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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second
class mail matter.
Mr. T. C. Piatt appears to bo su doring from
& sovoro attack of gubernatorial clophaniism.
It soorns that Mr. Kuox of Pittsburg, another
prusfc attorney, is to bo the new attorney-gouoral.
Beginning with llio next issue The Commoner
will contain twelve pages and contain a limited
Ejunount of advertising matter.
Headers will please send in tho names of por
tions "to whom they would like to have samplo
loopies or Tins Commoner sent.
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No reputable newspaper would dare to print
the thoughts of tho man who has to keep a hard
tooal stove going through March and tho first half
)f April.
Tho Times-Herald and tho Record of Chicago
have heen consolidated under tho name of tho
Record-Herald. The new paper will bo indepon-
lent in politics.
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April first ought to havo been set apart as a
lay ior roneotion by those republicans who were
fooled by the President's promises to the Filipinos
ma tno uubans.
Gentlemen who want to undorsiand iust how
Jhina feels over the demands for an iudemnifcv
ihould purchase a box of strawborrics without
iking tho price.
The fact that Aguinaldo has alroady been killed
svoral times ought to be takon into ooiiHiMpm-
lion by tho administration in fixing tho remainder
l His punishment. t
By paying particular attention to several son.
itorial olections the Cubans will got some idea of
io .splendid system of self-government wo arc
mg to teach them.
p A counting machine has been invented which
jm count lour thousand quarters in seven
mutes a task that, wnniri r,r .. .-..
raon nearly as many hours. This machine is
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not intended for general use. Until prosperity
becomes a littlo more abundant the average man
will, by working at night, bo able to count his
money by hand.
Before another senatorial election comes in
Nebraska Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan should obviate
all trouble by doing a little railroad consolidation
work within the state.
Russia and Great Britain arc too wise to fight
.over the Chinese question. While ' they fought
the other members of the concert would jump in .
and take the territory in dispute.
A party may achieve temporary success by
compromising with evil, but better a party de
feated in a fight for principle than a party triumph
ant through compromise with wrong.
The tin companies 'Mind it necessary to with
draw all quotations on tin cans, boxes and pack
ages." The people will finally " find it necessary
to withdraw " their support from a party that tol
erates a tin trust.
Fourteen states have enacted laws to protect
the American flag from commercial desecration.
This is all right, but wo can never save the flag
from "commercial desecration" until we aban-"
don a colonial policy.
Now what in tho world is the use of captur
ing Aguinaldo and -his bodyguard if tho Philip
pines are "thoroughly pacified" and tho people
"fully .satisfied' with American supremacy ?"
What is the use of stirring up another fuss?
There is much to cheer those cities contem
plating tho holding of great expositions that will
need a government subsidy. As long as the ex
position commissions afford soft places for
"statesmen out of a job" expositions will receive
the cordial support of retiring members.
The Democratic National Committee has a
limited number of Senator Towne's speech, which
can be secured by addressing Hon. J. G. John
son, Democratic National Committee, Security
Building, Chicago. The Commoner published
a part of tho speech but no extract does justice
to it.
, Tho Anti-Imperialist League, room 1520 No
150 Nassau St., New York, has printed in pamphlet
form tho article by Mark Twain which appeared
in tho February number of tho North American
Review. Any reader of Tuts Commoner can ob".
tain this pamphlet by sending a two-ccnt stamp
to tho League.
This is tho article arraigning the Philip
pine policy of the administration which has
been so widely quoted and commented upon,
livery one ought to read it.
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Leslie's Weekly describes Guam as "America's
first Siberia." The views which illustrate the
story of tho embarkation of tho first political ex
iles do not bear out the partisan report circulated
by the republicans during the campaign. The
hilipmos who are compelled to leave their coun
try because they love it, do not look like savages
and tho buildings in the background inof edso tuo
suspicion that it was not benevolence, but a de
sire for trade that caitsed tho administration lead
ers to favor the permanent retention of the" Phil
ippines. The complete application of the principle
which permitted Admiral Sampson to draw l2r
000 prize money because Admiral Scllloy defeated
Cervera would result in General Corbin drawing
Secretary Root's salary, and in the Standard Oil
company drawing tho salaries of Ohio judges.
When Benedict Arnold aided a foreign gov
ernment in its effort to overthrow American In
dependence, he was universally condemned by tho
colonists. We shall have to forget those days
before we can grow enthusiastic in praise of the
Filipinos who joined in the plot to capture their
general.
The New York World thus welcomes the
new Attorney General:
Tho appointment of Philander O. Knox, long-time
attorney of the largest factor in the United States
Steel Corporation, to be Attorney General, is perfect
ly in line with all recent precedents, and is highly
appropriate in a McKinley-IIanna Administration.
Columns of comment could not say more than this.
The disappointment of some of tho smaller
railroad systems over their failure to secure
senators at the recent distribution of prizes
by the Nebraska legislature is unreasonable. The
republicans are not to blame for the fact that some
of. the corporations drew .blanks. Even. Santa
Glaus could not please a half dozen children if he
only liad two toys.
By carefully working his Philippine Lumber
and Development company under congressional
protection Mr. Hull will be able to secure plenty
of lumber for tho repair of his congressional
fences. And by properly repairing his congres
sional fences Mr. Hull can conserve the interests
of the Philippine Lumber and Development corn;
pany. If Mr. Hull is wise he will take out a
patent on his double-action invention.
Secretary Gage would take a rosy view of the
future if his hopes did not depend upon so many if s.
Ho says, "If a trade war does not come up, and
if European nations do not engage in a tariff fight,
and if no untoward accident happens, and if war
does not become universal, I expect to see an era
of prosperity long continued."
If Mr. Gage was a different kind of a man and
if he favored a different kind of a financial system
and if he then had the power to put his policy into
practice he might aid in making prosperity gen
oral and.permanont, but the '-ifs" are in tho way.
What is there in republican policies to anneal
UTiev staid or ?L . omPetitiB throttled.
Aiiey stand on the threshold of soeietv and hpb i
growing aristocracy hased on gold Thev see on
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legitimate results of republican policies!
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