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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1901)
ff The Conservative. 6 THE PROTKCTOR. , , , and defender of the common people communes with Oroker when in Now York Oity and eats twelve-dollars-a-plate dinners. The plutocrat is thus made a purveyor to the prophet of the plain people who punishes capital by consuming a plate full at a meal. Who could be more self- sacrificing ? Even if the com- . . HAZING. . . . . . , mittee appointed by congress does fail to fix the respon sibility for the death of Oadet Boos , it has accomplished good in another way. It has aroused the public conscience against the practice of hazing and in deference to public opinion the cadets have already agreed to a'mndon this form of entertainment in the future. SATISFIED. of the perpetual populist candidate for the presidency says : "It will be satisfied if by fidelity to the common people it proves its right to the name which has been chosen. " Is this right to be demonstrated by advocating a debased currency for the country ? Or is the right to be main tained by publishing platitudes "com moner" than those spoken by the populist candidate for the presidency during the recent campaign ? ° * * TRUE REFORMERS. ! f Montana who as saults his bank account in the interests of his candidature with a vigor and courage equal to that displayed by Fitz- simmons vs. Corbett , is the real and acknowledged leader of the army of civic reform in the "West. In the mid-continental states Bryan- archy leads reform and makes it com moner than Clark can. In the East , at New York , the great purist Croker heads the advancing columns against civic sins. How beauti ful is the propaganda of real reform ! Democrats in the COTTON STATE DEMOCRATS. cotton and other southern states should remember that the late populist candidate for the presidency recom mends the reorganizes of the democratic party to constantly bear in mind the fact that "the populists came to the help of the demooratio party when the reorganizers - organizers abandoned it , and the latter are not in a position to boast of superior attachment to demooratio principles. What is true of the populists is also true of the silver republicans who have for four years vied with the democrats in their efforts to advance the doctrines set forth in the democratic platform. It will be an unfortunate time for the democracy if the bolting element on the outside or the corporation element on the inside is able to so alter the party creed as to make it less acceptable to our populist and silver republican allies. " The foregoing prescription is com mended to the democrats of the South. They have taken the medicine twice and if the results are satisfying they can take the medicine again. No gold- standard democrat can swallow it and keep down his gorge. It is a nauseating dose which vomiting convul sions inevitably follow. The real democratic party believed and affirmed that governments are established solely for the protection of life , liberty and property. The genuine democratic party never advocated the right of the govern ment to do exclusively the banking business of the country and the trans portation business of the country. It always antagonized levying taxes on all the people to benefit a few people. It never failed to rebel against bosses , jobbers and demagogues , who at times , usurped its leadership. CONSERVA. MR. CARLE'S ARGUMENT.VE has received a copy of the com plete argument of Mr. Carlisle in the Porto Bican cases now pending before the supreme court of the United States. Mr. Carlisle's argument is strong and convincing. It bears the imprint of a keen mind , possessed of remarkable power of analysis and gifted with a faculty for close and careful reasoning. Mr Carlisle stated the case tersely and pointedly by saying : "The real question is , not whether the constitution extends over the island of Porto Rico and its inhabitants , but whether it extends over the executive and congress when they are engaged in enacting laws or making orders and rules and regulations for the government of the island and people ? The question is whether the constitution is in force here in this capitol , and whether con gress and the president are or are not bound by its provisions in the exercise of legislative or executive power over every place to which those powers extend ? " Mr. Carlisle cited precedent after pre cedent to show that congress , in legis- lating for terri- . . , , Constltution Kinds . . Congress. tones' ls bound by the prohibitions and limitations of the constitution. The rule of apportionment , in the case of direct taxes , and the rule of uniformity , in indirect taxation , the court has re peatedly held , apply alike to states and territories of the United States. "Could congress , " Mr. Carlisle asked , "otherwise than by the constitutional exercise of the power of taxation , or by condemnation and compensation , deprive the owners of this property or any part of it ? " Replying to the contention of the ad ministration that Porto Rico was a _ . _ _ foreign country ° Export TnxUn- , . . constitutional. nnd nofc a Parfc of the United States he said : "Now if the same construction should be given to the clause prohibiting the general government from laying such a tax as was given to it in the case of the states , as long as Porto Rico remained a foreign country , or a part of a foreign country , however long or short this court may find that period to have been , a tax or duty laid upon the products of one of the states because they were exported to that island was. undoubtedly , an export tax or duty in violation of ttio express provision of the constitution. " Mr. Carlisle closed his able defence of constitutional government with this thoughtful paragraph : "If it is true that the constitution pro tects no rights of person or property in , the national doA - A Now Discovery , . mam outside of the states , it is most fortunate for the country that the discovery was not made until after more than a hundred years of security under the delusion that we had a free government , and after our boundaries on this continent , the real home of our enterprise and our re publican institutions , had been filled with free states , free territories , and free men. But I do not believe there has been any delusion on this subject ; I do not believe that the framers of the constitution , or the people who adopted it , deliberately or by mistake , delegated arbitrary power to any man or body of men , and I look confidently to the judg ment of this court for their vindication of such a charge. " Th8 ? * * * ° f THE NEBRASKA _ 1HE CONSERVATIVE PRESS ASSOCIATION TIVE bad.intended to attend the twenty-ninth annual session of the Nebraska Press Associa tion at Omaha. But the sudden death of Carl Morton , a loving and beloved sou , shrouded Arbor Lodge in darkness and desolation. It was therefore im possible to meet , and greet , as one should , many personal and esteemed friends belonging to that honorable , hard-working and very useful guild for the social , intellectual and material im provement of this commonwealth. Nevertheless THE CONSERVATIVE con gratulates the editors and .publishers of Nebraska upon their systematic , efficient and constant efforts for the upbuilding in this state of all that is honorable , elevating and desirable. Considerate and frequent references to the writer , in "The Nebraska Press , " published by the association and agree ably edited by W. N. Hnse , and his competent "assistants during the four days' session at Omaha elicit grateful emotions and place THE CONSERVATIVE under obligations which it will never be able to perfectly discharge , however faithfully and sincerely it may with a thankful heart make the endeavor ,
