The Conservative * . t
in Buoh practice. The practice is on the
same level as that of Chinese paganism.
If it be true that by their fruits they
shall be known , the two systems are
twins , as like as Castor and Pollux. The
home people of the Christian nations
will not be long in making comparisons ,
mid when they do their allegiance to
Christianity will become more and more
formal and perfunctory.
What"the world seems to need now ,
more than anything else , is a Christian
ity that is Christian.
" 'Can ' it be possible that the awful mis
take can be made of adopting a form of
the religions idea , oriental in its origin ,
without considering whether occidental
man can be adapted to it ?
Are we incapable of projecting the
metaphysical into the physical life of
our people ? Theodore Parker defined
Christianity not as a dogma , but a life
to be lived. , * Surely we can't live it
looting , and casting the deeds of Timnr
and Geughiz in the shade , persuaded
thereto by Christian missionaries. San
Francisco Call.
QUIVERA LEGENDS.
Mr. E. E. Blackmail is publishing at
Boca , Nebraska , a very attractive mag
azine , "Quivera Legends , " devoted tq
the early history of Nebraska. Mr.
Blackman is engaged in a commendable
work and is collecting material of great
historical value. In the October issue of
his magazine , he says :
"When I first came to the state , ten
years ago , and heard of Quivera , I be
came interested in what was considered
by most people , who knew of it at all ,
as a myth.
Since then I have devoted my spare
moments , during a busy life in the
school room , to searching the sources
for something definite relating to this
far-famed empire.
I have followed every thread which
promised to reveal a truth about this
supposed myth. I have used the great
libraries at Lincoln and have only re
tained in this history what I know to be
good authority. I have explored with
u the spade many points where the sources
told me I would find evidences ; and my
labors were amply rewarded.
I have spent time and money in the
endeavor to clear np this great subject ;
and the result is this History of Quivera.
It was sent to New York and plated
especially for this magazine , at no small
expense. There are about seventy full
page plates to be run in this magazine ,
and they cover as completely as possible
the true history of Quivera.
This history is to be reprinted in a
leading magazine of the United States
and of England , so the subject will
have a wide publicity.
Every country has its folk lore , and as
time moves on , leaving this folk-lore
farther -and farther in the past , it
crystallizes into a myth.
* Tnatfevery myth has a foundation ,
has at least a starting point and in it a
well defined germ of truth , is scarcely
to be doubted ; how much real truth
still exists in the myth depends partly
upon the age of the myth and partly
upon the powers of imagination found
in the people who perpetuated it.
The state of Nebraska has a folklore
separate and distinct from any other ,
more interesting than the story of lo ,
more authentic and more remote than
that of Captain John Smith's escapade
in the Indian village.
The very name Nebraska has its origin
in this story , and when wo bring the
discriminating -telescope of common
sense to bear upon it and shade out the
color which we know to be false ,
when we study the character of the
people who handed down the story , we
can see much of grandeur and sub
limity in the unvarnished recital of
proved facts.
Much of the story as told three hun
dred years ago still remains unproved ;
much is still left which we must doubt ;
but a great part of the important details
stands today upon as firm a basis as does
one-half of our so called authentic
history. "
TKEACHEKY.
The Nebraska Trust law is butchered
in the house of its friends.
Section 3 of that estimable enactment
begins as follows :
"Any corporation organized under the
laws of this state which violates any of
the provisions of this act , shall thereby
forfeit its charter and franchise , and its
corporate existence shall thereupon cease
and determine. "
It is further made the duty of the
attorney-general to see that this is done.
How fine a sight it is to see a public
official , actuated by the loftiest ideas of
duty , carrying out to the letter the
oftentimes painful obligations laid upon
him by the superior wisdom of the leg
islative branch ! And how deplorable a
spectacle when such a one sitteth in
the seat of the scornful , and despising
the constituted authorities , becomes an
open contemner of those statutes which
should be his only guide !
This is the revolutionary attitude of
the present attorney-general of our un
happy state. He has charged a certain
corporation of this city , before the
supreme court , with having entered into
certain relations forbidden by law ; but
instead of inflicting upon it the death
penalty prescribed by the statute , he
annnonnces his purpose to compel it "to
resume control of its property and oper
ate its plant. " Thus he is so far from
seeking to fulfill the intent of the law ,
that he would force the reluctant stock
holders of that company to earn and
accept the large profits to be expected
from a business which they , in their in
ferior judgment , had seen fit to relin
quish. Thus to confer benefits upon
offenders against the state is not the act
of a conscientious official nor of a good
citizen ; it is the conduct of a law
breaker , an anarchist , a malefactor , a
miscreant.
And with what alarm we must view
the course of that illustrious profession
al candidate , Mr. W. J. Bryan , when we
see him taking his stand with this same
dangerous character ?
"I promise you , " said Mr. Bryan in
his recent speech in this city , "that I
will do all I can to dissolve the Starch
.trust and leave the Argo company an
independent Nebraska City company. "
What interests can we safely put in
the hands of a man who shows such a
lofty contempt for and designs such
high-handed liberties with the laws of
the commonwealth ? He would make
the offending corporation "indepen
dent ; " put it in the enviable position of
a hog on ice. To confer such benefac
tions as this upon evil doers is to aid and
abet them in their misdeeds ; to connive
in their offenses ; and wo greatly fear
'
that Mr. Bryan has , by this promise ,
become a sharer in their infamy , and
laid himself liable to prosecution and
fine under that extremely broad statute
for whose provisions ho evinces EO
sovereign a disregard.
RESOLUTIONS OF NATIONAL DEMO-
CKATIC COMMITTEE.
Passed by the National Committee at
its meeting held in Indianapolis , July
25 , 1900 , viz :
Resolved : First , That in the opinion
of this committee , the nomination of
candidates by the National Damocratio
Party for the offices of President and
Vice President is unwise and inex
pedient.
Second. That we reaffirm the Indian
apolis Platform of 1896.
Third. We recommend the State
Committees in their respective States to
preserve their organizations and take
such steps , as in their opinion may best
subserve the principles of our party , es
pecially in the maintenance of a sound
currency , the right of private contract ,
the independence of the Judiciary and
the authority of the President to enforce
Federal laws , a covert attack on which
is made under the guise of the denun
ciation of government by injunction.
We urge the voters not to be deceived
by the plea that the money question has
been finally settled. The specific reiter
ation of the demand for the free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 by the
Kansas City Convention , and the history
known of all men connected therewith ,
emphasize the danger of this demand.
We endorse the action of Congress in
passing a bill embodying the gold stand
ard as a step in the right direction.
We feel that it would be dangerous to
elevate to the executive power anyone
hostile to the maintenance and enforce
ment of this law.