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THE COA1MONER, Lincoln, Neb.
"Kill or conquer" la the motto of the two
groatost nations in tho world.
Tho permanent census bureau's first -work
should bo tho enumeration of tho governmental
"soft snaps."
While in Washington Prince Henry should bo
shown tho faded and frazzled out Declaration of
Indopondencc.
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A reader of Tho Commoner asks how largo an
ostato Commodore Vanderbilt left. Will some
ono who knows answer?
President Taft says the Filipinos must bo edu
cated. Tho Filipinos have learned a great deal al
ready about our pretensions.
Will tho administration organs observe Lin
coln's birthday by republishing what Lincoln
said about tho "argument of kings?"
Tho republican organs are much more agi
tated over tho sugar tariff than they are over the
killing of men fighting for freedom.
There is something suggestive in tho fact that
the oppononts of any isthmian canal are rallying
to tho support of. tho Panama project.
Tho new cabinet office will bo known as the
"department of commerce and labor." The latter
will pay for tho upbuilding of the former.
Bishop Brent of tho Philippines denies tho lan
guage recently attributed to him to tho effect that
"tho Philippines aro ours" and Tho Commoner
gladly makes tho correction.
Tho administration organs could save com
position by holding on the standing galleys tho
Taft claims of peace in tho Philippines. Thoy can
uso them a year from now.
Ex-Attorney General Griggs has been retainod
by the railroads in tho mergor case now beforo
the supremo court. Ho will not earn his fee un
less lie is more activo than ho was as attorney
general. y
The steel trust admits that the orders it has on
is books will keep its mills going until well along
in 1903. Is it not about time to remove the nipple
fiom between tho lips of this infant?
Tho annual report of tho United States fish
commission is ready for distribution, it does not
y "? 'ovo to be-
-. v, vuu uia memseives rich.
The Commoner.
Some nowspapers that claim to be democratic
will not bo happy until democratic congressmen ac
cept with alacrity the financial and imperialistic
measures advocated by tho republican majority.
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Tho New York Tribune is deeply pained at tho
objections made to this country sonding represen
tatives to tho coronation. Tho New York Tribune
is tho paper that was onco edited, and by Horaco
Greeley, too.
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If Miss Roosevelt will carry tho president's
greetings to Kruger instead of to Edward VII.
tho gratitude of 'that grand old patriot will give her
moro delight than sho can possibly find in tho
crowning of a king.
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If you have not already sent a postal card to
your member of congress urging immediate consid
eration of tho amondment providing for the elec
tion of United States senators by tho people, you
should do so at onco.
Governor Taft of tho Philippines was beforo
tho senate committeo on tho Philippines the other
day, tolling about the progress made by the com
mission. If ho confined himself to actual facts tho
testimony was over with in a very short timo.
Recently tho New York authorities raided a
baking powder factory and seized three tonsof
baking powder that analyzed 20 per cent of pow
dered rock. Tho authorities should now raid
a fow concerns whoso stock is from, 50 to 98 per
cent wator.
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The artist who painted the picture of the Bat
tle of Santiago Bay for tho national capital seems
to bo a sly joker and subject to a severe repri
mand. The Brooklyn and Oregon are shown in
the thick of tho fight and the position oLthe New
York is shown by a thin line of smoke on tho
horizon.
As this is the season for the celebration of
Lincoln's birthday, tho republicans might employ
somo of their time in searching the speeches of
Lincoln for authority to support imperialism. They
-will find that ho said many things In favor of the
Declaration of Independence, but nothing in favor
of a colonial policy.
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The report prepared by Congressman Corliss
in suport of the constitutional amendment pro
viding for the election of senators by the people
mentions twenty-seven states that have passed
resolutions favoring that reform. Massachusetts,
New York, New Jersey and Virginia are not in
cluded among these. Wouldn't it be a good time
for these states to take action?
