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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska,
as second class mail matter.
- The tariff steal workers show no symp
toms. of going 'on a strike) " They are perfectly
satisfied.
Boer hunting has so, exhausted John Bull
that' he is not in fit condition, to indulge in any
hear baiting just now. :.-t
, Admiral Schley might quiet his traducers
by signing an agreement never tp stand as, a
candidate for president. ,
In view of Secretary Long's order we need
not he surprised if Crowninshield suffers from
an attack of obstructed thorax.
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Considering the subject Rudyard Kipling
feels "impelled to discuss wo need Hot wonder
at .the' kind of verses he is grinding out.
If the Younger brothers decide to re-enter
the bank robbing industry they will not be so
foolish as to begin the work from the outside.
The country will never believe that Cervora
'would have towed his vessels out with port
holes closed if Crowninshield had been in com
mand of Santiago Bay.
It is time for some decrepit war department
clerk who has been in the bureau for fifty years
to rise up and claim the credit for having
turned back Leo at Gettysburg.
The fact that a number of republican or
gans continue to denounce the trusts empha
sises the faot that there are no congressmen to
' elect this year, hence no necessity for a fat
frying soitre.
The tin plate trust is a lusty infant. It has
waxed so strong on Uncle Sam's baby food
that it can stand up and knock $t0,000,000 a
year out of the general publio and never start
a perspiration.
The government has plenty of oivportunities
to keep up the land lottery business. ' All " it
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needs to do is to divert a few millions from the
conquest of foreign peoples to the conquest of
western arid lands.
Dr. Reomclin, of Cincinnati, who was nom-
inated for Governor by the Progressive Dem
ocrats of Ohio, declines to he a candidate
At last accounts Brother Morss, of the In
dianapolis Sentinel, was still hurrying the
Kansas City platform, but ho was perspiring
freely and showing signs of exhaustion.
Subscribe for your county weekly, if you
have not already done so, and while you are
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will keep you informed on national politics.
It has been deoided by the Taf t commission
that judges appointed in the Philippines need
not take oath to support the constitution of the
United States. The constitution is in the
"also was" class for a time.
The sympathy expressed for Senator Mc
Laurin by the republican organs is truly touch
ing and certainly solaces the feelings of the
gentleman engaged in the hopeless task of re
publicanizing the' southern democracy.
My. It. has been some time since the United
-Kingddni of Great Britian and Ireland went
into spasms of delight because of a victory over
a small force ,of poorly armed Boers. Is it be
cause the financial cramp is too severe?
How, does it happen that so many republi
. cans entered into the contest for homesteads in
the Indian Territory? Republicans ought to
be giving away land instead of hunting for it,
if the country is half as prosperous as they say
it, is. .
People who figure on the loss sustained . by
the steel trust because of .the strike should re
member that the steel trust has the last say.
The people should begin figuring .how much
the strike will coBt them in the way of increased
.prices.
Now is the time for the notoriety seekers.
Any man can become "a prominent democrat"
at once by announcing his opposition to the
Kansas City platform. If ho will press the
interview button the republican papers will do
the rest.
How times have changed! The republican
papers used to abuse the democratic party out
rageously, but now they are so friendly that
they are willing to tell the democrats how to '
win. Strange that they should be so generous
to the re-organizers.
The republican farmers have voted so much
money into tho pockets of - the corporations
that dominate the republican party that the.
heads of tho corporations will bo able to get
along for a while even though the drouth is a
. little severe on the farmer.
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'As we gp to press the signs are less favdr
able forasettlehient of the Steel Strike, ivxi
unfortunate that laboring men should he com
pelled to force their claims by an idleness
which causes so great a sacrifico to them. Ar
bitration must come some day the sooner tho
better.
Secretary Long's order to tho effect that
naval officers must not discuss the Schley
Sampson matter in advance of the investiga
tion comes a bit too late to prevent tho. publio
from getting the impression that the chief
weapon of some members of the navy consists
of.rapid fire mouth organs.
According to Bancroft's History, Commo
dore Sloat issued the following proclamation
when ho assumed authority in California in
1847: "Under tho flag of the United States
the revenue laws will be the same in Califor
nia as in other parts of the United States, af
fording them (the Californian Mexicans) all
manufactures and produce of the United States
free of duty."
The Chicago Chronicle sees in the action of
the Ohio convention evidence that "tho demo
cratic drunk is over" and that the party is re
turning to tho Chronicle's position. As the
Chronicle bolted the democratic ticket in 189G
and as nearly all the Chronicle's stock holders
voted for Mr. McKinley in 1000, it's praise of
the Ohio platform is ' really libel. Mr. Kil
bourne ought to be elected, however, in spite" of
the Chronicle's support.
., Italy has accepted our apology for 'the mur
der of a few Italians and will now await Undo
Sam's check for the amount of indemnity
agreed upon. Owing to circumstances Italy
will not demand the cession of the port of New
York, or forbid us importing arms and keep an
armed guard of eight or ten thousand soldiers
in Washington. Tho .circumstances are that
Uncle Sam would not submit and would put up
a better fight than the Chinese ever could.
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Some of the populist papers are giving un
intentional aid to the' re-organizers. "When a
populist editor assumes that the democratic
party is going back to Mr. Cleveland's ddc
trines and advises reformers to separate them
selves" from the party, he plays into tho hands
of the gold standard editor who thereupon in
sists that the democratic party has loBt its
populist allies and must surrender to the men
who deserted the party in 1800 and 1900.'
The democratic party stands for definite,
positive principles, and the Kansas City plat
form is the party creed until another national
platform is written. Those who argue from
the standpoint of expediency seem willing to sac
rifice any principle or eridorso any policy if they
can thereby win. But there is no way of judg
ing what is expedient; we can only do what wo
believe to be right and accept the consequen
ces. "We may deserve to win, and yet lose,
but it still remains that to deserve to win is the
surest road to success. If any one tells you
that success can bo won by a. surrender of dem
ooratio, principles just remind him of the cam?
paign of 1894 when w&Jost both our principles
and our candidates. v ,,. ,
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