Conservative.
Tin : CoNSEnvA-
rOLlTICAT , ,
INSUKANCK. TIVK is willing to
become a small
stockholder iu a proposed political insnr-
mice company with largo capital. The
object of the company is to insure
against the election to office of named
candidates. Each policy will indemnify
against possible loss in property values
by the election of the candidates named.
The possibility of the election of the per
son designated in the policy is regarded
from the same standpoint as a possible
fire.
fire.The
The company will issue policies against
the election of Col. Bryan or any other
candidate running for the presidency on
a platform which affirms the Chicago
platform of 1896.
Absolute defeat insured to any candi
date in the United States who avows
that the stamp of the government alouo
confers value upon the commodity used
as money.
Special and attractive endowments
made payable every day during life
from the time a free silver man is in
augurated president of the United States ,
will be put on sale at very small prem
iums by this company. There will be
no limit to the amounts of these endow
ments. Premiums microscopic 1
FLIES. Judge Edgar
Howard , in a re
cent number of his spirited Papillion
Times , treats fusionists as "flies. " In
an editorial of considerable force , which
has the merit of charming frankness , he
denominates gold-standard democrats ,
"spiders. " He refers with pathetic
tenderness to a time when he believed all
that gold-standard democrats proclaimed
as to the necessity of a currency for this
republic of the least possible fluctuating
purchasing power a currency upon a
gold basis acceptable in all the markets
of the world.
It seems , however , that Judge How
ard has renounced his faith in the dem
ocracy of Bentou and Jackson. That
democracy advocated the importance of
a single standard of value for this coun
try. But men who taught in the early
days of the republic that a ratio between
gold and silver coins established merely
by enactment could not fix the relative
value of gold and silver in the bullion
markets of the world are now con
demned and denounced by Mr. Howard
and all other Bryanarchists. The men
of today who declare that the relative
value between coins of gold and silver ,
established by a congressionally enacted
ratio , fixes the relative value of the bul
lion of gold and silver throughout the
world are apotheosized.
It is regrettable that men of seemingly
good common sense and average com
mon school acquirements can for a mo
ment believe that a given quantity of
metal , certificated and stamped as coin ,
'will have a greater market value than
the same quantity of the same metal ,
of equal fineness and purity , will have
as bullion.
Judge Howard and all Bryanarchists
admit that one hundred dollars of gold
coin may bo melted down and every
vestige of the government stamp lost
and the molten mass yet retain almost
its original purchasing power.
Judge Howard and other Bryauar-
chists know likewise that one hundred
dollars of silver coins melted down will
not have to exceed 45 per cent of the
purchasing power which had been guar-
anteedly stamped upon them by the
government , under the national pledge
to keep silver coin at a parity with gold.
If , under the present coinage system ,
where the bullion is worked up by the
government , for the government , at the
government's expense , the bullion value
of silver cannot be maintained at par
with its money value , how could the
unlimited free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 10 to 1 for anybody and every
body maintain the price ? A miller may
be able to grind dollar-a-bushel wheat
for others during the entire year , not
being compelled to buy it or to maintain
the price ; but the same miller , if com
pelled to take all the wheat presented at
a dollar a bushel and to maintain that
price would become bankrupt.
The honest-money doctrines of the
Tilden campaign enunciated in 1876
were descended from Benton and Jack
son. Those patriots believed that all
debts , public and private , should be
liquidated on the same basis upon which
they were contracted. They never for
a moment tolerated , by implication
even , dishonesty in the liquidation of
debts , private or public. It is not hon
est to attempt to pay a dollar of debt
with a dollar of less purchasing power
in the general markets than the dollar
had at the time of that debt's creation.
The great principles to which THE
CONSERVATIVE alluded when it said :
"Is it possible that Judge Howard and
his followers indicate a return to princi
ples after the storm and disaster of fus
ion have ceased , " were Honesty and Fi
delity to Law as interpreted by the
Supreme Court of the Republic. It is
therefore saddening and surprising to
learn that there is not the slightest sign
of any recusant democrats returning to
honesty in finance and to fidelity in up
holding the law as interpreted by the
courts.
Judge Howard seems to be quite un
able to distinguish the difference be
tween swallowing and being swallowed.
Consequently he confounds the cam
paign of 1884 wherein the democratic
party sacrificed not a single principle ,
made its own nomination as a distinct
organization and caused the submer
gence of the people's party with the
fusion campaigns of today wherein there
is neither name nor mention of a Ne
braska democracy. The democracy of
1884 and of 1892 in the state of Nebraska
was a living , organized force devoted to
principles and as different from the fus
ion combines of today as a sound loin of
wholesome fat beef is from a putrescent
sausage of unknown origin.
A FBW FACTS.
York City are a
matter of interest to a Dakota reader of
TIIE CONSERVATIVE , and he is therefore
informed that : It is eight and a half
miles from Castle Garden to Harlem
Bridge , New York , at One Hundred and
Thirtieth street and Third avenue. The
territory of New York from Castle Gar
den to Harlem Bridge , between East and
North rivers , has an average of two
miles in width.
A half dollar of 1807 , a $5 piece of
1885 , half dollars of 1835 and 1826 do
not command premiums. Neither does
a half cent of 1805 command a premium.
The pay of third-class postmasters is
not more than $2000 nor less than $1000.
There is an allowance on box rents under
certain conditions and an allowance for
rent not exceeding $400 a year. In case
of a rush of business such postmaster
may be allowed compensation for clerical
assistance during such rush.
Grover Cleveland's second term com
menced March 4 , 1898 , and terminated
March 4 , 1897. During that period
there was in session the Fifty-third Con
gress , which had on joint ballot March
4 , 1898 , 162 republicans and 268 demo
crats ; the Fifty-fourth Congress , which
had March 4 , 1895 , 296 republicans and
182 democrats. The Fifty-fifth Con
gress had March 4 , 1897 , 258 republicans
and 154 democrats , and the Fifty-sixth
Congress had on March 4 , 1899 , 240 re
publicans and 189 democrats.
Verbascum thapsus is the botanical
name of the common mullein or mullein
dock. Generally it is found growing in
neglected places. In favorable soil it
will grow to a height of from four to
five feet. It is furnished with elliptical
densely woolly leaves , the upper part
being closely occupied by yellow flowers.
It is used as a medicine in pulmonary
diseases in cattle and for that reason is
called bullock's lungwort. The dry
stalks and leaves were in ancient times
dipped in grease and used as a substi
tute for candles and lamp wicks. In
it is called " " "
England "hig" or "hag
taper , " on account of a superstition that
it was used by witches. In the illus
trated Dictionary of Gardening , volume
IV. , page 144 , that is to be found in the
reference room of the Free Public
Library , can bo seen an illustration of
the mullein and a technical description
of it.
it.He
He , or that , which is useful is self-
preserving , while that which is not use
ful invariably tends to bo antagonistic
or destructive.