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States. The supreme court reversed
the decision, but as several years had
elapsed since the case was com
menced the railroads had found out
another way to do it, so that created
no embarrassment for them .what-
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ever.
Very prominent lawyers in more
than one circuit have told me that
when a circuit or district United
States judge had a son that had
graduated and was ready to practice
law it was quite common for the
infifro in nnll nnnn sonifi law firm em-
ployed by some trust or combination,
and say that his son was now ready
to enter upon the practice ot law, ana
ask if they knew of an opening, and
of course the answer was, "Send him
right over here, we have been looking
for just such a man." So that in very
many cases the United States judge
sits upon the bench having graduated
from the office of the attorneys for
some great industrial combination
and listens to the reading of a brief
nrcnared bv his own son. in the in
terests of the corporation for whom
the judge had served before he went
upon the bench.
These courts do not properly be
long to our system of government.
There is no place in a representative
republic for an officer who holds his
position for life appointed by another
representative of the people with no
power to remove, or to criticise or
curb His action, and therefore these
courts should be instantly abolished
and 'in their place courts substituted
that are elected by the people subject
to recall, that is the courts of the
several states.
If the people arc capable of enact
ing laws, they are capable of saying
what they meant by those laws when
tney enacted them, and the right to
recall an unfaithful servant ought to
be as great on the part of the people
as upon the part of an individual.
The contest of the strong against
the weak, the few against the many,
has been going on for ages.
We are now entering unnn n now
phase of the world's social and
economic development, the contest of
ine weaic against the strong, of the
many against the few, is moving
around the world armed with the bal
lot and universal education. There
can be no doubt about the ultimate
result, the people will come into their
own. They will come into possession
of governments and laws, nmi tho
courts, and the property, and use
them all for the development and up-
111.UU15 ol man.
If the democratic party does not
write this issue into its platform and
ieau in uns great contest as it can
and should, then a new party will
arise and leave the democratic party
without a minion or a purpose a
wreck upon the shores of neglected
opportunity.
that he will not help the people to
rule unless they rule as he instructs
them to rule? That he will refuse
to represent the democracy of Ne
braska in the national convention
unless they instruct him as he in
structs them to instruct him?
If the people of the United States
are qualified for self-government
then the people of Nebraska are also
qualified. If all the people are quali
fied for self-government that includes
the democrats. It includes even the
democrats of Nebraska. They make
mistakes, at times, but, as Mr. Bryan
has well said, the people are entitled
to make their own mistakes. Their
intentions are right and in tho end
their actions will be right.
Suppose there was a presidential
preference primary law in all the
states, as there ought to be and as,
in a few years there will be. Sup
pose all the candidates for delegate
to a democratic, national convention
should tak.e the position Mr. Bryan
has taken. What would be the re
sult? It 'would be confusion, if not
chaos. Two-thirds of the democrats
of the country, even more, might
conceivably be left without represen
tatives in the convention.
If delegates areto refuse to carrv
out the people's will if they are to
refuse to serve unless they can put
their own will superior to the will of
the people what is the use of elect
ing them? What is the use of in
structing them? Why not let the
leader, or boss, of the party in each
state name the delegates and in
struct them himself?
An individual member of a party
has the right to refuse to accept the
judgment of his fellow members and
to refuse to act with them. But the
case is entirely different when that
individual presents himself as one
seeking a commission to represent
his party on a particular issue, upon
which the rank and lile are to issue
their instructions when they elect
him. If ho is determined in advance
not to accept these instructions un
less they are such as he wants them
to be, then, it would seem, the digni
fied, fair and manly course would be
for him to refuse, to nresfint himself
as a candidate for the responsibility
of representing them.
If Mr. Bryan is not willing to
promise to abide by the instructions
of the democrats of' Nebraska ho
ought not to be a candidate.
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"SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE"
Editorial in Omaha (Neb.) World
Herald: Mr. Bryan has issued a
statement declaring that if he is
elected a delegate to the Baltimore
convention, and the democrats of Ne
braska instruct him to vote for Har
mon, he will refill t " ar.
those instructions and will resign his
commission. ib uis
It is difficult to believe that it is
Mr. Bryan who says this. He has
always pleaded for and deirnnS
rule by the neonl. S"?.
the primary system as against tS
convention system, beoSffi Tunae?
the primary system the people a?S
the bosses, and under the con
ventlon system the leaders are the
bosses. Ho has pointed out
the weakness in representative cov
ernment lies in the refusal of ?
people's chosen representativs to
carry out their instructions t0
Is Mr. Bryan now ready to declare
THE IDLE ACRE
Have you an idle acre on your
farm? If so, why not at once put it
to some use if for no other reason,
that it may work no injury to your
self or to your neighbor? Every
such acre, in a Bettled community,
is an accuser, branding its owner so
says a contemporary "as either
thoughtless, wasteful or shiftless;
possibly all three;" says C. R. Barns,
mmnesoia university farm. On any
such acre, weeds may grow sufficient
to "seed down" a township and to
increase the labors of the whole
farming population. The broad areas
pf uncultivated land, which form so
large a percentage of thousands of
Minnesota farms, aro a standing in
dictment Of our nvRtfimn nf Innrl
ownership and taxation, as unreason
t?4.,and U1ust. No man should bo
entitled to hold more land than ho
can fully cultivate or make other
wise useful to the community; as,
tor instance, in the growing of tim-v
her trees or in the maintenance of a
wen-stocked fishpond. Idle land
could be so heavily taxed that nobody
could afford to keep it out of use
it must be "cultivate or sell." But
instead of observing this just rule,
wo punish with heavy taxation tho
farmer who improves and enriches
his land, and let off, with only nomi
nal taxation, tho owner of idle acres.
Green's Fruit Grower (Rochester,
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