Conservative. 3
On Friday , July
AT HUMl'HRKY. , - , , , ,
15 , at Humphrey a
large and enthusiastic mooting of citi
zens listened to Allen , Bryan and W. H.
Thompson , the pocket giant of Grand
Island. The latter in a peroration of
great rovorboratory power , tremendous
resonance and completely innocent of
definition , directness or thought , sub
limely screeched :
"Awake , freedom calls ! The foe of
organized wealth must never slumber ;
it recks not how o'er pleasant may seem
the day or happy the hour. If you have
sorrows , go bury them ; they will keep
until another day. If you have strifes
and contentions , forget them now ; think
of the cause and not personal prefer
ment. You'll have all the strife and
contention you can cope with furnished
you free by another party fighting under
another banner and for another cause.
Organize ; organize from the state house
to the school house , and be friends while
you organize. United we will win , di
vided the victory will perch on the ban
ner of another. "
If the somnolent "foe of organized
wealth" fails to awake after Mi * .
Thompson's sonorous call the bird of
freedom is moribund poultry.
If insomnia does not torture "the foe
of organized wealth , " from this time on ,
no matter how "pleasant may seem , the
day or happy the hour" THE CONSERVA
TIVE is no forecaster of mental and polit
ical perturbations. People who had sorrows
rows when that speech of Thompson's
began buried them , to "keep until an
other day , " when Thompson finished
Such an appeal was as irresistible as the
shock of an earthquake or the career of
a cyclone. Everybody present organ
ized. The benches and chairs organized
Allen "organized. " The plaudits of the
listening thousands organized into one
grand magnificent peau of praise foi
"the little giant" who could thus charm
an audience with the symphonies of a
vocabulary entirely devoted to the uon
conveyance of logic or common sense.
Mr. Thompson's concluding sentence
is so masterly , so entirely original that
THE CONSERVATIVE cannot refrain from ,
its repetition : ' 'United we will win , di
vided the victory will perch on the ban
uer of another 1"
Win what ? What is the "victory ? "
A bird , a turkey , a goose , or as anEug
lish cockney would say is it a "awk , '
"aheagle" or "a howl ? " And wha
sort of a perch or roosting place can be
found on a banner anyway ?
Mr. Thompson evidently eclipsed ex
Senator Allen and even somewha
dimmed Mr. Bryan in the firmament o
shooting-star oratory.
At Humphrey , as elsewhere , the prin
cipal speakers were not for any particu
larprinciple. They
Co-oporatloii. , , . , ,
each and all advo
cated the cooperation of politicians with
out principles , and condemned the coop
ration of citizens with capital. Upon
.he . beauties of political pooling and the
Hicacy of cooperation as a moans of
ornering votes and getting offices Mr.
Bryan proudly and with great candor as
o the chief end of political life , from
lis standpoint , said :
"It was cooperation between the re-
'oriu ' forces that elected Holcomb and
eelocted Holcomb governor of this state ,
and I am very proud of the hum
ble part I took in the election of Gov
ernor Holcomb ; it was cooperation that
enabled us to elect the entire state
ticket , and if it had not boon for cooper
ation we would not find out until now
; hat we wore short one-half million dollars
lars in the state treasury. It was coop
eration that enabled us to elect a su
preme judge of this state , your distiu-
uished citizen of this county Judge
Sullivan. "
Cooperation too between ballot-box
stuffers at the state house as recently
proved by investigation attempted a
stupendous fraud upon the taxpayers of
this commonwealth. Populism , fusion ,
tried to burglarize liberty itself and to
perpetrate grand larceny upon the fran
chises of the people. This incestuous
cooperation by the officials of fusion in
tended a robbery of ballots far worse
than the stealing of mere dollars.
The plain people , massed and incar
nated in Holcomb , the lender of money
on chattel mortgages embracing "the
speckled cow" and the "boar black pig , "
achieved a victory. This blessing-bear
ing cooperation between populists who
have solemnly declared for irredeemable
paper money as a principle on the one
hand , and the free and unlimited coin
age of silver followers of the Chicago
platform who have declared as a princi
ple the ratio of 16-to-l on the other , has
given the world of executive life Hol
comb and the judiciary Sullivan 1 Could
more be asked ? Are the plain people
voracious for further fruits of coopera
tion ?
The speakers at Humphrey agreed per
fectly. Each denounced a combine of
capital for gainful
A Trust. * _ ,
p u r p o ses. Each
eulogized a combine of ballots , regardless
of the principles and policies of those
who are to cast them , for political pur
poses , for their own personal preferment.
To combine to get offices is a righteous
proceeding and a beneficent trust. To
combine to get enough money to
build and operate -great industrial es
tablishment , a bank , or a railroad is
devilish and malevolent.
THIS GKKAT AMERICAN UJESKRT.
Speaking of the tract afterwards
known by this name , Captain Zebulon
M. Pike , writing in 1807 , expresses the
results of his observations as follows :
"A barren soil , parched and dried up
for eight months in the year , presents
neither moisture nor nutriment suf
ficient for the growth of wood. These
vast plains of the Western Hemisphere
may become in time equally celebrated
with the sandy deserts of Africa , for I
saw in niy route , in various places ,
tracts of many leagues whore the wind
had thrown up the sand , in all the fan
ciful forms of the ocean's rolling waves ,
and on which not a speck of vegetation
existed. But from these immense prai
ries may arise one great advantage to
the United States , viz. , the restriction
of our population to some certain limits ,
and thereby a continuation of the Union.
Our citizens being so prone to rambling ,
and extending themselves on the froii-
iers , will , through necessity , be con
strained to limit their extent on the
west to the borders of the Missouri and
Mississippi , while they leave the prai
ries , incapable of cultivation , to the
.vauderiug . and uncivilized Aborigines
of the country. "
This is not only curious reading to an
inhabitant of the territory in question ,
but it illustrates the fact , to whic-h THE
CONSERVATIVE lately called attention ,
that "Pathfinder" Fremont was neither
the discoverer of that territory nor the
first to apply to it the distinctive appel
lation of desert. In fact , Captain Pike
was in a soldier's grave before Fremont
was born.
OBITUARY. Robert G. Inger-
sell , the leading
agnostic and popular orator , died at
Dobbs Ferry , New York , on Friday ,
July 31 , 1899. THE CONSERVATIVE had
known Colonel Ingersoll for many years
and in social life always found him a
most interesting and instructive com
panion. He held the honorable offices
of husband and father in the highest
esteem and discharged with faultless
fidelity all the sacred and loving duties
which they imposed. His domestic life
was all that could be attained of happi
ness in this world.
A dollar never
DOLLARS.
saw the day when
it would buy more food , clothing , trans
portation and other necessaries of life
than now. On the other hand , a dollar
never saw the day when it could earn
less than now. Hartford Couranfc.
A dollar uever saw anything. It pos
sesses none of the senses. It is an assas
sin in the hands of a mean man , an an
gel of mercy in the hands of a noble
soul. It is a token , whose respectabil
ity is determined by the man who owns
it. New Haven Register.
And THE CONSERVATIVE adds that
where the man owns and controls the
dollars there is no danger either to the
man or the community in which he
lives. But whore the dollars own and
control the man trouble may be ex
pected. Reasoning from introspection
nearly all Bryanarchists affirm that
largo fortunes make men their slaves.
Sensible citizens think that big fortunes
are properly the slaves of large men ,
