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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
When Petor showed an anxloty to fight he was
rebuked.
Britannia rules the wave when Mr. Morgan
waives his rule.
Tho Roosevelt trust busting is all done in the
advanco notices.
Of course the new thresher trust-will mako
the farmers shell out.
The harvester men are forming a liuge com-
trine but; hush, Knox might find it out!
- Why not send General Bragg to Manila?r;Hls
letters would then bo properly censored.- ;- .
Mr. Knox did not grow a bit angry when the
beef trust gave him the equine cachinnatlon.
Mr. Babcock continues to give amazing exhibi
tions of ground and lofty tumbling on the tariff
revision question.
Some one seems to hove dropped a monkey
wrench into the wheels of the Yates-Hopkins
senatorial machine.
The republican campaign book does not fea
ture the terrible assault the administration made
upon tho beef trust. ' . . ,
Mr: Quay is laid up wllh a burned foot, but
he still has a pair of good, hands with which to
.ahake the plum tree.
The Tennessee election returns prove beyond
a doubt that the Tennessee democracy is not in
need of reorganization.
Tho fishiest part of that restaurant story is
that any trust magnate should sneer at Mr. Knox's
attitude towards the trusts.
Mr. Hanna's Cleveland street railway Inter
ests seem to be experiencing difficulty in keeping
their Injunctions on straight. x .
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'. ' The "Lots of Five" proposition, printed on
another page of this issue, deserves the careful
consideration of every democrat.
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Tho man who said that "Language Is given
us to conceal our thoughts" may have had the re
publican campaign text book in mind.
By refusing to arbitrate and enjoining others
from feeding the striking miners the anthracite
vmlne owners expect to solve tho problem.
,7 Tho newspaper paragrapher .that has failed
...to speak of the Firmintation of Haytien politics
has missed an unusually good opportunity.
Mr.Neeloy now wants tho money tie had on
his person when arrested and which was taken
from him by the federal authorities. Even tho
arrogant trusts might be benefitted by securing the
name of the nerve food, Mr. Neeloy uses.
Tho now harvester trust comes at an oppor
tune time. It will keep the farmers, from saving
enough monoy to mako them plutocratic.
Mr. Babcock has changed his mind, and ho
wants -it distinctly understood that it is nobody's
business when, "why, or how ho changed it.
The trusts are perfectly willing to let tho re
publican party do all that is done to curb the
power o tho trusts. Tho trusts know when they
are well off.
ft tho republicans are determined to prosecute
a campaign of alliteration they should not over
look tho possibilities of "Fatfrying, Fol-de-rol
and Fulmination."
The president says his tour is to be strictly
non-partisan, and all the republican campaign
committees, along his route are exerting every
effort-to mako it so.
"Mr. Knox is accredited with a deslro to leavo
tho cabinet," says an exchange. Thus it appears
that oven Mr. Knox-may harbor a desire enter
tained by the masses.
Many a trust magnate has said things "at the
other table" that has caused American workmen
to quit eating but Attorney General Knox was
not ready to interfere.
Tho only difference between the Kankakee,
111., insanes asylum republican band and other re
publican bands is that the Kankakee fellows can
play band instruments.
It may be that tho g. o. p. fat-fryers will
chase tho trusts around for campaign contribu
tions until tho trusts commit the Harry Tracey
finish in sheer desperation.
The public may bo able to realize the full
meaning of the horrible announcement of an extra
session of the senate after pondering for -a time"
on the make-up of the senate.
Mr. Morgan is hustling to get .his shipping
trust all ready to receive tho shipping subsidy
bounty he expects to secure after he has elected
the proper kind of a congress.
Tho republican campaign book declares that
everything that has been done against the trusts
has been done by the republican party. If this
is true the trusts are glad of it.
When Mr. Roosevelt said that a good soldier
should be anxious to fight he may have had in
mind tho feelings of the Ninth infantry (colored)
on a certain memorable day in 1898.
People who disbelieve the report that Mr.
Roosevelt made five bullseyes with the revolver
should not be hasty in forming their opinion. It
might "have been a pnuematic revolver.
Does any wise man believe. that a party whose
existence and success depends upon the liberality
and favor of the trusts will keep any promise it
may make the people to destroy the trusts?
If Explorer Baldwin is sufficiently rested from
his unavailing search for the North Polo perhapg
he would condescend to try to locate the injury
dono the beef trust by that little injunction.
