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Nothing e'er became the last congress so well
as tlio taking off thereof.
Ohio was ono hundred years old on March 1
'really old enough to know better.
If you want to see a confirmed pessimist just
tell a schoolboy that Memorial day falls on Sat
urday this year.
Why Bhould banks bo tho only ones priv
ileged to borrow government money on state and
county bonds?
Tho effort to sprout the "Iowa idea" on con
gressional soil seoms to have been a deep and dis
mal failure.
Largo families and trust prices for groceries,
meat, clothing and fuel do not make an attractive,
combination.
Mr. J. Picrpont Morgan is visiting in Cuba.
If ho likes the island ho may wear it homo on
his watch chain.
This European trouble over Turkey simply
means that Turkey will profit while tho European
powers wrangle.
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A trial of tho "Subscribers' Advertising De
partment" will convinco that it is a splendid
medium of exchange.
"What this country needs is a democratic con
gress that no-millionaire trust magnate will waste
time sending telegrams to.
The Commoner.
Tho Joplln (Mo.) Daily Globe is another
democratic daily newspaper that is a democratic
daily newspaper every day in the year.
It ought not to be difficult to water the stock
of a newspaper published on an ocean liner and
served with wireless telegraph news.
Some newspapers that make no pretension of
being humorous are now publishing articles on
"The Work of tho Fifty-seventh Congress."
President Eliot declares that no man can '
work too hard. As a theorist President Eliot is
all right.
J V somethine wrong about tho democ
racy of a democrat who acts on the advice of re
publican bosses and manipulators.
'After tho exhibition made by tho last senate
how can any sane man object to tho election of
senators by direct vote of the people?
Mon who habitually vote the republican ticket
and advocate republican policies do not pomotb
.the right kind of democracy by which to ml
democratic policies and principles. mcasuro
Twenty negroes, the entire colored population
of Wobrum, were driven out of town the ow
day and their littlo shacks pulled (lown and d
stroyed. Mississippi? No, Pennsylvania "
The Memphis News puts a great truth In n -,
words when it says: "It is aZnSill.fl
The principal thing accomplished by tho Fiftv
seventh Sbngresswas to demonstrate . tha if
people expect any legislation in their interest
.they should elect a different kind of congress
While tho Oklahoma legislature is amending
tho rules of "soven-up" tho people should set
about amending tho rules of tho trust gamo of
"cinch."
Perhaps Mr. Rockefeller was afraid that Miss
Tarbell might be appointed to look after the pub
licity department of that anti-trust law.
Before tho extra session was called the trusts
had figured up and learned that the new senate
would not differ materially from tho old.
Attorney General Knox now has a fund of
$500,000 with which not to prosecute the trusts
any more than is necessary for campaign purposes.
Tho death at 85 of tho inventor of tho Gatling
gun demonstrates that it is safer to stand behind
one of those guns than it is to stand in front of it.
Under what theory of republican government
is it proper to tax the people In order to raise
money to lend back to the people through, favored
banks?
"What shall Cuba do for us?" plaintively asks
the New York Tribune. The Tribune doubtless ,
thinks Cuba should do all we ask without asking
anything in return.
Tho presidential explanation concerning south
ern appointments reads wonderfully like the "I
ain't been a-doin' of .nothin' " explanation- of the
small boy at school.
It costs $60,000 a year to keep the White
house clean and the floors scrubbed. Really, Mr.
Hanna should be more careful and wipe his
feet on tho front door mat
Mr. Addicks' joy over tho result in Delaware
gives rise to tho suspicion that tho people would
do well to modify their rejoicings until some
more facts are made public.
Tho republicans who favored loaning govern
ment money to banks on any old kind of bonds
are the same men who denounced tho populist
idea of loaning money on non-perishable products
raised by the farmers.
Those democrats who have spent the Mast
eight or ten years voting the republican ticket will
not have a great deal to say as to who shall or
shall not have seats in the democratic national
convention of 1904.
