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The Shaw explanation department Is running
fiot In tho bearings.
It appears that tho Liquid Air company put
too much water In its stock.
The beef trust will never know -that Mr. Knox
Is in Europe if nobody tells it.
The genuine democratic platform needs no
Interpreter in any part of the country.
It seems that Secretary Shaw believes in tariff
revision that does not revise anything.
Mr. Alger says he is in tho Michigan senatorial
race "to a finish." "We can see it without spec
.. rtacles.
It is said that Mr. Morgan refuses to tip
waiters, but Mr. Morgan is so rich ho can afford
to do it.
It appears that Mr. Roosevelt is making a
rather belated revision his Minneapolis Labor
Day speech. .
When the editors of Manila Freedom get out
,of jail their first act will be to change tho name
of their paper.
A large number of Iowa republican organs
are frightened lest the Iowa republican tariff plank
oe taken in earnest.
President Baer writes like a man who imagines
. that ho can take his wealth with him when he
''"crosses tho dark river.
Of course tho trusts urge the president to
keep up a "firm foreign policy." The trusts will
attend to local affairs.
It is noticeable that those who call loudest for
democratic harmony are those who refuse to tune
up with the orchestra.
Tho worst that can be said of the Jeffries
Fitzslmmons prize fight is that it was merely a
beef trust injunction scrap.
. By throwing tho complaining witness into
jail the defendants in the Northern Securities
case manage to score a point.
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A reading of tho "Lots of Five" plan, found on
another page of this issue, will reveal a method of
spreading democratic principles.
Time works wondrous changes. A few short
months ago De Wet,- Botha, and Delarey were
giving the, English warm receptions.
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The presidential journey from Washinaton to
tNew England was a wide trail of apologies for a
certain "anaciuing or cunning" oration.
The Peter Powers suit against tho Northern
Seourltioa company only shows that the Northern
Securities company has pull enough to secure a
prison sontonco for any man who has tho temerity
to demand justice at the hands of the company.
Secretary Shaw says tho treasury clerks must
not gamble. Tho Wall street gentlomen who con
trol tho treasury will attend to all of that.
If Emperor William will come over and see a
lot of American girls ho will no -longer wonder
that his son fell in love with one of tho first ones
ho saw.
It will be noted that tho beef trust did not
wait for Mr. Knox to go to Europe before wrig
gling its fingers at him and going right ahead
with its work.
Over two thousand democrats interested in
the perpetuation of democratic principles have
taken advantage of the 'Lots of Five" offer made
by Tho Commoner.
Japan has just lost an island through vol
canic action. Perhaps some one will find' a vol
cano in the island inhabited by tho Moros and
touch it off for us.
If American naval .vessels, officered and
manned by Americans, failed to effect a landing
on American shores it is useless for any other
nation's vessels to try it.
And now Schwab is thinking: What shall it
profit a man if he gain control of all the Iron in
dustries of the country and lose his own health in
trying to look after them?
"The tariff should be revised by its friends!"
shout tho republican organs, and as the friends of
the tariff are its chief beneficiaries revision is a
remote possibility if left to them.
Tho statement that President Roosevelt Is ,dis
pleased with the republican campaign text book
inclines us to the belief that the book fails to
feature the San Juan Hill episode.
The coal trust refuses to allow the strike to
be settled by a republican politician. Doubtless
the' coal trust feels that it has done enough when
it sends a big sum to the republican' campaign
fund.
William E. Chandler, of the "Solid New Eng
land," is conjuring up frightful visions of the
"Solid South" for the purpose of scaring himself
into supporting a party whose principles and
policies he knows are wrong.
The case of Rev. Sam. Small suggests the fol
lowing scriptural text: "Brethren, if a man be
overtaken in a fault, ye which .are spiritually
minded restore such an one in' the spirit of meek
ness; considering thyself, lest thou also d
tempted.
Hanna says that he does not mix politics and
business. No, where he has a pecuniary interest
it is all business and when the people at' large
watch their Interests as closely as Mr. Hanna
watches his Interests the republican vote will be
very small.
Banker Andrews of Detroit says he will not
serve his sentence of fifteen years for embezzle
ment, and as ho embezzled something over a
million dollars the chances are that he will not.
The chanceB of his serving the full term would be
greater if he had stolen a sack of flour or a ham.
