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THE COMMONER, Llnceln, Nefc.
Tlio newspaper lottery must go.
It would seem that Mr. Knox made a mistake
In not securing a stopover In Colombia.
'Tis better to have fought and lost than to have
quietly submitted and called It "destiny."
If the worst comes to the worst General Uribo
tTribo can fall upon the point of his hyphen.
Doubtless we should bo thankful that the
trusts have not exercised all their powers. .
The musicians of Paris are on a strike, and
.:- are, we presume, led by the bass drummers.
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Doubtless the most obstreperous among the
miners would be satisfied with a Baer living.
- After reading Booth Tarkington'a political
"speech, we, must congratulate him on its brevity.
Of course the trans-continental railroad man
agers are terribly shocked at the halt in the canal
deal.
If the Sherman law is sufficient perhaps proof
In the shape of ocular demonstration will be sub-initted.
Minister "Wu has been recalled again. Tsi An
must have instructed "central" to keep her con
w, faceted.
The glue trust is now organized and is confl-
dent of its ability to stick the people in every glue
deal.
It appears that Mr. Baer Is willing to take his
."divine rights" into a period of hibernation with
himself.
Mr. Baer, however, does not expect to live long
enough to have a parade of rejoicing worklngmen
in his honor.
Admiral Crowninshiold's tour has resulted in
the charting of .several heretofore unpunched mud
banks and reefs.
Doubtless President Harper has also made
careful plans for segregation of Mr. Rockefeller
and his money.
Owing to circumstances Mr. Baer has felt im
. . polled to acknowledge a bowing acquaintance with
Sir. Mitchell.
If General Urlbe-Urlbe la really a prisoner he
should have no trouble in slipping through the ori
fice in his cognomen.
"While Secretary Shaw tolls his funny stories
to the people tl- Wall street speculators do the
bulk of the laughing.
Of course the Mad Mullah must not undertake
any "benevolent assimilation" or plan any "mani
fest destiny" advances.
The American people will now devote some
little time to the Turkey Question, but Abdul
Hamid ncednot dodge.
It is barely possible that Senator Allison con
ceives the "Iowa idea" to bo anAllisonian hip
lock on the senatorship.
We positively refuse to predict that in a short
timo the erratic gentleman in Samoliland will find
himself in the Mullahgatawnoy.
The Panama canal scheme seems to have ar
rived at the point most desired by those who in
sisted upon the Panama route.
Republican spell-binders pointed with pride to
their party's record, but wiey desecrate the memory
of the men who made that record."
It appears that we have purchased everything
save the consent of the country whose dirt must
bo moved If a Panama canal Is built
It seems that the French gave us a good title
to all they owned of the Panama canal, but it also
appears' that Colombia has something to sell.
Thq tobacco trust declares its purpose to con
trol every branch of the tobacco business, and
the public can put that in its pipe and smoke it
"Is honesty good politics?" queries the Louis
ville Post Yes, honesty is good politics, but it is
too often the case that it is not successful politics.
Of course Mr. HillJames J. is able to ex
plain why the merged railroads can declare greater
dividends than the farmers who have to pay the
freight
The Indiana supply of natural gas is said to be
growing short But Indianans need not be alarmed.
They still have a reserve supply in Senator
Boveridgej '
The BonI de Castellanes are again troubled
by importuning creditors who are so lost to all
respect for royalty that they insist on seeing the
color of the money.
The fashionable milliners and modistes of Chi
cago are confident that they have completed every
detail necessary to make the annual horse show a
great success.
Senator Hoar Is confident that the Sherman
law is amply sufficient for the control of tho
trusts. But the senator fails to cite any instances
of tho control.
If there are any descendants of those Tariffa
pirates doubtless they are sorry 'that their fore
fathers' little difficulty was not settled by a commission.
Why exploit tho recent surgical operation of
sowing up -a human heart? What this old world
needs most of all is tuo opening up of human
hearts.
