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The Commoner.
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Volume 3, Number 4.,
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Coshocton (0.) Democrat nnd Stand
ard: Congress has appropriated $500,
000 for Attorney Goncral Knox'a sham
br.ttlo with tho trusts.
Contaurla (Minn.) Outlook: Prcsl
' .dont Jackson's platform was: "I am
lor tho peoplo and against tho corpor
ations." It Is a good enough platform
lor any man to stand on today.
York (Nob.) Domocrat: Tho peoplo
of this country aro sorono and calm,
but tho storm will como just tho samo
and when It docs gold will hide its
face and lot "disaster follow fast and
fastor."
Plattsmouth (Neb.) Journal: if
United States sonators wore eleci'ul
by tho peoplo they would not daro to
pursuo thoir present dilatory tactics
ill the hope of provontlng antl-trus:
legislation.
Vandalia (111.) Domocrat: Congress
lias voted to tako tho tariff off coal for
ono year on account of the corner in
tho coal supply. If it is a good thing
to remove tho tariff for ono year, why
is It not a good thing to removo it
3)ormanently?
Bowling Green (O.) Domocrat: The
presldont and congress have bon
scared Into putting up a sham battle
against tho trusts, yet nothing w '1
bo done to cut off campaign assort
ments in 1904. Tho trusts know wiwt
thoy aro hero for.
Seneca (Kas.) Courier-Democrat:
Wo ospouso democracy because we
bollovo tho democratic party Is tho
ark that is to rotaiti, In safoty to tho
Ainoncan peoplo, tho freedom, be
queathed by tho fathers, now floun
dering in tho flood of greed and
avarice.
Kondallvillo (Ind.) Nows: Tho
democrats" who are now suggesting
Clcvoland for president all voted for
McKinley in 189G, and It is not upon
- .x. witvu uiuui uiuu t uo bo, 100.
Thoso follows that aro having a little
fun don't want any change in tho ad
ministration. Hannibal (Mo.) Journal: Why did
a republican congress pass and a re
publican presldont sign a bill to tako
the duty off of coal? Thoy say for
tho purpose of giving tho peoplo
cheapor fuel. Then why not givo the
peoplo cheaper everything elso by re
moving tho tariff? Why?
Soward (Neb.) Independent-Democrat:
pno powior curroncy bm
which was discussed during tho re
cent campaign by tho fusionists, was
denounced as a "bugaboo" by tho re
publicans, and oven tho brilliant (?)
THnshaw declared that it was dead
iiovor to rlso again. But in Monday
morning's Stato Journal, over an QX-
?1 dia?ntcb from Washington, ap
peared this hoading: "House will
probably pass tho Fowler bilh" Th s
parly ftS,S? " H,Mhaw and h "
party followers wore oither very
ignorant on tho subject, or wore to-
tent upon deceiving tho peoplo on So
true status of tho bill.
Stanton (Neb.) Register: A year
ago a gold dollar would buy two bush
' uuu " Koia aoiiar and
to cukk' a"7!tt , . "
r 1 r vw -n uI DAY
W. GwTO'..IfMgl5ty-Mogrfc
four bits of silver to buy a bushel of
potatoes, now tho same piece of gold
will buy fivo bushels of potatoes. Tho
potatoes aro better this year, but the
dollar has increased in value four
fold. Batavia (O.) Sun: Congress has
passed and tho president signed a bill
suspending t,ho tariff on anthracite
coal for ono year. Tho object of this
is to givo our peoplo cheaper coal. So
it would seem that in fact the cost to
tho consumer is enhanced by the dutj
on imports, and that the foreigner
does not pay tho tariff tax.,
Grant City (Mo.) Times: General
Prosperity has incurred the displeas
ure of tho section men on tho "Q"
between Hopklna.and Amazonia. Tho
general camo along the line last week
and cut the wages of tho section hands
from $1.25 down to 99 cents per day.
Confidence is restored and the gen
oral is withdrawing troops and ra
tions. Manhattan (Kas.) Mercury: Tho
guessing contest lottery encaced in by
newspapers and corporations is simply
highway robbery. A paper that is
not worth tho subscription price with
out premiums or gambling schemes to
get patronage ought to suspend. All
over tho country a just criticism
against these gambling schemes is in
progress.
David City (Neb.) Press: People
havo been reported as dying from fa
mine in Now York, and of freezing to
death for want of coal they could
not got in Chicago. Wo do not won-
dnr thnf rnnnhllnnn nitfnni i....
...... . Vj,i.Uwv,uu fcuiwio uic DllUUt.-
ing prosperity in a minor key. To
screech at this stage of the ganio
would be most too much of a discord
in their self-laudatory music
5am,berlaln (s- D- Journal: That
Philippine telegraphic game under
military control, that gave Governor
GonorRl Tnff anr1i n Tnnei ,,.
reception two weeks ago, said that ho
iV9nllnf?n ?i Jc1onsent to surrender his
20,000 job there for an $8,000 one on
the supreme bench is really as amus
ing as Toddy's "publicity" of trusts
conditions to regulate them.
Llano (Tex.) Times: Congress has
placed coal on tho free list for ono
year. This is very good. Why not
put it on tho free list all the time. If
putting It on tho freo list for one year
will servo to lower the price and keep
tho monopolists of our country from
ra sing tho price all out of reason, it
will bo necessary to do it all the
time, as monopolists will still do bus
iness at tho old stand.
