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E-Z223LZiZE3fl K.Mi'VJ.Tgl IWw1 XW v"tt7,,kr 4 I The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. i Terms Payable In Advance. One Year ' $ fix Mentha... so Three Months .' S ilcgleCopy At Ncwstands or at this Office e Sample Copies Free. No Traveling Canvassers arc Employed. Scubscriptions can be sent direct lo The Com moner. They can also be sent through newspapers which have advertised a clubbing rate, or through local 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. Bo not send 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, as second class mail matter. RENEWALS Tho dato on your wrappor Bhows when your subscription will expire Thus, Jan, 02 moani that pay tnont has bcon rccolvcd to and including tho last issuo of Jan nary, 1002. Two wcoks are roquirod aftor monoy is received boforo tho dato pf tho wrappor can bo changed. CHANGES OF ADDRESSES Subscribers requesting a chango in addross must givo tho OLD as woll as the NEW ad dress. Well, the republicans are not crowing over Mississippi, anyhow. Will the esteemed Chicago Chronicle please point out where the reorganized democracy ac complished anything? rA two-billion dollar glass trust Is now being planned. This Is a monopoly that-the people ought to be able to see through. - - . '- The report that Lord Pauncefoto is. on his way back to Washington with a new canal treaty in his pocket is reassuring. 'One chief regret about the naval inquiry is that Captain Lemley draws a government salary . lor that sort of thing. ; " Having received $500,000 for subduing the Boers Lord Roberts should return to South Africa . and earn about $2,000,000 more. Senator Hoar's latest is calculated to make the administration organs dig up the "granny" and "copperhead" lines from tho standing galleys. The esteemed Washington Post may always be depended upon to warm up to the man who occu pies the White house. The Post is an Vin"-dopen-dent paper. When men fight for a principle, defeat does not discourage them, but when they are actuated solely by an "anything-to-win" policy, defeat is a more serious matter. So far no ,golu standard paper has pointed to the democratic victory in Denver to prove that .tho money question is dead. . - It seems that New Jersey is not yet ready to . break up tho gang of highwaymen who organize trusts in that state and then proceed to plunder the people of all the other states. Many newspapers now rejoicing over the fu sion victory in New York city have spent a great deal of time during the last five or six years de nouncing fusion in western slates. The Commoner. Tho failure of tho fusionists to carry Penn sylvania proves that the great majority nf the re publicans either like Quayism or lack the moral courage necessary to overthrow it. Josiah Quincy is a man of great personal pop ularity, but he seems to have alienated tho gold democrats when he dared to prefer a democratic platform to a republican one. S5 The republican papers that accused Iowa's democratic candidate for governor of desiring to avoid national issues are now declaring that na tional issues were responsible for his defeat. &&& The wily Turk will not be frightened at any , French demonstration as long as he knows that each European nation wants his domain bad enough to keep any other nation from grabbing it. Andrew Jackson Montague, the newly elected governor of Virginia, will now have a chance to live up to the expectations aroused by his name, and his friends are confident that he will do so. yws It seems that they have demagogues in tho Philippines. At least, they are so described be cause they oppose taxation without representation. Laws are now being prepared for their suppres sion. When the banks issue all the money and the trusts own tho attorney general, then the people may begin to realize that they were mistaken when they, thought a full stomach the acme of human happiness. Captain Mahan is writing a book about "Types of Naval Heroes." It will be admitted that the United States navy has several "types," but the Dewey-Schley-Clark-Phillip type Is the most sat isfactory. Colonel Kilbourno made as good a race as could have been expected under the .circumstances; but for the high character of the nominees in Ohio the defeat would have been even greater than it was. There is very little consolation that democrats can draw from last week's elections, but those -who made a fight for democratic principles have more of it than those who. relied upon the per sonal popularity of the candidates. Patriotic Americans who want to help the Boers can do so by selling mules to the British. The British send the mules to South Africa and the Boers seize them. In this way Americans help themselves while helping the Boers. It seems that our "colonial governors" are as serting that Chinese labor is necessary for the de velopment of "our. possessions' The wage-earner will some day learn that colonialism is not for him, but for the exploiter and the syndicate. Mr. Croker takes a philosophical view of tho defeat of Tammany's candidate for mayor. Tam many has been in control of New York for a long while, and some of the officials elected by Tam many have betrayed their trust. A change has been secured. It Is to be hoped that tho republi cans who boast of having redeemed Now York will now turn their attention to Philadelphia. "Here we are and here wo intend to stay," this Is the clear and convincing argument made by our carpetbag government t the protests of the Filipinos. This argument mtains tho very es sence of constitutional law x, 'died to Imperial ism. It -used to bo that we considered what wo ought to do; now wo simply declare what we are "going to do." The Chicago Chronicle says; "The Chicago and Kansas City platforms are still responsible for disorganization and defection." But how does it account for Ohio? The Chronicle was hilariously happy when the Ohio convention refused to in dorse the Kansas City platform and happier still when It gave prominence to democrats bearing the private brand of the Chronicle. n"VVN The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says '.'silver will be redeemed" that is, tho Overstreet bill making silver dollars redeemable in gold will be passed by the next congress. And only a few years ago "the republican party, from tradition and interest, fav ored the use of both gold and sliver as standard money." But, then, the republican party fav ored a number of things a few years ago-that it does not favor now. In a recent issue of The Commoner it "was stated that the salmon pack of the Puget Sound territory for the present season was valued at four hundred thousand dollars. A subscriber, writing to correct the item, says that the entire output for Puget Sound will be about six million dollars. One company, the Pacific American Fish eries company has packed more than three hun dred thousand cases, valued at about five dollars per case. An Indiana tax-dodger has recently been fined one thousand dollars. For seventeen years he had been making false returns, and escaping tax ation upon one hundred thousand dollars. Tho money which he had thus saved was really taken from the pockets of those who were over-burdened, and yet his conscience would doubtless prevent his stealing a neighbor's pocket-book or other prop erty. Why is it that a tax-dodger can be blind to the effect of his conduct and to the moral prin ciple involved? .a 'vN'S Senator Fairbanks spoke' fn Nebraska" during tho campaign just closed and in all his speeches he eulogized President McKinley, buthe some times failed to mention President Roosevelt's name. This omission will be easily understood when it is remembered that Mr. Roosevelt's acces sion to the presidency is likely to disappoint Sen ator Fairbanks' ambition to be the republican can didate in 1904. It will naturally take him a little while to readjust his affections so as to feel as kindly toward Mr. Roosevelt's candidacy as he has felt toward his own. vsv On another page will be found an article which appeared in the Buffalo Express, giving an ac count of the dairy contest which was held in con nection with tho pan-American congress. Butter and milk are so important a part of the food of every family that the readers of The Commoner will bo interested in this very thorough test. The question, of course, is not settled, because only fivo cows were selected from each breed, and there is such a difference between cows of the same breed that no test based upon the production of a few cows could bo conclusive. As these cows wero selected for tho purpose, and as the contest ex tended over six months, the result will, however, be of value in forming a general opinion upon the relative merits of the various breeds for dairy 'purp'oses. .' Attention, Subscribers! In order that subscribers may know that their efforts in behalf of The Commoner are appreciated the following offer is made: All subscribers 6t The Commonor who send in new subscriptions at the regular subscription price of one dollar per year will have their own subscriptions extended for three months for each now yearly subscrip tion. 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