THE NEBEASKA INDEPENDENT.
Oct. 16, 1902.
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The Ticket
For Governor W. H. Thompson
(Democrat, Hall County.)
Lieut. Governor E. A. Gilbert
(Populist, York County.)
decretory of State John Powers
Populist, Hitchcock County.)
Audifcr C. Q. De France
(Populist, Jefferson County.)
Treasurer J. N. Lyman
(Populist, Adams County.)
Attorney General J. H. Broady
(Democrat. Lancaster County.)
Commissioner Public Lands and
Buflrlings J. C. Brennan
(Democrat, . Douglas County.)
Supt of Schools Claude Smith
(Populist, Dawson' County.)
CONGRESSIONAL.
First Howard H. Hanks
(Democrat, Otoe county.)
Second Gilbert M. Hitchcock
(Democrat, Douglas county.)
Third John S. Robinson
(Democrat, Madison county.).
Fourth William L. Stark
(Populist, Hamilton county.)
Fifth Ash ton C. Shallenberger
(Democrat, Harlan county.)
Sixth Patrick H. Barry
(Populist, Greeley county.)
Under republican rule a public neces
sity is a private snap.
The Bee says: "Only a few more
annual reviews for the veterans of the
Grand Army of the Republic." Not
withstanding, the pension list will
keep on increasing.
The fad of every republican editor is
to discuss every problem upon which
he'writes no matter how serious the
subject may be in a sickly, humorous
way. It makes one very tired to have
to read such stuff.
Some of the manufacturers who de
clared most vociferously that they
must have a tariff or "the industry
would be ruined," have lately found
out that the tariff didn't work as they
expected.
The silence of the Chicago Tribune
and several other dailies of that class,
when all the people were talking and
thinking about the coal strike, Mitchell
and Baer, was as profound as that of
the inter-stellar spaces of the universe.
Morgan organized a steamship trust.
.While the project was being promoted
all the republican dailies declared that
the economies effected would result in
a great reduction in trans-Atlantic
freight rates. As soon as the trust
was organized there was a great ad
vance in ocean freights.
Ex-Comptroller Dawes in his recent
speeches has declared that there will
be a panic in 1903. He says: "While
we cannot stop it; we can devise a
relief." Even if he did devise a means
of relief, he could not get the econ
omic mullet heads in congress to en
act it into law.
When the coal barons are as ar
rogant, impudent and insulting to a
president of the United States as they
were the other day in Washington, one
can well imagine how they would treat
their miners if they could break up
the miners' union and become supreme
autocrats in the whole mining district
It appears from the Washington dis
patches that Teddy does not approve
of the plan of the "lilly white" repub
licans in the south to exclude the ne
groes from all participation in party
politics. He has removed the United
States district attorney in Alabama
who engineered the scheme in that
state.
The Independent has no faith in
convening congress in a special session
for the purpose of legislating against
the trusts or coal barons. The coal
barons and the trust magnates might
as well be convened as the republi
can majority in congress and they
would be just as likely to institute
reform legislation.
The city taxes of the railroads in
Omaha have been reduced from $22,000
to ?6,000 in five years. At that rate if
Mickey, Prout and Weston are elected
it will not be long until the people
down there will not only pay all the
taxes for the railroads, but will give
them a bonus of a few thousand every
HURRAH, HURRAH, HURRAH
The recognition of the soundness of
populist principles' by men of emi
nence everywhere during the last few
weeks, their adoption into state plat
forms of other parties, their promul
gation by conventions composed of
men distinguished for business abil
ity, moral standing and patriotism; re
gardless of .party affiliation or - relig
ious belief, coming from every section
of the union, is enough to make the
old populist workers in Nebraska," who
studied political economy in sod houses
by the heat of burning coal get out
and shout until their throats were sore
and their voices gone. When "the
great stress came upon the" people
from, the haughty oppression of capi
tal, it was soon, found that there was
no place of refuge except' irr populism.
The Detroit and Saratoga conven
tions, the opinions of many eminent
lawyers, the conclusion of honest bus-j
iness men, the sermons' of thousands
of ministers, the declarations of econ
omists and students, the acts and res
olutions of labor unions in this and
other lands, have all been - testimony
to the fact that in populism lies the
advancement of the human race and
that its rejection means disaster.
