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The Philadelphia Press, referring to trusts,
ays: "Regulation, publicity and the prevention
of special privileges or over
capitalization will be prevented.
Leas would be Insufficient More
would bo unnecessary." But the
Press is not in favor of pre
venting the special privileges which certain trusts
find in the republican tariff.
Tho ChicaEO Record-Heinid "says: "The es
teemed New York Sun has nit as yet seen fit to
The
Special
Privileges.
frnt Baer out as its presiden
tial candidate for 1904. Why
tho delay?" Porhaps tho Sun
is reserving Baer for second
nlana. Perhaus Mr. Eliot of Har
vard, who referred to tho strike-breaker as tho
greatest hero of the ago, is the Sun's preferred
candidate.
Eliot
and
Baer.
A trust has been organized for tho purpose of
controlling tho orange crop of the country. Ono
of tho promoters announces tnai
tho purpose is not to control'
prices, but "to improve sys
tematically the orange indus
try." Of course, of course! Who
over knew of a trust being organized to control
prices? Does not very one understand by this
time that these great combinations are consum
mated for tho benefit of the people?
For
Public
Benefit.
One discriminating leader of tho republican
party has said that "masterly inactivity" will bo
the republican program In con
gress during the next two years.
There is no good reason to douoc
that this leader knows what ho
is talking about and yet we may
confidently expect that the republican organs will
make an organized and serious effort to convince
tho people that their party's "masterly Inactiv
ity" Is, in truth and fact, "genuine strenuosity."
' Seme
"Masterly
Inactivity."
Show
Yeur Good
. Faith.
" News dispatches say that Senators Spooner
and Platt visited Washington for tho purpose of
trying to dissuade Mr. Roose
velt from making radical recom
mendations in his message to
congress concerning trust leg
islation. It is added that tho
president does not intend to be persuaded from hifa
determination on this point As an evidence of
his good faith on this subject, he might instruct
bis attorney general to proceed against the trutt
magnates under the criminal clause of tue law al
ready on the statute books.
A
Profound
Contempt.
In his address before the Boston Economic
club President Eliot of Harvard said that ba hnd
"a profound contempt for any
man who would not choose to
labor every day just as lqng as
his strength would permit" Tho
man who uses his strength to
tho limit will very soon aiscover that he has mado
enormous .drafts upon his constitution that must
be met sooner or later. The president of a great
university should know this and knowing it ho
should hesitate to express "profound contempt"
for men who show a disposition to conserve their
strength.
For
Campaign
Purposes.
The Commoner.
mltted to arbitration." Mr. Roosevelt was "not
ashamed to urge for the sako of peace, and coal, '
that the differences between the mine owners and
their employes be arbitrated. It cannot bo possi
ble that Mr. Rold, who has on several occasions
been tho beneficiary of Mr. Roosevelt's kindness,
intended to Include his benefactor among "a piti
ful number of exceptionally ignorant or emo
tional clergymen, and somo pcoplo called states
men" In his arraignment of those who favor ar
bitration. Major General Corbin has expressed tho opin
ion that army officers will bo capable of bettor
servlco if thoy refrain from mat
Almighty rlmony. General Corbin has
Poor. been married twice and somo old
Advice. crusty bachelors might Imagino
that tho general speaks from
experience; but this notion is discouraged by tho
general understanding that General Corbin has
profited by two eminently successful marrlago
coromonies; and even If these facts were not
known there are thousands of levol-headed men -''throughout
the world who can tell tho young
army officer that on this point General Corbin of
fers him mighty poor advice.
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Several weeks prior to tho recent election, rep
resentatives of the starch trust visited Nebraska
City and held out the hope to
the people of that community
that the starch factory located
there would be in operation in
a short time. Since the election
returns showed that the republican party was
victorious, no one has heard of any very industri
ous efforts in the way of beginning operations in
Nebraska City's starch factory. Experience Is a
dear school and yet there are a very large number
of people who seem disposed to bear both the ex
pense and the consequences.
Whitelaw Reid, the editor of the New York
Tribune, recently delivered an address at Car-
negle Hall In which address Air.
Did He Reid said: "Not until 1865 was
Include- It even established throughout
Mr. Roosevelt? e United States that every
man, black or white, has the
right to sell his own labor; and in 1902, in your
state and In mine, there were still found a great
many persons, Including a pitiful number of ex
ceptionally Ignorant or emotional clergymen, and
some people called statesmen, who considered such
a right on the rnrt of somo white men so doubt
ful that they were not ashamed to urge, for tho
sake of peace, and coal, that it should be sub-
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St Tho readers of The Commoner, espe-
St dally thoso who have been assisting In ox-
St tending tho paper's circulation tnrough
St tho "Lots of Flvo" plan, will bo pleased to
St learn that during the olghteen weoks tho
S plan has been In operation many thousand
Si subscription cards havo been ordered by
Si the paper's subscribers and tho requests
St for these cards continue to como In grati-
St fying numbers.
St Quito a number of tho subscription
St cards aro yet in the hands of thoso who
St ordered them, and as the Influence of tho
St new subscribers, represented by the out-
St standing cards, Is needed In a work Tho
Si Commoner Is about to Inaugurate, tho
Si holders of the cards aro requested to make
Si a special effort during tho next ten days to
Si secure a subscriber for each card in their
St possession and to return the cards bear-
St lng the subscribers' names to Tho Com-
St moner office, Lincoln, Neb.
