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THE COMMONER, L'ncoln, Neb.
Judge Prltchard is now lustily calling for
help in letting go.
That Ohio peace pact seems to have had a
regular Korean finish.
Judge Pritchard seems bent on performing
a regular King Leopold sort of a stunt.
"Tissue of falsehoods," exclaims Mr. Taft.
That's another claim on the presidential succession
The attention of. Senators Piatt and Depew
is called to the fact that the emperor of Korea
really has.
The rescued maiden and log cabin features
of the Cortelyou boom have not yet been brought
out of cold storage.
Of courso it is not a case of territorial grab
wlth Japan. -It is merely another little -sample
of . "benovolent assimilation."
Presumably Mr. Harry Orchard will now
step forward and blushingly insiBt that he, too,
has had an immunity bath.
Senator Knox has opened up headquarters
in Pittsburg for his presidential boom. He
seems to bo well sooted with its progress so far.
' A Now York paper says that Mr. Knox. is
willing to be president. All that is now neces
sary is for about seven million others to side
in with hira.
It seems that the San Francisco net is let
ting a lot of big bribe givers escape after catch
ing a lot of little bribe takers.
The New York .Press devotes a column to
what it calls "our laggard judiciary." Yet the
judiciary is always rushing in.
A microscope that magnifies .150,000 times
has been manufactured. But still tariff revision
"l)y its friends is not discernable. ,
Senators Forn.lrfr rend rrtoir tiova n
grown hoarse thanking the Ohio republican sta"te '
wmuuiAtJtj iur its enuorsement.
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' And just to think that those Alton bonds
would not have been such good trading stock
had it not been for the kindness of Governor
Roosevelt of New York.
Those who believe that Mr. Rockefeller did
notcollect his witness fees from the government
are a guileless lot. Wait until he renders the
government a bill for oil.
What's the use of trying to tell the New
York World what a democrat is. The World
wouldn't recognize the real thing if it collided
with it in the middle of the road.
How much longer will the people of the
different states spend thousands of dollars to
secure the enactment of needed laws, only to
have some federal judge veto them?
Providence has thrown Korea into the lap
of Japan, but to date we have not been informed
that Japan fung $20,000,000 into the lap of
some other nation as a sort of philopena.
Senator Foraker is delighted that no demo
crat ever nominated hiiif for office. Funny,
isn't it, how often we can find things upon which
we can exchange mutual congratulations?
An exchange informs us that the povrrait
of the first treasurer of the United States,
Michael Hillegas, adorns the new ten dollar
bill. What, hasn't it been on them all the
time?
The United States steel corporation has just
sold the Japanese government 12,000 tons of
steel, rails. Doubtless .they are delivered In
Tokio cheaper than Americans can buy them at
the rail mills...
The republicans enjoyed themselves for ten
years while the democrats quarrelled and the
democrats are now viewing with complacency
the quarrel which is to determine which faction
will control the republican party.
The governor of Pennsylvania rose superior
to politics long enough to appoint an expert
boilermaker to the position of boiler inspector.
This is enough to cause consternation at Har
risburgh and Philadelphia.
Mr. Harriman has just completed a $700,
000 residence in New York City. We presume
one room is asbestos lined wherein he can think
his thoughts unafraid" every time boat races and
Alton deals are mentioned.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says that Mr. Bryan
.is "trying to explain away the Madison Square
Garden speech." The chief trouble with the
Dispatch is that t does not confine its "fake"
features to its telegraph columns.
, Lieutenant Periry expects to .setaii ,for .the ,
pole about Septempflr 1. Presumably he has
the relief expedition all arranged- or.
The chief oblcp.ttnn in iio niruimm; Vv i
Istitution comes from eminent gentlemen who'
were not allowed to dictate its provisions.
Tftp gentleman1 who predicted a cool sum-
ter will hear somdthiiier tn- htaiw;i-o-nf., k.-w
calling around almost any old 'office tooui. ''
Secretary Cortelvou's latent ninma t,,
)rder Is an indication that he r nronntno. "
play for the returned European traveler vote.
