The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923, January 11, 1907, Page 6, Image 6
BiiAa&faUUfeiJfth tMMmmmmmwi&m . u ! ' i I n liS-' t h U m J- I Sfr ',p Mb, 1! ii 51 ( fi 6 . The Commoner ISSUED WEEKJLY WlLMAM J .BUYAN ClIAULUS W. BttYAN Editor and Proprietor. Publisher. RicnAiiD L. MBTCAiirn Editorial Rooms nndBusineaa j Associate Editor. Office 31M-S30 So. 12th Street. Entered at the rostofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class mail matter. Ono Year $1.00 Six Months 50o In Clubs of 5 or moro per Year 75o "" Three Months 25o Single- Copy So Sample Copies Froe ForeJrfn Postage 52o Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can bo sent direct to Tho Com moner. They can also bo sent through newspapers which have advertised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, where sub-agents have been appointed. All remittances should bo sent by postofllco raouey order, express order, or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not send Individual checks, stamps or money. 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ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application Address all communications to THE COMMONER. Lincoln, Nob ' -No matter bow pure the food Is, it should be 'thoroughly masticated. 1 ;: To Senator Foraker. "You may get 'em, but can .you keep 'em? Russell A. Alger. , , . If everybody has to pay fare .there is no ..reason. why the rate should not, be reduced. " Jy'The railroads wound up, the old year and began the new year in a very bloody way. Mr. Rockefeller seems to have acquired the 'press agent habit in its most virulent form. Manufacturers of adulterated food products are also bemoaning the interference with vested 'rights. - '.Mr. George W. Perkins will be excused if ; he says a few more real mean things about the "''"muck rakers." r -TVT r5.ii rvr-l rt 1--. 111 j ',,'- '. uubucuuBim yii not join in. tne demand for an increase of a paltry $2,500 a year in the senatorial salary. Justice Harlan says the country has not out . grown the constitution. It seems that it has merely outrun it. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish declares that any TrVn dT weP n 5'0Pyear. or even less. . Most of them do. ik JSSinExtiSwe lhe paper trust is knocked out . , mat makes a paper trust possible. . The height of sarcasm seems to have Wn ; reached when Philadelphia expressed pity to? San Francisco in her graft troubles woulbew'ellto11 iS "0W in force' " . so much money theyHo?mlBMtPeDle haYe invest MSK ton concerning the White House 'W'8" Prom this distan'cefX Z ? The Commoner, Mr. Rockefeller started the new year by letting go of $3,000,000. Prior to this, however, a lot of us let loose of it first a little at a time. Dr. McGeo describes Mr. Rockefeller as "the incarnation of concentrated effort." That sounds much better than some descriptions we have heard. If Governor Hughes lives up to his advance notices ho is going to create a lot of trouble for the eminent gentlemen who paid the expenses. w ?? ABryce miSbt not cut as much ice in Washington society as Sir James Bryce, but he would attract more attention from the people at large. Sir Thomas Lipton says the American people arc making money by "leaps and bounds." He must have been watching some of our dodging politicians. & Why should Mr. Rockefeller take a gloomy view of 1907 just after that Ohio court decided that the conviction of the Standard Oil company was wrong? The Texas railroad commission has ordered a reduction of twenty per cent in Pullman rates. The porter and the vacant upper berth Jiave not yet been disturbed. Having been knocked out by the anti-trust law the paper trust proceeds to keep right on doing business in the same old way but under a different method. REN E WALS The subscriptions of those who became subscribers with the first issue of The Com moner and have renewed at the close of each year, expire with the' last issue in January. In order to facilitate the ywork of changing and re-entering ing the addresses upon our subscription books and mailing lists and obviate the ex pense of sending out personal statements announcing that renewals were due, sub scribers are urgently -requested to renew with as little delay as possible. The work of correcting the stencils entails an enormous amount of labor and the publisher asks subscribers to assist as much as possible by making their renewals promptly. The cor rected expiration usually appears on the wrapper of the second issue after renewal is received. It is reported that Mr. Harriman says he would give up all of his wolth if he could. If he can not let go of his own accord there are plenty who will help him. Philadelphia had a "mummers' parade" on New Year's eve. Political conditions in Phila delphia indicate that the