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The Commoner. 4 jr ;' f a Vol. 3, No. 35. J It The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. Kntered at the postoflicc at Ijncoln, Nebraska, a second c!hm mail matter. TLRMS-PAYABLE IN ADVANCE; One Year.... $1.00 EixHonths.. 50c Three Jlonths...... 35c Single Copy , se Sample Copies Free. Foreign Postage 52c Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to The Commoner. They can also be scut through newspapers which have adver tised n 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 on New York or Chicago. Do not scud individual check t, stamps, or money. RENEWALS. The date on your wrapper shows when your ubjc Iption will expire. Thus, Jan. w, means that payment has been received lonnd includingthc last is-ueof January, 190a Two weeks are required after money ir received before the date on the wrapper can be changed. CHANOB OP ADDRBSS.-Subscribers requesting a change ef address must give the OLD as well as the NEW address. ADVERTISING rates furnished npon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Llncola, Nefc. Tho "full coal bin" Is not, you will observe, a republican campaign slogan. The array and navy, might settle It by engag ing in a tea-drinking match for points. Southern newspapers arc after the pistol toter, and It Is to be hoped, that they will get him. f ifo--: It will be cheerfully admitted that "Trustee" Baer and his associates are getting a fat rake-off from the. estate. "Texas republicans divided" is a head-line in a republican oxchange. vnich one of them is out of a federal job? Tho nomination of Senator Teller by tho fu sion forces of Colorado ought to seal the political fate of Mr. Wolcott President Baer may awaken some morning to find that tho people have scoured a new adminis trator of their affairs. One trouble with tho self-elected "trustees of God" is that they spend so little of thoir time at tending to tho business. Tariff reform will not be secured through tho efforts of men who strenuously insist that there is no need of tariff reform. President Roosevelt is in tho south, visiting famous battlefields. On his return north he should stop at Hazleton and Homestead. After having screwed up tho prico to tho high est notch tho beef trust professes to have somo regard for Mr. Knox's injunction. If labor is able "to go on its own feet," as stated by an Iowa republican organ, what is tho matter with making capital walk? Now that Mr. Roosevelt has- been made a member of tho firemen's brotherhood will ho refuse longer to countenance non-union coal? Tho founder of tho "Don't Worry" club is dead. May a man bo filled with regrets without being open to tho charge of worrying? " "Labor is able to go on its own foot," ex claims a republican organ. Vruo, but labor ob jects to having capital walking on its corns. . It seems that tho navy destroyed tho forts and tho forts destroyed tho navy just like tho ad ministration is regulating tho trusts theoretically. "Labor Is able to go on its own feet!" declares the republican Sioux City Journal. Yes, and ha neck riy n itS back80motimes on its Tho republican papers which aro cartooniner and abusing Senator Teller will not bo aWe to lessen the esteem in which ho is hold. Tho part? organ that blows hot-or cold according ?ivlly igencies of the times cannot Jnjure a man w h , Welcn anthracite coal laid down In New York at ?6.G0 per ton will strlko "Trustee" Baer as rank sacrellge, colossal impiety and worse than idol worship. "Roosevelt understands the trusts," says tho Salt Lake Herald. This is interesting information. Perhaps tho Heraid can tell us whether the trusts understand Roosevelt The Adirondack season opened as usual. A man was killed, being mistaken for a deer. But the trusts need not worry as long as tho president is looking for venison. Tho Milwaukee Sentinel declares that "most monopolies aro dreams and illusions." The Sen tinel has no difficulty in keeping its subservienco to republican bosses on straight When people realize what a narrow escape they had from naving a president named John Hay, they will insist upon some regulation of the speed of cross country trolley cars. Tho army and navy authorities are disagreed as to which won out in tne recent maneuvers. They may yot have to resort to the arbitrament of the ping pong bat or the golf stick. In order to make sure that his tour will bo thoroughly non-partisan the republican commit tees of western states have been given charge of affairs during the president's western tour. Reports of municipal rottenness in St Louis have created great anguisn In the breasts of Phil adelphians, who are always deeply Interested and anguished by the rottenness of other cities. Some people are always calling up unpleasant thoughts. A lot of newspaper writers are calling the attention of the people to the fact that John Hay is first in lino in the presidential succession. The republican organs are a unit in com mending tho Iowa democratic platform. The dem ocratic platform that secures the approbation of republican organs needs careful revision by democrats. Mr. Boardman defends the water cure on tho ground that the Filipinos lied. What, then, should bo done with war department officials who also denied the torture when official reports proved Its existence? j.ne country needs expert forresters," ex claims an exchange with decided administration leanings. Wo presume the aforesaid exchange wants 'em in order to guide tho president out of tho trust woods. G. 0. P. logic usually jams its pilot into its caboose before it gets within. whistling distance of Its terminal. The republican organ that de nounces tho soutn for political unity never fails to congratulate New England upon