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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1898)
v\ onservativc VOL. i. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , NOVEMBER 3 , 1898. NO. 17. PUIJLISHEI ) AVKKKI.Y. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOIIKNAI , DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OK I'OLITICAT , , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOOTCAT , QUESTIONS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One dollar and a half per year , in advance , postpaid , to any part of the United States or Canada. Remittances made payable to The Morton Printing Company. Address , THE CONSEHVATIVE , Nebraska City , Neb. Advertising Rates made known upon appli cation. Entered at the postofllco at Nebraska City , Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 18)8. $ ) Money must be . - . yNeI.n-kut.Wr 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 J' ' ' fiWi , I'li'iTiij ' M fiinir T 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 189G. 189G.We 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 * , , - :