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Speaking of "going concerns," there's Kuro-patkin.
Vermont would be a better political barometer
woro it not for Arkansas.
Mr. Thomas Lawson is merely telling what
tho public has long suspected.
Wisconsin democrats have prepared a Peck
of trouble for the republican machine.
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There is no 'r" in coal, but the price goes up
"With a bound when an V month comes in.
Mr. Schwab is going into the ship building
business again, a new crop having been born.
Peabodyism in Colorado is tho legitimate fruit
of imperialism and militarism in the Philippines.
Tho meat trust and the coal trust continue to
stagger along under the weight of their ' pneu-,
matic shackles.
Secretary Loeb is writing denials in such em
phatic language that he conveys the impression
that it was truo.
Perhaps Secretary Shaw wants us to believe
ho can not see any deficit because he is 3,000 miles
away from Washington.
The New York campaign is not marked by
any large amount of Eljhu Rooting for the re
publican state campaign.
Another American girl who married a penni
less foreign nobleman has discovered that her
husband isn't worth a cont.
No union men were allowed to march in the
Labor day parade at Cripple Creek. The militia
had tho front of the line.
Mr. Walter Wellman seems to havo madc-the
mistake of issuing a challenge to men who were
quite willing to take it up and did. v .
Candidate Fairbanks declares that the anti
tiust laws havo been enforced, and as soon -.as
t?ust managers quit laughing the trusts will reciprocate.
Doubtless tho republican national committee
"Would like to put an expurgated edition of tho
"works of Theodore Roosevelt upon the market.
Perhaps tho New York World and the, (Brook
lyn Eagle are laboring under tho delusion that tho
election is to be nothing more than a vindication.
Tho -Commoner's special "educational cam
paign" offer should be read by every democrat who
is interested in tho spread of democratic prin
ciples. , .
Tho army quartermaster "who turned back
Into the treasury tho sum of $450,000, tho unex
pended portion of an appropriation, has been
severely reprimanded. There were a number of
army contractors who. could havo used more than
thoy got,- s . 1 v
The Commoner. .
General Funston is slowly but surely being
transferred to the east, where he will -bo in the
social swim much further than he ever was in
the. real swim in the Philippines.
-rVOLUME 4, NUMDER
35
The king of Belgium wants President Roose
Tclt to interfere in the interests of peace. Euro
pean ignorance of American conditions is some
thing appalling. "
Ex-Senator, Mason says he must stand up for
tho "infant Industries" before he stands up for
"infant republics." In other words, the dollar'
before tho flag.
It is said that Senator "Fairbanks never makes
a speech without referring to a cemetery. The
senator is always thinking about tbV final out
como of his vice presidential aspirations.
With the ability to set .the price of the raw
material and tho finished product, to say nothing
of injunctlonless injunctions, the meat trust is
still of the opinion that it has nothing to arbitrate.
Panama, is said to be seeking investment for
about two-thirds of the $10,000,000 paid to it by
this country. Hero is a chance for Secretary
S'haw to borrow enough to make up one month's
deficit. ' ,-
The Lincoln (Neb.), News, republican, remarks
that "Nebraska has no Governor Altgeld." No
body realizes this more than the average Ne
braskan. And few states need a Governor Alt
geld more. .
There is one kind of reciprocity that the re
publican party managers are willing to practice.
The receipts for campaign contributions and the
maintenance of the "tariff, "wall" -will locate the
reciprocity.
The Inter-Ocean, which complained so bit
terly because Mr. Bryan made speeches during his .
presidential campaigns, is criticising Mr. Parker
because he has seen fit to decline all invitations
tp make public speeches. Democratic ability to
please a republican organ and the. arrival of the
millenium aro dated for the same day.
"Americans never haul down the flag;" theat
rically declared Mr. Fairbanks from the speakers'
stand when the Hag fell over ,him. That sounds
very pretty, but it is the average republican spell
binder claptrap. Wo hauled it down in Mexico,,
and the hauling down was the one bright spot on
that unnecessary struggle. We hauled it down in
Cubar and the effect pf that example was better
than all the armed hosts we ever put in the field.
We had it up in Canada once, but we hauled it
down. The American flag should bo hauled down
whenever to leav5 it flying would mean departure
from American principles. This is a fact that all
of the cheap fustian of republican spellbinders
can not aler.
a giant ovil that was growing rapidly. The growth'
of government by injunction has been sure ana
steady, since 189G, and laborers who think with
their heads instead of voting at the dictates of
their stomachs are rapidly coming to realize that
they made a grave mistake in not giving their
support to a platform containing a protest against
"government by injunction." Those who thought
it was a political trick now know that they were
tricked by the opponents of that plankthe men
whoseek to use tho machinery of the law to
work injustice.
