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6 The-; Commoner. T4 Jk o nth r at ?v. h Rl. F'i-' w "ij, A $. ! ffiK? KSftf Pi;' ."y .; I WWWWWMVih 1 Whether Common or Not 5Jwwwiw M Ylio New Rule The trusts have found a better plan To rule the working masses, Than trusting work of making laws In hands of voting masses. They've found it less expense to "see A judge without compunction, 'And get from him a writ of court To rule them by injunction Men are enjoined from walking-on i The free and public highways; 'And ministers have been enjoined , From preaching in- the by-ways. Still other men have been enjoined From quitting their employment, 'Although their wage had been cut down For other men's enjoyment. Injunctions here, injunctions there, . From north to southern borders; The trusts have got it fixed so they , Can get restraining orders. But though injunctions come so fast ;There is no use believing -That trusts will ever be enjoined . From keeping up their .thieving., Those Dear Girls. , 'tDld.Jack tell you he thought I had a heayenly voice?" ,.?' .,"Well, he said you had. an unearthly. voice." legislation, damages." Then he'll , sue us tot turkey, a hunk o' bread an' half a mince pie." "Ain't dey goin' t' divvy wid us?" "Naw! I went over an' asked 'em wus dey doin' t' play fair an' Dusty give me de" hoot. Said he an' Weary had organized a Grub Security Com pany an' was starvin' de small fellers out." 'v - ' ' ' ' '. ' .r I Abbreviated. v ' i: There was a young lady in Me;-.-'" ; "Who vainly had striven to'gnV ' The beautiful knack "-' ' Of grabbing the slack Of the skirt she wore in the rn. r v - 5afe. -. ! jHellow, Blnks! Have you kept your NowVYear's resolutions?" "" ':''. ; ifmbet! Put 'em away carefully n.&eVetney'd be in no. 'danger of being .used;" ; --1, If Discovered, the country Is looklncr fnr ) elastic currency I'd "better be given a place in the cabinet." ! "What do you know, about finance?" "I stretched a fiver oyer two opera chairs., a cab and a theatre lunch lor two.'r ' A Literary scheme. J Phillip Space "W.o've got to frame tip a scheme to keep the wolf from the door." . , . . , Turner pown-r"That's right... We hav,en't sold, a line for a month. What shall we do?" Phillip Space "We've got. to get be fore the public." Turner Down "Yes; but how.?" j Phillip Space "Well, we might join (teams with -some politician-, and turn the trick." Turner Down "I .'don't catch your meaning." Phillip Spac.e "You are growing dense. We'U.-jolnrteamB -wfthgoma politician and. one of us :will; wrjte him up as a Scheming, selfish trafficker in The Ausllnlan Muse. Alfred Austin, poet laureate of Eng land, has been at it again. He has written a poem entitled "Together," which sings of the cemented friend ship between Great Britain and the United States.' Two verses of his ode are hero given; Should envious aliens plan and plot 'Gainst one and now the other, They swift would learn how strong the knot EInds brother unto brother. How quickly they would change their tack And show the recreant feather Should star and stripe and union jack But float mast high together. Now let us give one hearty grip, As by true men is given, '; ' ' And vow fraternal fellowship That never shall be riven; And with our peaceful flags unfurled, Be fair or-vfoul- the weather;; .. ', Should need arise, face? all. therworldt And stand or fall together,. These verses are not reprinted be cause of their worth, but merely to give an opportunity for showing' how easy that, sort-of thing Is. The senti ment expressed by Austin Isfvery beau tifulwhen you happen to be ignor ant of. existing conditions. But after reading of the concentration camps in South Africa and -the killing of men in Luzon whose only crime is loving liberty well enough to die for it, there seems to be something akin W follow mockery in -the lines. It is riot' ' diffi cult to write verses like the latest from the pen of England's laureate, and still less difficult when one writes of .things as they really are and not as' he would have them. Had Austin stuck to facts he might have written some thing like, this: Should alien races dare to fight Against our 'conquering' banners, Although they strive for home'. and ' right ' - We'll teach them better mariners. We'll scatter ruin in their track And loose the war dog's tether, While stars and stripes and union jack Spread tyranny together. Now let us give one hearty grip As tyrapts e'er., are doing, And pledge ianQ pirates' fellowship While trade and gold pursuing. And with our battle flags unfurled, Be fair or foul the weather, We'll shoot our way around the world And share the swag together. These verses are as smooth as Aus tin's, and it is left to an unprejudiced public to jdecide if they do .not come closer to the real facts than the Aus- I tirilan spasm of