VOLUME 7, NUMBERS
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The Commoner.
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The Commoner,
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WILLIAM J. llllYAH ClIAllLKH W. UllVAM
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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nob.
Railroad block systems opera ted by blockheads
will not HiHIico.
M seems Hint moro engineers (Imn dirt aro boln;
"moved" In Panama.
It seems that Mr. llarrlman squirted those dlv
laends through a hose.
The chief trouble with those railroad "llycrs"
is Unit they light too suddenly.
Mark Twain's white dress suit means that ho
has snubbed the Pittsburg millionaires.
And President Roosevelt advocated the "innllv.
coddling" of the shipping Interests, too. "
This two billion dollar congress will be cheap
If it persuades the people not to do it again.
With the passage of a largely increased naval
appropriation the Japanese war cloud disappeared.
Mr. Rockefeller was up to $.'00,000,000, but will
probably revise It when the assessor comes around.
Philadelphia has gone back to boss rule It m
much easier to talk reform than It is to practice it!
The King of Servla announces that ho needs
money. Now doesn't that m.ako you fee? likS a
,?..lhowa-v' Mr- Indent, how about those
nmtured" ;,,yC(,ltll0S" w,l hvo to be so tenSy
Wouldn't some nice young girl make a bitr hit
dfsKte?Vhl th '"iflier hands in" the
The senate listened to Washington's farewell
ot : STpilpic. "k0 H Il8l0IIB t0 th0 le,1;
Harvard has just beaten Yale at hockev. Great
excitement prevails over the prospective jack
straws match. JUUv
Smallpox having broken out among the Mis-un"l-lobby
tw? "0t lleccs8nry t0 enfowe me
Increasing dividends by going deeper into debt
is considered raUier dishonest in other than 1 i gti
railroad circles. h
If those great railroad managers reallv want to
make progress they will print future stock corlifl
cates on sponges.
i The sixteon-hour bill for railroad men proposed
f in Pennsylvania has been laid up for repairs So
; have many victims of wrecks caused by the ex-
' liaustlon of railroad men fircell to work long hours
"I was touched Immediately upon landing,"
says Ambassador liryco. Wall street or just com
mon pickpockets?
When Ambassador Uryco arrived in Washing
ton he had great difficulty In recognizing his old
friend, the constitution.
It seems (Imt Senator Smoot's vindication was
postponed until it could be advantageousiy used
as a campaign document.
It seems that Mr. llarrlman was willing to
talk as long as he was not required to tell any
thing he wanted to keep secret.
Ambassador P,ryce's salary Is equal to that of
President Roosevelt. But Ambassador Bryco
draws a salary for sawing wood.
Instead of being a billionaire Mr. Rockefeller
is only a millionaire three hundred times over.
Will somebody please pass the hut.
Dr. Wiley suys the only safe kind of whisky i.q
'old whisky in sealed bottles." The moment the
seal is broken the safety disappears.
"The tariff is one thing that will not down,"
says the Birmingham Age-Herald. Correct. We
still have to put up for It and with it.
A Texas negro made .$1,500 on a fifty-acre farm
last year, and the Kansas City Post is quite cer
tain he never even heard of the "race problem."
Washington was the richest American of his
time, and Mr. Rockefeller Is the richest American
of his time. Right here, however, the parallel
ceases.
President Roosevelt is now asking for more
artistic designs on our gold coinage. By the way,
what are the designs on the eagles and double
eagles?
Chancellor Day doubtless regrets that Mr.
Rockefeller with only .$.'300,000,000 has not received
from the world a reward commensurate with his
services.
Representative Tollard of Nebraska will be per
mitted to put it back this year, and get it back
next year when the 50 per cent ...salary increase
takes effect.
Mr. Cleveland continues to decry "the wander
ings of democracy," as he calls it. The trouble
with Mr. Cleveland Is that he, not the world,
stands still.
"I am willing to tell all I know," declared Mr.
llarrlman before taking the witness stand. Then
Mr. llarrimun hastily accumulated a vast volume
of ignorance.
.The democratic candidate for mayor of Phil
adelphia received 97,000 votes. The republican
candidate had too many friends on the canvassing
boards, however.
Poet Laureate Austin will contribute a prose
article to the Longfellow memorial services. Al
fred is not going to run any risks of comparison
if ho knows it.
