< t 1f f The Conservative. 11 r = = = = = = = = = = = f where high ranges of hills and other local conditions modify the climate. A northern slope receives no full sun light , the sim's rays fall obliquely in the morning or toward evening according to the angle of elevation. The winds it re ceives in winter are colder than those re ceived by the southern slope , but the few winds which strike it during the grow ing season are not strong , hot or very dry. As the vegetation is a little de layed on a northern slope there is less danger from late spring frosts , than on a sunnier aspect and as the snow melts slowly there is a better chance for its waters to sonk into the ground. Incon sequence of these facts trees are less lia ble to suffer from drouth on the same kind of land with a northern than with a soxithern exposure. The trees keep a more regular form and growth is more uniform and certain. It will generally be found that where timber is cut off from a northern slope growth renews itself very quickly , for tree seeds are most likely to grow under the conditions found there. An eastern slope receives the sun in the cool morning hours when the tem perature and light are moderate. It is not exposed to our hot , dry winds nor to the intense heat of the sun. The soil re tains its moisture fairly well and trees make a good growth. For'trees it ranks next in value to a northern slope. A southern slope receives the most direct ravs of the sun. and the full force of our hot , dry winds and beating rains during the growing season. Consequently quently vegetation is more liable to in jury by late spring frosts because of starting earlier in the spring than in any other location. The soil is most liable to erosion from beating summer rains and dries up most quickly after the spring rains. The trees grow irregular in form , the seeds seldom start well on southern or western slopes and when once cleared tree growth is of ten difficult to renew. As proof of the importance of these conditions as affecting tree growth we have the commonly observed fact that the south and west sides of steep hills and mountains are more likely to be bare than any others. This can be very plainly s en on the bluffs along the Mississippi river in Minnesota. A western slope receives the sun's rays obliquely , but in the warmest part of the day and in this section gets the full force of our hot dry southwest winds. The effect of such an exposure on growth is aboxit the same as the southern slope. Some very good HltAG TOO .MUCH. , . . . , ? republican citizens of Nebraska and other states as well are rather conceited as to the position of McKinleyism on the gold standard. These fervid and somewhat short-mem- oried disciples declare that the gold standard is purely the creation of the republican party and the St. Louis con vention which nominated McKinley , who in congress had always voted for silver. The truth is that silver got more ad vantages from the Bland-Allison act which President Hayes vetoed , and which was passed over his veto by a two- thirds vote Major McKinley voting to so pass it than by any other legislation , not even excepting the so-called Sher man act which made the government a warehouse for silver bullion and caused warehouse receipts to bo issued , called them U. S. treasury notes and circulated them us money. McKinley was for all that legislation. Ho even denounced Grovcr Cleveland as an enemy of silver. And all well-rend Americans know that Major McKinley , awaiting the nomination of the Sr.Louia convention , was like a lackey awaiting employment ready to wear any col ored livery which his employer sug gested. McKinley was not a gold-stan dard statesman. Ho was not an out- and-out sixteen-to-one advocate he - - - ; was in waiting and ready to renounce either gold or silver at the command of the convention. In view of the above it is well enough to recall some financial vagaries of our republican friends and to thus ob serve their family resemblance to popu lism. It was on February 20 , 1800 , that so conservative a statesman as Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts declared in the senate that there was not , so far as ho knew , in MnKsnnlnisntts or in the six Now England states , "two per cent of the en tire republican party who hold the theories of Grover Cleveland as I under stand them. There are no gold mono- metalists there. " In the same speech he declared that " 90 per cent of the people of the country were bimetalists , " and that "they believed in the concurrent and continued use of silver as well as gold , not merely as token or subsidiary 11101103' , but as the world's standard of value. " Some brag too much. In the speech quoted the wickedness of the gold stan- dardism is fastened upon Grover Cleve land by Senator George F.Hoar who de clared himself , like Coin Harvey , a bi- metalist. The Omaha Bo < 3 THIS COXSHKVAnnd oher < leading TIVJ2 1'AKTV. . , „ , , journals of the re publican party agree that while there is much dissatisfaction with the policies , expedients and methods of existing poli tical organizations it would bo a work of time and great energies to bring into rank and file and discipline a new party the conservative party. This may be true. It is just however what the whig papers said in 1854 when the republican party held its first conventions in Michi gan , Ohio and other states. It did not verify then and it might not prove time now. The country needs a party to work for the republic and its betterment in every department of government. The United States has suffered from a surplus of statesmanship seeking to exalt individ uals instead of principles. It is time to bring to the front that citizenship which is ambitious to do for the government instead of that too common brand which desires government to do everything for it. The United States needs men who are capable of forgetting individual or class interests for the sake of promoting peace and laying the foundations of permanent prosperity. The great masses of the people need educated , fearless and patriotic leaders , not what they have now in super abundance mere followers , demagogues who will agree that the moon is made of green cheese if the multitude so declares. ANTI-KXPANSION SHNTIMKNT. Annexation will not build railroads or steamship lines. Neither will it incul cate in the Malays the habit of wearing clothes or of buying foreign food when they can pick up native food in abundance almost at the doors of their huts , or of working when they can live comfortably in utter indolence. The notion that the millions of assorted Asiatic savages who inhabit the Philip pines are going to blossom suddenly into a great commercial people , and establish a wonderful market for the surplus pro ducts of the United States , is one of the most fantastic delusions of the whole expansion craze. Worcester Spy ( Rep ) . There is no section of the earth that needs new markets more than New Eng land , and that fact is fully realized by her manufacturers and merchants. The business associations of Boston are as much in favor of a liberal reciprocity treaty with Canada as they are opposed to the fatalistic nonsense that is urged , ad nauseam , with respect to the Philip pines. They are not in favor of letting go the opportunities at their own door to chase the mirages that are deluding im perialistic dreamers. Hero is the trade of an empire indeed , whereas in the bar barous Philippines there is a commerce , all told , but little larger than that of the single West Indian island of Santo Dom ingo. Boston Transcript ( Rep ) . We are glad to know that both the Georgia senators are opposed to taking the Philippines on any conditions. They represent the convictions of a great ma jority of their constituents in the stand they have taken on this question. At lanta Journal ( Dem ) . Wo have more ground than we can cover and crowd in two hundred years , and problems enough to- engage all of our attention for the whole of that time. When we secure freedom here , and can restrain an army from such ruffianism as has been exhibited in Porto Rico , it will be time to offer it to whomever wants it. Boston Record ( Rep ) .