city has a" similar parade -every municipal election day. The Washington Post seems inclined to the view that the child labor evil can be investigated and remedied with the investigator sitting in an upholstered easy chair in a palatial office. Mrs. Russell Sage says she can find plenty L PPrTtunities for charity without going out side of New York. This may be a pointer for the prosperity shouters to consider. , f ston minister declares that, he can bring the dead to life. He should be invited to try his hand on some of the promises contained In the last republican national platform. n,o l"16 noted by careful observers that advann?,i8?e?l08 f0r "secure" life insurance are SfnTthp n the, S,aine gentlemen who were be hind the old and discredited schemes. n ,.JUt.th year 1887 Jolln William Austin ivas a resident of Nebraska. His relatives in Scot wnl havV,t heard from him -for many years. Ho is about forty-five years of age. If this reaches the eye of Mr. Austin or that of any one able wniB informalIon concerning him, he or they will confer a great favor by writing to Riclmrfi 'Malone, 81 Broomlands St., Paisley, Scotland .VOLUME 6, NUMBER 52 A captain of finance declare... th.i. i. spend all he has to rehabll ?,? be m Bins. We do not Imow ho" mucSZnr ?! has, but wm cheerfuIIy SLTWlt 2S33 board she Wa8 sp,TtUns foundling tilf BS Phase us. We fcan see Hght thZthl USS The intimation that the lack of coal onr SSSt?dn0?.mope PGOple to locate govern, xnent ownership was immediately followed bv E StrS f ieS -"ea tion that having lost the power to buy another KS T mlm money he ls entitled to To?d the one already bought nTlie ?la ?ear wound up with a horrible rail- E? tm? Gnt' and the new year was hered 1?, ! e .even more horrible. Our annual slaughter on the railroads is equal to our total losses in the Spanish-American war. Mr. Perkins, recently indicted by a New York grand jury, asserts that President Cassatt died of a broken heart"hounded to death by icon oclasts." Does Mr. Perkins dub "iconoclasts" all those who insist on stopping graft in high places? Strtnnn.tlle Chicago Board of Trade declined from $5,000 to $2,000 during 1906. It is not gen erally believed that senatorial seats showed any such marked decline. The ruling market price for senatorial seats, however, is never publicly quoted. e PeoDle of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine have long had trouble with the B. & M. In the west Nebraska and- Iowa have long had trouble with another B. & M. President Roosevelt was merely falling in line with a large number of his countrymen when he accumulated a bunch of trouble with B. & M. The difference between Mr. Perkins and President Cassatt was in part as follows: Presi dent Cassatt was opposed to graft and did his best to wipe it out. Mr. Perkins switched $800, 000 worth of bonds to deceive investigators, be sides doing several other things that President Cassatt would have scorned to do. Mr. Richard L. Metcalfe,, our associate editor, has just published a little volume entitled "Of Such is the Kingdom." It is a reprint of the nature studies which have appeared in The Com moner from time to time over his signature. To those who have read them, they need no praise; to those who have not read them1, The Commoner commends them as soothing, strengthening and inspiring. The articles are really heart talks and explain the secret of Mr. Metcalfe's success as a journalist. He knows human nature and is uni versal in his sympathies. A PATHETIC APPEAL The editor of The Commoner has received the following pathetic anonymous appeal which was also mailed to every member of congress: "For heaven's sake stop Shaw's inflating the -currency on a rising price index. He's but licens ing drummers to book orders for industrial stag nation. The dollar is growing cheaper every month, yet he inflates the currency. We already have the sixty. cent dollar Bryan wanted in 1896 that's cheap enough; stop Shaw. The interest ' rate is the specific safety valveour only safe guard from expansion, explosion, collapse, stag nation. Stop Shaw's screwing down the safety valve! See Bradstreet's of November 10, (Price index November 1, 8.7409; October 1, 8.5480; No- yeniobr5 1' 1905' 8'2097; July ! 1904 7.6318; July 1, 1S96, 5.7019; January 1, 1892, 8.1382). Money is the cheapest since greenback days. 8.3333 is cheap enough. He should contract the currency, but for heaven's sake stop Shaw's Inflating the currency until the price index turns downward." W Does it not seem strange that the very men who were so afraid of inflation ten years ago are so anxious for it now. They were afraid of the substance when more primary money was demanded and now they are crying for the shadow in the form of an asset currency. 1 y ij.t jy u. 1 -: i,,.m,i4tsut ArAttUfaaiif -