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V ( 515 The Commoner. Vol. a, No. g. The Commoner. ISSUED WGEKLY". Kntcr cd at the postoflice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as sccoud clas mnlt matter. TERMS-PA VABLB IN ADVANCE. One Year $1.00 Slxflonths 50c Three rionths 35c Single Copy flc Sample Copies Free. Foreign Postage 53c Extra. ! 1 -. .w 1 mil will - ""' ' ' SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to The Commoner. They can also be sent through newspnpers which have adver tised a clubbing rate, or through local ogcuts, whercsuch agents have been appointed. All remittances should be sent by post office money order, express order, or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not send individual checks, stamps, or money. RENEWALS. The date on your wrapper shows when your subscription will expire. Thus, Jan, 02, means that payment lias been received to and including' the last issue of January, 1903 Two weeks arc required after money is received before the date on the wrapper can be changed. CIIANOE OP ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting r change of address muat give the OFD as well as the NEW address. ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application. Address 11 communications to THE COMMONER, Llnceln, Neb. Mr. Knox is prosecuting, but the beef trust keeps the price up. The patriotism of some men is never aroused until they can see money in it. . Of course it is not necessary, neither is it al ways justice, for the flag to "stay put." ; Water cure, starvation, torture and extermi nation are the natural fruits of Imperialism. The g. o. p. managers made the mistake of crowding the stomach to a too high rate of thinking. Purchase a "Lot of Five" subscription, cards and assist In extending the influence of Tho Commoner. ' . After carefully noting the date of the next congressional election Mr. Babcock has thought better of it The why and the how of volcanoes is infor mation that interests but is not essential. Whatjivo want to know is tho when. J. Pierpont Morgan seems determined to achieve the distinction of being tho San Juau Hill leader of tho Captains of Industry. Mr. Held defonds his job with all warmth of a man who does not intend losing tho money In vested In upholstering his pedal extremities . Mr. Secretary of tho Navy Moody should hesi tate before interfering with the pink tea duties of tho naval officers stationed in Washington. Tho only outcome that seems likely in the beef trust -investigation is a higher price for beef. The beef trust has been put to considerable expense. "Is republicanism a crime.?" queries the Chi cago Inter-Ocean.. Before we undertake to make answer we must know if the subject Is a paretic. Tho "Lots of Tive" subscription proposition printed elsewhere in this Issue deserves the care ful consideration of every reader of The Commoner. Senator Dolliver doflnes the democratic party as "a syndicate of vituperation." From this It appears that tho sonator's epidormis has at least been punctured, The name of the next democratic candidate for the presidency is not yet definitely known. But it is definitely known that whoever he Is he will bo a democrat who has been faithful to demo cratic principles as enunciated in democratic plat- "Is tho ship subsidy bill dead, or only sleep ing?" queries the Chattanooga Times. Neither. It is merely locked In Its dressing room com pleting its disguise. SInco the disaster at Martinique perhaps it would bo well to let the people of tho United States vote on the question of annexing tho vol canos in tho West Indies. Tho C. anish counselors have selected a wife for King Alfonso. Now who wouldn't be an Ameri can boy with a right to marry the girl of his own choice, if she'll have him? Naturally a number of g. 0. p. editors defend the special envoys to tho coronation. Mr. Reid is an. editor. And are they not editors? And will thero not be other coronations? Tho Cubans whom we helped are free. Tho Filipinos who helped us are being given the water cure, benevolent assimilation of the Smith brand and arbitrary military rule. Of course Mr. Hanna Is just as ready to de fend tho telephone trust as he is to defend Rath bone. Mr. Rathbono used tho telephone quite frequently during a certain senatorial campaign. Alfonso XIII. was the center of Interest in a very imposing pageant, but he did not get as much fun out of it as the average American, boy of the same age gets out of a day's bobbing for bullheads. Just as long as the coal trust can keep adding $1 to the price of a ton of coal whenever it sees fit, the coal trust will have the best of the situa tion. Tho place to hit the coal trust is at tho ballot box. "There Is no energy in beefsteak," remarks a scientific gentleman. Perhaps not, but in these days of beef trust manipulation it requires an aw ful lot of energy to get the money wherewith to purchase the steak. It will be a long time before Senator Car mack'a reference to Joe Ballanfant's horse will be forgotten. Referring to this remarkable ani mal, Senator Carmack said that "running- away was his natural gait" Senator Spooner declares that reconcentratlon does not mean in