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The Commoner; Vol. a, No. 23. l I r v. I The Commoner. ISSUED' WEEKLY. Entered nt the pot office at Lincala, Nebraska, as kqohoV clnM mail matter TERMS-PAY A BLB IN ADVANCE; Cut Year $1,00 I I Three flentka.. 35c Clxilonths 50c j J Single Copy , s Sample Copied Free. FerelgH Postage sac Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS enn be scut direct to The Commoner. Theycnu nlsobe sent through newspapers whJcljihnvc adver tised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, where such agents have been appointed. All remittances should be sent by post office money order, express order, or by bank draft ou. New York or Chicago. Do not send Individual checks, stamps, oc money. RENEWALS, The date on your wrapper shows when your subscription will expire. Thus, Jan. 03, means- that payment lias been received to and Including; the last issue of January, 1902 Two weeks arc required after money is received before th'fcdatis. ou the wrapper can be changed. CHANGE OP ADDRESS.-Subscribcrs requesting a change of address must give the-OLD as well as the NEW a fdrcss. ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Quay, the Pennsylvania con vontlonpacker, nominated Mr. Pennypacker. As a harmony ticket how would ."Cleveland and Watterson" do? Dofending, the honor of the army does not con sist in- protecting the men who disgrace it. We presume that the steel trust will cheerful ly furnish tho shackles for the other trusts. Great Britain's Boer war deht is so big that. tho British taxpayers will not forget for a long; time; General Lord Roberts should rejoice. The money ho received for ending the Boor war will Btay put. . i .. . . .. Are you assisting in the distribution of demo cratic literature by taking advantage of the "Lots, of Five" offer? There are two republics less in the world, and this great republic must bear a share of the re sponsibility for tho decrease. With unparalleled kindness and generosity Mr. Quay will let the republicans of Pennsylvania vote for Judgo Pennypacker. Tho persecution of General Miles results only in showing the greatness of Miles and the petty emallnesa of his persecutors. Lot's see, what was tho name of the "special representative of tho United States" at the in auguration of President Palma? Tho injunction shackles upon tho limbs of tho trusts do not seem to prevent the trusts from mak ing ping-pong balls of tho people. 11 The only thing lacking at the Tilden club banquet was a motto. "Remember 1S94" would have given a finish to tho occasion. Miss Taylor did not receive a reprimand for talking too much. She received a discharge for writing- a little. Senator Mason is now sufforlng tho penalty for voting as ho thought right. Ho has learned that ho has no right to think contrary to the bosses, In view of what has leaked out of the war de partment no one can blame Secretary Root for growing angry when a war office secret leaks out. A republican organ assorts that tho president's special message is a "bit of pretty sentiment," but insists that sentiment has no place in republican councils now. Occasionally a republican organ stumbles into telling the truth. Not an objection is raised to tho recommen dation that Captain Charles Clark be promoted to tho grade of rear admiral on tho active list. The only objection that has beon -heard concerning tho Clark promotion was that it was not sooner accomplished. The Pennsylvania republicans who thought that Mr. Quay was an extinct volcano are nursing their blisters and rubbing the ashes out of their yes. Now that Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Hill have boon harmonized again, why not get up a ban quet and harmonize Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Watterson. Mr. Cleveland says that tho democratic party Is lndestructable. He is egotistical enough to be lieve that, as it survived his attacks upon It, noth ing can kill it. "Coin" Harvey has established an attractive pleasure resort at Monte No, near Rogors, Ark., but ho still finds Ills greatest pleasure in tho ad vocacy of economic reforms. Judas went out and hanged himself and Ar nold moved to England. In this connection It may be mentioned as a matter of news that Cleveland attended the Tilden club banquet. J. J. Hill says that tho chief objection to tho trusts lies in the method of their formation. Mr. Hill is wrong again. The chief objection to them is tho carrying out of their methods. Tho Fowler bill and the ship subsidy bill are not dead. Neither are they asleep. They are both pooping through tho committee room keyholes and waiting for the signal to come forth. After proclaiming peace in South Africa the British proclaimed a mining tax of 10 por cent. The Outlanders stirred up the trouble because the Boers levied a mining tax of 5 per cent. Of course Senor Buencamino is a great and good man. Ho accepted a salary from the admin istration and endeavors to earn it by saying what the administration would have him say. Mr. Cleveland has opened the doors of his church and members will be received either on profession of faith in him or by letter from any other orthodox branch of the republican party. Th,e Joplin (Mo.) Daily Globe is a democratic newspaper wLoso editorial utterances -do not ro- ceive the 'flattering indorsement of republican or gans. This indicates tho Globe's fidelity to demo cratic principles. , Having waited until congress appropriated about all the money in sight Mr. Cannon thought it time to call a halt. This subsequent economy is hard on the people. They want a little more eco nomy of the previous brand. Mr. Hill played second fiddle at tho Tilden club banquet, and why not? If the democracy sinned in repudiating