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Lake Superior copper had. so mucli water in
it that the stock was badly corroded. ;
Tho .Boers finally quit, hut Mr. Kipling still
feels that he has a call to keep it up. -','
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish declares that this coun
try should have an aristocracy. Cod or shod? '
Mr. Hanna's "let well enough alone" cry is
rapidly degenerating into a "let mo alone" wail.
President Roosevelt's outing is ended, but tho
trusts' inning is still oh in full force and effect
In view of all the circumstances Mr. Hanna ap
pears to be "Wise in insisting that there is nothing
to talk about. -
John W. Gates shows- gratifying signs of turn
ing state's evidence in the case of the People1 vs.
Wall Street.
Mr. Hanna may be physically ailing, but
thore is plenty of evidence that his ill temper is
in perfect working order.
Every time Mr. Secretary Payne feels the
need of a new laugh he presents Mr., Beavers
with another indictment. ' -'".
There is every indication that Mr. Beavers
will soon come, to look upon the indictment as
a new kind of breakfast food. ' . '
The trouble wita republican tariff revision is
that tho republicans will not do it after election
and dare not do it before election.
The senior1 senator from Ohio is acting like
a man who wants to make sure this time that
,ho will not have to dodge the officers of the law.
The indications are that wo will soon have a
new cabinet officer, that of secretary of official
explanations. Of course Mr. Loeb will be the first
incumbent.
If the "concert of the powers" is like some,
"concerts" inflicted-upon tho people, the sultan
has good grounds for pleading extenuating circumstances.
A few years ago a flurry in Wall street" was
called a "democratic panic." Today the republi
can organs refer to it as being merely a "period of
liquidation." '
The declaration that John. Jacob Astor owns
the most costly ring in the. United States is cal
culated to make Messrs. Quay and. Hanna wink
simultaneously.
Some day it will dawn upon tho American
jockey that tho only way ho can participate in tho
racing game in England is to always let the
EngliBh mount win.
A few years ago every tumble in Wall street
stocks was attributed to democratic incompetency.
And those who did it are now working overtime
to explain that right now every Wall street tumble
is duo to "liquidation."
The Commoner.
If the money question is settled, a number1 of!
prominent republican managers are wasting a
lot of valuable time.
Several cabinet officers are preparing to iti-.
vade Ohio. The administration evidently fears a
Langloy airship finish to the boasted republican
walk-over in that state.
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Superior copper -stock is among tho
waterlogged.
also
Tho administration organs that declared
Former Governor Hogg to be a plutocrat since
he amassed a fortune should read his recent
speech and guess again..
Captain Wringe, who commanded Sir Thomas
Lipton's yacht in the recent races, has decided.
to remain in this country, probably in order "that
he may learn the game. .
The market reports quote coffee as 'strong."
The man who is compelled "to patronize the quick
lunch counters is to be excused if lje lpolcs with-
distrust upon the. report. " - - '
' Mr. Hanna siys he has nothing to say, but
tho corporations that are watching Uncle Marcus
fingering the handle of the fryingpan realize that,
actions speak louder than words. '. .
Among other pleasurable spectacles is. that 'of
New York republican papers lauding fusion, to
down democracy in New York city and denouncing
fusion to down republicanism in Nebraska.
General Grosvenor announces that he" will
Wjlto no more books. If the general will' now
condescend to announce that ho will do no more
figuring a great deal will be forgiven hjm.
. As long as they can keep up the indicting
without doing anything else the administration
will be able to postpone the convicting, and that
is the thing the administration most fears.
Having lent so much literary aid to Mr.
Chamberlain's Transvaal schemes Mr. Kipling
should now doff his coat and reel off a few rhymes
calculated to boost Mr. Chamberlain's tariff plans.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says that Post
master General Payne's, work of investigation has
been "well done." Are we to infer from this that
Mr. Payne has laughed, until he is thoroughly exhausted?
Naturally enough the newspapers that hail as
the acme of judicial wisdom $he decision that the
"blacklist" is legal and perfectly proper, de
nounce the boycott as un-American and altogether
reprehensible.
The furnace men who met recently in Pitts
burg and agreed to limit production one-third
until January 1, doubtless, looked toward Wash
ington and saw the sly wink in Mr. Knox's left
optic.
Unless their, members are equipped with un
usually good digestive machinery those "Ancient
and Honorabje Artillery dinners in Boston are
likely to create more death than the battle of
Bunker Hill did. '
Owing to the fact that there is a presidential
campaign slated for next year Mr. Roosevelt is en
gaged in writing a message that will- seek to pla
cate selfish interests without arousing the antag
onism of tho victims.
