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Tho Commoner enters upon Volume Three
"with this number.
Tho crying demand of tho times Is not for
inoro judges, but for more justice.
If Durbars were meat and bread the natives
of India would enjoy a satisfying feed.
Tho steel trust did not make a move to let its
omployes In until tho water began to ooze out.
It is much to bo feared that Mr. Knox's latest
Is a prematuro comic valentine for the trusts.
Russia may now congratulate herself upon
not bolng as small and helpless as Venezuela.
It appears that Mr. Hanna has made tip Col
onel Dick's mind not to run for governor of Ohio.
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Mr. Chandler of Now Hampshire has made tho
mistake of crowding most of his views Into the appendix.
Mr. Chamborlain's visit to South Africa affords
Mr. Kipling an opportunity that ho should not
overlook.
If tho Hoar anti-trust bll should be enacted
lntok law no ono w6uld be moro surprised than
Mr. Hoar.
Mr. Knox's "casus omissus" is tho source of
all tho trouble. What the country demands is a
casus ohltem.
All this talk about the medicinal properties of
lemons may mean that a lemon trust is about to
bo announced.
Something should bo dono with tho man who
talks about polar-expeditions during tho present
cpaj famine.
Mr. Knox wastes time In tolling us how it
may bo done. Ho should proceed to show us
how it Is done.
People who never worked in a coal mine are
tho only ones who complain because tho miners
work short hours.
Tho steel trust is not tho only concern will
ing to givo things away if tho recipients will pay
roundly for them.
Physicians declare that lemons will kill dis
ease germs. If this is true, tho physicians should
lot the lemon aid them.
Great Britain Is willing to givo tho people of
India magnificent spectacles if other nations will
continue to givo them bread.
President Roosevelt might appoint a negro
postmaster in some largo New York state city in
order to havo something to which ho might noint
the southern people with prido as an object lesson.
the Commoner.
Tho trusts aro not a bit afraid of republican
anti-trust thunder.. What they are afraid bMs
democratic anti-trust lightning.
Now that Mr. Knox has called their atten
tion to tho wrongfulness of granting rebates
doubtless tho railroads will quit it.
Firo in George Gould's homo destroyed $125,
000 worth of paintings. That method of securing
heat is almost as costly as burning coal.
' Those republican statesmen who oppose the
entering wedgo will some day wake up to find
themselves used as mauls to hammer it in
Mr. Halo of Maine says tho Dingley law was a
magnificent gift to the people. The people realize
that it was a gift of neckwear.
Up to date Mr. Addicks has not received any,
dividends on that senatorial investment, but Mr.
Addicks continues to hold tight to his stock.
Tho coal operators are discovering that a
shivering people are inclined to do something cal
culated to make the mine owners shudder.
Hon. Philander Knox has evidently been
aroused sufficiently to recognize that there is
something the matter. This is a hopeful sign.
Professor James Corbett and Professor James
Jeffries aro again hurling defls in all directions.
Will the public- never tire of its attacks of Jim-wind-jams?
Tho "Subscribers' Advertising Department"
should bo carefully studied by those who may
havo bargains to offer or who may be in search. of
bargains.
In restricting their sales the members of tho
coal combine seem to have unconsciously set afoot
measures looking to a restriction of their opportunities.
This phonetic spelling affords an opportunity
to remark that the president is unablo to extract
any Crum of comfort from that South Carolina
collectorship muddle.
If removing the coal tariff one year is a good
thing for the people at large, why. wouldn't re
moving it for two years be twice as good? And
if for one year, why not forever?
Just as soon as the trusts "0. K." an anti
trust bill it will be passed. The country has en
joyed a long seigo of that sort of anti-trust legislation.
Why should that Morocco insurgent be called
a "pretender?" Did he ever introduce a republi
can anti-trust bill or vociferate about "shackling
cunning?"
The New York Mail and Express says, "We
believe a paper can be rational and unprejudiced
in its views." The Mail and Express might try
it for a while.
Mr. Vest is in poor health but makes a strong
atcack upon tho trusts. Mr. Knox enjoys good
health and does not bother the trusts enough." 'to
attract their attention.
