Cbe Conservative ,
TIIDTII.
. fact that faces
the Bryanarchists of Nebraska nnd the
United States and frightens and mad
dens them is that wilh the best possible
discipline and leadership in J89G , they
were routed horse , foot and dragoons.
They know positively now that the fu
sion forces can never bo ho well organ
ized again. They know now that the
money fallacies and other economic va
garies of 1890 can never again delude so
many people.
And they gnash their teeth when they
behold the gold democrats still undis
mayed , unrepentant , and defiant ready
to meet defeat for a thousand years
rather than to aid or abet the pernicious
doctrines of the Chicago platform , upon
which "Watson , Bryan and Sowall were
candidates , in the slightest dpgreo. The
advocates of the contimiatiou of the
gold standard are rightconsciously , abso
lutely and conscientiously right. There
fore they could not compromise with the
wrong if they would and would not if
they could. Nothing but the renuncia
tion of the Chicago platform can over
reunite democracy.
Legitimate combi-
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nations of capital ,
by which many manufactories or plants
are engaged in producing the same goods ,
chattels or commodities , may be a bles
sing to consumers. Only the legitimate
can live. All trusts which upon organ
ization over-capitalize their plants are
destined to speedy disaster and death.
All purchasers of stocks and bonds representing -
resenting purely fictitious values will
find themselves swindled. It is not the
plain citizen , the mechanic , merchant ,
farmer or day-laborer who suffers from
the trust. But it is the man or woman
who is induced to take the bonds and
stocks of trusts. Ninety per cent of
these "industrials" as they are called are
very much over-valued. No better il
lustration of the false values of plants
put into trusts can be found than right
here in Nebraska City. Some years
since the Whisky Trust paid for the
Nebraska City Distillery and grounds ,
including feeding sheds for eighteen
hundred steers , two hundred thousand
dollars. But that trust did burst , and
its property pass into the hands of a re
ceiver and the receiver sold the Nebraska
City Distillery , grounds , cattle sheds
and all , for less than twenty thousand
dollars , not one-tenth of its cost to the
trust.
March , 1899 , saw trusts organized
under the laws of New Jersey which
were capitalized for more than two bil
lions of dollars. They will cheat only
those who buy into them.
Trusts founded upon correct business
bases , handled with skill and economy
may reduce the cost of production in
some cases and sell their output at the
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pome or a less rate than it now costs the
consumer. Such trusts can do no harm.
Every trust over-capitalized solely for
stock-jobbing and other swindling will
bring disaster and ruin only upon itself
and its own members. Trusts , like in
dividuals , are amenable to economic
laws. Trusts , like persons , are subject
to competition. Dishonest merchants
and manufacturers always come to
grief. They cannot successfully com
bat the honest. Incorporated dishon
esty can not succeed any better than
individual rascality.
When a number of bad men pool
their badness and create out of their
avarice and greed a consolidated cheat
and call it a trust they make a concrete
or composite precisely like the moral
and business methods of its integrals.
rOUKTII OF JULY AT INDEPENDENCE
HALL.
Some time ago TIIE CONSERVATIVE
suggested , if a new political party
evolved out of the present distrust of
existing ones in the United States , and
was to be organized by the more thought
ful and conservative citizenship of rhe
republic , that the 4th day of July , 1899 ,
would be a good date and Independence
Hall , Philadelphia , a good place for its
first convention.
There was only suggestion in the arti
cle. No convention was called. No
body was authorized to make such a
call. But if each state in the Union
should form a convention of some of its
conservative citizens , send delegates to
Philadelphia to meet in Independence
Hall on 4th of July the new political
organization would be launched. It
would become the
balance-of-power
party in the United States , if not the
majority party , before the presidential
election in 1900. Social and political
upheavals , in a country where postal
and telegraphic communication is per
fect and universal may occur with spon
taneous unanimity.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
It seems that Christian Scientists have
their troubles , and that there is oven a
difference of opinion among them as to
where the"divinelybestowedleadership"
rightfully belongs. This state of things
appears moreover to have given rise to a
controversy which differs in no mater
ial point , as regards form , from those
which ensued when doctors disagreed
under the old system. A copy of a Bos
ton organ of this school , which has just
been received , devotes five pages to
this discussion. There is a careful com
parison , as having an important bear
ing on it , between "Dr. Quimby's God"
and "Mrs. Eddy's God. " This com
parison , which seems at first sight to
have a distinct Old Testament savor , is
apparently very much to the disadvant
age of Dr. Quimby's God , though there
is always a doubt loft in the reader's
mind as to what the English language ,
when arranged according to Christian
Science rules , precisely means. The
leaders of this movement seem to have
much the same mystic power over
words as was possessed by the late Mr.
Keeley of Philadelphia , who was always
willing to explain , but whoso explana
tions left his stockholders , though much
impressed , still uncomprehending.
But in the more controversial portions
of the document there is no buch diffi
culty. Here the layman feels at homo
at once , for ho meets on every hand
such good old expressions as absurdity ,
utter fatuity , falsehood , outworn falsc-
Itoodn , fossilized falsehoods , malicious fab
rications , feigned originals , pirated pam
phlets , purloined publications , wicked and
dishonest , stultifying themselves , craven ,
palmed off , crawl out of it , unmarked ,
and so on , all used in the sense in which
they are familiar to us in similar con
nections. Altogether , anyone who
studied Volapuk ten years or more ago
will bo reminded of the pleas put forth
incessantly by the reverend Father
Schleyer , of Constance , and of his de
nunciations of those wicked men who
wished to claim part of the credit for
that precious Volapuk of which ho was ]
the one , only , single , sole and unique
inventor. <
One difference is that the latter con
troversy was terminated , in the course
of time , by the death of Father Schleyer ,
whereas this solution cannot bo counted
on in the former , since "Christian Sci
entists have absolute assurance that ,
they are in possession of a Science
which will , in its ultimate application ,
destroy death. " And this amounts to a
hardship , since when death is destroyed
the weary listener cannot even take that
avenue of escape from a debate which
the protagonists will maintain through
out eternity.
One erroneous , or at least inaccurate ,
statement has escaped the proof-reader's
eye in the paper in question. "A fundamental - }
damental point of the Science is the un
reality or non-existence of matter ; " and
yet it is claimed that upon the organiz
ation of a Scientific church at Santa
Ana , Cal. , "the hall was papered , floor
covered , and chairs , pulpit and plat
form put in. "
A robust
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WAVE. n W1"l Wave
and baid : "Let
us go into Wall street and organize a
Trust. "
They went in and upon a stake of
thirteen dollars , under the laws of
Now Jersey , capitalized an ancient
Wind-mill and a Dry Ditch as "The
Aerial and Aqueous Power Company ,
Limited" stocks and bonds fifty millions
of dollars , at seven per cent , easy. All
taken in twenty-four hours. There are
a hundred suckers born into Wall street
every minuto.
