People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The democratic party has concluded to remain in business for a while yet. Hereafter it will do a sort of job-lot-racket-store business. A court is said to be the last resort. When the people, having passed a law, are denied justice in the courts we are on the brink of revolution. About the only good thing that congress did was the passage of the income tax, and now the Supreme court has spoiled the best part of that. If Gen. Weaver and others are to say what is to be the platform and who the candidate' of the People’s party, what is the use of holding any national convention. We haven’t heard of any Populists breaking their neck trying to get into the new silver party, but we know of several who have “cooked their goose" by advising it. The National Watchman publishes the constitution of the United States, but it’s no one plank affair. Perhaps that is the reason we see no editorial indorsement of it in the Watchman. The single planters are hedging. They claim now that they don’t want the Omaha platform "broadened.” It’s funny how the people can bring the would-be bosses to time when they stick to the text. If the courts keep on showing up the defections (?) in the constitution as they have been doing there is a bare possibility that the people will rise up some day and overthrow both the constitution and the courts. The new silver party is ready to hitch on to either one of the two old parties that will give them free silver, and some people are foolish enough to want to turn the People’s party over to the new silver party. Hector D. Lane, president of the Cotton Protective association, says he has no confidence in these third party movements —that they never accomplish anything. Mr. Lane seems to forget that it was a third party that licked the stuffin’ out of the slave oligarchy. You can send one hundred pounds of newspapers from New York to San Francisco by mail for one dollar; that is socialism. If you send it by express it will cost you ten dollars; that Is “private enterprise" controlling a public utility. Is Joseph Sibley a Populist? If not, why are some pretended Populists booming him for President? Is it because he has a “bar’l?” Come gentlemen, “fess up.” Joseph Sibley has never made any professions of being a Populist. Then why should the People’s party suppport him?

Cleveland’s salary as President, as well as the salaries of the Judges of the Supreme court, are said to be exempt from the income tax. In fact, it is said, the Supreme court has made so many rents in the law by its late decision, that many persons will easily slip through the meshes. As other suits are others will be brought to test the law, and the fact that the ultimate fate of the law tremble in' the balance. Is it not a grand government that permitß four or five men on the Supreme bench to over ride congress and the people? In the argument of James £. Carter before the Supreme court of the United States in support of the income tax law he made the remarkable utterance that if this law of congress was not sustained it might precipitate a social revolution in this country. This utterance on this occasion is significant of several things—prominent among spread feeling of disrespect for or a which is the fact that it reflects a widelack of confidence in that august body called the Supreme court, and the fact that the audacity of the attorney who dared give utterance to what was intended as a threat or intimidation of the court was not rebuked shows the lack of dignity that once characterized that body, and that its present members share to some extent the feelings of the people in their opinions of themselves. The people are coming to look upon our present judicial system as altogether farcical. Take the legal tender decisions and the late decision of the Supreme court on the income tax law as samples. In less than one year the country was presented with two decisions upon the legal tender qualities of the greenback by the Supreme court of the United States —the first against and the latter sustaining the greenback as a legal tender. The income tax law during the war was sustained as entirely within the scope of the constitution, but in the late decision upon the new income tax law, it is torn in shreds and many provisions rejected on the grounds of being in conflict with the constitution. The late decision came from an evenly divided court. Justice Field rules against the whole law as unconstitutional, while Justice White sustains it as a whole. The court stood four to fourjustice Jackson’s health not permitting him to sit in the case. “When doctors disagree who shall decide?” is an old saying that will apply to our Supreme court.