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The Conservative.
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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 ?
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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
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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 ,
