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ILLIAM J. BRYAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
Lincoln, Nebraska, November 23, 1006.
Whole Number 305.
CONTENTS
-Mb. Bryan's Letter
vlgliiance the price of liberty
The Asset Currency Scheme
Legalized Bosses
Secretary Hitchcock
New Hampshire Sknatorsiiip
"Dreamers"
Mistakes as to Government Ownership
A Roosevelt Victory "
Comment on Current Topics
Home Department
Whether Common or Not
News of tub Week
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THANKSGIVING, 1906
For Jove that makes for perfect peace;
TTor sun and rain that bring increase;
For watchcare that shall never cease.
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With swelling hearts and lips that sing
'Thy praises, Lord, we humbly bring
To Thee our glad thankoffering,
This glorious Thanksgiving Day.
For ways made plain to weary feet;
For each God-given promise sweet;
For love, o'erflowing and complete,
Our humble tributes, Lord, we lay.
With harvest songs resounding free
We gladly come, dear Lord, to Thee,
From Lakes to Gulf, from Sea to Sea,
This glorious Thanksgiving Day.
For ripened grain that fertile fields
Great recompense for toiling yields;
For love that from dread danger shields
Along this earth life's toilsome way,
We kneel, dear Lord, with hearts that
swell
With love and joy no tongue can toll,
And render thanks that all is well
With us this blest Thanksgiving Day.
The cycle of the year rolls 'round,
And still Thy love and care abound;
Still refuge in Thy arms is found
And so we sing our songs of praise!
Teach us, dear Lord, to know Thy will;
Help us, dear Lord, all hearts to fill
With peace, and joy, and love, until
All days shall be Thanksgiving Days.
Will M. Maupin.
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express his approval of the plan to place The
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closes $5.40 to pay for nine yearly subscriptions,
and adds: "I trust that I will be able to forward
you more names shortly as I think you are doing
a noble work for our cause, and your paper should
have at least one subscriber in each voting pre
cinct." For Particulars See Page Seven
"Its the bankers, not the currency, that need reforming."
Congressman Smith of Iowa,
Vigilance The Price of Liberty
Now that the election of 190G is over and the
lines are being drawn for the presidential cam
paign of 1908, it behooves the democrats to be
on their guard lest the party be crippled by an
organization out of harmony with the party's
purpose. In 1904 the party took a backward
step, and it did so because many good democrats,
discouraged by defeat, yielded to the temptation
held out by Wall Street, which offered to help
the democratic party secure some of its reforms
if it would abandon others. When the time came,
Wall Street did what Wall Street always has
done, namely threw its influence to the party
which it thought could win. The lesson was a
useful one to democrats, and immediately after
the election the progressive element in the party
asserted itself. The platforms adopted by the
democratic state conventions of this year leave
no doubt as to the party's position. There will
be no contest in the national convention of 1908
on platform. The party will be drawn up solidly
against the encroachments of predatory wealth,
and Its position will be clear and explicit on all
the issues ripe for settlement, but the organiza
tion is almost as necessary as the platform. Our
fight must be made upon a moral plane, for we
seek justice. Our people must appeal to the con
science of the country, and that conscience awak
ened will sweep everything before it. We can
not fight upon a moral plane with an immoral
organization; we can not appeal to the con
science of the country with a conscienceless
crowd in charge of the party machinery. It is
absolutely necessary, therefore, that the organi
sation shall be in the hands of thpse who are in
sympathy with tHe party's purpose and whose
records will not give the lie to the party's
promises.
There are many democrats who are voting
the ticket whose prominence in the party would
be a detriment to the party. If these men are
really sincere In their desire to help the party,
they will not force themselves into the fore
ground, and if they try to force themselves Into
the foreground, the party ought to thwart their
purpose. The fight at this time 13 against the
encroachments of the predatory corporations, and
these corporations can be divided Into two classes,
first, those that hold franchises or favors from
the government, and second, those which for
pecuniary reasons attempt to control the legisla
tive, the executive or the judicial branch of tho
government. No one who is connected with such
a corporation should aspire to a position In a
party organization, for ho can not servo the
public and his corporation at the same time. Ho
must choose which he will serve. If he wants
to stay in politics he must sever his connection
with the corporations. If he wants to remain
with the corporations, he must sever himself
from politics. The city councils and the state
legislatures have constantly to deal with the
franchise corporations of the cities; therefore,
those who are connected with those corporations
ought not to be permitted to bo a part of the
party organization. The trusts have to be dealt
with by state and federal legislation, and there
fore, no one connected with the trusts ought to
bo a member of the party organization. Tho
railroads are constantly before the state and
federal congress and before state and federal
courts. No one who Is so connected with the
railroads as to make him subservient to them
or biased in their favor should be a part of th
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