jp- % 4- ; , , j5 , * -v * . 1 : _ j > j.- * . * ( Cbe Conservative. VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , THURSDAY , DEC. 13 , 1900. NO. 23. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. OFFICES : OVERLAND THEATRE BLOCK. J. STERLING MORTON , EDITOR. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OT POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS. CIRCULATION THIS WEEK 9,619 COPIES. 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 CONSERVATIVE , Nebraska City , Neb. Advertising Rates made known npon appli cation. Entered at the postofflce at Nebraska City Neb. , as Second Class matter , July 29th , 1898. Nebraska is THE JUDICIARY. . known as a state which pays penuriously small salaries to its judges. Nebraska is known also as a state which has made a judicial record not equal to that which it made as a territory. The first judges appointed to the ter ritorial bench of Nebraska in 1854 by President Frank First Judges. _ . _ Pierce were Fen- ner Ferguson , Edward B. Hardin and James Bradley ; the first from Michigan the second from Georgia and the third from Indiana. They were able , honest men ; and better lawyers and more satis factory jurists , than the elective system has , on the average , furnished to the state since its admission in March , 1867. An appointed judge named to a senate and by that senate confirmed and de- , , creed commission- Responsibility. , . able , is a creature of the executive and legislative branches of the government. The president and the United States senate , in the creation of a federal judgeare directly responsible to the people. And so in the state judi ciary , if appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state senate , the judge is recognized as the creation of the ex ecutive and the senators. Whether good and able or bad and ignorant , the responsibility of his being a , jndge is fixed Bad or Good. " . ° . , directly upon the governor and the senators. They have been elected to office from among the most intelligent citizens of the state. They have character and reputation to uphold by discreet action or to destroy by indiscretion. A governor and a senate cannot afford to make a cheap lawyer , an ignorant dishonest man , a judge. Under the appointive system The Omaha Bee to the contrary notwith standing the people of Nebraska would have a better judiciary than they have ever experienced under the elective. Let Nebraska have a new constitution. If the new constitution will not give us the appointive judiciary ; let it prescribe - . , , scribe qualifica- Lawyers to Vote. . . . . , , tious for those who may vote for judges. Let lawyers only vote if the judiciary is to remain elect ive. In selecting a surgeon to take charge of state institutions only doctors of medicine and surgery should be con sulted. In getting a bishop , the church to which he belongs votes and not all the churches. Now men are nominated in partisan conventions and elected judges by parti- , . . . , san votes. They x. . Ballot Catchers. . , , , are nominated fre quently because they can carry the Irish vote , the German or the Scandinavian vote , or the saloons , or the churches , or the packing houses and factories and very seldom because they are famed for a knowledge of the law or because they are men revered for high character , in tegrity of purpose and courage in de fending justice. Now ballot catchers are nominated. We need fewer judges and better ones. We should have a state judiciary equal in all good qualities , mental , moral and legal to the judiciary of the federal government. Aft6r TOWNE ACCEPTS. ernor Pillsbury , Ohas. R. Collins , associate justice of the supreme court and several other able and distinguished citizens declined the appointment to the vacant senatorship , Governor Lind , the alleged democratic governor , tendered the position to Ohas. ' A. Towne , who accepted , as a trout takes a fly , with a rise and a snap. This is a certificate of his birth into that dem ocracy which recently ran a populist for the presidency. Minnesota now re joices in a senator of freckled political complexion. He has been a protection republican , a free trade populist and a Kansas City convention "What is it ? " all in the same year. "Speaking will begin" in the senate as soon as Towne is admitted and it will "be a Towne meeting" for "a com parison of gifts of oratory" until his career is ended. PATERNALISM. oleomargarine is renewed in congress by the patriotic dairymen who sell creamery butter only. These cow-worshipers who seek to pro tect American tables and stomachs from the incursions of any and all oleaginous bread-spreaders except of their own manufacture , are now as thick and active about the halls of the capital at Washington as fleas on a dog or bees in a hive. They seek enactments which shall tax butterine and oleomargarine so strongly and highly that it cannot be sold to the consumer at much less than is benignantly charged for creamery butter. They ask class legislation in favor of butter and against all substi tutes therefor. They demand domestica tion of the protective tariff. Heretofore we have been informed that the high tariff duties were not paid by the con sumers in the countries to which the tariffed goods came , but by the foreigner who sent them in. Now , if taxes are put upon oleomargarine and bntterine by congressional legislation for the real purpose of keeping up the price of cow- butter , will some one tell who , aside from consumers , are to pay them ? The substitutes should be sold under their true names and not an butter. But , . they ought to have Nomenclature. as much right to artificial coloring or complexion as but ter. And everybody who reads the journals of the dairymen can observe the "infinite variety" of coloring mater ials advertised for and commended to butter makers. Batter can make its toilet and use complexion powders ; but it is to be forbidden to oleomargarine or butterine to enjoy similar luxuries. It is mean and unconstitutional to tax oleomargarine and bntterine merely to help the butter Mean. , . makers. It is a legislative outrage which puts an arti ficial price upon the wholesome and edible bread-greaser which plain people , commonly , in great oitiesuse. There is no propriety and no patriotism in using the power to tax for the purpose of en riching one industry and impoverishing another. The dairy lobby ought to be kicked out of congress and butter sub stitutes , properly and loudly labeled , left untaxed. "And PRAYING. , thou prayest , thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are : for they love to pray standing in the syna gogues and in the corners of the streets , that they may be seen of men. " Matt. v-6.