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.Vrwt "fW rf 4. T '( VI 'i if i n r r n fc. 5 i; 4 The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. Knlcred nt Uiq ostoflicc nt Lincoln, Nebraska, s second tlfim mnll ninttur. OrcYtnr io Six Months soc In Club ol 5 or more, per )for 75C Three Months 35c finale Copy 5C Sample Coplen Free. Foreign I'osiege gac Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to Th Commoner. They can also be sent through newspapers which uayo adver tised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, trhero sub nuenta jbvo been appointed. All remittances should be Bent by postofflco money order, ex press order, or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not send individual cbeckH, stamps or money. UKNHWALS. The date on your wrapper shows whenyour rubscrlption will expire. Tims, Jan. 81, '0.r, means that pay ment has been received to and including the Inst issue of Jan uary. IWKi. Two weeks are required after money lias been re ceived' before the date on wrapper can be changed. CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting a chango of address mus'l give OLD as well as the NEW address. ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nb. Doubtless Kuropatkin is willing to endorse Sherman's definition of war. Thorough organization means efficient work. Let democrats push tho work of organization. Kuropatkin's boasts have been laid away alongside the g. o. p. promises to reform the tariff. "Tho courts of Chicago are choked," asserts the Record-Herald. But even that is better than being gagged. The "work of congress" consisted largely of spending money, which by most people is not ac counted toil. Has the president tho moral courage necessary lo sustain him in a fight to the finish against or ganized greed? Being the "son of hia father" does not guar antee his ability to deal in figures with the real facts behind them. Having read the beef trust investigation re port all the trust magnates aro just aching to bo investigated by Mr. Garfield. The assertion that Mr. Garfield's report is unsatisfactory is not quite correct. It is entirely satisfactory to the beef trust. Wars aro, at least, great educators. Those who fight thorn learn that the men who finance them get by far the best of the bargain. The next viceroy of India will bo fortunate in having the Durbar and the Roosevelt inaugural as samples of gorgeous splendor to pattern after. President Roosovelt refuses to submit to tho senate the "agreements" he is about to arrange with certain mountain lions and other wild beasts. "We demand justice," asserts the head legal advisor of the beef trust. But the trust's franUc efforts to avoid it do not dovetail with the law. yer's assertion. e ldw wni ? i01? hns (iscovered that the people will eat tough beef sold by the trust much more cheerfully than they will swallow the tough Wort presented by him. fa report Dresden. Ikoooo111 rallroad is to Its w president $150,000 a year, so it is said. What for? Not for managing the railroad property, surely but doubtless for seeing to it that the road's "special interests" aro carefully looked after at Washington and capitals of the various "stated through which the road runs. W10US states The Colorado republicans, by seating the lieu tenant governor, have virtually declared tint Adams was elected but that the renubUonn wanted the office in spite of that fact. S was elected he was entitled to the office- 1 ' Z even republicans concede, he did no ?' detoit Adams, then Adams was entitled to the seat? And now the railroad lawvers snv ihnt eress has no constitutional rlXtoStttoTo The Commoner. railroads. This is interesting. Our forefathers will fall in the public estimation if it turns out that they were really working in the interest of the corporations instead of the people when they prepared the constitution. Mr. Garfield will not find the real facts about the Standard Oil trust at "2G Broadway." That is where the real facts are most carefully pre pared and suppressed. Booker Washington advises negro young men not to take $5 buggy rides on a $6 a week salary. But there is really no color line to be drawn on advice of that sort. A woman, declared to be dead by two physi cians, is restored with salt by a third. The suc cessful doctor might try his salt remedy on the rate bill that -died in the senate. The Swayne impeachment case permitted the reverend senators to dodge a lot of work, that they wanted an excuse for dodging. The judge is en titled now to a senatorial vote of thanks. "The president wants a canal commission that will do things!" exclaims an esteemed contempo rary. It would be a welcome relief from tho com missions that have been "doing the people." According to the logic of the republicans of Colorado, a party has the right to substitute a new candidate after the elation, if the returns show that an unpopular luaa vas nominated. Archeologists have discovered Chaldean love letters 2,200 years old. They will create a stir, however, only when they discover the letters of some Chaldean senator with the familiar post script, "Burn this letter." Lyman J. Gage is said to be angry because no republican arose in congress to defend the New York customs house deal. Mr. Gage is asking too much of his republican friends. Even they must balk at doing some things. It does not require unusually keen eyesight to see that the chief opposition to public control of the railroads comes from the eminent gentlemen who are personally interested in perpetuating iailroad control of the public. Tho Sioux Cify Journal says that "Commis sioner Garfield's good faith will not be questioned." Of course not. Commissioner Garfield's good faith is not the question. But what about tne ease with which he is bamboozled? If the ship building trust or its successor another trust gets he job of building the two new "battleships, there will be something doing A navy is made to float in water, and that trust is trying to supply water to float a navy. Has the 'president the courage necessary to carry on a reform movement against the corpo rations which now control the republican party' The answer to the question will determine the place the president will occupy in history. Mr. Rockefeller has just given one hundred thousand dollars to the Congregational board of missions Now if the board will use tho money fa nn effort to show Mr. Rockefeller that, a? a tfust magnate he is guilty of more wrong-doing to his fellows than any other heathen known to the public the donation will be well spent nOWHn ,J' T' ?Tefflin of Alabama, one of the new members of congress is Hkoiv t Li. 1 - name familiar to thf rt&o? 