the Philippines what it meant in Cuba. But if the results are the same, and it Is reported on good authority that they are, what matters the definition? The best tribute paid to the memory of Amoa J. Cumminga was the statement that "little child ren in tho streets cried when they heard he was dead." No grander monument than the tears of little children can be builded to any man. The federal court has issued an order re straining the meat trust from committing an un lawful act What's the matter with criminally prosecuting the members of the meat trust for haying already committed unlawful acta? Tho persistent British reports that the Boers seek peace should prepare us for tho news that the Boors have shattered another British column seized another rich British supply train and par oled another British officer of high. rank. Mr. Rathbone declared that under certain contingencies ho would pull down the pillars of the republican temple. The strenuous efforts be ing made in his behalf indicate that Mr. Rathbone is in a position to live up to his advance notices. You will search in vain through a republican organ for any denunciation of General Leonard Wood. Yet General Wood hauled down the flag whero it had been "put." and by so doing contra dicted Mr. Roosevelt, who said tho flag would "stay put" The painting of Roosevelt at San Juan Hill, exhibited in a Paris salon, fails to show the pres ence of that negro regiment The fact that a negro regiment was there, however, accounts for the presence of so many "Rough Rider" heroes' In tho United States. 1' Whenever a republican policy is attacked the republican leaders begin to whine and declare that attacks are being made on "tho army," "the navy," "the honor of the country," or make some other foolish and untrue charge. Republicans have ceased defending their policies. Mr. Hanna says he is standing by Rathbone because he does not believe Rathbone had a fain and impartial trial. There are a great many peo ple who believe that Mr. Hanna is standing by, Rathbono for the simple reason that Rathbono did have a fair and Impartial trial. Congressman Thomas of Iowa intimates tha the Sioux City Journal's Washington dispatches are manufactured in the Iowa- office. A careful reading of the Journal would give Mr. Thomas better ground for believing that the Journal's edl- torials were manufactured in Washington. The little bankers are fighting the proposition' of the big bankers, who propose a gigantic banking trust. Are the little bankers beginning to realize that the big bankers harbored a few ulterior motives when they pretended to be so much exercised about the "assaults on national honor?" , I The naval appropriation bill carries a pro viso that no part of the money wppropriated shall be expended in the purchase of Edgir Stanton Maclay's alleged history of the Navy Department. There seems to be a cruel snub for certain stren uous individuals concealed in that little para- graph. It is pointed out that under our laws and tho constitution Mr. Reid will be nothing moreUhart "the personal representative of the president." If Mr. Roosevelt is willing to let it go at that we no longer wonder. A man willing to be personally re- presented by Whitelaw Reid deserves extreme consideration. f t k With his own hands General Wood hauled down the flag in Cuba. But you will watch' re publican newspapers In vain for denunciations of Wood as a "traitor," " little American," "cop perhead," and "Tagalog." Once more the cow catcher of republican logic has ripped the bota out of the rear platform thereof. , After strenuously denying the existences of cruelty and torture on the part of the army in-.thf, Philippines the republican organs are now ad mitting it and seeking to excuse it on the ground that "the Filipinos began it.'" The republican admission usually manages to catch the republic can denial about half way 'round the race trade,- "Can the republican party afford to stand by; the food trust?" asks the Johnstown Democrat That's the question that is agitating the republi can party. If It does not it gets no campaign fund, and that means defeat If it does the people will rebel, and that means defeat But the leaders will stand by it, for the leaders get the money See? j The Commoner does not expect that its sug gestions of presidential candidates on the demo cratic ticket will meet with favor at the hands of republican editors. The Commoner is not sug gesting men who call themselves democrats and support republican policies. Only democrats of that class find favor at the hands of republican editors. . Only, the press made heroes of war are howl- ' ing about "attacks on the army." The soldiers who won their spurs and straps in op3n, horioW able and lawful warfare are not complaining he- Cause J33 of brutality have been pointed T5.er51 soldier ls slad of it, because Hi means that his profession will not be made dfe-rf honorable without a protest from the people. 1 inS??10"81111 peoPlQ are destitute in Mart twn ilet S r,emember also that there are S d ring at Goliad, Texas, Cold SvTf8', Sd othQr Pint3 - our. owni- LnM ? ? S, erywhere,. but in so doing- w S5?0pcSjffldly' indifferet to the suffering ot o