The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1897 Page: 3 of 16
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needed. The bass and perch do not eat
either bread or vegetable.
Some fish eat vegetables, but bass will
not; they are cannibals and will eat each
other, the larger devouring the smaller.
The black bass makes its meals on min-
nows and frogs. The minnows fed to
the bass are an inch in length and an
eigth of an inch thick. The young fish
are fed once or twice per day as they
grow older; the larger they become the
more they eat After advancing beyond
the period in which they live on the wa-
ter larva they eat mosquitos and other
minute insects that inhabit the tanks—
until their throats and stomachs become
large enough for coarse food.
No vegtóation is placed in the ponds,
but a natural growth forms in :he tanks.
Water moss frows from the bottom of the
ponds to the surface of the water.
Concluded in next week's issue.
A Needed Reform.
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At a late meeting ol the Tennessee Bar
association, Associate Justice Clark of
the supreme court of North Carolina ad-
dressed the association on the necessity
of a revision of the constitution of the
United States.
In the course of his remarks J udge
•Clark said:
"That an instrument so constructed
and by such men and for a people aver-
aging so far in point of education below
¡the present generation should have been
undemocratic was to have been expected.
"Of the three great departments of
government—-the executive, the judical
and the legislative—the constitution gave
the people only a voice in selecting one-
half of the legislative. And that remains,
so far as constitutional forms go, to this
4ay the share of the people in this federal
government, one-half of one-third. In
all the rest the people were given no voice
whatever. The executive was made elec-
tive by electors, and it was contemplated
that those electors should be as free to
select the president as members of the
state legislatures in the selection of a
federal senator.
"The senate is still not elective by the
people. A constitutional amendment to
elect the senators of each state by the
votes of its people instead of its legisla-
tures has more than once passed the low-
er house of congress, and once, at least,
by a unanimous vote, but the senate it-
self has always defeated this measure to
give the people more power in their gov-
ernment In this day, when we have so
many startling instances of the power of
vast corporations in determining the
choice of senators, and the scandal and
expense of prolonged sessions of* state
legislatures, taken up with the selection
■of a senator—a duty which the people
.could discharge more satisfactorily, and
without any expense, by electing the sen-
ators on the same day members ot con-
gress are chosen, it is more than ever
imperative that the constitution should
¡be revised and made democratic in the
mode of choosing senators."
Speaking of the president's power of
veto, Judge Clark said: "It certainly has
no proper place in a republic in which
. the will of the people duly expressed, in
an orderly and proper manner, by their
chosen representatives, should be the law
of the land till changed in the same
mode.
««By far the most dangerous, the most
undemocratic and unrepublican features
of the constitution is the mode of selecting
federal judges. They are not only se-
lected without the people having any
voice in the choice whatever of this im-
portant class of their servants, but they
are selected by the executive, whom, by
the constitution, the people were to have
no voice in choosing and are subject to
confirmation by that branch of the legis-
lature in whose selection the people still
have no voice. To aggravate the matter
still further, those servants are appointed
for life, and mistakes, or bias, or private
influence exerted in their selection are
beyond correction. They are as truly
beyond the will of the people as the czar
of all the Russias.
"In forty-two states out of the forty-
five, the judges now hold for a fixed term
of years, and thus their conduct comes
up periodically for review. In Rhode
Island the judges hold only from year to
year, for any one can be dropped from
year to year by a majority vote of the an-
nual legislature.
"The constitution should not only be
made democratic as to the election of
United States senators, but the judges
should also be chosen by the people, and
for a term of years, and for the same rea-
sons that the people of the states have
made their states judges elective.
"When the federal judges are made
elective by the people, the United States
district judges and district attorneys can
be elected by the people of their districts,
as state district judges and district attor-
neys and members of congress are chos
en; the circuit judges by the people of
their circuits and -the supreme court
judges by the people of the states com-
posing their respective circuits, and the
chief justice by the whole union.