This being the situation, every pop
ulist in Nebraska should be encouraged
to get out and work for the success of
his principles from now until the last
ballot is counted with more energy
and enthusiasm than he ever worked
before. We have passed through
many hard conflicts, traitors have be
trayed us, those whom we would have
helped to independent lives have mal
igned and worked against us, the mon
ey power seemed enthroned, the trusts
felt that they were; triumphant,' when
all at once light seemed to break forth
from every corner of the nation and
the people began to demand that the
principles of populism should become
the policies of this people. Govern
ment ownership of public utilities,
which populists s have, , always advo
cated and which., were -derided by the
majority, has rall. at biiee' become the
slogan of men of all parties, in all
sections of the union. "Apply the
principles of eminent domain and save
us from the greed of trusts and the
accumulations of capital," is a cry
carried on every breeze, and shouted
in every public gathering. Hurrah!
Hurrah! and 'again -Hurrah!
HARD PRESSED
The complete failure of the most tal
ented men in the republican party to
meet the issues presented in the
growth of trWts afcd. the concentra
tion of great wealth in the hands of a
few men who control both the gov
ernment and the industries of the
country, shows that the objections to
the policies, pf the . republican party
are based upon undeniable facts. Sec
retary Shaw is a talented man, but he
is driven to the most outrageous
statements in making his speeches. In
Boston he represented the position of
the opponents to republican policies
to be as follows:
"Whoever . .undertakes gigantic
enterprises, especially if he is suc
cessful, is "a" scoundrel, and who
ever finds employment for a thou
sand men is a thief, and should he
find employment for 10,000 he is
a robber."
Now if there was anything in the
platform of policies of the populist or
democratic party that could be suc
cessfully attacked, Secretary Shaw
would have attacked them and not
disgraced himself by asserting that
they advocated things that they never
thought of advocating. When a man
of Secretary Shaw's ability is- driven
to such shallow expedients it is little
wonder that the whole crew of spell
binders are at sea, or that there is not
a man among them who would dare
to meet an opponent in a joint de
bate. They go about the country tell
ing their credulous followers that their
opponents are advocating the distruc
tion of business, that they want to
bring disaster, loss and sorrow upon
the whole country, that they never re
joice in anything but distress and
misery, and the simpletons who listen
to them believe what they say.
Why cannot Secretary Shaw make a
fair statement of his opponents' views
and then show wherein they are
wrong? Why is he cofefpelled to accuse
his opponents of believing and advo
cating things that they never, believeL
or advocated? It is hecause the posi
tion of his opponents, in his mind at
least, are unassailable. If there was
a weak place in the lines of those who
oppose republicanism, Secretary Shaw
would.be quick to attack there, hut
now he is compelled to misrepresent
his opponents and then attack his own
misrepresentations. All this goes to
show that the best of the republican
spell-binders are hard pressed.
A ViRT GRAVE MISTAKE
Popular government, both in this
country and England, has run along
the same lines.- , When the people's
stomachs are fairly well-filled, but few
pay any, attention to public affairs
and those who- are willing to make
any sacrifice to take the time -to look
into the way. the governments run, or
study out what the result of prevail
ing policies may be, are very few in-
,vpnr.. Vnto pr Rtrnicrit.
'1 mt two? f ita mrtnhera -with ; fixira
JJLJs-j urlnr jsur K t i m es t h a t
the great plans for the universal rob
bery of the people are "worked out,
for, like George' Fred Williams In the
late contest in Massachusetts, they get
off guard. Franchises and, special
privileges are granted.. Taxes are
shifted from the property of the rich,
placed upon the necessities of life and
the poor have to pay them.' .The last
four years have been times like that
Who has been on guard? Just a few.
They are for the most part the men
who began the fight against monop
oly fifteen or twenty years ago. They
are never off guard.
This year is called an off year in
politics. They say that no one is tak
ing a great interest in the campaign.
There was never a greater mistake.
It is in just such years as this that
the corporations and railroad mag
nates take the most interest and do
their most effective work. The rail
road interest in the campaign began
long before the conventions met or
were even called. While the farmer
was busy at his work, hired attor
neys of the railroads were applying
their utmost energies to getting the
republican party into ' such a shape
that railroad tools would be nominated
and their workers posted so as to push
a still hunt. What the railroads want
is to get this state into the condition
that Aldrich keep3 Rhode Island.
They want the legislative, judicial and
executive power all under their con
trol. They want every appointive offi
cer to be one of their tools. They
want the senators and congressmen
so they may add that much additional
strength to their position in Wash
ington. These are the sort of years
when the corporate power makes its
advances. Are you on guard? Are you
arranging your work or business so
that you will be sure to be at the polls?
