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Please men tion The Commoner in corresponding with ad vertisers. Mr. Morgan prefers to ride in his own con-' vcyancc whether he travels by carriage, by rail, or by water. MoBt of the corn that sold at 50 cents4"n Chicago the other day was never planted, cul tivated, shucked or shipped. ' ' The inventor of the "gold brick" died pen niless, recently, but his invention is still being used with great success in Wall Street. Mr; Macartney of the Londdn and North Western R. R. seems ambitious to be known as the Ohancey Depow of the English parlia ment. Possibly the supreme court is holding back on that Porto Rican decision in the liope that the crippled constitution will be able to over take the flag. Perhaps Mr. Morgan seeks to secure con trol of the ocean so as to have plenty of water for the proper dilution of his railroad and in dustrial stocks. , The settlement of the threatened strike of of the employes of' the steel trust is a triumph for arbitration and an objeot lesson to employer and employe everywhere. ' . To Rural Enquirer: Yes, the extensive shearing of the "lambs" by the manipulators of the stook market is likely to bo followed by a fall in the price of wool. The Chicago minister who resigned because his millionaire congregation would pay him The Commoner. but $000 a year probably overlook the fact that the congregation wanted to pay only for the amount of religion they used in their busi ness. At Austin the President referred to "plain paths of duty." Why add the word "paths?" The people understand the meaning of "plain duty" but the new phrase may. confuse them. Of course the protectionists will become free traders just as soon as protection in the United States enables them to filch enough wealth to buy up all the industries of Europe. Wonder if the president will appoint a commission to ascertain how many "ornamen tal guinea pigs" there are representing rail roads in the Senate and House of Representa tives. The Democratic criticism of Senator Mc Laurin has given the Rolla Wells kind of Dem- ocrats another opportunity to accuse the real Democrats of being narrow minded and un charitable. The Standard Oil company has just de clared a quarterly dividend of 20 per cent. This is proof that chemists are not infallible. Oil and -water will mix when a skilled mixo logist does thc'Wdrk. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan refuses to tell how much he paid for the Gainsborough "Duchess of Devonshire." Maybe ho syndicated the picture, issued a block of watered stock and then froze out the minority stockholders. Young men who are looking for a good example of the strenuous life are advised to ' study the life and character of Nehemiah. He accomplished a great deal more than modern exemplars of the strenuous existence without overworking the personal pronoun in public prints. Albert Williams, of Michigan, one of the founders of the republican party, loses no op portunity to express his condemnation of the position taken by the republicans and thinks it better to abandon the party with which he af filiated than to surrender the principles which made him a republican. A Pennsylvania physician has presented a bill for one hundred and ninety thousand dol lars for medical attendance upon the late sen ator Magee. If the doctors begin to make their charges for prolonging life 'proportionate to the value of the life prolonged, wo may ex pect to have judicial opinions fixing the pecu niary worth of human existence. Conscience is a creature of education. Many a man who would recoil in horror at the suggestion that he waylay and rob a single in dividual at the muzzle of a revolver, docs not hesitate to waylay and rob a community at the muzzlo of an unjust law secured through cor-" rapt influences for selfish purposes. And men . who do this sort of thing sometimes give largely to .public charities and receive credit for gen erosity. The publio conscience needs to , bo awakened and properly schooled. If the manipulators of the "Credit Mobilier" had only known how they could have worked Wall Street and made more money than they did by working the government. And after working Wall Street they would have been financiers. As it was they were credited with being only thieves on a large scale. By carefully protecting our infant indus tries against foreign competition wo are ablo to pay a higher price for our goods in order that the manufacturer may go abroad and com pete with the foreigner from whom he asks pro tection. This may appear to be devious logic, but it is the kind American voters have been accustomed to for a great many years. Up to date not a single administration organ has protested against the reconcentrado" order of General MacArthur. Yet the MacAr thur order is exactly like the Weyler reeoncen trado order, and most of the administration or gans were frenzied in their denunciations of tho latter. The administration organs should en deavor to secure a cure for their severe case of political strabismus. - One of the Western Union officials, in giv ing testimony before tho industrial commis-. sion, expressed himself, as strongly opposed, to the government ownership and operation of a-; telegraph system. This can hardly be con-' sidered a disinterested opinion. Such testi mony, like testimony given in court, cannot bo1 properly weighed until the pecuniary interest of the witness is understood. Senator IT. W. Smith, of Oregon, suggests that the Christian nations appropriate to tho support of the starving heathen Chinese the in demnity demanded of that nation. He thinks that such a national charity would give tho na tions a real Christian character among the Chi? nese, and would be acceptable in the sight of the Christian's God. The suggestion is a good one, but it is not likely that nations which would demand tho amount that tho Christian nations are demanding would give ,it away. Some of the republican papers have ques tioned the right of the editor of The Com moner to express an opinion on the Wells matter, but they are laying down a rule whioh they do jiot follow themselves. They exorcise the right to discuss all questions and persons, Tho fact that the editor of The Commoner has been a candidate for office does not make him less a citizen, and as a citizen ho is at liberty to express himself on any subject, accepting whatever responsibility his utterances impose. It is tho business of tho editor to find out what is going on, and to let his readers know. The Commoner will discharge that duty in spite of the complaints of republican papers, and also in spite of the protests, of so-called democratic papers owned by republicans and edited in tho interests of ropublicau policies.