The Conservative.
Many of the pop-
THE GOVERNulists and quite a
ORSHIP. number of other
, Bryanarohists i n
this state nro selecting candidates for
the governorship. The election trans
pires next autumn. These early birds
are expected to gobble the worms of
nomination. However , their cater
pillars and other crawling grubs stand
very little chance of transformation into
winged and brilliant butterflies.
A small minority
A PART of the American
BIGGER THAN people are engaged
THE WHOLE. in the manufacture
of sugar. All the
American people use sugar. The Ox-
nards and other patriotic producers of
sugar desire the law made so as to benefit -
\ ' \ efit themselves by making sugar higher
I * to all the masses ; that is to say , in po
litical economy it is right enough by
statute to make a part of the commun
ity more important and powerful than
all of the community. Everybody who
uses sugar must be taxed , according to
these learned patriots , for the purpose
of enriching those who make sugar.
Thus the mathematical absurdity that
„ ' "a part is greater than the whole" is to
be established , ratified , and sanctified
by the statute-spawners in congress.
The patriotic Ox-
SWEET SUGAR. nards and other al
leged philanthropists -
' pists engaged in making sugar out of
beets are very solicitous lest cheap sugar
from Cuba reduce "the profits on beet
sugar. Sugar has" a specific purchasing
power ; it will buy money only of those
who want sugar. Cuban sugar is said
to be the product of cheap labor and
cheap capital and that , therefore , it is
impossible for American beet sugar to
profitably compete with it in American
markets. But Mr. Oxnard and his
coparceners do not object to Australian
gold coming into the United States , al-
1 though it is , like Cuban sugar , the re-
suit of cheaper labor and cheaper cap
ital combined than can be secured in
this republic. Gold has a universal , instead -
stead of a specific , purchasing power.
' It-Will buy anything that is for sale in
the United States or elsewhere in the
civilized world. Why should laws be
L-y made to shut out sugar on the grounds
named ; and no law be made to shut out
foreign , cheaply-made gold ? The first
has only a specific purchasing power
'and the second a general purchasing
power.
Tomorrow's issue
WILL STATE , of the Commander
will declare that
David Bennett Hill of New York is in
noways connected with the'"everlasting
hills" spoken of in scripture. The lat
ter family are all in favor of the ever
astiug nomination of Colonel William
Jennings Bryan to the presidency. No
other family of hills will bo permitted
representation in the Chicago and Kan
sas City renaissance which is to mate
rialize for the Third Battle in 1904. No
delegates will be permitted seats in that
sauhedrin except those who originally
favored the ratification of the Paris
treaty with Spain and subsequently re
pudiated the results of that treaty. Nor
will any person be admitted to the
councils of that third-time nominating
convention except those who adhere
zealously to the free coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1.
"Six-sevenths of
SOCIALISM AND the IP borer's earu-
ANARCHY. ings are absorbed
by his employers. "
"If you don't vote right this fall , you
will not vote at all in 1904 ; your ballots
will wad the guns which shoot you
down. " These words fell upon the
writer's ear as he entered a knot of men
upon a street corner , and he foolishly
thought that he was listening to an an
archist. He was mistaken , for it was
pointed out to him that anarchistic and
socialistic doctrines are absolutely the
opposite.
Yes , the opposite in theory , one be
ing based upon the proposition that
there should be no government , the
other that the government should be
everything. But while there is this
marked dissimilarity in the two schools'
theory , practically they work toward
a common end.
Socialism is the preparatory school
wherein the formerly contented laborer
learns to hate and envy his employer ,
who was probably once as poor as him
self , but whose rise was accomplished
by industrious effort and careful atten
tion to the interests of his emplrers ;
no man ever rose while standing upon
the streets cursing the government , the
capitalists in general and his own em-
ployerin particular. Anarchy is merely
the advanced grade wherein this same
pupil's hand is nerved to do the bidding
of his frenzied : brain and avenge the
fancied injuries of which he has been
told in botli schools. While innocenl
enough in theory , socialism is equally
responsible with anarchy for the crimes
against government. The same work
man who will turn with abhorrence
from the suggestion of the employment
of dynamite or dagger , may be'begnilec
into the socialistic school and there
taught the vicious untruth that either
labor or capital must be throttled
When he has acquired sufficient hatrec
for his employer and contempt for his
government , he is ripe for promotion
into the anarchistic school to ultimately
graduate upon the scaffold , while the
sleek agitator , the meek exponent of
law and order , the high-collaredwhite
handed , black-hearted "working-man'
who from the street-corner goods-box
preached him his first pernicious doc-
Tine , led him his first step toward des-
ruction , still plays the same old game
upon the streets and in the dark alleys ,
combing contentment from the minds of
lis hearers and planting malice in its
stead , teaching formerly contented men
the discipline of ruin , instilling into
heir minds the principles which fit
; hem for earthly suffering and eternal
lamnation. This man is the "laborer's
friend , " the innocent , well-meaning
socialist , so different from an anarch
ist.
Out of the coffers
THE TER of the hater of
RIBLE TURK. Christians must
come the ransom
price paid for the release of Miss Stone ,
tt is another reading of the riddle :
"Out of the eater came forth meat ; out
of the strong came forth sweetness. "
To collect the money , will , however , de
mand the best diplomacy of the state de
partment , and probably necessitate a
naval demonstration of considerable di
mensions , as the Forte gives up goldenly
only at the cannon's mouth. Meanwhile
Miss Stone will confer a favor if she
will kindly consent to remain captured
by the Missionaries , as it is feared that
a repetition of her recent escapade , will
seriously cripple the Turk's financesand
compel him to adopt extreme measures in
order to force the money out of the
Christians within his domain , which is
the mussulman's method of settling
these little matters.
Governor Taf t esti
WILY MOR- mates the number of
ROS. slaves held in the
Philippines to be
about 25,000. He contends that the
Americans are gradually acquiring an
influence that will eventually result in
freeing all of them , but says that to at
tempt to emancipate them by force
would draw the fire of both masters and
slavesas the latter have been under sub
jection so long that to them "liberty" is
a strange wordand they will have none
of it. According to Governor Taft , the
commission at one time made prepara
tions to purchase all the slaves and set
them free , but encountered an unex
pected and exceedingly peculiar obsta
cle. The Malays caught a scent of what
was brewing , and every man jack of
them announced himself as a slave , and
some of them went so far as to actually
play the part , in order to get themselves
sold to the white man , as they saw a
chance to finger some of the Americanos
pesos which their pseudo masters were
to be paid for their pretended release.
To those familiar with Malay character ,
this move on the part of the wily peons
seems characteristicbut what is wanting
in the governor's report is the day and
date when the shackles will be stricken
from the wrists and ankles of these people
ple , whether they will or no.