A southern California man has invented a snow
shovel. Wo may now expect a Klondlkor to come
forward with the model for a new kind of refrig
erating machine.
It seems that the railroads are losing a lot of
money these days. Not upon the goods hauled
but upon the goods not hauled because of lack of
cars and engines.
Secretary Shaw is going to be president of the
Carnegie Trust company in New York. Will
TJnclo Sam over get tired of paying for the educa
tion of financiers?
Governor Guild of Massachusetts calls it "mod
ernization of the tariff." The people who foot
the bills aro calling the continuance of the tariff
a "rank robbery."
Congress has adjourned and the congressmen
are paying out railroad fare for homeward bound
tickets. It's mighty handy to be able to increase
your salary at will.
Only twenty senators remained in the senate
chamber on February 22 to hear the readin- of
Washington's farewell address. One of them read
the address and another was the colleague of the
reader. The explanation of the oilier eighteen
has not yet arrived. b retU
President Roosevelt has graciously admitted to
the Massachusetts legislature that it bus a right
to petition. It is still denied to employes of the
postolllce department.
A package containing .$175,000 worth of stocks
was picked up from the pavement In Wall street
the other day. It took tlie sun several hours to
dry out the damp spot.
Now that railroad officials are being numbered
among the accident victims there is some hope
that safety appliances will become more plentiful
as well as more cificient.
A London newspaper warns Ambassador Bryco
not to bo "too easy-going" with President Roose
velt. If necessary Mr. Bryce can call Mayor
Schmity, to his assistance.
A lot of big daily newspapers that have been
howling for railroad reform are now issuing warn
ing against too much reform. They did not ex
pect to be taken seriously.
Of course the educational institutions sup
ported by Mr. Rockefeller's money will not teach
its students to detect when they are being robbed
by the Rockefeller methods.
We have forgotten the number of special presi
dential messages since the first of the year, but
whatever the number is it is exceeded by the num
ber of fatal railroad accidents.
Those Cincinnati gentlemen who are going
down to the isthmus to see the canal will have to
take the sidetrack very frequently to make way
for the procession of returning engineers.
The money stolen recently from the sub-treasury
at .Chicago was in thousand dollar bills. You
would better be caioful how you change thousand
dollar bills for entire strangers.
The total appropriations of the Fifty-ninth con
gress will aggregate almost two billions 'of dol
lars. Speaker Reed would doubtless claim a vin
dication if he were still with us.
"Mollycoddle" isn't a new word by any means.
Roscoe Colliding once applied it to George William
Curtis. Besides, a lot of men would rather be
called "mollycoddle" than "near-doers."
The Colorado legislature thought for a bit last
week that it had adjourned sine die. The excite
ment was intense, owing to the fact that the limit
of per diem pay had not yet been reached.
The report that Wall street is about to start
a panic in order to embarrass President Roose
velt need not excite worry. The last panic that
Wall street started got away from the starters.
A Kansas professor has located the garden of
Eden near Yazoo City, Miss. This evidence of
resort to modern press ugeiTc methods is an indica
tion that the new south is forging a little ahead.
King Edward 'clearly overlooked his opportu
nity when he omitted from his "speech from the
throne" all reference to press cGhsorship, designs
upon the coins, race suicide and the strenuous
life.
The Omaha school director who proposes that
all high school girls in that city shall dress alike
is predestined to learn something just as soon as
the young ladies become acquainted with his
scheme.
The Philadelphia rublic Ledger has conceived
a great idea. It suggests that instead of retiring
the public land after the timber has been stolen Jt
would be a good scheme to retire the thieves from
circulation.
Philadelphia is worrying over the great increase
in her death rate. Nothing to worry about The
"dead ones" in Philadelphia have been ousting the
deciding votes in Philadelphia elections for a creat
many years.
wmX V 50 IIv?8 lost In tilree accidents at sea
within two weeks, and 400 lives lost inside of
JJnUl8 " r?llroa(1 idents, the que"
solving teelP P011" seems to be rapidly
A Philadelphia reader of the Public Ledger,
noticing the absence of the aurora boreal i asks
if the electric cars and electric light systems have
waTagonS d Wlth lt W W toS
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