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The appearance of Mr. Alger's "book would
seem to demand another naval inquiry.
It appears ' that Congressman Babcock
is in possession of a well developed viriclica
tion. The negro question,' including the Booker
Washington incident, will be ' discussed in the
next issue. '
vl'h Abdul Hamid would'B'aVo'a lot bftime'and
worry by paying tho ransom' 'demanded'' 'for '
Miss Stone.
Did Secretary Gage ever try to devise a
financial system that did not contemplate giv
ing the banks the best of it?
Tho 'prosecution" in the Schley case has
failed to bring in the wrecks of the. Spanish
battleships marked " Exhibit A-"
N With the advent of cold "weather the gen
'rft? Puhlio hegins to realize something of the
difficulties Admiral Schley experienced" in coaling-
It seems that Mr. Gage's idea of an elastic
currency is a plastic currency a currency that
can be molded by financiers for their own ben-.
efit.
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Rudyard Kipling declares that the British
army is to bo hauled back into the old ruts'.
And this, too, after tho Boers have thrown" tho
British army into the dumps.
The basis for the refusal to honor a requisi
tion for Taylor is that he will not get justice.
. It may be, however, that this is another way of
expressing the fear that he will.
Fusion in New York against a "machine"
is praised by the Republican journals that spend
a considerable portion of their time denouncing
fusion in the west against a "machine."
Having fostered tho trusts until they are
able to control the party, the Republican lcad-
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era are now making some ante-campaign talk
about reducing tho tariff. Republican" tariff
reduction generally takes place when congress
is not in session.
The testimony brought out by the naval in
quiry suggests that what Schley's subordinates
most need is a thorough course in mnemonics.
Forgetfulness is a bad thing in naval circles.
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." The wool growers who listened. $0 the pal
aver about "protection of. home industry" are
' not saying much, but the indications are that
they spend most of their waking hours think
ing.
It is to be hoped that the future Mrs. De
pew is a good cook. The world shudders at
the idea that it may be deprived of the genial
Chauncey's maunderings because of a poor din
ner. Mr. Addioks announces that he will be a
candidate for senator as long as he lives. This
is a rash statement. Political conditions are
as much subject to change jn Delaware as else
where. ' ,
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After all Sir Thomas Lipton made a better
try at lifting the cup than General Kitchener
is making at subduing the Boers. Perhaps
pur British friends can find some solace in
this fact., ,
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Wiil the representatives of the great trusts
arrango the tariff schedules in the interests of
labor? It will be" remembered that the pro
tected giants arranged the tariff schedules under
that pretense.
The issue of November 1st will le of speoial
interest and a largo number of extra copies
will bo distributed. Subscribers will please
send in names of friends to whom they would
like sample copies sent.
General Kitchener's orders that his troops
leave their pianos behind may explain his diffi
culty in catching tho Boers. ' A man strikes a
swift pace when seeking to get out of sound of
the average piano player's efforts.
The appointment of a Republicanized
Democrat to a fat federal office is calculated to
make the "reorganizes" more vociferous than
'ever. There is nothing like Republican pie
to make a "reorganizer" .vociferate strenuously.
Great Britain has 214,000 .troops engaged
in the South African war. The Boers have
about 1-1,000 men under arms. The ratio is
19 to 1, except when it comes to fighting then
love of liberty and homo evens the thing up.
The political party that avoids declaring
itself in plain terms on public questions
through. fear of losing votes. is no more to bo
depended upon than the man who refrains from
staling only wlcn he is afraid of being deteot
erd,inthe act.
The naval inquiry has developed one im-
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portant fact, to wit: Although- keptrin igno.
ranee of important news familiar to most of his
subordinates, Winfield Scott Schley sailed iu
and accomplished more in three short hours
than all the rest of them put together have ac
complished in a generation,
A reader of The Commoner asks how trade
balances are estimated. If, for instance, a trust
exports goods at a lower price than it sells tho
same goods for at home, do tho government
officials estimate the exports at the actual sell
ing price ort the market price "at which they
were sold in the home market? Will-some ono
answer?
A reporter, visited Senator Beveridgc re
cently and asked him for an expression con
cerning Congressman .Washburne's tariff in
terview. The reporter returned with tho
statement that Senator Beveridge was non
committal. This seems to mean that tho
. senator is suffering from an aggravated; attack
of sore throat.
Ex-Assistant Secretary of War Meiklcjohn,
in his testimony in the Heistancl investigation,
denied that he held any stock in the hemp
combine, but he is quoted as saying that ho
"saw no impropriety in officers of the govern
ment investing in such an enterprise as'tho
proposed hemp company if they desired to do
;so.,"- Mr. Mcildej ohn should vdevotc' a few
years to the cultivation of art' oinoiaV con
science. ...
A reader of The Commoner call attention
to the fact that a census bulletin issued by tho
present administration states that only 131,
159,124 lb'sVoi the total crop of 4,"034;9V2,;i93
lbs., or less than 3 per cent of the 1899' cotton
crop of the United States, was baled by tho
round bale process. As the company with
which Senator Jones is connected is not1 tho
only round bale company, it will be seen that
his company cannot possibly be a monopoly,
and yet the Republican papers rire denouncing
Senator Jones as a trust magnate while they
keep silent about the salt trust, tin plate trust
and the steel trusis, each of which controls
more than 90 per cent of the product.
- The death of Judge Jeremiah M.. Wilson
not only deprived Admiral Schley of an able
defender but left a vacanoy in the ranks of
wise and learned judges of the law. He stood
foremost among the bright intellects of. tho
Washington bar. His service.- on the bench
and in congress were -marked by devotion to
duty. As a lawyer he was connected with some
of the most famous cases in tho history of tho
country during the last fifty years. He acted
as counsel in the Star Route trials, the Breck-enridge-Pollard
case, tho Holt will case, tho
trial of Captain Howgate, tho court martial
proceedings against General Swaim, The Ven-ezuela-Alabama-Prench
spoliation claims, the
Oborlin M. Carter case and other oases that at
tracted wide-spread attention
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