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gone on. But a minister who reads his
Bible should know better. The lan
guage reminds mo of those in ancient
Israel who leaned on Jehovah saying ,
"Is not Jehovah in the midst of us ? No
evil can come upon us , " whom Micah
rebuked. God , the real God , is not in
different which of two courses wo take ;
Ho does not take care of us hi any case ;
only if we take the right are we safe ,
and if we take the other He conducts us
to destruction.
liberty r Mammon.
It is a sublime call which comes to the
American nation today. Choose ye
whom ye will serve , Mammon or liberty
and right. Will you conquer races
groping upward to freedom and to light ,
or will you make yourselves friends to
them , assisting them , standing guard
over them to prevent aggressions from
without ? The London Spectator says
that an independent Philippine republic
would in ten years be either English ,
German or Japanese. That is what we
are to prevent. That is why we cannot
withdraw from the China Sea and leave
the Philippines absolutely to themselves.
That is why I am. glad that we have the
sort of title-deed that we have. The
other nations thereby respect us and
know that if they interfere they will
have someone else to reckon with besides
a republic just in its swaddling clothes.
We should give the Philippines a chance.
We should not impose upon them our
civilization ( beyond the mere respect for
order , which , in the main , indeed , they
already have ) , but let them develop
their own civilization. The world is
not all of one type , nor need civilization
be a stereotyped thing. We should ex
pect the Malays , under fostering influ
ences , to contribute something to the
world. Whatever they may absorb
from contact with outside peoples let
them absorb , but let them run it into
their own moulds ; let them odd in this
way to the variety and wonder and rich
ness of the world. I devoutly hope , I
would earnestly pray did I think there
was any use in prayer , that America
may see where the port of honor and
glory really lies , and I can at least be
seech you , my hearers , to weigh this
whole matter solemnly in your minds ,
nud if you find that you can agree with
me , then go among your friends and ac
quaintances and make converts to your
idea , speak in season and out of season ,
in public and in private about it , for I
believe the fate of this nation now trem
bles in the balance and that action , right
action , alone avails.
IIAXTJBU'S CALL TO TIIE UNCON-
VKKTISD.
Among old time theologians "Baxter's
call to the unconverted" was regarded
as a powerful appeal to sinners to mend
their manners and change their thoughts
from carnal to spiritual things. But
McKiuley's call to the heathen of the
Philippines to turn from their barbaric
idolatries to the blessed and "benevo
lent assimilation" of a great and Chris
tian people is louder , stronger and more
in the spirit of the church militant.
Hundreds of letters from private sol
diers now fighting "niggers" in the
islands of the Pacific are published in
the newspapers of the United States
from time to time. The refined and
loving methods of propagating the doc
trines of peace on earth and good will to
man are variously depicted. A young
disciple named Fred D. Sweet who pro
claims peace and good will through the
Utah battery writes humanely as fol
lows , concerning a battle with the bar
barians : "The scene reminded me of
the shooting of jack-rabbits in Utah
only the rabbits sometimes got away but
the insurgent1 ? did not. " Another young
Christian Chas. Beuner , of Minneapolis ,
Kansas : ' 'It was fine shooting as it was
open ground" speaking of the charge
of the Kansas regiment at Calocoau
"and we picked them off like quail. "
He also says : "Company I had taken a
few prisoners and stopped. The colonel
ordered them up into line time after
time , and finally sent Captain Bishop
back to start them. There occurred the
hardest sight I ever saw. They had Jour
prisoners and didn't know what to do with
them. Then asked Captain Bishop what
to do and he said , 'You know the orders , '
and four natives fell dead. "
This sort of piety instituted by the
mild and smug McKinley is so unlike
"criminal aggression" that it appeals to
the pride and patriotism of all those
gentle jingoes who howl for a "greater
America" without thinking how urgent
the need is for a greater president !
Baxter's cell . to the unconverted is ob
solete.
BurlinStOU
TWO HUN-
has declared
IJKKD MILES. company
clared its inten
tion of building two hundred miles of
new lines in western Nebraska during
the year 1899.
Are the populists and other vagarists
and fallacy followers ready with arms
in their hands to march against this in
vasion of their domains by massed mil
lions of Eastern capital ? Will the pro
tectors of the plain people permit this
incursion of corporate greed and pluto
cratic avarice ?
Will Governor Poynter , as the com-
rnaiider-in-chief of the military of the
great commonwealth of Nebraska , fail
to "call out the troops" and repel this
vile invasion ? How can Governor
Poynter fail to remember that agoniz
ing cry of his party emitted at Chicago
in 1896 by its oracle and seer :
"Having behind us the commercial
interests and the laboring interests and
all the toiling masses , we shall answer
their demands for a gold standard by
saying to themyou shall not press down
upon the brow of labor this crown of
thorns. You shall not crucify mankind
upon a cross of gold 1" and at once or
ganize the militia to drive from our
midst these gold-standard hirelings ? -5
Even Otoo county is placed in danger
of corporate capital. Already among
Nebraska City's permanent residents
TIIE CONSERVATIVE has discovered taxpaying -
paying , house-building , and manufac
turing-plant citizens who would wel
come millionaires and new lines of rail
road leading out towards Sterling , \
through Talmage to Do Witt , with t
warm hands to hospitable and profitable
investments.
With every indication and forecast
telling Nebraska of the possibility of
new lines of railroad and the probability
of their early completion , how can the
populistic crusaders against capital and
corporate power remain inert , unen-
thused and supine ? Will they quietly
permit the predictions of 1896 to go un
verified ? Will they basely submit to
prosperity and the pecuuious power of
corporations disbursing millions of dollars
lars in fair Nebraska for the p'urpose of
destroying the farmers with more
and cheaper transportation ? Where
are the prophets of 1896 ? Where are
the soothsayers who told the plain people
ple of the twenty-five cent wheat , ten
cent corn and saleless swine which
would rest down upon Nebraska like an
avalanche of ice , rock and snow if the
gold standard was maintained in 1896 by
the defeat of Bryan ? Are those prophets
now so cowardly , so subdued and weak
that they will quietly submit to prosperity
and thrift as evinced by new railroads in
Nebraska ? Can those augurs of disas
ter now view with tranquillity money
begging for borrowers in Nebraska at
six per cent ? Can those financiers who
frothed at the mouth while depicting in
1896 the foreclosures of farm mortgages
which were sure to follow Bryan's de
feat now smile complacently while farm
mortgages are being swiftly paid off all
over Nebraska and being foreclosed no
where ? Two hundred miles of new
railroad ! Shall this outrageous invasion
be suffered ?
The Railway Age , under date of April
14 , relates how "the Burlington has
joined the list of large Western systems
which will make considerable additions
in the way of new mileage this year.
Under the charter of the Nebraska Wy
oming & Western it is proposed to build
from Alliance , Neb. , west through a
portion of the state not now provided
with railway facilities and across Wy
oming , following the valleys of the
North Platte , Sweetwater and other
rivers to the western boundary of the
latter state. Such a road would prac
tically parallel the Union Pacific through
Wyoming , although at a distance of
about 75 miles from the latter for a
portion of the distance. Surveyors hava
been at work in Nebraska for some time
post , but the company has not made
public its plans until they were revealed
by the filing of articles of incorporation
in Wyoming. General Manager Hold-
rege of the B. & M. B. , who is one of
the incorpnrators of the new company ,
states that grading has already been
commenced on the line from Alliance to
Hartwell , Wyo. "