St The publisher Is highly gratified by
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Si public manner to express his appreciation
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Eleven boys and fourteen girls living In the
little town of 'Bertha, Nob., have organized an
antl-proranlty league, uno 01
tie members says that tho or
ganization Is for tho purpose of
impressing upon boys the uso
lG8sne8s of the nrofanltv habit
The young people of Bertha are ongagod in a
good work and it Is to bo hoped that their efforts
will meet with the success they deserve. It is
probably true that in most instances profanity is
merely a habit and many who Indulge In that
habit have no evil intent; but it would be well if
the boys of today could bo trained so that In futura
generations the use of profanity would be excep
tional if, Indeed, it could not be abolished alto
gether. vyv
In his Boston address President Eliot of Har
vard sneeringly referred to those who wish to
"work as few hours as possible
Why Not and got as much money as pos
Condemn sible." Mr. Eliot's criticism on
Others? nJB Pint was directed to tho
wage-earner. It is not difficult
to understand why the man who must depend upon
manual labor for lus living, receiving as he does
comparatively small recompense, wishes to "work
as few hours as possible and get as much money
as possible." But there are In this country today
somo men who not only wish to get as much
money as possible, but whose wish is being grati
fied and who are piling up millions upon millions
of dollars by the sweat of other men's brows and
through tho favor of unjust laws. These men rep
resent powerful elements and are responsible- for
evils with which the intelligence of this country
must sooner or later grapple In all earnest
ness. Why did not President Eliot direct his criti
cism at these men? Why does ho reserve his In
dignation and his 'profound contempt" for tho
wage-earner who must, at least, work eight hours
A
Werthy
Effort.
a day and who, at best cannot derive for his la
bor more than a bare sufficiency for tho necessities
of life?
ilust Vote
as Weil
as Talk.
On tho ovening of November 11 the retail to
bacco dealers of Omaha "held a meeting for the
purpose of effecting aa organi
zation whoso purpose It was o
combat tho oxactions of the to
bacco trust It is said that
large number of tho merchants
who mot to protest against this infringement upon
their rights wont to tho polls at the recent elec
tion and voted the republican UckoL Thoso busi
ness men deserve to be encouraged In their organ
ized effort to fight tho trust and yet thoy cannot
expect to mako progress on this lino if thoy con
tlnuo to cast their votes for a party that derives
Its campaign funds from the trusts and In whose
continued success tho trusts aro most deeply Interested.
Jails
In This
Ceitntry , Too.
Tho Pittsburg Dispatch says: "Wo have heard
something of the Gorman trusts, but thore seems
to bo ono featuro in the German
system that the trust organs do
not toll of. An ex-general di
rector of a Gorman manufactur
ing company has been convlcteJ
and sontonced to imprisonment for violating the
laws against monopolizing the markets." There
is a very explicit law on tho United States statute
books whoroby men In this country who seek to
corner the necessities of life and thus lmposo upon
the pooplo may be sent to jail; but no effort has
been mado to enforce this law and although the
question "Why is the criminal law not onforced?"
has repeatedly been askod, no representative of the
administration has attompted to provide an ex
planation. Congressman Babcock of Wisconsin Is a can
didate for tho speakership of tho republican house.
It Is stated that Mr. Babcock has
"Bab the pledges of tho Nebraska ana
and the Iowa delegations. In somo quar
Idea. tra tho claim that Mr. Babcock
hts tho Iowa delegation behind
bim is interpreted to mean that as speaker of the
house Mr. Babcock would seek to carry out his
old time plans in favor of removing tho tariff
from trust-made products; but it must not be for
gotten that the large majority of the Iowa dele
gation openly repudiated tho tariff revision plank
in the republican state platform of Iowa. It may,
therefore, be understood that .even though Mr.
Babcock should bo elected, which, by the way, is
not at all probable, tho Babcock victory would
not necessarily mean that tho old time Babcock
idea would be emphasized in tho speaker's chair.
In his speech before tho Now York chamber
of commerce Mr. Roosevelt said: "Tho first requi-
site of a good citizen in this re-
Ptilling public of ours Is that he shall
His be able and willing to pull his
Weight, weight that ho shall not be a
mere passenger, but shall do his
share In the worfc that each generation of us finds
ready to hand; and furthermoro that in doing
his work ho shall show not only tho capacity for
sturdy self-reliance, but self-respecting regard for
the rights of others." There aro a number of
generous contributors to the republican campaign
fund who do not measure up to the "first requisite
of a good citizen" as stated by Mr. Roosevelt; and,
indeed, the republican tariff coach Is full of "mere
passengers." Mr. Roosevelt could have consider
able Influence In forcing each of these passengers
to "pull his weight" and to show "not only the
capacity for sturdy self-help, but self-respecting
regard for tho rights of others."
"The
Real
Democrats."
The Chicago Chronicle assigns David B. Hill
to oblivion after condemning Mr. Hill for the coal
plank In the New York demo
cratic planorm. The Chronicla
says: "Mr. Hill acted instinctive
ly as a demagogue willing to
get votes at any sacrifice of
principle. The democratic party will continue to
suffer from this sort of thing until the real demo
crats of the country refuse at tho very threshold
of political campaigns to be thus betrayed and
misled. The tlrao to repudiate democratic traitors
and trimmers is tho instant that they make their
appearance." What authority has the Chronicle
for reading Mr. xxlll out of tho list of "the real
democrats of the country?" Did not Mr. Hill unite
with tho Chronicle in refusing to give support
to the democratic ticket In 18? And have we
not all along been led to believe that, according
to tho Chronicle's estimate, "the real democrats
of the country" are those who refuse to vote the
democratic ticket?
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