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Those railroad managers arc running on a slow
schedule to the White House terminal.
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"WILLIAM J. HllYAN
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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nob.
Safety i'or railway passengers will never bo
guaranteed by ticker tapes.
Maxim Gorky says lie found nothing congenial
In the United States. That makes It unanimous,
too.
The man who exhibits a sore thumb too often
booh finds tliat people have lost Interest In injured
digits.
"Ohio is for Tnftl" shouts an exchange. For
Aker is for him, too, and intends getting him if
possible.
IMj- Carnegie having 4,got his" is now offering
the railroads some good advice about what they
Bhould do.
Having dropped into a $50,000 a year job Uncle
Leslie Shaw is advising tlie working people to live
economically.
Our national wealth is .$107,000,000,000, includ
ing the franchises we gave away when we didn't
know any better.
In view of his recent actions would it be out
of place to refer to Senator Forakor as the "dark
horse" candidate?
It has come to the point where travelers are not
Bo much Interested in getting there quickly as in
getting there whole.
Senator Forakor will find it easy to prosecute
a "camera crusade." The people will gladly fur
nish him the negatives.
The sugar trust has been sued for $30,000,000,
nnd if the trust loses the case It's one lump of
sugar for your morning coffee.
Count Boni has written a newspaper article In
which ho declares that he was shocked by Ameri
can society folk. lie has been handed several hard
jolts.
The railroads that are "retaliating" by decreas
ing service should take warning of the gentleman
who amputated his probocis in order to spite his
visage.
Wouldn't it bo a good joke on those congres
sional visitors In Panama If they were rounded up
and made to shovel dirt on the canal for a week
or two?
A shortage of twine in the postofiice department
is reported from Washington. Don't worry. There
will never be a similar complaint about the supply
of red tape.
Progress on the canal is necessarily slow. So
many congressmen go down there tliat the lone
man with a shovel can't throw dirt without hitting
a lawmaker.
The Washington Post informs the public that
liquid air can now be manufactured for 2 cents
a gallon. Hot air is even cheaper than, that :n
Washington.
The railroad managers will have to hurry." The
baseball season will open In a few days and then,
nobody will pay any attention to railroad threats
of retaliation.
Nino hundred veterans at the Leavenworth
Soldiers' Home were recently poisoned by eating
hash. Now will -the paragraphers treat the com
pound seriously?
A year from now the people of this country
will be entering upon an active national campaign.
The way to achieve victory next year is to organ
ize for this year.
Before going to the White House the railroad
presidents sent n flagman ahead to prevent a head
on collision. They ought to do something like that
with their trains.
By the way, have the recent revelations in tho
management of railroads convicted the populists
of having been-wrong in their charges fifteen or
twenty years ago?
In view of political developments in Pennsyl
vania we cannot find it in our hearts to blame the
republican leaders of tliat state for wanting a
press muzzling law.
The Sioux City Journal used the words "Mr.
Bryan" nineteen times in one editorial recently.
The Journal might save composition bills by
"phatting" the words.
The Minnesota supreme court has decided that
Irrigation is perfectly legal and Mr. Hill will pro
ceed Immediately to squirt $GO,000,000 of water
into his railroad stocks.
James J. Hill says inland waterways will help
to solve tho transportation problem. Quite cor
rect. That's the only way to use water in this
transportation business. '
It seems to be the general opinion that Mr.
Jerome is willing to use Mr. Hummel for wit
ness purposes only, not professionally.
Miss Margaret Anglln says that "sweeping a
room may be made a poetic action." Some poets
might try that method of raising the dust.
The Ohio mayor who refused to draw his salarv
because he did not earn It did not sot any brain
storms In motion in other mayoralty offices.
It is said that the recent flurry In Wall street
K? ym,5 ,f til,0 sI)ecultora $100,000,000, at least
$30 of it being in genuine legal tender currency.
Former Senator Burton is wasting time
everybody knows why ho was sent to jail. What
people want to know is why Burton was the onlv
one.
Mr. Reuf of San Francisco is now putting up
a plaint about not being given a fair show. That
is usually the way with men when they are given
a dose of their own medicine.