It is reported that the president is going to
send his daughter to London to attend the corona
tion of the king. Let us hope that this is false,
Let us hope that he intends sending her to assure
Kruger that tho envoys apointed to attend the
coronation were only appointed as a concession to
the plutocratic influences that dominate the re
publican party and that his own personal sym
pathies are with the patriots of the Transvaal
republic.
Hon. John F Dryden of New Jersey has been
chosen senator to succeed the late Senator Sewall
The New York Post finds fault with the selection
because it thinks that Mr. Dryden has nothing but
his money and business capacity to recommend
him. The criticism would have more weight but
for the fact that the Post at the same time ex
presses regret that Attorney General Griggs was
not selected, preferring him because of his ex
perience in public affairs and. saying that he
would have distinctly added to the senate what
t most needs-intellect, not money." The Post
is mistaken. What the senate most needs is not
men of intellect or "men. of money It has both"
now but what the senate! weeds most is more
men chosen by the people and sympathizing with
the people to legislate for the' people. Mr. Griggs
may. have more intellect and less money than Mr.
Dryden, but he has given no evidence of his sym-
pathy with the people In their struggle to secure
better laws.
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Mr. Oxnard is quite sure that the beet sugar
industry cannot live without a tariff, "but tho Dd-
troit Evening News calls attention to a circular is
sued by Mr. Oxnard in 1899 in which he assured
prospective stock-holders that even free trado
could not hurt the beet industry, "as we can un
dersell Europe in tho production of all uther crops,
and sugar is not an exception."
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The people of Iowa can form a just compari
son between their ex-governor and their present
governor when they contrast the former's apolo
getic1 words spoken in defense of trusts with the
letter's energetic condemnation of trusts, and they
can wonder whether the president made Mr. Shaw
secretary of the treasury in ignorance of that
official's partiality toward corporations or because
of that partiality.
Senator Allen in his paper, The Madison Mail,
calls attention to the fact that the phrase "the
common people" was used by Shakespeare. It ap
pears twice in Henry VI. The senator points out
that Warwick, tho king-maker, is made to ex
claim upon the approach of reinforcements, "Tho
common people by numbers swarm to us!" The
Commoner has already called attention to the fact
that the common people are mentioned in the
Bible.
Representative Cochran of Missouri has in
troduced a bill in congress appropriating $25,000
to pay the expenses of President Paul Kruger's
visit to the United States. The Ki..isas City Jour
nal declares that Representative Cochran has com
mitted a blunder. The Journal, however, manages
to remark that tho appropriation of $40,000 to
pay the expenses of Prince Henry's visit is all
right and highly proper.
A New York state reader of The Commoner is
so interested in the paper's work and so anxious
to extend its influence, that he has sent out two
hundred postal cards to personal friends calling
attention to the paper and urging them to sub
scribe for it. The editor is greatly obliged fop
this evidence of interest. This is only one of tho
instances which encourage him to believe that the
paper is accomplishing that for which it was es
tablished and that through it he is promoting prin
ciples and policies which will be helpful to the
country. If every reader of The Commoner who
believes that the paper is defending his rights
and contributing to the public 'weal would do
one-twentieth as much and send out ten postal
cards, the paper would soon be a weekly visitor to
the homes of all tho faithful.
A great deal of time is just now being spent
hi the study of royal ways in order that Prince
WhT.n f, ,bB made t0 fGel at home in erica.
Why all this worry? He comes to the. United
States of his own accord, and it would seem more
iu keeping with the proprieties of the occasion tt
ho would spend some time in the study of Amer -can
ways in order that he might act as he should
act in a republic and among people who believe in
a republic. Why not assume that, in spite of h
royal birth, he is a good, ordinary' mlfana rt
him as we would an ordinary person? We are xm
der no obligation to treat royalty as rovaUv X
treated at home. It seems a little strange that w
should make such violent effort to ape Europe
ways when a foreigner comes here, although Ee
is no aping of American ways when one of or
representatives goes abroad.
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