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THE COMMONER, Llncola, Nefc.
Tho "full coal bin" Is not, you will observe, a
republican campaign slogan.
The array and navy, might settle It by engag
ing in a tea-drinking match for points.
Southern newspapers arc after the pistol toter,
and It Is to be hoped, that they will get him.
f ifo--:
It will be cheerfully admitted that "Trustee"
Baer and his associates are getting a fat rake-off
from the. estate.
"Texas republicans divided" is a head-line in a
republican oxchange. vnich one of them is out
of a federal job?
Tho nomination of Senator Teller by tho fu
sion forces of Colorado ought to seal the political
fate of Mr. Wolcott
President Baer may awaken some morning to
find that tho people have scoured a new adminis
trator of their affairs.
One trouble with tho self-elected "trustees of
God" is that they spend so little of thoir time at
tending to tho business.
Tariff reform will not be secured through tho
efforts of men who strenuously insist that there is
no need of tariff reform.
President Roosevelt is in tho south, visiting
famous battlefields. On his return north he should
stop at Hazleton and Homestead.
After having screwed up tho prico to tho high
est notch tho beef trust professes to have somo
regard for Mr. Knox's injunction.
If labor is able "to go on its own feet," as
stated by an Iowa republican organ, what is tho
matter with making capital walk?
Now that Mr. Roosevelt has- been made a
member of tho firemen's brotherhood will ho refuse
longer to countenance non-union coal?
Tho founder of tho "Don't Worry" club is
dead. May a man bo filled with regrets without
being open to tho charge of worrying?
" "Labor is able to go on its own foot," ex
claims a republican organ. Vruo, but labor ob
jects to having capital walking on its corns.
. It seems that tho navy destroyed tho forts
and tho forts destroyed tho navy just like tho ad
ministration is regulating tho trusts theoretically.
"Labor Is able to go on its own feet!" declares
the republican Sioux City Journal. Yes, and ha
neck riy n itS back80motimes on its
Tho republican papers which aro cartooniner
and abusing Senator Teller will not bo aWe to
lessen the esteem in which ho is hold. Tho part?
organ that blows hot-or cold according ?ivlly
igencies of the times cannot Jnjure a man w h
, Welcn anthracite coal laid down In New York
at ?6.G0 per ton will strlko "Trustee" Baer as rank
sacrellge, colossal impiety and worse than idol
worship.
"Roosevelt understands the trusts," says tho
Salt Lake Herald. This is interesting information.
Perhaps tho Heraid can tell us whether the trusts
understand Roosevelt
The Adirondack season opened as usual. A
man was killed, being mistaken for a deer. But
the trusts need not worry as long as tho president
is looking for venison.
Tho Milwaukee Sentinel declares that "most
monopolies aro dreams and illusions." The Sen
tinel has no difficulty in keeping its subservienco
to republican bosses on straight
When people realize what a narrow escape
they had from naving a president named John
Hay, they will insist upon some regulation of the
speed of cross country trolley cars.
Tho army and navy authorities are disagreed
as to which won out in tne recent maneuvers.
They may yot have to resort to the arbitrament
of the ping pong bat or the golf stick.
In order to make sure that his tour will bo
thoroughly non-partisan the republican commit
tees of western states have been given charge of
affairs during the president's western tour.
Reports of municipal rottenness in St Louis
have created great anguisn In the breasts of Phil
adelphians, who are always deeply Interested and
anguished by the rottenness of other cities.
Some people are always calling up unpleasant
thoughts. A lot of newspaper writers are calling
the attention of the people to the fact that John
Hay is first in lino in the presidential succession.
The republican organs are a unit in com
mending tho Iowa democratic platform. The dem
ocratic platform that secures the approbation of
republican organs needs careful revision by democrats.
Mr. Boardman defends the water cure on tho
ground that the Filipinos lied. What, then, should
bo done with war department officials who also
denied the torture when official reports proved Its
existence?
j.ne country needs expert forresters," ex
claims an exchange with decided administration
leanings. Wo presume the aforesaid exchange
wants 'em in order to guide tho president out of
tho trust woods.
G. 0. P. logic usually jams its pilot into its
caboose before it gets within. whistling distance
of Its terminal. The republican organ that de
nounces tho soutn for political unity never fails
to congratulate New England upon the same thing.
While Iowa's republican organs are quarrel
ing over tho real meaning of tho "shelter plank"
in the platform, the trusts go right ahead.. Tho
trusts know that republican platforms are harm
less as long as tho trusts can select the candidates.
