Conservative.
'will. Laud will be cheap ; business tin-
taxed , and all available locations for
business or agriculture will be fully
employed. The use of the idle land
means the employment of idle labor and
idle capital. Business men , who pay
for equally good sites , lower rents and
no taxes , will be able to out to pieces
their competitors in towns and counties
which do not have the Single Tax. The
Single Tax is , therefore , the greatest
labor-saving device ever invented by
man , and the first municipality which
adopts it will compel the world to adopt
it by the mere pressure of economic
necessity.
Let me offer the suggestion that THE
OONSEUVATIVE continue to open its
columns to the discussion of the Single
Tax , as it has done in inviting this
article , and thus truly represent the
name it has adopted.
JOHAN WAAQE.
[ NOTE : Mr. Waage has very kindly
consented to answer , through the
columns of THE CONSERVATIVE , any
question which may arise upon the
subject discussed. Contributions in
answer to the argument , herewith.must
be confined to as limited a space as
possible. THE EDITOR. ]
The San Fran-
BRYANARCHY cisco Daily Call of
VIEWS. May IGth , contains
the subjoined edi
torial , which explains the "quantitative
theory of money , " as expounded by
"the peerless" in two campaigns. It is
a relishable exposition of money falla
cies. It is so brief that all can read it :
"Colonel Bryan is kept busy striking
at members of his party who show
signs of quitting , or who declare for a
reorganization. Senator McLaurin of
South Carolina recently stood forth as a
come-outer , and caused disgust to
veneer the columns of the Commoner.
"Now Senator Vest raises the voice of
fatigue , declaring that a convention
should be called to reorganize the part/ .
This cuts deeper than desertion to the
republicans , because it is an admission
that Bryan has so disorganized the party
that it is bankrupt , and con only con
tinue business by a reorganization.
"This rouses the ireful colonel , and he
emits 'views' as swiftly as a corn-sheller
does cobs.
"In his latest , on Vest , ho returns to
his celebrated cheap money , quantita
tive theory of currency , and prices. It
does not seem to occur to him. that there
was ten-cent cotton and dollar wheat
when the money of the country , poi
capita , was only one-third its present
volume. His theory is , that if a man
have a thousand dollars he will pay vol
untarily ten times as much for an arti
cle as he would if he had only a hun
dred dollars. The country is concerned
more with the circulation of money ,
than with its quantity. But a very
small percentage of business is done by
the actual handling of money. Its cir
culation is largely vicarious , in the form
of checks , drafts , exchange , and letter *
of credit. These mobilize the money of
the country , when there is a condition
of business confidence. The infirmity
of Bryan's mind is shown in his con-
taut prediction of panic and hard
imes. With him , the thought is fath
ered by the wish. Ho would bettor
; ake off his blue goggles , and heed Pros-
dent McKinley's wise and worthy say-
ng that 'the country needs patriots , not
pessimists. '
"Mr. Bryan takes great hope from any
fall in prices , and declares that 'the
> lentifnl dollar is the cheap dollar. '
"The cheap dollar is one that is not
worth its face , not worth one hundred
cents. The business standard of value
; hroughont the world is gold. In that
standard , commercial exchanges are ex
changes of value for value. Ii those ex
changes are in silver dollars , worth only
fifty cents each , two of them are needed
; o buy a dollar's worth. That is what
Bryan calls a rise in prices , when it is
merely a fall in the value of the dollar.
Prices and values remain where they
were.
"Jackson knew the great law of a me
dium of exchange , when he said : 'Gold
is the universal and only honest stand
ard of value , and all forms of currency
should be measured by it. '
"Bryan seems incapable of compre
hending this , and so he walks round
and round in the same circle , like a
mule grinding a mud-mill. "
A FAMOUS NEWSPAPER CORRES
PONDENT.
There are few , if any , newspaper men
in the United States with a more bril
liant record than that achieved by Mr.
