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THE COMMONER, Llnceht, Ne.
Sonator Depow says the trusts are good things.
They are, for men like Depew.
It seems high time that the people smuggled
a low schedules into a tariff law.
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Doubtless Mr. Henderson will recover in timo
to accept something equally good.
That Moro sultan talks like a man who has
his winter's supply of coal in the bin. -
The election of a democratic congress will
mean a severe jolt for the '-'divine trusteeship"
idea.
Republican demolition of the trusts has al-
ways exhausted itself in the campaign assessment
period.
The "miners who asked for bread and ' were
given a bayonet should not forget that thov have
a remedy in the ballot .
All this feverish desire of the administration
to settle the coal strike may have been due to a
lively recollection of Homestead.
Senator Spooner admits that he did not know
that anthracite was in the protected list Per
haps the senator burns wood.
Thirty-one years ago this month occurred
the Chicago fire, and Chicago may have to do it
all over again in order to keepwarm.
There seems to be a marked difference between
the methods used in hunting bears in the moun
tains and hunting Baers in the mines. -
The wonder Is that some of the leading
feenawnciers" have not broached the subject of
a single anthracite standard of money.
By labeling 'their colored supplements "comic"
a number of daily newspapers prevent a great
strain on the imagination of their readers.-.
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Mr. Hanna says his health is very poor. Per
haps it makes Mr. Hanna ill to think how narrow
ly he escaped a joint debate with Tom Johnson.
The Indications are that the coal operators
have allowed their heads to bwoII to such an ex
tent that their crowns are likely to slip off.
One of the coal barons refers to Quay, Ponrose
and Piatt as "so-called statesmen." But did any
body ever hear Quay, Penrose and Piatt called
statesman?
October 12 was Christopher Columbus day.
Columbus is the man who discovered the coal
fields that- had already been pre-empted by Mr
Baer.
, Ajrot5,ct?a infant that is big enough to com
pel legislation in Its Interests is always quick to
demand the protection of the militia tfhon the peo-
"inf ant" rapESty. S " protection Wlnst
Mr. Cyrus Townsend Brady is laid up for a
fortnight by an accident and the postal deficit
seems sure to increase to a horrifying extent
Senator Spooner says ho will talk only on' the
"Issues." Tho tariff is one of the chief issues, and
Sonator Spooner confesses -his Ignorance of tho
present tariff law. ,
Sonator Allison says the trusts would " be
helped rather than hurt by a removal of tho tariff.
Senator Allison still succeeds in keeping his vacil
lation on straight
The Helena Record gravely discusses the
"Duty of Republicans." It appears to be from 50
to 500 per cent and the public is called upon to pay
it for, tho bonefit of tho trusts.
Tho boy king of Spain is raising all kinds of
regal trouble, but this" may be duo to the fact
that they have no "infant industries" in Spain to
show a king his place.
Tho republicans are so busy rejtfffcing over the
'"settlement" of the coal strike that they will not
haVo time to talk trusts for some time and yet,
the trust question is still unsettled.
People who read in the morning papers that
Mr. Hanna had challenged Mr. Johnson to joint
dobate did not have to waste time looking in the
evening papers for Mr. Hanna's denial.
For men who have been denounced as' crim
inals by the interstate commerce commission the
managers of the coal-carrying roads are doing a
lot of denouncing of organized labor.
Newspapers are being sold by automatic ma
chines in Europe. But Europe is still behind the
United States. In this country we have republican'
newspapers edited by automatic machines.'
If the laws against smuggling were impartially
enforced some men concerned in securing tho In
sertions of schedules into the Dingley law would
be serving time in federal penitentiaries.
If the man who wrote that "No man is born
booted and spurred to ide another man saddled
and bridled" will call on George F. Baer he will
doubtless hear a few superheated remarks.
Of course General Grosvenor will insist that
the miners refuse to vote for the miner candidate
for congress and vote for Grosvenor because the
coal strike was settled by some one else.
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The "infants" took precious good care to see
that none 8f their interests were neglected when
the Dingley' bill was drawn. The interest most
neglected was the interest of the people who pay
the bills.
Columbia university's appeal for funds sounds
strange. When did any Columbia university. presi
dent say or write anything calculated to offend the
worthy gentlemen who used the club on Brown
university?
On another page will be found Baer's descrip
tion of the creation of the coal beds as reported
by Mr. Dunne, the celebrated "Mr. Dooley." It is
one of the richest bits of humor given to the
public in recent years.
