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1 have his own file complete.
Tho Neeloy incident demonstrates that belated
justice follows the flag when political exigencies
demand it.
It might be wise to amend tho Constitution so
,as to prohibit tho selection of Supremo Court
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vTho Chicago Record says that Cuba's debt is
aijpuzzlo. There is nothing strange about thiB,
I however, tho world is full of such puzzles.
Those who have a mercenary purpose usually
resort to violonco when necessary but benevo
lence and philanthropy do not require fleets and
regiments.
i" It is said that the now senator from Minnesota
,is an anti-imperialist and a Boer sympathizer. It
.remains to bo seen whether tho pie counter will
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impair ma menuu aigesuon.
The latest official report from Luzon oonvoyed
he information that tho "insurrection" is ended.
It also convoyed tho information that reinforce-
monts were neoded without delay.
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rro v Snator Dopow recently made a speeoh in sup
j Export of the shipping subsidy, and tho fact that he
declared it to be a necessity is conolusive proof
that the benator from New York means to main
tain his reputation as a humorist as long as pos-
siblo.
The delays and mistakes inoident to the start-
LV,ing of a now paper are as annoying to tho pro-
fit, 1 !. -. A A. 1 - ...
l prioLor wo lo uie suusoribers but it is hoped that
they will be less frequent, hereafter. With a
I number of persons addroasing wrappers by hand
wom are unavoidable, but in a short time The
The Commoner.
Commoner will have its mailing machine in place
and thon tho names will be printed from stencils
and each wrapper will show the date whon the
subscription expires.
Tho Chicago lawyers are now claiming that ,
the sewerage of tho Lake City purifies the waters
of the Mississippi. They will soon be demand
ing pay from St. Louis for improving its drink
ing water.
It is becoming painfully evident that a short
session of Congress is not long enough to permit
all the favored interests to make application for
what they want. An extra- session seems to be
imperative.
Tho Delaware legislature is struggling with the
whipping post, the wine rooms in tho capitol
building, and a senatorial contest, all at once.
Delaware is small, but she seems to keep near the
center of the stage.
Oil has been discovered in Illinois. The new
wells in Texas and Illinois would suggest that
nature is endeavoring to give the people some re
lief from the Standard Oil monopoly in spite of
tho republican party.
Tho banishment of the Manila editor who
dared to criticise an army officer is calculated to
make the Filipinos fall over each other in their
haste to accept tho liberal government proffered
by tho Taft commission. -
When one reads tho eulogies deliverod over
Senators and members of the House of Represen
tatives ho understands why it is that those who
are elected to either branch of Congress want to
stay there until they die.
After a married life of five hours a Wisconsin
man killed himself because he was not worthy of
his wife. The only difference between tho Wis
consin man and tho average man is that he found
out the truth early and acted on it.
Governor Stanley of Kansas appears to havo
been much more wrought up by his interview
with Mrs. Nation than by the Leavenworth in
oident. . Mrs. Nation destroyed property, while
the Leavenworth mob only killed a man.
The telegraph conveys to the readers of the
daily newspapers 'the information that the warring
steel interests havo come to a mutual understand
ing. . Tho public will now have to change its
orthography by inserting an "a" in the place of
tho secoud "e."
A Mattoon, 111., man asks for a divorce on the
grounds that he was under hypnotic influence
when ho was married. There will be a grave
danger to the marriage laws if this contention is
upheld by the courts. It will not be diffioult for
any man to prove that he was hypnotized when
he was married. A pair of bright eyes exerts a
powerful influence on the average man.
The Denver News publishes a dispatch to the
effect that the republicans offered one hundred
thousand dollars for enough votes in the Idaho
legislature to prevent the election of Senator Du
bois. Tho faot that auoh an attempt was made to
defeat the will of the people as expressed at the
polls is a strong argument against the present'1
method of electing senators, while tho failure
of tho attempt speaks well for the integrity of
tho fusion members of the legislature.
The death of Baron Rothchilds is another re
minder that money, however powerful in life, is
of little value at the grave. There is one debt
tho debt of nature for which gold is not a legal
tender.
At Stanford university the students recently;
in the interests of free speech, conferred tho
shower bath degree on one of their number who
criticised the policy of the institution in demand
ing tho resignations of Professors Ross and
Howard.
All this talk about the doings of Mrs. Nation
is, of course, fiction, for, since they have prohi
bition in Kansas, there can be no saloons, if the
laws are enforced; and, since they have a republi
can administration in that state, the laws must
necessarily be enforced.
Press dispatches announce that a boy has been
discovered who has X-ray eyes. Ho ought to be
employed to look through tho democratic senators
and representatives who voted for the republican
army bill and discover the reasons which led
them to repudiate the democratic platform.
Senator Turner of Washington describes the
ship subsidy bill as "a lawless, piratical raid
upon the public treasury in the interest of a few
private beneficiaries and committing the gov
ernment to expenditures aggregating $270,000,
000." That is a complete description of the
measure.
The New York Journal has been describing
Mr. Roosevelt's hunt as a continued story, Daven
port illustrating the most exciting scones with his
cartoons. Each day's chapter ends in the middle
. of a sentence, leaving the hero's fate in doubt.
If the narrative is published complete in book
form, it will make the average yellow-back novel
seem tame.
One of the administration organs in Chicago
criticises Chancellor Andrews of the Nebraska
State university because he predicted the ulti
mate disintegration of the British empire. To
secure bouquets from republican papers, one
must advocate the establishment of an empire
here, rather than suggest the disintegration of
empires elsewhere.
A Kansas paper expresses a violent dislike for
tho name "Commoner," and says that it is "a
vile word and totally un-American." The un
common people seem to be more worried about
the name than the common people. Tho agita
tion of those who consider themselves outside of
the appellation reminds one of the definition of
the onion which describos it as tho vegetable
which makes the person sick who does not eat it.
The Chicago Times-Herald says that the Stand-" ,
, ard Oil company is tho only monopoly in the '
United States and that it is an unqualified bless-
sing. This sounds natural enough, coming from
a republican, but what about tho President's met-
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