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Cecil Rhodes Is sick. So is John Bull, but not
With the same ailment.
There is a marked similarity between re
publican platforms and some maps prepared by
the navy department.
If ever an interest-bearing greenback Is is
sued perhaps Secretary Gage will bo able to look
upon it without experiencing that tired feeling.
President Roosevelt is well enough versed
in politics to have known that tho g. o. p. organs
believe in negro equality for election purposes
only.
The ship subsidy promoters are wearing felt
alippers, whicli fact should impel tho opponents of
that measure to drop- a few commonsenso tacks
in the way. 4.
Commercial failures during October, according
tc reports to R. G. Dun & Co., were 864 in num
ber and $10,680,627 In amount, against 782 last
year for $9,072,791.
There is good ground for believing that Great
Britain is anxiously waiting for some neutral
power to offer its services as an arbiter of that
South African matter.
It is reported that President Roosevelt's mes
sage will be short. In view of his official acts since
that Minneapolis speech it must be conceded that
his memory is, also.
, It is not probable that the republicans will
claim that their retrograde movement on the
trust question was made to secure coal for a
vigorouu attack on the enemy.
There are ample indications that the time is
near at hand when the man who does not wear
an honorary university degree will be pointed out
as something of a curiosity.
It Is a good thing for the republic that the
men who founded it did not act on the "let well
enough alone" theory. That theory, if put into
practice, would result in the world standing still.
Will those who think they see the hand of
Providence pointing toward imperialism recognize
the Roosevelt-Washington incident as another
manifestation of destiny?
General Chaffee says that the only friendly
Filipinos are the ones who are holding office
under the carpetbag government. At that rate
we can pacify the islands whenever we have posi
tions enough to go around.
Farm and Home, a leading agricultural paper,
may be secured by any reader of The Commoner
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moner. Read the liberal clubbing offer made
elsewhere in this issue.
General Chaffee will have weekly reviews of
the troops in the Philippines for the purpose of
creating awe in the minds of the natives. A- peo
ple awed into subjection have a habit of breaking
loose very often.
General Buller should not grow impatient.
Before John Bull gets through with, this little
task he will not only have to give all of his gen
erals a second trial, but will have to make a lot
of new ones.
Why is it that just as soon as a republican is
appointed to the position of secretary of the
treasury or comptroller of the currency he imme-
- diately begins scheming to benefit the banks at
the expense of the people?
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The American people have tried Schley before
the bar of public opinion, found him guilty of
having von a naval battle second only to Dewey's
victory at Manila, and sentenced him to everlast
ing fame. No court can reverse that verdict or
commute that sentence.
By carefully forgetting Pana and several other
points within their own state the republican pa
pers of Illinois are able to get up quite a show of
indignation because the southern papers criticise
President Roosevelt for dining with Booker T.
Washington at the White hoase.
A republican paper sagely remarks that it is
lucky for civilization that the work of the con
ventions of one decade is likely to be repudiated
during the next decade. If it has reference to the
work of republican conventions it has allowed a
good deal more time than is usually, required.
The derelict postal employes in Cuba feel1
that they could do much better in the way of cov
ering their tracks if given another opportunity.
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Having lost valuable colonies by insisting on
taxation without representation tho British gov
ernment is now experiencing trouble by taxation'
with misrepresentation.
Tho body of Czolgosz was buried in quick
lime. Republican attempts to make political capi
tal outNof the sad chapter of assassination should
be buried in the same material.
Republican organs love to tell the young men
of the land that their chances are "just as good,
as they ever were," and then urge as a reason for
retaining the republican party in power that it is
better to "let well enough alone." But g. o. p.
logic is usually so badly snarled as to be unin-
telligible.
Government officials are exerting hemselves
to prevent the shipment of munitions of war from .
San Francisco to South American ports, fearing
they are to be used in the Colombo-Venezuelan
trouble. American mules, however, continue to
go from United States ports to agents of John Bull
in South Africa.
We need a new navy not so much in the way
of ships as in the way of departmental managers. v
The two men who were in at the death on July
3, 1898, have been illy treated Schley hounded by
a clique and Clark of the Oregon actually lower in
rank than he was before he took the great battle
ship around the Horn and into the fight.
Japan looks upon the United States as its best '
friend. It was the United States that brought
Japan into contaqt with the civilized world. How?
Not with bullets and swords; not with rapid-fire x
guns and high-priced commissions living at the
expense of a people impoverished by 300 years -of
fighting for liberty. It was accomplished by kind-'
ness, by force of example and by recognition of
inalienable rights. But when Japan was reclaimed
from industrial seclusion there was an absence of
congressmen anxious to confer "blessings" in re
turn for the privilege of gobbling up all of the
rich concessions or holding the fat offices.
v A reader of The Commoner has given the edi
tor an opportunity to read a book published many
years ago containing biographical sketches of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence. It Is
tc be regretted that the book is out of print. The
republicans who are now infatuated "with the doc
trine of imperialism would find It profitable to re
view the struggle of 1776 and learn of the char
acter and virtues of those who were willing to
pledge their lives, their property and their honor
is defense of the doctrine that .governments derive
their just powers from the consent of the gov
erned. The supreme court of Michigan has sustained
the law enacted by the republican legislature ex
tending the term of municipal officers one year,
aDd providing that municipal elections shall bo
held simultaneously with state and congressional :
elections. The effect of this Is to bring national
politics Into the municipal campaigns, and the
opponents of the law assert that it was enacted
for tho purpose of enabling the corporations to
put their representatives into the city council for
the purpose of looking after franchises. There
are usually local questions entirely distinct from
state and national ones, and it is in the interest of
good municipal government to allow these ques
tions to be acted upon at an election where the
people are at liberty to give their exclusive at
tention to such questions.
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