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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
If tho Isthmian canal gamo is played according
to Panama rules spades will not bo trumps.
"Manifest destiny" always manages to show
up well in tho footings of tho oxpenso account.
Lot tho Nicaragua canal bill be pushed at once.
It is not necessary to got tho consont of tho rail
roads.
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Would tho supremo court stand G to 4 on' tho
ccnstitutionality of a law increasing tho salaries
of jtidgos?
&$&
T.ho' bones of starved Boer children aro bullded
"' litfo 'a monument to Great Brlatln's efforts in be
half of Christian civilization.
NAAA
In tho year 1002 an American military com
mander suppressed tho Declaration of Independence
as an "incendiary document."
If you have not renewed your subscription to
Tho Commoner, do so at onco. Seo clubbing and
premium offers on 12th page.
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Prosidont Schwab should bo given credit for hav
ing tho good judgment to risk his salary at Monto
Carlo rather than in -Wall street.
By using tho Panama scheme to offset the
Nicaragua plan tho opponents of tho isthmian
canal have fallen back into tho last ditch.
If Kruger cannot reach hero in timo to help,
us celobrato Jefferson's birthday ho might come
over and help us celebrato tho Fourth of July.
It might do some good to amendment tho sal
ary bill so that tho increase will not apply to
judges who vote to suspend the constitution.
Edward VII. should make up his mind to ariso
ou-tho glorious fostal coronation morn and re
ceivo another staggering dispatch from South
Africa.
"God give us men! " shrieks the Chicago Inter
Ocpan. This appeal Indicates that the Inter-Ocean
Is woary of taking whatever the trusts have a
nnnC to give.
Hoolpo for making ln.porli.llsm: Dissolve
tag or powder in , haml of , 801
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Perhaps it would bTjust as well to test tlmr
Danish West Indies brick before paying ovt So
money. The Phillnnin hrim, ii -J J f ?e
add test. u "ut sianu tuo
The Commoner.
The "old timo republican" who wants to voto
his .party ticket without feeling tho pricks of con
science should train his memory to quit when it
gets back to 1890.
Governor Taft says the Filipinos are .rapidly
acquiescing in American control. Tho dead Fili
pino makes no objections, and tho commission
takco silence for consent.
It will please King Edward to know that the
men who will represent this republic at his coro
nation were selected for tho purpose of casting
reflection on other American citizens.
Will President Roosevelt take Prince Henry
over to tho treasury department and show him
tho ragged patches on the republican gold stand
ard law that "saved the national honor?"
Congress is asked to appropriate $500,000 to
build a shelter in Manila for American soldiers.
What's the matter with tho hospitable homes of
the loyal and American-loving Filipinos?
Perhaps Mr. What's the name of that fellow
who wrote the naval history? would like to test
the popularity of the naval clique by following up
the track left across tho country hy Admiral
Schley.
"Can a man with a family be a good Christian
or. a salary of $5 a week?" is a question causing
great discussion in eastern circles. If he is a
Christian at all he would have to be a good one
on that salary.
Senator Hale uttered a great truth when he
said: "If we are to become a gr,eat war power,
we will have to learn the lesson other nations have
learned. Every nation that stands snarling at
another country depends upon compulsory mili
tary service."
Possibly our special envoys to the coronation
can persuade King Edward to delay the crowning
until July 4th in order that the anniversary of the
signing of the Declaration of Independence may
to properly commemorated.
Messrs. Hill and Harriman have struck a
wbat-are-you-going-to-do-about-it pose, and the
indications are that they are prepared, to wait
for .twenty or thirty years while a complaisant
federal court decides the question.
Before paying the purchase price for tho Dan
ish West Indies it should be definitely .determined
that Providence is not throwing the Danish West
Indies into our lap. The last batch of islands we
got that way has been giving us a lot of trouble.
Our thanks are due to England and Germany for
not letting Russia and Austria help Spain whip us,
and our thanks are likewise due to Russia and
Austria for preventing England and Germany from
getting together anU holding us while Spain
whipped us.
Mr. Taft says the trouble in the Philippines is
practically over, and that the Filipinos ,are falling
over each other in their anxiety to become peace
ful subjects. Mr. Taft said the same thing about
eighteen months ago, and late reports indicate
that his remarks are just as accurate now as they
were then.
Mr. Nixon, the new leader of Tammany, denies
that ho has made any requests of any kind of tho
democratic congressmen from New York concern
ing the ship subsidy Ull or any other bill. Good
for Nixon! He must expect to be Hod about but
after tho people know him well it will not ho
necessary for him to deny all the statements nut
into circulation by the republicans.
-The Marconi system .of wireless telegraphy is
bo wonderful in its theory and so .great in its
possibilities .that proof of its success is naturally
rf reived with some hesitation. Recent experiments,
however, such as thoso just conducted between
ships ,one hundred miles apart and reported in
tl Chicago American, seems to demonstrate tho
practicability of the system.
A Detroit widow has just been married to the
spirit of a man who has been dead for a number
of years. A spiritualistic medium performed the
ceremony. In the interest of free government Tho
Commoner is willing to pay the customary fee if
some medium will bring about a binding marriago
between the republican party and one of the revo
lutionary patriots who fought against taxation
without representation and government without
the consent of the governed.
An agent reports that one democrat refused to
subscribe for The Commoner because he had read
In some paper that Mr. Bryan had "gone over to
the gold bugs" and was "booming Hill for presi
dent." If the aforesaid democrat read The Com
moner he could not be deceived by such absurd
rumors. Those who take this paper know thut
the editor neither has "boomed," is "booming"
nor will "boom" any one for the democratic nomi
nation who was against the party 1n 1896 .or even
doubtful.
Some of the enthusiastic friends of The Com
moner exaggerate the income from the paper while
unfriendly critics belittle the paper's success. The
fact is that tho receipts have exceeded the ex
penditures sufficiently to insure the success of the
enterprise, but not sufficiently to relieve the editor
of the necessity of lecturing occasionally. Tho
result is entirely satisfactory, for the lectures en
able the editor to come into contact with the people
throughout the country and thus better equip him
self for editorial work.
President Baer of the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad has been preaching the gospel that "work
is'Worship'-'but he thinks that the subject can
not be properly treated except by the denunciation
of organized labor. Before he denounces "the ab
solute despotism and tyranny'" of labor organiza
tions he had better 'read the report of the inter
state commerce commission and tell us what he
thinks of the respectable criminals who violate
the statutes and conspire with others to violate
those statutes.
There is one consolation that can be drawn
from Mr. Schwab's exploits at Monte Carlo; he
was doing less harm to his country than he was
last spring when he told a graduating class that
it was better for boys to quit school and commence
business at sixteen or seventeen than to secure a
thorough education. His experience at tho gam
bling table may be a warning to others; his advice
to the students was dangerous because his large
salary and his business prominence make his iworcL
weighty to those who measure life by tho accumu
lation of wealth.
The manufacturers who favored ,an imperial
policy with the expectation that tho Filipinos
would be .compelled to trade with the United
States may lose their enthusiasm when, they learn
that the door must be kept open in the Philippines
or it is likely to be shut in other parts of the
orient. Tho commercial advantages of ,a colonial
policy may not be so glittering if we are to have
no special advantages over foreigners in securing
1-hi ippine trade. Some of our manufacturers are
saying: "If the trade argument is so soon done.
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