Will you do anything toward getting
all your neighbors to vote?
A RUNAWAY CONVENTION
The New York dailies begin to say
that there was some one in Dave Hilt's
convention who was more astute than
Hill himself. The whole movement
was to "down Bryan," but the New
York Sun is forced to remark after
viewing the whole matter that "the
great anti-Bryan movement ends with
Bryan on top." The Tribune says:
"The declaration of the demo
cratic state convention for the na
tionalization of the anthracite
coal mines is, perhaps, the most
radical piece of platform making
ever indulged in by one of the
great parties. Before it all other
parts of the platform pale into in
significance." The stolid Times' makes the most
savage thrust-all unconsciously-for af
ter declaring that "the platform over
steps wise - bounds in advocating na
tional ownership," adds: "There is
not a word about Bryan, or Bryan's
platform, or Bryan's principles. For
that let all democrats be duly thank
ful." The Springfield Republican remarks
that if the convention had demanded
the enactment of Bellamy's Looking
Backward into law, the Times would
probably have said: "There is noth
ing about Bryan., or Bryan's prin
ciples. For that let all democrats be
duly thankful." It also says that
"the Saratoga convention got out of
hand and ran away from its man
agers." From this distance it appears
tnat the Hill etfort to down Bryan and
"purge the party from Bryanism" has
resulted in plunging it into a ranker
radicalism than Bryan ever advocated.
When the Tribune, Sun, Times and
World hereafter attack the "radical
ism of Bryan," they will only make
themselves ridiculous. The unex
pected is always happening. Who
would have thought that Dave Hill's
convention would turn out to be the
most radical thing in the United States;
To find anything more radical, one
would have to go to the extreme wing
of the socialists. And Carlisle, Sim
mons, Hornblower, Nixon and Dave,
Hill thought that they were running
that convention! Both Carlisle and
Nixon were fierce in their denunciation
of the action of the convention, but
David said not a word, although he
opposed the resolutions in committee.
More than 50,000 veterans took their
places in "fame's eternal camping
ground" last year, but the pension roll
still increases at a more rapid rate.
AS the gray-haired veterans assembled
In the annual reunions all the papers
say that the wavering line of blue
was thinner than ever, while the pen
sion roll passed the million mark for
the first time. '
It's a mighty poor rule that won't
work both ways once in a while. fThe
railroad companies enjoy the right to
condemn and take private property,
for private use, but when a company
of farmers want to build an elevator
on the right of way, it's altogether
different. That would be taking pri
vate property forcprivate use, with
the accent on the "private." But Zim
merman, Bremer 'and Gilmc&e, the fu
sion candidates ' in York county for
legislative honors, promise to work
for the enactment of a law which will
give other private" corporations the
right of eminent domain so far as con-
of uipaiu
TRUSTS AND IBBI TRADE
Whenever 'the: plutocratic dailies
unite in making an assertion it seems
the whole people are in the habit of
accepting It as true without any reser
vation and without any investigation
whatever. Lately the dailies made the
announcement that there were just
as many trusts In free trade countries
as there were in this. The statement
is absolutely false. ; There is not a
trust in any free trade country not
even one such as axe known in this
country. The trusVhere, under shelter
of the "tariff, makes it a part of its
business to plan and prepare for a reg
ular foreign trade to which it sells its
goo&sufar below what it sells them to
the citizens of this country. It Is able
to do' that y on account of the tariff.
Withoutthe tariff.lt could not do it.
Now there-is not an organization in
any. country: that isnotr protected by a
tariff that does that sort of bu'sfhes's?
In some protection countries the very
same thing is done, but In no free
trade country. Germany sugar pro
ducers, on accountof the bounty
which is only another, form of tariff
sells sugar to foreign. countries at
about half the price that people in
Germany are forced to pay, just as the
steel trust has been selling' its goods
to foreigners. -'n "
Now it is safe .to say that .nine
tenths of the people have taken the
statement made in the dailies as true
and firmly believe that all over the
world in free trade countries, trusts
have been formed that are selling their
goods at one price in their own coun
try and at a much lower price to those
who five outside of the country in
which is the home of the trust.
A habit seems to have been formed
by a large mass ot the American peo
ple of letting prominent men do all
their' thinking for them. They- never
stop to think for a moment over the
probable correctness of any statement
made by any of their leaders. The re
sult is that statements like the above
become current. and generally believed
in every campaign. - That is why The
Independent continues to tell the peo
ple that they must do their own think
ing. They will be robbed just as long
as they allow otners to do it for them.
