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M-jiT- ,"""T ""M r -rm.sBTTjlfHRSHflWc IIPWPBWtf 5. o The Commoner. Issued Aeek.ly. Tonus Payable in Advance, Ono Year ' $1.00 Six Months 60 ' rnrnn mnntha .aa Singlo Oopy At Newstands or at this Oflice 05 N No 'Traveling Canvassers Arc Employed. Subscriptions can be sent direct to The Commoner. They can also be sent through newspapers which have advertised a clubbing rate, or through precinct agents where such agents have been appointed. All remittances should be sent bv oostoflice order, exoress order or by bank L draft m Nou Virr rtf rMiinrr Vn nnf snf1 individual checks, stamps, or money. Advertising rates furnished upon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nebraska. Entered at the postoflice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as .second class mail matter. After the date of this issue subscriptions will begin -with tho current number unless -the sub scriber directs otherwise. H. linn linnii IfininnDliinlnil iti AToiiilo 4-liof ln "o kjii uuiuyiiDUiaiuu xi iiinuiii. wuuvi "portation follows the truth. Mrs. Carrie Nation might take a now motto: Beyond tho Kansas (Sc)Alps lies Iowa. It will be noted tliat when a man does not want to respect a law ho begins to insist that it is a failure. If tho worst comes to the worst tho promotors v of tho subsidy steal might get upon tho retired list of tho navy. k When Mr. llanna is through with his orutphes ho should loan them to his crippled and ailing shipping subsidy job. If the ship-subsidy bill does not pass it may be necessary to have a speoial session of congress to consider tho Cuban question. China might hasten tho departure of tho "powers" by' proving that there is nothing more left in tho shape of rich pickings. k 11 Mr. uarnegio really intends to die poor ho & -will have to give away money faster or secure somo means of living about 3,000 years. for" . . ?. Tho democratic senator or congressman who is deluded into supporting tho subsidy steal will have a difficult time proving his democracy. A collar find miff trnnf. a omn 4-i. i...i. L Some of these days the American people will Jake up and collar tho trusts and ouff them se ' orely. I . p ) It is moot and proper that the promotors of ! ;tho shipping subsidy steal should favor night -i T! . I. , ..in ... " R'BCSSIOIIB. J.NlUt 18 1110 lavonto t 111ft nf t.lift 11,1 jjj- up men. John Barrett, former United States minister ,to Siam, who devoted his efforts in the W. nam. D .. . paign 10 assuring tho American Deonle that. the Filipinos are not fitted for self-government, The Commoner a now delivering speeches and writing articles in defense of the ship-subsidy bill. Is Mr. Barrett an authority or merely a star member of Mr. llanna' s literary bureau? $.$ Congress k considering the matter of organ izing a "National Standardizing Bureau." If organized properly it will probably be run with Standard oil. Let it be cheerfully admitted that the subsidy bill has done some good. While it is under con sideration' the senate i$ not making any armor plate contracts. ' By sending a few more newspaper men to Guam General MacArthur will succeed in making that island far superior to the military station at Manila in point of brains. Senator Beveridge is too candid a man to make a suitable presidential candidate on the republican ticket. To be eligible lie should believe in impe rialism, but not admit it. Illinois need not feel puffed up because she has within her borders a set of rascals known as the "Invincible" thieves. A careful study of our big trusts will demonstrate that the organization is national. The men who are loudest in demanding a subsidy for ship-owners would be the first to object to a subsidy for the owners of farm wagons. Yet -there would be few ships to subsi dize were it not for tho farm wagons. At all times and under all circumstances the editors and correspondents in Manila must under stand that truth is "a menace to the military sit uation" and punishable by deportation. Those responsible for the situation will take no chances. $..$. A large number of gentlemen who appeared at banquets on February 12 and talked about tho patriotism and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln claim to be thorough patriots and altogether wise for promoting the very principles that Abraham Lin coln denounced. The Morgan-Rockefeller-Harriman railrocd syndicate is prepared to show the evils that would follow the control of all the railroads by the government. The first evil they would point out is that of having such an immense power given into the hands of a few. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, describes the ship-subsidy bill as "a jimmy with which it is proposed to break into the United States treas ury." Senator Jones has a habit of calling things by their right names, and on this occasion ho did not change his habit. It seems that after all Mr. Roberts, director of the mint, is not infallible when it comes to figures relating to the gold supply. Mr. Maurice L. Muhleman, who is himself something of an authority on figures, has discovered a serious error in the government figures relating to the supply of gold. Mr. Muhleman claims that there has been duplication in tho foreign gold, coin im ported being registered on arrival at the custom house and then re-registered when minted into United States coin. Mr. Muhleman has traced these errors up to the year 1898 and he estimates that the gold stock has in this manner been exag gerated to tho extent of $125,000,000. The women of Massachusetts are demanding a law permitting women commissioners to per form the marriage ceremony. As about half of tho people married are women, why not? Word comes from Japan that an oil monopoly is being formed over there. Our enterprising and imitative little neighbor in the Orient seems disposed to copy our faults as well as our virtues. $ As an illustration that the wheat and tho tares still grow close together, it may be remarked that St. Valentine's Day, which gave bashful lovers a chance to write messages too affectionate for the tongue, also gave enemies a chance to hurl abuse at each other by use of tho cartoonists' art. Charleston, S. C, is planning to have an ex position just after the Buffalo Exposition closes. It is a good idea. Expositions are excellent edu cational institutions and since tho attendance is largely from the neighboring states it is necessary to have these expositions in all parts of the ooun ry. If the administration will set about doing its plain duty not the Porto Rican brand to tho Cubans there will be no necessity for "instruc tions," "commissions," "ultimatums," and all that sort of thing. The plain duty of the admin istration is to keep the solemn pledge made to the Cubans. Congressman Babcock, of Wisconsin, has in troduced a bill to place upon the free list tho various imported articles which come into com petition with tho products of the new steel com bine. But the attention of the republican party is too much absorbed with the ship-subsidy steal to give any time to those who are the victims of both steals. The Chicago Tribune is now quite certain that the government would be ruined by the pas sage of the shipping subsidy bill. But it will be remembered that the Chicago Tribune thought the same thing concerning the Porto Rican tariff law until the administration mind changer came around. The mind changer seems to be due for another visit to the Tribune oflice. $ An American manufacturer ships his goods to Europe, paying ocean freights and insurance, and undersells the European manufacturer. Then ho turns around and sells tho same goods to Ameri-' can consumers at an advance over tho price to the foreigner because he is "protected" against com petition with the foreign made goods. Aud there arcs several millions of people who have never been able to realize how they have been imposed upon. It is manifestly-unjust to General Merriam to ignore him in tho army promotions after ho caaried out the schemes of the men responsible for the administration. While General Merriam did not endear himself to the hearts of tho Amer ican people by his administration at Wardner, ho deserves somo recognition from tho odminiitriK jSk 'ZZLJi && fc&jlljiiMJlcJ