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1 6 rrv K?i P. W iJC The Commoner. ISSUED WGEKLY. VUilUeim J. Bryan. Editor And Proprietor Terms Payable in Advance. One Year $i.o fix Months Three Months ag ffcglc Ccpy-At Ncwtand orat tills Office off Sample Copies Free. No Traveling Canvassers are Employed. Subscriptions can be sent direct to The Com-' nxoner. They can also be sent through newspapers which have advertised a clubbing rate, or through precinct agents -where such agents have been ap pointed. All remittances should be sent by postoffice order, express order or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not scud individual checks, stamps, or money. --Advertising rates furnished upon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska,, S' second class mail matter. Nothing is cheaper than a good book. Will General Sickles be unhappy until ho gets Evana' resignation? - ' v The protraoted. drouth clearly shows that tome men. never think of praying until they get into trouble. ; Young Mr. Rockefeller's Damon to young Mr. Gould's Pythias is evidently a rank bur lesque o.n the old story, Salisbury and Chamberlain insist that the war in South Africa is over, but British agents ' are still scouring Missouri for mules. The stability of the country's boasted pros perity is well measure by the panio aroused at the thought of a total crop failure. F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley) has paraphrased an old epigram. He says: "Ye can lade a 'man up to the University but ye can't make him think." The Chicago burglar who refused to face a toy pistol in the hands of a woman had -doubtless read carefully the list of Fourth of July fatalities. , Senator Scott says he wrote 17,640 letters during the presidential campaign. This should enable General Sickles to find a lot of company for his misery. The steel trust should treat with the striking steel workers. It might result in ending a drouth that threatens to dry. up all the water in steel trust stocks. Constant Reader No, the republican party does not assume responsibility for the drouth; it claims credit for everything good but blames Providence for everything bad. After Secretary Wilson has knocked the A . . . . - car trust into smithereens by providin The Commoner. enough raw sugar to keep all the refineries going, will he kindly provide a way of smash ing the oil trust, which .has a cinch on all of the raw material in its line? Charles Cecil Fitzmorris, the Chicago American representative, has completed his trip around the world time 60 days, 13 hours, 29 minutes, 42 seconds. This is the quickest time ever made. If the Ohio democrats want to get a good idea of their platform let them examine Mr Watterson's plans and specifications for a per fect platform and then read Jiis praise of the Ohio platform. An American consul is on ja strike for Higher wages. He might try acting as the agent of a trust in an official .capa'city. That has been known to eke out a, small official sal ary. Let the democrats of Ohio vote the ticket and then begin the next day after the election to organize the congressional districts so that it will not be possible for a corporation dem ocrat to secure a nbiniriation. i;, .The dispute about the authorship "of the' famous dispatch to "Admiral Dewey continues to rage. No one claiming the authorship is willing, however, to father the invitation sent to Aguinaldo to come to Hong Kong. Political conditions become corrupt because vice is continuous in its operation while virtue iB often spasmodic. The many who simply want good government arouse themselves occasion ally to secure some necessary reform but the few who make money out of legislation are- al ways alert and active. While the Ohio democrats have by their timidity weakened themselves on national issues they are strong on state issues. It will be in teresting to hear what the republicans have to say against .the Johnson planks in regard to equal taxation and a popular vote on franchises. The Commoner in its last issue, speak ing of the Ohio convention, credited General Finloy with the resolution reaffirming the Kansas City platform. This was an error; the resolution was introduced by W. L. Finley, editor of .the Kenton Press, and not by Gen. frinley. Apologies are hereby extended to both gentlemen. John Hewitt of Woodstown, N. J. lost his barn a few days ago by lightning. His neigh bors took the matter in hand and within a few days $400 was contributed, mostly in grain and farm products, toward the rebuilding of the barn. The generosity "shown was as compli mentary to the donors as to the recipient. A more touching spectacle was never wit nessed than that of William B. Allison refus ing a presidency and tendering it "to Leslie Shaw, while? at the same time Leslie Shaw re fuses it and insists that William B. Allison take it. But touching as it is, it has caused a ripple of laughter throughout Stark county, Ohio, to say nothing of the city of Cleveland. Special attention is called to the books ad vertised in this issue: The Jeffersonian Cyclo pedia no democrat can afford to be without it; Mr. Davis' book on the South African war it wilt be an authority on the subject; Dr. Gird ner's book, Newyorkitis entertaining even in hot weather; Coin Harvey's book on money, trusts and imperialism a concise yet compre hensive discussion of these subjects; Christ's Object Lessons a work which will please those who desire to study the Parables. The Harrisburg, 111., Register takes the Chicago Cronicle to task for trying to seize control of the democratic party. It reminds the Chronicle that it hasn't been back long and even expresses the fear that it (the Chronicle) has "come back into the party for the same reason the fellow gave for marrying into a fam ily he did not like, namely, to disgrace it." Possibly the Chronicle has made up its mind that it can hurt the party more by being on the inside than it could by remaining on the out side. .-, .The Commoner is pained to notice 'that Mr. Depew opposes Mr. Hanna's nomination. This is a great disappointment. Whw The Commoner predicted Mr. Hanna's nomination, it confidently relied upon Mr. Depew's co-op-,, eration. When the senator from New York failed to secure Mr. McKinley for a third term it was only natural to expect that he would ac cept Mr. Hanna as the next person the very next to the president. A word from the New" York Central may, however, bring Mr. Depew into line yet. The Commoner is under obligations tg the Minneapolis Times for its long range defence of Mr. Bryan. The editor of The Commoner does not olaim to speak for anyone except him Belf, but he has faith in the righteousness of the Kansas City platform and there are so many people who believe with him that he has no fear of becoming lonesome. If any demo crat is tempted to purchase the favor of finan ciers by a surrender of democratic principles, let him read the obituary notices of a number of prominent democrats who onded their po litical existence between 1893 and 1896. It waB very gratifying to meet in every state visited on my recent trip, readers of Tiiic Commoner, and to learn from them that the paper is giving satisfaction. As has been said before, the paper does not attempt to give all the general news but it does intend to keep its readors informed as to important political events and to supply them with arguments wnicn will enable them to defend democratic principles and policies. There are in every community those' who do their own thinking and who fortify themselves to discuss political issues as they arise. To such no matter to what party they belong Tiik Commoner will be useful. -, y s ,-3iri MHBJ'.IM'TW :. ii ,