'Cbe Conservative *
determine how far they shall express
finite conceptions of the infinite purpose.
These are bub the first fruits of "im
perialism" in the United States. They
are quite sufficient to give promise of an
abundant harvest. If the president and
congress are hereafter to reign over sub
ject races in the exercise of despotic
power , it is fitting that they should as
sume such power without pretense of
delegated authority. Bat it can not ,
must not bo. Our people will not long
permit the American flag to wave over
"lesser breeds without the law. " "Sub
jects" and "subject peoples" are impos
sible words in the lexicon of free gov
ernment. All the territory of the Uni
ted States must become self-governing
states. All its people must bo "citizens
of the United States and of the states
wherein they reside. " All territory
that may not become states , every people
ple who may not become citizens , must
bo left without the Union. Peoples so
incompetent for self-government as to
require to bo ruled by despotic power
from without must bo loft to
the oppression of others. Only by strict
adherence to the American doctrine of
an all inclusive citizenship of a union
of states can we work out our real des
tiny. All duties bayond this are not
national but individual. It is for us as
a nation to remain dedicated to our
great task , "that government of the
people , by the people , for the people ,
shall not perish from the earth. "
There have been
SIXTEEN TO ONE.
sixteou
mon
whore there is now only one man
in Nebraska and the Northwest
to advocate cheaper money , the silver
standard and less purchasing power in
the dollar of the government of the
United States.
There have been bixteen newspapers
whore there is now only one to publish
the illusions , vagaries and delusions of
those touder-heartod gentlemen who
would have the plain people work for
dollars of less value than gold dollars.
There have been sixteen voters where
there is now one to send cash to Coin
Harvey for the purpose of propagating
the doctrines of the Jones-Allon-Tellor
school of economics among the people
of this republic.
Senator Hoar's
NEW ENGLAND recollfc fl ju
AND THE . . . . .
PRESIDENT. which ho avowed
uncompromi sing
opposition to the president's policy of
colonial expansion and military rule over
ten or a dozen millions of savage and
semi-civilized races in the Philippine
islands was open notice to the president
that "duty and destiny" is liable to en
counter serious trouble before the com
ing treaty with Spain will bo ratified by
the senate. Followed by the late bold
expression of the great meetings in Bos
ton , and by "the sober second thought"
*
of the people all over the country , and
by startling race-conflicts in the Caro-
Unas , it is not unreasonable to say that
the gentleman from somewhere who re
cently said , on the occasion of a public
dinner , which was intended to give a
fresh impetus to the missionary policy ,
that this policy was "already settled , "
may have early ground for revising his
opinions. The national honor and com
mon honesty may not influence its defeat -
feat , because the national honor and
common honesty do not always rule in
the controlling councils of governments
by the majority , but wholesome fear of
injury and danger to the country may
make it no easy matter to install the
new order. It requires a vote of two-
thirds of the senate to ratify any treaty
that may be made with Spain. Attor
ney General Griggs should not bo too
confident of the power of Mr. President ,
or Mr. Hay , or Mr. Day , or of oven Mr.
Griggs himself , to override , with party
whip and spur , a rising opinion in the
United States which is sure to offer bold
and uncompromising opposition to the
un-American scheme of government by
the bayonet in the Philippine islands.
FIIEE SEED OU FREE VACCINE
MATTER.
Reports from Columbus and other
cities in Ohio indicate that smallpox
is epidemic , and suggest the propriety
of Col. Grosvenor and Senator Hanna
amending the appropriation bill which
provides for the gratuitous distribution
of common garden seeds , so that the ap
portionment of those funds for that
state may be used for the purchase and
distribution of vaccine points.
Ohio congressmen could then become
as useful in preventing human disease
as the agricultural department is in send
ing out gratuitous serum for tubercu
losis in cattle , and for swine plague
among hogs.
Why not make valuable and useful
gratuities instead of worthless and use
less ones if the government of all
the people is to continue any sort of do
nations to a few of the people ?
Or is human health and life of less
consequence than brute life ? Are young
children and youth of loss value in the
estimation of congressmen than early
spring vegetables , sucking pigs , shoats ,
calves and yearlings ?
A writer in The Times-Herald states
that moro timber is destroyed in the
Rooky mountains every year by fires ,
than is cut in five years for man's use.
Webster defines a statesman : "A
man versed in public affairs and in the
principles and art of government ; especi
ally one eminent for political abilities. "
Cheap money demagogues and delus
ions are born of and supported by pub
lic distress. Prosperity kills the dema
gogue and dissipates the delusion.
Tnc CONSERVATIVE
HEALTHY CIR
TIVE continues to
CULATION.
increase its heal
thy and satisfactory circulation. The
Western country appreciates a periodical
that has courage enough to think for
itself , say what it thinks , and fortitude
and pluck enough to take the consequences
quences without whining or wincing.
THE CONSERVATIVE is an out and out
gold standard advocate on the west bank
of the Missouri river and the first pub
lication of any sort not afraid to defend
corporate as well as individual rights
in Nebraska and the Northwest.
THE CONSERVATIVE'S circulation
makes it a splendid adv -rtising medium ,
but THE CONSERVATIVE will only
take such advertisements as it deems
worthy of its columns. Quack nos
trums and gift enterprises are excluded.
Prosecutions for kse-mijcute have increased - *
creased four-fold in Germany during the
reign of the present omperor. This
French term stands for an offense for
which wo have no name in English , because -
cause wo have not the idea ; the Ger
mans have a word of their own for it ,
and it is a laminar subject in both
France and Germany. It consists in a
lesion , or injury , to the majesty of a
ruler , as distinguished from his other
characteristics. It would seem to an
American that the best way to preserve
one's majesty , supposing that you had
one , would bo to keep it where people
couldn't get at it. Emperor William
appears to have failed , by 75 per cent ,
to keep his majesty itp to the grade es
tablished by his predecessors.
THE CONSERVATIVE , edited by J. Ster
ling Morton , is destined to become one
of the ranking papers , editorially , in the
United States. Mr. Morton is a power
ful writer , and pleasing , and his conservatism
vatism is bound to bo of great influence
as his paper grows in circulation. Re
publicans as wo are , wo can read most
of his articles with pleasure and profit.
Nebraska has truly favored the nation
with some of its ablest mon in the past
few years , Morton being one of them.
Culbertson Era.
The Christmas number of the Pall
Mali magazine contains a grim tale of
West Africa , entitled "Tho Bait , " in
which the author , Mr. 0. J. Cutcliffo
Hyno , exposes one of the many not over
scrupulous excuses for colonial expan
sion.
Wo never pick up Mr. Morton's CON
SERVATIVE without finding something
to clip for publication , or to file away
for future reference. It is brim full of
good things. Clay Center ( Nob. ) Sun.
The man who invented patent insides
for newspapers did very much to de
grade the style , character and ability of
the weekly journals of the United
States.