Mn Y iN Y Democrat: The
?vannp IIa fbamber of commerce has sent
over a lot of people to lobby in con-
S?Eif Jl an. Gnactment which shall
permit the importation of Chinese
coolloa. The main desire of the men
j,rhfavoa11 alons bGQn demiSEE
exploit tho Islands' resources, with-
baying a Durbar? Wo have th S,n
ippines and also Hawaii; it loLnkn
we might have at least a litUe ruar
?ni?B7h0? wo got a IIttIe more immS
alistlc development wo could Siv
Increase tho size of our little DnSS?
UonrUZ laCk the vinmn:
lions, but then wo will soon haie
Rockvlllo (Ind.) Tribune: Who is
to define "anarchy" under the law pro
posed by some ass in the Indiana leg
islature? Are wo to punish mon in
this state for saying and doing things
not half so anarchistic as tho aotlon
of the governor in deliberately dls
oheylng his sworn duty to enforce the
constitution of the United States for
no other reason than to protect a re
publican politician accused of mur
der in another state?
Eureka (111.) Democrat-Journal: A
numher of anti-trust bills have al
ready been introduced in congress, and
others aro being prepared; but what
good can they accomplish? The Sher
man anti-trust law is on tho books,
hut the attorney general will not en
force it, even asainst tho infamous
coal trust The only part of it which
the trusts fear is tho criminal clause
and the government has no intention
of enforcing that Knox would not
do anything if there were a hundred
laws on the books for the punishment
of illegal doings of trusts.
Aurora (Neb.) Register: The poor,
ignorant, Filipinos attribute all exist
ing conditions of rinderpest, cholera,
rice shortage, poor markets and all
other misfortunes to the American
occupation. The better educated and
more intelligent know better than
this. While on the same subject it
might be well to remember that we
have a class so stupid as to attribute
rainfall, good crops and favorable
markets to political conditions, so in
this particular we haven't much ad
vantage of the Filipinos after all.
Bucyrus (O.) Forum: In democratic
days, we are told, there were free
soup houses. Our republican friends
have yet to show anything in that
day of equal magnitude with the relief
efforts of today. No entire commun
ities looted coal trains, and it was
not necessary to excuse anarchy on
the ground of self-preservation. But
that Is the condition of things to'dav
LhrHirSlican trust -and iml
perialistic propaganda is producing
its logical results. h
ofm?oeld t(0 ShIeld: Tue PItlon
?llliam.J- Bryan In 190. concern
ing the duty on coal and other com
modities affected by trust combines
has been indorsed by the irresisS 3
logic of events. Even a republican
congress has been forced to grant free
teado In coal for a time. But how
much misery would have been pre
vented if the duty on coal had been
repealed and the coal combine dis-
Sn?d the Umo Bl?an first drew
public attention to the matter?
Newton (la.) Herald: The dem-
K7 ?tf 2K? " rally t0 ve
liseir. it will crumble to pieces if
frnmM ?lg? back t0 the landmarks
from which it has been led by
insidious voice 'of compromise and
trim. In order that it may have a
rallying point, it should have alead
j This leader should bo a man Wio"
! true, yesterday, today
tomorrow and forever. The S
acknowledges no superior in adhe,
SEW. p,tttforaB ? "
PotoBl (Mo.) Independent- Thn
democrats should keen hi, ?uQ
the reorganizes are SottafiSged
the success of the dmrmn. a In
to any ereater MZ?S&C2
to their own personal advantage. If
they cannot make the democratic par
ty as much the agent of Wall street
as the republican party now is, they
will attempt to destroy it as they did
in 1896. There must be no handling
these people with gloves. The rank
and file of the party will not follow
them. No true democrat will do so,
ror can he afford to be identified with
them in any way. "
Aberdeen (Wash.) Herald:- Mr.
Roosevelt says that ' "of course if in
any case it be found that a given rate"
of duty does promote a monopoly
which works ill, no protectionist would
object to such reduction of duty as
would .equalize competition." Thf
American student lias been taught
that private monopolies work ill and
and are therefore intolerable; but Mr.
Roosevelt who has often pretended to
discriminate between good and bad
trusts, without ever accepting tho
challenge to name a few "good" trusts
has fallen into the habit of apologiz
ing for any unpleasant reference to
monopolieshence the reference to "a
monopoly which works ill."
Connersville (Ind.) Examiner: The
American people are patient and long
suffering, but when it comes to freez
ing to death they will perhaps begin
to reason that the trusts, which have
brought about the causes of so much
agony and discomfort, should be voted
out of existence. Down with the trusts.
Mansfield (O.) Shield: From tho
general tone of republican comment
upon Senator Hoar's anti-trust bill it
is pretty safe to predict that the
Massachusetts sage will be about aa
successful in his war against the trusts
nL1?,13 Si.1118 attack aSaist im
perialism. The republican party es
teems and venerates Mr. Hoar only
so long as he keeps his hands off th
various forms of favoritism which that
organization fosters and protects
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Few People Know How U.eful it I, I Prcsef v.
Ins Health and Beauty
?X.Ln .. Wt feweal?"11!? purl-
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teuaAI?a remedy -that tho mn, .,.
ous vewtabfifl. 0"iDflr onioD8 and oth.r odo5
acts as a natural nnrf mU, t?,eth and further
. It absorbs tft iSiJSfggj eathvEE
la the stomach nnd bowBff l7 "hIc.b collecl
mouth and throat from 8X Jli- du,n.fecta ba
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