There is no such thing as a trust on
the American plan in any free trade
country and could not be.
DESPICABLE CREATURES
Several of the republican dailies
have been denouncing the president
for "interfering" in the coal strike.
They say , that it , is "unprecedented"
and entirely outside of his duties. But
when Hanna, with a president ' back
of him, "interfered" for political pur
poses with ' the 'same ' men, these edi
tors had not a word' to say. That
was for the interest of the republican
party and was all right. To a pop
ulist it seems that if the president
had a right to , "interfere" in Cuba,
overthrow one government and set up
another, that he has a right to inter
fere with a trust in the United States
whose poicy, if not interfered with,
would produce more distress than ever
the Spanish did in Cuba. But why any
one should In any way be influenced
by what the editors of the republican
papers say is past comprehension.
They are simply hirelings of the
trusts, the same as the corporation
lawyers, and say what they are paid
for saying. A corporation lawyer
struts around and pretends that he
is a great man. He Is simply a hire
ling, works for the wages he gets, and
says what he is told to say by his
boss. He is about ' as despicable a
creature as the"Wofld ever produced.
And as like him as another pea in the
pod is the editor of the republican
plutocratic daily. A shining example
of the whole brood is the editor of the
New York Sun. Before this writer
would do such work as these men do,
he would live in a dugout and subsist
on roots. '
HON. W. H. THOMPSON
Remember always remember that
when Dietrich was the republican can
didate, visiting every saloon, making!
his great speech, J'Come up gentle
men and have something (hie) at my
expense," that s4ch distinguished pro
hibitionists as Bud Lindsey, Cap Bil
lingsley and Elmer .Stephenson organ
ized n& "civic federations" to promote
good government, and were not at all
troubled . about the prospect of making
a , beer shop of the state house. They
know that the character of W. H.
Thompson is unassailable, that in ev
ery department: of life, whether as
citizen, philanthropist, promoter of
honest and ' efficient government, or
friend and neighbor, he is the peer of
any man in the state. They well know
that any attack made directly upon
the character, public or private, of W.
H. Thompson would only react upon
the men who made it and the party to
which they belonged. As these men
are of so low an order that they do
not know how to carry on a campaign
except by attacking in some- way the
character of the opposing candidates,
they .were in desperate straits. Then
they invented the indirect attack. They
say that' they have a man who is whol
ly sanctified for their candidate and
that all the wicked men in . the state
&arf .Qin&.to .. fiKht . hjm4. and vote, for
Thompson. That being, the case, to
save the state from the rule of bums,
it is necessary for them to organize
"civic federations" and other societies
to work for "good government' The
kind of "good government" that would
result from' societies organized under
the guardianship, of Bud Lindsey, Cap
Billingsley and Elmer Stephenson, any
man acquainted with their political
record would know without being told.
The whole object of the performance is
to insinuate that if Thompson is elect
ed governor, the state will be run by
bums and saloons, which they well
know is infamously false.
A POLITICAL JUDICIARY
Under the judicial system of the
United States it is not possible to
have any other than a political ju
diciary. The president who appoints
a judge always appoints one known
to be an adherent of his own political
party and there is never an exception
made to the rule. The appointment of
one or two gold democrats is not an
exception. The men appointed were in
every .essential in agreement with the
president. Most of the evils in the
government have been brought about
by this political judiciary. If men
had been appointed not in sympathy
with and not brought up in the ser
vice of corporation, the trusts would
never have attained the prominence
and power that they now have. For
years only republican corporation law
yers have been appointed judges and
the attorney generals of the United
States have all been selected from
that-class. An elective judiciary and
United States senate would enable the
mass of the people to secure such en
actments, and force policies that would
in some measure at least secure a gov
ernment of the people, for the people
and by the people. As it is now, it is
a government '.of corporations and
trusts for the benefit of the rich.
A NECESSITY
Senator Lodge says: " "Great corpor
ations are a necessity." Let us see
about that. Christian civilization has
existed for nineteen centuries and un
til the last decade of the last; century
the world got along without them.
What has transpired within the last
few years to make them a necessity?
The phrase is on every man's tongue.
It is one of those "catch phrases" that
do such effective work among the un
thinking. Where is the proof that
such an organization as the Standard
Oil trust or the steel trust is a "nec
essity?" If they were necessities then
the government and society could not
continue without them. Who believes
that? The next time one of the re
publican spell-binders announces that
"great corporations" (by which he
always means trusts) "are. a necessity,"
ask a few questions on that subject.
