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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
The railroad rebate must go.
'What's the matter with Kansas?"
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It seems that "GasM Addicks light is out.
Kansas seems to be boring for oil in just the
right spot.
A moral wrong is not made right by licens
ing men to commit it
Mr. Rockefeller seems due for an experience
with a genuine Kansas cyclone.
Up to date Senator Warren has not been con
fronted with a "burn this letter" spectre.
Those Russ-Jap forces will have to hustle to
get their date lines on the same page with those
from Kansas.
The bone in the steak has grown no smaller
rapidly since the supremo court decision in th
beef trust case.
The way to win campaigns is to have a per
fect working organization and plan before makin
the first charge.
Mr. Shaw's request for burglar alarms on the
treasury vaults sounds very much like a hard
slam at congress.
J)t course Senator Mitchell's "burn this let
ter postscript was meant merely as a fuel pointer
to his law partner.
LaPollette goes to the senate just in time to
warm things up there like he did for the railroad
magnates in Wisconsin. "inroad
M Mr- J1'8 hundred thousand dollar luncheon
seems likely to cost him several millions berora
he hears the last of it. P oro
It cost Mr. Rockefeller ?G6,000 to muzzle thn
tSt8lfhSr f Nebraska-nd doubtless believes
that the money was well spent. uuioves
Will one of our readers advise I. N Brown
tlr --To
-onSVgS Ifra ffi 'X T
prospectus of a new steel company. ik tuo
Mr. Hepburn offers a letter frnm p-.ncti .
Roosevelt as a clean bill of health Mr ni
can show one almost exactly like it.' t0n
an alibi in to P"o
Tvhich to frame up an excuse fdojng mnths In
The Commoner.
Arizona may feel a little lonesome for a while
but her patience will be rewarded as soon as tho
democrats get control of the government.
Tho Russian administration is very apt to
grow cross-eyed in its effort to keep watch on
dangerous situations so widely separated.
The attitude of several republican senators
puts them in the light of refusing to do right be
cause the democrats saw the right thing first.
Perhaps the railroads were not worrying about
the freight rate bill because they knew that it
would soon get lost in the senatorial terminals.
Indiana's legislature has adopted an anti-pass
law. Passing a law and enforcing it are two vastly
different things, although this should not be so.
It transpires that Mr. Rockefeller knew what
he was doing when he gave Nebraska a temple and
thus plugged the mouths of the Nebraska legislators.
If money really can talk it is likely to be
called upon to do a whole lot of vocalization in
favor of the Standard Oil company in Kansas
and Colorado.
Czar Nicholas is making his children the same
kind of fatherly talk and promises that have be
come so familiar to the Filipinos during the last
five or six years.
Parties desiring a real example of the shrink
age in Standard Oil securities may have it by
boiling a new woolen undergarment and then hang
ing it out on the line.
The Nebraska legislature can sympathize with
Kansas, but not to the extent of criticizing Mr.
Rockefeller. Nebraska University has a "Rocke
feller temple" in sight.
The senate's delay in the matter of the rail
road rate bill is only one more addition to the
long list of reasons why United States senators
should be elected by direct vote.
The eminent financiers who sought to depre
ciate Mr. Lawson's exposures by personal attacks
upon Mr. Lawson are now complaining about tho
exorbitant price of courtplaster.
Chicago promises to have a hoodie investiga
tion that will rival St. Louis' disgraceful expo
sures. Let the good work go on, but the only
complete remedy is public ownership.
"Officials in Poland do not know what to do,"
is tho headline over a Warsaw dispatch in a daily
exchange. It's different in this country. Here the
officials do know what to do, but will not.
The indications are that the masses of the
people aro aroused to a realizing sense of the
impositions placed upon them by the great trust
and corporations. If this is true, the end of the
imposition is in sight. 0l ltiL
"No jobs in Panama" is the headline 07kr ?
canal story in an exchange. What the azhn
meant was that there is no work there ?orS
who are seeking situations. The Jote arethS?
