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Show CONSERVATION OF SOCIALISTS. Victor Berger, tho Socialist member mem-ber of congress, in the preamble to his resolution for a constitutional amendment to abolish tho senate, puts the case against that body In -language strong enough to satisfy the most ardent of his Socialist folHiwors, but he devotes his last "whereas" to the conciliation of conservativchsenti-menU conservativchsenti-menU If all legislative power wero, lodged In the house of representatives, he says, subjoct to popular referendum, referen-dum, "tho instinctive conservation of the people, as repeatedly proved in all nations," would be found a sufficient check upon radical innovations or violent changes. A bill of particulars as to the proof of this invarlab'- conservatism, con-servatism, manifested In all ns and to be relied upon in all i in clos, would 1-- highly inteieollng What puzzles ' 'n regard to it Js the difficulty of finding the times when. "In all nations," the people have had a chnnce to show whotbc v wore conservative or not, undc ditlons similar to those suppose Switzerland Switzer-land is herdlv to bo called "all nations." na-tions." or oven a fair example of one nation, so neculinrlv slmnln nr hnr conditions in comparison with those. In a country that has to deal with such mighty economic forces, such a com plex population and such varied and shifting situations as confront the people peo-ple of this country. No European country except Switzerland has been living under a regime equivalent to 'hat proposed by Mr. Berger for tho ' 'nited States Ensland seems about be enteriug upon such a regime. ut her future experience of t can hardly as yet be appealed to as proor France, thouph she has a sonate, may porhaps be thought of as practically on such a basis; but wo have to remember re-member two things first, that there Is In Franco a tremendous body of natural rc"-vatlves in the shape of the smaP 'twners and small business busi-ness peo vlth their Immemorial tradition of thrift, and secondly, that In spite of this, it canhardly ho said, that "Instinctive conservatism" has demonstrated an assured sunr,emacy. In that country Bui, of co'ursiQ. Ber-' ger may regnrd as "conservatism" what other pconle would call something some-thing quite different. New York venlng Post, oo |