Whenever tho republican party selects a
standard-bearer for democracy it is very careful
to select one who has been in the habit of sup
porting republican candidates.
Senator Dolliver had the temerity to defend
the "Iowa idea" in a speech in the senate the
other day. Yet the senator loves to chide dem
ocracy for advocating "dead issues."
It is reported that Senator Cullom has ad
mitted the failure of the interstate commerce law.
It must be that the senior senator from Illinois
has been reading tho papers lately.
n Inhl8 laxSJc baSSing southern delegates Mr.
Collector of tho Port of Now York Clarkson is, be
ing chased off uponsomo cold scents by the board
of presidential strategy at Washington.
Quito a few trust magnates who enjoy their
millions appear to think it simply awful that the
?? nnnmInTers ?hould b aslcGd to John Mitchell
53,000. In view of tho circumstances it is diffi
cult to blame some trust magnates for making
objections to the featuring of Mitchell. mttiUDS
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The organs that rejoice over tho restriction 0!
'the silver output are fearfully hoarse denouncing
the.restrictidn of the coal output.
There is talk "of effecting an organisation 0!
those who write poetry for the press, if this is
a combine inrestraint of the output it is an except
wuu luttt win uo cneenuiiy accepted.
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General Grosvenor adyises steering a middle;
.course in trust" legislation. By this lie means
.that he favors enacting legislation that will nojj
benefit the people nor injure the trusts.
Honest men who support the republican party;
should pause and think when a man like Matthew,
Stanley Quay has to stand up and demand that tho.
republican; party keep its platform pledges.
1 The attbrney general is greatly pushed to de
vise excuses for not trying the criminal clause of
the anti-trust law, but up to date his fertile
imagination has been, equal to the emergency.
A congressional committee is to investigate
the coal situation. The trouble with this sort of
thing is that the printed report of the committeo
Will not be available for fuel purposes as soon as
needed.
Mr. Fowler continues to insist upon his plans
for an elastic currency. The kind of elastic cur
rency Mr. Fowler wants will snap 'the people and
then fly back into the hands of Mr. Fowler's
backers. .
The Washington Post says that "Billy Lori
mer finds time to do all of the thinking for tho
Illinois legislature." But that doesn't keep Lorimer
away' from his other engagements to any appre
ciablo extent.
That New York man who "killed himself be
cause, he had the asthma and couldn't breathe
without great effort should have., tried to buy a
ton of coal. The price would have made him
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Quite naturally the coal combine objected
when the freezing people of Areola, 111., held up a
train and seized enough coal to keep themselves
warm. It was a clear infringement of tbe rights
of the coal combine.
The Honorable William Eaton Chandler con
tinues to break forth now and then in advocacy of
something be refused to support when he was in
a position to accomplish it Mr. Chandler's hind
sight is a severe handicap to him.
There seems to be fully as many "republican1
free coal kitchens" in these days of "republican
prosperity" as there were "democratic soup
houses" during "democratic hard times." But the
republican organs are careful not to feature the
fact.
It appears that some republican leaders ob
ject to Apostle Smoot, not because .he believes in
polygamy, but because they fear' the effect his
election may have upon the g. o. p." The republi
can leaders may be .always depended upon to put
party first ,r ,
Mr. Roosevelt insists that "justice to the negro
demands that the negro be permitted to hold po
litical office when he shows himself to be fit for
it. Are there no fit negroes irTNew York, Phila
delphia, Chicago, Canton, Oyster Bay and other
northern cities?
Senator Dolliver severely criticises those re
publican senators who are holding up the reci
procity treaties. Tho senator should not be harsh.
They aro merely performing the duties for which
they were elected. When the people, not the com
bines, elect United States senators the people will
be given a show. -
It develops that the Philippine archipelago is
so rich and such a fine field for the Investment
of American capital that we are compellod to con
tribute several million dollars to keep the Filipino
people from starving. If there is a defect in
these conclusions the premise laid by a republican
administration is full of blowholes.
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