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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
It appears that Mr; D. M. Ferry's senatorial
seed wouldn't sprout
The "Eabcock idea" we hoard about last win
tor sooms to have beon disguised.
Tho "Iowa idea" seems to have caught cross
wise in Mr. Henderson's partisanship.
Tom Johnson's "circus" is drawing the people,
and also a lot of republican imprecations.
Perhaps Mr. Henderson's opposition to the
platform was not so great as liis fears of the result
One democrat was elected to tho Vermont,
senate. The Yormont legislature cannot be wholly
bad.
Secretary Shaw might afford relief to the
money "market by tapping the swelling in the Idle
Burplus.
It. is barely possible that the president
imagines ho can euro tho trust evil by suggestive
therapeutics.
Mr. Babcock's denial machinery is running
smoothly savo when a bit of its product collides
with a recordod fact
The people would give a whole lot to hear a
tariff debate between Congressman Babcoclc and
Chairman Babcoclc
From Thomas H. Benton to Richard Kerens
no, the people of Missouri are not going to take
such, a. toboggan slide. y
An esteemed exchange says that Mr, Ba'er
was formerly a newspaper man. Bog pardon; don't
you mean journalist?
The statement that the steel trust earned $140,
. 000,000 profit last year is .misleading. To earn is
, to render an equivalent
Mr. Henderson is to be excused.- Of course ho
never Imagined for a moment that a republican
platform should mean what it said.
Those wild, fierce trumpetings from Ohio Indi
J cate that Tom Johnson has a certain elephant pret
;; ty well chained to bis snubbingpost
Sinqtx Henderson's spectacular withdrawal tho
S. o. i, managers have a better conception of what
happened when Mont Pelee let looso.
That low buzzing sound from the central por
tion of Iowa is only Governor Cummins laughing
in his sleeve as he casts his eyes DubuquewardB.
Congressman Cousins says the Iowa republican
platform is a "dirty, lousy lie," but Mr. Cousins
would rather be infected and soiled than lose his
job. a
A careful reading of tho president's touring
speeches will reveal an evident desiro on his part
to ping-pong the tarifS question into the re-election
net
The Commoner.
.Tho next time Mr. Stickney undertakes to
criticise labor unions ho will make sure that Miss
Jano Addams is not present and billed for a few
remarks.
Bacon said that "Reading maketh a full man."
It seems also that Reading has made a very
arrogant man. Howover, Lackawanna may havo
helped somo.
The insurrection in the Philippines has been
suppressed again; isn't it about time for tho re
publicans to say what they are going to do with
the Filipinos?
Peary says he could discover the north pole if
ho had $200,000. Other men, if they had $200,000,
would pass up tho north polo and buy a few
ounces of anthracite.
If every democrat in Ohio who voted the na
tional ticket in 1900 will go to the polls this year
the democratic ticket will be elected. Let every
democrat do his duty.
Governor Yates is wroth about the 5 per cent
assessment placed upon state employes. Because
the assessment was placed, or because tho fact
became public?
While framing long sentences to conceal his
thougnts about tho trusts, Mr. Roosevelt might
experiment a little by enforcing the criminal clause
of the Sherman anti-trust law.'
Experience has taught Mr. Henderson the folly
of going into battlo without making sure that
the ammunition train is close at hand. And tho
trusts supply republican ammunition.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger calls the Ohio
democrats' demand for equitable taxation
centric political movement" This sort of
centricity" is rapidly becoming universal.
an ec-
"ec-
"I don't understand it!" exclaimed Senator
Allison when he heard of Speaker Henderson's
declination. Is it .possible that in his old age the
senator is curing himself of tho" dodging habit?
Anthracite coal is still rising, but "be patient,
republicans, the president may get his amendment
through in four or five years and you ought to be
willing to freeze a little bit for your party's sake.
A lot of republican politicians who had no in
terest in settling the coal strike for the 'sake of
suffering humanity havo suddenly been aroused
to the necessity of settling it for the sake of g. o. p.
success.
Mr. Shaw is quite positive that If tho people
givo up enough in the shape of taxes he can keep
the banks supplied with money enough to loan to
tho people for the purpose of enabling them tojpay
their taxes.
Imperialists said they could not discuss their
Phllippino policy until the Filipinos laid down
their arms; now they say that the insurrection
has been suppressed and that it is too late to dis
cuss the subject.
It is related that Governor Odell worsted Un
cle Tom Piatt in their little dispute about tho re
publican candidate for lieutenant governor of New
York. But just wait until Uncle Tom wants
something really worth while. .
