the Conservative *
i
misfortunes of a. well meaning but un
fortunate investor. They develop
sturdy qualities of manhood by offering
fifty per cent interest as a reward for
persistent paying. Then , too , the mem
ory of most people has become painfully
deficient. Talbot and company aid men
to acquire more perfectly the art of
remembering. To do this , depositors
are not notified when their weekly in
stallments are due. The penalty of
forfeiture , in case of forgetting , affords
a wonderful stimulus to memory. Talbot
bet and company offer investors a busi
ness opportunity unsurpassed. It affords
splendid inducements to develop per
sistency , to quicken the memory , and at
the same time enable the "plain people"
to make fifty per cent interest , or in
lieu thereof adorn their simple garb
with sparkling diamonds.
. _ The republicans
A YEAR AGO. . . x . ,
have been forced
to modify their platforms of last year
to harmonize with the more recent
imperialistic plans of the administration.
The Massachusetts platform of 1899
reads strangely now. It contained the
treasonable declaration for a government
for the Philippines , "as free , as liberal ,
and as progressive as our own * * *
in accordance with the sacred principles
of liberty and self-government upon
which the American republic so securely
rests. " Republican platforms for. 1900 ,
after passing the rigid censorship of
Hanna , are intensely practical and are
not burdened with idle appeals to
sentiment. Self-government , though
hitherto regarded as a sacred heritage
from the fathers , becomes very insig
nificant when compared to the financial
j ; i philosophy of Hanna.
The ancients
METEMPSYCHOSIS. ,
very generally be
lieved that souls passed from one animal
body when it died into another to begin
life anew.
In treating of this theory in his most
instructive and complete work upon
"Evolutionary Ethics and Animal Psy
chology , " Dr. E. P. Evans , on page 114
says : "Pythagoras claimed to have a
distinct recollection of his pro-existent
actions and experiences. Socrates main
tained that all acquisition of human
knowledge or learning is nothing but
remembering. Plato would condemn
all cowardly and effeminate men , such
as dandies and dudes , to be reborn as
women ; frivolous and flighty and
feather-brained persons , to become
birds ; those who neglect the study of
philosophy and seek only sensual in
dulgence , to be transformed into beasts
and the dull and foolish , to descend to
the lower level of fishes and molusks.
If the condemnation of Plato could
be carried out today and all "the dull
and foolish" who are attending political
conventions at Sioux Foils , Cincinnati
Philadelphia and Kansas Oity this year ,
bo transmuted into' 'fishes and molusks , "
there would be no water left for irriga
tion ; and oysters would bo more
numerous than populists by sixteen to
one.
one.St.
St. Augustine held that men might
be changed into beasts by sorcery , and
seriously suggested that the Golden Ass
of Apuleius might be autobiographical.
When the stories of the" Silver Asses" of
modern times come to be written they
will constitute the largest series of auto
biographies which the world has over
beheld.
The corruption
r
CUUAN POSTAL .
FRAUDS. i UaS
covered in the
Cuban postal department is a good object
lesson. It forcetuiiy demonstrates tne
error of the present policy of insular
government. The outrages committed
in the South by the "carpet baggers"
are now being duplicated by their kind
in Cuba. These abuses logically result
from taking the government out of the
hands of the people and placing it under
the control of men who have no interest
in the country except to plunder and rob
the people. Corruption in the South
was almost intolerable until the "carpet
bagger" was extinguished and the
southern people permitted to administer
their own government. President Mo-
Kinley might profitably study the re
construction period of American history
and draw therefrom some helpful
observations.
Prominent
THE VALUED . .
th ° err0rB
POLICY LAW.amOUS
of insurance legis
lation is the valued policy law , first
passed by the state of Wisconsin , and
since adopted by 21 states. This law
makes the amount of insurance in force ,
at the time of the burning of the
property , conclusive evidence of its real
value. The law , as pointed out by Mr.
Dean in his splendid work upon the
Rationale of Fire Insurance , converts
insurance from simple indemnity for
loss by fire into a bet that the property
will burn in a given time and places the
means of causing the event in the hands
of the insured. Opportunities to do evil
encourage evil. The valued policy law
places a premium upon arson and vir
tually gives the endorsement of the law
to the act. It leads men to insure
property for more than the real value
in the hope that it will burn. If one
policy holder out of five hundred burns
his property because of the inducements
afforded by the law , it doubles the cost
of insurance to the remaining 499. It
enables the guilty to thus profit by their
own misdeeds at the expense of the
honest insurer. Why place such a
premium upon dishonesty and so imder-
value honesty ?
IiBtead of a na-
BRYAN AND
TOWNE. tional convention
of populists the
Sioux Falls convocation of vagarists became -
came at last merely a Town meeting.
It dictated to the Kansas Oity san
hedrim , which meets on July 4 , the
necessity of the nomination of Towuo
to the Vice-Presidency.
Mr. Towno has been always a blatant
protectionist republican not differing
from Wm. McKinley more than one
blue-mass pill difforeth from another.
Mr. Bryan has been a free trader all
his lifo. The hitch-up of a team which
will secure the support of free traders
and protectionists too is a marvel in poli
tical jockeydom. The edict of a populist
directory is uttered to control an alleged
democratic convention and compel it to
nominate a republican.
The republicans
THE LOCIIREN
DECISION. are very much
wrought up over
the Lochren decision. They see in it a
menace to the most cherished tenet of
republicanism , viz. , protection. The
Evening Post thus comments upon the
republican dilemma :
Imperialism is but a gilded toy com
pared with the dear old grinning monster
before which the party has gashed and
cut itself all these years. If the two
cannot peacefully divide the republican
worship , imperialism will bo the fetish
to be cast out , so as to leave protection
without a rival near the throne. And
if the supreme court gives the word , the
republican managers will take the lead
in the very act withdrawal from the
Philippines. "
THE CONSERVATIVE
TREES.
TIVE , in this issue ,
calls attention to the catnlpa tree and an
exhaustive article thereupon by John P.
Brown. During the last twenty days
the editor has planted , at Arbor Lodge
and upon Joy Morton's farm , more than
eight thousand trees , and more than five
thousand of them are of the hardy
varieties of the catalpa , including the
speoiosa and the Japanese. Forty years
hence they will be worth to their owners
an average of five to ten dollars each.
What better investment can be made
for certainty of profit and satisfactions ?
Plant trees !
Just as soon as
OIL.
Smyth , the great
law expounder who draws populist
salary for being attorney-general of
Nebraska , has driven the Standard Oil
Company out of business in this Com
monwealth , prosperity for caudle fac
tories will begin. The next fusion leg
islature will make it a penal offense to
use petroleum in this state.
Smyth is the biggest lawyer and the
best self-adjusting philanthropist since
the Hon. Julius Oooley first burst upon
the legal profession in Omaha.
