Conservative.
THE DAY OP DOOM.
Written for Tin : CONBEHVATIVK.
Hark I The steady tramp of millioiiH ,
Stern as solemn us they come !
With thu banner waving o'er thorn
But no Bound of flfo or drum.
Flag xinfurled ,
Tell the world
That a nation's hosts are rising , but the
ranks with rage are dumb.
Not , ns once in days of struggle ,
Hearts nro heavy with dismay ;
Dim the eyes with tears of sorrow
For the brethren gene astray ;
Not for Union ,
Or Disunion ,
Rally now the grim defenders at the
"wakening Reveille.
Silent all the mass is moving ,
Beating time , with giant throb ,
For a heritage in danger ,
For the legacy of God.
To the polls ,
On it rolls ;
And the mullled cry is "Give us back
the path our fathers trodl"
God's elect are wo no longer ,
To uphold a banner free ,
"When wo plant the heel of Conquest
On the lands beyond the sea.
Right is Might
In / / / * sight
Who bestowed the sacred charter of
Columbia's right to be.
Stain the flag with wanton carnage ?
Trail it in the Plunder sty ?
Think yo 'tis "the white man's burden"
To proclaim that flag a lie ?
Let them say
Who this day
Have defiled the Nation's temple with
the Vandal's battle cry I
Not for long is stayed the Vengeance ;
Honor comes to claim his own ;
Soon the Golden Calf of Conquest
Totters on his stolen throne.
Through the gloom
Swift the doom-
When the sullen voice of ocean roars in
Freedom's angry tono.
SAMUEL P. Btm.Eii.
Cincinnati , O.
The World-Her-
Sl'LKNDID , , ,
SAHCASM. ald ( Omaha ) has
practiced sarcasm
so long and so successfully upon The
Omaha Bee and Mr. Rosewater , who
constructed the triumph of the late ex
position at Omaha , that it can now sat
irize anybody or anything upon a mo
ment's notice. Therefore THE CONSEII-
VATIVE acknowledges a recent scathing
received from that eminent authority
on sixteen-to-oueness and the rights of
cormorants and corporations. The arti
cle which aroused The World-Herald to
cruelly slash this periodical was merely
a mild review of some of the prophecies
and vagaries which that journal pro
claimed in 1896.
Everybody who will review the files
of that interesting and profoundly
learned organ of freo-coinage-sixteen-to-
oneness and Bryanarchy may learn that
The World-Herald predicted that if
Bryan were defeated for the presidency
there would be blood on the moon , no
money in the banks , no bread in the
bakeries , no grain in the fields , no bacon ,
no beef , no mutton ; and that all cows
would go dry , and the calves die. And
because in the mildest and most agree
able manner possible considering the
idiocy of the forecasts these columns
reprinted some of the auguries , asser
tions , predictions and denunciations of
capital , and especially of incorporated
capital , which that zealous Bryanarchist
hurled down upon the public in 189(5 ( ,
THE CONSERVATIVE has been with great
cruelty recently drawn and quartered.
And all merely because it innocently
wondered how The World-Herald could
wickedly rejoice at a race between
two insatiate railroads to see which
should first throw its anaconda coils
around a free nud fertile section of Ne
braska for the purpose of monopolizing
the transportation business of the dear
plain people who tranquilly dwell with
in its limits.
The wonder was how railroads could
bo built subsequent to Bryan's defeat
The bewilderment was how money could
be found , under the blight of the gold
standard , to invest so as to secure the
carrying trade of people who could have
nothing to carry and no money among
them with which to pay either fares
or freights. And in the pleasantest and
most naive manner we calmly inquired
how such things could be if the pecun-
ious prophecies of the Bryauarchists
were true now , or to be verified here
after , as to Nebraska and her railroad-
ridden , capital-crushed plain people.
And behold ! The scimetar is un
belted and the scorching strokes of the
white-metal knight are bestowed upon
us with unmitigated fury and inexorable
cutting-to-the-quickuess.
We apologize. Wo in sackcloth and
ashes recant.
The World-Herald is an organ of the
railroads. It loves corporate capital.
It respects the gold standard and all the
railroad-constructing and other pros
perity which the term implies. It ad
mits that good gold money is a blessing.
It proclaims the boon to Nebraska of
more and new railways. It lauds capi
tal. It invites millionaires to bring
their plutocratic influences to bear upon
the development of the commonwealth.
The World-Herald is a John the Baptist ,
crying in this populistic wilderness be
cause more money , more power of
money , is not coming with celerity to
fertilize factories , mills and other
needed enterprises.
The World-Herald denounces the
diabolism of that organized discontent
which would tax to death insurance , tel
egraph , railroad , manufacturing and
banking capital in Nebraska. Every
day , for years , the columns of this valu
able crusader against the wild theories
and suicidal legislation of the populists
have been stuffed with sound logic
in favor of the honest payment of pub-
lie and private debts upon the eamo cur
rency basis upon which they were con
tracted.
The World-Herald politically and
personally has with valor and distinc
tion reprobated any and all attempts to
make a currency which should favor the
debtor and cheat the creditor and has
likewise bravely antagonized all popu-
listio legislation intended to boat cred
itors , such as stay laws and anti-de
ficiency judgment laws.
What more can THE CONSERVATIVE
truthfully say of that great protector
of capital , that great daily invitation for
cash , and men with cash , to come into
Nebraska ? Wo can only add from its
wisdom this :
"When Mr. Morton learns that op
position to railroads is confined to rail
road extortion , and not to railroads con
ducted honestly and in a business-like
way , he will have learned a great deal. "
Will The World-Herald particularize ?
Will it name a few railroads in Nebraska
which practice "extortion ? "
Will the World-Horald name roads era
a road in Nebraska not "conducted
honestly ? "
Will The World-Herald name the
roads not conducted "in a business-like
way" in Nebraska ? It has declared
that there are such roads and if it has
courage and can tell the truth it will
name and expose all the dishonest , ex-
tortiouato roads.
For forty years
SOME WALNUT
THE CONSEUVA
NUT TKEKS.
TIVE has been ac
tively exhorting people to plant walnuts
in Nebraska , and beside practicing what
it preached THE CONSERVATIVE has it
self several hundred fine black walnut
trees to show as demonstrations of its
theories.
The May number of The Forester
says :
"The most noted grove of walnut
trees in the United States , containing
fifty-one black walnut trees , all of them
of enormous size , was Fold at Cassopolis ,
Mich. , for $10,000 cash. There was
strong competition from all parts of
this country and abroad. The pur
chasers were German and English par
ties. The logs will be cut and squared
for shipment. It is estimated that one
of the trees will produce $1,200 worth of
choice lumber. It was over one hun
dred feet of good logging size , its lar
gest diameter was seven feet , circum
ference 21.99 feet , and it would require
five men hand in hand to encircle it. "
On a farm near Dunbar wo have
nearly two hundred trees which will
average five feet in circumference and
are worth nearly as much as a whole
quarter peotion of ordinary unimproved
Otoe county land.
Plant walnuts ! -