Does he think that the crops would
refuse to grow, the sun to shine and
the rain to fall if the trusts were over
thrown? If they are a "necessity,"
then mankind would disappear from
the face of the earth without them.
If they are a "necessity," then all
good men should pray for the per
petuity of the trusts and ask God to
send us more philanthropists like
Baer and Morgan.
Senator Depew, whom the Vander
bilts sent to Washington as the spe
cial representative of their interests,
says that 'the president's action in re
gard to tue coal strike was "unprece
dented;' and more imperialistic than
anything that Mr. McKinley ever did."
Depew, when he was a railroad presi
dent, had an occasional strike to deal
with and he never arbitrated.
The republicans went to work and
coined all the silver and all the gold
they could lay their hands on, issued
paper money by the ream and then
begged the banks to issue more; they
expanded credits as far as the law
would allow and then violated the law
so they could reduce the reserves and
expand some more. They called that
thing "the gold standard."
The other day Dave Mercer made
oath to the statement that he and his
frienus had only expended $335 at the
republican primaries. If the people
want to elect a perjurer to congress
from the Omaha district they will vote
for the said Mercer. 'No man ac
quainteu with the facts at all will
say that less than $10,000 were ex
pended, and most of them say that
there was not less than $12,000 or $15,
000 put out to make sure of his nomi
nation. . Eight years ago Dave Hill was fight
ing the income tax in the United States
senate on account of "its socialistic
tendency." Now. a convention which
he controlled comes out for the pub
lic ownership of the anthracite coal
mines. This outdoes all the radical
ism of Bryan which Hill said would
ruin the country. But the resolution
was only a vota catcher. The men nom
inated, if elected, would interpret the
platform in the old way and say that
it was simply made to' get In on and
1
WORTHY WOOU WORKS WONDERS:
" When you take honest fleece from the,
backs of honest sheep and. put the honest
fleece through
a bew ildering ri
is p lr' i n u m o e r oi(
honest pro
cesses until you have evolved bolts of
honeit cloth and have had this honest
cloth worked up by honest tailors into
honest suits and overcoats you have
the garments that Armstrong sells -worthy
wool works wonders in modern
merchandising and for evidence we
call to mind the matchless suit and
overcoat selling of the Armstrong
Clothing Co. thus farthis season. It
has been wonderful selling. But no
more wonderful than the bargains that
have been sold the values that have
been given. This store long ago ap
preciated the fact that it pays to be
honest with the customer and to al
ways give him the best of the deal.
There's where we earn the title of The
Always Satisfactory Store- Come and
see or write and ask us about those
$7.50, $10.00,1 $12.50 and $15.00 bar
gains in Suits and Overcoats.
Armstrong
1221 to 1227 0 Street.
Clothing C
Lincoln, Nebraska
THE BEE'S ATTITUDE
The republican candidate for a cer
tain state office who was In doubt as to
what Editor Rosewater of the Omaha
Bee really meant when, shortly after
the supreme court's decision in the
mandamus case, the Bee averred that
the whole question of equitable assess
ments had been, "relegated to the peo
ple," might now, by a slight study of
state platforms and the public expres
sions of state and legislative candi
dates, be able to arrive "at some con
clusion although, perhaps, not a very
satisfactory one to himself. In an
other column The Independent quotes
in full a Bee editorial In its issue of
October 15, which contains information
which no intelligent taxpayer can af
ford to ignore. ."" The last paragraph
will bear repetition here:
"Tax reform has become a para
mount issue and equitable taxation has
become an imperative necessity (o save
this state from bankruptcy. This is
not a party isue. The people must look
to the candidates as well as the pledges
made for them by their party plat
forms. Candidates for the legislature
and candidatea for state offices who
are charged with the execution of the
revenue laws are - the men to whom
the people must look for relief."
No reasonable man can object to
this. A non-partisan settlement of the
questici is desirable if it can be ef
fected. Let us see where the parties
and their candidates stand. The re
publican platform' says:
"We realize that the condition of the
state's finances urgently requires meas
ures to increase state revenues and to
reduce the state debt, which exceeds
the constitutional limit. With this ob
ject in view a more strict enforce
ment of the laws relating to assess
ment and taxation is imperative. The
franchises, as well as the tangible
property' of all corporations, should be
assessed so as to bear their just and
due shares of the cost of government,
state, county, and municipal, the same
as other taxable property, as contem
plated by the constitution."
