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The Commoner,
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- While. the anti-trust bills multiply tlio trusts
keep right' on with their robbery.
The Commoner closes its second year with up
wards of 135,000 subscribers on its lists.
The John Maynard Harlan mayoralty boom
seems to have arrived at the chronic stage.
Those Moros continue to show evidences of a
desire to attach themselves to the peace-securing
salary list.
Mascagni doubtless believes now that the
American people iove legal trouble more than they
do intermezzos.
Mr. Knox might try .enforcing the criminal
clause in the Sherman law pending the availability
j of that appropriation.
" The Commoner.
;- The Fowler bill has donned a new disguise,
tmt it does not require a- Sherlock Holmes to
penetrate it, x
An Ohio minister compliments Pugilist Cor
bett on being a fluent talker. But, then most
pugilists arc.
The Sultan of Morocco should hasten to look
about for' an opportunity to saddle himself upon
some complaisant salary list.
By returning to Mississippi, President Roose
velt will bo able U find fully as much g. o. p.
harmony as he did bear meat
The organization of the Nebraska legislature
was a fight between rival railroads. Of course the
taxpayers provided the gate money.
It is a mighty wise army officer on duty in
the Philippines who knows whether his actions
are to bring him a court-martial or a promotion.
Senator Hoar may believe that his anti-trust
remedy will be effective, but it is scarcely prob
able that he believes it will be adopted by con
gress. The republican promise to throttle the trusts
meant about as much as the republican expres
sion of sympathy for all peoples struggling for
liberty.
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Mr. Quay's interest in statehood for the terri
tories somehow or other inclines one to the be
lief that Mr. Quay has secured an option on all
t!he plum trees.
Mr. Knox's communication explains very
clearly that if Mr. Knox is allowed-to have his
way the trusts will be properly taken care of by
his department. .
The Chicago papers declare that the city has
need of a children's hospital. ' Are those Chicago
philanthropists through with building homes lor
cats and dogs?
Ohio republicans are -wondering whether Mr.
Hanna Intends Herricking them or Dickering them.
They are satisfied, however, that Mr. Hanna will
attend to it when he gets time.
The men who have the money to lay ocean
cables do not seem to. be greatly in fear of Mar
conigraph competition.
Having invested a quarter of a million In a
senatorial ambition Mr. Addicks naturally gives it
considerable attention.
The South American countries are grateful for
the Monroe doctrine, but they do not want it to
wear any Imperialistic frills.
Being a skilled, politician, Mr. James S. Clark
son is doubtless exacting a fidelity "bond from each
one. of his southern -delegates.
v . The Dick gubernatorial boom is in trouble now
' J. that Mr. Itathbone is unable to properly attend to
. the telephone" terminal facilities.
Owing to the absence of elephants in the Phil-
ippines it may be necessary to use the water
buffalo in our oriental pageants.
Soldiers at Fort Sheridan have struck against
a .continued- diet of hash. This may be another.
vindication of the embalmed beef.
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William E. Curtis asserts that there Is vastv
,. ' riches in beet sugar. But it may be that Mr.
Curtis was looking at the tariff annex.
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The Cook county grand jury is investigating
. . the '.coal sjtuatioh. Of course Mr. Baer will look
upon this as an altogether sacriligious attack upon
. his divine rights.
The Michigan senatorial event was pulled off
In a manner calculated to recall the smooth man
ipulation of certain southern delegates in a his
toric republican national convention.
Mrs. Hetty Green -as been allowing an insur
ance company to pay the taxes on a piece of her
real estate. Mrs. Green is not the only person who
has accumulated wealth by this sort of thing.
Now comes the news that a trust is to ba
formed to control the monkey and parrot market.
If it is calculated to restrict theNewport output
the country will try to bear it without grumbling.
A large number ot Commoner subscriptions ex
pire during the next two or three weeks. The
publisher hopes that subscribers wUl renew with
out delay, thim avoiding unnecessary delay' in
crediting the subscriptions.
President' Roosevelt and King Edward have
exchanged congratulations and compliments by
means of the Marconigraph, but the matter will'
not be properly featured until it has been Joe-chdated.
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The Pennsylvania legislature has again re
elected Mr. Quay to the senate, although" the cer
tificate will bear the name of Boies Penrose.
The newspaper guessing contest is coming in
for thorough denunciations all over the country.
It should come in for an iron-clad prohibition.
Uncle Russell Sage has engaged a valet. This
inclines us to the opinion that the "no tips al
lowed" sign will no longer appeal to Uncle Russell.