the same thing. While Iowa's republican organs are quarrel ing over tho real meaning of tho "shelter plank" in the platform, the trusts go right ahead.. Tho trusts know that republican platforms are harm less as long as tho trusts can select the candidates. There is a newspaper in Wheeling, W. Va., called "Intelligencer." The exchange editor never picks It up without being reminded of the fact that short men aro often named Long, long men often named Short and large men often named Small. Republican logic continues to exhibit its crimps. According to republican-logic it Is un dignified for a democratic candidate for president to make political speeches, and Intensely patriotic for a republican president to deliver stumn speeches. Tho reorganlzers are anxious to appear as special champions of tariff reform, but the Kansas City platform democrats are really tho best friends of tariff reform as they aro tho best friends of bimetallism and. tho most consistent opponents of imperialism. Tho Houston. Post is asking that Texas riverg be stocked with German carp. Before Texans take up with tho carp they should visit in western sections and listen for a while to remarks mado about that fish. If the man who discovered the German carp will make himself known ho will be assured of undying disgrace in tho eyes of western fishermen. 4,n ono of his speeches. Mr. Roosevelt salrf-i "It ig.a great deal better that some people should prosper too much than that no one should nrosnm. enough." But is it well that a handful of men should prosper too much while tho great masses of the people aro required to 'economize on tho necessities of Hfo? uo The Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post says that "beef went up on account of the scarcity of beef." The Post has its Wires crossed. Beef went up on account of the multiplicity of men who believe that they can tax themselves rich and adhere to the mistaken notion that the republican party is opposed to trusts. The republicans havo not yet announced their willingness to discuss tho Fowler bill, which was reported favorably in the house and which re ceived the support of every republican member of the committee. Every democratic speaker and every democratic editor should study that bill and bring its iniquities to public attention. Warren McCabe, who was recently returned to an Iowa insane asylum, is said to be rational on all subjects except that he thinks he is governor of the sun and can mane it shine at his command. A great many republicans think that their party controls the weather and brings good crops, and yet they are permitted to run at large. - Tho Indianapolis Journal expresses its idea on the trust question in a cartoon which makes tho shadow of a laboring man represent the trusts, and it quotes the laboring man a3 saying that tho shadow must get bigger as he approaches the sun of prosperity. But, of course, Tho Journal is suro the president will kill the trusts. What inconsistency! An anxious public has been relieved by a de nial of the report that the South Dakota farmers refused to permit tho president's son to hunt on their premises. The rumor probably arose from the fact that the boy was with a party of railroad magnates, and the farmers supposed that the party was there to raise railroad rates rather than to hunt game. The Cincinnati Enquirer says that we. have no national platform and argues that "the platform of 1896 was not binding after the election of that year till" it was readopted in 1900." When the pro prietor of The Enquirer ran for governor in 1899, three years after .the election of 1896, ho was very willing to have the national platform of the party recognized and rea rmed. ' Some of the anti-imperialists have been plead ing for harmony with the reorganizes. Their at tention is respectfully called to tho fact that the Wisconsin reorganlzers were willing to ignore im perialism entirely in order to conciliate republi can imperialists who are mad at La Fpllette. Tho Kansas City platform democrats are the only ones who can be relied upon to stand by democratic principles all the time. Frederick Door, proprietor, and Edward O'Brien, editor of Freedom, a daily newspaper published in Manila, have been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for libeling Benito Legarda, a native member of the civil commission. Dorr and O'Brien charged Legarda with boodling and offered to prove it, but were refused the oppor tunity. Is it possible that the pro.of might have implicated some who are not natives of Luzon? The. Lincoln (Neb.) State Journal, one of the thick and thin corporation organs, iii defending Mr. Mickey, the republican candidate for gov ernor, finds it necessary to declare that "maximum rate bills are a delusion and a farce." The aver ago republican paper finds no difficulty in char acterizing as a delusion and a farce any. attempt that tho people may make to protect themselves against corporate aggrandizement The republican plan is to trust impllcity in the benevolence and generosity of the corporations, na matter how much, they water the stocks or squeeze the public The Indorsement of Senator Teller by the democrats and populists of Colorado is a deserved indorsement of a splendid record of public service in tho interests of the people. The democrats and populists of Colorado have honored themselves by thus publicly recognizing the services to the state and nation of a man who has stood staunch ly for principle, unmindful, of adverse criticism) from those much more interested in the triumph! of partisanship than in tho triumph of'right Sen ator Teller has performed valiant duty, and has many years of usefulness before liira. More mctt like him are needed in public life. 0EI