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The Commoner.
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 8.
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St Paul (Nob.) Phonograph-Press:
Thoso who holpod to disorganize
should not bo trustod with reorgani
zation. Lamar (Mo.) Democrat: There
nron't enough admirers of Mr. Clove
land down here to fill a delegation to
a state convention.
Salem (Mo.) Monitor: If Clovoland
has repented and desires to return to
tho democratic fold let him provo his
political faith by his voto before ho
sots himself up again as a leader and
oxponont of tho democrat party and
Its principles.
Mt. Morris (111.) Democrat: Tho
republican democrats, who are trying
to reorganize tho democratic party
and nominato a candidate as accepta
ble to tho raonoy power as tho republi
can candidates, ignore ovcry ono who
will not bo bossed by tho money pow
er. Rockvillo (Ind.) Tribune: "Repub
licans of today aro for both tho man
and tho dollar, but In case of a con
flict, tho man before tho dollar."
Abraham Lincoln said this forty
years ago. Your "Undo" Mark Han
na has no tlmo to waste on such a
sontlmont now.
Rockvillo (nd.) Tribune: If tho
navy of tho United States consisted
only of a skiff with a tea-kettle in it,
this nation, if consistent, could better
support and enforce tho Monroo doc
trine than wo can with tho largest
fleot in tho world, enforce it on others
while abandoning it ourselves.
Charlostown (Ind.) Citizen: The
policy democrats who declare that tho
party must nominato a New York man
In order to bo successful in 1904, hope
to have tho democratic party so or
ganized that there will bo no differ
ence between it and tho republican
party oxcopt in name.
Fostoria (0.) Democrat: Republi
can organs aro exceedingly busy in
building temporary scaffolding for
domocratic platforms and blazing trees
for domocratic presidential timber. If
It's any amusement for the editors,
Its all right; but strikes us as an
unproductive expenditure of tlmo,
snaco, and alleged gray matter.
San Francisco Starr Wn nrn fm. o
democracy that stands for principle
before policy and manhood before
monoy a democracy that always
thinks it expedient to bo right Any
other democracy a democracy that
does not stand for liberty and equal
rights is a fraud, and oven In its
success would provo a failure.
Jackson (0.) Herald: Democracy
noJGf needed peace and harmony
within her ranks more than she does
at tho present time, but peace secured
at tho price of principle is dear
bought and not likely to last Demo
crats everywhere should make a de
termined fight for what they believe
and know to bo domocratic. Anything
loss would bo cowardly and ruinous.
Sparta (Wis.) Democrat: Silver is
tho metallic money of more than half
tho human race and has been slowly
sinking toward its value as a metal
only, and not as money, as gold would
so fall if it were demonetized. Four
thousand million of silvor is becom
inghas practically become mer
chandise instead of money, which it
has boon from tho dawn of civiliza
tion down to the yoar 1873. This de
monetisation is bringing poverty and
d stress to half tho peoplo on tho
globe. Rqmohotizo and tho misery
will ceaso and China can easily pay
Moreover it is best for tho United
States to be wise in time. When tho
present bubble of fictitious capitaliza
tion, exaggerated values and inflated
currency bursts and a money panic
follows there will be a mad rush for
tho only real money that which Ib
made of metal and that money has
been reduced one-half in quantity dur
ing the last third of a century.
Anoka (Minn.) Free Press: The
senate committee on Philippine mat
ters turned down a resolution calling
for an investigation of conditions in
tho Philippines; it also refused to al
low the printing of the receipts and
expenditures in and for said islands.
Docs the public want stronger proofs
than these of tho extreme rottenness
of tho republican administration of
Philippine affairs?
Westmoreland (Pa.) Democrat: A
gold medal is offered by the Rhode
Island chapter of tho Society of Cin
cinnati for a now tune for "My Coun
try, Tis of Thee." Should the trusts
and combines bo permitted to continue
their policy of looting the peoplo and
controlling tho law-making power, it
will not be a. now tune that will bo
needed for the national song so much
as now words or sentiment
Eureka (III.) Democrat-Journal: A
leading administration paper when off
its guard the other day happened to
tell a truth unconsciously. In giving
a history of tho case against tho pack
ers' trust the paper ays: "In re
sponse to public clamor tho bill "was
filed in the federal court" Just so.
"In response to public clamor." That
is what stirred Knox up. It was no
sense of duty. And if "public clamor"
ceases nothing will ever come of it
Albion (Nob.) Argus: Secretary
Shaw thinks he can see the necessity
oi a perpetual debt as a basis for na
tional bank circulation or some other
system will have to be provided. That
other Bystem is tho asset currency
which needs no bonds. Of course it
never occurs to these men, in close
touch with Wall street, that tho gov
ernment might furnish the money. In
fact it should be tho business of the
government to issue the currency
without the Intervention of national
banks.
