Conservative *
Tlio Ex-Senator
EDMUNDS. from Vermont
Edmunds is pre
sumed to bo an orthodox , old-style ,
Lincoln Republican and in the North
American Review for August , he shows
remarks the Now York Evening Post
that as a lawyer , he is plainly amazed
at the opinion of the Supreme Court
in the insular cases decisions so "vari
ant in principle and deduction" but
recognizes , of course , that it must stand
as the law unless "reviewed and over
ruled by the same great tribunal. " But
it is as a republican of the older type
that Mr. Edmunds protests with most
force against the "severe shock" given
by the now Republicanism to the ideas of
"liberty , self-government , and equality
which used to be though tf fundamental. "
"Unequal taxation" is to him the most
galling and destructive of all forms of
tyranny , " but is in full keeping with
the "aggressive policies" which Presi
dent and Congress have undertaken to
carry out. Judge Edmunds sees , also , a
grave moral peril in the ready disregard
of our plighted national faith shown in
our "imposing conditions upon Cuba
not hinted at in the solemn public
declaration made by Congress. " He
has not , howeVer , lost faith in the good
and just intentions of the people as a
whole , in spite of the events of the past
two years , and looks hopefully to the
election of a Congress which shall ad
minister the newly acquired islands in
"accordance with the letter and spirit
of the Constitution , " and give to their
civilized inhabitants a substantially
independent self-government. "
In a special tele
WASHINGTON gram to the Rec
DICTA. ord-Herald , dated
at Washington
July 20th , it is stated that "a high of
ficial of the agricultural department ,
who positively refuses to permit his
name to be used , says that the scare
that is running the price of corn in the
Chicago exchange to nearly sixty cents
a bushel is at least premature. " From
reports , received at the department , he
says the condition of corn in the great
belt is far from a failure , and even a
short crop is not absolutely certain.
Then this illustrious , -distinguished
and anonymous official declares again
with great pomp of verbiage : "There
are people in the semi-arid regions of
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the West who persist in planting corn
despite all our efforts to convince them
that they are not in the corn belt. We
have repeatedly advised them to go infer
for alfalfa and sorghum , but they will
not plant anything except corn. "
It seems evident to the Washing
ton sharp that some of the
corn planters in the West ought
to be enlightened by him as to where
the corn belt begins and where it ends !
Will the aforenamed high official
"SlAVS-.ni
of the agricultural departmenttherefore ,
give out a boundary of the corn bolt ,
send a map with a packet of seeds ,
showing just where it begins and where
it ends ? And will those pertinacious ,
recusant and irreverent soil-tillers , who
have persisted in planting corn when
they were told not to do so by this high
official of the agricultural department ,
be prosecuted for Use majesta ?
NKBUASKA has been in the corn belt
and worn the belt for corn many years.
It puts up a crop , running from one
Imndred million to more than two
hundred million bushels of corn per
annum , and although the long con
tinued drought and intense heat of July
1901 has cut down the corn crop of the
state , Nebraska will never cease to be
appreciated as one of the best and most
certain corn-producing areas of the
American union.
The editor of THE CONSERVATIVE has
planted forty-five corn crops in the state
of Nebraska and never had a failure.
Most of the crops have been very good ;
some of them bumper crops , and not a
single one , a complete failure. This ex
perience began in 1855 , and the crop in
1901 is the nearest , in all probability tea
a half crop that Nebraska has ever
witnessed. But year in and year out
there is no better corn-growing country
on the face of the earth than Eastern
Nebraska , from the Niobrara river to
the Kansas line. It has a record of pro
ductivity for this particular cereal ever
since it was first opened to tillage that
is unsurpassed by any similar area in
the United States.
The Record-
CITY CORN Herald , of Chica-
GROWING. go is a most emi
nently useful and
instructive journal , but when it asserts ,
as it did in an editorial on July 24th ,
that "corn grows best where the sun is
hot in the middle of the day , with cool
nights and occasional showers , " it
shows its lack of corn-based , corn-fed
and corn-cultivating intelligence.
Corn does best with a reasonably hot
sun , occasional showers and very hot
nights. There are certain rural prov
erbs , relative to the requirements of
clothing for humanity during the nights
when corn grows best , that the Record-
Herald ought to hunt up and reduce to
polite parlance , and publish.
Saturday night
ONE INCH AND FIF- July 27th , 1901 at
TEEN HUNDREDTHS. eleven o'clock the
drought which be
gan July 5th was ended. There fell
before Sunday morning one inch and
fifteen one hundredths of an inch of
rinsing , refreshing rain. There is corn
to sell in this propinquity , cattle to feed ,
and hogs to fatten. This is a good
country that cannot be destroyed by a
drought of one month.
Mr. Churchill , a
CORN MATURED , good farmer ad
jacent to Nebras
ka City , brought into Tim CONSEUVA-
Tivn office on July 80th , 1901 , three ears
of perfectly-matured , solid , Yellow Dent
corn which was planted April 80th ,
1901. This was grown on the forty
acres known as "the Burris Forty. " '
The laud is high and dry but constant
tillage and the character of corn itself
insured the crop against drought and all - i
ordinary enemies. It is made and se
cured. .
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The lightning C *
'
IF ? rod man says : ,
"If you had * J
omitted putting our attractive , alluring 4
and electricity-domesticating conductors '
upon your domicile before that last
thunder storm , your Home would have * /
been shattered , wrecked and inciu- $
erated. "
But nobody can tell whether lightning
would have struck a certain house j.
without rods or not ; or prove that the
same house with lightning rods was '
spared from electrocution because of
the rods. If , saith the preacher , it rains ' '
after prayer for rain , then the efficacy of
prayer is proved. But it might have
rained though nobody prayed.
THE SECRET OF AMERICAN POWER.
Nor has the restless , inventive , query- 4 ' ' - " >
ing , accomplishing type of American * <
manhood lost its prominence in our political - -
ical and social structure. The self- .
made man is still perhaps our most rep
resentative man. Native shrewdness
and energy and practical capacity
qualities such as the amateur may
possess in a high degree still carry a
man very far. They have frequently
been attended by such good fortune as
to make it easy for us to think that they
are the only qualities needed for success.
Some of the substantial gains of Amer
ican diplomacy , for instance , have been
made by men without diplomatic train
ing. We have seen within a very few
years an almost unknown lawyer , from
an iusignficant city , called to be the
head of the Department of State , where
his achievements , indeed , promptly
justified his appointment. The conduct of
the War Department and the Navy has
frequently been intrusted to civilians
whoso frank icmnrftnp.fi of tbfiir now fin trios
has been equaled only by their skill in
performing them. The history of Amer
ican cabinets is , in spite of many ex
ceptions , on the whole , an apotheosis of
the amateur. It is the readiest justifica
tion of the tin-peddler theory , the
theory , namely , that you should first-got
your man , and then let him learn his
new trade by practicing it. "By dint of
hammering one gets to be a blacksmith , ' '
says the French ; and if a blacksmith ,
why not a postmaster , or a postmaster
general , or an ambassador ? The August
Atlantic.
