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Please mention Tub OOiM.MoxKii in corresponding with advertisers. aa Cn 08(ir had his Brutus, Charles' his Crom well, and MeKiuley lias just given a Roden berg to the civil service. AAA ' . 4 i , . J' x Perhaps the Sultan of Turkey willagrcc to pay'that $ 100,000 on the day" the ! administra tion keeps its promise to Cuba. ,. oa It is noticeable that the scientists who are figuring out how to 'live on $2.50 a week speak from, observation rather than experience. baa , Secretary Hoot says the Manila frauds will be .probed to the bottom. This, is all right, but Secretary1 Root should also probe those -Manila frauds to tho top. aaa The discovery of a new island in the Phil ippine group would tend to make Mr. John A. .T. Hull favor a special session of congress for concession insuring purposes. &AA Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as "The last refuge of a scoundrel." The oiilyjnistake in the definition lies in the use of' the word "last." It should bo "first." AA Attorney General Knox received his ap pointment because he was just the man to see that the trusts receive.d exact justice accord ing to tho trust idea of justice. A Those New York "insurgents" should not prematurely rejoice over tho Odelling of Uncle Tom Piatt. Thomas is quite a hand at enjoy ing the last laugh in" matters of this kind. AA About the time J. Pierpont Iqijgau cts , all the. railroads .under his management' some republican organ will discover that'1- govern- -i - The Commoner. 1 mental control of the railroads is a good thing and advocate securing it by electing Mr. Mor gan to the presidency. 1 aa A rich oil strike has been made in Wyom ing and President Harper will have to live economically, until Mr. Rockefeller saves up enough money to control the new district. AAA Speaking of the effort to belittle the Philip pine frauds, it will be remembered Ihat the same kind of an effort was put forth in the Cuban postal cases, and likewise in the Carter case. 1 aaa Tf "La Dissetission," the Havana newspaper which was. suppressed, would change its name to "Division and Silence" it might secure anew lease of life. Discussion is not popular in an empire. aaa The result of the municipal election n Ohio doubtless impresses Mr. Hanna with the be lief that there is a widespread desire to fasten a few more barnacles upon the hull ol the ship ping subsidy scheme. AAA With an -editor deported from Manila for 'criticising an" official and a newspaper sup pressed in "Havana for cartooning a military '"governor, we are getting a taste of tjic liberty wthich is dispensed under arbitrary rule. ' AAA Dr. John H. Girdncr of New York-City is "' writing a tib'dk.' It is said to bo a diagnosis of the political and social condition of the me tropolis. If the doctor writes as well as he talks the book a v i 1 1 be a treat.. AAA The democratic country press is-the reflex of democratic thought, and democrats must support the country democratic papers if dem ocratic victories are to be Avon. A well sup ported press is more than half the battle. AAA r' In the face of the appointment- of Roden borg to a place on the civil service commission the president will have to give aiV unusual amount of message space to the merit system to make an impression upon the public. aa One of the most humorous remarks of the decade is the one to the effect that Philander Knox sacrifices a private income of $50,000 a year as attorney for the Carnegie interests to accept an $8,000 position in the president's cabinet. ' aaa General Corbin insists that the reported frauds iu the commissary department at Ma nila have been "grossly exaggerated," but the wholesale grocery houses in that city report that their trade has been doubled since the frauds were exposed. - AAA ' .' : - ' Since his appointment to the civil service eonmiissidn7 -Mr. Rodenborg itf1 able f.o' kit up and take notice of the merit system;''' if is for- tunatc for Mr. Rodenborg -that the merit sysV tern does not apply to positions on the civil service commission. The editor of This Commoner is under ob ligation to the readers who have responded to the invitation to send in names of persons who would appreciate sample copies. One enthu siastic friend responded by writing to his local paper, praising Tun Commoner and urging all the readers of that paper to subscribe for it. AAA The St. Louis Chronicle is charging that Mayor Wells was elected by fraud. This is adding insult to injury. To run seventeen thousand votes behind the national ticket and then owe his election to republican votes is bad enough, without having a suspicion cast upon -his title. AAA Constant Reader: No, Mr. Hanna did not -introduce a bill to prevent corporations from contributing to campaign funds.. Such a bill was introduced by Senator Chandler of "New Hampshire just after he came into violent con tact with a New England railroad, but the sen ate being republican the bill did not pass. The North Carolina. Booklet is the title of a publication to be issued monthly by The North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the Revo lution. It will be devoted to the narration of the great events in' the-history of that state and the first number will appear on May lOtli. Tho - subscription price is one dollar per year and . P. O. Box 125 Raleigh, N. C; the address. AA The nomination of Mr. Wells in St. Louis lias served at least one useful purpose. It has brought out the fact that the great dailies which bolted the democratic national ticket in 1890 and in 1900 are unanimous in the opin ion that it is an unpardonable sin to oppose the election of a candidate on a municipal ticket, especially when that candidate refuses to ac cept the principles of the party which nomi nated him. AAA ;" Mr. Willis J. Abbott; formerly of the edi torial staff of the New York Journal and dur ing the last national campaign at the head, of the literary bureau of the democratic national -committee, has become editor of the Pilgrim, a monthly magazine of large circulation pub lished at Battle Creek, Mich. Mr. Abbott is a writer of extraordinary ability, as well as, an aggressive democrat, and the Pilgrim under his guidance will doubtless become a still more influential member of the magazine fraternity. OA Mr. J. T. Morgan, of Portland, Oregon, has written a pamphlet of nearly fifty pages, discussing the Chinese question from the stand point of tho working man. He takes up tho various arguments made in behalf of Chinese immigration and answers, them at some length. .The pamphlet is printed by the Multonoma . Printing Company, Portland. t ' As this question is of growing imp'ortrthco, 'attention is called to 'the5 pamphlet in order that j any one who desires J to ,seud for it can do so. H' . A