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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nfc.
Tlie pie famine threatens an early destruction
of the Hereford republican movement in the south.
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka, Kas., has
started an insurance company for Christians. Fire,
we presume.
.Is there not grave danger that the president
will protest too much concerning that Addicks
deal in Delaware?
Of course the trusts were thankful that it was
Mr. Knox after them, and not an attorney gen
eral who really means it
Abram S. Hewitt says he is not a democrat,
which statement, however, was clearly a waste of
effort on Mr. Hewitt's part
The administration's Delaware explanation de
partment is going at a speed that threatens a lot
of trouble with hot boxes.
The republicans of Colorado will bo pleased
to know that silver bullion has made another drop
and a new low price record.
Having raised wages slig-tly the railroads are
now beginning to raise freight rates more than
enough to cover jthe wage rise.
Mr. Roosevelt is acting like a man who is
carefully inoculating the southern colored dele-
ga from any attack of Algeritis.
The Santos-Dumont dirgible airship and "tariff
,' revision by friends of the tariff" are running a
neck-and-neck race for lanceolation.
The Commoner is under obligations to thou
sands of its loyal friends who assisted in making
the "Lots of Five" plan a great success.
This protracted silence on the part of A.
Jeremiah Beveridge may portend deep and dark
designs against the Fairbanks presidential boom.
After declaring that there are no" trusts it is
only natural that Mr. Hanna should deem the
Sherman anti-trust law amply sufficient to restrain
them.
' The attention of subscribers is called to the ar
ticle describing The Commoner's "Subscribers' Ad
vertising Department" on another page of this
issue.
It is hard to reconcile the claim of republican
leaders that their party is the party of progress
1 with their campaign shibboleth of "Let well enough
alone."
Mr. Addicks admits that he has spent $250,000
in trying to secure a senatorial toga. Mr. Ad
dicks seems to delight in being classed ,as an "easy
mark."
We gather from some administration organ
defenses of Mr. Babcock that he believes the re
publican party is always right, even when con
vinced that it is wrong.
It is announced that the president is going
after the trusts again. But the trusts will try to
endure it They recall that the president went af
ter bears a few weeks ago.
Having drawn from John Mitchell all the facta
about the miners' union, let Mr. Baer be put upon
the stand and all the facts about the anthracite
coal trust drawn from him.
Perhaps Baer will explain that his sudden
chango of front on the strike settlement was due
to a rovelatlon Informing him that no conces
sion should be made to his wards.
The coal operators declare that they will never
recognize the union. But let us hope. The opera
tors are, already bowing to several facts they re
fused to recognize a few months ago.
President Baer will not be fully satisfied with
the findings of the board of arbitration unless the'
board clearly affirms his claim that he is a divine
ly appointed guardian of the laboring man.
That harsh, metallic sound from the west is
caused by Mr. Perry S. Heath endeavoring to
patch up the running gear of a senatorial boom
that collided with the ambition of Mr. Reed Smoot
Scientists are interested in a newly made hole
in the ground in southern Iowa, thinking it is
where a huge meteorite struck. But it. may be
nothing more than the place where the "Iowa
idea" lit
As the president has sent a silver watch, chain
and medal to his loyal subjects, the chiefs of
Tutuila, we may assume that ho considers 16 to 1
about the ratio existing between a citizen and a
subject
It will be noted that the learned and scientific
gentlemen who figure out that an average family
may be provided fev on a salary of $300 a year
make no effort to provide for their families on that
wage.
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late-for this issue. The important fy
.parts of it will be reproduced next $
week with editorial analysis and com- jg
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President Eliot's latest remarks about union
labor do not indicate that he has learned more
about union labor. It merely indicates that ho
has learned more about the good sense of the
American people.
An ex-postmaster general has explained why
the rate of postage on books and merchandise has
not been reduced the Adams Express company,
the Wells-Fargo Express company and the Ameri
can Express company.
