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, , t -WpTlfffv" 4 The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. v.nuTH at tlio nostofllco at Lincoln, Nebraska, aa second eliuu mnll mnttcr. One Year U.oo Six Month 50c la CIu b of 5 or more, per year 75& Thre Months .....5 Single Copy 50 Sanplc Coplett Free. Foreign Postage 52c Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to Tho Coram oner. Thoy enn nlso bo sent tlirouRh newspapors which hayo adver tised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, whero aub ngcnlBhavo been appointed. All remittances Bhould be sent by postofflco money order, express order, or by bank draft on Now York or Chlcugo. Do not send Individual checks, stamps or monoy. RENEWALS. The date on your wrapper shows when your subscription will expire. Thus, Jan. 81, '05, means that pay iifcnt liai been received to and including the Inst Issue of Jan uary, 1005. Two weeks arc required after money has been ro cclv'cd before tho dule on wrapper can be changed. CHANGE OF ADDRESS.-Subscrlbcra requesting a chongo of address must give OLD as well as tho NEW address. ADVERTISING rates furnlBhcd upon application. Address ell communications to TUB COMMONER, Lincoln, Nek It appears, that tho "Mysterious Stranger" al lowed himself to becomo too well known in Mis souri. V The Commoner Editor Metcalfe of Life, Now York, has been barred from forty-three .theaters because of his theatrical criticisms. Mr. Metcalfe stoutly main tains that ho has told nothing but the truth, and if ho is correct the reason for the bar is apparent. "Uncle Joe" Cannon declined to attend a ban quet because the supreme court judges were given precedence over tho speaker of tho house. But "Uncle Joe" may regain his lost place by beating the supreme court in a war against the beef trust. A Kansas congressman defends the tariff-fed manufacturers for selling abroad cheaper than, at homo on the ground that they are "disposing of old stuff." If the Kansas republicans will only movo to some foreign country they will get the benefit of tho tariff. VOLUME "5, NUMBER 5 Walter Wellman said he would if Count Cas sini dared him to. Count Cassini dared him to, and Mr. Wellman said that he would have to de cline, owing to after considerations. This, should be set down as one of the 'most important Rus sian victories yet pulled off. A cursory glance- at some republican exchanges leads The Commoner to believe that a lotjof re publican leaders who have always held that the government had no- right to regulate freight rates aro now bitterly opposed to freight rate regulation because Mr. Bryan advocates it. Ex-Governor Peabo'dy'3 handwriting experts fioem to have exhausted their expertness in their affirmations. Reports from St. Petersburg and Port Arthur indicate that Russia kept her most expert marks men at homo. Kicked out of the republican national conven tionelected governor on a republican ticket and then chosen for the United States senate by nearly a three-quarters vote in a republican legislature this is quite a record for eight months, but La Follette has made just such a record. Senator Aldrich is going to Europe for a short rest, hut will be careful to carry Rhode Island along in his watch charm. Each succeeding day's session of tho Missouri legislature adds a few more to Missouri's demo cratic majority at tho next election. As a strike breaker General Sherman Bell is not in it with the Grand Duke Sergius. But Bell did not have qulto tho same opportunities. The Philadelphia minister who admitted that ho "preferred noil to politics" has evidently been making a study of the Philadelphia brand. A Now York man was arrested and fined $25 for giving his horse a pint of whisky. They are awfully careful of their horsos in New York city. hn T!10,fU?r0mo court havInS skillfully performed tho preliminaries, will Attorney General Moodv r'be'oftrJf SldiminS knif and 8et towo?k The governor of New Jersey assumes that his constituents have the same low standard of mor ality that he has when he tells them that it is better to license trusts to prey on the rest of the country than to tax themselves to raise the revenue necessary to carry on their state government Congressman Burleson of Texas put to the re publican side the question: "Are you with the president or with the railroads in this fight for the regulation of freight rates?" Owing to the fact that most of the republican members are try ing to-be with both, the answer wa3 not audible. The Grand Rapids Post punctures a hypocriti cal pretense when it remarks that there are a great many widows and orphans with 3tacks of railroad stock who never receive any pity save when it is proposed to enact some railroad legis lation that does not meet with the approval of the railroad managers. ItemTn yZ $. ba -JJ- iT&tssar doubtless they w$?t qi York Sun is abou t0 read Hon- John Sharp Williams out of the democratic partv be cause he declares that the regulation of railroad rates is a democratic principle. But Mr. William in right, and the democrats will not run away S icSrse1tmerely bGCaU3e thG PreSldent President Roosevolt is lookinc for n m i will -dig for 8100,000 a yea?. Hgh Zllt Nebraska arc often seen digging fo- Jin Yn n price of a ton of Mr. Baer's output ? ' th The supreme court must bo brought ncirm. t reached tho oars of tho local buteS S DOt yet calculateaX'rKo uSamarl!3 It must bo admitted that tho iL ? army oeruy ampuWeaM