John Mitchell emerges from the contest im
measurably greater than the operators who op
posed the just demands of his people. Organized
labor will profit greatly by the leadership of men
ot John Mitchell's calibre.
A careful study of tho speeches made by
leading Iowa republicans reveals -that the "Iowa
idea means that there shall bo no tariff shelter
for monopoly unless a revision of the tariff
threatens to deprive monopoly of the shelter of
the tariff.
Mutual concessions ended the New Orleans
street railway strike. That mutual concessions
were made was perhaps due to the fact that the
street railway managers realized their inability to
show clear title to "divine right" George F. Baer
may also have a monopoly of that
General Grosvenor is greatly exorcised about
the coal strike. But tho general's concern is not
about tho needs of tho people. The coal miners of
his district number 9,000 and they have nominated
one of their number against Grosvenor. This will
explain the Grosvenorish attitude of tho Ohioan.
Vol. a, No. 40.
The Commoner's "Lota of Five" plan has
proved successful in arousing loyal democrats to
tho urgent need of preventing the party's be
trayal into the hands of those who would make
it an annex to the republican party.
" 1 The "protected infants" occupy jpalaces on tho
hills and cottages at the sea shore. The people
who vouchsafe the protection must be content
with humble homes in the Valley and a day or two
on the river bank during the summer.
Secretary of the Navy Moody says that the
duty on anthracite coal was "smuggled into" the
Dingley bill. Well, all tho tariff rates were "smug-
gled in" so far as the voters are concerned. The
republican party cannot defend a single schedule.
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General Grosvenor appears too busy to grind
out his usual voluminous predictions. He is again
a candidate for congress and is opposed by a miner
candidate, tho district having 9,000 voting coal
miners. The general will bo pardoned a few
anxious tears.
When mercury is at 70 republicans may bo
partisan enough to be willing to wait for four
or five years for President Roosevelt to kijl the
coal trust "with his proposed constitutional amend
ment, but will they be as partisan when the mer
cury gets down to zero?
Of course the mere fact that Secretary Shaw
violated tho law cuts no figure with the money
Tmrons who had to have some help to keep their
water-cured stocks from leaking too badly. A
little thing like the law never bothers your gen
uine money gamble? and stock floater.
The democratic and populist conventions of
Kansas have indorsed Senator Harris for re-election
and in so doing have honored themselves as
well as him. No state has had a more efficient,
industrious or conscientious public servant His
head and his heart, .his time and his talents have
been at the service of his constituents. On every,
question his sympathies have been with the peo
ple and his, defeat would be a distinct loss. He is
a -credit to his state and merits re-election.
The Commoner appreciates the, commendation
which it receives from ministers who approve of
the moral tone of the paper. While the main pur
pose of the paper is political, it is the desire of the
editor to make the paper helpful along all lines,
and he is confident that an appeal to the conscience
of the people will not be in vain. Each reader of
The Commoner should see that his pastor has. a
chance to read the paper. If it is not convenient
to loan him a copy subscribe for it for him.
A reader asks., whether there is anything in
the democratic principles Inconsistent with the
honest accumulationof money. No. On the con
trary, democratic principles stimulate and encour
age the honest accumulation of money by guar
anteeing to each citizen protection in tho enjoy
ment of the proceeds of his toil. A man can
have money and be a democrat, but if the money,
has him he is very apt to become a republican.
It depends upon whether money is his servant or
his master.
"A-market report in one of the papers explains
a slump in the hog market by saying that the -packers
put the price up the day before and stim
ulated a heavy run, "enabling them to take off
not only what they put on Saturday, but 10 cents
or 20 cents additional." It would seem that the
packers by combining are able to swing the market
as they like. What defense can be made of a
monopoly that thus entices stock into the market
by a high price only to cut the price when the
stock arrives? Who will defend the moral char
acter of such a transaction?
Before a republican farmer votes for therail
road's choice for senator, congressman, governor,
judge or any other office let him remember tho
pork" story. A man who had his winter's sup
ply of salted pork stolen was prosecuting the thief
and after producing indisputable proof of the guilt
of the accused was surprised at the acquital of the
prisoner. Calling one of tho jurors aside he asked
him how the jury could in tho presence of such
testimony fall to convict "Why, you see, each
juror had received a piece of the pork." Our pub
lic officials are constantly called upon as jurors to
decide questions which arise between the people
anil the corporations. If the corporations select
them thoy are influenced by the "pork" received. J
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