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THE COMMONER;-Lincoln, Neb.
At last the "straw vote" lias- been thor
oughly threshed out.
And now to pick out the pennant winners
in next season's baseball leagues.
For that defeated feeling try Dr. Hope
ful's triple extract of Optimism.
There will be another election in 1912.
The patient man will wait for 1912.
For the genuine optimist, commend .us to
the man who never ceases t& smile though
losing.
Now that the election-is: over let' us have
the full facts about the Panama canal transactions';
Cheer up! It is quite three weeks until
Thanksgiving, and by that time your appetite
will have returned.
"Turkey is suspicious of Austria," declares
a European correspondent. And in this country
of about everybody just now.
After an, crow is not such an awfully un
palatable dish when properly garnished with
the sauces of hope and good-nature.
Japan's welcome to the American fleet was
fully as warm as the .one it gave to the Russian
fleet, but of a vastly different nature.
This Servian trouble may be only a cheap
effort to attract a distinguished gentleman away
from the excitements of South Africa.
If you did not pick out the winning candi
date you may try to pick out the winning team
in the Thanksgiving day football game.
"The skuptchina will never agree to accept
the snadlak," is the Interesting information
conveyed to us by European cable. This hav
ing been , definitely settled the nibjek may now
make all the faces it pleases at the jiklez.
Colonel Stewart, who has been forcibly re
tired, declines to talk about it on the ground
that he. is still a member of, the army. This may
be the colonel's sly way of .taking a rap at one
who tis considerably higher in command than
himself.
Now that this country ia quieting down
we may expect to hear of growing excitement
and uneasiness in the jungles of South African
We stop tho press long enough to state
.that The Commoner will not perpetrate the well
worn expression, "Now that the smoke of bat
tle, etc."
All the powers of Europe are quite ready
to partake of a Turkey dinner, but each is will
ing to give the other permission to do the
carving.
Germany proposes to put a tax on bach
elors. There must be those in Germany who
believe that in this case prohibition is better
than regulation.. . . ,
We rather opine that Rev. Lyman Abbott
will have to do a lot of careful cdpy reading
if he would keep shorter and uglier words out
of the Outlook.
It seems that the Balkan war scare blew
over because the Servian, army was out of pow
der. The officers' uniforms, however, were just
lovely for a ball.
Now that we have time to attend to some
small and lately neglected details, President
Castro would do well to put his cyclone cellar
In habitable shape.
In the war against tuberculosis the trades
unions are taking a foremost part, not by learned
and scientific essays but by practical and suc
cessful experiment.
Philadelphia has just celebrated; her 225th
anniversary. Either she is old enough to know
better, or too senile to care and' we are anx
ious to know -which.
Now we can pay more' attention' to1 the'
travels of our battleship fleet.
Either the Outlook will have to be en
larged or somebody with a blue pencil will
have to brave the danger of being denounced
as an "undesirable citizen."
"What is stronger than a touch of nature?"
queries an eastern poet. Well, we have been
experiencing the touch of the food trusts lately,
if that is in line with what yon mean.
It is strange that there are men who loud-
.ly prate about their -willingness to die for .their.
country but are unwilling to face the threat of '
being compelled to skip a meal' if -they- try to :
vote for it. ' ' '
The San Antonio Express rather unkindly
intimates that Theodore Roosevelt will Become '
an editor after March 4 because ' that will be-'
the. only way he can get his stuft into print ?
alter that date.
We have yet to see the proof that the dirt
is flying on the Panama canal as rapidly as the
money flew into the pockets of the American
'syndicate who bought up the French stock and
saddled it off upon Uncle Sam.
The old men who, in their boyhood, read
Beadle's dime novels can well understand what
the present generation of boys has coming to
It just as soon as the novelists can get started
on "Roosevelt in South Africa."
