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THE COMMONER, Llnceta.Nafc
When' Perry Heath heard of the Byrne ap
pointment he started east without lpss of time.
, In tho meantime tho Igorottes worried not a
bit over tho butchers' and garment workers'
strikes.
Delegate Sam Wright of Iowa seems to be the
kind of man who is willing to accept notoriety
in lieu of fame.
Tho "blood and iron" idea does not appeal to
thoughtful men who are striving to bring about
an era of universal peace.
Secretary Morton declares that we should
have the largest navy in ,the world. Perhaps he
"Will now undertake to water it.
Up to date we have not noticed any old-time
republican organs rejoicing over the addition of
tho Chicago Chronicle to their ranks.
With American steel rails selling at ?32 at
home and $24 abroad tho g. o. p. campaign fund
"will not bo in. any danger of going dry. '
Wages at Fall River have fallen. And this,
too, in the face of "universal prosperity" brought
about by "wise republican management."
The president Is very much pained, he says,
at the growing evidences of disregard for morality
in public places. Lou Payned, we presume.
Once ridof the fungus growth of imperial
Ism tho country will quickly grow strong enough
to throw off the poison of trustism and financial
greed.
The nominee of the negro "liberty party" Is
more than ever in favor of liberty since he was
sent, to jail for twenty days for keeping a disor
derly house.
Mr. Root says the tariff, if revised at all, must
,ho"revised by its friends." And that Is all that
the tariff fed trusts ever asked for that their
friends be allowed to revise tho tariff.
If the readers of Tho Commoner will compare
the platform adopted by the democratic national
convention with tho New York platform he will
not find many points of similarity.
Since the Chicago Chronicle deserted democ
racy and turned republican the average of tho
democratic press has been greatly raised, while the
average of the republican press has been material
ly lowered..
A reader asks whether an effort was made to
put a direct legislation plank in the platform.
Yes; Mr. Bryan prepared such a plank, but be
fore he reached tho point where he intended to
introduce it Senator Pettigrew introduced a sim
ilar plank which was supported by a number of
membors ofvthe committee, among them Mr Pot
tigrow and Mr. Bryan, but it was defeated.
The Commoner.
Russia has been having a hard enough time
with tho Japanese without courting greater trou
ble byseizing American newspaper dispatch boats.
Judge Parker was taking a swim when ho re
ceived the news of his nomination. Let this tact
forever set at rest that aged jest that democracy
is "unwashed." ,
W. T. Cobb, republican candidate for gov
ernor of Maine, says he will, if elected, increase
tho number of colonels on the gubernatorial stall.
This is an amazing statement.
The democrats who bolted in 1896 and 1900
are daily growing louder -in their demands that no
democrat bolt this good year of 1904. Bolting is a
medicine that some men love to mix, but want
somebody else to take.
The Sioux City Journal says: "It has been
demonstrated to the satisfaction of Mr. Hearst
that a presidential 'nomination cannot be bought
with cash." But will the Journal undertake to say
that a presidential election has never been
bought with cash?
When Miss Stone was a captive in the hands
of the brigands the administration did not send
any "Miss Stone 'alive or bandit dead" cable
grams, but that may be due to the fact that a na
tional campaign was not in progress and tho
manufacture of campaign thunder not a necessity.
Secretary Wilson tells us that the meek and
lowly bean is equal to meat, and that it can be
used as a weapon in bringing the meat trust to
time. It will he admitted by all thoughtful men,
even though they know nothing of the bean, that
it will be just as effacacious as anything the ad
ministration has done.
Having figured it out just in time that he
might need Colorado's electoral vote, President
Roosevelt made haste to send word that he would
be glad to meet the delegation of Pennsylvania
miners who wanted to call his attention to tho
barbarities practiced upon their Colorado brethren.
A reader of The Commoner suggests that the
Chicago Chronicle may have gone over to Roose
velt with the idea that by so doing it could help
Parker. Thatv explanation is hardly reasonable,
however, for while it may help Parker by advo
cating Roosevelt it would be absurd to credit Mr.
Walsh with that much political sagacity.
Republicans in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,
Ohio and Minnesota, where political corruption
has prevailed for years, have had a great deal of
fun about "mossback democrats" in Missouri.
But the Missouri "mossback" have just given the
republicans of the aforementioned states a splen
did object lesson in political purification, and they
should heed it without delay.
A whole lot of republican papers that hardly
dared mention the Boers during their splendid
struggle for freedom fearful that it would cause
political complications have been saying beauti
ful things of them and of Kruger since the latter
died. Tho man or newspaper that dares not
speak for justice and right, fearing that if he
does so he will injure his party's chances, is lack
ing something in American make-up.