'Se e,8h a democrat who believes in democr-itlo 2Sn 1 and who is not afraid to fight fo them Thn n??8 needs just such exponents and ; The ComiInParty Bents its compliments and bLt ISsta new member. wisnes to tho The republican national com'miiioo i, pointed Congressman Babcock aT th w aP" member in the place of Mr Pavno iS?n,sln this was done in spite of 'the Son rtiV fcf 5? can state committee whSii v the Venub"" Follette manhows how toe ?S?h?ide a La" committee stands on Z wM gives some intimation of Sin If , leform and republican paAy tabe oie it fff WMch tllG Party the republican party would iVnV01' entirely new organization win S to have an dertake the flghtTSnSl,the president un cratic element of his party? Wlth tho lut- VOLUME 5, NUMBER U The Commoner takes groat pleasure in nmi the prosperity of the Dubuque Telegraph-lS? one of the staunchest democr t A Growing daily newspapers in the coSl ' Democratic The Telegraph-Herald has 2 ' Newspaper installed a mammoth new ii capable of printing 24,000 24 page papers an hour, with color attachments ami other modern improvements. The "jubilee num. ber" consisted of forty pages and was a deliehttn the eye as well as to the intelligence. The Teh graph-Herald is deserving of its success, and it u now in better position than ever to spread tho doctrines and principles of democracy. Missouri's Long Deadlock Ended Speaker Hill of the Missouri house of renre sentatives forged the key that opened the deadlock in tuts aeuuionai contest. On the morning of the last day of the session he announced that he would vote for the pIppm a democrat on the last ballot rather than see the legislature adjourn with out electing a senator. He further announced that five other republicans would join him. On the last ballot Kerens threw his support to Major Warner and elected him. The defeat of both Kerens and Neidringhaus makes Missouri a sub ject for congratulations, and the election of Major ' Warner relieves Missouri republicans of a vast amount of odium that threatened. A Great Tribute Paid To Cockrell Ex-Senator Francis Marion Cockrell has every fight to feel proud of the unwavering sup- port given mm by the democratic minority of the Missouri legis lature. No honest man will deny that had It been left to tho voters of Missouri Senator Cock rell would have been re-elected by a rousing ma jority, or that his defeat before the legislature was brought about by a political fluke. The demo cratic members voted solidly for Senator Cockrell from start to finish, and in this way testified both to their loyalty as democrats and their confidence in the man who has represented Missouri in the ,senate with credit to himself and honor to his state lor nearly a generation. The death of Fred W. Faulkes, editor of the Cedar Rapids (la.) Evening Gazette, removes from the field of journalism an able Death of and interesting character, and Fred W. Faulkes deprives Iowa of a man who has Announced performed signal service in the interests of that magnificent commonwealth. Under his editorship the Gazette grew from humble beginnings to a commanding place in the journalistic field, and its editorial col umns have always stood for high ideals and demo cratic principles. The people lost an able cham pion when Mr. Faulkes died, and his death de prived Mr. Bryan of a warm personal friend whose friendship was appreciated and whose memory will be cherished. Alva Adams emerges from the Colorado gu bernatorial embroglio a much bigger man than ho was six months ago. He has Alva Adams demonstrated his patriotism and Can Wait for his love for law and order. Tho The Future scheme by which he was de prived of the governorship was conceived in Iniquity, and it required remarkable self-control on the part of Mr. Adams to submit to the injustice thrust upon him. If it were possible, Governor Peabody, who became a part of the unjust compact to deprive Mr. Adams of his seat, has lowered himself in the estimation of right-minded men. Mr. Adams can well afford to wait for the future to vindicate him, but the men responsible for the injustice may well worry over what that same future will bring to them. The man who advances a righteous cause or a good principle may be ridiouled for a time, but he can afford to wait for tho vin- no 1ea lns of dication that is sure to come. Sub-Treasury" The same is true of political Schemes parties. Thousands of men and newspapers are now rejoicing Because the state of Kansas has established a sub-treasury" for oil, and a majority of these aro ?? and newsPapers that denounced in terms of bitterness and ridicule the men who, fifteen years ago, wore advocating a "sub-treasury' for ain' i?uires a very elastic imagination to conceive a difference in principle between storing oil by the state and storing grain by the state. The old time populists of Kansas are now enjoying tne r turn, and no one need doubt that they are taking full advantage of the opportunity. ? Ea j:.i-......mJjfc.. jiilkii' UUJ