Terajflc&tlon. Brain Leaks An old shoe" for comfort, arid a fresh son for worry. It is not always the loudest grunter that does the most lifting. He who trusts to luck must beg of him who works with pluck. Moral suasion with the trusts is like eating bean soup with a fork. It is always easier to stand off and criticise than it is to rush in and help There is something wrong. with the man that is avoided by babies and dogs. Some husbands neglect to. treat their wives as well as they do their own friends. - Nations are framing their, policies according to a golden rule of human origin. There .is no charity in robbing John of a dollar in order to give Jame3 and George 50 cents, each.. . As Jong as. Justice; .suffers.; from ophthalmia she does not need to wear that bandage over her eyes. "Some men wlio are dishonest in,poll tics are honest in business because they are 'afraid'totbe dishonest' in busi ness. Sowing wild oats would not be near ly so bad if wives and children did not often have to subsist on the crop reaped. Will M. Maupin. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. A quick, safe, and tare relief for sickdmoiw tons Headache, Backache, Stomach Pains, Neuralgia, Nervousness, Irritability, Sleepless- nestt, Rheumatism, Sciatica. Contain no opium or morphine, and ISavo no bad after-effects, 25 doses 25c. At druggists. Financiering. "Wot;hasJDuatyand -Weary 'got "over there?" "Doinfuys has panhandled a half a Timely Warnings. Coincident; with the announcement that since May-last copper stocks have suffered a 'depreciation of value of $96,112,500, comes a cable from Berlin describing the commercial depression in Germany. A year and a half ago. it is pointed out, Germany -was notable for what wo, of the western hemisphere, would call a "big boom"- in trade. Brokers on the Berlin bourse indulged in per sonal violence in their efforts to buy stocks. Extravagant expenditure of money, made with magical rapidity, became so common as to cease to ex cite remark. . Industrials rose like rockets and wages went up with them. Today all is changed.. Yachts, pal aces, race horses are for sale and there are ,np. purchasers, while the incomes that justified the possession of these expensive luxuries have dwindled to the point of mere support or, in many cases, have disappeared. Thirty-five thousand workmen in Berlin alone are idle and their families, as are those of many idle workmen throughout the empire, arc in want for the necessities of life. Conditions in Germany arid the United States while differingnrater-' ially in many respects, are sriftteftfly alike In ,6thers to make a' Warning plain and to accent 'the need lop -'.the heeding thereof. The enormous .loss in copper stocks is, of course, ex plained by trade reasons that may or may not affect other commodities. The lesson we should learn might be thus expressed: Natural ;waterheated to a certain degree disappears In steam; water in stocks heated by un-. reasoning speculation is liable to va porize and disappear, leaving behind it collapse. Whether natural steam escapes grad ually or by an explosion its usefulness has departed; whether the water in stocks is forced out gradually by trade conditions or, by its violent expansion, produces a panic, It leaves wreck be hind it. . There is every reason to fear that the greed to grow rich by illegitimate means illegitimate in the sense "of the violation of the .plain laws of supply, demand, commerce, domestic economy unless checked, will result if not in panic, in serious loss, not only to the greedy, but Id an innocent public. Let confidence la our prosperity suffer serious diminution and many stocks intrinsically valuable will repeat the story of eight.years ago and find themselves far below the real worth. c Is it not time.. to put the brake on? Is it not wisdom to stop this over capitalization, this practl6e of swell ing the volume of a corporation's se curities to mammoth figures so, , that the public mayhot know. the magni tude of the dividends earned "upon the original investment dividends, that, in., the very nature; .of things, ,cannot continue. t Mr-)ti Whatever may be the recbirinieriaa tions in Mr. Roosevelt's message we kve the right to assume that they will be intended for the good of the whole people. We may rest in tho moral certainty that he will not num ber among the blessings of this nation the formation of .gigantic trusts capi talized to an aggregate doubling tho entire currency '6utput of tho country a half a century ago. Is there not danger that the United States is growing drunk with success and absolutely forgetful of a sickening "next morning?" Minneapolis Times. No Money Want Simply Tell Me the Book You Need. Please write a postal to know what I spent a lifetime in learning. 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