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. Owing to limited jail facilities Judge Hanecy
o5 Chicago may experience difficulty in-enforciug
his peculiar notions of what constitutes respect
for. his court.
. It 'was real kind of the Philadelphia republi
can leaders to wait until the day after an election
to announce the size of the republican majority.
"The tariff must be revised by its friends! "
shouts an administration organ. It will bo a sorry
, day for the tariff beneficiaries when it is revised
by its victims.
Referring to the Philippine decision of the
supreme court the Chicago Record-Herald speaks
of "the acrobatic Justice Brown." Anarchy, to say
nothing of treason!
By carefully forgetting former comments o.i
Mr. Roosevelt the Washington Post manages to
speak highly of the message. The Post's memory
13 a wonderful piece of mechanism;
It costs the government eight times more to
carry the mails than it costs the express compa
nies to have their matter hauled. Postmaster Gen
eral Smith should animadvert on this fact.
A reader of The Commoner asks for the cor
rect pronunciation of the president's name The
inquiry was referred to the president's private sec
retary, who replies that Mr. RonsovAifc oa T
pronounced in three syllables, with the two o'a
as one," Roos-e-volt.
The Commoner.
Tho Chicago Tribune asserts that talking about
the money question is "appealing to sentiment and
prejudice." There are times when the Chicago
Tribune forcibly reminds one of Artemus Ward's
kangaroo.
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Tho announcement of Senator Quay's- deter
mination to retire should have been accompanied
by a report that the plum trees have been winter
killed. As it was not, the announcement will he
given the credence it deserves.
- A large number of newspapers are printing the
assertion that President Roosevelt is the first pres
ident whose name does not contain the letter "a."
This would be interesting to John Tyler if he were
alive to make note of the fact.
The San Francisco Call is shocked to find an
anti-monarchical sentiment among the miners in
tho Yukon territory, but this is not surprising for
tho Call is one of the papers that is grieved to
find an anti-imperialistic sentiment in the United
States.
Before tho purchase of tho Danish West
Indies is ratified it would bo well to search them
for revolutions and determine beforehand whether
their inhabitants are to be citizens, subjects or
"colonists." Such a procedure might save the
supreme court a lot of acrobatics.
A Boer, just arrived from Pretoria Rev. Dr.
Herman Van Broekhulzen recently occupied the
pulpit at the Washington church which the 'presi
dent attends. The republican leaders will prob
ably regard this as a sufficient concession to the
burghers of South Africa and, therefore, resist any
attempt to give expression to American sympathy.
. Several young ladies in a New York town have
joined, -an anti-matrimony club to encourage a
'.'life of single bliss." It is probable that this club
was organized by the daughter pf .an editor who
knew the value of advertising. There is, of course,
nothing to prevent any young lady resigning her
membership in the club when sho receives an offer
from an eligible young man.
It is reported that the Fulton, the newest Hol
land sub-marine Jorpedo boat, remained under wa
ter fifteen hours, and then returned to the surface
undamaged. The persons in the boat enjoyed
themselves and suffered no injury from their tem
porary submersion. The financiers who have been
sinking the silver' question at regular Intervals
would better investigate. It may be that, like the
Fulton, it is sound and in good repair.
Tho Chicago Tribune complains that the men
fn charge of the state institutions find "in 'repub
lican bread' hidden virtues which make amends
for sourness and short measure," and that "tho
men in charge of tho county institutions per
ceive in 'republican coal' qualities hidden from
the public which offset tho shale and dust -mixed
with it." Now that Illinois and Cook county have
been "redeemed," such things ought not to be:
Some argue that imperialism is strong on tho
Pacific coast, and yet the democratic national
ticket, running on an anti-imperialistic platform,
received twice as many votes as the democratic
municipal ticket, running on local issues, received
this year. The democratic national ticket received
last year some seven or eight thousand more votes
than the republican candidate for mayor received
this year and about four thousand more than the
successful union labor candidate received. The
Kansas City platform Is not a weak document, and
tho party would be stronger everywhere if th&
candidates would stand upon the platform arid
fight for its principles.
On another page will be found an offer mado
b; The Public. Mr. Louis F. Post, the editor, ig
making'Tko Public one of the most valuable of tho
democratic papers having a national circulation.
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, John Morley denounces tho concentration
camps " instituted by the :English government In
South' Africa, and declares that "the death rata
among children is hideous, is excessive is appalling."
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President Roosevelt bespeaks commendation
for the "captains of industry." This would be all
right were it not for the fact that the "captains"
sometimes forgot to have compassion for tho
privates.
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In attempting to place the blame for the postal
deficit Postmaster General Smith manages to mis3
the real cause. He should study tho contracts
the government makes with the railroads for car-,
rying the mails.
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A cablegram from B'erlin says that the "bank-,
ers and manufacturers throughout Prussia and the
German states are apprehensive of the present
financial conditions, and grave fears of a serious
crash are entertained." It is also stated that meat
has become a greater luxury than at any time for
twenty years. This recalls the statement made a
couple of years ago by the German minister of tho
irterior to the effect that Germany would be
forced to a silver basis if the balance of trade con
tinued against her for a few more years. And yet
there are people who advocate a universal gold
standard.
President Roosevelt lays particular stress upon
our' love of-peace'and our desire to be at peace
with the' world. It will shock him to read th.3
latest treasury bulletin and learn that the ex
penditures of -the war department for the present
fiscal year exceed by more than, three millions" tire
civil and miscellaneous expenditures. According to
that showing the only department with greater
expenditures is the pension office, and that includes
pensions paid to the survivors of all of our wars.
The nayy department comes fourth with an ex
penditure nearly twice as large as the nation's in
terest account.
A reader of Tho Commoner asks where he can
secure a biography of Thomas Jefferson. Parton's
Life of Jefferson, published by J. B. Lippincott Co.,
N. Y., 3 volumes, is one of the best. The Jefferson
Encyclopedia, published by Funk & Wagnalls Co.,
30 Lafayette Place, New York, is a complete repro
duction of Jefferson's views on public questions.
Both works are worthy of a place in any library,
but if one must choose between them, the Jeffer
sbnian Encyclopedia is more valuable than any
life of Jefferson, because it enables the reader to
form his own opinion of the author of the Declar
ation of Independence. : t
A reader of The Commoner asks for an ex
planation of the term "government by'injunction."'
It is a phrase used to describe a process of tho
court which has been more and more frequently
abused of late, whereby the court, at the instance
of a corporation, enjoins the striking employes
from doing some act described in tho order. The
object of the writ' is to suspend the right of trial
by jury and give the judge an opportunity to pun
ish for contempt of court In case the order is vio
lated. Tho democratic platforms of 1896 and 1900
condemned government by injunction. If the court
prohibits the doing of an act already unlawful tho
order is unnecessary because those who violate tho
criminal law can be prosectited in tho ordinary
way. If the court prohibits ; the doing of an act
which Is not prohibited by lawr, then it is guilty bf
creating law, which Is not the province of th
court.
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