President Eliot has succeeded in picking some
flaws in labor organization. The learned gentleman-shows
evidences of a great desire to earn his
salary.
The money question will live as long as Wall
street promoters, gamblers and speculators seek
to secure financial legislation in their own in-tercsts.
ir ? Mr Ierli?s and Mr' Morsan will concentrate
all their attention upon those London franchises
the American people will doubtless be able to look
on with perfect equanimity.
The late M. A. Dauphin, of Louisiana lottery
fame, seems to have overlooked a great oppor
tunity when ho did not Incorporate his lottery
company as a newspaper publishing enterprise.
Poor's Manual reveals the fact that there are
three thousand miles of railroad not operated in
the United States. It may be due to washouts on
the Hnt caused by too much water in the stocks.
Vol. a, No. 4a.
In Its effort to reconstruct tho
Great Britain should, profit byrLcmS Tffanavaal
tory in this country? The way ?o Ct,0n ?,s'
rniV0 avoid many of cras
Of course tne gentlemen who irmintn,? .
tho Panama route for tho canS aVe HteX d?
appointed because complications have XwL;?
which promise to delay the work fofa numtfof
j. 3 Lj.ncoln (Neb.) newspaper takes exconHnna
to The Commoner's "catechism." The Common
is not offering a prize to tho first reader TCV
rectly guesses the politics of the aforesaid new
Of course tho doctors who do not believe in
advertising endeavored with all their micht X
prevent their names being published as anions
those' present and assisting Dr. Lorenz in hi!
operations. ia
t, A ?PpJeaTs tbat thQ kn6dom of Denmark
has decided that it is not right to sell sovereignty
over a people. Perhaps tho republic of the United
States will give the moral phase of this question
some attention.
If the coal famine shall teach the American
people not to overheat their houses it will not
have been an unmixed evil. Overheated houses
are responsible in large measure for the rapid in
crease in pulmonary troubles.
The tin plate trust, which was given the ben
efit of a protective tariff in order that it might
pay "American wages to American worklngmen,"
has just succeeded in using the tariff schedules to
secure a decrease in the wage scale.
King Chulalongcorn, of Siam, announces his
intention of making a tour of this country and
spending $650,000 thereon. King Chu must be a
great hand at mergers and consolidations to have
so much money for jaunting purposes.
Those Canadian Dukhobors rely on prayer
alone to spread their religion. Of course they are
woefully behind the times. The water cure, tho
bayonnt and the gatlirig gun seem to be the chief
reliance in other parts of the world.
That Canadian religious organization that has
set out- on foot to conquer the world for its creed
has made the 'glaring mistake of not providing its
members with improved munitions of war and the
usual job lot of franchises and concessions.
Mr. Addicks denies that ho was withdrawn
from the Delaware senatorial raco. Reports of his
withdrawal should be accepted with huge quan
tities of salt unless accompanied by the assurance
that Mr. Addicks' income has been severely crippled.
General Corbin seems to have been lunched
into the belief that the German army is managed
about right Of course this carries with it tho
Corbinesque .belief that he has picked up informa
tion that makes him the proper party to manage
Uncle Sam's army.
If the proposition to appoint a tariff commis
sion is carried out doubtless cood care will be
taken to see that the beneficiaries, not the victims,
are in the majority. The trusts which control
the administration will not consent to the com
mission until this much Is conceded.
There will bo other political campaigns and
other elections. From now on loyal democrats
should work without ceasing to prevent their party
from falling under the control of men who would
make It so nearly like the republican party that
tho trust promoters, subsidy grabbers, tariff ben
eficiaries and financial manipulators would have
no particular choice between the two.
Tho Birmingham (Ala.) News wonders why it
is "bad for a subordinate government employe to
bo politically active and so altogether commenda
ble for cabinet officers to split their larynxes
spelling for the administration." The News seems
to labor under the hallucination that cabinet offi
cers aro appointed for other work than whooping
it up for the administration. Such ignorance or
modern political methods la Indeed disheartening..
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