Conservative ,
THE FILIPINOS
Written for Tin : COXSEUVATIVK.
Said McKinley : "Send a vessel
Big war vessel , fully manned ;
For the. islands wo must wrestle
Wo must claim this foreign land.
These poor natives need good teachers ,
To point out the way to Heaven ;
Fill the vessel well with preachers ,
God to us this work has given ;
Missionaries , lie not mum I
Filipinos , hero they eomot"
Then said angry General Otis :
"People ! Yellow , brown , and black ,
Listen I I will give you notice ,
Now wo'ro hero , we shan't go hack.
Soon you'll see n t-hip appearing
Soldiers , pi eachers all on board ;
'Twist the two they'll make a clearing
With the Bible and the sword !
Missionaries , Guns. Succumb
Filipinos , hero they come !
Said the Liquor trust : "Wo'll follow ;
Horn's a elm nco to make a pile !
In this vessel , big and hollow ,
Wo will store our sirups vile.
Those doomed natives ! Whatwith pray
ing ,
Preaching , drinking , sense bereft ,
What with wounding and with slaying ,
There'll ho nothing of them loft !
Missionaries , Guns , and Rum
Filipinos , hero they come ! "
EMHAUKTII E. EVANS.
The Tnmpn Herald
NAMKI ) .
ald of Mr. J. D.
Calhouu iu a recent issue remarks :
"In reply to Mr. J. Sterling Morton's
request to The Herald to name some
trusts or corporations that should be ex
terminated , we will suggest the Stan
dard Oil Company first because it is
the most powerful and best , known or-
gaiii/ation of the kind in the country
because Mr. Morton had it in mind and
cited it as governed by enlightened sel
fishness and possessed of reason. Wo
venture the suggestion that enlightened
selfishness is never a good quality , and
that the possesion of reason is not neces
sarily a virtue. The Standard Oil Com
pany began its career by some consoli
dations and some destructions. It used
the foulest moans to destroy competitors
whom it could not swallow or buy. It
bribed officials and bought legislators.
It crushed out of business the private in
dividual who deals in oils bought from
other producers than itself. It took
control of producing oil fields and pro
cured favoritism by railroad managers
so that other fields controlled or owned
by other people could not get their pro
ducts to market in competition with it.
It bought seats in the United States
senate for its members and its friends.
It has swindled the states out of taxes.
In short there is not a commercial crime
on the calendar which it has not com
mitted. There is not a director on its
long roll who does not deserve and has
not earned confinement for life at hard
labor behind grated bars. To this day
it defies the courts of the country and
refuses to obey their orders in oven so
simple a thing as to allow its employees
and books to bo produced in court. "
Enlightened selfishness is the stimu
lant of every successful person or cor
poration. It is the selfish who do not
think that endanger themselves , their
neighbors and the country.
The Standard Oil Company reduces
the price of oil to every consumer in the
United States to a lower figure than
coal oil was ever purchased before the
Standard Oil Company existed.
It is Mr. Calhouu's duty as an editor
and good citizen to name instances of
"foulost means" used by the Standard
Oil Company to' 'destroy its competitors' '
and to specify who was destroyed and
where and when. The man who has
knowledge of a crime and conceals it is
no better than the criminal.
Again , Mr. Calhoun , speaking of the
Standard Oil Company , declares that it
"bribed officials and bought legislators. "
But when , where , how , and for what ?
Please name , specify and describe.
It controlled railroads ; when , where
and through whom ?
"It bought seats in the United States
senate ; " for whom , when and in what
states and why ?
"What states has it swindled out of
taxes ? And why did the states permit
the swindles ? Name any and all such
states.
"There is not a commercial crime on
the calendar which the Standard Oil
Company has not committed. " THE
CONSERVATIVE calls for the calendar and
a specification of times and places where
it has been violated by the Standard
Oil Company.
"There is not a director on its long
roll who does not deserve and has not
earned confinement for life at hard la
bor behind grated bars. "
Will Mr. Calhoun kindly furnish
THE CONSERVATIVE and the general
public with the nomenclature of the gi
gantic culprits he finds in the Standard
Oil directory ? We desire to expose and
punish such men as he so pungeutly de-t
picts.
Again Mr. Calhoun remarks of this
society of oleaginous pirates :
"That it has enslaved and robbed the
people is evident by the immense for
tunes its leading magnates have ac
quired. The possession of the money
they have accumulated is a confession
of guilt. The five or six hundred mil
lion dollars they possess have been
taken by the cent and the half cent
from millions of people. They have
robbed the beggar of a little crumb of
his crust , as well as the rich man of a
few dollars. "
Is the fact that money , wealth or cap
ital is found in a corporation conclusive
evidence of guilt ? According to Mr.
Calhoun all the honest corporations are
in the hands of receivers. But the
truth that every consumer of kero
sene is getting cheaper oil than ever it
was purchased prior to the Standard
Oil Company still stands and is una
bashed. It is ensy to make sweeping
statements. Will it bo as easy for
Colonel Calhoun to niako specific ones ,
to particularize the crimes and name the
criminals whom ho asserts adhere to
the Standard Oil company ? Let him
file his bill of particulars. Give the
American people a perfect presentation
of the pirates and the piracies which are
so graphically portrayed. Either do
this or plead ignorance , malevolence or
cowardice for not doing it , and wo are
confident ; that Colonel Calhoun can not
bo justly charged with either. Ho is
always trying to tell the truth , however
much impediment inny seemingly in
terfere with his veracity ; and his
knowledge and courage are proverbial.
In a recently reported -
ported interview
Colonel William Jennings Bryan is
made to remark , relative to possible re
publican recruits and probable demo
cratic prodigals :
"Next year will see more men drawn out
of the republican party than ever before
iu any one year. Not only that , but wo
will bring back many who left us in ' 96.
These who know why they wont out
and loft us when the battle line was
drawn up against plutocracy will not
and ought not to come back. We do
not want them to come back , for they
would be as leprosy in the side of the
party. "
How "more men are to be drawn out
of the republican party" and annexed to
the expanding-of-tho-ctirrency party
next year , than were ever drawn out be
fore "in any one year" is not explained.
It is only a prophecy. And will bo
bound iu the same volume with the
prophecies made by Bryan in 189(5. (
"We will bring back many who loft
us in ' 96. "
But those "who knew why they went
out" will not and ought not to como
back. Those who went out without
knowing why Bryan will welcome back.
But those who think and act knowingly
"would be a leprosy in the side of the
party" if they should como back.
THE CONSERVATIVE publishes the
above to merely assure Colonel Bryan
that he and his household of populism
need go to no expense in vaccinating
against such "leprosy , " nor need they
take any antiseptic preventives. There
are organisms which a self-respecting
disease can never outer. And a party
that has been afflicted with sixteen-to-
oneness and anti-government by injunc
tion and doctored by Bryan , Butler ,
Jones , Watson & Company ought to be
immune.
A dental authority declares that it is
not uncommon at the present time to
find infants with decayed teeth and
girls of fourteen or sixteen wearing art-
ficial teeth.