A republican organ expresses wonder at the
extreme slowness of news transmission in Wash-
n w ."S0, A,Wh0le lot of Sod thinss written"
in Washington's time has not reached the republi
can leaders even to this day. p
If an uncalled-for surplus were not collected
by outrageous and unjust taxation there would ba
no need of lending government money to favored
banks on chips and whetstones for the purpose of'
giving tho people an opportunity to borrow at
heavy interest
The telegraph informs us that the island of
Guam has been raised six inches by an earth
quake shock. The interesting feature of this bit
SnI?,8-tllatlt lends onciinigement to tho
hope that some time republican policies-may bo
Kited up above a mere contemplation of financial
(3 (VI II
The legislature of Nebraska has refused to pass
a bil providing for equal taxation, the bill be
ing bitterly opposed by the railroad corporations
Tho man who cannot guess tho political com
plexly of the Nebraska legislature with his ey?s
S tub83 wouia swim a river t0 Wt rthto
s .VOLUME 3, NUMBER 8.
'A St. Louis federal judge has enjoined a lot
of railroad employes from striking for better
wages. Tho employes might find a federal judgo
willing to enjoin railroad managers from refusing
to pay a fair rate of wage. We say "might" be
cause we entertain grave and serious doubts
about it.
It is not for men who betrayed the democratic
party into tho hands of its enemies to say who
shall or shall not sit in democratic conventions.
Neither is it for men who bolted the democratic
platforms and candidates to say what future plat
forms shall contain or who shall be nominated
as candidates thereon.
Senator Aldrlch's monetary bill provides that
the government shall loan money to the banks at
l1 per cent in order that the banks may havo
money to loan to the people at 8, 10, 12 or even
greater per cent. The mere fact that Senator
Aldrich introduced the bill is evidence that the
banks are to be well taken care of.
Mr. Roosevelt will have difficulty in demon
strating that educated and worthynegroes livo
only in the south. If he is determined to reward
fitness let him apply the test indiscriminately
north and south. The appointment of a few negro
postmasters in northern states will do more than
epistolary exercise to prove his sincerity.
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When special interests want some particular
legislation they ask for it and then keep bringing
pressure to bear until they get it. When the peo
ple want some particular legislation they ask for
it and then smile and vote to re-elect the men who
refuse their petitions. This is why special inter
ests are always well taken care of by congress.
With 300 armed, uniformed and well drilled
men haunting the country within ten miles of
Manila and making war on American troops it
will be difficult for the imperialistic press to make
the people believe that all is quiet and peaceful
in the Philippines save for an occasional clash
between "ladrones" and tho "armed constabulary."
Renewals to The Commoner are coming in at
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It is something more than a coincidence that
one of the ablest democratic daily newspapers in
the country is published in Pennsylvania, It is a
tribute to the ability of its editor and its worth
as a newspaper. Under the editorship of Warren
Worth Bailey the Johnstown (Pa,) Democrat has
become one of the foremost democratic dailies of
the country.
vTw? !X Cit?, Journal says it was "public
Tn,J? br0ke UP the Set-ricli-quick schemes. Tho
SvEJS V! Wm "g lt was "PUDHcity" obtained by
S5fnkgnS?mnft,8,1lB eDabled the get-rich-
quick promoters to accomplish their object? .And a
iovfulivTSSnhat now denounce the scheme
blfnToncert.6' tte adents of the gam-
the neonlt 1 , ? na,ncial plan Bim means that
2P15 bG leTily taxed ln 01'der at a
loaned t??L ,B T fr the purPse of being
people Mvl,a? n certaIn securities that tho
their own nLT11 PPrtunity to borrow
voruJementa thafnS 7 Ul7 accopted he ad'
morallS aat J. wS??epn8 were frauds? TnG
does S imount'to much"7 finandal receIptS
HiorfrTUhna0t SAb8 ?miling upon SPai once
000 damages S?S $" ?oe" awarded ?375,
f ailed to comnwe fm, ? PWlng firm that
use to too wSrwifS nto?Te?? boafs In tIme for
stroke of good fort 1 ? Uoited States- " ls a
wore delayed 3E 5 tol Spain that tho boats
money Aat JJhns tho" boata and the
it this is inteSing tHo cake and havln
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