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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. '
- As soon as the republican organs ceased
pumpng the Cleveland boom deflated.
Under the circumstances no one can blame
Senator Morgan for saying "I told you so."
Cuban reciprocity should prepare to be satis
fied -with a position in the "also mentioned"
class.
If Miss Costcau has any , private railroad
coaches she might offer the use of them for a
short time.
If Brother Elijah Dowie really wants to try
something strenuous let him go down into Penn
sylvania and tackle Quayism.
Perhaps, however, Mr. Kno. has been spend
ing his vacation in the preparation of another
fancy -job lot of promises.
Republican promises of tariff reform may be
tho model that our great and good friend Abdul
Hamid, of Turkey, patterns after.
The Commoner's educational offer is worth
investigating by every young man and woman de
sirous of acquiring a college education.
Miss Costeau should have hoisted the flag
over Oyster Bay while tho president was not
looking. "Where the flag, etc., etc., etc."
Mr. Shaw will And it difficult to convince the
people that flat injected by tho banks is vastly
superior to flat injected by the government.
The administration will be slow in taking
cognizance of affairs in Macedonia. The Kish
inoff proceeding is too recer . to be forgotten.
-' Mr. Carnegie says he is quite sure that "steel
'has a soul." We do not believe it. Sometimes we
even doubt whether some of steel's manipulators
have souls.
Mr. Chamborlain says he took the step be
cause he thought it best. There aro quite a num
ber who entertain tho idea that the honorable
Joseph was pushed.
The only difference between the General
Bucknor of 1903 and the General Buckner of 1896
is that the' General Buckner of 1903 has laid aside
his democratic mask.
It would seem that tho republican majority in
congress haB fujly decided that its mind has been
properly made up by Mr. Oxnard concerning the
Cuban reciprocity treaty.
Suppose every nation had a "big stick" navy,
what would have been tho result after the Now
Orleans riots, the Rock Spring" incident and tho
repeated brutalities praoticed upon the Huns and
Finns in tho Pennsylvania coal rogions?
ThQ St. Louis Evening Post carries at ita
masthead the words, "A democratic newspaper."
But as no one is deceived thereby there is no
danger that the Post will evr be sued for obtain
ing a subscriber's money under false pretenses.
The Commoner.'
An exchange expresses wonder that Mr. Han
na has not tried to get an injunction restraining
Tom Johnson from making it so hot for him.
But perhaps ho has tried. -
Without knowing it tho Philadelphia Public
Ledger is tho most humorous daily publication in
America. Tho charm of its humor lies in the fact
that it takes its ponderosity so seriously.
Wo aro informed that Mr. Knox has been
spending his vacation getting ready to prosecute
the trusts. The trouble seems to be that Mr.
Knox spends all of his time in vacations.
Those who imagined that congress would be
called in special session before election over
looked tho fact that something besides legislation
for tho country's good is under consideration. '
Mr. Hanna will use the moving picture ma
chine as an adjunct to his Ohio campaign, but it
is safe to say that it will not show views of Rath
bone at the telephone or the fryingpan in action.
It is claimed that President Roosevelt used
the personal pronoun thirty-six times in twenty
eight consecutive sentences while making a speech
the other day. That was certainly strenuos-I-ty.
When we read that prisoners in the Pennsyl
vania penitentiary have been- making counterfeit
coins we .are Inclined to wonder how Mr. Quay
and the Philadelphia machine allowed them to
get in there.
If the Standard Oil company has been pump
ing salt water into the independent wells of
Texas it Is merely a hint that the independent
operators were becoming too fresh to suit Mr.
Rockefeller.
A Kansas bank failed the other day, owing
depositors $60,000. It tried its best to hold on in
tho hope that the time would come when it could
issue enough currency on the deposits to tide it
over its troubles.
A lot of gold standard organs are compelled
to learnedly discuss nothing to the extent of col
umns in order to avoid explaining why it was
not the Philippine coinage that increased tho price
of the white metal.
Mr. Knox's long preparation for fighting the
trusts reminds one, of the man who backed off
three miles to get a running start- for a jump
over a fence. When he reached the fence he wa3
too exhausted to jump.
It is a criminal offense in Hungary to lend
money at usurious rates. Perhaps Mr. Shaw is
acting under the belief that the same thing ob
tains in this country. That might explain why he
lets the banks off so easy.
"The Commoner Condensed," Second Yolume,
will be ready for delivery about October 15. In
size -and binding it will be a companion volume
to the first Issue, and will be a valuable addition
to any political reference library.
When Mr. Hanna finds time to go down to
Washington he will take especial pains to call on
Secretary Shaw. During his resent western tour
Mr. Shaw committed the treasonable blunder of
crediting the good crops to the Almighty.
