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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1901)
" JC'I ' 'I * : Jl . * : \ $ i Conservative ; , . f Willie , dressed in the-best of sashes * ' . . I Fefl in the grate atid\ \ burned to ashes. ' After a while the rpom.grew chilly \ . ' Cause nobody wanted to poke peen Willie. ' HAVE YOU EVER TRIED US ? EVER HMD OUR CATALOGUE ? We supply everything you use in your daily life at wholesale prices. Our customers say they save from IS to 4O per cent by buying of us. Worth saving isn't it ? Inquire about us ask your neighbor. Perhaps he is one of our , customers. We sell only highgrade goods nothing shoddy in our stock. ' What do you expect to buy this month ? ' Tell us and we will send you' free'an illustrated-catalogue on. the subject. Remember , we return money and charges when goods are not satisfactory ; you can't lose when trading with us. Montgomery Ward fr Co. Originators of the Mall'Order System In 1871 over SO years ago Chicago case. The opinion of Justice Miller is entitled to great weight by reason of his eminence and long career upon the bench of the supreme court his great learning and ability as a jurist having won for him a place in judi cial history next in rank to that of Chief Justice Marshall. This is also a dissenting opinion and occupies fourteen pages in 1st Wallace U. S. Supreme Court Reports , page 207. It sustains my opinion and shows con clusively that there was no authority , under the then constitution of the state of Iowa , for the people to vote tax. in. aid of1 private speculative en terprises. From this able , opinion I make the following extract : v. " The question of the right of mu nicipal corporations-to- stook iu railroad cpmpuietf came before the supreme odur.tf , of . I6wa , for the first time at th Juno term , A. ; D , 185 $ , i ' the1 case of 'Dubnque Qpnnty v. tne' Dubuqmj & Pacific railrpa/l-company. Tfye majority of Jih'e cburtr , Kinneyy J. dissecting , pffljmed 'the judgment ; of the cpujt below , and in S.Q doing , must necessarily have held , Mat mur nicipaj corporations could take stock in railroad enterprises. ' Tjie opinions of the court were by Jaw filed vpjfch the clerk and.by hjm oppi 'i p a book kept for tJjatj purpose.TJje. dis senting opinion pf Jqflffe Rinney , a , very aple pne , is there Jpqnd ; * in proper place , & whiqty he wya he never seen the flPJnipn of. tfte raaj Hy. ? To such. ppinj on. ifr tp be fpund in the clerk's pflpe as J , have yerifie4 by a perspnal examinatig > ffm . wj ( it ever eepn utftil Jt was pubMflhed. flvp years afterward in the vplume ftbpve referred tp , by on ? pf the. Judges ; jyhp had ceased tp be either judge oftMal reporter # t < ) ; nrni9hed , Shortty .ren4ere4 , and his place was supplied by Judge Hall. After reciting further facts showing the judicial controversy in Iowa over the question of voting bonds for railroad purposes , the judge says : Finally in the case of the state of Iowa , ex relatione v. Wapello county , the court , now composed of Wright , Lowe and Baldwin , held unanimously that the bonds were void absolutely because their issue was in violation of the constitution of the state of Iowa. The opinion in that case delivered by Judge Lowe covers the whole ground and after an exam ination of all the previous cases , over rules them , all except Stokes , v. . Scott county. * It is' exhausting , able and conclusive , and after a struggle of seven or eight years in which this question has -always , been before the court , and.never' . considered as'closed. . . This case' ifanjy now' be considered as fiualiysettling thef law' 'on that sub ject irt the"courts..of' . Ib.wa. 'It lias al ready been.-repeated ; in several cases not y'efc.repbrt'ed. ' , Itis the first time the' question , has been decided by a nnahimo'us court. It is altogether im- lirobable that any serious effort will ever be made to shake its force in that state , for of the nine judges who have occupied the- bond } while the matter was in contest , bnt two have ever expressed -their , approbation of the doctrine of the Dubuque county case. " v " At last' the truth is vindicated. The error of iriy brother judges is jjixjiqiajly oxppsed # nd from tljat time could dp np further harm. "After a lap p pf seven , pr eight years , tjje su- pr < ? jftie 9onrji of the state of Iowa , by $ n unanimous' decision , reverses the judgment pf ray brother judges and auBjaJM'ijjg position which J assumed , wjien for tjp ) first time in the history pf jjprispruden.pef I deoideqf the ques tion as Jlj J now decided. The pro- phetip words used in that opinion , that the time would come when the erron eous decision of my brother judges would be reversed , are now fully real ized. Your endorsement of my opinion has received the sanction of one of "the" greatest jurists of the country and of the highest judicial tribunal of the state of Iowa. JOHN.F KINNEY. San Diego Cal. , Dec. 5 , 1901. ITS WORTH IS DEMONSTRATED. The Nebraska ; Conservative is uow ; four years-old. 'Probably-no paper ever published in A'merica has in so short' time extended circulation into chan nels of 'importance and influence which is a high testimonial to the worth of its publisher and editor who has demon strated beyond a reasonable doubt that there is room and patronage for weekly papers when published in the interest of high moral ideals as advocated by The Conservative without dependence upon the bones of public patronage often times pbtained by methods.which , if generally practiced in other lines of b'utfiness ' , would subject one tp criticisms pf .an odious nature. Success to $ he continued usefulness of The Copserya- tive-7rAHiance ; ( Neb. ) Pioneer Grip , ov. 33 ; 1901. 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