IWittimVrHtXWf
fct",
.?.
, y wpwrWKf irTW""
1
4
The Commoner.
ISSUED WEEKLY.
Entered at the poatoflice at Lincoln,. Nebraska, as second
dass mail matter.
Ore Year $1.00
Six Months 50c
8a CIu bft ot 5 or more, per
year , 75C
Three Months 35
single Copy 5c
Sample Coplea Free.
Foreign Postage 53c Extra.
SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to The Commoner.
They can also bo sent .through newspapers which have adver
tised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, wvhcro sub
agentshave bren appointed. All remittances Bhould bo sent
toy postofflco money order, express order, or by bank dralt on
New York or Chicago. Do not send Individual checks, stamps'
er money.
RENEWALS. The date on your wrapper shows when your
subscription will expire. Thus, Jan. 81, '05, means that pay
jnont has been received to and Including tho lost Issue of Jan
ary, 1005. Two weeks are required after money has been re
ceived before the date on wrapper can be changed.
CHANOB OP ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting a change
( address muBt givo OLD as well as tho NEW address.
ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application. Address
all communications to
THE COMMONER, Lincoln, NafcT
X
George Ade says Indiana will give a republi
can majority of 40,000. Sad how soon these great
humorists run out.
Tho trusts are going to experience trouble in
oiling the public another job lot of life preservers
stuffed with old iron.
. "Senator Spooner's denial would have been
much stronger if it had not been quite so strong
an appeal for sympathy.
The gentlemen who complain that presidential
campaigns unsettle business are finding difficulty
in securing tho proof this year.
It will strilce a good many people that Sena
tor Spooner is offering to prove his innocence by
men who dare not admit the facts, - - ,
That ominous rustling from somewhere in
Ohio is an indication that General Grosvenor is
getting his prediction machine oiled up.
Chairman Cortelyou is of the decided opinion
that Andrew Carnegie is offering 3ome strong ar
guments in favor of the republican ticket.
Tho Wisconsin and New York situations call
for a lot of soft speaking on the part of the pres
ident, but big sticking is noticeable by its absence.
The banks report a slow demand for money.
Men never rush hurriedly to a bank to borrow
money. They hesitate and approach with diffidence.
The LaFollette decision and the Steffens ex
pose came so close together that Senator Spooner
is excusable for believing that someone has it in
for liim.
The New York Tribune is now earnestly striv
ing to convince the supreme court that it known
much less than President Roosevelt about- com
mon law.
Mr. Rockefeller has about arrived at the stage
where he can prove, that he earns his money by
.pointing to the articles written by Mr. Lawson and
Miss Tarbell,
Governor Wright talks long about what the
United States have done for the Filipinos. But the
United States have been guilty of many sins of
omission, also. f
Republican leaders are explaining by saying
that Mr. Roosevelt wroto those books long years
before ho ever entertained an idea of running for
tho presidency.
Speaker Cannon's touching reference to "Pil
grim's Progress" seems to indicate that Uncla
Jog has arrived at the "Slough of Despond" stag?
of the campaign.
Senator Spooner is seeking to make the pub
lic believe that Lincoln Steffens surreptitiously
thrust a lot of scrap iron into the Spooner sena
torial life preserver..
The Commoner.
Of course Statistician Wright will not over
look the fact that on tho day that dressed beef in
Chicago went up 2 cents a pound the price of beer
came down $2.50 a barrel.
..
YOLUME 4, NUMBER 33
- , - ' , ,
for an Increase ' in the bank clearings'" th
possible that the g. o. p. committee haq w,,!!
its- shipment two-ddllar bills into Indian, n
soon? B0
The outlook in Indiana and Now York is such
that Mr. Addicks grows more confident of being
able to fix up a deal for Delaware with tho man
agers of Mr. Roosevelt's campaign.
. Of course those disgruntled Filipinos must
understand .. that the president's expressed desire
for p'eace has no connection with those who object
to the.g. o. p. policy of imperialism.
Thomas Lawson has now arrived at the stag3
where the men he is showing up are preparing to
negotiate for some evidence Lo prove that Lawson
does not know what he is talking about.
"Big sticking" is not so popular in republican
circles as it was a few months ago, b-t the indi
cations are that the "two-dollar-billing" is grow
ing animated in New York and Indiana.
It is announced that President Roosevelt will
keep out of the Wisconsin trouble. This should
be pointed to by his campaign managers as proof
that he is not so much inclined to war as charged.
Chairman Babcock of the repu oilcan congres
sional committee is firmly Df the belief that tho
defeat of a certain congressman would be fully a?
bad as a democratic majority in the next house.
"From Lincoln to Roosevelt" is the title of
a pamphlet just issued by the republican national
committee. Tho pamphlet is a short one, but tho
distance covered is immense, and down hill all the
way.
Grover Cleveland has written an article on
"Why the young man should vote the democratic
ticket." The young man should vote the demo
cratic ticket in spite of what Grover Cleveland
says.
Senator Spooner's reply to Lincoln Steffens
is in effect that Steffens does not unow what he
is talking about because the "system's" tracks
were so well covered that not even Steffens could
find them.
