Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1901)
m The Commoner. B Issued lAeek.ly. Torms Payablo in Advanco. OnoTcar 81.00 Six Months '50 Throo Months 25 Single Oopy At Newstands or at this Office 05 No Traveling: Canvassers Are Employed. CnWrlntlnnc rnn lifi sent direct to THE COMMONER. I They can also be sent through newspapers which have advertised a ciuDDing rate, orinrougiiprecintiBcmawm: c itih ntronfc Invo hupii nnnninted. All remittances ShOtllCl i be sent by postoffice order, express order or by bank cirau on new lur or uintau. vi. -wnu "'"' checks, stamps, or money. Advertising rates furnished upon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nebraska; Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second P, class mail matter. Perhaps "malevolent dissimulation" is the term meant. General Botha's sword is still hanging at Botha's holt. It will bo noted that Russia is not the first to cry for quarter in the little tariff war. , The references to "plain duty" in tho in- P, augural address are conspicuous by their absence. Christian Dowot has escaped again, thus once more throwing General Kitchener into a regret ful mood. "Tho man behind tho letter" is not getting tho same kind of applause that greoted "the man L behind the gun." "The public events of the past four years have gone into history," declares President McKinley. Of courso they were properly censored, however. Self-government cannot bo taught to one peo ple by another people. It is something that must t be learned by experience. The inaugural address did not predict any ipoedy termination of the Philippine war. Pro dictions of that sort are reserved for campaign purposes. Mr. McKinley expresses great concern for tho "preservation of tho constitution." Perhaps this concern explains his roluotanco to stretch it over Porto Rico. Mr. Speaker Henderson's censoring of tho Congressional Record may have been impelled by a fear of something that would menace tho mili tary situation. The "Washington correspondent who tele graphed to his paper that tho Spooner resolution was similar to tho resolution adopted for tho government of tho Louisiana purohase should read both. Tho two are dissimilar in every re-speot. The Commoner. By stirring tho Cubans to revolt it might be possible to subdue them and thus render unnec essary the carrying out of the pledge to give Cuba independence. Tho latest from Manila is to the effect that anything with a semblance of truth about the sit- . nation in the Philippines is a "menace to tho mil itary situation." The president of tho steel trust will receive a salary of $800,000 a year. He will insist, how ever, that he be not paid in water from that $3,000 capitalization. Of course tho republican orators in the next campaign will insist that the republicans have the credit of killing the river and harbor bill because a republican senator talked it to death. $ Professor Shaler of Harvard 'predicts that be fore the middle of the present century "we shall have an almost intolerable supply of gold." What's this? Is there no such thing as " intrin sic value? " Mr. Perry S. Heath has purchased an island. But Mr. Heath will not have any director of posts, which means that he will not' employ pri vately the kind of men he recommended to tho government If Great Britain had retained control of the American colonies until satisfied that they were ."ready for self-government," it is an assured fact that we would be living under the reign of Ed ward VII today. The value of water power will bo shown at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo by the use of energy transmitted from Niagara Falls. The power is carried by electricity from the Palls to Buffalo and every building is to be supplied. Tho friends of Mr. Griggs say he will retire from tho cabinet to resume his private law prac tice. A careful study of Mr. Griggs' record in the cabinet will tend to convince the student that ho has been attending to his private practice all the time. .$..5. By the way, is Banestreuther if that is his name still master of the port of Manila? It was for saying that he was taking illegal fees that Editor Rice was deported, but up to dato no one has heard Banestreuther was suspended pending an investigation. General MacArthur has just issued an order declaring that a certain amount of Filipino money shall bo worth a certain amount of United States money. If seems that a colonial governor is not bound by the rule which prevents a republic from legislating value into metals. The Chicago Chronicle was one of the papers that felt called upon to scold Tiiu Commoner for referring to the "common people." It is dis tressing, therefore, to see the Chronicle use tho same phrase and thus' contribute its weight toward the Boheme to "array class against class." In sppaking of a son of Potter Palmer it says: ."Ho has not been spoiled by wealth and sooiety.' He is just as level headed as if ho had come from the ranks of the common people." Unless the Chronicle apologizes for tho expression at once it may alienate some of " the men of means " whom it tries so hard to please. , " ' Mr. MoKinley's position on the Cuban ques tion is a good explanation of the difference be tween "ought" and "will." The Cuban resolu tion in 1808 declared that Cuba "ought" to be independent. The President intimates that it "will" not be. . - President McKinley says "A portion of them (Filipinos) are making war against the United States." Does it take 05,000 men to subdue "a portion" of the Filipinos? By implication Presi dent McKinley makes charges against American troops that would bring down upon his head the epithet of "copperhead" if he did not happen to be a republican. It w6uld seem that Mr. McKinley is not the only citizen of the Buckeye state who tries to im pose upon the Almighty. An Ohio minister when called to account by his church for kissing a female member of his congregation explained: "Do not blame mo; blame God, for from Him I received divine revelation to do as I have done." Those who insisted that Mr. Gage would re main in the cabinet did so before Mr. Gage made tho frightful mistake of hampering the steel trust's operations in Russia in an effort to help out the sugar trust in the United States, It would, not be surprising if Mr. Gage were to find that pressing private business prevents him from remaining in the cabinet. ! In a recent number of Tiie Commonek atten tion was called to the faot that it was customary for the outgoing President and the incoming Pres ident to ride to the inauguration together, and as Mr. Hanna was chosen to ride with Mr. McKin ley the question was asked whether Mr. Hanna represented an outgoing or incoming Piesident. One reader suggests the answer "Both," and an other thinks that he may be in tho middle of his term. The Kansas City Journal commends the state ment made by Congressman Landis to the' effect that conscience and not commercialism took this nation into the Philippines. If the Journal will investigate it will discover that it was not tho still small voice of conscience, but the strong and strident voice of commercialism, that inquired about tho resources of the island before the republican leaders began to regard imperialism as a matter of destiny. Admiral Sampson is not to be credited with the courage of his conviotions on questions of so cial character. He did not want his viewp made publio, thus proving himself cowardly. While Admiral Sampson deserves all the condemnation that has been heaped upon him let it not be over looked that the sentiments expressed by San son are the sentiments of hundreds of others, not alone in the navy, but in the army, and in what its members are pleased to term the "higher social oiroles." jf.
