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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
The "reorganizers" failed to show the Mis
souri democrats.
. Tho president Is Btlll putting exclamatory
shackles upon tho wrists of the trusts.
As a "watchdog of the treasury" Undo Joe
Cannon of Illinois seems toiboitoy terrier size.
(The republican party always yraq a great hand
a,t busting the trusts bctWen sessions ' of congress.
By all means got together, but lot It be done
on democratic principles, not upon appetite for.
office. . ' ' ' ' u '
"v' When ho contracted for that American" yacht
Kaiser Wllholm forgot, to contract for an Ameri
can crew.
Of course the disastrous floods will be laid to
Providence, but all good,, weather Is claimed1 by
thog. o. p.- ...
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It seems that up to date' the president has
forgotten to notify the beef trust that ho has
shackled it.
The. figures provo that tlio "shadow of pre
destinetl defeat" began to 'grow in the'immediato
vicinity o 1894.
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The opponents of the Irrigation bill now hayo
a chance to point to the western floods and shout,
"Wo told you so."
Tho Vociferous silence .of Mr. Nooley Indicates
that ho Is not in a position to put crimps in the
pillars of tho temple.
Are wo to understand, Admiral Dewey, thai
American lives were sacrificed to Spanish pride
and naval complacency?
The cable informs us that J. Plerpont Morgan
has loft Berlin. We aro ploasedto know that Mr.
Morgan will leave somothing.
President Roosevelt has doubtless mado note
of, tho fact that Mr. Henry T. Oxnard is inclined
to be somewhat strenuous, also.
President Roosevelt said that new anti-trust
legislation was necessary, but ho has so far failed
to point out the legislation he favors.
Two days before tho president told what he
was going to do to tho trusts congress adjourned
without having done a thing to them.
Doubtless President Roosevelt counts that
djiy lost whose shining sun descended sees no
member of his official family defended.
Perhaps thoy call the beet sugar industry an
infant because the most of tho work in the beet
fields is dono by little boys and girls.
VThose people who still believe that figures will
not lie should cast their oyes over tho tax figures
submitted by tho railroads of Nebraska.
The Commoner.
Mr. Estes G. Rathbone says he intends to
have a vindication, and the chances aro that ho
will 'got it if Mr. Hanna's pull holds out.
. ' Perhaps If a few cabinet officials would do
more In the interests of tho -whole peoplo they
would not need so much presidential defending.
Sortio one should call Bandit Tracey up by
telephone and Inform him that there is such a
thing as being too strenuous.
' ' President Roosevelt said a few words in do
nunciation of tho trusts and then took lunch With
Mr. Frlck of Homestead riot and steel trust
fame.
If the pope wants to enjoy a jolly summer he "
should read that set of Roosevelt books and com-
pare what they say with what the author is say
ing now.
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The stool worker with his 10 per cent in
crease in wages still has cause to ponder when
ho bumps up against the 40 per cent increase in
foodstuffs.
Indiana's war claim check for $635,000 is miss
ing. If, tho mail sack containing it had to pass
through Philadelphia the postoffico sleuths have
a good clue.
Newport "society" has just experienced tho
delightful thrill of a dinner at which a monkey
wa tho guest of honor. Tho monkey felt per
fectly at home.
Law officers raise a great outcry when a few
bandits hold up a railroad train, but remain per
fectly quiet when a railroad corporation holds up
an: entire state.
The men who bored holes in the bottom of
the democratic ship insist that they be given com
mand of the vessel because they know just where
they bored the holes.
The president has issued a new civil service
rule, but It does not' protect a clerk .who dares to
hold opinions contrary to tho opiniohsof the head-of-the
administration. , ,.-
It seems that after all congress was not in
such an awful hurry to pass anti-anarchy meas
ures. There is always a surplus of foam on top
of republican protestations.
"What is 'la grippe'?" asks a French scien
tific magazine. As Mr. Morgan is headed for
France our scientific contemporary will soon bo
given a practical demonstration,
Congressman Littlefleld has a strenuous task
before him. He is to draw an anti-trust bill that
will delude the people without alienating tho
trusts' affections from the g. o. p.
The coal miners, freight handlers, dock la
borers,, steel mill men and boilermakers will not
bo able to retire to the seacoast and perform their
labors in the cooling breezes from the ocean.
Now that congress has adjourned the presi
dent has delegated Congressman Littlefleld to
draft an anti-trust law. People who dearly lovo
to be deceived by this sort of thing will find in
this sort of thing something to deceive them.
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Wendell Phillips Once said: "The men who
made the republican party are in the grave; tho
men whom the republican party made' ' are in
congress." The republicans ought not to rest
satisfied until they unmake a number of those who
represont the party in the house and senate.
