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The country expects congress to speedily decar
bonizo the coal schedule.
The peoplo should proceed to get a few fav
orable schedules into a tariff law.
Mr. Knox continues to bo the chief apostle of.
the hot air remedy for the trust evil.
Piff puff Is a new game, and its name sounds
like a republican editorial on prosperity.
William Lorimer Is experiencing considerable
trouble in his efforts to vaudeville his way back
into congress.
If you neglect to Vote you have no moral right
to complain if your public officials neglect ,or abuse
their duties.
There are evidences a plenty to the effect that
General Funston has gnawed that presidential gag
to a pulp.
The Mad Mullah la again causing the British
war office to ponder over more "I regret to report"
telegrams.
Mr. Hanna appears to be stubbing his toes
numerously on the stakes forgotten by Tom John
son's canvasmen.
The administration ought to take a day off
and get its "friends and allies" definition on
straight
A -vote in the box is worth two "kicks'. in the
"Letters From the People" department of the
newspapers.
The sultan of Bacolod seems to labor under the
Impression that he divides the divine right busi
ness with Mr. Baer.
Mr. Hanna might make a hit by dodging un
der the canvas and doing the "Rube" act' in the
Tom Johnson tent
It appears tzt the coal barons yielded, not be
cause they loved themselves less, but because
they feared justice more.
If you forget to vote next Tuesday you will
Jaave .little ground for objecting to the way you are
represented in congress.
"Has the Indian any rights?" queries the
Washington Post He ought tohave a few to
match his numerous lefts.
Mr. Cleveland is still declaring for tariff re
form. Mr. Cleveland is greatest at tariff reform
ing while a private citizen.
Now that it promises to make good political
capital the republican organs may bo expected to
indulge in considerable Baer baiting.
The coal combine,' however, did not offer to
arbitrate its differences with the public. The coal
combine knows when.it has a good filing.
The Commoner.
The Dingloy law shows that a lot of trusts,'
seized many available opportunities to smuggle
in schedules satisfactory to themselves.
Some men who loudly profess their willing
ness to die for their country cannot givo a part of
election day to voting to save their country.
Mr. Hanna's ground and lofty tumbling exhibi
tions in the open air servo to attract a largo num
ber of peoplo inside of Tom Johnson's circus tent
What were those republican congressmen do
ing when the anthracite coal duty was "secretly
and covertly smuggled" into the coal schedule?
Perhaps Senator Spooner's desire to servo a
twenty-year term as senator is based on the fear
that he may not bo able to securo another six-year
term.
Of course the anthracite operators were aw
fully shocked to discover that some designing vil
lain had smuggled that coal schedule into the Ding
ley law.
If the miners would hang together at the bal
lot box as well as they hung together during the
strike, they could put the anthracite coal trust
out of business.
Mr. Spooner says this is the government that
"Washington founded and Lincoln preserved."
True, and Mr. Spooner should cease trying to choke
it to death with maudlin sentiment
If every voter in America goes to the polls next
Tuesday and votes each in Us own interests, the
republican vote will just about equal the number of
men holding fat government jobs.
Mr. Addicks of Delaware cannot understand
why his money Is not just as good as the money
of any other republican senator who has had only
that to recommend him for senator.
A German scientist advocates isolation as a
cure for the habit of lying. But how . could re
publican campaign managers frame party plat
forms if this method were adopted?
General Grosvenor doubtless thinks "that in
view of the settlement of the coal strike the min
ers of his district should withdraw the fellow
miner they nominated for congress.
After carefully perusing the late magazines the
average man would be prone to declare that
poetry is reading matter with the right end of
the lines chopped off at various lengths.
An Iowa man claims to have invented an air
ship. But he is not the first one in Iowa to do
that David B. Aienderson sailed through the air
several weeks ago and hasn't come down yet
When the critics disagree on the question
whether a drama is moral or immoral the wise
man will not take chances by allowing either
himself or any member of his family to attend.
The homeopathic doctors have opened a cru
sade against kissing, claiming that it is a prolific
source of disease. Homeopathy will be a forgot
ten science long before kissing begins to wane.
