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MR. BRYAN'S LETTERS
Mr. Bryan toof passage on the Pacific Mail
steamship Manchuria, which sailed from San
Francisco September 27.
He will go to Japan via Honolulu. After a
few weeks in Japan he will proceed to China, the
Philippine Islands, India, Australia, New' Zea
land, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Turkey, Italy,
Spain, Switzerland, Gerrriany, France, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Holland and the Brit
ish Isles.
The trip will occupy about one year, and the
readers of The Commoner will be able to follow
Mr. Bryan from the letters which will be' pub
lished in The Commoner from time to time.
Mr. Loomis has the -whitewash, hut Mr. Bowen
has tho records.
The people seem determined to eliminate the
"big mitt" from politics.
Alphonse Root and Gaston Taft are bowing
and scraping, but that is not digging the Panama
canal.
"You are another," is the only defense that
the g. o. p. managers have been able to make
in the insurance disclosures.
Butte, Mont., has just had a big fire, hut the
citizens call attention to the fact that it didn't
seem to make Butte a hit "hotter town."
1 The Commoner;
Secretary Shaw is still talking ahout "elas
tic currency," but he forgets, to mention the
"snap back" plan that has been in vogue so
long.
Why should "Boss Cox of Ohio complain
about "throwing mud?" A thicic coating of mud
would greatly enhance the appearance of the Cox
machine.
The Washington Post says that what' the in
surance companies need is a lid-holder. Wrong
what the insurance companies need is a kettle-cleaner.
Three-fourths of tho Oregon delegation to
congress has been sentenced to Jail. But this
may be because the interior department began on
.Oregon first.
"Gas" Addicks denies the report that he is
to retire from politics, and he makes the dec
laration in the tones of a man who has just been
rudely shoved.
"It would help some," remarks an esteemed
contemporary, "if there was some way of shutting
off yellow verse ahout brown October." It does
make us blue.
China is determined to get her railroads out
of .the hands of foreigners. Most of Hhem 'are
held by Americans, and China has evidently
been watching railroad developments in this
country.
A deficit of $4,000,000 which no one can ex
plain has been discovered in the Dutch treasury.
Doubtless some eminent publicist has been en
deavoring to "preserve the national "honor" of
Holland.
People who are waiting to read Senator
Depew's testimony hefore the investigating com
mittee with the expectation of finding it' humor
ous are quite sirre to bump up against a lugubrious
wail instead.
Secretary Shaw has heen making the rounds
of two or three southern states, swapping super
heated atmosphere for negro delegates. This, is
better than putting up money and having them
Shermariized.
Treasurer Bliss of the g. o. p. national com
mittee, declares that he "has nothing to say,"
concerning the revelations in the insurance in
vestigation. In view of all the facts hrought out
it is not difficult to explain the Bliss silence.
Slason Thompson maintains that tho news"
paper campaign against rate legislation is proper.
Doubtless he will admit-that it "Is also profitable.
A scientist declares that a girl's bite is
more poisonous than a rattlesnakes. But this
will not give tho rattlers any greater favor.
Chairman ShontfT might report the discovery
of oil on the isthmus and let the Standard Oil
company do the rest. -
The Chicago Inter-Ocean advances the argu
ment that the packers should not he punished
because they have made Chicago a great city.
But those same packers hlighted the packing
prospects of Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as of
several other ambitious cities.
"Uncle Sam is the richest man in the world,"
shouts the Sioux City Journal. Quite correct,
and it is really wonderful, too, considering how
his purse is being constantly robbed by a gang
of political looters who pose as patriots and "de
fenders of the national honor."
.. A New York insurance journal refers to "thV
reptile press." The press has scotched a lot of
snakes lately, hasn't it?
The time draws near when the country will
await with a shudder the announcement of a
shortage in the turkey crop.
Mr. Schwab has suddenly manifested a great
interest in the workingmen who mine coal and
make steel rails. TJnJess the tariff is maintained
these men will suffer, declares Mr. Schwab. In
the meanwhile Mr. Schwab and other steel mag
nates continue to sell rails abroad cheaper than
they sell them at home, and there are thousands
of otherwise sensible citizens who can not see
the point.
Senator Elkins is preparing a rate bill which
he will introduce at the next session. Puzzle:
What will it profit the people?
,
The Minneapolis Journal wants more elas
ticity in a ton of coal. Gee, don't the ton shrink
enough between the .scales and the shed?
, The women may have the-last word eventual
ly, but it w.ill be a- small one because Mr.j Cleve
land has a monopoly on the. big and ambiguous
ones.