William E. Curtis , the famous Wash
ington correspondent of the Chicago
Record-Herald. Among newspaper men
as well as among the careful readers of
newspapers , it is generally conceded
that Mr. Curtis is the dean of the large
colony of trained journalists at the na
tional capital. His relations with the
eminent men in Washington are so inti
mate and so personal , that he has an
immense advantage over the ordinary
correspondent. They give to him their
confidence , knowing that ho will prop
erly discriminate what should be said
and what should not.
The newspaper career of Mr. Curtis
began in Chicago in 1872. Storting as a
reporter , he worked his way upward
rapidly to the position of managing edi
tor , which he resigned to become the
secretary of the South American com
mission a government appointment.
While in this position , Mr. Curtis trav
eled extensively in Central and South
America , producing several popular vol
umes as the literary result of his labors
Later on , in co-operation with Secretary
of State James Gr. Elaine , Mr. Curtis
organized the work of the Bureau of
American Republics , and was placed in
charge of that organization ; and at the
World's Columbian Exposition , he dis
tinguished himself by his labors as the
executive head of the Latin-American
departments. As correspondent of the
Chicago Record , Mr. Curtis' travels
carried him , not only into all quarters of
the United States , 'but ' almost every
where abroad. His letters to the Recorc
from Japan and China were published
n book form ; likewise his letters from
England , Germany and Franco , and also
; hose resulting from his travels in Mox-
co and in South America. A letter
'roni Mr. Curtis is published in every
ssuo of the Chicago Record-Herald
daily and Sunday.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN'S EXPERIENCE
WITH A "NEW YORKITE. "
Dr. John H. Girduer , of this city ,
mown popularly as the friend of
William J. Bryan and of Richard
Oroker , has written a book entitled ,
"New Yorkitis , " which he considers an
appropriate name for a number of
mental and physical affections , chiefly
nervous , from which , he says , the people
of this city suffer. In this book ho tells
the following story , evidently ofr'tho re
cent presidential candidate :
On a certain Sunday morning I in
vited Mr. B. , who was my gaest , and
who hails from another city , to attend
Dr. 's church with me. Mr. B. is
not a Newyorkitio , nor is he popular
with Nowyorkitics. His daily work
and conversation , however , show him to
bo an humble follower of the Master.
He is an official in his own church at
home. After the service was over , and
while the doxology was being sung , a
note was passed to me. I received it
from the gentleman who occupied the
pow immediately behind me. The note
was signed by an official of the church ,
a man of education and wealth pre
sumably a Christian and a gentleman.
The note said in substance : ' 'There are
photographers outside on the street.
Get Mr. B. away from the church be
fore they snap-shot him , for we don't
want the church in the same picture
with him. " In other words : "Remove
the 'corpse' ; we don't want the church
polluted. " Now York Evening Post.
INGALLS' VIEWS ON DEATH.
In the democracy of the dead all men
at last are equal. There is neither rank
nor station nor prerogative in the re
public of the grave. At this fatal
threshold the philosopher ceases to bo
wise , and the song of the poet is silent.
Dives relinquishes his millions , and Laz
arus his rags. The poor man is as rich
as the richest , and the rich man as poor
as the pauper. The creditor loses his
usury , and the debtor is acquitted of his
obligation. There the proud man sur
renders his dignities , the politician his
honors , the worldling his pleasures ; the
invalid needs no physician , and the
laborer rests from unrequited toil. Here ,
at lost , is nature's final decree in equity.
The wrongs ofktimo are redressed , in
justice is expiated , the irony of fate is
refuted , the unequal distribution of
wealth , honor , capacity , pleasure and
opportunity , which makes life so cruel
and inexplicable a tragedy , ceases in the
realms of death. The strongest there
has no supremacy , and the weakest
needs no defense. The mightiest cap
tain succumbs to the invincible adver
sary , who disarms alike the victor and
the vanquished.