The only hope for relief from trust exactions
the people may entertain under tho present ad
ministration is that the trusts may laugh them
selves to death watching the actions of Mr. Knox.
Let us hope that the new justice of the su
preme court will be an "autocrat of tho judicial
table'" in the same sense that his famous and kind
ly progenitor was an "autocrat of the breakfast
table."
The republican congressional campaign text
book shows many evidences of having been care
fully edited by the interests that will be- depended
upon to put up the bulk of tho campaign expense
monoy. ,ou
The president waited until congress adjourned
before making any parade of anti-trust - senti
ments, and he naturally wUl wait until after, the
election before calling tho senate into extra ses
sion to consider reciprocity treaties.
The friends of Colonel Gaynor and Captain
Greene crowded- around them, the dispatches' say,
and congratulated them ho:irtily on their success
in escaping extradition, Thtyr "friends" oueht to
bo photographed for the Roses' Gallery
Vol. a, No. 31.
Perhaps the harveVter trust would be fright
ened to death if It know of tho terrible punish
ment Inflicted upon tho beef trust,
Colonel Gaynor and Captain Greene must move
In a depraved circle when their "friends" will
openly congratulate them on escaping justice by
defeating extradition
The Kansas City Journal declares that "Presi
dent Roosevelt is tho most aggressive trust
fightor now before the public." These little flashe
of humor adorn the Journal's editorial page every,
now and then.
The Tennessee democracy reaffirmed the Kan
sas City platform without dodging or equivocation,
and then, turned In and won the election by 40,000
majority. It pays to stand squarely for principle
and adopt pjatforms that can be interpreted "but
one way.
With one accord the administration organs
continue to declare that the reorganization of the
democratic party -4s essential to democratic suc
cess. The desire of tho administration organs to
achieve success for the cTemocratic party is touch
ing to see.
That soft, thumping sound from the northeast
is easily explained. It is Mr. Littlefield practic
ing on a blow that will make good republican
campaign material and yet be so .easy that the
trusts will not grow angry and refuse to yield up
campaign grease.
A negro has just been tarred and feathered
at Marion, Mass., within sight of Bunker Hill.
Thus early is vindicated the judgment of the Ar
kansas negro who refused a pardon from the peni
tentiary on the condition that he make his home
in Massachusetts.
A Missouri man disbelieves the report of find
ing a human skulL 35,000 years old In Kansas,
and bases his disbelief on the ground that there
were no men that long ago. Our. Missouri friend
,1s clearly wrong. It has been fully that long since
Mr. Knox busted a trust.
When Mr. Morgan returned home he was
greatly insulted because a customs officer would
not take the Morgan, check for impost duties.
The officer would have violated the law by accept
ing the check, but a little" thing like violating law
does not worry Mr. Morgan.
The Nebraska republican platform says: "We
commend the bold stand he (Roosevelt) has taken
against the formation or perpetuation of unlaw
ful combinations in restraint of trade." Not until
the name Qf the gentleman who wrote it is made
public can the list of great American humorists
be completed.
William E. Curtis of the Chicago Record
Herald says he has statistics to prove that the
trusts control only "a meagre 8 per cent of the
manufacturing done in this country." This recalls
tho saying of the gentleman who remarked that
thero were three kinds of liars, "ordinary liars,
blankety blank liars, and statistics." '
President Roosevelt in. his Pittsburg speech
took occasion to praise Mr. Knox for his active
prosecution of trusts and men behind the sugar
trust, the salt trust, the steel trust, the oil trust, tho
cracker trust, the starch trust, the tobacco trust,
the rubber trust, the match trust and tho one
hundred and one other trusts laughed until their
sides ached.
The Elks are to be congratulated upon their
determination not to stand sponsor for any more
street fairs. Such fairs, when freed from the
thimble-rig and catch penny games that are some
times permitted, are a legitimate means of bring
ing a crowd to town and may be employed by the
merchants as an aid to their business, but they are
not likely to reflect credit upon a social and fra
ternal order like the Elks.
The golden jubilee number of the Cleveland
(O.) Wachter and Anzeiger exemplifies the thrift
and enterprise which have made that represen
tative German newspaper ono of the leading pub
lications of its class In America. It contains 160
pages handsomely illustrated, with illuminated
cover and carefully written reviews of Cleveland's
groat business industries. It is one of the largest
newspapers over Jssued. Tho Commoner wishes
the Wachter and Anzeiger many more anniversaries.
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