be Conservative.
Central commit-
j rntr ivr , . _ . . . .
ISSUK. * ees 1U Illinois , or
elsewhere , not
even national committees of nny party ,
have noitlicr influence nor power to
make issues for political parties. The
late action of the Illinois committee of
Mr. Bryan's party , with the personal
presence of Mr. Bryan himself , to secure
unanimity where there was known to be
growing division upon the 10 to 1 ele
ment of the silver issue , settled nothing
as to what shall bo the main question
between parties in the next presidential
election. Significant signs are not
wanting to make it probable that the
action of the state committee of Illinois
was a shrewd device of Mr. Bryan's
own procreation to check the silent
movement which began on the Pacific
coast , swept through Iowa , and caused
disturbance in Illinois , in opposition to
the fatal 10 to 1 proposition. The Paci
fic states wore already lost to the silver
cause. Iowa had flatly repudiated it
through the original silver advocates
with Governor Boies in the lead , and
the people at the late election , giving
distinct and bold prominence to the
silver question in all its phases , con
demned it by overwhelming majorities
at the ballot-boxes. The older states
ignored silver altogether , and the case
was becoming desperate. It was neces
sary that something should be done , and
Mr. Bryan did it. He is as quick as a
panther to see a break in his own armor.
The coming issue for 1900 has already
come. The new congress , after a long
and high debate , will fix and formulate
it , aided by stirring events which are
already foreshadowed by the reported
attitude of Aguinaldo and the people ot
the Philippines. If it be true as re
ported at the moment of this writing
that this intrepid leader had lost his
popularity with his people because of his
friendly attitude toward our couutiy ii
is probable that he joins them in order
to regain it. In this case the govern
ment and people of the United States
including Theodore Roosevelt , have
abundant reason for sobriety over im
pending dangers of wars of conquesl
wliich , all the world will say , will be
both wanton and wicked.
CONSERVA
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CHINA. TIVE took notice
by a passing men
tion of the eloquent , passionate and im
pressive appeal for peace by the Chinese
minister at the Exposition. It was 01
the occasion of the miscalled Peace Jub
ilee and the visit of the president , who
with others , invoked the spirit of peace
upon our nation by boasting its prowess
and terrible achievements in war. It
was in the midst of such a paradoxica
performance , when the hearts of assem
bled thousands were stirred by the questionable
tionablo glory of a people eighty niillioi
strong in its conquest of Spain , the
rippled old woman among nations , that
his great representative of "the oldest
mtion" of 400,000,000 of people pro-
lounced one of the most moving tri
butes to peace that was ever made by
any man of any nation since the dis
covery of gunpowder.
Poor , degenerate China ! Knowing
lothing about war , without the Ohris-
ian religion , "no army , no navy , no
quartermaster or commissariat , " as Mr.
Charles Denby tells us and as all the world
mows , the helpless victim of wrong and
njustico at the hands of every other na-
ion , despoiled of her rights and terri-
; ones as wolves destroy the carcasses ot
iheir prey , China , under the teachings
of such heathens as Confucius and
Vlencius , sees , only when it is too late ,
what has been lost to a civilization dat
ing back thousands of years by the con
tinuous calamity which kept it in ignor
ance of the beauty and blessings of the
Christian idea of peace and justice , and
righteousness , among the nations of the
earth.
There is a school
according to whose
view there are only two European races
at bottom , namely , the long-heads
and the broad-heads. As far back as
geology gives testimony of mankind's
existence , these two types of skulls are
found , and they persist just as sharply
in the men of today. If you will ex
amine the outline of your head , around
its broadest part above the ears , you will
find that it is either long and narrow ,
and of nearly the same width through
out , or else shaped something like a
pear , with the bulge back of your ears
and the stem above your eyes. You
will then have the advantage of know
ing to which race you belong , and can
inform your family that you are dolicho
cephalic or brachycephalic , as the case
may be.
The significance of the matter lies in
the different work that the two types
have accomplished in the past , and their
probable destiny for the future. They
are characterized by a recent writer
somewhat as follows :
The long-heads are xisually tall and
fair-haired , active , ambitious and cour
ageous , the locomotive element of man
kind. They fight for the sake of fight
ing ; they are explorers and adventurers ;
the whole world is their country. They
gain riches with ease , but are not so
well adapted for keeping hold of them
they prefer action to much talk , and in
religion are mainly protestant. Their
typo prevails in the north of Europe.
The broad-heads inhabit more south
ern countries , and are more docile to
guidance , in religion and other matters
as well. They are more likely to bo
short in stature and dark of skin. They
are prudent , hard working and econom
ical , and though not cowardly , not war
like either. They accumulate goods
slowly , but keep what they got ; they
are easily taken in with words , love
authority and tradition , and are suspici
ous of change.
The long-head , as may be supposed ,
is usually found in control of things. It
is lie that has the bulk of the world's
wealth , and he is the scholar and the
athlete as well. But he does not last ;
10 is the one that does the great things ,
nit lie may not leave any children be-
lind him. Some of the long-headed
races of history , who were known for
conquerors , have died out entirely , and
it is succested that his dav mav bo past.
and that the broad-head may be the one
whoso qualities best fit him for the work
of the future.
THIS TRANSMUTATION OF MKTAL.S.
It was the famous Dr. Girtanner , of
Goettingen , who once made the pro
phecy that "in the nineteenth century
the transmutation of metals will be gen
erally known and practised. Every
chemist and every artist will make
gold ; kitchen utensils will be silver , and
even gold. "
The great chemist failed as a prophet
on the transmutation of metals by the
wondrous arts of chemistry ; but the
century now on its last legs , the immor
tal nineteenth , has discovered , if all that
wo hear be true , that the value of met
als can bo transmuted by written stat-
utes-into the most precious of human
the of "be-it-
possessions on simple plan - -
enacted , " by the process of a simple
declaration by the almighty congress of
the United States.
The only cheap
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CIIKA1 > MONKY. . , , , ,
money that the
laborer , farmer , mechanic or man of
business and property needs in this
country , or in any other country , comes
to them in the form of a coined dollar ,
or its equivalent , which is worth 100
cents , unless it be this kind of a dollar
which he can now borrow at the low in
terest rate of four , five or six per cent.
This land of cheap money is what in
now making the farmers and people of
this state so rich that too many of them
arc more or less discontented because
they are not richer.
The recent protest of , T. Sterling Mor
ton , of Nebraska , against the cutting of
Christmas trees is warmly commended
in the West. In his protest he said :
"The trees selected for slaughter on this
anniversary are always the straightest
and most symmetrical. There wore last
year more than twenty million of Christ
mas trees cut down and put on the
market. The absurdity of celebrating
the birth of the Saviour of the world by
a Avanton waste and extravagance which
jeopardize the welfare of millions of
human beings yet unborn is obvious to
every thinking man. " New York Tri
bune.