President Roosevelt says he is "opposed to
any change in the tariff laws that will reduce tho
standing and living of intelligent American toil
ers." This should be welcome news to the 150,000
minors in tho anthracite regions.
The money wrung from the people by unjust
taxation is ldaned by tho government without in
terest to favored banks, and tho act is called "re
lieving the money famine." And tho wonder is
that there are so many people who believe it
Tho president's latest suggestion for curbing
tho trusts is to appoint a bi-partisan board to han
dle the matter." Doubtless Mr. Baer, who claims
to bo a democrat, and Mr, Morgan, who is a re
publican, would bo glad to servo on tho board.
By all means, let a commission of financiers
sottle tho money question; let a commission of
trust magnates fiottlo tho trust question, and let
a commission of manufacturers settle the "tariff
question. This would bo a settlement by experts,
but, on tho samo principle, why not let tho wolves
settle tho eheop questiondon't they understand
the flavor of mutton?
Vol. a, No. 37.
Walter Wellman Is in New York and rennrfo
tho discovery of tho fact that all the great fin-in
ciors are opposed to Mr. Roosevelt As a discov
erer tho late Christopher Columbus would not tn
tho distance flag with Ur. vellman in tho race.
After a great deal of editorial circumlocution
tho republican Register and Leader of Des Moines
arrives at tho conclusion that stationary waees
and increasing prices combine to make a normal
condition. They certainly do under trust domination.
Mr. Roosevelt and his political advisors havo
'agreed that there shall bo no tariff revision dur
ing tho next session of congress. The trusts agree
with the amendment that there will be no tariff re
vision during any session of congress if they can
prevent it
The directors of Northwestern university who
lefused to admit a negro girl to the school are tho
' same republican gentlemen who objected to certain
political doctrines because men who profited by
republican favors put up the money to support
the school.
Governor Odell is not the first man to grow
chesty and pride himself on having unhorsed
Thomas C. Piatt Mr. Piatt has gone horseback
riding manya time after the men who "unhorsed"
him had spent all their available resources for
walking shoes.
If governments derive their just powers from
the consent of tho governed, then it follows that
we have no more right in the "Philippines now
when they yield a sullen submission to superior
force than we had when they were able to stand up
and defend their inalienable rights.
Editor Finley of Kenton, O., who led the fight
for the indorsement of the Kansas City platform
in 1901, and was run over by those who wanted
to harmonize, was chairman of the platform com
mittee this year and had tho pleasure of seeing his
position of last year vindicated.
A man named Durham, equipped with a dress
suit case, $7 in cash and a lot-of nerve? established
a bank in Elnora, 111., and was soon able to dis
appear with $10,000 belonging to a too confiding
people. Durham seems to have anticipated tho
Fowler banking law by a year or two.
Abdul Hamid of Turkey seems to be the pos
sessor of a keen sense of humor. When he re
ceived Secretary Hay's protest against Turkish
treatment of Jews the sultan called attention to
American treatment of Filipinos. It is doubtful
if Mr. Hay enjoys the Roland he received for
his Oliver.
Brigandage in eastern Europe is said to be in
creasing at an alarming rate. This wining and
dining of an American who profits, by a species of
brigandage falsely labeled as "protective tariff"
has had a bad effect on the morals of our Eu
ropean friends.
Tho Cleveland Leader says that the timid re
publicans should vote tho ticket and trust "the
party" to do all things well. But it is dawning
on the republicans of Ohio that they havo voted
and trusted until "the party" has relieved the cor
porations from a large part of the taxation and
placed the burden on the democrats and timid republicans.
In order to relievo the financial stringency
Secretary Shaw will take out of the treasury a few
million dollars wrung from the people by taxation
and loan it without interest to favored banks m
order that the favored banks may loan it with In
terest to the people from whom it was wrung in
the form of taxation. The strange part of this
peculiar financial deal Is that the people have been
approving it for a great many years.
Mr. McLean's paper, The Enquirer, - says that
there is no such thing as the gold standard. It in
sists that "all the action of congress pretending to
look to such a thing amounted to nothing in tho
monetary economy," and declares that "that mat
tor, as nearly all other matters in national finances,
was regulated by tho irresistable course of events."
Mr. McLean makes the mistake of considering the
"course of events" "irresistable" merely because
it swept him into agreement with the plutocrats.
Whenever a republican is unable to defend tho
gold standard; the trusts or imperialism, he falls
back upon "tho irresistable course of events;" ana
Mr. McLean is falling into that habit
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