Cleveland it ought to atono by reinstating him, not by honoring such a per sonal enemy as David B. Hill. Mr. Watterson's paper publishes a strong edi torial in denunciation of Mr. Cleveland and his recent speech. This is too bad. Mr. Watterson was one of the chief supporters of Mr. Cleveland's Palmer and Buckner plan of campaign in 1896 and it is painful to see so small a party divided. Tho papers report that Mr. Bryan was invited to the Tilden club banquet, but did not reply. Tho fact is that he was not invited; had he been he would have responded explaining why he would not attend a political banquet given in honor of one who twice opposed the democratic ticket and has never since announced his intention to return to the party. . Hon. Thomas Taggart, who was recently In dorsed by his state convention for chairman of tho . democratic national committee, was at the Tilden club banquet swinging Incense before the unrepentant apostate from New Jersey. It is well that the democrats of tho nation learn thus early of tho kind of politics to be expected when Ind iana's favorite son takes the helm. Lieutenant Preston Brown was tried by court martial on tho charge of killing a Filipino, con victed and sentenced to dismissal and a term of imprisonment Tho sentence was commuted and General Miles recommended that the sentence be carried out. Lieutenant Brown's name was sent to the senate with a recommendation that he be pro moted to a captaincy. Why these disloyal attacks on the head of tho army? The Chicago man who stole a $2 pair of shoes and received a sentence of ono year In tho peni tentiary will know better next time. He will steal eeveral hundrd thousand doliars and escape by; threatening to pull down the pillars of the repub-' llcan temple. Congressman Cannon, republican, declares that tho revenue for the coming fiscal year will be about $639,000,000, while tho appropriations thus Tar made by the republican congress reach $700,000, 000. A "surplus problem" has no terrors for a re-i publican congress in these days. On another page will be found a dispatch from London stating that, as first arranged, Whitelaw Reid was to ride backwards in the coronation procession. Ollie James insists that the arrange ment is entirely appropriate since our nation 13 going backward when it sends envoys to a coronation. The republican platform makers of Pennsyl vania "deprecate any suggestion under existing cir cumstances of a general revision of the tariff." Of course they do. "By this craft we have our wealth!" exclaimed Demetrius, the silversmith, when Paul attacked the worship of Diana. Demet rius founded a large family, many of whom live in Pennsylvania. The Associated Press, speaking of the New York Tilden club.banquet, said: "A collation was served in the banquet hall to the distinguished guests of the evening and a buffet supper was served in the basement for the rank and file." That was entirely appropriate. The rank and file always eat in the basement when Cleveland oc cupies the chief place at the banquet table. The editor of Tho Commoner recently pub lished an editorial calling President Roosevelt's attention to the criminal clause of tho Sherman anti-tmst law. The Now York Tribune prints an extract from the editorial and heads it, "Bryan At tacks Roosevelt." In tho opinion of a republican editor it is attacking a republican officeholder to call his attention to the law. Tho Minneapolis Journal says everybody In, Wall street is wondering what would happen if J. Pierpont Morgan should die. Does the Journal have reference to Wall street or to Morgan. If to the latter it may learn something by. reading the 24th verso of the 19th chapter of Mathew. Inci dentally it. may be remarked that the Journal could learn a great deal by reading other verses and chapters. A Rousing" Celebration. The dispatches from Manila announce that the Americans aro planning to have "a rousing jvoarth of July celebration and the Filipinos are co-operating with them." The dispatches do not say whether the reading of tne Declaration of Independence will be barred on this occasion, but it is dollars to doughnuts that this "rousing" celebration will proceed without the aid of the inspiring sentences of the charter of American liberty. A celebration of the Fourth of July with the Declaration of Inde pendence barred may be very "rousing," but there aro many American citizens who will not be able to understand how such a thing could be possible. The laboring man is interested in every ques- tion which concerns the industrial, social and po litical life of tho nation, but there are some questions which, touch him first and to which ho feels that he is immediately re lated. Among the general ques tions aro those which effect the education of his children, the taxation of his property and the pro tection of his rights. Ho needs arbitration for the adjustment of his difficulties with corporate em ployers because he cannot afford to enter into a protracted struggle with capital. Ho is interested in tho abolition of the new tyranny known as gov ernment by injunction which denies him a trial by jury if any one sees fit to charge him with tho violation of a law or with resistance to an order which makes criminal some act which was betore innocent. He also finds it necessary to protest against a black-list law, which is intended to take from him the opportunity of employment If he as serts his right to differ from his employers about matters which concern himself and family. No one is more Interested in good government than the laboring man, and no one has more reason than he to be an advocate of tho doctrine that gov- ernmonts derive their just powers from the con sent of the governed. The American Worklngman. l!