Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — Prosperity's Reign. [ARTICLE]

Prosperity's Reign.

Architects say that the local building season has received a black eye by the recent advance in the prices of materials which, added to previous very large increases, practically prohibit building. The price of lumber, they say, has increased 30 per cent within the last month. Quite a number of flats and other buildings that were projected will probably not be built, they say.—lndianapolis Press (rep.) S. P. Thompson will sell his lands in Union township, in tracts, and on terms to suit those desiring to farm or raise stock. See or write to S. P. Thompson, Rensselaer, Ind.

Two violations of the Constitution in a single week is the record J of the republican majority in the House—a record that shonld drive the republican party from power. It does not mitigate the offense against constitutional government that one of these violations shonld have been an attempt to partially right the wrong committed in the other. A rightful thing wrongly done is often as bad or worse than a wrong. When the republican majority, driven by the party whip, passed the bill levying a 15 per cent, duty on the products of Porto Rico for a period of two years, a grievous wrong was inflicted upon the Porto Ricans and the Constitution of the U. S. was violated. Later, when the republicans became alarmed at the vigorous protests from all sections of the country against the proposed robbery of the helpless Porto Ricans, they again violated the Constitution by doing a thing right in principle in the wrong way —passing a bill placing more than $2,000,000, already in the Treasury, and all future collections under Dingley duties upon Porto Rican products, at the disposal of the President, to be expended under his discretion for the benefit of Porto Rico. It is perfectly right that every dollar of this money should be spent for the benefit of Porto Rico, bat. ns Representative Bailey so forcibly pointed out, it is everlastingly wrong, to turn over to the discre-' tion of one man money in the Treasury of the U. S., when the Constitution expressly gives the right to dispose of money in the Treasury to Congress, and not to the Executive. But good may come out of evil. These things serve to accentuate in the minds of the people the attitude of the two great political parties toward the Constitution—to make plain, that there is only one Constitutional party and that is the democratic party.

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