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THE C0A1M0NER, Lincoln, Neb.
Tho desire to graft never is affected by the
statute of limitations.
That call for help is not coming from the
Macedonians this time.
The administration's trust busting policy
seems to have been chucked in among the moth
balls.
In the meantime General Miles is making
more friends by reason of the snubs he has received.
Airship builders who experiment near 'the
water should equip their machines with life belts
and row-boats.
Tho Root resignation has permitted several
g. o. p. statesmen to appear in the "also men
tioned" class.
Matthew Stanley Quay is writing an auto
biography. It will be interesting because of what
he does not tell.
Does President Roosevelt Imagine that his
French duel with the trusts wax bulletsis de
ceiving anybody?'
Kill the asset currency measure. It is unsafe.
What will become of the currency when the cashier ab
sconds with the assets?
The letter dismissing General Miles was very
brief, but the letter to Governor Durbin "was long
enough to make up for it.
Organize a democratic club in your voting
precinct and turn the lantern on the reorganizers
who are working in the dark.
Jett and White have been found guilty and
sentenced to imprisonment for life. This is an
interesting study in color. .
Burglars in Germany have formed a trust.
Over here they merely elect their tools to con
gress and get a protective tariff.
Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt!1 means that the "door
of hope" for tho colored man shall lead only into
a republican national convention.
Doubtless Governor Penny packer is accumulat
ing a job lot of jealousy of Tsi An's power to
make the editors walk straight.
Had tho republican leaders shown as much
interest in the negro's weliaro during the past
thirty years as they have shown in his vote there
would be less race prejudico today.
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When the trusts and financiers want some
thing they keep after it until they get it. When
the people want something they ask for it and then
sit around and wonder why they do not get it
The "booms" started by the reorganizers seem
to bo "of few days and full of trouble" Hill
Parker, Cleveland-all these gone and the Gor
man boom already showing signs of fatigue Next'-
The , Commoner
The naval maneuvers are doubtless very fine,
but most of the people, who pay for the game
never get to see it
Kill the Aldrich biU. It arrays the financiers
against a reduction of taxation and lays the foundation
for an enormous corruption fund.
Ifthe asset currency bill is enacted into law,
why not. go it one better and issue currency on
tne bond put up by the bank cashiers?
Salt Lake is said to be slowly drying up.
But it may be that the lake is merely crawling
away from the vicinity of Perry Heath. .
The administration is making fierce war on
the mosquitoes. The mosquito is much nearer this
administration's size than the trusts are.
It is 'rumored that Elihu Root is Mr. Roose
velt's preferred candidate for 1908. But is he rich
enough to make it worth while to tap Root?
Watterson, the one time tari" reformer, is now
booming Gorman, the all-the-time tariff trimmer.
"No compromise with dishonor," Bro. Watterson.
The next democratic national platform will
not be written by men who support republican
principles and vote for republican candidates.
Senator Gorman is in favor of moderate ac
tion on the tariu. The trusts are in favor of the
same thing and are willing to do the moderating.
If Governor Durbin wants to make his prac
tice conform to his preaching he will amputate
the Taylor appendix to his gubernatorial equip-page.
It seems that Mr. Cannon's .remarks about
"rubber currenc" were merely in the nature of a
prematare explosion. Mr. Cannon has since been
properly loaded.
James R. Keene says he was only "annoyed"
by the loss of a million and a half. We know
several men who would have been awfully provoked.
Those eminent Ohio republicans who .are pre
paring to deal Tom Johnson a body blow would
do well to first prepare ambulance facilities for
themselves.
Mr. James J. Hill is demanding an increased
standing army. Can it be possible that Mr. Hill
contemplates another federal injunction against
bis employes?
Governor Durbin may yet deem it necessary
to let Taylor go in order to get some more corre
spondence from the president but, again, he
probably will not.
VOLUME -3, NUMBER
32.
. Mr. Roosevelt is making a plea for pure men,
but under certain contingencies -Mr. Hanna will
be asked to again use the methods so successful
in 1896 and 1900.
, The indications are that there are in the
neighborhood of eight or ten millions of people
who know the difference between broncho bust
ing and trust busting. ,
The tr.usts are satisfied with their tariff graft
and are willing to stand pat The financiers,
however, have a few more things they would like
to saddle upon the people.