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By noting the date on the wrapper Commoner
.subscribers niay ascertain the date their sub
scription expires. It will save time and.trouble if
renewals are made a week or two prior to tho ex
piration of the subscription.
This issue completes Volume 2 of The Com
moner. Subscribers who began with the first num
ber of the volume should renew at once. See
"Clubbing and Combination liters" in last week's
paper and on page 16 of this issue.
It appears that Mr. Knox is keeping his de
partment busy trying to evade the duty of en
forcing the criminal clause of tho anti-trust law.
Five hundred thousand dollars' worth of this sort
of thing should be amply sufficient.
Is your subscription to The Commoner about
to expire? Examine tho wrapper in which your
MQr comes. If tho date appWlng there is
Jan. 03 your renewal should be sent in without
kuuiuy. in last WeOK'B Oanor find V-m nnim 1fi n
this Issue you will find somo subscription bargains.
"When President Roosevelt pointed to the fact
that he had appointed several nortnern negroes to
public office he forgot to mention that their offi
cial duties usually called tnem away from their
home states. Mr. T. Thomas Fortune of New York
is in Hawaii.
Axie newspapers convey the pleasing informa
tion .that "peace has been established in baseball
circles." This may be true, but the wise umpire
will "take tho usual precautions.
After assisting in tho work of electing a leg
islature that would permit itself to be Lorimered
the republican papers of Illinois should take their,
medicine without so many evidences of chagrin.
As usual the latest republican scheme to "ra
form the currency" contemplates giving more fi
nancial power to the' bankers and money manip
ulators. It would not be a republican scheme were
it otherwise.
. Five hundred thousand dollars ought to en
able Mr. .Knox to secure a whole lot of useless
injunctions like the one he secured against the
packer's" combine. Injunctions of that kind are
worth very little.
It has come to pass that the man who purloins
a bucket of coal can insist upon being tried under
the charge of grand larceny. If the present state
ot jiff airs continues much longer the .coal thief
can pose as a "captain of industry."
The Washington Post. complains that the Chi
cago Tribune has retired one humorous feature of
the Tribune editorial page. The Post should be of
good cheer. Tho Tribune still contains six columns
of humorous matter on its editorial page. "
If southern papers will refrain from com
menting on the latest Kansas lynching for about
,, six weeks longer the republican papers in the
north will feel more like throwing spasms of in
dignation over similar affairs in the south.
According to the testimony of the anthracite
mine owners the condition of the miners is so
pleasant and profitable that we wonder why the
owners do not give away their holdings- and get
jobs in the mines as wielders of pick and shovel.
Citizens of the territories are indignant be
cause the republican majority in congress will not
keep the platform pledge to admit the territories
to statehood. Would tho territorial citizens have
tho g. 0. p. violate an ancient precedent by keep
ing a platform pledge?
Knowing that China is a silver using nation
the powers exacted an indemnity, of collossal pro
portions. Then silver was hammered down 20
cents an ounce and China's debt thereby in
creased one-third. This is what gold standard
financiers call honesty.
The Nebraska Democratic Editorial associa
tion will meet at Grand Island on February 3, and
an Interesting program has been arranged for the
occasion. Tho democratic editors of every state
should follow the example of their Nebraska
brethren and organize associations for mutual help
and for the advancement of democratic principles.
Those people "who complain because the min
ers refused to work on New Year's day are tho
people who insisted that the mine owners had a
perfect right to do as they pleased with their
own. In other words, a man's property is sacred,
a man's labor is merely a public convenience, ac
cording to their logic.
Governor Durbin is going to cease' his anti
lynching crusade, having faildd to arouse suf
ficient public suppprt to make it worth while. It
appears that his party supporters were so busy
denouncing southern outrages upon the negvo
that they had no timo to spare for denouncing
similar outrages in their own state. Indiana re
publicans are not the only ones so concerned about
tho frost on their neighbors' tiles that they fail to
observe the litter upon their own doorsteps.
One of the republican candidates for con
gress in Kentucky sent a letter to the voters in
which he made the following appeal: "Of course
you don't again want low prices for wheat, corn,
oats, pigs, horses and other things as in 1892-7,
yet tho only way to prevent it Is to vote to prevent
it" It is a little hard to have tho hard times of
Mr. Cleveland's administration used as a republi
can argument against a democracy that repudiated
Mr. Cleveland's policy, and yet the republicans
would if they could carry us back to tho Clovo
land regime
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