"Che Conservative.
THE CONSERVATIVE
JUDGK NKVIM.K.
TIVE is pleased to
observe the versatility and also the
fidelity to principle which distinguish
and gild with sm ared-on glory the
political career of Judge Neville , Cleve
land register - of the land-office - gold-
standard democrat in 1894 ; Olem-
Deaver-populist judge in 1897 ; and Har
rington-democrat and- Bryan combina
tion get-there-Eli candidate for congress
hi 1899.
Whoever said "the leopard cannot
change his spots nor the African his
skin" impugned the kaleidoscopic capa
bilities of Neville. And any man who
mistakes that great and good judge for
a leopard or an African is himself no
judge of zoological phenomena !
There is said to
PKACTICAT ,
POLITICS. he a neighbor of
Ju dge William
Vincent Allen formerly the long-dis-
tance-Mephone orator in the United
States senate from Nebraska who has
laid by ten cents every time he has
heard William Vincent aforesaid pro
claim the robbery of farmers by rail
roads and the importance to the govern
ment of purchasing , owning and rtfnning
said railroads. The result is a bank
account of seven hundred and ten dollars
lars and ten cents which he calls "the
Allen penance fund. "
The man who avers that Judge Allen ,
sole proprietor of political positions in
northern Nebraska , has not benefited
his neighbors would no doubt seek office
for "the money in it rather than the
honor. "
BAI.ANCK OF TKADK.
OMATTA , Neb. , Sept. 29 , 1899.
EDITOR OF THE CONSERVATIVE :
The writer desires to have elucidated ,
by competent authority , the meaning
and significance of the term "balance of
trade. "
It is claimed by prominent periodicals
that the greater the "balance of trade"
is iu "our favor , " the greater is our
prosperity. In other words , the meas
tire of our prosperity is the excess of our
exports over imports ; if the excess is.
say. four million d illars during the past
year , that represents our gnhi ; con
versely , that amount represents our /o.s/t. /
The former leads to wealth and afflu
ence , the latter to the poor house.
Is the above proposition correct as to
commodities like gold and silver ? If
not , why not ? And if not , why to com
modities like copper , nickel , wheat , iron
and corn ? They are alike the products
of labor and alike subject , in degree , to
the equal laws of trade ?
It does seem to the. writer , at
times , that , excessive exports ar indicia
of an excessive desire to sell and consequent
quent low home prices "bearing" the
market. Conversely , excessive imports
indicate an increasing desire to buy and
consequent rising home prices "bull
ing" the market. And would not the
possession of a greater number of the
"good things of the earth" conduce to
our greater well-being ?
It is not a question of increasing ex
ports and imports over former years ,
but , that the nature and the size of this
"balance" is the measure the barometer
meter of our economic condition.
"We know , approximately , this "bal
ance" as far is the United States are
concerned. Following is a report show
ing the situation in Great Britain and
Ireland for five months ending May 01 ,
1895 and J89G :
Imports , 1805 $820.inO,9fll. ( 1890 ? 881,223ai > 0.
Exports , 1S95 ? 551,25o,0fi3. ; 1890 ? < 102,13'iU7. !
"In the liolc , " * 275-i0112S. { $ I > SO,093,033.
The foregoing has been practically the
relative "balance" of Great Britain for
the last fifty years. Prior to 1846 it was
the reverse.
According to the above proposition ,
and the. figures , how long will it take
Great Britain to wind up in the hands
of a receiver ?
Other interesting phases will suggest
themselves to a competent eluoidator of
this question. FRANK HELLER.
NEPOTISM. 1 * ?
certain that the
Hon. William Vincent Allen ever billeted
a nephew on the pay roll of Uncle Sam.
it is alleged with positiveness , by certain
persons now in Washington , that the
aforesaid pure and patriotic exemplar of
reform populism did manage to provide
for a fair share of the members of his
household by hitching them to the
money-drawing power of public places.
How many ? Who were they ? Give us
the nomenclature of the Allen appointees
about the United States senate and at
the state house iu Lincoln ! Has he
kindred with jobs or does he work them
all on his big farm which the railroads
and other corporate cormorants are rob
bing ?
THKK r.
abl ° tlm > "K of ad
mirers and follow
ers of Bryan are each one of them to
plant a tree next Arbor Day for every
time they have been able to hear or see
in a speech of Colonel Bryan the phrase
" lain . "
1 people. (
It is estimated that nine-tenths of the
American continent \\ill thus in asiugle
d y be devoted to arboriculture.
Should a tree bo planted for every
financial fallacy which has been uttered
by the gallant Colonel during his di
dactic pereurinations of the last four
years the United States would all bo "in
the woods ! "
If the inane words uttered by Bryan
had turned into trees since 1890 there
would bo no prairies , plains , garden
sites or other bare spots on the globe.
, , , , . , , A statesman at
DIYKIISIONS. . . ,
TTT
Washington , who
formerly graced the United States
senate , is said to have been exceedingly
fond of liquids and melodies mixed.
For days , three days at a time , he
would linger about the haunts of music
and champagne and in his most ecstatic
moments demand the rendering of that
majestic and solemn hymn , "Nearer My
God to Thee. " The tastes and habits
of reformers are not wholly bad , nor
yet , entirely beyond criticism.
if" is
really true , as the
Springfield Republican says , that most
of the recruits for service in the army
nowadays are drawn in merely by the
prospect of travel and adventure ? Why
not rredit them with a little patriotism ,
oven if one is agin the war ? " Boston
Herald.
THE CONSERVATIVE agrees with the
Springfield Republican. Will the Bos
ton Herald explain or dare it assert that
there has been or is one fact , one condi
tion in this war , from the day of its
declaration against Spain until today ,
which in any way calls on the American
people to feel or show an idea of patriot
ism ? Big-headism , Americanism or
national pride is not patriotism. It
often destroys it. While no one but an
ass or an idiot thought , thinks or be
lieves there has been or is anything
humanitarian in this war ; still , had
there been , humanitarianism is not
patriotism. It is generally quite the
other thing. Patriotism is intelligent
self-hood. It is studying the welfare of
all for self preservation. Anything else
is emotional insanity , bravado or ex
treme selfishness.
THE CONSERVA-
Kill. AIV .
UISAIM'OINTMENT.TIVE published
that when Wm. J.
Bryan first began asking for office in
Nebraska , in the year 1889 , he assured
a person that "it is the money that is iu
the office and not the honor that attract
me. " It was supposed that TUB CON
SERVATIVE could prove , by a person
whom Mr. Bryan's friends would not
attempt to impeach , that such assurance
was given by William J. Bryan. But
circumstances at present prevent intro
ducing the evidence of the individual
who would establish the truth of what
THE CONSERVATIVE has heretofore as
serted , i. e. that Mr. Bryan was seeking
to become the secretary of the railroad
commission for the state of Nebraska ;
that ho ( Bryan ) said he wanted the
office for the money and not the honor
which attached to it.
Pos-ibly in some future issue of
THE CONSERVATIVE the evidence of the
portion referred to ( a parson , by the
way , of whom Mr. Bryan thinks a great
deal ) may bo secured and published.