Who is to bring about the more strict
enforcement of the revenue laws? The
assessors on the one hand and the
state board of equalization on the oth
er so far as relates to assessed valua
tion of property. The county boards
and the state board, so far as concerns
tax levies on these valuations. Does
the plank mean that the assessors
must make their valuations higher, as
suming that the board has gone high
enough? Or does it mean that the
board will bring up-its part of -, the
work to correspond with what the as
sessors have done? Nobody seems to
know, and none of the republican can
didates will say anything publicly, as
to what they think the plank means.
According to the Bee editorial, railroad
valuations should be about 53 mil
lions, assessed at one-sixth. ,The In
dependent believes one-seventh is
nearer the standard of other property,
which would mean a railroad assess
ment of about 45 millions. "Will
Messrs. Mickey, Weston, and- Morten
sen interpret the republican -plank as
commanding even a 45 million railroad
assessment? Everybody knows they
willnot. . '
Mr. Weston is a member of the pres
ent board which fixed the railroad as
sessment of 1902 at about 26 mil
lions. He verified the board's (rail
roads') "second answer" in which he
swore that the, board did assess the
railroad property "in the manner pro
vided by law, which, of .course, meant
franchises and -all; hence, 26 mil
lions would constitute a "more strict
enforcement" of the revenue laws ac-
sessor.s should materially raise valua
tions of other property. Mr. Mickey
stands squarely on the republican plat
form (see Humboldt speech), but gives
no hint as to what he thinks it meajiK,
although he accuses some persons of
trying to settle such grave questions
"on the spur of the. moment" Possibly
he will now apply this to Mr. Hoae
water. .
- "Based upon the present assessed
valuation of all property," says the
populist platform, "we will increase
the assessed valuation of .the railroad
property of this state from 26 millions
to at least 40 millions of dollars."
That is a pledge which even a school
boy can understand. The people who
"lpok: to the candidates as well as tha
pledges made for them by their party
platforms" are invited to consider thii
plank. It most certainly more nearly
coincides with the Bee's idea of an
equitable railroad assessment than
the republican plank does.
A THIN VENEER,
Ine Lincoln Dally Star is a 'cute one.
Under the guise of saying some com
plimentary things about Judge Hol
comb and about judges and courts' in
general, it tries to twist' the court's de
cision in the Rosewater mandamu
case into an upholding of the railroad
contention that they are now paying
their full share of taxes or even more.
The Star says:
The party or faction which electa
v adjudge in the hope that, he will
appreciate the favor and recipro
cate at the first opportunity, ta
doomed to disappointment. He
may appreciate, but he will not
reciprocate. When a candidate, all
men are his friends if he can bring
them to him; when a judge, tho
law is his only friend, and the
1 opinions of his brother jurists,
vdead and living, are his only
. guides. -
Silas Holcomb was elevated to
the supreme bench by a party
which expected much of him.
Other ' men elected to the same
high- office were freely denounced
as corporation tools, and many
are the v6ters who expected him
to make thft bench a whipping post
where corporations should . - be
dragged for"- punishments Holcomb
the candidate ttook no pains to dis
pel this illusion
But when' the corporation comes
before him. and asks for justice, it
is tne jurist, not the politician,
who hears the case, and the finding
is made, not - in accordance with
the political prejudices of the court
If anything which "harbors pre
judice may be called a court but
in accordance with the jurist's only
adviser, the law. '
The move to impose heavier tax
es upon railway corporations was
not only a popular one, bht it was
a part of the political Teligion of
the party which found an obscure
lawyer in a western village and
made him, first governor, "! then
jydge; yet, whatever the gov
ernor may have done, the -jurist
rises superior to all else, and from
his pen we get the decision against
"the'state and in favor of those very
corporations which were supposed
to have opposed his election by ev
ery means, fair or foul. ' It-is the
triumph of judicial dignity and
pride over associations and party
affiliations, and In this may be
found ' the greatest prop to our
" government. ' ' ' j
The political battle may rage in
the halls of congress, the national
and. state executives may plot and
scheme as they . may, the people
themselves may rise, and demand
thatjihis or that be done, but be-
, fore 'justice may be prostituted,
even, with the consent and appro
val, of all the people; the courts
u must'be'.consulted, and the courts
t sit upon a plane where the clamor
of the. populace and , the Intrigues
,1 of the 'politicians cannot reach
them; they are far above, and out
of, hearing.,
So long as we nave such courts.
never intended to bother the pluto
crats. v -"':' cordinK to Mr. Weston, unless tbe as-J no matter what else tef all. God ,"' '
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