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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
.The- coronation of Mr. Madden will l)e in.-,
definitely postponed.
The Chicago footpad who attempted to hold up
a newspaper man got. nothing but a bulletin, his
brain.
The postal deficit might; tie. overcome by, com
pelling the railroads to haul the mail at reason
able, rates. '
Senator Beveridge continues to act on the' as-.-sumption
that he can write our foreign complica-.
tions to death.
oet Laureato Austin has. written iome, more
versps. In view, of the facts,, he s slightly mixed,. , .
iu. fjia nietapuors.
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Quite a number of republican politicians who
possess plans for an "elastic currency also possess
elastic- consciences.
J. Pierpont Morgan is now engaged in organ-.,
izing a $50,000,000 electric combine.., The .public
will doubtless be shocked.
. Mr. JForaker seems to have- equipped himself
with a few choice life preservers- before plunging
into the Ohio legislative fray.
If George III. were still alive he doubtless
would study republican policies, for a few hours
and then demand a vindication.
By keeping in striking distance of British
supply trains the Boers manage to pursue unin
terrupted connection with their base of supplies.
Mr. Havemeyer called, the tariff "the mothe'r
of trusts." Charles Francis Adanis has a better
name. He calls the high, tariff "the bastile of the
trusts." -
An order issued by a judge who is eleqted by
the .people is4 very easily overruled by a judge
who is appointed because of a pull with the cor
porations, ' : "' ' ''
If Imperialism is right the heirs of the man
Who. owned the tea dumped into Boston harbor
sdmething over a century ago should file a claim
for damages.
Speaking of steadfastness, it Is related of- an
old servant of Andrew Jacksoii's, Avho survived
his master several years and .acted as aguard at
the Hermitage, tha.t when asked whether ho
thought J.ackson went to heaven replied: . "If ho
ESi his head that way, ho did."
.The chief trouble with most of the elastic cur
rency schemes is that they provide more for the
benefit of the bankers than they do for the pro
tection of. the depositors.
Mr. William Fuchs of Profflt, Va.f has an. in
teresting souvenir of Thomas Jefferson in the
shape, of a side-board which once occupied a"placo
in the Monticollo home.
Congressman Hepburn is fearful that the rail
roads are behind the Panama canal project, but he
refuses to believe that congress will permit itself
to be diverted in this way.
An Ohio politician says "Senators Foraker and
Hanna have represented our state as it has never
before, been represented." After careful considera
tion most people will decide that the statement, is
eminently correct.
Now that the republicans are going to reduce
the surplus by reducing the tariff, it will be- in
teresting to see which, they repeal firstthe tariff,
on tea, used by millions of people, or the tariff
on banks and bonds.
It is rumored, that Secretary Long will be the
next man to leave the cabinet and that Charles H.
Allen, of Porto Rican fame, is to be his successor.
The relations between the president and his sec
retary of the navy are said to be strained.
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The seventeenth annual session of the Na
tional Historical association has but recently
closed at Washington. Among those honored in
the distribution of offices we fail to note one,
a gentleman whose name just now escapes us,
but who tried to write a history of the American
navy.
The New York Herald's Washington corre
spondent goes to considerable trouble to explain
that.. Governor Shaw, the new secretary of the
treasury, has six toes on each- foot. This, would be
something of a practical advantage, if. the new
secretary concludes to take his stand on the. peo
ple's side, and proceeds to kick the Wall street
.gamblers, from, the temple.
A reader of The Commoner,- asks why the dem
ocrats won in Maryland when they ignored the
Kansas City platform and lost, when they in
dorsed it. There are at least, two reasons which
deserve mention, first,, because the. silver demo
crats supported the ticket both times while, the
. gold men bolted when they could not have their
own way; second, because the republicans, cast
more votes in 1900 than in 1901.
Rap's Broadside, Qf Syracuse, 111,,, quotes tho
Chicago Tribune as saying that tho remonetization
ot tho silver dollar would equalize the values of
silver and gold coin, but that it might, become- nec
essary to reduce the ratio to 15 to 1 in order, to
keep silver here, but it must be remembered that
tho Broadside is quoting from the Chicago Tribune
of 1878, not from the Chicago Tribune of today. .
Alexander McDowell, chief clerk of the house
.of representatives, admits that he got his start in
life by selling "flash" jewelry in the oil fields of
Pennsylvania. He is now quite wealthy and draws
a high salary from an administration that sells
gold bricks to the people.
An administration organ says that "devotion
to military discipline" induced President Roose
velt, to reprimand General Miles. Yet General
Miles was a seasoned campaigner and a capable
officer before thepresident knew the difference be
tweenv an ambulance wagon and a Springfield
musket.
A western preacher was recently accused of
preaching from The Commoner. He replied that ho
found more gospel in The Commoner than in many
of. the church papers. He probably had reference
to those church papers which have been in the.,
habit of lauding the philanthropic trust magnates .
and that think Providence has. called upon us to'
surrender the principles of our own government
in order to give the Filipinos a government, which
they do not want.
The Manila Times, referring to the plan of
campaign in Samar, says that Lukban's army will
be "rounded up for extermination." It is also as
sorted that "Samar island will be made a. desert."
If the policy of exterminating, the army and, mak
ing a desert of the island is carried out every
where, w'hat will our exploiters do? White men
can't work in the Philippines. Some of the Fili
pinos ought to.be left to act as day laborers, or y we
shall be unable to, "develop e" the. islands.
.The democratic party does not oppose national
banks of deposit,, but it does oppose national, banks
of issue, and it believes that, banks of deposit
should be made safe for depositors. It also be
lieves that the financial affairs of the country
should be run in the interests of the people, not
in the interests of the banks. At present the
financiers assume (and thfe republican party en
courages the assumption), that they have, a vested
interest, in the financial afTairs of the government,
and. they profit .largely by the manner in. which
the treasury department. is administered,.
It is reported that Attorney General Knox, in
order to secure the confirmation, of his appoint
ment, was compelled to promise that he would
bring suit against tho great trusts recently organ
ized. The American anti-trust league asserts" that
this, promise was made, and insists upon 'its im
mediate fulfillment. The Minneapolis Times, trys
to stir up Mr. Knox to activity by suggesting that
few lawyers are so well aware as he of the inr'
ward working of the great trusts, and that if. he
will do his duty now he will not only atone for
the past, but win a high place on the -list of re
pentant sinners.
If one desires to find something, humorous" let "
him read tho serious- utterance of gold standard' -financiers.
One of them has written an article
criticising bimetallism and he accuses the silver
man of believing "that sixteen silver dollars
should be equal to one gold dollar, and that tho
united States could, by declaration, make this,
idea a fact, regardless of all the balance of the
world." No one but a financier could be so ignor
ant on the money question, because no one- else
would assume that the mere handling of money
would make one. familiar with the science of money.
Sixteen to one does not mean that it takes "sixteen
silver dpllars to equal one, gold dollar; neither
in8 1L1Fean' as some think, that the- government
wHl c6ih' sixteen silver dollars ' every time -it coins
ono gold dollar. It simply means that a silver
dollar weighs sixteen times as much as a gold
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