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PWM" The Commoner. 6 VOLUME '8, NUMBER 38 S?iT!r?rr " " jn iwwiu 'tj'v ' JiwwiWPgtWW f The Commoner ISSUED WEEKLY. JllMIIAIMI h. MlflG'AI.KH, 31M-3C0 South Twelfth Slrret. ClIAltl.lLH W. llllYA!.', ' , 1'iibllMicr. Kdltor. 1'rtfiril nl tlir 1'aitort cv nt 1 Irrolit. il. nt trccml-clJift innttrr Ono ITcar gl.flO Hx AlmitliH no Jn CluU ol J'Jvo or more. 1'crVrnr .... .7J5 Tlireo jMoiiUih - .-- 3o SliiKln Copy So h'flnirlo Tojilcfl Free. I orelKii 1'ostnKc 62 Cents lSxtra. SUnscmi'TIONS can bo went direct to Tho Com moner. They can also be sent through ncwspapeis whlo'.i have advertised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, whero sub-agents liavo been appoint ed. All remittances should be sent by postofflco money order, express order, or by bank draft on Now York or Chicago. Do not send individual check, stamps or money. 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Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nob. The sugar trust has just tacked ten cents per hundred to the price of that commodity, presumably on the belief that it was included among the schedules -that need rovising upwards. . Time was whoirMr. Hoosevelt believed that it ..was- no. credit to -the republican party that .- vncleyiToe" .Cannon was. one of its Jpaders in congress. Now Mr. Rooseyolt .is -warmly sup porting Mr. Cannon and Mr. Cannon's proxy. ''Wonder how many times Bryan's name appears in the new democratic campaign text book?" queries the Milwaukee Seiitlnol. Haven't counted, but not oftener than Roosevelt's name appears in the republican campaign text book. ' The panic of 1873 came when a republican high protective tariff law was in full force and effect and the administration solidly republican. Same thing in 1893. Same thing in 1907. And no amount of republican sophistry can remove tho facts. A dollar voluntarily contributed to tho democratic campaign fund now may result in making it impossible for tho trusts to make you unwillingly cough up ten or fifteen times that amount to tho republican fund in future campaigns. The spectacle of trusts being busied by tho official collector of the g. o. p. campaign com mittee four years ago, the only republican sen ator who openly opposed tho rato bill and the head of the powder trust, would be. worth going many miles to see. Twenty-five cents in silver or stamps, scut to tho "Chairman Text Book Committee, Na tional Democratic Committee, Auditorium An nex, Chicago," will bring you a copy of tho dem ocratic campaign toxt book, which should bo in tho hands of every democrat. Governor Hughes says ho is advocating tho election of the republican national ticket be cause ho "desires to get rid of every vestige of special privilege at the expense of public in terest." By carefully looking tho other way Governor Hughes managed to miss seeing tho slow and deliberate loworing of Hon. Jame3 Sherman's loft eyelid. ' 'It Seems That I am Running Against Two publicans Instead of One" ,. t- Following in an oxtract from Mr. Bryan's Buffalo, New York, speech: The president has scon fit to give the re publican candidate another endorsement. It seems that I am running against two republi cans, instead of one, but our platform is so plain,' and the purposo of our party so well ex pressed in that platform, that I am prepared to meet tho arguments of one of them or both of them. Tho president calls attention to cer tain things that have been accomplished in tho way of reform. I insist that the democrats in the houso and senate have been more loyal to roforms than republicans, and that he is un graloful to the democrats when he intimates that a democratic victory would prove a ca lamity to the country. What can bo promised in the way of re form Irom a republican' administration. He has not yet imprisoned a trust magnate. Can he promise that Mr. Taft would be more successful? There are more trusts today than thero were when ho was inaugurated; can ho promise that tho trusts would decrease under Mr. Taft? The president tried to secure the passage of an anti trust law, and the democrats of the house helped him, but he could not get that anti-trust law through tho senate. Can he promise that Mr. Taft would be more successful in securing anti trust legislation? The president has no plan for eliminating the principle of private monop oly. The democratic party has. The trusts are supporting tho republican ticket today. Why are they doing so if republican success is more dangerous to them than democratic success? What has ho done to disturb the steel trust? Can ho promise that Mr. Taft will do anything? What has he done to punish the Standard Oil company? The fine .levied' against the Standard Oil company has been reversed, and no effort has boen made to remove the tariff which was im posed for tho benefit of tho Standard Oil company. Tho democratic party has a plan. Under this plan no corporation will bo permitted to control more than fifty per cent of the total product, and every corporation controlling moro than twenty-five per cent will be brought under tho supervision of the federal government and compelled to conform to restrictions which will protect the public. Take the Standard Oil com pany, for instance; it is ono of the most ancient of tho offenders against law and morals. It has employed every Torm of oppression and has been a conspicuous corruptor, both of ofllcials and of public , opinion. Tho republican party has no remedy which would protect the people from the Standard Oil company. The demo