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of a remedy. As Oockran had declared
that among the means of reducing the
power of a trust tariff protection should
bo withdrawn from it , Bryan , in order
to antagonize him , disputed this , and
his supporters will bo pained to have
such a big spoke knocked out of their
wheel. For the rest ho contented him
self with running up and down the
gamut of "solemn warnings" and
"viewing with alarm. " The situation
affected him badly , and there ran
through his speech an undertone of con
viction that Bryan himself in the remrdy
for all public evils. Ho is evidently of
opinion that ho is a pill that will cure
the national liver of its torpidity , and a
nerve and bone liniment which will set
right the sprains and bruises of the
national body. When he speaks he
thinks , but his thought is : "Take me.
I am the arnica and the Pond's extract ;
the liver pad and porous plaster ; thr
cliolagocjue and emulsion ; no other re
quired. "
His quackery , like all quackery , de
pends on words , high-sounding terms
and phrases. Cockrau measured him
perfectly when he said : "I am free to
confess that when you have called an
aggregation of capital a combination , 'a
hydra-headed monster , an octopus , ' you
cost no light that can illuminate my
pathway. I can understand how the use
of these phrases can have some effect , as
nothing frightens people so much as in
comprehensible names. Let a noise be
made now that we do not understand
and we will all bo looking out of the win
dows. Men can be put to intellectual
flight by the terrifying noises of sound. "
That is the correct estimate of Mr.
Bryan as a tocsin , a drumhead , a gourd
full of peas , make a noise that is inex
pressive of thought. His ideas of poli
tics is copied from the Chinese idea of
war. Instead of inventing defensive
arms and paying attention to tactics ,
the Chinese military establishment en
courages the invention of gongs , tom
toms and other racket-producing instru
ments which can make such a jargon
of sound as to terrify the enemy with
a noise which it never heard before and
therefore is afraid of.
But Mr Bryan is not a new invention.
He emitted sound and propagated fury
in 1896 , and has been at it ever since.
His noises are all registered and known
and excite no more terror than the
vesper braying of the useful jtvck or the
matin gurgle of a Shanghai rooster.
San Francisco Call.
' ' ThoDouglas
THE MONEY
POWER. County organ of
populism , fusion.
confusion , illusion and delusion is evi
dently a worshiper , an adorer of "The
Money Power" as a vote-compelling
agenoy. In a late issue it gives notice
to the world in general and heralds to
the republicans in Nebraska especially ,
i
; ho fnot that the eruptions of Coin
Harvey in this state have resulted in
raising corruption funds as follows :
"Tho campaign fund of the people of
Nebraska , for 1000 , being raised under
the auspices of the national ways and
means committee , by counties , as re
ported through the Puckers' National
bank of South Omaha , to which all
money and pledges are sent is up to date
as follows :
Total cash to date , f 2,058.50.
Total subscriptions , fl4,535.75.
"The World-Herald will publish the
list by counties , from time to time , with
additions , as they are made. The table
printed gives the vote for Bryan in 1890 ,
and compares therewith the cash and
total subscriptions by percentage.
"It will bo observed that Greeley
county has , up to this time , subscribed
the equivalent of 74 cents for each vote
for Bryan in 1896 , and by percentage
stands at the head of the list of counties
For cash , Richardson county has $167.50
to its credit , or 6 % cents p r voter , and ,
for cash paid in , ranks first over all
other counties. "
ZOLA AND NKBKASKA CITY.
M. Emile Zola , of France and Switzer
land , has been writing novels for a score
of years with the purpose of telling the
whole truth about life as it is now
lived , for the benefit of both contem
poraries and posterity. As there is a
great deal in real life of a certain class
of phenomena which may , for con
venience , bo called the unbashful , so M.
Zola's fiction notoriously contains a largo
unbashful element. His work appears
to have boon laid out , however , on such
a plan that whereas his early books are
composed of much unbashfulnoss and
a little wisdom , the wisdom distinctly
predominates in those which came later.
Along with his program in this scheme
has naturally gone a corresponding
change in the make-up of M. Zola's
audience.
His last book has for its moral the
duty of having children. Things have
come to such a pass in his own land that
it is known as "childless France , " and
successive censuses show a decreasing
population. Nothing could be plainer
than the proposition that those who
have children shall inherit the earth ,
and yet there are many people nowadays
who are quite content to let their line
end with themselves. Not only in
France , but in very many communities
in our own country , there is an appall
ing number , how great only the physi
cians know , who are unwilling , and
even no longer able , to bear and raise
children. M. Zola's warning , that the
large families must inevitably prevail
over their competitors in the long-run ,
may well therefore cause many people
to reflect elsewhere than in Franco.
And here comes a Nebraska City
doctor with the statement , extremely
gratifying to THE CONSERVATIVE , who
sees in it a promise of great things for
the future , that the women of Nebraska
City are of a singularly high degree of
physical pHrfectiou ; and this he says
not alone of the women of the working
class but of the well-to do also. In no
other place of his acquaintance has he
seen children so generally desired , or
even welcome ; and where children are
thought to bo an evil , there will a train
of counter evils arise , by which the
physicians thrive , but which are the
root of untold misery to individuals , and
of incalculable ultimate harm to the
community.
CLUBBING KATES.
THE CONSERVATIVE and the Daily and
Sunday Kansas City Star for one year
for $4.25 ; or THE CONSERVATIVE and
Wenkly Star for one year for $1.60.
Address , Tun CONSERVATIVE ,
Nebraska City , Neb.
The constitution of the United States
reads : ' ' "We , the people of the United
States , in order to form a more perfect
" ourselves "insure
Union" ( between )
domest io tranquillity" ( among ourselves )
"provide for the common defense" ( of
ourselves ) "promote the general welfare
and secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves" ( individually ) "and to our
posterity" ( individually ) "do ordain and
establish this constitution for the United
States of America. "