SO THE EYE MAY SEE
An Elgin National watch, seven jewels in
an open-face, twenty-year gold-filled case, costs
the American retailer of watches $10.7.5 which
may be represented by a line thus:
This same watch is sold to the dealer in Eng
land for the sum of $7.41, which may be repre
sented by a line thus:
The American purchaser is therefore compelled
to pay, in addition to the dealers' regular profit
thirty-seven per cent more for an American
made watch than the English customer is com
pelled to pay, which may be represented by this
Paid by American purchaser
Paid by English purchaser,
The American watch trust, is enabled to
thus rob the American consumer by reason of
tho protective tariff. . . reasn,of
Why delay tariff revision?
VOEUME 8, NUMBER ft
Referring to the rumor that' President
Roosevelt will write a play as. soon as he re .
tires from the presidency, a flippant paragrapher
sagely observes that if he does it Is sure to
be a weak comedy compared to the one he has
been ofllcially acting.
The Washington Herald has entered its
third year, and the Herald has wall won tho
high place it holds in the ranks of this coun
try's daily journals. The Herald is. an exemplar
of clean journalism? and The ConJmoner wishes
it a long and useful life.
"There is no romance in this country," de
clares a foreign nobleman who is touring the
United States. Just' hand him a copy of some
republican orator.'s?speeck -telling how the g.
o. p. has curbed the trusts..
Now that it is all over a lot of government
employes who have been violating the civil ser
vice rules with the knowledge .and consent of
the president will return to Washington to
prove what a beautiful thing, the civil service
is when carefully and patriotically applied.
JEFFERSON ON JULY 4
- "Monticello, June 25, 23. Messrs. Winn,
Rives, D. and J. Railey, urmond, Branham and
Nicholas: I thank you, gentlemen, for your kind
invitation to participate in the celebration of
the approaching anniversary of the birthday of
our nation. No occasion could arise of higher
texcitenient to my feelings than one which recalls
the recollections of that day; no society with
which I could . join more cordially than with
that of my beloved neighbors, in congratula
tions on its happy issue. But age and debility
have unfitted me for scenes of festivity, and
oblige me to solicit their kind excuse of my
unwilling absence from that to which they now
invite me; and that to the favors and attentions
for which T am so much indebted to those who
will be assembled, may be added their indul
gence of habits of retirement, which my weak
ened condition Imposes upon me. My spirit
will -be with-them; and my prayers ever offered
to heaven for a; repetition of these rejoicings
through long uses to come; ami that the spirit
of the day which gave them birth, may continue
pure, strong and imperishable.
For -yourselves gentlemen, individually, be
.pleased -to.-accept the: .assurances- of my great
esteem and respect.
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
. Messrs. John Winn, William C. Rives,
Daniel M. Railey, John M. Railey,
;-; . -John -Ormond,. -Horace Branham,
."!.- - ; George. W. -Nicholas.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN'S FAVORITE HYMN
The music for this hymn may be obtained
from the Hope Publishing company, 228 Wa
bash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
I'LL GO WHERE YOU WANT ME TO GO
It may not be on the mountain's height
Or o'er the stormy sea;
It may not be at the battle's front
My Lord will have need of me;
But, if by a still, small voice He calls
To paths that I do not know,
I'll answer, dear. Lord, with my -hand- i'n-Thine,
I'll go where you' want me togo; .'- ' "
CHORUS
I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord,
Over mountain, or plain, or sea;
I'll say what you want me to say, de'ar Lord,
I'll be what you want me to be.
Perhaps today there are loving, words
Which Jesus would have me speak '
There may be now in the paths of sin
Some wand'rer whom I should seek:
O Savior, if Thou wilt be my guide,
Tho' dark and rugged the way,
My voice shall echo Thy message sweet,
I'll say what you want me to say.
There's surely somewhere a lowly place,
In earth's harvest fields so wide
Where I may. labor thro' Hfr's short -day. ..
For Jesus, the crucified "' ?'
So trusting my ali to Thy tender care,-- '
And knowing Thou lovest me,
I'll do Thy will with a heart sincere,
. I'll be what you want me to be.,