12 Conservative.
THK THRESHOLD.
The Blender threshold Kir there UeH
Between the great , wide world and mine ,
Before the realm of rest nnd pence
It holds its strong and steadfast line.
And none , unbidden , cross beyond ,
A stern defense its presence yields ;
With strength as of a mighty host
The guarded sphere of homo it shields.
And only memories come in
To bring their welcome guests at will ,
Whose footsteps wander in and out ,
Or wait and linger on the sill.
In never-ceasing line they come
From out the shadowed years long flown ;
In never ceasing line they go
Beyond this threshold once their own.
When quiet hours bring waking dreams
The grave ancestral gnests appear ,
A throng whoso eyes seem over more
To rest where ties of homo were dear.
And fancy calls the pictured forms
To fill the space within the door ;
Their watchful faces smile above
The slender bit of oaken floor.
Their treasured words that time has stored
In hoarded fragments , brief and rare ,
The records of their noblest deeds ,
Seem whispered in the hallowed air ,
Until the plain , long-trodden bar
Becomes a sacred household shrine ;
Fond thoughts cross o'er it with the dead
To threshold of the life divine.
MAUY FUENCH MOKTON.
THE I'KKSS ON THIS CENSORSHIP.
We do not favor making Gen. Otis
the scapegoat for the war department or
the white house. There , and not in
Manila , lies the responsibility for the
miserable business which has been going
on in Luzon for the past five months.
Hartford Times ( dem. )
A campaign of deception must result
disastrously. The people of the United
States want the truth. They demand
the whole truth , and nothing but the
truth , and the correspondents at Manila
have given the administration some
thing to think about. Syracuse Jour
nal ( rep. )
It is upon the president that the retri
butive blow must fall , and he must act
and act promptly by sending a com
mander to the Philippines who will tell
the truth and permit others to tell the
truth to the people at home. The
country asks nothing more than the
truth ; it will accept nothing less.
Philadelphia Times ( iud. dem. )
Suppressing information is a sorry
performance for any official to be en
gaged in anywhere. The truth inevita
bly comes out , and the final sufferer is
the fool in office who thought to hide
his incapacity , or perhaps get a chance
to retrieve his deserved failures by
another and a more successful chance
by "keeping the facts from the papers : '
something chat never has and never wil
work. Worcester Spy ( rep. )
The inference is unavoidable tha
either Gen. Otis or his superiors a
Washington are afraid of the truth , and
afraid not for military reasons , but for
political considerations. It is duo to the
censorship that hardly a soul in the
United States today knows just what is
going on in the Philippines , where
American interests , American honor ,
vud American lives are at stake. Ohi-
cage Record ( iud. )
The censorship in force is , as Gen.
Otis admits , entirely for the purpose of
withholding a full knowledge of the
actual facts from Americans at home.
This is quite xmnecessary ; it is , indeed ,
sure to produce a distrust and uneasiness
greater than accurate and positive in
formation , however discouraging , could
do. Mystery and uncertainty are more
agitating than a full understanding of
the situation can be. Indianapolis Jour-
ml ( rep. )
The failure to order a sufficient force
, o Manila months ago , whoever may be
responsible for it , is bad enough ; the
failure to realize that a force much
arger than that available was abso
lutely necessary , whoever may have
jeeu responsible for it , is worse ; but
the deliberate attempt on the part of
Gen. Otis and the war department to
conceal the actual situation from the
country is the worst of all. Philadel
phia Telegraph ( rep. )
The people of the United States , in
whoso name and upon whose resources
this war in the Philippines is being car
ried on , have a right to know the truth
in regard to it. A censorship to keep
information from the enemy is justifi
able , but it would be ridiculous to claim
that this one in the Philippines had been
set up for any such purpose. Avowedly
it is to keep information from reaching
the people of the United States , who
have a clear right to it. Portland
( Me. ) Press ( rep. )
MOKE WATER FALLS.
On Friday evening , July 28th , 1899 ,
there was a rainfall at Arbor Lodge of
seventy-three ouo-hundredthsof an inch.
On Thursday previous there was a pre
cipitation of six one-hundredths of an
inch , so that in forty-eight hours there
was more than three-fourths of au inch
of rain upon the growing crops in Otoe
county. This beneficence of Nature is
received with general joy and gratitude.
It rewards labor and encourages industry.
The only exceptions to the late re
freshing showers and crop-savers have
been taken by populists and other fusionist -
ist office-hunters. These patriotic pur
suers of places of profit thrive best when
crops fail. An era of drouth is fertiliz
ing to fusionists. When wheat has the
chinch bug and corn languishes for rain ,
populists are at their best. But now
their tears , shed in dread of prosperity ,
vie in quantity with the rain drops
from the benignant skies. The clouds
can not weep fecundity upon our fields
without causing tears among popocrats.
The Philadelphia Press ( rep. ) is out of
patience with that "child of a protective
tariff , " the American Tin-Plate Com
pany , for "precipitating a contest with
its labor over the wages scale. " This
action "challenges the entire issue , " in
the opinion of The Press , which re
gards it as a "safe general proposition
that a monopolized industry , protected
by the tariff , which has a wage conflict
on its hands , in a time of great pros
perity , has done its permanent interests
injury , risked its own production , and
dealt a blow to the entire cause of pro
tection. "
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