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Those business firms that imagined., they
had such a sure thing on the Cuban- business are
engaged in howling loudly about the woeful in
gratitude of the Cubans. Cuba is showing many,
indications of being able to go it alone.
The gentlemen who urged the Panama canal
route in order to delay canal construction are dis
concerted because the Colombian revolution la
ended. But they live In hopes that another ono
wil bo started in time to postpone canal construction.
Miss Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr college,
asserts that mothers spend too much time caring
for their babies. The frequency with which thoso
who have no children pose as -authority on the
rearing of children is not less amusing than won-
derful.
Having secured the Wall street recommenda
tion of being a "safe man" Uncle Joe Cannon may
rest easy and fondle his speakership boom. Wall
street may not cast the votes, but Wall street will
vote the voters when the time comes to elect Mr.
Henderson's successor.
Myron G. Herrick, the well-known banker,
will attempt to defeat Tom Johnson for mayor of
Cleveland next spring. Mr. Herrick has a lot of
money, and the indications are that he is select
ing a mighty good run for it
President Baer, who believes himself divinely
appointed to look after the coal Interests, says
that the wages of the miner are reasonable and
his condition entirely satisfactory. President
Baer has much reason to be grateful for the fact
that he was divinely appointed to be president of
a coal mine company at a largo salary rather than
a coal miner at the present wage.
Tho Rocky Mountain News suggests that tho
growth of the trusts can be checked by adding a
few words to our copyright, trade mark and
patent laws, providing that tho privilege granted
under such laws are in the form of a lease and
not transferable except by the consent of the
government It is a good suggestion and worth
adopting. Anything and everytning should bo
tried that looks toward the destruction of privato
monopolies.
Mr. James Hobart Moore of Chicago has won
the New York horse show prize for driving a
four-in-hand. He should now seeic employment
as a driver for a coal wagon and secure the trade
of those who do noi, want the corners knocked off
their coal sheds by the heavy wagon hubs.
A reader of The Commoner calls attention to
the decision of the supreme court to the effect that
the silver dollar is an unlimited legal tender ex
cept where contracted against This law has been
in effect since 1878, although many advocates o
the gold standard seem ignorant of the fact
The Johnstown (Pa.) Democrat would like, to
see the conscience of tho American people aroused
in behalf of "real order," and the Democrat ex
plains that "no real order is to be hoped for until
the coal barons as well as the coal diggers are
compelled to respect the moral and statute law."
One reason why the daily newspapers print
ten columns about a college football game and ten
lines about a college debating contest is that many
people think more of feats with the feet than they
do of contests between cerebrums. Ne.wspapera
are made for tho same purpose as the Frenchman's
razors.
It is now proposed to appropriate $10,000 off
public money to entertain the king o'f Siam when
he visits this country. It will be remembered that
the entertainment of the Boer delegates took place
on the back steps of the White house and cost
nothing save a lot of mental anxiety on the part
of the administration.
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Postmaster General Payne is scolding the
'"Lily White' republicans in the south. In order to
understand the whys and wherefores it must be
borne in mind that Mr. Payne is the political gen
eralissimo of tho cabinet Southern delegations to
republican national conventions usually are made
up largely of negroes. Now recall what John Sher
man said was done to his presidential boom byj
Russell A. Alger and you have some idea of Mr.
Payne's sudden interest in the political" welfare
of the southern negro.
The demand for the gold standard in the
Philippine islands comes from the officeholding
class. It is claimed that tho public revenue is
collected in silver and that where the payment of
salaries is made in silver there is a loss "to the
recipients who are mostly Americans." Governor
Taft himself is said to be a sufferer. Therefore,
without considering the interests of the people "011
the . Philippines the gold standard is to be fast
ened upon the people for the benefit of the carpet-baggers
who draw salaries fixed by our gov-pet-baggers.
They draw salaries fixed by our gov
ernment and paid by the Filipinos, and then be
cause they draw these salaries they want to make
the financial system of the islandsconform to the
interests of tho foreigners rather than tho-na
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