The Washington city man who was sent to jail
for sixty days for stealing a pickled pigsfoot
should have stolen a huge slice of the public do
main and posed as a trustee of Providence.
Those republicans who express contempt for
Tom Johnson's method of circus tent campaigning
profess groat admiration for the genius that in
spired "Billy" Lorimer's vaudeville exhibitions.
Senator Spooner believes that it would be a
good thing to elect a republican president and
congress for a term of twenty years. And every
trust and monopoly in the country applauds the
idea.
Mr. Knox says the trust evil may bo remedied
by the enactment of common-sense laws. But Mr.
Knox may labor under the impression that his
former clients also have a monopoly on common
sense.
Mr. Hanna threatened to tell all he knew about
the coal strike if the operators refused to arbitrate.
The fact that he ia a servant of the people and in
honor bound to tell what he knows about any in
terests adverse to the public welfare seems' never
to have entered Mr. Hanna's head.
The now. beef trust is, waiting until after the
election to announce its" plana. , This may help the
republicans this year, but Will the peoplo forget
before 1904?
There is one argument which all republican
speakers make, namely, that a man ought not to
think of principles of government so long as ho
has enough to eat
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A vote for the democratic ticket is a voto for
the supremacy of the cbnstitution, equality be
fore the law, the truths of the Declaration of In
dependence and the destruction of private mo
nopolies. Senator Mason now realizes the trouble that
befalls a republican office holder who dares to dis
agree with the fellows who have bought the priv
ilege of working both sides of the street from the
g. o. p. administration.
There are forty-five states in the union and in
but two, Iowa and Idaho, have the republican con
ventions declared for tariff reform. The party
stand 22 to 1 against it so far. And yet some
republicans are hopeful.
Peace was declared many months ago, but the
order reducing the standing army was not issued
until it was deemed time to do something for cam
paign effect Will the peoplo never get through
buying g. o. p. gold bricks?
Says the Nashville Daily News: "They say
Baer is a democrat He claims also to be a Chris
tian, but Christianity is no more responsible for
this hypocrit than democracy." That Beems to suf
ficiently cover the whole matter.
Governor Cummins of Iowa says that pro
tection "shall not be used as a sword for industrial
piracy or as a mint for illegal gain," but the re
publican leaders in the Amen corner do not give
forth any encouraging exclamations.
The state department maintains that Dewey
did not treat the Filipinos as friends and allies,
and the legal department insists that he did. Here
is" another choice opportunity for presidential in
terference in the interests of the g. o. p.
The most thoroughly corrupt state in the
union, and the most thoroughly corrupt city in
the union both at the mercy of boodlers, adven
turers and ballot box stuffers are both over
whelmingly republican. Guess the state and tho
city.
Mr. Mitchell experienced difficulty in persuad
ing the miners to return to work, and they were
the same miners that Mr. Baer declaredso eager
to work and prevented by intimidation. Mr. Baer
should spend the next few weeks "in getting his
veracity on straight
After denying for years and with much stren
uosity that Admiral Dewey treated the Filipinos as
"friends and allies" the authorities at Washing
ton are declaring that he did so treat them, seek
ing thereby to evade payment of prize money
claimed by the admiral.
A pension bureau clerk has been promoted be
cause he attended strictly to business and did not
try to secure an advance by political influence.
Several thousand clerks in other departments are
inclined to believe that he should have been taken
before the lunatico inquirendo.
Tho superintendent of tho Nebraska City,
Nob., starch wonts says they will open up if
corn drops low enough to enable tho mills to com
pete with eastern starch mills. As the Nebraska
City mills are owned by the trust and people in
cline to the belief that the superintendent is a
great joker.
Governor Cummins says the "Iowa-idea" means
What it says and the republican nominees for con
gress in Iowor accept it, but declare that they will
not favor tariff revision, shelter or no shelter.
The people of Iowa should demonstrate their in
telligence by leaving the g, o. p. candidates at
home.
Mr. Eockefoller has offered $250,000 to a col
lege as a thank offering for the escape of himself
and family from death in a fire, While disclaim
ing any intention of drawing invidious compari
sons it must be admitted that somehow or other
there comes, to mind the case of another wealthy
gentleman who ultimately found himself inigrave
need of a drop of water.