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The Commoner.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
Vol. 6. No. 23
Lincoln, Nebraska, June 22, 1906
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Whole Number 283
CONTENTS
Me. Bryan's Letter'
In tile Spirit of 1896
Mr. Roosevelt on Court Review
Tiiic Drift Toward Democracy
One "Captain of Industry"
Was It a Triumph?
The Oregon Election
Washington City Letter
Comment on Current Topics
Home Department
Whether Common or Not
News of the Week
WHERE DAY LEARNED HIS LESSON
Why all this criticism of Chancellor Day of
the Syracuse University? Wherein has he offend
ed? It has been charged that men conspiring
In restraint of trade have established private
monopolies that have come to be a menace to
the public interest, and that some of these ''cap
tains of industry"rsold poisoned food to the peo
ple. Chancellor Day meets these charges with
a. statement that the men who make them are
anarchists; jmd with old time republican fervor
he pleads "let well enough alone."
Some republican editors pretend to be very
Indignant that Chancellor Day resorts to invective
where fact and argument should be produced.
But it must not be forgotten that Chancellor Day
learned his lesson at the knees of the republican
leaders, particularly in 189G in that campaign,
men who had ever been foremost in the defense
of law and order were denounced as anarchists
because they refused to do the bidding of men
who conspired against the public welfare, but
were then masquerading as "defenders of the na
tional honor."
When republican editors criticise Chancel
lor Day's methods they must not forget that he
is simply moving in accordance with the plans
and specifications provided by those eminent
American citizens who, in 1896, claimed a monop
oly upon the intelligence of the country.
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FORGOTTEN FACTS
The Kansas City Journal says: "Chancellor
Day's statement that the corporation is the
workingman's best friend is not far out of the
way. If it were not for the employment afforded
by the industrial and transportation companies
the workingman would have a hard time finding
jobs and wages."
Very true, very true. And if it were not for
the public whom the corporations gouge, the
corporations could not exist, an industrial con
cern could not "sue and be sued" and a trans
portation company could "not use the public high,
ways for their iron steeds. Also, if it were not
for the workingmen, corporations would have
a hard time in paying dividends.
It requires a whole lot of people and things
to make, a world and every element has certain
duties to discharge. One great trouble is that
we have ; forgotten that the corporation is a
creature of law, and as such was intended to be
the servant and not the master of the public.
There Is reason to believe that Chancellor Day
has forgotten this fact.
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Secrets of a "Defender of National Honor
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MOHAMMEDAN INDIA
Mr. Bryan's Twenty-third Letter
Strictly speaking, the term, Mohammedan In
dia, could only be applied to those frontier dis
tricts in which the Mohammedans have a pre
ponderating influence, but the Mohammedan em
perors left such conspicuous monuments of their
reign in Lucknow, Delhi and Agra that it doe-, not
violate the proprieties to thus describe this sec
tion. The Mohammedans themselves have laid
virtual claim to this territory by the establish
ment of their chief college at Aligahr, nearly
equi-distant from Agra and Delhi, and their claim
is still further strengthened by the fact that
while they have not a majority, they have a very
large percentage of the population of both of the
last named cities.
In approaching this section of India from
the east, the tourist passes through Cawnpore,
made memorable by the massacre of the British
residents during the mutiny of 1857. The recol
lection of the mutiny is still fresh in the minds
of the British officials and numerous monuments
have been reared to the bravery of the besieged
garrisons.
At Calcutta one is shown a black piece of
pavement which covers a part of the Black Hole
of Calcutta (the rest of the hole is now covered
by a building) where in 1756 one hundred and
forty-six human beings were forced to spend the
night and from which only twenty-three escaped
alive. The hole was twenty-two by fourteen feet
and only sixteen or eighteen feet in height, and
the awful sufferings of those who perished there
are commemorated by an obelisk which stands
near by. ,
But the cruelty practiced at the time of the
mutiny far more stirred the English heart, and
as the uprising was more extensive, several cities
contain memorials. Of these the most beautiful
is at Cawnpore and is called "The Angel of the
Resurrection." It is made of white marble and
represents an angel with hands crossed and each
holding a palm. It stands upon an elevated
mound in a beautiful park and is enclosed by
a stone screen. It was the gift of Lord and Lady
Canning and bears the following inscription:
"Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great com
pany of Christian people, chiefly women and chil
dren, who near this spot were cruelly murdered
by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Pant,
of Blthur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into
the well below, on the 15th day of July, 1857."
There is also at Cawnpore, in another park,
a stately memorial church, the inner walls of
which are lined with tablets containing the names
of British soldiers who lost their lives during tho
mutiny.
Lucknow is not far from Cawnpore, and here,
too, the mutiny has left Its scars and monuments.
The Lucknow residency, now an ivy mantled
ruin, was the scene of the great siege that lasted
from the first of July, 1857, to the seventeenth
of November. At the beginning there were with
in the walls nine hundred British troops and
officers, one hundred and fifty volunteers, seven
hundred native troops, six hundred women and
children and seven hundred non-combatant na6n
tives; total about three thousand. When relm
came but one thousand remained. The nighty 0j
fore the arrival of Sir Colin Campbell wither tho
forcements, one of the besieged, a'Scotcjffisjj in.
dreamed of the coming of relief and hei
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