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"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.
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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.
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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.
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p ) It is moot and proper that the promotors of
! ;tho shipping subsidy steal should favor night
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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