Strange that there should be those who view
with alarm President Roosevelt's action in the
case of Mrs. Todd. The Clarkson and Payne ap
pointments should have prepared them for -almost
any kind of a wrench of the merit system.-
The democratic club of Greenville, Hunt
county, Tex., has adopted resolutions reaffirming
their faith In the Kansas City platform, denounc
ing the attempts of the reorganizes, and 'taking
the people's side of the various state questions
which are at issue.
A few wepks ago the Ohio republican organs
declared that they would bo happy if the demo
crats nominated Tom Johnson for governor. A
glance at those same organs now impels us to
congratulate them on having their laugh before
the nomination.
The Inter-Ocean seems to think that "forcible
assimilation" is not after all "criminal .aggress
ion." It is strarigo that political oxegencies
should, with so many peopld, actually suspend, it
they do not- entirely destroy, convictions upon)
moral questions. .
, '.VOLUME 3, NUMBER 3?t
The gentlemen who have clospd ,ifc
anthracite mines venture the prediction ?
will be a shortage. It does not take much to?
, good guesser under those circumstances; e a
If tho financiers are permitted in ,
money from tho government at a low rT.
interest to loan to the people at a high it. ?.
interest, they will see, to' it that the nLin o!
always taxed- enough to keep a big SSh
the treasury. Kill the Aldrich bill. DlUS ia
The "Subscribers' Advertising Department" 1.
recommended by some of tho largest and shrk-d
est advertisers In the country, it affords an ex
cellent opportunity for publicity to those who
may have some meritorious article to which the!
wish to direct the attention of the people. l
Senator Beveridge says that "caution" will ba
tho watchword of congress in legislating on th
money question. The senator is unusually cor
rect in his surmise. Just enough will be done by
the administration forces to hold the money
kings in line without unduly arousing the enmity
of the people. Cautious? Well, rather. '
Imperialists cannot understand why some neo
pie should criticise the people on board the death
ship Kilpatrick who danced and made merry on
the journey from Manila to San Francisco. The
imperialists point to tho fact that 302 dead sol
diers m tho hold made no objection to the mer
Mr. McKee, the journal clerk of the house,
Is quoted as saying that we need three or four
hundred millions moro of currency. No doubt
about it. The only question is whether we shall
have more real money like gold, silver and green
backs, or more bank currency resting upon bonds
as formerly, or merely upon "assets," as is now
proposed.
Let every democrat in Ohio rally to the sup
port of Tom Johnson and the entire state legist
lativo tickets. When the state convention in
dorsed the Kansas City platform it earned the
active and enthusiastic support of every believer
in that platform. Every Ohioan who was loyal
to Bryan and Stevenson in 1900 ought to be loyai
this year ana the party ought to make large ac
cessions from republicans who are in favor oil
home rule and more equitable taxation.
The New York Herald quotes its Washington
correspondent as saying that Secretary Shaw may
attempt to punish the banks that are trying to
reduce their circulation just at the moment when
the secretary is trying to increase -the circulation
of the country. For a man who thinks that tho
banks can be trusted to run the finances of tho
country in the interest of the people, Secretary
Shaw seems very dictatorial. If he is going to
make the banks contract or expand the currency;
according to his ideas, why 13 ho so opposed to 1
greenback currency, which the -government coula
much more easily handle?
The Standard of Albert Lea, Minn., is ham
mering away at the evils of corporation rule in
a manner that ought to please Its readers ?nd give
encouragement to other weekly editors. It re
cently took the Minneapolis Journal to task, and
convicted it of inconsistency in criticising the
Standard for expressing some doubts as to tho
fairness of Judge Lochren, wliile the Journal aft
the same time was declaring that the people "no
longer have any confidence in their public ser
vants," and "no confidence in tho certainty of
justice." The Journal will have to bestir itself
if it is going to debate with the Standard.
The reorganizers who attempt to repudiato
the Kansas City platform do not act in politics
as they do as parents. When a child is born the
older children are not put out of the house, hut
all are cared for. If for any reason one child
needs more care than the others, it receives the
additional care, but that does not mean that the
other children are to be disowned. So in poli
tics: tho fight is made upon the issue which i9
paramount, but ths democratic position must
be maintained on all questions, for the surrender
of a righteous position would naturally and nec
essarily alienate more voters than it would con
ciliate. The democratic party did not abandon
its belief in tariff reform when the money ques
tion became tho main issue. Neither did it aban
don its belief in tariff reform ami the monoyi
question when imperialism became paramount, in
the future, as in the past, the party must ue
sound on all questions and make its fight uPon
the issue that is for the time being paramount.