Tom Johnson prophesies that Ohio will go
democratic by 200,000 this fall if Hanna gets his
porpotual franchise amendment into the new law
for the government of cities. Well, as this would
ensure the repeal of the law the people, could af
ford to submit to the law for a few weeks in
order to get a chance to rejoice over such a re
publican 'defeat.
A slight typographical error may make all
tho difference in the world. A large number of
exchanges credit The Commoner with saying:
"Laboring men can enjoy monopoly at tho bal
lot box." What The Commoner .did say wasr
"Laboring men can enjoin monopoly at the ballot
box." A slight difference in wording, but a large
difference in meaning. .
Senator Dollivor offers as proof of tho splendid
opportunities for. young men the case of a young
man of his acquaintance who worked foi five
years at $200 a year and saved $400 of It. The
senator might have offered more encouragement
For instance, J. Plerpont Morgan made $20,000,000
in three months by oponlyi violating a 'federal
statute, and John W. Gates won $75,000 at-noker
in thrcs hour. .
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Vol. a, No. 33.
While tho laboring inan must content him
self "with perpetual toil; Senator Hanna BGir
styled tho laboring man's friend, is down at Colum
bus lobbying for a perpetual franchise for hS
street car lines.
Tho Houston Post suggests that the bonea
found under the White house belong to soma
presidential boom that Mr. Roosevelt strangled
It may be, but tho chances are that they are all
that Is left of that "more liberal policy" we hPirrt
mentioned at Buffalo. a
The republican machine in Illinois-organized
a band and marching club among the inmates of
the Kankakee insane asylum", and the band and
club were freely used in republican campaigns to
arouse enthusiasm But the members of tho
band and club are not to be blamed.
The governor of Kentucky proposes to fight
the merger of the Louisville & Nashville and
Southern railway companies by the Morgan in
terests. As Governor Beckham is a democrat tho
merger is not likely to witness a Minnesota re
publican governor finish to tho fight.
It is not often that a United States senator
lobbies for the passage of a bill favorable to him
self, but Senator Hanna excuses himself on tho
ground that his street railroads are his savings
bank and he can use a perpetual franchise in hia
business.
Secretary Shaw deserves credit for stopping
poker playing among employes in his department,
but he ought not to overlook that larger and
even more dangerous game wherein the monopol
ists put up an enormous campaign fund and playj
for the control of the national government.
If President Roosevelt does not like to have
Secretary Shaw defend the beef trust while Attor
ney General Knox is prosecuting (?) it, he has
only himself to blame for he commanded the cabi
net officers to go out and defend the -administration
on the stump.
Tho republican papers which' criticised Mr.
Bryan for making "campaign tours" in 1896 and
1900, and said it was not "dignified" for a presi
dential candidate to "run around after votes"
these same papers are praising the president for
the dignified course ho is pursuing In making
political speeches in behalf of his party and his
own renomination.
President .Roosevelt in his recent speech at
Concord, N. H., said: "About all we have a right
to expect from government is that it will see that
the cards are not stacked and if it does that then
we will abide by thesdeal." Abraham Lincoln
used to employ Bible quotations when he wanted
to make a question plain, but tho present head of
the republican party seems to consider the lan
guage of Tthe card table more familiar to his sup
porters. r 4
Russell Sage says that "combinations of all
Industries are a menace to true government and
are the oppressors of the people." He even says
that if the combinations continue there will ulti
mately be a revolt against them and that "there will
be financial ruin the like of which this country has
never seen or any other." And yet, the president
says we muBt be very careful not to use harsh
measures against the trusts. Can any necessary,
remedy be too harsh?
Captain F. H. Peck, Twenty-sixth United
States volunteers, excuses brutalities in the Phil
ippines on the ground that "the army was hastily
recruited and contained many men who had served!
terms in state prisons and men who, having good
reason to fear the law, enlisted under falso
names." Such men, he declares, committed tho
crimes charged. If some opponent of Imperialism
had made that statement the imperialistic press
would have thrown a long series of conniption fits.
If any republican reader of The Commoner feels
inclined to criticise Mr. Bryan for doubting tho
sincerity of President Roosevelt's promise to ex
terminate the trusts, let him read tho Kansas City
Journal editorial,, reproduced on another page. In
his Boston speech the president said: "If the na
tion had that powor (to control the corporations),
mind you, I should advocate as strenuously as I
know how that that power should, be exercised
with extreme caution and self-restraint.-" Would
the president be as strenuous in advocating "ex
treme caution and self-restraint" n tho punish
ment of small criminals? The trusts no longer
fear President Roosevelt: h has made his peac
with them.
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