The Lewis and Clark exposition will pay all
expenses and return a neat dividend to the enterprising-
men who advanced the. money. This
speaks well for the managers, and for all in
terested. It is the second exposition of more
than local prominence to return money to the
subscribers, the first being the Trans-Mississippi
exposition at Omaha, which returned a fraction
over 90 per cent.
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"The meat producers have been losing mm
for three years," says Secretary Wilson Them
is something puzzling about
Raisers .this statement. Does Secretary
or Wilson mean to call th
Packers? packers the meat producers
or does he so refer to the cat!
tie raisers? If he refers to the packers we must
adopt the idea that the packers are very nh
anthrdpic before we can accept his statement as
true. If he refers to the cattle raisers there will
be' no argument. The primary meat producers
the men who raise the cattle have been los
ing money for even more than three years. But
the packers have been going ahead declaring
dividends, building palatial residences, spending
the summers abroad and the winters in the south
Secretary Wilson should be more specific, it
would prevent worry and misunderstanding.
Perhaps Senator Fpraker reached the con
clusion that if the machino ticket lost out in
Philadelphia his speaking in its behalf tvouUI not
help to inflate his presidential 'boom.
The men who would profit by reason of a
ship subsidy are the men who have already profit
ed by insurance graft, watered stocks and special
tariff privileges, and the people are in no humor
to foot any more bills for the benefit of such men
Senator Lodge should get far enough away from
home to lose at least the soent of the sacred
codfish. In that way he might learn something
of the temper of the people.
Fo raker's
Gloom Works
Busy
Senator Foraker is certainly entitled to tho
championship belt as the greatest "republican
gloom discoverer" of the day.
It was Senator Foraker who
discovered that a vote against
the corrupt Cox machine in
Ohio was a menace to republi
can supremacy in the nation. It was Senator For
aker who discovered, that if the rotten Durham
republican machine is defeated in Philadelphia it
will threaten republican supremacy in the na
tion. "Defeat Herrick and you threaten the
.welfare of the American workingman," shouts the
excited senator from Ohio. "Defeat the republican,
city ticket in Philadelphia and our republican in
stitutions totter to their fall!" he shouts in ex
cited tones. According to the excited senator
the defeat of Herrick "will wipe out the pension
bureau, break down the tariff walls, destroy the
gold standard, reduce the circulating medium and
create a great financial panic. All this would, be
wonderfully interesting if true (but being only
laughable the senator adds to the gaiety of the
times by his frantic declarations.
At a recent diocesan convention in the neigh
borhood of New York Rev. John Marshall Chew
of Newburgh offered the fol
Sonie lowing resolution: "That no
Sarcastic talent for high finance, no use-
Comment ful service to the community,
' no benefaction to the church or
to objects of philanthropy can excuse or atone
for dereliction in trust, contempt for the rights
of others, or disregard of the rules of common,
honesty." Bishop Potter opposed the resolution
and advised Rev. M. Chew that it was untimely,
and remarked to the effect that we should not
pass judgment till a final verdict has been rend
ered by those who are investigating. The New
York Evening Post, with charming sarcasm anent
Bishop Potter's views that "the church will get
into no end of trouble if it meddles with morals,
especially those of the rich." Then the Post
mildly remarks that Rev. Chew "would certainly
not presume to set up mere morality instead of
law as a test of conduct." If this sarcasm has
no effect let them refer to the little biblical inci
dent of the fable Jotham related to Abimelech.
concerning the trees that would have a king to
rule over them. It would seem that Bishop Pot
ter is seeking shade beneath some very thin
financial timber.
Caught
The Capital
Napping
"" "Little birds' in the nest should agree," and
Iowa republican editors should get together on
tiiA tnvffP nuestion. A snort
time ago the Webster City
Freeman-Tribune published
the following editorial para
rmnniT Tho rpniihlican party
may as well get ready to face and meet the iact
that tariff revision will be one of the chief est po
litical issues in the near future. The concen
sus of opinion is to the effect that the time is
ripe, or at least rapidly ripening, for some
changes in the schedules of tariff rates. m
Tribune added to this paragraph a line or two
to the effect that the Des Moines .Capital, cmei.
organ of the "standpatters," would hardly pre
sume to make a denial of the assumptions theism
contained. But the Capital did. The Cap a'
retorted in this wise: "Sifted to the bottom me
conclusion is amply warranted that the only
riows demand for tariff revision emanates iron
democratic and mugwumpian sources, wnei -e u
tariff schedules are held in contempt, and ih
which assaults upon the protective system iw
been periodically made for fifty years." Ana ij
the Freeman-Tribune, chuckling with glee, po
ed out the fact that its paragraph appeared as .
original editorial In the. Des Moines Capital
July 11, 1901. "Uncle Lafe" Young should nasi
home and get the- Capital's tariff P11C
straight.
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