"Freedom in Korea," says the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, "means that the Koreans are
free to do anything the Japanese will permit
them to do." Well, what of it? That's all the
freedom t that has been granted to the Filipinos.
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Mr. Harriman has learned th'at it is safer
to steal a railroad, or wreck it, as he pleases,
than it is to interfere with a dinkey little boat
race. Mr. Harriman will confine his efforts
to plain ordinary railroad robbery-and wreck
ing hereafter
Ex-Comptroller Dawes is spendirig his va
cation making addresses in defense of the good
trusts. The good trust, in the opinion of Mr.
Dawes and others, is the trust that pays good
fees and comes through promptly with the cam
paign subscriptions.
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One of Attorney General Bonaparte's ob
jections to the Oklahoma constitution was that
it provided that the writ of habeas corpus should
never, "be suspended. Yet that very provision
has . been in the Vermont constitution for up
wards of seventy years. Vermont will now
please move over among the undesirables until
it can correct this evil thing.
After flying over Manhattan and visiting
Wall Street the Beachey airship was wrecked.
This is not the first time a high flyer has come
to grief after a trip to Wall street. Baltimore
American.
At last the postoffice department will, per
mit the use of one-half the front of a postcard
for writing on, the back-part being presumably
reserved by the sender for the postcript. De
troit News.
Oklahoma asks advice of the president as
to her constitution, and gets a lemon. That
serves Oklahoma right. Who would be" free
himself must make his constitution and by-laws.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Chicago Tribune has printed the pic
ture of "the most beautiful woman in America,"
and several thousand other women now have
a poor opinion of the men who acted as judges.
Washington Post.
Secretary Taft says that the latest Panama
story is a "tissue of falsehoods." The term
sounds familiar. Secretary Taft is evidently
qualifying himself to carry out the president's
policies. Philadelphia Record.
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There is not much use of publishing the
annual admonitions, "Don't rock the boat" and
"Don't Swim far beyond the breakers." As a
rule people who do that sort of thing don't read
newspapers. Washington Star.
Anyhow, if the government gets a receiver
for the cigar trust, we may hope that in run
ning the business he will give more attention
to the quality of wrappers and fillers and less
to the gilt bands. Pittsburg Dispatch.
As long as the lawyers for the Standard .
Oil decline to submit evidence in defense of that
criminal organization, it is to be hoped that '
the court will impose the full penalty of $29,
240,000. Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The navy department figures prominently
In the plans looking to the revolutionising of
our naval policy and the unnecessary defying
of Japan. What does the department of state
think about the situation? Where does Secre
tary Root stand? Washington Herald.
Since that heroic rescue Fairbanks story
was set afloat, the Fairbanks supporters have
been glancing in tire direction of Taft with a
beat that if you can expression. Toijeka
Journal.
Having laughed at Mark Twain's white
clothes, the English may . presently see the
ludicrous element in the combination of high
hats and bobtail coats which their own costumes
so frequently display. Washington Star.
Missouri is the fourth hon,ey producing
state in the union. If the vast swarms that put
in their time under the politicians' bonnets
would only get out and do their duty, Missouri
would even beat the .world. St. Louis' Republic.
That New York savings bank which allows
it to get out that it has $100,000,000 in de
posits must have implicit confidence in the view
that tho absorbing tendency of Harriman and
his JIke has been positively restrained. Pitts
'burg Dispatch.
Gee, Bernard Shaw says he "can not under-
stand" why the ' Bible should continue to be
the best seller 'among all books. He can hardly
expect to aTouse a discussion concerning the
things he does not understand; there would be
no end to it. Washington Herald.
The Toledo Judge who has sentenced
twenty-three business men to jail forviolatlng
the anti-trust laws is a judicial anachronism.
Tliis is no way to demolish trusts anW combin
ations. He should have appointed receivers to
"bring the business into conformity' with the
law." Doesn't Judge -Morris read the. W ushintf
ton dispatches? New York World.
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