. .China is in 'a most peculiar condition. She
is a neutral nation, and Russia and Japan, together
' - - f , with neutral nations, havo
China's agreed to respect her rights.
Peculiar - Yet China is forced to accept a
Case peculiar situation in which the
two warring nations make their
war upon a large section of her territory, with tho
likelihood that the section will be vastly enlarged.
She has neither an effective military establish
ment nor a government energetic enough to devise
ways and means for securing recognition of her
rights. Russia charges her with lack of neutrality
in not protecting Ine-Russlan warship that sought
refuge in Chinese vaters. Japan charges that
Chinese soil is being used as 'the base for Russian
wireless communications. The Flowery Kingdom
is not just now enjoying any .-"flowery beds of
ease," but on the contrary is in the most serious
condition.
Riches R.cal
And
. Imaginary
William Weightman,' "who died recently in
Philadelphia, made $50,000,000 out of quinine. Be
fore the civil war began he saw
that thfire would be an enormous
demand for quinine from the
camps. Ho secured control of
the market and never lost it.
S'enator George Frisbie Hoar lies very sick. His
entire property yields him an income of less than
$1,800 a year. He has been in public life more
than a, generation. Compared with ' Weightman
he is little better than a pauper. And yet which
of these the multi-millionaire or the statesman
has conferred the greatest good upon the world?
Which of them .will be longest remembered? One
of James Whitcomb' Riley's quaint poems contains
a great truth in the line which reads that "There
ain't nothin' patheticar than' beln' rich." The
poorest man in the world is the man who has
nothing but money.
An -Instructive
Experiment
The
Arrogant -Trusts
v 'The coal, trust grows more and more' arro-
gant with the approach of winter... It steadily'
advances prices without reason
other than its desire to squeeze
more money from a long; -suffering
public, and the legal depart
ment of the administration does
not lift a hand to put a stop to the extortion. The
evidence of a, coal trust is not far to seek. It is
open and notorious and yet the administration
whose head was wont to talk about 'shackling
cunning" will not make even a pretense of en
forcing the anti-trust law. It remains to be seen
whether a people who aro being robbed right and
left will give a vote of confidence to the party
which, if not directly profiting by the robbery, is
at least responsible for its continuance.
The women of Kalamazoo, Mich., have given
public officials an interesting and valuable exhi
bition of how properly to attend
to public duties. The Civic Im
provement league, made up of
women, sought and obtained per
mission to clean Main street for
a distance of six blocks during the summer sea
son at a rate equal to that paid for such work
under usual' conditions. Permission was readily
granted. The women adopted the Waring system,
secured the co-operation of abutting propertj
holders and resurrected and enforced some long
dead ordinances. The result has been more than
gratifying. The women not only kept the streets
clean, but they did it at a less average cost than
heretofore paid for work -that did not keep the
street clean. Kalamazoo's officials admit that the
women gave them -a valuable lesson and they
promise to profit by it. It would be well if other
city officials had a similar lesson taught them.
Where
The Trick
W&9
fliinrtn'c? Hffnrnt.n l 1 ...ii -. ...
....bV.a moguiiuu, m uu uiuuiu uuuueu Tile
Labor Vote," has this to say: "It goes without
ojru& muu iuuuicis generally
are opposed to injunctions, it
was the knowledge of this fact
that led Bryan to put in the
, h uwmucrauc piatiorm m both lfiM
and 1OQ0 la clause against 'government by injunc
tion,' but it had no appreciable effect on the labor
vote. Tho laborers .perceived that it was Jut
in to catch votes." Doubtless if the roa? laolt
were known laborers are now sorrv tha t w ? ?
not realize in 1890 and 1900 that Itt dld
tlon plan was not lrTSS
Plank was inserted because it was a prXaganst
The New York Sun declares that "Judge
Parker stands without reservo or qualification tor
territorial retrenchment and a
Where Honor general down-hauling of the flag
Was in both oceans." The Sun
Reflected knows better, but elects to make
its campaign on falsehoods.
Judge Parker stands for territorial honesty with
out tho sham of "benevolent assimilation" or the
hypocrisy of "our duty to tho Filipinos." He
stands for the real meaning of the flag honesty,
freedom, self-government, no taxation without
representation and no carpetbaggism. There is
no dishonor in refusing to retain stolen goods,
and no "little Americanism" in Insisting that the
American flag is too sacred an emblem to float over
a country ruled outside of the constitution and in
direct contradiction to the spirit of our free insti
tutions. The hauling down of our flag in Cuba
and Mexico reflected vastly more credit upon this
great republic than can ever be reflected upon it by
keeping it flying in the Philippines in violation of
every principle and tradition upon which the re
public is founded.
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