SpE The Salt Lake Herald remnrka i,o , no law that compels a man KjBfl?! there Is in this country." But tLr ? d on his muscle compelling muscle to pay tribute1 tJfU,meroUB laws indolent wealth. y llte to arrsant and The Houston Post savs "ti,o . be bettor off if the president wn?,?,i Untry Woul(1 tention to building ur Tom iW pay moro at- our commercial testvZrT" TiTvr?l instead of to bo well taken. Tlle pst's point seems Mr. Dennis Donahue has now nernetratPd r, Installment of his "Lawson ExpoLbufnas ut terly failed to show that what Lavson has said about the "system" is untrue. Mr. Sonahue is a shining example of the truth of tho old saxta tha? eiSg?SoSti?TOted the f - SM "terf let him hang himself J" The ttf TT and supply of thfa iHrwi bun always keeps a Tho monthly magazine "How -to Make Mcnev" failed. -The Wall street crowdVairen,i hJ' how, and the rest of us are so busy making a liv. ing that we didn't have time to learn. has The s"tate that has one senator representing , express companies and another senator repref en t Ing tho railroads, certainly has a riehV i,,11. ho sternly put downbv hfliLn ?' 8 D' wlu route around Robta Hood's n?Jnl8tJaUon- Th track compared to timio?of I3 a ht-away organs tUQ logIc oZ th administration Some of tho financiers are complaining thab there has been a fall in the purchasing power of gold. This" is certainly astonishing information from such a source, considering that if i3 not lona since these same financiers were asserting thab gold was absolutely unchangeable in value. Can It be possible that the financiers are learning that more money means cheaper dollars? In refreshing contrast to Governor Penny packer's assaults on the press are the words of commendation for the newspa- Complimented per reporters spoken by retiring The Newspaper Governor Aycock of South Caro- Men Una. Governor Aycock paid tho newspaper correspondents a high compliment, saying that they had always been his friend3, and had helped to make the administra tion a success. "I have always trusted them fully," said Governor Aycock, "and they never betrayed the trust." This is also a refreshing contrast to the eminent public gentlemen who find that their quoted, utterances do not meet with popular ap proval, and then attempt tp hedge by the old and stereotyped claim that "the reporters misquoted me." From Tho Other Viowpoint Demurrage charges are familiar to all ship pers of goods. , It is simply a charge made for hold ing a car out of service after a specified time from the date of its delivery to the consignee. Tho railroads claim that the demur rage charces are necessary in or der to prevent cars from being unnecessarily held out of service. A Nebraska legislator of a logical turn of mind has approached this plan from a new direction and introduced a bill requiring railways to pay a fine for every day a shipper is kept waiting for a car after he has ordered it. Railroads havo found that one of the easiest ways tc discourage competition is to put up the plea that they can noc furnish cara. In this way favored shippers are given an advantage and the eleVator and cattle trusts are enabled to contribute largely to the un earned receipts. If the proposed Nebraska law be comes effective the railroads will have to frame up some other plan. The Sioux. City Journal, speaking of the bill says that "the railroad3 may find it easier to defeat the bill than to dodge the logic." France, with an area very small when com pared with that of the United States, keeps con- stautly employed 6,000 men Let us Leo.rn whose duty it is to maintain tho tx Lesson French forests. "We do it dif From France ferently over here. We employ a few scientists and laborers to re forest spots laid bare by tho woodman's axe, and at the same time pay a huge bonus to a large army of men engaged in destroying the forests. JThis army denudes more land in a day than the government reforestratipn department can reclaim in a year. This huge bonus on forest destruction is paid in the guise of a protective tariff on lumber and wood pulp. Turn it whichever way you will, the tariff on lumber and wood pulp is nothing more nor less than a premium paid to a favored few for their, work of destroying American forests. 5Lits, lBSUe of January C The Commoner printed an editorial under the title of "A Worthy Charity" u lULurnng to tne National Union Printers Home at Colora do Springs. subscriber who is a union printer enters an objec tion tn Vln lino. nP V. ..1 !. H-U x t.x.t . " "OU Ui LUO WUiU JUiU- Fh 4 connection. This subscriber says: ,,fl me VJ10 way a charitable Institution, ffiitE!!? WSd Charity' In its commonly accepted SS?'?16?11 printers at the bome are th9 S an Institution which they havo themselves fr ?n J wJ ?Ud and maIntaI. They have paid for for thv n! a PPry interest therein, there-e?n?eqyhfS.-n?i: T. ghtfully classed as 'the rc of 'chLitv hif y' Jfom this subscriber's viow new version of fhPnInt KWe11 taken' Bllt the aZars as "inv? eoak the word "charity" Commoner'R JSSt a?d from thl3 standpoint Tho eS?on to tPhi ,Gr, frIe.nd certainly will not take printers of 'thl des nation. Certainly tba union lotorinalnntF ?,avo shown a commendable m homJS BSi,d0,.!,n their craft an the beutl- cmlly0 thPisatdrWo?ord ? atny and esPe nificent monument tn P?lra? xln & a ma helpfuinera thS f the fra ernItr and mutual unionism at lB tho real basIs M genuine labor . The Printers "Horn" ft. MK3J8ilWHttMMBliiiwaii N."