Tlio crime of mak-
NO CHOICE. ing fraclnlent elect
ion returns is not
one of degree. A man -\vlio has com
mitted a thousand crimes cannot ask
to be released and rewarded because
lie is able to prove that some other
man has committed cloven hundied.
The fact remains that ho is not fit
to mingle with better men. Upon
the same principle Congress right
fully denied a seat to the Missourian
who fraudulently counted about two
thousand votes for himself , and
proved that his opponent made a sim
ilar error , amounting to about fiue
thousand votes. While it is a fact
that the investigation proved that
one man was more practiced in the
art of juggling with the returns than
was the other , it also evolved the
fact that neither is fit to occupy a
seat in the House. In contests of
this character , Congress certainly is
justified in adopting the rule : of
two evils choose neither.
The sentiment in
PUSH IT favor of the Post
ALONG. Check currency is
growing and spread-
ing each day. At the first glance ,
it seems a trivial matter , but a
closer inspection will discover much
good in it. Not only will it facili
tate business and cheapen exchange ,
but by transforming wealth into nontransferable -
transferable orders , it will lessen
crime by removing the temptation.
There will be less train robbing , and
thieving by mail clerks , consequently
more peace and safety for the trav
eling public , and fewer men behind
prison bars when the Post check has
been placed in operation. This fact
alone should be considered sufficient
to insure its early adoption. If you
favor the system , your support has
a value. . If you take two cents'
worth of interest in the matter , ex
pend that amount in postage and give
your congressman the benefit of your
opinion.
A u t i c i pating
DISASTER the annexation of
IMMINENT. the Danish West
Indies , sh r o w d
Yankee dealers are depositing rich
stores of merchandise upon the
islands , expecting to rush them into
the United States in the interval
which will elapse between the date
of the ratification of the treaty
and the readjustment of the
tariff. Here is a national calam
ity impending , for there is grave
reason to fear that , by reason of the
tariff evasion , prices of these goods
may be lowered a trifle , which could
result in nothing less than national
disaster. The destructive effects
which must follow a reduction in
the price of anything which wo
consume , cannot btmeasured. . The
very thought of such a catastrophe
causes shudders of apprehension to
play tally-ho along the spinal cord
of every captain of industry in the
land. And if the slipping in of a
few bales of goods through the back
door threatens to so seriously cheapen
that which wo purchase to eat ,
wear or otherwise employ , what
would bo the result if the gates wore
thrown open and all countries in
vited to sell us goods as cheaply as they
can ? Horrors !
Some men are en-
LIONIZED. gaged in killing
thousands of pig
eons at Kansas City. A news reporter
refers to them as "brave boys in the
field. " Many lands of men have been
lionized , but it remains for Missouri tote
to take up the work of heroizing the
butchers of innocent birds.
Governor Savage
PLEASE REMIT , went clear to Missouri -
. souri to deliver the
joyful tidings that Nebraska's depleted
treasury was to be swelled by the return
of every penny of the money lost
through Hartley's over-confidence in his
friends. Only one thing is wanting to
make Nebraska's joy complete , and that
one thing is the money.
The Peerless you
JOKE. have all read of the
old Spanish Grandee
who insisted upon being addressed as
"The Duke , " totally disregarding the
feelings of other dukes. The Peerless
has spoken , has accused General Funs-
ton of talking too much. Somehow
that suggests hurtling stones , glass
houses , etc. The Peerless is certainly
growing facetious.
Like the French ,
EXTREMISTS , many Americans are
extremists. Having
measured a man or an idea , they deliver
their verdict , which is usually pro
nouncedly favorable or unfavorable. To
them a man is either saint or sinner ,
either phenominally good or hopelessly
bad. An example of this will be found
in the case of two admirals , rivals for
public favor. Some editors declared
one of them to be all that is manly and
soldierly , the other all that is low and
base. Other editors treated the matter
in the same strain but transposed the
admirals. Another illustration of this
same spirit may be found in an editorial
from the Grand Island , ( Neb. ) Inde
pendent , which says :
"J. Sterling Morton seems , since the
Meserve decision , to have in a degree ,
changed his views as to the Bartley jail
delivery. Mr. Morton , to the surprise
of many , at first wept copiously for the
martyr and expressed his belief that
Bartley was more sinned against than
sinning , but now , in a denunciation of
Meserve , concludes that Bartley , too , is
unworthy of confidence and that no
man would think of mentioning his cor
rupt name in connection with the mean
est office within the gift of the people. "
Note that the editor of the Independ
ent cannot conceive that a man who is
fit to live outside of the penitentiary
may be also fit to remain outside of the
State house. We do not believe that be
cause a man follows the path which
leads from the State house to the peni
tentiary , the return trip should be back
along the same path to the old office
and honors.
If all the men not qualified to hold
office were to be immediately consigned
to prison , there would not be enough
left outside to guard the gates. Many
Americans arc extremists , and the
editor of the Independent is one of
them.
PERSONAL PRIVILEGE.
Editor The Conservative :
Allow me to encroach again upon
The Conservative's space. I am in
receipt of a booklet entitled ' ' God erNe
No God , " by John H. Anderson ,
Osceola , Neb. But I am at a loss to
know whom to thank , for the kind
sender forgot to enlighten mo. I
suspect though that he is a member
of The Conservative family who
lives in Osceola the
that-being post
mark on the wrapper , and I would
here extend my thanks for his con
sideration of my "soul's "welfare.
Most likely the sentiments in my
article "Another Gate Ajar , " of
recent date , has aroused his solici
tude for the independent wanderers.
This booklet being one of some two
hundred paragraphs , a book would be
required to answer it , but as yet I
have not become a bookmaker. And
moreover , although it is new to me ,
the booklet must be an old messenger
in your neighborhood , its copyright
year being 1889. So its contents must
long since have been threshed and
rethreshed , an unproolaimed truce
being now established between the
undefeated sides. I do not care to
precipitate anew the fracas , and
what hero follows is in nowise an
answer to the suggestions in the
booklet , but rather is in addition to
my recent article. Indeed I admit
that I would make a sorry bluster
in endeavoring to answer the booklet ,
for it employes that subtle method ,
suggestion. It is by following the
suggestions of the operator that the
subject becomes hypnotized and pas
sive.
The realms of the earth and the
realms of thought each contain in
numerable jungles in which any man
can bo lost. Self-consciousness , the
ego , substance or matter and force ,
