Nebraska ,
and filled his blood , bones and alleged
brains with the poison of accumulation
to such a fever height that he saved all
his salary and skipped with it into Colorado
rado to avoid impecunious acquaint
ances , who is safe from capitalistic con
tagion ?
Think of Kern exiled expatriated , to
make himself a Colorado capitalist , with
money secured by gulling Nebraska
populists into making him a congress
man ! ! Think of Kem the plutocrat
made by populist votes in Nebraska
out of Kem the lover of poor people who
gave him ballots that bred a capitalist.
Is there a
,
man in America
who can find any glory for his country
in the fact that the great Republic has
beaten the Crippled Old Woman of Na
tions in war ?
It was Dr Johnson -
PATIUOTISM.
son who said that
"patriotism is the last refuge of the
scoundrel. " The shouters who forced
an unwilling president and a vast ma
jority of men and women in our coun
try into the "hell" of war with a
friendly and weak nation against their
will would do well to study Dr. John
son.
CURRENT COMMENT. 1
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Medical lucapablcs.
The number of so called medical in
stitutions which give degrees in this
country is so great that measures have
been instituted from time to time to re
duce even those which have legitimate
title under our laws. Of these "fake"
organizations which sell the mask of
wisdom and competence , under which
impostors sometimes ply the privilege
of trifling with the life of human be
ings , we do not now speak. Those raise
their heads for a year or two in abun
dance in certain localities and then we
cease to hear much of their nefarious
trade. They are pretty generally severe
ly punished once they emerge from their
hiding places.
But there is a keenly recognized pro
fessional evil in the redundancy of per
sons wearing the title of M. D. who
have secured the appendage under con
ditions which do not violate the law
The graduate of some insignificant col
lege may possibly become by natural
aptitude and practice as skillful a leech
as the graduate of the best. But there
can be no doubt that there is a certain
brevet of value in a degree received
from a great institution. Independent
ly of any other fact it gives reasonable
assurance of excellence , and deservedly
so. It is now proposed in England to
make the statement of the source of the
degree a necessary part of the title , im
posing a heavy fine on the use of M. D
or D. D. without this explanation It
makes less difference concerning the
other titles , but in the medical tag it
would seem to be a matter of impor
tance beyond the common. The parlia
mentary bill to which reference is made
renders it compulsory to add an expla
nation to the title , so that the render
may at once declare its authority. It
leaves the onus of making discrimina
tions to the public. It does not entirely
eradicate a danger , but it goes far in
the right direction. It will not prevent
trickery of the ignorant and the credu
lous , but no legislation would ever do
that.
Under the American system of charter -
tor laws , whereby authority is derived
from the state and not from the United
States , the conditions to be obviated
are far irore intractable. Just such a
state of affairs as is is bound to recur.
But the well known medical universi
ties , which give a reasonable presump
tion of professional acquirement , are
known to people of ordinary intelli
gence. For instance , a degree from the
Now York College of Physicians and
Surgeons , the Pennsylvania College of
Medicine or the Rush Medical college
ot Chicago carries at once with it a bre
vet of distinction which implies a cer
tain degree of competence. It would
help to remove a state of uncertainty
now existing ami in many cases guide
a choice of medical advice. If it
would not altogether prick a bubble , it
would go far to reduce the number
which have a living chance of keeping
afloat. The difficulty in America would
be to secure such a wide concurrence of
state legislation as'would make the law
of general good.
A New View of the Turk.
The stories of the Armenian massacres ,
with their atrocious detail of pillage ,
murder and every horrible passion lot
loose , have been made the subject of
careful inquiry by Mr. Sidney Whit
man , who writes of them in Harper's
Magazine. He has come to the conclu
sion that the Turk has been grossly
slandered and presents his reasons , based
on personal research. The Turks of
course adopted severe methods of re
pression against the revolutionary Ar
menians , wh'o came mostly from Rus
sian territory. The Armenians in Asiatic
Turkey had long lived on perfectly fa-