When Mr. Gallinger proudly asserted that tho
senate is under tho control of nj man, one Henry
T. Oxnard doubtless winked slyly in the direction
of John D. Rockefeller.
Tho Commoner offers a college education to
every young man and woman who has ambition
and the Industry in sufficient measure to win it
Correspondence is solicited.
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If the .republican papers that are extolling Mr.
iRQ0?eiannr(MOday ll lookback over their files of
1892-1896 they will find adjectives that males The
Commoner's criticism seem mild by comparison.
wTnhoerc Is notJjInS surprising about the fact
that as soon as Governor La Follette began de
manding fair play for the people he wW de
nounced as a "pop" by the republican leaders so
vastly interested in preventing the people froni
securing fair play. uwpn irom
The sultan of Turkey is sq accustomed to r-.
ceiving ultimatums that he Js badly, frightened tl
the receipt of a Russian demand. The Ruru.?
demand must have attention. ' USblaa
People, who wonder why Secretary Shaw h
been so silent lately should remember that Van
street has been demanding considerable attention
from the treasury department recently. uoa
Securing enough colored delegates to insure
?J2Snty inJhe cnvention altogether a dif
ferent proposition from that of securing enough
TShite votes at the polls to win an election.
Mr. Knox has spent $20,000 of that $500,000
anti-trust fund, with the result that the beef trust
is more arrogant than ever. The Knox anti-trust
fight works only in its imagination department
It is safe to remark, that Colombia's rejection
of the canal treaty is not a huge surprise to cer
tain influential gentlemen who favored the Pana
ma route with the knowledge that Colombia could
be influenced.
Mr. Gorman urges democrats.' not to worry
about the next nominee. They are not worrying.
They are leaving that to the- eminent gentlemen
who pose as democrats when not voting 'the re
publican ticket " b
King Menelik is reported to have-110,000
?w iof fSldJn his safety vaults- li wou seem
that Menelik has a few trusts which he is as
sessing for the purpose of raising' a fund for his
next campaign.
m iator Aldr,ich says the new currency bill
will not be reported until "all interests have been
consulted." But the people should hot be so
tne "intaeSrests?agine " they &re lnclude among
oi ?W cmes the disclosure that public offi
Sff -,?e?? "srautas" in the Indian depart
ment Will the people be. content with "letting
those who profit from the- graft attend to the
prosecution of the grafters? '
People who are thinking ' about taking land
in the vicinity of the new national -irrigation
canals should open correspondence with the emi
nent gentlemen who have already perfected their
title to the land.
The time has gone by when loyal democrats
are satisfied with platforms that' may mean any
thing or nothing, or with candidates who are per
sona grata with the interests that profit by dis
regard of democratic principles.
Those Parisians who have been congratulat
J?S tjseives upon their shrewdness in using
Jw , ?S n du!ls need not be so puffed up-
7Sf iS cuntlX the trusts have been shot
with parrafine bullets for several years.
wtcCYleSS ib? pf?le intervene the result of dis
SiinSS a fc ?f -salaried officers from the
postoffice department on tne charge of boodline
whowfllfl1 by, the WolntiSnt of SSS
smrsoroMhing.863 licensed to indulge in the
Mp ltn??Sk?publ,ca,l orean shrieks in double-leaded
type that "the silver dollar is now the
wal no yth ?e nly "me the silver dollar
when the Mvl11 f tho gold dolIar was
wnen the silver dollar was worth the most
in -nUi
lLTaJTTtm?' "ifthedian a
contSue TStS l' B"ft And e grafts will
grafted! an aroused PeoPlG overthrow tho
veinondf TA ,S t0 the effect that it la
oi M "nd out what the enemy wants you to do
todemo'emts wh TW? Is resPtfull7submitted
nuhifpmn QW 10 may haVQ noticel that the re-
SaSKy up very cl0SGt0
canZlrh IS nOW made tnat General Wood
be?ne a oivif nfiVern0r of, the PWPPlnes, that
amLrt t wme' But doutless It cou d be
arranged so that he could hold it as a nhvfiiMnn
la a ronsi(l0My moro of a doctor than ho
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