The ncbrasKa Independent
OCTOBER 11, 190C
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fchoash Kenerallv inherited
Bad hygiene, foul air, unpur
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It is called "the soil fc
tubercles," and where it i
allowed to remain tuhercu
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pretty euro to take root,.
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Gcrofula. Get Hood's.
For testimonials of remarkable curei
tend for Book on Scrofula, No. I.
C L Hood Co., Lowell, Mass.
for governmental paralysis; tbev
treat.lt as a justification for refusin?
to attempt the remedy of evil, instead
of as the source of vital power neces
. nary for the existence of a mighty and
ever-growing nation."
Congratulating the state upon , its
recent reforms through enactments,
the president made a plea for a law
by Pennsylvania in the matter of child
labor, and for a law by which shall
be solved through tho aid of naMonal
judges, legislators and executives,
"the great question of the present day
the question of providing, on behalf
of tho sovereign people, the means
which will enable the i eople in effec
tive form to assert their sovereignty
over the immense corporations of the
day."
In a prelude to the latter subject, the
;. president paid tribute to the wisdom
and courage of Justice James Wilson,
signer of the declaration and one of
Pennsylvania's most illustrious sons,
who "developed before Marshall the
doctrine (absolutely essential not
' merely to the efficiency but to the ex
istence" of this nation) that;an inhe
rent power .jested in the . Ration, out
side of. the enumerated powers con
ferred upon It by the constitution, in
all cases where the object involved
' was beyond the power of the several
; states and was a power ordinarily
exercised by sovereJgn nations.
"In a remarkable letter in which he
advocated setting forth in early and
, clear fashion the " powers of the na
tional government, he laid down the
proposition that it should be made
clear there were ; neither vacancies
nor interferences between the limits
of state and national- jurisdiction, and
that both jurisdictions together com
posed only one uniform and compre
hensive system of government and
laws; that Is, whenever the states
cannot 'act,' because the need to be
met Is not one of merely a single lo
cality, then the national government,
representing all the people, should
have complete power to act.
It was only by acting in this siprit,
the president asserted, that the cor
porations could be controlled. "Cer
tain judicial decisions," said he, "have
done just what Wilson feared; they
have, as a matter of fact, left vacan
cies, left blanks between the limits of
... possible state jurisdiction and the
limits of actual national jurisdiction
over the control of the great corpora
tions. It Is the narrow construction
of the powers of the national govern
ment which in our democracy has
proved the chief means of limiting the
national power to cut out abuses, and
which is T.OTV the chief bulwark cf
those great moneyed interests which
oppose and dread any" attempt to place
them under efficient governmental con
trol. :
"Such decisions put us at a great
disadvantage in the battle for Indus
trial order as against the present in
dustrial chaos. If we internret the
constitution in narrow instead of
broad fashion, if we forsake the prin
ciples cf r Washington ,,i Wilson iand
Jlamlkon, we as a people Till render
ourselves Impotent to deal with any
abuses which may be committed by
he men who hare accumulated the
enormous fortunes of today, and who
jse these fortunes in still raster cor
!Krate form in business.
The letfsIa'Jve or judicial actions
nd decisions of which I complain, be
't remembered, do not really leave to
'he states power to deal with corpor
ate wealth In business. Actual ex
nerience has shown that the states arp
wholly powerless to deal with this
subject and any action or decision that
deprives the nation of the power to
leal with it, simply results in leaving
Tne corporations absolutely free to
work without any effective supervi
sion whatever; and such a course is
'raugnt with untold danger to the fu
ture of our whole system of govern
ment, and, indeed, to our whole civlli
'at ion. -. i
"All honest men must abhor and rep
robate any effort to excite hostility to
men of wealth as such. We should
do all we can to encourage thrift, ani
business energy, to put a premium up
on the conduct of the man who hon
estly earns his livelihood and more
than his livelihood, and who honestly
uses the money he has earned. But
it is our clear duty to see, in the in
terest of the people, that there is
adequate supervision and control over
the business use of the swollen for
tunes of today, and also wisely to de
termine the conditions upon which
these fortunes are to be transmitted
and the percentage that they shall
pay to the government whose protect
ing arm alone enables them to exist.
Only the nation can do this work. To
relegate it to the states is a farce, and
is simply another way of saying that
it shall not be done at all.
"Under a wise and farseeing inter
pretation of the interstate commerce
clause of the constitution, I maintain
that the national government should
have complete power to deal with all
of this wealth which in any way goes
in to the commerce between the states
and practically all of it that is em
ployed in the great corporations does
thus go in. The national legislators
should most scrupulously avoid any
demagogic legislation about the busi
ness use of this wealth and should
realize that it would be better to have
no legislation at all than legislation
couched either in a vindictive spirit
of hatred toward men of wealth or
else drawn with . the recklessness of
impracticable visionaries. But, on the
other hand, it shall and must ultimate
ly be understood that the United.