Doubtless those convicts who made counter
feit money in the Pennsylvania penitentiary ar
gued that they were entitled to some "easy money"
just the same as the adroit republican political
manipulators of that state.
Has any one yet called at the White house to
inform Mr. Roosevelt that the democratic candi
date for mayor of Greater Now York is a son of
the general who was in command of the Union
forces at the battle of Antietam?
Quite a number of newspapers that rushed to
the defense of "Hell Roaring" Jake Smith find it
extremely difficult to frame words with which to
express their horror at Abdul Hamid's methods
of permitting atrocious massacres in his dominions.
In transferring General Corbin it appeared to
bo all right to give him a fulsome notice, but
when General Miles retired it was insisted that
rules and regulations prevented anything more
than a formal order of retirement. But thoughtful
Americans will cheerfully admit that General Cor
bin needed it vastly more than General Miles did.
; It is generally admitted that rcstmaster rP
eral Payne is able and willing to found a i)Zu
.upon tho most trivial charge, tt it promlS??
have good political results. P mlsea
' Tho Chicago preacher -who addressed a wn
man's club and denounced women's clubs mav
the possessor of great courage, but his buran 2
discretion seems to be a dent l l
.,ne 1In,es aro formnS for the political battle
of 1904. Have you enlisted on the side of tha
people by malting a personal effort to organize a
democratic club in your voting precinct?
Tho indications are that a great many cattla
raisers who voted to "let well enough alone"
three years ago and last year, are busily engaged
in thinking a little more auout it just now.
It is not plagiarism to remind Wall street
that it may be "lack of confidence" that is re
sponsible. That was Wall street's explanation
for strikingly similar conditions elsewhere in tho
country during 1896.
A St Louis physician declares that the desiro
to steal is due to a toxin in the blood, and he i3
striving to discover an anti-toxin. If he succeeds
ho should be invited to inject a few barrels of it
into the republican administration of the post
office and Indian departments.
The particular attention of Commoner sub
scribers is called to the subscription proposition
and campaign formally inaugurated in this issue.
If you are interested in the dissemination of dem
ocratic literature, the proposition submitted af
fords tho opportunity to do it.
When Alice took her historic journey through
Wonderland she learned that they always had
jam yesterday and would have it tomorrow. Lewis
Carroll evidently had republican revision of the
tariff in mind when he wrote that well-remembered
explanation of the absence of jam today.
Reports from Delaware are to the effect that
that Mr.. "Gas" Addicks iB sprucing up and pre
paring to demand the deliver; of certain senatorial
goods promised in return for the delivery of plans
and specifications for the delivery of the Delaware
delegate vote at the next' s. o. p. national convention.
Mr. Roosevelt is quoted as being in favor of
a 'currency commission." This plan has two
merits, viewed from the g. o. p. standpoint. While
the people are watching, the commission the finan
ciers, may slyly push through their little scheme,
and the commission affords fat placeB for a few
party pensioners, ,
In last week's Saturday Evening Post ex
Senator Vest discloses the fact that John Sher
man had nothing to do with the "Sherman anti
trust law" further than to vote for it. This is
in the nature of a coincidence. The i,resent re
publican administration has bsolutely nothing to
do with the Sherman anti-trust law.
The per capita circulation has been increased
33 per cent during the last seven years. The gen
tlemen who were loudest in declaring in 18U6 that
we uid not need more money nearly so badly as we
needed "confidence" are the same gentlemen who
are now deploring the. scarcity of- money and fig
uring on rushing through an Aldrich and a
Fowler bill.
.The Commoner's first "Lots of Five" cam
paign Tvas a magnificent success, thanhs to the
Industry and loyalty of Commoner readers. The
second campaign is now on, and democrats who
are interested in keeping the party free from
corporation domination and thoroughly demo
cratic are invited to take hold and help make ic
even a greater success than the first one.
The Young Men's Christian association of
Chicago has decided to keep tho association room
open all night This is one of the wisest moves
this splendid organization has made In recent
years. The day workers have no difficulty in tinn
ing pleasant and respectable resorts after wont
ing hours and before time to retire. The nignj
workers find only one place open when they quit
work In the early morning hours. Already mors
than 300 young men of Chicago have Jn7 ,'
Y. M. C. A. since the decision to keep open bous
all night was reached, a majority of them heme
employed upon the morning papers.
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