but they have not yet been exposed. '
Several eminent gentlemen exnreaa h rrr.tr,
on that in building a state ol& kS
cyengThSantSi XVSfT U8 ?nd olSuSa
ureTn
iSffit y
Island. Being barred frnm , ti if d KllJle
has its tria,,!TorstoTut 'SuVt tUlnk of I"1"1""
pensations. c um,c o tnQ corn-
The fact that Senator Aldrich It nnt
to return from Europe for Bovoral mni,?,0,!n,,ls
cipitate XS of pre-
The legislator who acconfq n -ti
a "courtesy" would I douMtea rL? f?3 pa3s as
tho offer of a railroad nnmnL nt aa an Iflsult
tolng the legasla?hde TS th? hIs board
many legislators who man ' er aro to
between a "courtesy" aZ a"bribe " dIffrenC0 '
VOLUME 5,-NUMBER 7
Mr. Rockefeller will co a little slow in that
Kansas deal. He is not quite sure that the Kan
sas supreme court is as accommodating as the one
he happened to have on hand in Ohio during a sim
ilar bit of trouble some years ago.
Tho Chicago University has received another
million. If those who have money to give would
divide it up among the smaller colleges it would
go farther and bring a collegiate education within
the reach of more young men ,and women.
H. W. Risley, one of the leading democratic
editors of the west, has taken editorial charge of
the Fremont, Neb., Daily Herald. This means that
the democracy of that section of Nebraska will
have a strong and fearless champion and the
people a newspaper worthy of a place in every
home.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota had a chanco
to meet a number of railroad magnates and trust
officials at the merchants' banquet at Chicago, if
they expected to get any comfort out of hi3
speech they were disappointed4 He reasoned with
them, but it was of "righteousness" and "judg
ment to come."
Ex-Attorney General Monnett of Ohio has been
retained by Kansas to prosecute the Standard Oil
trust cases. It was Mr. Monnett who caused tho
conflagration that destroyed a lot of the Stand
ard's books, ledgers and documents. No, Mr.
Monnett did not apply the match that was done
by some one vitally interested In keeping Mr.
Monnett from getting a look at the books.
President Johnson was impeached for resist
ing a statute of dubious constitutionality. If he
had arbitrarily closed a postoffice established by
congress, or appropriated money for pensions by
an executive order, or seized a foreign custom
house without congressional consent, or made
war in Panama without the consent of congress
if President Johnson had done any or all of these
things the result of the impeachment trial might
have been different.
Upon
Tho Solar
PUxus
The Minneapolis Journal in a special dis
patch from Washington discusses the intimate
relations existing between the
the great corporations and sev
eral United States senators. Sen
ator Piatt's opposition to the
post check system is due to his
interest in the express companies; Senator De
pew's subserviency to the railroads Is well under
stood, and the championship of the trusts and the
rSi ta,r,lfi: by otuer senators is easily explained.
If President Roosevelt wants to strike the senate
m the solar plex-is let him propose an. Investiga
tion of the senate's corporate connections.
Several newspapers have asserted that Mr.
i-ryan and other Lincoln men are owners of tho
celebrated Foster lease of oil
Not In lands in Kansas. Mr. Bryan is
The Oil able to speak only for himself
Ba3fne3 concerning this matter and he
- , 0WQ3 no stock in any mining or
on eompanicH ,has had no dealings, directly or
indirectly with any oil, mining or leasing company,
awl ?. not connected in any manner with any such
wripany or corporation. Mr. Bryan's friends do
not need this announcement to convince them of
T,,n, ly Sf the statements of political oppo-
?S SlT' yan S only busIness enterprises con-
Hiat eff Tho Commoner and the farm.
mfvinniia1!?1081" 0f Jonns Hopkins Univer
sity declares that men have reached the age limit
wt,- a of usofulaess at 40, and that men
When A over 60 years old should be
Man Ceases to chloroformed. He further as
Work serta that men over 40 years of
thin r nnnt, of age never accomplish any
lnl consequence. It Is really too bad that
vortTsed in i!I grat, univerities have been ad
advanrn 1 disadvantage by professors who
hisZv to nnrtn0t0ns- Dr' 0sler has studied his
n oro thiS Sn advaVtaS he believes that men
o coi enuon Zn uld haV0 nccmplisked nothing
have ounS n The "tion that men over. CO
SStrlo X if- ri usefulness is so silly and so
The man whn T maUea Its authr ridiculous,
taken earn nf hia,3 ImPr0VGA his opportunities and
pa sh his w nTlf f Uould hQ abI to accom
plish his best ork between 40 and 70 years of
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