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VOL. i. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 3 , 1898. NO. 17.
PUIJLISHEI ) AVKKKI.Y.
OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK.
J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR.
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OK I'OLITICAT , , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOOTCAT ,
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TATION. Or fc" ° Surplus
crops of farmers
and to settle for the pork and beef
which thejT have for the interstate and
export trade.
The money power provides for the
purchase of all Nebraska's surplus pro
duction. Then transportation takes that
cereal , beef , or pork surplus to Chicago
and eastward to the Atlantic cities.
Money buys crops and builds railroads
to carry the crops to marketand yet the
populist party protests that the money
power , under the gold standard , is
crushing the life out of agriculture and
trampling labor under foot.
Justice Peck-
u. s. SUPREME " delivered
COURT DECISION.
the opinion of
the court upon the joint Traffic Associa-
composed of thirty-one Eastern railroads
and held that organization illegal and
contrary to the interstate commerce
and anti-trust laws.
The decision declares that : "Tho
natural , direct and immediate effect of
competition is to lower rates , and to
thereby increase the demand for com
modities , the supplying of which in
creases commerce ; and an agreement
whose first and direct effect is to prevent
this play of competition restrains in
stead of promoting trade and commerce.
Whether , in the absence of an agree
ment as to rates , the consequences described -
scribed by counsel will in fact follow is
matter of very great uncertainty. "
If the immediate effect of competition
among railroads is to lower rates and
thereby increase the demand for com
modities why will not a compulsory
competition among the employees of
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railroads be equall3r efficacious to the
same ends ? And why should the supreme
premo court of the United States fail to
dissolve the Brakemen's union ; the Con
ductors union ; the Brotherhood of En
gineers ; the Coal Miners union ; and the
Telegraphers guild ? All these arc in
tegrals which make up the concrete of
the service which railroads soil to the
public. And if the court compels com
petition for the concrete is it anything
more than equitable that the court com
pel competition for all the integrals
which compose the concrete by deciding
that all labor unions which have to do
with furnishing forces or supplies to
railroads are in violation of the inter
state commerce act and the Sherman
anti-trust law ? They prevent competi
tion.
The Amorioaii
TUB STANDING
ARMY. republic needs
enough men in its
standing army to enforce the law and
defend against internal as well as exter
nal enemies of the peace and prosperity
of the United States.
There ought to be enough disciplined
regular soldiers in Illinois to defend the
negro from the assaults of Governor
Tanner , and enough in the southern
states to defend the white people from
the assaults of the negro.
After security to the life , liberty and
property of the citizens of the several
states has been guaranteed by the dis
ciplined troops of the federal govern
ment we can exercise our "humanity"
by establishing garrisons to extend "the
blessings of our civilization , and Christ
ianity" to the benighted heathen of the
Philippine islands , the Sandwich islands
and the West Indies.
Near every great populational center
like New York , Boston , Philadelphia ,
Baltimore , Cincinnati , Kansas City ,
Omaha , San Francisco , Denver and
Chicago , there should bo a permanent
fort and commodious barracks well oc
cupied by soldiery. Ballots are good
enough in primarily making laws. But
sometimes it requires bayonets and bul
lets to enforce laws. The instinct of
self-preservation should inspire the
whole American people with the ambi
tion to have and to support a standing
army big enough to maintain order and
compel obedience to law , whenever
riots , mobs , or other seditions , array
themselves against the constituted au
thorities. .
M5T EVERY READER OF TIIK CON
SERVATIVE HEAD THIS AND
ACT ACCORDINGLY.
TD the y lioHnl Democrats of ( In ; I'nited
States :
Your national committee , speaking
for the national democratic party , con
gratulates the country on the emphatic
and merited condemnation at the polls
by the people in 18 % , of the dishonor
able and dangerous doctrines promulgated -
gated by the Chicago platform. The
moral influence exerted by the Indianapolis -
apolis- convention has amply compensated -
sated for the efforts made in behalf of
unalloyed democratic principles , as held
and taught by Jefferson , Jackson , Til-
don and Cleveland. And today this
platform is the rock and firm founda
tion on which alone a democrat can rest
his political faith. We , therefore , take
this opportunity to re-affirm , with ac
cumulated force , the principles of our
party as enunciated at Indianapolis in
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We believe that the theory of so-called
protection , which , in its last analysis ,
involves the spoliation of the many for
the benefit of the few , is dishonest , and
that it directly and inevitably breeds
trusts , monopolies and those special
privileges by which the cunning and un
scrupulous prey on their unsuspecting
and credulous fellow citizens. The pro
tective tax is not only dishonest and op
pressive , but it obstructs that free and
natural interchange of commodities
which would increasingly tend to lesson
the cost of the necessities and comforts
of life to our wage-earning classes. It
has destroyed our merchant navy ; it has
practically driven our flag from the
seas , and has forced us into the humil
iating necessity of paying vast and constant -
stant tribute to other nations for ocean
carriage. Wo oppose the extension of
this insular system to any colonies that
wo have acquired , or hereafter may acquire -
quire , and favor , as wo always have
favored , the widest freedom of trade.
It is folly to think of securing foreign
markets , unless wo are willing to trade
with foreign countries. Especially do
wo denounce the Chicago platform , for
its virtual abandonment of this great
and time-honored principle.
The doctrine of free silver is an extension -
sion of the protective principle. Free
coinage is the protection of a few silver
mine owners at the expense of our laboring -
boring classes. This policy , were it
adopted , would rob the workers of half
their earnings , and , by unsettling values ,
would bring about a paralysis of trade
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