cratic plan would prohibit .that 'Corporation, as it would other corporations, fro.m controlling more than fiXty per cent of the -product, and it would prevent its driving out a competitor by under-soiling that competitor in the competitor's territory, while it sustained the price elsewhere. Tho same principle, applied to other great cor porations, would eliminate the principle of pri vate monopoly and restore competition. By set ting a limit to the greed of these corporations that aspire to monopoly, the democratic party would protect the small competitor and the public. Would this be a calamity? The demo cratic party would reduce the tariff, beginning ou goods competing with trust made goods, and with goods that are sold abroad cheaper than at home. Would that be a calamity? Our party would continue tho reduction by gradual stages until a revenue tariff is reached. Will tho president .say that that is a calamity? Does tho president mean by "calamity" that demo cratic success would mean a panic? If so, what right has he to claim that a reduction of the tariff would bring a panic, when we had a panic last fall under a tariff so high that, his party promised "unequivocally" to "revise" it "immediately," TREASURER HASKELL RESIGNS '- ''Governor -Charles N. Haskell, treasurer' of the democratic national" cbmmittee, ' sent, to . Chairman-Mack this letter: . . . ? . ,- . - "Hon. Norman JD. .Mack, Chairman Demo cratic National Committee, New York. My . Dear Sir: In pursuance of information as to your date for return here, when I went homo before, I assumed I would find you hero upon my return today. I now learn that you will be detained in tho east until Tuesday, and as I must be homo Monday I leave tomorrow. "Since tho president and his cabinet havo joined forces with Mr. Hearst and three Wall Street brokers to make a personal fight against me, notwithstanding the president in his answer to Mr. Bryan abandoned his charge about Ohio Standard Oil cases, yet by all the means at the command of tho government and the millions of Hearst and his Wall Street allies, they per sist in vicious, unwarranted and untruthful at tacks on me. Personally, I welcome their at tack and shall meet it with all the vigor at .my r command. I shall treat them all as private citi zens and subject to the penalties of the law, which they merit. "In this I know I shall havo tho aid of my neighbors at homo for all proper purposes; but my timo must be free from other demands here. Again, ray heart is full of hopo for the election of Bryan and Kern. Honest government and rule by the people is at stake. Important be yond the polls in the last generation is tho pending contest. I would not for one moment consider remaining in any way connected with the committee, therefore I hereby tender my resignation as treasurer of tho democratic na tional committee, that not the slightest contest of my own could in any way be used by tho president to cloud tho sky and shield our op ponents from discussing the real issues and lay ing baro tho ropublicau duplicity to tho people. Sincerely yours. C. N. HASKELL." The following from tho Washington corre spondent to tho Louisville Courier-Journal will bo interesting hi this connection: Washington, September 23. Govornor Has kell, tho treasurer of the national democratic committee, may be guilty of tho charge that he was-at .one timo .associated with the-Standard Oil' company, 'but no fair-minded or-candid man who reads the Roosevelt statement in tonight's dispatches .will say , that It. answers any part' of Mr. .Bryan's demand fo? him .(-Roosevelt) to make good his, "charges. As a fact, Roosevelt dodges the entire question and submits no proof whatever, jior docs he accept Bryan's challenge to investigate tho -charges and upon- tho decision that ho reaches the head of Haskell will standi or fall. Instead of making an honest, frank and manly reply to Mr. Bryan the president quotes his subordinates- and takes up matters entirely irrelevant to the charge that ho made, which was that Haskell, attempted to bribe an OJiio prosecuting attorney .to dismiss suits against the Standard-.On company. , Mr. Bryan challenged him to prove his. charge and the president has dodged tho issue. O. O. STEALEY. RICHARD OLNEY Richard .Olney, former secretary of state under Mr., Cleveland, has written for. the New York World a letter in which he declares for Mr. Bryan. In that letter. Mr. OJney says: "Finally, every intelligent voter must recog nize the great evils resulting from the inordi nately long continuance in power of one political party. Compared with them, any possibly in jurious consequences of a change of administra tion are insignificant. The republican party has now been in power almost uninterruptedly for nearly fifty 'years during that whole period the democratic party has been in complete control of the government for but two years. The in evitable has of course happened much misgov ernment and maladministration havo from time to time come to light, much is in plain sight and much more unquestionably under cover while its leaders, intoxicated with the phenom enal record of past successes, are disposed to believe and to act as If any uprising against the party by the people were unthinkable." r t(?V V fr The defeat of Taft would bring the repub lican ring masters to a realistic sense that thero are yet a people and a God, which they very much need to havo impressed upon their under standing, and, believing this, wo shall vote for Bryan. Louisville Courier: Journal . - - .. - -u ,. JiV--rtJM---