There is a newspaper in Wheeling, W. Va.,
called "Intelligencer." The exchange editor never
picks It up without being reminded of the fact
that short men aro often named Long, long men
often named Short and large men often named
Small.
Republican logic continues to exhibit its
crimps. According to republican-logic it Is un
dignified for a democratic candidate for president
to make political speeches, and Intensely patriotic
for a republican president to deliver stumn
speeches.
Tho reorganlzers are anxious to appear as
special champions of tariff reform, but the
Kansas City platform democrats are really tho best
friends of tariff reform as they aro tho best friends
of bimetallism and. tho most consistent opponents
of imperialism.
Tho Houston. Post is asking that Texas riverg
be stocked with German carp. Before Texans take
up with tho carp they should visit in western
sections and listen for a while to remarks mado
about that fish. If the man who discovered the
German carp will make himself known ho will be
assured of undying disgrace in tho eyes of western
fishermen.
4,n ono of his speeches. Mr. Roosevelt salrf-i
"It ig.a great deal better that some people should
prosper too much than that no one should nrosnm.
enough." But is it well that a handful of men
should prosper too much while tho great masses
of the people aro required to 'economize on tho
necessities of Hfo? uo
The Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post says
that "beef went up on account of the scarcity of
beef." The Post has its Wires crossed. Beef
went up on account of the multiplicity of men who
believe that they can tax themselves rich and
adhere to the mistaken notion that the republican
party is opposed to trusts.
The republicans havo not yet announced their
willingness to discuss tho Fowler bill, which was
reported favorably in the house and which re
ceived the support of every republican member
of the committee. Every democratic speaker and
every democratic editor should study that bill and
bring its iniquities to public attention.
Warren McCabe, who was recently returned to
an Iowa insane asylum, is said to be rational on
all subjects except that he thinks he is governor of
the sun and can mane it shine at his command. A
great many republicans think that their party
controls the weather and brings good crops, and
yet they are permitted to run at large.
- Tho Indianapolis Journal expresses its idea on
the trust question in a cartoon which makes tho
shadow of a laboring man represent the trusts,
and it quotes the laboring man a3 saying that tho
shadow must get bigger as he approaches the sun
of prosperity. But, of course, Tho Journal is suro
the president will kill the trusts. What inconsistency!
An anxious public has been relieved by a de
nial of the report that the South Dakota farmers
refused to permit tho president's son to hunt on
their premises. The rumor probably arose from
the fact that the boy was with a party of railroad
magnates, and the farmers supposed that the party
was there to raise railroad rates rather than to
hunt game.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that we. have no
national platform and argues that "the platform
of 1896 was not binding after the election of that
year till" it was readopted in 1900." When the pro
prietor of The Enquirer ran for governor in 1899,
three years after .the election of 1896, ho was very
willing to have the national platform of the party
recognized and rea rmed. '
Some of the anti-imperialists have been plead
ing for harmony with the reorganizes. Their at
tention is respectfully called to tho fact that the
Wisconsin reorganlzers were willing to ignore im
perialism entirely in order to conciliate republi
can imperialists who are mad at La Fpllette. Tho
Kansas City platform democrats are the only ones
who can be relied upon to stand by democratic
principles all the time.
Frederick Door, proprietor, and Edward
O'Brien, editor of Freedom, a daily newspaper
published in Manila, have been sentenced to six
months' imprisonment for libeling Benito Legarda,
a native member of the civil commission. Dorr
and O'Brien charged Legarda with boodling and
offered to prove it, but were refused the oppor
tunity. Is it possible that the pro.of might have
implicated some who are not natives of Luzon?
The. Lincoln (Neb.) State Journal, one of the
thick and thin corporation organs, iii defending
Mr. Mickey, the republican candidate for gov
ernor, finds it necessary to declare that "maximum
rate bills are a delusion and a farce." The aver
ago republican paper finds no difficulty in char
acterizing as a delusion and a farce any. attempt
that tho people may make to protect themselves
against corporate aggrandizement The republican
plan is to trust impllcity in the benevolence and
generosity of the corporations, na matter how
much, they water the stocks or squeeze the public
The Indorsement of Senator Teller by the
democrats and populists of Colorado is a deserved
indorsement of a splendid record of public service
in tho interests of the people. The democrats
and populists of Colorado have honored themselves
by thus publicly recognizing the services to the
state and nation of a man who has stood staunch
ly for principle, unmindful, of adverse criticism)
from those much more interested in the triumph!
of partisanship than in tho triumph of'right Sen
ator Teller has performed valiant duty, and has
many years of usefulness before liira. More mctt
like him are needed in public life.
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