LoWlstOWn (111.1 NeWB! VJn i-ito
not been eulogized to any extent for
uuaouuiig outsell, irom the (Iroquois)
feast, even the city papers seem to
think it quite natural. But neverthe
less we wish to state to our readers
that wo had rather sit down to a din
ner of herbs with love and good fel
lowship to season the food, than to a
stalled ox in the presence of hypo
crites and traitors. What doth it profit
a man to win a brief oratorical famo
at a club dinner, a transient notlco,
if ho by so doing denies his faith and
corrupts his honor?
Ramsey( 111.) News-Journal: Re
publicans are saying: Oh, tho demo-
m !, x, 1BBUe uut 100k! "sten!
larlff, the trust breeder trusts, tho
products of tho tariff, imperialism by
which it is understood this country is
going into colonial subject business
similar to that of empires, tho gen
eral regulation of affairs of state
which protects, supports and upholds
the dignity of labor as well, the pro
tection of capital in its legitimate In
vestments and ldst, but not least re
arrangement or bringing back rather
the constitutional standard of money
both gold and silver. Plenty of is
sues. HarriBburg (111.) Register: Tho
New York World stilMnsists that tho
financial issue is dead, because with
that Issue to the front tho democratic
party, has. been .twice defeated. Yet it
wants the tariff, issue forward, al
though on that the party has been
defeated a dozen times. But tho
money trust organs will be satisfied
with anything that keeps tho people
from thinking about the money ques
tion. PIttsfield (Mass.) Sun! Mr. Rocke
feller says, what tho poor need is not
money, but warm, heartfelt sympnt'iy.
That is to say, not coal, but polite
conversation. Mr. Rockefeller is re
norted to have no stomach and that
may account for his views on charity.
Franklin (Nob.) Sentinel: Three
fourths of tho people of the United
States favor the election of United
States senators by popular vote, but
the other fourth are in the saddle and
they ruthlessly ride down every pro
position not in accord with their
views. That is self-government ac
cording to imperialist ideas, however.
Penn Yan (N. Y.) Democrat: Last
week Senator Hanna introduced bill
granting liberal pensions to all the
negroes who were freed by President
Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.
The absurdity of such a proposition is
manifest, and it is not at all likely
that its sponsor expects to see it suc
ceed. As a means of corraling for
Hanna the colored delegates to the
1904 national convention, it ought to
bo as successful as that famous prom
ise of those carpet-baggers who
marshaled the colored vote in the
south after reconstruction times, to
give each darky "forty acres and a
mule."
Hot Springs (S. D.) Times-Herald:
In 1873, perhaps $500,000,000 of silver,
worth $1.29 per ounce, was owned by
Uncle Sam. Tho silver industry was
a paying proposition and on the well
known theory of protection to Ameri
can industries, should have been fos
tered. Adverse legislation was de
manded by the gold-greedy few, who
desired to monopolize the wealth of
tho land, and silver has fallen to 39c
per ounce, entailing a loss of $360
000,000 in 'the value of Uncle Sam's
holdings,. and that, loss is but a frac
tion of the entire loss to the whole
country. The republicans railed
against fiat money in '96 and 1900, yet
today our country is full of fiat mon
ey, and tho same obstructionists now
point with pride to the unstable pros
perity wo now elajoy as a. result of tho
increase in the money of the country.
When will the people get their oye3
opened?
Toledo (O.) Democrat: Compelled
by the cry of distress from the people,
the republican congress removed tho
tariff on coal for one .year. But, "
viewed from the republican stand
point, how will this give any relief
to a tariff-monopoly-ridden people?
Don't the foreigner pay the tariff?
How strange! Why not raise tho
tariff and make the foreigner pay
more? That is what makes the com
mon people of America so rich and
prosperous, don't you know getting
this tariff money which the foreigner
pays. Oh, this high tariff idea is a
beautiful thought, and when carried
out to the fullest extreme, it is so
beneficial to the mass of this country's
people.
Eureka (111.) Democrat-Journal:
What! Can it be possible? After
all that we have been told about tho
"pacification" of the Philippines, and
the love of the natives' for the Taft
government, we are startled by the
announcement that "a fresh revolt has
broken out in Luzon," and that "it
presents the most formidable out
break since 1899." And there has been
fighting, and Americans killed within
seven miles of Manila. The truth is,
we are kept in ignorance of the real
conditions in tho Philippines, for, if
they were known, and the people knew
what an endless and expensive task
they have over there, tp make room
for corporations, they would abandon
the whole business.
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