The Conservative *
A majority of the senate of the United
States were opposed to our government
interfering in the local affairs of the
Filipinos and destroying the progress
they had made in self government. But
unhappily , at the crucial moment , Bry
an threw the weight of his influence
against those senators who were fighting
for self government in the Philippines ,
who opposed buying the right to govern
any people , and thus defeated their
efforts and brought about the condition
of which the Filipinos now complain.
The anti-imperialists quite rightly de
nounced Bryan's culpability when they
declared in their recent convention :
"Bryan , at this critical moment , used
his influence to confirm the Paris treaty
and thus further the imperialism , which
he now denounces. "
Every word Bryan now utters con
demning the iniquities the Filipinos
have been compelled to suffer .will be con
strued by true friends of the Filipinos as
self condemnation. He merely de
nounces the legitimate consequences of
his own act. In this address the ulti
matum of the Filipinos is thus stated :
"Give ear to your own conscience ,
and we are sure you will incline your
selves toward mer-
Ultimatum , . , .
of FIHpinos. ° y toward tice ,
and toward the
only honorable course that will restore
peace to our ransacked homes and to our
devastated fields , stopping at once and
forever this horrible war which has
already cost so much in treasure and
blood , and which , if not abandoned , will
yet cost much more , because our resolu
tion is fixed : Liberty or death ; inde
pendence or annihilation. "
"Influence , then , as soon as possible
your legislators and rulerd to give us
self-government , which by right belongs
to us , and peace will be restored imme
diately , to your benefit and ours , ending
the now incessant and fruitless blood
shed entailed upon us by the present
war.
"We are ready to make peace and ,
in order to facilitate this end , we pro
pose that we will pay back to the United
States the twenty million dollars paid
by them to Spain. "
"Independence" or the right to gov
ern themselves is what they demand as
a condition for the termination , of the
war. If Bryan is really repentant for
past mistakes , and desires in the future
to be guided by the wishes of the Filipinos
pines , why did he not state in his plat
form that he favored that which the
Filipinos demand ? Why did he declare
his intention of giving the Filipinos a
government instead of letting them
establish it as they insist upon doing ?
Independence or annihilation wo take
it that Bryan contemplates ennihilation.
If Bryan favors the Filipinos paying
our government the $20,000,000 he advo
cated our paying to Spain and leaving
them to establish their own government ,
why did he not so declare in his plat
form , instead of distinctly stating his
purpose to give them a government ?
"Hello , Kan-
HELLO NEBRASKA ! „ , . . .
"
BOS 1" is the name
of a pamphlet just out , written "by a
tired man. ' ' The following verse which
appears on the title page gives us a clue
as to the cause of the writer's ennui :
"Wo have labored long and well ,
Raising corn and raising hell ;
But wo cannot Boll our lioll ,
And wo ought to quit a spell. "
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"The tired man , " who is E. F. Ware ,
a well known Topeka lawyer , in a
strikingly original way , gives the his
tory of ten years of populism.
"Since the passage of the 'Pop.'law
to confiscate public utilities , " says Mr ,
Wnre > "nobodv
Why ?
has come into the
state to invest a cent in public utilities ,
and everybody who has already invested
in them wants to sell out. Every act that
could be devised to make foreign capital
unsafe and to keep it from coming in
has passed the legislature. There is a
continual knocking out by the federal
courts of these laws as being unconstitu
tional , but capital stays away , and will
not take business risks in Kansas. Farm
loans with a log-chain mortgage are all
the investment that foreign capital will
risk in Kansas. And the heads of a
thousand Kansas families are slaving
day and night to get money enough to
get out on. The present wheat crop
will enable many a man to cash his
checks and bid the state good-by. "
"Our per capita of assessed wealth
under the census and assessment of 1890
was $244 , and un-
Wliere ? , , , ,
der the census and
assessment of 1899 , $230. We lost four
teen dollars per capita. If we lost 584-
000 people and each took off his share ,
we would lose nearly 125 millions of
dollars. But we have lost 178 millions.
What is the deduction ? People above
the average in weath have got tired ,
and have pulled out.
"This is a demonstration. We raise
great crops. We produce vast wealth ,
and yet we lose both population and
wealth.
"If the tramps would go , if the lazy
and shiftless would go , we would then
get richer and better' fixed , but they
are not the ones that go. It is the
better class that go and take a double
share of money with them , and it aver
ages twenty millions of assessed valua
tion per annum ; and if property is as
sessed at one-fomth value , we can see
where many millions go per year and
why the productions of 1898 and 1899 ,
which in the aggregate were over half a
billion dollars , have not made more of a
show on , the books of our county
treasurers. "
'The things to.do are few.
"First. Everlastingly clean out 'Fu
sion' .
"Second. Repeal the alien laws.
"Third. Repeal prohibition.
"Fourth. Repeal conflsoatory laws.
"Fifth. Do justice to non-residents.
"Sixth. Pass laws encouraging cap
ital. "
"The now is our turning-point. If
we cannot end populism and socialism
in Kansas as political factors this presi
dential year , then we might as well bid
Kansas good-by and go. "
"The writer has been in Kansas every
year for thirty-five years. He is tired.
Oh , so tired. If the pop party carries
Kansas this year he will go back to
Connecticut , where he was born , and
say : 'Good-by , my lover , good-by. '
And there are others. "
Populism struck Kansas a few years
before it did Nebraska. Our state is
rapidly getting where Kansas now is.
Hello , Nebraska ! Take warning in
time and break away from populism.
In fusion whether
FUSION.
of the opposite
colored races , of antagonistic ideas , or
of political place hunters , there is always
confusion , illusion , delusion and , logi
cally , final seclusion from intelligent
approval.
The amalgamation of the white and
black races has been detrimental to
both. Miscegenation is condemned and
forbidden by statute. But a mulatto in
the flesh is not much more given to dis
ease and short life than the mulatto in
thought. The platform of politics be
gotten by miscegenation by the hy
bridization of vagaries upon principles
and the cross-breeding of patriotism
upon demagogy is always as repellaut to
logic and common-sense as is a half-
breed nigger at the table of a white
family.
The Kansas City platform of the
illicit fusion between free trade demo
crats , high protection republicans and
irredeemable paper money populists
illustrates the feebleness of the mental
offspring of unnatural and unclean
unions. Black thoughts cannot be cross
bred upon white thoughts with any bet
ter results than the white and black
races miscegenate. The weakness ,
wobbliugness , sore-eyedness and frailty
generally of a bad fusion is too re
pulsively obvious in all attempts to poli
tically mix ideas , principles or races.
Even food and drink is rendered de-
leterous by bad fusions. The fusion of
pork and beef with cat and dog makes
a bad sausage and it becomes a snap
shot of the Kansas Oity convention.
Whiskey fused with glycerine , red
pepper and water loses flavor and vigor ,
and makes headaches instead of anima
tion. Thus the strong spirits of 1876 ,
when mixed or fused with the feeble in
tellects that howled for Bryanarchy
down at Kansas Oity , evolved , a plat
form of the mental mulatto variety. It
is neither white nor black , but it con
tains all the vicionsness , vacuity and
vagaries possible to so emasculated an
offspring of partisan amalgamation.
Paying the Freight. Johnny "Paw ,
when a man expresses an opinion , can
he collect express charges on it ? " Paw
"He can if he is a lawyer. " Balti
more American.