If Senator Forakor and Secretary Taft insist
in trying conclusions for the Ohio delegation it
may mean tliat "Boss" Cox will have another high
bid for tlie use of his machine.
"Trusts are an economic evolution," says Rich
ard Olney. Tlie people are determined to remedy
the situation by inserting an "r" before the last
word within tlie quotation marks.
The court martial that acquitted tlie young offi
cer who filed charges against General Wood now
finds its membership listed among the falsifiers
discovered by Columbus Roosevelt.
The man who deliberately wrecks a railroad
train is sent to the penitentiary. The man who
wrecks a railroad is put upon a pedestal and
pointed to as a "Nanoleon of Finance,"
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JVTho country heeds me," says Mr. Harriruan.
Why, it positively wants you, Mr.. 'Harriman;
wants you right where it can keep-a "watchful
eye and a restraining hand upon ydu.j i
The New York Herald editorially discusses "tho
increasing prevalence of heart troubles." The
spring season usually has that effect, especially
on those under 25 or 30 years of age.
Mr. Carnegie is scoring the stock gamblers.
The men who gamble in stocks take desperate
chances. Mr. Carnegie is above such a course
of action. Ho insists on having a sure thing.
Noting the determination of the people to make
tho-scorporations "tote fair," Mr. Cleveland hauls
out the old "widow and orphan" wail and starts
it off with the air of a man launching something
original. "
"Why should men teachers receive more than
women teachers who do the same work?" queries
tho Buffalo Courier. Only because the women
teachers seem willing to stand for that sort of
injustice.
The Liberty Bell will be taken to the James
town exposition. While there it will, feel more .it
home than in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania,
where liberty seems sadly restricted .by the
grafters. ' -
tt is. reported that J., Pierpont Morgan has,
studied the question until he is. an " expert -at-'flre-j
proofing.' Water is the best thing, with ;ytiich.
to fight fire and Mr. Morgan has plenty of it' In
his stocks. i
It seems much easier, to upset -a,. court martial'
verdiet of "norguilty" Ithan It is to haul upon, tlie
carpet a man who was jumped pver the heads of
about 1,200 of his superiors both, in office and in
experience.
"What is a democrat?" plaintively queries tlie
New York World. In view of the fact that tlie
World has not associated itself with the democrats
for a number of years its ignorance is "not to be
.wondered at. , f
Governor Folk has at last, performed an act
that meets with the commendation of the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. This is not an indication that
Governor Folk is growing better, but that the
Globe-Democrat is growing fairer.
Large bodies move slowly, which explains why
Mr. Cleveland was a little late in getting around
with his deprecation of the fact tliat the people
are determined to make the railroads be good.
But he managed to arrive, all right
"I am an honest man," says Mr. Carnegie. It
pays to observe laws tliat you cannot evade, but
It pays better to buy laws that will enable you
to acquire honestly or legally what would have
been stolen loot before the law was purchased.
Mr. Cleveland is quite certain that the next
campaign should be fought on the tariff issue. But
if anybody attacks the corporations Mr. Cleveland
would doubtless consent to drop the tariff subject
long enough to administer a' "stinging rebuke."
A Missouri editor declares that it is no more
harm to catch a fish on Sunday than it is to run
down a yellow-legged chicken for the preacher's
dinner. The decision in this debate will depend
on whether it is closed by a fisherman or a min
The president, noting that peace has again been
restored in tlie Philippines, has issued a call for
an election for delegates to tlie first Philippine
assembly. No, the 15,000 troops will be left over
there for a while yet. There may be a call for
some more "benevolent assimilation."
Owing to the fact that the constitution of the
now state of Oklahoma was written by Oklaho
mans and Is entirely satisfactory to them, a lot of
special interests tliat were jarred loose are quife
certain that the new document is "socialistic" and
"anarchistic" to a reprehensible degree,
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It, is reported tliat Senator Forakor has or
dered $2,000 worth of his photographs and will
use them for political purposes between now and
tlie convening of the republican national conven
tion. That would make a thousand $2 bills; and
they have more than once been found to do good
service under certain circumstances.
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