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FEBRUARY -2 5 1910
The Commoner.
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BRAVE IiOVB
He'd nothing but his violin,
' I'd nothing but my song.
. But we were wed when the skies
were blue
And summer days were long.
And when we rested by the hedge
The robins came and told
How they had dared to woo and win
When early spring was cold.
We sometimes supped on dewberries,
Or slept among the hay,
But oft the farmers wives at eve
Came out jto hear us play
The rare old tunes the dear old
tunes
We could not starve for long
While my man had his violin
And I my sweet love song.
The world has aye gone well with us,
Old man, since we were one
Our homeless wandering down the
lanes
It long ago was done.
But those who wait fdr gold or gear,
For houses and for kino,
Till youth's sweet spring grows
brown and sere
And love and beauty tine,
Will never know the joy of hearts
'That- met without a fear
When you had but your violin
,. And I a song,- my dear.
Mary Kyle Dallas.
to the program will probably be
made so as to include a ship sub
sidy bill.
The grip of "the system" on the
republican party, thanks to President
Taft and Senator Aldrich, is tighter
this winter than it has ever been;
tighter even than in the days of
Mark Hannd. Omaha' World-Herald.
The pearl fisheries of Ceylon have
been worked continuously since the
sixth century B. C. Ex.
iaoino oi uie mountains on uie
moon are estimated to be 36,000
feet high. Ex.
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THE "PROGRAM"
As "soon as Senator Aldrich re
turned from Florida the "adminis
tration program" to be completed by
tire present session of congress was
iagreed on and announced. Prelim
inary to the agreement "some plain
talk was indulged in by Chairman
Aldrich" of the senate finance com
mittee. This plain talk caused the
conferees meekly to bow their necks
to .the yoke,. the program as demand
ed by Aldrich was consented to, was
sfgiven the stamp of White House ap
proval, and announced to the coun-
try.
It seems that the senator from
. Rhode Island is not only "the leader
of the senate," as Mr. Taft declared
in his Boston speech, but of the pres
ident, the house, and the republican
'organization as well. The interests
. of "the system"-are in safe and ex
perienced hands.
A part of the program puts a rider
on the provision for statehood for
New Mexico and Arizona. Their con
stitutions must be agreed to not
alone by the president but by con
gress. This is frankly revolutionary.
And its purpose is plain. It is feared
that the new states will incorporate
the initiative and referendum, and
other advanced progressive princi
ples, in their constitutions. The
president, acting by himself, would
not dare reject the constitution for
this reason, any more than Roosevelt
dared reject the Oklahoma constitu
tion. But congress, where responsi
bility is divided and diffused, would
dare, just as it dared pass the Aid
rich tariff law.
And what the program means is
simply that "the system" will no
longer permit new states to be ad
mitted to the union except with such
constitutions as are not offensive to
"the system" and which "the sys
tem" can approve.
Heretofore th.e federal constitution
was the sole test. Hereafter new
constitutions must be measured by
"the system's" constitution as well.
Another part of the program is
voluntary federal incorporation for
the trusts. This will be especially
pleasing to the Standard Oil monop
oly, the sugar trust, the tobacco
trust, the harvester trust, the copper
merger, and other great predatory
nnmUnnflnna tllflt fl r A nTTVlOHH tO B8-
cape the embarrassment of state reg-y
ulation on the one hand ana tne pen
alties prescribed in the Sherman net
on the other.
It-is announced that an addition
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