The Topoka Herald says that "every strike
settled before election is a blow to democratic
hopes of success." How about the packing house
strike? The g. o. p. is welcome to all it can mako
out of that,
The Wisconsin supreme court has committed
a mortal sin in the opinion of the machine repub
licans of that state. The court has insisted upon
refusing to base its opinion in the LaFollette-Cook
case on machine politics.
It is noticeable that the papers clamoring loud
est for the policy of "teaching the people self
government" are also loudest In their support of
the party whose policy is to let the trusts do all
the governing in this country.
The demand for steel in the construction of
battleships is so enormous that there is a dullness
in the structural iron market. This, will explain
the delay in getting to work on Mr. Carnegie's
Palace of Peace at The Hague.
Secretary Shaw couldn't see a $41,000,000 deficit
with a miscroscope, but he managed to see the lit
tle surplus of $6,000,000 with his1 aaked eye at a
distance of 1,800 miles. The g. o. p. optics al
ways were in need of .a first-class oculist's services.
The Sioux City Journal of October 6 says
editorially: "Mr Tibbies has not yet come to tho
front with a letter of acceptance." Mark you
the Journal says this editorially. The news editor
would not have b.een guilty of such a foolish mistake".
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat Insists that the
presence in ho presidential chair of a man Hk6
Roosevelt always makes .for peace. But the Globe
Democrat stops before it gets to tho logical con
clusion, which is that it is the same kind of peace
that the strong bad boy exercises over the small
boys at school.
t J.Noting that Cnairman Taggart is at work in
Indiana, the Sioux City Journal shouts: "Watch
It is reported that Mr. Cortelyou will succer.i
Mr. Payne as postmaster general. Mr. Cortelvoo
is much more successful as a successor than
he was as a public ..official charged with the dutv
of investigating and prosecuting illegal trusts and
combinations
-Governor Odell is defending himself by laying
the blame for "reckless and extravagant legisla.
tion" upon a "former administration;" This cliargo
is not being used as a campaign document by
Mr. Cortelyou, whose candidate was at the head
of the "former administration."
Carroll D. Wright is trying to make some people-
believe that the increase of $10 n thousand
feet in the price of lumber is more than offset by
the decrease of 3 cents a pound in the price of
putty, and the strange thing about it is that quite
a lot of liome builders seem to accept the state
ment as gospel truth.
In a recent issue of The Commoner in quoting
from another writer who discusses tne advantages
to' bo derived from defeat, mention was made of
the Joggins' raft and a Mr. Joggins was spoken
of. . The Joggins' raft was not in fact named after
a man so a reader informs The Commoner but
at a harbor bearing that name.
The national committee has just issued tho
campaign book for 1904 and-copies can be secured
by application to the democratic national com
mittee, 1 West Thirty-fourth street, New York.
It contains a vast amount of valuable information
on pending issues and will be useful not only for
campaign purposes but for future reference.
Every active democrat should secure a copy.
R.eform
In Prison
Life
New York and Nebraska have inaugurated
reforms in prison affairs that should be followed
by other states. The reform lies
in the abolition of the prison
uniform of striped clothing. This
reform naturally followed the
abolition of the lock-step, and
already the good effects of both reforms are to
be seen in better discipline and a growing man
hood on the part of the prisoners. The old idea
that prisons should be made torture for criminals
is giving way to the humane and sensible idea
that prisons are reformatories, and their chief
purpose is to make men better instead of con
stantly reminding -them that they are dangerous
animals who must be-securely chained and maltreated.
Tempest
Inec
Teapot
.The diplomatic misunderstanding at Lee,
Mass., recently, while annoying to the state de-
partnfent only serves to show
that we are progressing. A few
centuries ago a similar case
would have resulted in a bloody
war. Indeed, great wars have
resulted from smaller causes. Mr. Gurney, third
secretary of the British embassy at Washington,
was arrested and fined for driving his auto above
tho speed limit He made the defense that under
international law he could not be arrested and
fined. But Police Judge Phelps Insisted that inter
national law cut no figure in his court, and added
a fine for contempt. Before Mr. Gurney was haled
to prison he paid under protest. Of course the
state department took the matter up, and proper
apologies will "be made to Great Bnain and Mr.
Gurney, It was a small matter, but a little di
plomacy untangled it, which is far better than
going to war,
The growing independence of the pulpit is
one of the encouraging signs of the times. Rev.
Dr. Blwood, a Presbyterian min
' When jster of Wilmingccn, Del., has
The Pulpit conferred a blessing upon the
Helna the public by his recent denun-
ciatlon of J. Edward Addicks
methods. Dr. Elwood did not mince matters, but
talked "straight from the shoulder." Ho said:
"The human leeches that have hung to the money
bags of Addicks since his advent into Delaware
are as much to blame for the reproach of Dela
ware as their master, and when the history of
this stato's present decade is written, the greatest
contempt of posterity Tdll be heaped upon those
native-born citizens of Delaware who for greea
and gain sullied the honor of their state." when
tho pulpit joins with an untrammelod press ro
denouncing corruption in public life there will D3
bettor pnwpecti for reform.
?
1
I
V
eS
.! .. .-?
