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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1901)
' ' &W : ' . f' Ml The Conservative * NOT CHANGED BUT GLORIFIED. The Trumpet shall sound , And the dead shnll bo raised Incorruptible. Not changed but glorified ! Oh beauteous language For those whoHv op , Mourning the loss of feom& dear face departed , Fallen asloep. go Hushed into silence , never moro to comfort The hearts of men , Gene , like the sunshine of another country , Beyond our ken. Oh dearest dead , wo saw thy white soul shining Behind the face , Bright with the beauty and celestial glory Of an immortal grace. What wonder that wo stumble , faint and weeping , And sick with fears , Since thou hast left us all alone with sorrow , And blind with tears ? Can it be possible no words shall welcome Our coming feet ? How will it look , that face that wo have cherished When next we meet ? Will it be changed , so glorified and saintly , That wo shall know it not ? Will there be nothing that will say , "I love theo , And I have not forgot ? " Oh faithless heart , the same loved face trans figured Shall meet thce there , Less sad , less wistful , in immortal beauty Divinely fair. The mortal veil washed pure with many weepings , Is rent away , And the great soul that sat within its prison Hath found the day. In the clear morning of that other country , In Paradise , . With the same face that we have loved and cherished She shall arise ! Let us bo patientwo who mourn , with weeping , Some vanished face , The Lord has taken , but to add more beauty And a diviner grace. And wo shall find once more , beyond earth's sorrows , Beyond these skies , In the fair city of the "sure foundations , " Those heavenly eyes. With the same welcome shining through their sweetness , That met us h re ; Eyes , from whose beauty God has banished weeping And wiped away the tear. Think of us , dearest one , while o'er life's waters We seek the land , Missing thy voice , thy touch , and the true helping Of thy pure hand. Till , through the storm and tempest , safely anchored Just on the other side , We find thy dear face looking through death's shadows , Not changed , but glorified. The article of A CORRECTION. Louia Windmul- ler , on "Substitutes for Ship Subsidies , " reviewed in THE CONSERVATIVE of January 10th , was erroneously credited to the Forum. It appeared in the North American Review. j " * very plain . QUITE PLAIN. that the demo cratic party ought to be reorganized by populists and silver republicans. A peerless authority declares that those on the "inside" and not those on "the out side" can organize victory. The increased majority against those on "the inside" in November , 1900 , makes it quite plain that Bryanarchy will in time win a unanimous defeat. FROZEN. . in summer heat is a delicious and satisfactory edible. But in the winter-time , served frozen , it tastes as the rhetoric of a spellbinding candidate for the presidency reads after refrigeration on type. Emotional exuberance , tricks of voice and the magnetism of the eye admit of no transference to the columns of the common or commoner periodical. dfeated ! MODESTY. candidate 01 popu lism , viewing Me- Kinley's majority generally and the condemnatory vote of Nebraska par ticularly , slings himself into position for a model for the Statue of Modesty and cries out in the language of Jeremiah : "They have forsaken me , the fountain of living waters , and hewed out cisterns , broken ci .terns , that can hold no water. " Tne most mag" , -n t i mficent and superb charlatan and sophist always precedes the commoner quacks in the long procession of humbugs which is con stantly marching among the people of the United States. He prescribes the evolutions in economics , politics and sociology which fools endorse. There is nothing so attractive to the thoughtless as a successful upstart. The speedy growth of a toadstool excites more wonder than the imperceptible growth of a great oak. ° f AMERICAN SAVAGES. fche negro afe Leav" enworth makes ii quite difficult for Minister Wu to com prehendour civilization. After listen ing to the protests of our countrymen at the conduct of Chinamen who , because of racial prejudice , killed people of a different race and civilization , it must indeed have been a severe shook to him to hear of good Christian Americans doing the same thing , and in a more savage and barbarous way. It mast be all the more inexplicable to him tha such an affair should take place in Kan sas where there once existed the strong est of pro-African sentimentalism. "You bring the black man here , " he says , "against his will. You make him free , or the great Lincoln did. Then you declare him equal to the white man but you denied him equality. He can not hold office that is yon seldom elect him to one. He can't serve on a jury , although he has the right , and he is still a slave , socially. The difficulty seems to me that you regard him as a savage and treat him as such. He feels him self an outlaw and acts accordingly. Now , why not assimilate him benevo lently ? " Mr. Wu will doubtless note other in consistencies in the American character. It is reported that he is very much grieved and humiliated because of the lawless depredations of his boxer countrymen. He may find it consoling to know that barbarism is not character istic of the Chinese race alone but there still remains much of savage brutality in Christian America. GOVERNMENT. An experienced expounder of all questions economic and political , has' established a fact smelter and is now moulding opinions at Lincoln , Nebraska , for broadcast dissemination. Among other declarations bearing the trade mark of this eminent and eloquent vagarist THE CONSERVATIVE finds : "A government resting on force is , on the other hand , ever unstable because it excites hatred rather than affection and is continually at war with human nature ; it is in constant antagonism to that uni versal sentiment which is defined as liberty. " Has a government ever existed ex cept by force ? Did George Washington and his soldiers establish independence by orations , or by battles ? And after it was instituted did the government evolved come into existence forceless ? Has the United States government the right by the force of a majority at the ballot box to compel several millions of a minority to respect the president whom they do not like and did not vote for ? No government can exist except it- have force to protect its life. Every government on earth is based upon the power , force and cogency with which it can control citizens or subjects and defend itself against invaders. After several centuries the govern ment of Great Britain is not "unstable because it excites hatred rather than affection. " All government is in con stant antagonism to that universal sen timent which is defined as License a sentiment that fires the heart of anarchy everywhere , that in the breasts of the ignorant and misled breeds rapine , mur der and arson. It is a sentiment in effervescent oratory which sparkles with a seductive glamour , an alluring magne tism , like that of the eyes of snakes charming innocent birds to death and destruction. This find-fault and tear-down policy of discredited oracles and retired prophets , is altogether commoner among populists than even the feeblest symp toms of common sense. Governments having no force are the governments which are dead.