"But what is desired is not the exercise
of such powers by congress, which it un-
doubtedly possesses, and in an emergen-
cy would exercise, but a constitutional re-
vision by which the federal judges, like
other public servants, should be chosen
by the people.
"When this constitutional amendment
is made, as it will inevitably be done at
no distant day, it will be well to avoid
the expense and conflict of the double
judiciary system we now have, by reduc-
ing the number of the federal 'judiciary,
and amending and restricting tlifeir juris-
diction to the excise, internal revenue,
postoffice and customs, and like matters
which are purely federal. As to all other
matters in which a federal question could
arise, ample protection would be given
by writs of erroi, as now, from the state
courts.
"Another undemocratic feature of the
constitution is that which requires all
federal officials to be appointed by the
president or heads of departments. This
has grown to be a great evil. A revision
of the constitution should empower con-
gress to authorize the election of postmas-
ters by each locality, whenever it be
deemed advisable.
"The constitution is not a fetich to be
worshipped, nor did it come do-vn from
heaven a perfect work. It hid tobe
patched up ere it was in working order.
Its defects nearly brought us catastrophe
in 1801, in 1820 and again in 1876. That
which happened in 1861-66 we all re-
member. These features of the constitu-
tion which time has approved and which
are still suited to our needs will be re-
tained.
"Those that are otherwise should be
amended or removed, as has been the
case with our state constitutions. The
vast power of the president his great
patronage, giving him power to shape
legislation, his veto upon legislation, his
power to make war, his election by elec-
tors, who are under no legal obligation
to voice the sentiment of their constiu-
ents, these are pregnant with future trou
ble. So also is the election of United
States senators by the majority of a cau
cus, i. e., by one-fourth of the small
number of men in a state legislature,
whose nomination and election can be
easily manipulated by the money power.
But the greatest danger is in the appoint-
ive and life system of the judges, who
dominate the other two departments. The
helmsmen who can point at will the
course of the ship of state are selected
without any consultation with the crew,
and subject to no control by them. The
constitution is at the mercy of an organ-
ized and powertul combination of wealth,
and it is imperative that we rescue it from
their hands."
Of Place,
or us to sug-
gest that * good time ..
coining unless nil signs fail.
In the meanwhile, how-
ever, it would be a good
scheme to prepare for a few
days of dry, hot weather,
which might kill off. the
prospects.
An all-Galvanized Steel
Dandy with.Graphite Bear-
ings on the place insures against droughts
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RATES: $2 Per Day.
Room and Breakfast, $i.
EUROPEAN PLAN, $l.oo Per Day
Good Rooms. Good Veals. Good Sortie*.
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Street Care Direct to Hotel.
Talk about going back "to the old land
marks." Bosh! Rats! Flapdoodle! Ev
olutions, like revolutions, never go back
ward. We are away past the old "silver
coin'' landmark now. That old relic of
ancient barbarism—metal money—with
its silly catch words "intrinsic value;"
« 'parity' • 'standard of value;'' are chest-
nuts now. Why should we emulate the
crawfish? Scientific money; common
sense money; fiat money, is in the near
future. No backward movement is pos-
sible, even if it were desirable, in gov-
ernment of these United States. It is
become "destructive" of the "end" for
which it was originally "instituted" and
it is now an imperative requirement that
"the people alter or abolish it and insti-
tute a new form of government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organ-
izing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their safe-
ty and happiness." The prophecy of
Lincoln has come true: What are we
going to do about it? something more than
return to the ancient landmarks.
If Bryan is right, don't wear a popular
badge any longer! Be a man and show
your colors. If you believe in a redeem-
able stand up for Bryan!
Of the children born alive one-fourth
die before n months, one-third before
the twenty-third month, half before their
eighth year, two-thirds of mankind die
before the thirty-ninth year, three-fourths
before the fifty-first year, and of about
12.000 only one survives a whole cen-
tury.
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