Tlbe Conservative *
must not , wo dare not , stoop to ndopt a
declnratiou of dependence , substract-
ing liberty and the pursuit of happiness
from the rights of man , and maintain
that governments derive their just pow
ers from the consent of the governors.
"Ho'.s true to God who's true to man ; where
uvor wrong is done ,
To the humblest nnd the weakest , "neath the
all-beholding sun.
That wrong is also done to us ; and they arc
slaves most base ,
Whoso love of right is for themselves , and
not for all their race. "
Mr Bryi\n * ud
. : \
his friends de
nounce Grover Cleveland for having
deserted democratic doctrines while
administering the government of the
United States between March 4th , 1893 ,
and Mnrch 4th , 1897.
Let Bryan show what democratic
doctrines were ignored. Lot any man
show where Grover Cleveland was in
any way recreant to sound government
and honest money ?
Let the business men of the United
States , the men who work , who carry
on commerce ,
Comparison. „ , ,
manufacture and
banking , determine by their ballots
whom they would prefer to entrust with
the business interests of the country ,
"Cleveland or Bryan" , and the latter
will have not one vote to sixteen votes
for the former.
What great interests outside of silver
mine and bullion owners are support
ing Bryan ? Who beside the type of
SenatorClarkofMontana patriots ?
What big wages-paying , prosperity-
producing industry in any city or town
in Nebraska or elsewhere is for Bryan ?
In an address
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SITUATION.before the ladies
of Oakland , Cali
fornia , consul general How Yow , truth
fully accounted for existing difficulties
in China when ho said that the trouble
is due mainly to , "the sacrilegious action
of Christian missionaries , whose prose
lytizing in China is an insult to a reli
gion that was old before Christianity
was dreamed of , and to the encroach
ments of foreign nations upon Chinese
territory. "
When we consider the encroachments
of European powers , wo need not be
surprised at the boxer movement : but
should marvel that the Chinese were
able to hold themselves in restraint so
long and peacefully permit the grabbing
of their territory by mercenary Chris
tian nations.
In this , the United States , be it said
to her credit , has never been a party.
Let us keep our record clean. The
administration have thus far shown a
determination to do so. At the very in
ception of the trouble in China , before
a hostile move was made by the Ameri
can forces , Secretary Hay , of the state
department , assured the government of
China that the United States did not
wish to acquire territory in China and
were opposed to the partition of the
empire among foreign powers. He stated
that our sole purpose in interfering in
the affairs of the Orient , was to protect
the lives of the American legation at
Peking and other American residents in
China.
This has been accomplished. The
allied forces have entered Peking and
. , . legation is
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Should Get Out. .
safe. Having ful
filled our mission in China we should at
the first opportunity withdraw our
forces from the empire. General Ohaffee
has proven himself worthy in every par
ticular , of the confidence reposed in him
by his government. Ho has wisely
notified the war department that there
is no need of sending additional troops
to China. The men that were on the
way to cooperate with him have been
ordered by the department to report in
Manilla. This action of our govern
ment indicates that no matter what the
designs of the other powers may be , the
United States will not participate in a
war of conquest and become a party to
international robbery.
REFORMERS.
distinguished ad
vocates of the election of Bryan and the
extension of self-government to the Fil
ipinos , THE CONSERVATIVE is pleased to
note Senator Pitchfork Tillmau , who ,
speaking of colored attempts at self-
government in South Carelina declared :
"We stuffed ballot boxes , we shot
them ; wo are not ashamed of it. "
Ice-Trust Croker of New York ,
whose Tammany Hall morals are at
tracted to the peerless is likewise for
Bryan and a bi-metallic reform a self-
governing , self-robbing , bi-pirated
greater Now York.
Altgeld the pure , good and great
statesman of Illinois , whose executive
pardons of Chicago anarchists , still
sweetly perfume the governor's office at
Springfield , is also a reformer and loudly
for Bryan , while our own immaculate
William Vincent Allen , whoso pugilistic
propensities are only periodical and who
likes to hear the anthem , "Nearer My
God to Thee" , is exuberantly for Bryan
reform and a return to the senate.
CONSERVATIVE . "J
OIJSERVATIONS. feelingly as to the
laborer
down-trodden
borer , as the man who himself never
did a days' work in any legitimate call
ing , either manual or mental.
There is no man so pathetic in talking
to and of the poor man , as the orator
who is making a good income out of
that sort of liquid air.
Those most prominent in their decla
mations for human rights and liberty ,
are , like Napoleon , not always genuine
lovers of their country.
Napoleon was a thrilling orator whose
boasted love of France led that country
into war , dishonor and immeasurable
sufferings.
A really patriotic citizen need not
boast his love of country and parade his
devotion to the common weal any more
khan good mothers need proclaim their
love and care for their own children.
THE CONSERVATIVE has never yet
known a self-appointed exhorter in be
half of the poor and the plain people ,
who was not smooth , smug , sanctimo
nious , unctuous and Pharisaical. The
liypocrite is only an actor in a mask.
He feigns to bo what he is not. And
the declaiming dissembler strives stren
uously to appear to bo not what ho is.
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IMPERIALISM.
Nebraska , near
Hastings , there have been discovered
several avowed imperialists. Some of
them propose , at no distant day , in per
son to ascend the American throne and
insist upon coronation. These plotters
for a change of government should re
ceive the oratorical attention of the peer
less prophets and seers of Bryauarohy.
These adherents to royal methods and
the tiuselry of crowns , are all in the
State Asylum for the incurably insane.
The executive committee of f nsionists
should have Bryan , Allen , Edgar How
ard , Oldham and other anti-imperial
spellbinders address those imperially
inclined and royally disposed persons at
once. There is danger. Which "will
you choose , oh , my friends , A lunatic
republic or a single standard empire ? "
REI-UHLICOR peerless
EMPIRE. Bryan is vocal
izing with great
sonoroubuess relative to gold standard
empires and bimetallic republics. In
nearly all of his recent speeches he has
thrown himself into oratorical hysteria
and asked with cavernous emotion :
"Oh , my friends , which will you
choose , republic or empire ? I am the
republic , McKinley is the empire. "
This is very fetching. Nobody has
proposed to traubmute this into a mou-
arohial government. Nobody has
suggested a desire to become the subject
of an empire. But as between a republic
run by fusion , collusion , illusion , de
lusion and confusion , and presidents
elected by populists , free silver radicals ,
sixtoeu-to-oue democrats , and the
alliance of all the cranks , vagarists and
darnphools , almost any kind of an old
emperor and empire would bo a rescue
and a relief. A veally , half-ripe , partly-
demented president would be more in
imical to liberty , the rights of property ,
and the pursuit of happiness than a
monarch like Victoria.