Conservative *
It is a credit to
IMI'OSSIIILE. _ TT m. . . , . . .
T. H Tibbies that
he made no extravagant claims after
election , and is inwardly disposed to
look at the result as the very best thing
that could have happened to the state
and nation. Tibbies is not as foolish as
ho looks. State Journal.
He couldn't bo. Nobody coald.
The corn crop in
HEAVY CHOI' .
Nebraska is boun
tiful. But the candidate crop is marvel
ous in volume , weight and character.
There is a good man prominent in every
county of the state who would accept
the United States senatorship. There is
such opulence in this particular crop
that THE CONSERVATIVE can not , as yet ,
invoice , estimate or measure it in detail.
LEADERS.Richard Croker ,
LUSTROUS LEADERS.
Jim Dablman , J.
K. Jones , Gnin shoe BUI of Missouri ,
and other wise and otherwise leaders
of the allied forces in "The Second Bat
tle" are opposed to any reorganization
of the democratic party. Many good
citizens agree with them because they
think that the party only needs to get
rid of dis-organizatiou and dis-organ-
izers.
Recently a luna-
for
sane at Lincoln , delivering an oration
on "All the world is mad but us , " said
of the outside sane : "They shall not come
back. " And again with pathetic tend
erness : "If they array themselves in
ashes and sackcloth and beg us to be
taken in we may take them on proba
tion. "
No sane man tried to get back or to
get in. And now the crazy inmates
propose to reorganize the asylum them
selves and institute regulations based
entirely upon the consent of the gov
erned. Who wishes to go back ?
The only great
BON-FIRES.
victory for popu
lism , anti-injnnctionism and fusion for-
office-sake , in the northern states was
scored in Colorado. That state gave the
Croker candidate for the presidency a
majority of about thirty-five thousand
and while Nebraska repudiated the
whole fusion conglomeration , and cele
brated the same by bonfires made of
boxes , tar barrels and shavingsColorado
rejoiced by burning an idiotic negro at
the stake. Seven-hundred hilarious
savages gleefully witnessed the barbarity
and Governor Thomas of that state ,
says the fusion , confusion , illusion , de
lusion agglomeration called the silver
republican-populist democracy needs no
reorganization. It certainly needs no
more dis-organization or disgrace.
Civilization blushes for Colorado.
Daniel Moore
Bates ha , published -
ed an interesting
compilation of statistics about our cot
ton export trade with China. In ten
years , from 1887 to 1897 , our cotton
trade with China increased 120 per cent.
During the same period Great Britain
lost 15 per cent. , a net gain for the
United States over England of 185 per
cent. Our trade with China is now con
fined almost exclusively to the coarser
grades of cotton goods. In these we
have been able to undersell the British
manufacturer , while in the finer grades
we have not been so successful in meet
ing the competition of the Britisher.
American manufacturers should im
prove their facilities for producing the
finer cotton fabrics , thereby lessening
the cost of production and bettering the
quality of the goods and thus meeting
English competition and securing con
trol of all lines of the cotton trade with
China.
John Barrett , former United States
minister to Spain , referring to our cotton -
. . . , , ton trade with
Cotton Trade. _ , .
China said :
" Few people appreciate that she pro
vides the chief market for the export of
our manufactured cotton goods , and
that the majority of the new cotton
mills established throughout the south
are solely supplying the Chinese trade.
"It is remarkable that among the
most popular manufactured cotton pro
ducts in China today are those which
come from the southern mills. The de
mand for this line of goods is already
large , but the best judges of Asiatic
trade say that there is no reason why it
should not reach into scores of mill
ions. " * * *
Our cotton trade with China for 1899
amounted to $9,000.000. The principal
market for our goods in the East is in
North China. Not one thirtieth of
this is yet supplied. Mr. Barrett esti
mates that our Chinese cotton trade
will , in ten years , amount to over § 80-
000,000. That which will aid , more
than anything else , to bring this about
will be the " open door. "
LIAR HABIT.
Herald became so
inebriated with mendacity during the
late campaign that it seems incorrigibly
addicted to the habit of lying. Thus it
declares a political prescription , of some
years ago , which provided for the
swallowing of populism by democracy
to have been precisely the same as the
prescription by Doctors Butler , Weaver ,
Towne , Croker , Tillman and Altgeld ,
that democracy be swallowed by popu
lism.
The World-Herald will learn after
some cramps , pains , aches and paroxysms
in the uneasy stomach of populism ,
whither it descended with all its follow
ers on Nov. 0 , 1900 , the difference be
tween being the swallower and the
swallowee , between playing Jonah and
playing Whale ,
JASPER A. WAKE.
. . ,
forty years the
late Mr. Ware was a resident of Nebraska
City and Ofcoe county. In all that long
stretch of time he never purposely said
or did anything to injure a human being.
He was a man of kindly heart , purity of
intention and generous impulses. He
was a faithful husband , a vigilant and
affectionate father and an upright citi
zen.
Douglas county
CLAIMS
EVERYTHING.clalms tne
of defeating Poyn-
ter. But Otoe county , which in 1896
gave a majority of between two and
three hundred for the political sausage-
meat ticket , desires to be remembered
as casting about four hundred majority
on November 0 , 1900 , against Poynter
and all other leading candidates 011 the
warmed-over-silver- hashed-
warmedoversilverrepublican - -
up-populist-and mock democratic ticket.
° f
A TOWN MEETING. .
the Three Tailors
of Tooley street who said in their pro-
unnciamento : "We , the people of Eng
land , " has been equalled. At a hotel in
Chicago on Saturday , November 24th ,
1900 , Charles A. Towne , residuary
legatee of the silver republican party ,
and Fred Dubois , heir in possession of
the only available asset of that party ,
held a meeting to determine , with the
recently defeated populist candidate for
the presidency , the management of the
democratic party for the next four years
and arrange for its nomination in 1904.
"We , the democracy , " saith Dubois ,
Towne & Co.
CHRISTIANITY.
CHRISTIANITY.a victim of the
frenzy of the French revolution , as she
approached the guillotine , raised her eyes
to the statue of liberty and exclaimed ,
"Liberty , what crimes are committed in
thy name ! " As we contemplate the
wanton destruction and pillage of
Chinese temples and tombs , wrought by
Christian nations , we may rightly ex
claim in our humiliation and horror ,
"Christianity , what crimes are com
mitted in thy name ! " It is strangely
incongruous that the missionaries , those
to whom is specially intrusted the
spreading of a gospel of peace on earth ,
good will toward men , should be the
first to approve of acts of vandalism and
lawlessness when directed against the
heathen of the Orient. Piety seems to
be imbued with the idea that the end
justifies the means ; that evil may be
employed to bring about good and that
the heathen has no rights which Chris
tians need respect. The rude hand of
violence is used in merciless destruc
tions of the sacred institutions of a
pagan people and the Christian world
applauds.