10 Conservative ,
UEJIOCRATIC IMPERIALISTS.
Mr. Clnrko Ilowell of the Atlanta
Constitution rends nn acrid lecture to
the democrats who are opposing im
perialism. Ho accuses them of follow
ing "the hysterical utterances of New
England republicans , " and declares "it
is a journey too long and too arduous
for the democratic party to go to John
Sherman , Senator Hoar and Boutwell
for democratic doctrine. "
Per contra , how long and arduous is
the journey of the republican party to
leave the. standpoint of Lincoln and go
to Morgan , Wheeler , Watterson , Gover
nor Pattison , Mr. Howell and the New
York Journal for republican.doctrine ?
General John B. Henderson of Mis
souri , the ablest republican of that state ,
says : "The republican party is not
strong enough to change the constitu
tion of the United States ; it will not be
permitted to convert our government
into a mere military machine , to wage
wars of aggression abroad and to silence
the voice of freedom at home. " "Which
exactly expresses the average republican
opinion of the policy manufactured for
the party by democratic imperialists.
The Chicago Journal , one of the oldest ,
and most steadfast republican organs of
Illinois , says : "And suppose this coun
try , as soon as the war ended , set about
helping the Filipinos to establish a state
or states of their own , retaining a good
harbor and coaling station. Would it
not be a great work , worthy of a great
people , first to liberate a weaker people
and then raise them to an independent ,
statehood ? " That breathes the aspira
tion of every republican who is mindful
of the history and traditions of his party
and who treasures the institutions of his
country.
As far as California republicans are
concerned The Call is continually placed
in possefsion of evidence of a wide feel
ing among them opposing the accept
ance by our party of the principles of the
Ostend manifesto , in which James
Buchanan , John Y. Mason and Pierre
Soule dpclared it to be a doctrine of the
democratic party that might makes
right.
We have published a series of thought
ful articles by Mr. Richardson , editor of
The Eldorado Republican , the leading
paper of our party in the foothills , and
we are now presenting the views of
Hon. Fraak Short , a republican state
senator from the San Joaquiu Valley.
What these gentlemen and scores of
others are saying and thinking expresses
the widespread conviction of the repub
lican party. These gentlemen see the
danger ahead. They see imperialist
republican papers like the Portland
Oregouian and imperialist democratic
papers like the New York Journal daily
attacking the administration by vile ac
cusations derived from the complications
that have come by engrafting a demo
cratic international policy upon their
party , and they desire that it shall ad-
nero to its high precepts and purposes.
They think truly that it is a too long
and arduous journey to go for republi
can doctrine to democratic leaders who
failed to impose upon Mr. Cleveland a
foreign policy which they have made a
shirt of Nessus to the republican party.
San Francisco Call , Sept. 29 , 1899.
T h
HAZARDOUS. 6f
tages of telling the
truth in politics or about prominent , poli
ticians increase from dny to day. THE
CONSERVATIVE is moved to this con
clusion because of the numerous denials
and condemnations hurled at it by
Colonel Bryan's friends and by Colonel
Bryan himself , for having merely said
truthfully that when Colonel Bryan in
his "beginnings here , " which were of
office-holding , or rather office-asking
he , Colonel Bryan , avowed "that it is
the money that is in the office and not
the honor that attract mo. "
It is lamentable that the ambitious ,
temptations , duplicities and vicious
vagaries now permeating politics make
the truth and nothing but the truth ex
ceedingly unpopular and quite irritatingly -
ingly corrosive to the statesmen whose
nominatives and verbs are as sixteen to
one "tho money attract" that sort.
At Chicago , on
ANTI
rai KiUAi.isiki.Tuesday , thn 17th
of October , 1899 ,
there will be a meeting of the Anti-
Imperialist leagues of the United States.
Addresses will bo delivered by Bourke
Cockran , Carl Schurz and Edward
Atkinson.
It is hoped that at that meeting there
will be representative citizens from
every state.
An inquest to ascertain whether the
expositions of the declaration of inde
pendence and interpretations of the con
stitution by Washington and Jefferson
were erroneous , and those of McKiuley
correct , will be conducted in a calm and
patriotic manner.
Bishop Hall de-
DISCONTENT.
DISCONTENT.scribed the popu
list saying :
"The malcontent is neither well , full
nor fasting ; and he abounds with com
plaints , yet nothing dislikes him but the
present ; for what he condemns while it
was , once passed , ho magnifies and
strives to recall it out of the jaws of
time. What ho hath he seeth not , his
eyes are BO taken up with what he
wants ; and what he sees ho careth not
for , because he cares so much for that
which is not. "
No better word portrait of a populist
statesman was over made. That which
is is all wrong. That which we want is
all right. The unattainable in states
manship is lauded. The patriotic and
practical are denounced.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[ Nc\v York Press. ]
No man has any right to get married
who hasn't a right not to.
Most girls think that after they get
married they will never wear anything
but "jeweled" garters. After they've
been married for a year they cnn gener
ally do with any old piece of tape.
A woman who flirts with her husband
does somebody else's wife a great wrong.
A girl always tries to act like she was
blushing when she tells a man about a
dream she has had.
The Burlington railroad is erecting a
tie-preserving plant at Edgernont , S. D.
It will cost about $40,000 , and will be
completed about October 10. When the
plant is in operation , 3 OuO ties a day
will bo treated by the new process for
preserving thorn. It is known as the
chloride of zinc process , and is the same
as that used by the Santa Fo railroad at
Las Vegas , N. M. , and by the Southern
Pacific road in California. The Bur
lington will be the first railroad in the
Northwest to take advantage of this
process. The ties are placed in a large
iron cylinder , the air is pumped out , and
the ties heated by steam ; then the
chemicals are pumped in , and the ties
kept in the solution under high pressure
until they are saturated , when they are
removed. The Burlington has a yard at
Edgemont in which ! JOO,000 ties can be
stored. Before the ties are in shape to
treat they must be piled up and allowed
to season for about sixty days.
$70,000,000 FOR AMUSEMENTS.
"There are five thousand theatres in
the United Spates if we count all kinds , "
writes Franklin Fyles , in the first of a
series of articles on "The Theatre and
Its People , " in the October Ladies' Homo
Journal. "More than two thousand are
fairly classable as legitimate , and over
one thousand more are devoted to
vaudeville. The two thousand others
taper off in various ways. To estimate
the capital invested in all this theatrical
property is difficult. But about $ ll)0- )
000,000 is invested in the three thousand
first-class legitimate theatres which will
be considered in this article. That is an
average of $ ! 53,833 each , which is low
enough , some costing as much as $500-
000 each. It is equally hard to compute
the money paid by Americans for theat
rical amusement. Separate audiences
yield from absolutely nothing , in ex- f
treine cases of failure , to as much
as $20,000 at an exceptional per
formance of opera. A conservative cal
culation is that the aggregate reaches
$70,000.000 a year. Not less than one
and a half million persons sit in those
theatres each weekday night in the
season of at least eight mouths. "
