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THE COMMONER, Lfncoln, Neb.
The great need of Emperor William, it
seems, is the help of a first class explainer.
This new "cohless corn" may be all right
in Its place, but it has no place in the "roastin'
ear" season.
- -v- The Boston Herald suggests that they put
crepe on the Tennessee hip pockets. Better
sew them up.
It is not too early to begin buying 'them
now, but of course you will wait until the final
rush; just like the rest of usi ' l '-'
That Virginia gentleman who has just been
offered the title of Scottish lord will' lose a far
better title if ho accepts it.
Every time he thinks of James S. Sherman,
,; Joseph. Benson Foraker sees no reason why he
should lay down.
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It is daily becoming more and more appar
ent that the republican tariff plank was adopted
with immense mental reservations.
Of course Mr. Taft did not have to go to
Hot Springs to get into hot water. The offlce
seekers would have attended to that.
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Mr. Rockefeller's belated and wholly un
expected How of talk simply reminds us that
language vas given us to conceal our thoughts.
It Is announced that a Russian grand duke
has just died of pneumonia. This rather un
usual fact leads the Louisville Post to believe
that it should be classed as an unnatural death.
Congressman Greene of Massachusetts says
that "Uncle Joe" Cannon is the greatest man
in this country. Of course Congressman Greene
expects to land his preferred committee chair
manship. "
The hope of tariff reduction in the near
future is based upon the thin assumption that
It will be granted by a ways and means com
mittee that helps the protected trusts frame ex
cuses for selling abroad cheaper than at home.
'Senator Piatt should resign now," says
At the widely advertised "lahr a ..
the New York World. Yes, but what's that to at the White House they dine as tfcer tov
Plat? AriTtr-TtVo cnffnol New York World. " '-
Piatt? Milwaukee SentineL
The Dutch government doesn't know where
to strike Castro. He has padded all the spank
ing places. Atlanta Constitution.
The trouble with Root as a successor to
Piatt is that he might carry out the policies of
his predecessor. New York World.
It will not be the democrats who will nave
to issue bonds to meet the extravagant republi
can government. Gate City Herald.
If everybody who owes a letter would write
it a considerable dent would be made in that
postal. deficit. Philadelphia Ledger.
"Why there should bo on law for labor
and a different one for capital has not been made
; -apparent," says the Boston Herald. Perhaps
not doing the one or having the other makes
It difficult for that writer to understand the
matter.
"Missouri is still the prodigal daughter,"
says the Houston Post. Nay, not prodigal
merely thoughtless. Kansas City Post.
It is announced that Mr. Roosevelt is to be
responsible for his own stuff in the Outlook.
Inside the office or out? Milwaukee Sentinel.
It is expected that the ginger left over
from the campaign can all be used during the
tariff revision proceedings. Indianapolis News.
If the kaiser is the. first to go up in an
airship he ought to at Ieastremember that T. R.
went down in one of the earliest submarines.
Chicago Post.
President-elect Taft's brother, Charles P.,
aspires to the United States senatorship from'
Ohio. Why not? He has plenty of money.
Johnstown Democrat.
Irrespective of party, the people expect,
demand, very material reductions in many of
the DIngley schedules of duties on imports.
New York Commercial.
"Suppose a lion should eat him on his
African hunt?" asks a contemporary. The lion
will have a bad case of indigestion. Charles
town, W. Va., Gazette.
Just what the Roosevelt expression "to a
frazzle" means should be of Interest to the
elephants, lions and other big game in Africa.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The South will not permit Mr. Taft to
achieve his ambition of dissolving the solid
south In 1912, but it will dwell at peace with
him. Little Rock Gazette.
To the Paragraphers' union: An Illinois
man got married the other day as the result
of an election bet. Please don't ask whether
he won or lost. New York Mail.
There are several members of congress
who would travel a long way to see Mr. Roose
velt sitting around a magazine office in a merely
advisory capacity. Washington Star.
Governor Patterson says he wears pocket
less trousers, and if a few of his fellow Tennes
seans had adopted the same plan there might
have been no tragedy in Nashville. Louisville
Post.
It is said that the cannibal tribe of Afri.
have eaten no less than 2764 missionaries da?
1DS the last hundred years. Well, Roosevelt Is
going over there now, and Africa will m h
Houston Post "
Some people would vote for a vellov fc?
if he were on the republican ticket,"" savS the
Greensburg Argus. That explains whv the
country threatens to go to the bow-woVs-1
Johnstown Democrat.
When the ways and means committee has
its hearing on the steel products tariff schedules
the Broadway chorus girls ought to be allowed
ta present their arguments against reduction.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Unless you know all about the meaning of
"tee," "fore," "brassy," "hazard," 'Scotch
hi ," and so forth, you may not be able to
make much headway at the White House neit
year. Washington Herald.
Having supplied New York with a governor
and the United States with a president, Mr.
Roosevelt hardly could permit the legislature
of the Empire state to elect a' senator before it
hears from him. Milwaukee News.
Mr. Murphy does not say so right out, but
in between the lines of his interviews may
be discerned a suspicion that he was buncoed
when he traded Bryan for Chanler and lost
both. Salt Lake Herald.
As we understand Mr. Roosevelt, he doesn't
give a hoot who owns the magazine, provided
the little brown pay envelope is found waiting
for him at the cashier's desk every Saturday
evening. Richmond Times.
England is pleased with the election of Mr.
Taft. If the president-elect were Mr. Bryan,
and England showed any pleasure at his election,
the republican organs would .froth at the mouth.
Harrisburg Star-Independent.
The manufacturing concerns are not the
only ones that have increased their working
hours. Some of the rest of us have had to,
too, in order to keep up with the grocer's re
stored confidence. Indianapolis News.
But Mr. Bryan is not disliked by the people
of the country. They admire him and we feel
that his place in our history is secure. He is
a man of noble character and we do not be
lieve he will be soured by the failure of his
countrymen to place him in the presidency.
Knoxville Sentinel.
Having sucked several hundred millions
out of the teats of protection, Sandy Carnegie
now declares in favor of a tariff for revenue,
only, with high duties only on luxuries. We
suppose his desire for a low tariff was the in
ducement he had for chipping into the cam
paign fund for the success of the party whose
cardinal faith is protection. This is a funny
world, anyhow. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
We gather from the current issue of the
Commoner the impression that there is going
to be an almighty fine crop of alfalfa raised
near Lincoln, Neb., pretty soon, anyhow.
Washington Herald.
President Roosevelt's last annual message
to the congress is well under way. It will be
largely devoted to laudation of the righteous
ness ? -tno Roosvelt administration. Harris-
uurg ocar-inaepenuent.
It was said of the late Senator Allison
that he would walk across the keyboard of a
piano or a crinkly tin roof without making a
sound. Pshaw, that may be nothing to the
pussy footedness with which the friendly tariff
revisionists may negotiate that proposition. The
ear drum of the most sensitive business inter
est may not record a vibration. Wall Street
Journal.
i '?? .Francisco must feel relieved to, find
that the job of punishing Attorney Honey's as
sailant will not have to be put up to a San
Francisco court and a San-Francisco jury, sub-
jc?ict io'ZRVQ1 to the California supreme-court.
Sioux City Journal. -
Did the American people deserve a lecture
from Theodore Roosevelt on the ethics of relig
ious intolerance after voting for Taft despite
the prejudices he condemns? There is notliiijs
new in the lecture. Why didn't Cardiual GiR
bons have the nerve to tell him that all this naa
been better -said many times before? Having
discovered the Ten Commandments many tunes,
us he still on a voyage of discovery as he staiw
for Africa? Florida Times-Union.
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