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Conservative. 13 V. > CONSERVATISMS. The weak are invariably slaves. He who feels the law is not free. Liberty is license without the law. True friendship is alwnys utilitarian. All apotheosis , all idealism , is fetish. Weakness and unfltness are identical. Freedom is instinctive subjection to law. Traditionalism is death to conserva tism. True stoicism is intelligent indiffer- eutism. Humanity is the greatest of modern fetishes. Intelligent subjection to law is not freedom. Might that is not self-preserving tends to self-destruction. Fear is invariably the child of self- conscious weakness. Utilitarianism is the key to survival in social environment. Self-sacrifice is the open door to sui cide or the poorhouse. The coward alone fetishes and falls down before his own image. The self-threatening use of might transforms might into weakness. Ignorance is the mother of supersti tion. Ignorance alone knows fear. . Only the mighty are free , yet to be thus free it must be unconscious might. Much that is called friendship tends more to destruction than to utilitarian ism. That which tends not to self-preser vation must tend to individual destruc tion. tion.He He who knows himself knows God ; he who has not found himself cannot find God. F. S. B. Recently , JUDGE AHEN. his own signature , in a brief note of less than seven columns , the Hon. William Vincent Allen con fesses that he has one of the largest libraries in the world and that he reads more during each twenty-four hours than any other mortal on the globe. Never before has an ex-United States senator , over his own immortal auto graph , so frankly and modestly given his confidence to a beloved constituency. Besides mental wealth , admitted by Allen to exceed the accumulations in intellectual treasure of any doztin ordi nary men , the Judge diffidently owns up to owning a farm of something less than the area of a township , which he reluctantly avers is better and bigger than any other farm within the limits of Nebraska. After reading this model of epistolary brevity , to which William Vincent ap pended his great signature , THE CON SERVATIVE concludes that , measured by the quart , Judge Allen is a citizen of unparalleled capacity. As republican , as democrat , as republican ngain , and then as populist , Allen has imbibed office as easily as a fish takes water or an Iowa prohibitionist when in Ne braska takes beer or whiskey. ENCOURAGED. . fTh ° ists and leading populists who have read THE CONSEUV- ATIVE and pondered upon its challenge to point to one manufacturing plant , one bank , one railroad or one incorpora tion of capital for any purpose whatso ever within the limits of this common wealth , brought in , lured in , by the preachers of populism , have either become - come enraged or despondent. Not one dollar of incorporated capital in Nebraska is here because of populists or populism. The exhorters for discon tent who have vainly endeavored to array all the indolent , dissipated and unfortunate against the industrious , temperate and successful name not one establishment in Nebraska which they have founded , put in operation or man aged. The oratory of Bryan , Olem \ V Deaver , Allen and Bill Dech is of a character to make the capital which is in Nebraska sometimes wish it was out , and to cause the capital that is out to rejoice at all times in staying out. Populism and its orators for six years were an annual cash damage to the farmers and others in Nebraska of tens of thousands of dollars by scaring money away from the state. That was when they had a mnjority. Since they were defeated and lost the legislature times have improved. Populism is pestilence. Guaranteed on Safe Investment for 6 Per Cent Net a term of FIVE YEARS , 25 quarter sections (40C ( > 0 acres ) improved land , Hinooth and tillable , 1)1 nek lonm Hoil , in one of the southwestern counties of Nebraska , for $20,000 cash , with a peed bond given that $1200 cash rental will bo paid to the purchaser yearly in advance ; also the taxes on said lands , both for a term of 5 years. The undersigned requires the purchaser to give an agreement , that ho will share the profits of the sale of any or all of those lands , if sold within the lifo of the con tract. These quarters are especially selected and do not lie in a body. For full particulars call on or address , S. 712 Second St. HASTINGS , JVJ3JB. Grand Canon of Arizona 220 miles long , 9 to 18 miles wide , a mile deep , and painted like a flower. "The Greatest , Grandest , Most Wonderful Sight in the World ! " Excursion rates via the Santa Fe Route. Write for illustrated descriptive book and full particulars to General Passenger Office The Atchison , Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Chicago