JfWiil)ilf
V - "v 5 n
& '
6
r.
i
Br'
P
I
'nt
The Commoner.
ISSUED WEEKLY.
UUlllleim J. Bryan.
editor and Proprietor.
Terms Payable in Advance.
One Year $
lx Months !
Three Menthi,
ilnglc CopyAt Nervstands or at this Office.
Sample Copies Free.
No Traveling Canvassers are Employed.
. Subscriptions can be sent direct to The Com
moner, 'ihey can also be seutthrough newspapers
which have advertised a clubbing rate, or through
precinct agents where such agents have been ap
pointed. All remittances should be sent by postoffice
order, express order or by bank draft on New York or
Chicago. Do not send individual checks, stamps, or
money.
Advertising rates furnished upon application.
Address all communications to
THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
Entered at the postoffice at Iyincoln, Nebraska,
as second class mail matter.
J, Irrigation beats irritation:
Something should be done to the.j baiifo di
rector who fails to direct. .?-! '.'
Principles, not men, are the issues at stake
in the political arena.
Post mortem bank investigations usually
shift th"o losscB'upon the shoulders of the de
positors. 5 .',-..
Those visiting -congressmen should have
waited until the Filipinos were accustomed to
"civil government.1?
While the British ministers arc doing &
deal of shouting the British taxpayers are
doing a deal of thinking.
It will be several years, however, before a
man's" right to affiliate witb democracy is left
to the republican managers.
'
The man who waits for trouble to come be
fore he cngagep in prayer generally finds him
elf lost in ,a crowd made up of people like
himself.
""
The proposition to establish a cabinet office
to be known as the department of commerce
may bo & smooth soheme to get Mr. Morgan
into the cabinet.
The protracted silence of Dr. Depew iB, we
fear, an indication that the royal houses of
England are not dining the good doctor up to
the talking point.
The men wbo own the anthracite coal mines
will not allow themselves to be deprived of
profit simply because laboring men refuse to
mine more coal for pauper wages. The mine
owners have a better scheme. They keep a
goodly supply of coal on hand and the con
sumer pays the cost of the strike.
-"yy
i
A large majority of the demoorats who
mted ior Mr. Cleveland in 1892 believed in
The Commoner.
free silver but ho selected a cabinet of gold '
men. The reorganizes show a similar dispo
sition to ignore the voters in order to please
the financiers.
In the inquiry into the Schley-Sampson
controversy the indications are that' Schley
will bo just where' he wason July 3, 1898
right on the spot.
Perhaps the Hague peace commission will
take cognizance of the Transvaal war when
Great Britain runs out of men, mules and
money and seeks to establish peace.
The New Haven Union seems to prefer an
honest platform which says what it means aiL
means what it says to the reorganizes7 method
of using ambiguous phrases to deceive the
voters.
The rich Americans who purchased bottles
from King Edward's cellars say they did 'so
because Edward is a good judge of wines.
Others declare that Edward sold it for the
same reason.
Another week has passed, yet not a repub
lican organ has seized the opportunity to de
clare that the drouth is a direct result of "Bry
'ariis'm."1. 'The g. ol p. organs are growing cx
tremely careless. - ? M. , t
The news that a number of Philippine
provinces have been deprived of "civil" gov
ernment is not unexpected. The natives should
have been introduced to the visiting congress
men by slow degrees.
The Chicago Tribune suggests that the sun
flower be made the national flower. Judging
by the reports coming from all sections of the
country today this suggestion appears to be a
very appropriate que.
Whenever John Bull sees a weak nation
that owns some valuable property John needs
in his business, he at once is seized with mis
sionary zeal. John never sends his missiona
aics into unproductive countries.
Strange, is it not, that although we are so
powerful that we can, and in duty bound must,
provide for the material' welfare of an alien
people, we are not strong enough to combat
the influence of a partial crop failure.
The rush for lands in Oklahoma brings to
mirid again the fact that the money spent in
subjugating the Filipinos for the purpose of
developing the islands would have irrigated
millions of acres of land in the semi-arid west
and provided hundreds of thousands, of. homes
for American laborers.
The Ohio convention has served at least
one useful purpose. It has shown tho arro
gance and intolerence of the gold element.
Tho loyal democrats have been willing to, have
bolters return but as soon as the bolters get
any authority they want to read out of the
party all who were loyal in 1890 and 1900. Lot
the faithful beware 1
As Mr. Watterson was seizing the reins and
warning "tho fools" to got out of the way tho
St Paul Globe, itself a bolter in 1890, quietly
pulled his coat tail and suggested to him that
the passengers might feel a little nervous if ho
tried to drive so soon after his attempt to hold
up the coach.
The Italian government, will be satisfied
with a cash indemnity for tho murder of two
Italians in Mississippi, and will not demand a
port on the Atlantic seacoast and the owner
ihip of some rich country. When China view
this situation over it will understand the reason.
This country is too big to be bulldozed.
Paul Kruger, bereft of wife and country, ja
still a heroic figure who. must be reckoned with,
Paul Kruger may not live to see justico
worked out but he was raised in a faith that
will carry him to tho grave in the full knowl
edge that the justice' he longed to see will bo
given to those who come after him.
A reader of The Commoner reports that at
a Fourth of July celebration at Newcastle,
Colorado, a republican read the Declaration of
Independence and omitted a part of it." . This
is not surprising. If we continue, to follow
the. course pursued by, King George III it will
be .necessary to omit a large , part, of the-Declaration
of Independence or exhibit -inconsistency.
Sam Jones suggests Mr. W. C. Whitney as
the democratic 'candidate ' for president? 7He
says that "thef money and the brains of tho
country will run it a while longer, at least."
Mr. Jones seems to emphasize the money,
and his suggestion of a candidate would indi
cate that he is about as far away from democ
racy as a man can get and remain in the United
States.
Republicans who yearn to represent agri
cultural districts in congress should at. onco
proceed to extend guarantees of good behavior
to the protected barons. The men who profit
by a protective tariff are becoming suspicious
of the loyalty of men from the agricultural
west. There are signs that western people are
growing weary of putting up money for the
protection of "infant industries" that arc strong
enough to demand any price they please for
their wares .and at the same time compel agri
culturalists to Boll their produce at whatever
price the barons see fit to pay.
There is too much voting by proxy. A re
publican .once explained his voto by saying
that being a Bheep raiser ho of course voted
the republican ticket. He allowed his sheep
to do his voting. And yet, in what respeot
does he differ from the man whoso vote is gov
erned by the price of hogs, cattle, horsesi or
Wall Street stocks? If, as Hanna thinks
money talks, it iB not strange that some allow
their property to do their voting, But if we
are to .have a government (administered ac
cording to high ideals) and (founded upon" the
Declaration of Independence) men must 'do'
their own voting, and they must cast their'
votes according to judgment and conscience;
u
,
a