The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-08-28
IN STATE AND NATIONAL ISSUES.
Gov. La Toilette Not Necessary TO Garry
Out Reforms-Makes Out a Plat.
form for the Party.

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L. j. Nash of this city has contribut-
ed letter to the Democratic symposium
arranged by Chairman Warden of the
Democratic State Central Committee.
A part of Mr.. Nash's letter is herewith
printed, and that portion dealing with
national politics can be read with in
terest and instruction. He says
would like to see the governor NOM
mated by the people and congressman,
and perhaps all Legislative officers, and
certainly all city officers; but l am
afraid no primary election scheme can
be framed that will work we'll for coun-
ty officers. Towns are doing well
enough now and should be left to man
age their own affairs in their own way.
If the people are really to nominate g any
of their candidates can see no way to
secure that end but by giving them a
chance to vote. each man selecting his
own candidate and then if there is no
majority for any one of the candidates,
give them chance to vote again for the
two or three highest on the list.
He says that every good citizen in
favor of equal taxation questions Gov.
La Follette's sincerity and asks; Are
Democrats any less loyal to the tax
commission than Mr.. La Toilette and
his followers? / believe the Democratic
party, if it should come into power il
this state next January, ought not 20
touch and would not touch the person
mel oe the tax commission or its work,
except to facilitate in every possible
way its study of the deep aud intricate
. problem" The governor and his fol-
lowers, he says, have no patent on
supporting the tax commission. The
subject of state taxation has plainly
passed beyond the unaided efforts OF the
Legislature. The commission, or some
thing akin to it, will probably prove
nearly a permanent necessity. .......
No single legislature has the time nor
the requisite learning nor experience to
devise and enact the necessary new
measures and harmonic them with
such of the old as are still efficient and
worthy of preservation. The work can
not be done piecemeal by successive
legislatures. The commission has be-
come Il necessity.
| have said that We have become a
Republican empire. ought to add
that much of the shame and danger
may be mitigated by prompt and en-
phatic avowal of our purpose to bestow
ultimate independence upon our sub
jects; by an honest demonstration that
we still distinguish between bigness and
greatness, and that we still realize that
no further Understandable elements
should be incorporaf ed into the body
polite. The one great body problem OF
dealing with an inferior race which we
have had in hand for thirty. seven years
has not yet been taken up for intelligent
solution. From so many Republican
sources we hear the reiteration that our
title and sovereignty in the east is un-
questionable that it seems as if they
have been, like purchasers of real estate
mindful of nothing but the state of the
title and the estimated value of the pro-
perty. do not question our title rs the
world goes, nor that those dependencies
are in our hands for better or for worse,
for long time to come. But they are
our subjects, not our fellow citizens.
They are the slaves of the American
congress-your congress and mine.
What answer is it to say that congress
has given them civil government, our
bill of rights, representative assembly,
a school system and religious freedom
What congress gave yesterday it may
recall tomorrow. This is imperialism.
If the government at Manila shall take
private property for public uses without
any compensation, l suppose the owner
may appeal to the courts of his congress
sional province; but while his appeal is
pending congress has power to dismiss
him from court by any change of the
law and give him another remedy or no
remedy. The courts at Manila cannot
declare such an act of congress void,
because congress can dissolve the court.
This is imperialism The owner, if de-
prived all remedy at home, cannot OBJ
tain review in the courts OF this
country either Of the acts of congress
or of the Manila government. This is