States government, on behalf of the
people of the United States, has and
is to exercise the power of supervi
sion and control over the business use
of this wealth in the first place, over
all the work of the common carlers
of the nation, and in the next place
over the work of all the great corpor
ations which directly or ind'rectly do
any Interstate business whatever and
this includes almost all of the great
corporations."
The president reviewed the strides
recently made in the direction of exer
cising and securing adequate control
over the great corporation, depreciated
the project of the government owner
ship of railroads, which would be evil
in its results from all points of view,
and denounced the self-seeking agita
tors, "the wild apostles of unrest,
who " inflamed well-meaning people
against all forms of property, and
would commit the country to schemes
of wild, would-be remedy, which would
work Infinitely more harm- than the
disease itself. In conclusion the pres
ident said:
"It behooves us Americans to look
ahead and plan out the ri?ht kind of
civilization, as that which we intend
to develop from these wonderful new
conditions of vast Industrial growth
It must not be, it shall not be, the
civilisation of a mere plutocracy a
banking-house. Wall street syndicate
civilization; nor yet can there be sub-
micsion to class hatred, to rancor bru
tality,' and rfiob violence, for that
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would mean the end of all civilization.
Increased powers are susceptible of
abuse as well as use; never before
have the opportunities for selfishnes3
been so great, nor the results of sel
fishness so appalling; for in commu
nities where everything is organized
on a merely selfish commercial bas s
such selfishness, if unchecked, may
transform the great forces of the new
epoch into powers of destruction hith
erto unequalled.
"We need to check the forces of
greed, to insure just treatment alike
of capital and of labor, and of the
general public, to prevent any man,
rich or poor, from doing or receiving
wrong, whether this wrong be one of
cunning or of violence."
Famous Noses Offer Problem
East St. Louis, 111. Pictures of
Lincoln and Douglas are in demand
by the board of education to deter
mine which had the longer nose. The
.ianitor. of the high school building
has replicas of the two noses, but Is
unable to tell to which statue each
helongs. The statues of Lincoln and
Douglas occupy space in the front
lawn of the high school, and the
weather has washed, the staff until
the hoses, with o'her members, have
fallen off. The school board will have
the statues repaired if the nose prob
lem can be solved.
Falls From 14th Story and Lives
Kansas City While working on a
platform at the top of the new four
teen story Long building, John A
Michelson, a bricklayer from Chicago
lost his balance and plunged head
foremost toward the stone pavement,
200 feet below. After he had dropped
fifteen or twenty feet one leg became
entangled in a roperruse for hoistinsr
purposes, which broke the force of
his fall. Grasping this he succeeded
m stopping himself, and, climbinsr
back hand over hand to the top of
the building, picked up his trowel and
resumed work. Two badly blistered
hands was the only injury Michelson
sustained.
William E. Curtis writes of th
University of Paris as a cosmopolitan
center of learning and warns Amer
ican parents against trusting their
daughters in the atmosphere of the
Latin quarter.
Decision of Russian terrorist to re
sume their campaign of assassination
is follawed by the killing of several
officials.
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Better Than Spanking
Spanking does not cure children of bed wet
tin?. If it did there would be few children that
would do it. There is a constitutional cause
for this. Mrs. M. Summers. Box 169, Notre
I ame, Ind.. win send her home treatment to
any mother. She asks no money. Write her
to day if your children trouble you in this way.
Dor't blame the child. The chances are 1
can't help it. . s - -.
Nervous
Wom-Out
If you are in this condition,
your nerve force is weak the
power is giving out, the or
gans of your body have
"slowed up," and do their work
imperfectly. This failure to
do the work required, clogs
the system and brings distress
and disease. When the nerves
are weak the heart is unable
to force the life-giving blood
through your veins; the stom
ach fails to digest food; the
kidneys lack power to filter
impurities from the blood, and
the poisonous waste remains in
the system to breed disease.
Nerve energy must be restored.
Dr. Miles' Nervine will do it,
because it strengthens the
nerves ; it is a nerve medicine
and tonic," that rebuilds the
entire nervous system.
"Several years ago I was all broken
down. I was nervous, worn-out, could
not leep, and was in constant pain.
I doctored for months, and finally the
doctor said he could do nothing for
me. I bean taking Dr. Miles'
Nervine, and used altogether eight
bottles, and I became strong and
healthy, and now welh 170 pounds."
II. C. CUNNINGHAM,
108 Ellsworth Ave., Allegheny, Pa.
Dr. Miles' Nervine Is sold by your
druggist, who will Guarantee that th
first bottle will benefit. If It fails, he
will refund your money.
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