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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
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