An Indiana democrat complains because the
party did not have a big campaign fund in 1896
and 1900 and blames the editor of The Com
moner for it. Well, we could have collected as
much from tho trusts as the committee did, In
1892 if wo had been willing to mortgage the party
to the trusts as it was mortgaged in 18921
Tho Georgia convention listened to the siren
voice of the reorganizers and made no reference
either to tho Kansas City platform or to tho Fowler
bill. Well, the party organization will find it
difficult to please the financial interests and yet
bo true to the people at the same time. The voters
will find this out by more experience if they ro
fuso to bo convinced by the experience they have
already had. Tho eastern papers are already
crowing over tne victory in Georgia.
Vol. a, No. a6.
It' is all right to' kill the fatted calf upon the
return of the prodigal, but the prodigal asks too
much when ho demands a steady beef diet at the
expense of all the live; stock on the promises.
When Mr. Cleveland was elected in 1892 a
democratic house was elected with him. In 1894,
when Mr. Cleveland's term was but half done, the
republicans carried the congressional elections and.
secured the largest republican majority, An the
house since' the close of the war. . 1
The Indiana readers of The Commoner will 1
bo glad to know that the. democrats of Porter
county indorsed the Kansas City platform, not
withstanding the failure of the state convention
to do so, and Tho Commondr's informant sa'yfc f
that tho resolutions express" the sentiment of at
least 98 per cent of the democrats of , that; section
of the- state. I
Np one can read tne republican speeches
delivered on July 4th without recognizing that it
was: easier for the revolutionary patriots ,to as .
sert their inalienable rights when those rights .
were attacked by others than it is for present'
day republicans to respect the same inalienable
rights in others when there is a profit in invading
those rights.
On, tho 22nd of February last Mr. Bryan waa
the guest, of tho Ann Arbor (Mich.) "Law School
and at the invitation of the' school . delivereS'
the annual Washington Day address on that day ,r
He has just received from the law students a beau
tiful etching of Washington Jn remembrance of
the occasion, and this much-prized souvenir' will,
ornament the library of his new home at Fairview.' "'
The democrats and populists of South Da
kota have agreed upon a state ticket and..entered
the campaign with courage and spirit Trhe demo
crats indorsed the Kansas City platform and
stated the party's position on the leading issues in
unmistakable terms. South Dakota fell back' in'
1900, but it is only a question of time when that;
great agricultural state wilL be as hostije as Mis-,
souri is to republican policies.
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It seems that the Hill "harmony"' gathering
at Albany was not greatly interested fn the trust'
question. Mr, P. E. Dowe, one of the traveling
men prominent in the anti-trust movement, wired
to the committee in charge that the democrats
from his section would unite only for' genuine
anti-trust candidates, and asked that it be an
nounced. So far, no mention has been made of it.
"Genuine anti-trust candidates" would be as. of
fensive to a "harmony" gathering as a free silver
advocate. ' .
The Press Knickerbocker of Albany;" N. Y.,
has for its motto "An Independent Press is tho
Bulwark of Liberty," and it is living .up to its
motto. It thus comments upon its distinguished
townsman's speech at the Tilden dinner: "Mr.,
Hill is certainly a clever, astute and resourceful'
politician, but with all his ability ho is not able?
to throw dust into the eyes of the democrats. of.
the state and nation who stood manfully by tho
standard-bearers of the platforms of 1896 arid 190ft
while Mr. Hill was sulking iri his tent."
The reorganizers, that is most of them, talk
vigorously. against the trusts, but they refuse to
indorse- the Kansas City platform which points
out the only remedy yet given, and they refuse tD
specify any remedy. Fqr years advocates of tho
gold standard vigorously advocated bimetallism,
but they never .favored any specific legislation,
and when the democratic party proposed a. specific
measure they shouted that business would bo
disturbed, and rushed out of the party. Likewise,
when a specific remedy is proposed for the trusts"
these same reorganizers get scared. They are
long on promise and short on performance.
Democrats everywhere should take notice of
the action of the Missouri state convention recent
ly held at Springfield, Mo. The committee on
resolutions partly influenced by tho reorganizing
sentiment and partly by the fact that it was a ju
dicial convention omitted nil reference to the
Kansas City platform, but when the question was
brought up in the convention the vote stood
501 to 199 for the platform. There is scarcp
ly a state convention which will dare to turn
down that platform if tho friends of the platform
will make a fight, and the closer the convention is
to the people, the larger will be the majority for
the reaffirmation of the platform. It should be
indorsed by every democratic . convention from '
precinct up.
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