Mr. L. SvByers of S'eeleyville, Ind., offers $500
reward for the return of his five-year-old son, or
for information which will lead to his recovery.
He mysteriously disappeared from his home on
Sunday afternoon, May 29. He is five years old,
rather small for his age, has light hair, fair
complexion, gray or hazel eyes, the left being
crossed. The child ia very talkative for his age
and would rather be in the company of men than
with children.
More than 100,000 people registered for a
chance to secure a quarter section of land in the
Rosebud reservation of South
Government Dakota. While many of those
Ltxnd who registered really want land
Lottery. uPn which to live and make a
. livelihood; the majority regis
tered because the element of chance annealed to
them The Rosebud land drawing is notWng more
nor less than a gigantic lottery conducted by Se
government, with chances of drawing a prize fewer
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tb.an in the Old Louisiana lottery of evil fam
Thousands-were drawn to the four registration
points by tho appeal to the gambling spirit if
the government has any more land to dispose of
it Is to be hoped that some other method of die
position will be evolved. The nation can not
aftord to sanction virtual gambling games like the
Rosebud drawing. ' e
It is significant that although republicans as
well as democrats and populists, have expressed
themselves in favor of the dec-
Republicans tion of United States senators
Favor by popular vote to the extent
H, that among the rank and lilo of
all political parties there seems
to be no division on this question, the republican
national convention failed to incorporate in its
platform a popular election plank.
Through the platform of 1904 the democratic
party and its representatives are solemnly pledged
to do all in their power to bring about this im
portant reform in the election of senators.
It is strange that with public sentiment so
overwhelmingly in favor of this reform, republi-
ran senators have been able to delay the good
work. Perhaps it Is not so strange that the re
publican national convention, controlled as it was
br a handful of men, failed to give expression to
what is on this point undoubtedly the sentiments
of the rank and file of the republican party. Tho
Nebraska legislature of 1903 was overwhelmingly
republican, and yet, the sentiment among republi
cans, as well as among men of all,other political
parties, was so strongly in favor of the election
of senators by the people that the Nebraska legis
lature adopted a resolution in favor of the pro
posed reform. The Michigan legislature, also
Republican, adopted similar resolutions in 1001.
Resolutions favorable to the election of senators
by popular vote were adopted by republican legis
latures as follows: Pennsylvania, Kansas, Utah,
California, Oregon, Minnesota, Idaho and South
Dakota.
The- Chicago Record-Herald in an editorial
here reproduced, calls attention to the comments
made by Governor Luz, formerly
The chief executive of Batangas
Do.rk Province in the Philippines. Ho
Side. was shown the beautiful resi
dences and business blocks in
the city of Chicago and having seen the things
that are usually brought to the attention of visit
ors, he asked to be shown how the poor lived.
This suggestion coming from .the isles of tho
orient ought to make an impression upon the men
who talk so much about prosperity and who know
so little about the wretchedness that accompanies
it. The nation's prosperity is not to be measured
by the luxury and enjoyment of those who through
monopolies seize upon the resources of the coun
try and exploit the people. The masses and tho
moral sense of the country must be measured by
the manner in which the fortunate interest them
selves in the welfare of the less fortunate.
Whether Governor Luz profits by his visit to the
United States or not, the United States ought to
profit by the pointed inquiry which he submits.
The Record-Herald says: "Senor Simeon Luz,
former governor of Batangas province, island of
Luzon, did well to ask that lie and his fellow
visitors from tho Philippines be shown how Iho
poor live in Chicago as well as how the rich aro
housed. Bad laws and an Impoverished people,
as history shows, breed luxury and magnilicence
in spots. It is not tho palaces and the' broad ave
nues that tell tha story of a nation. The true
test is how the masses fare. The poor have their
pleasures. The thrifty poor have their comforts
also. But tho well-governed community should
have no neighborhoods of abject wretchedness.
The unsanitary rookery should be regarded as an
inexcusable blemish. The foul street or alley
should be cleansed, so that the little children that
have no other place to stretch their tender linios
may not be stricken with fever at their play. iJJ
great and rich community which cannot manage
this has no right to show; it marvels to stranger,
and make a parade of its achievements, for tnes
often spell selfishness rather than brotherliooo.
When Chicago or any other city ia placed on vww
by an entertainment committee no exhlbiti on
its rows of costly residences and tall Duaine
structures can tell the whole truth to the iniui
gent stranger. No city can be truly great tnai w
not show greatness in its humble stree ts, m
homes of workinginen and in those auarterswu ,
the very poor pay the landlords' profits. w
owe thanks to Senor Simeon Luz for reminu
us that the veneer of wealth is unjmportani
compared with all the living and striving iu- o
to make up the sum total of humanity.
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