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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
The plans of the reorganizes are gladly given
publicity by the administration organs.
Of course the meat trust will add to the
chorus of jibes at "poOr old Missouri."
Those "get-rich-quick" concerns certainly had
that result but not among the investors.
That "harmony banquet" in Chicago recently
seems to havo been largely a case of "regrets."
The National Packing company seems to hav3
been missed in the distribution of the shackles.
The people might be willing to compromise
with Mr. J. P. Morgan by remitting the duty on
steel.
A democrat ic club in overy precinct will ward
100 dang0r of a rPblicani55ed democracy in
Congressman DoArmond will probably b
nuneteg "and othera" at future barmony ban-
Over in Iowa republican harmony meetings ar-
a?guments. SGa,'Cl,lnff lh2 gUGSta Io "a
lowliny,1!1!,130 a one tImo ore loyal democrats al
low republicans to name the candidates and frame
tho platforms for the democratic party.
Recont developments in Rhode Island tend to
oral can noithor skate nor slide. g
to chase somo mon day and night.
miiohhi0i,!?1i1C!,l8i la? agalnst th0 trusts is Very
Sim 1 J 8lniJ by tdephone-you hear a lSt
about it, but you never see anything.
If J. P. Morgan gets the contract to bund tim
Panama canal there will bo plenty of water in hE
company's stocks even if no'ne ov'e? Ve'tf into the
S3 raSon ? 2SV&
leau" ot OhiohwmngEn0,Urnetl4,tl"s "WMIcan
loaratoe from Mr Hnn "a?0 S10 pIe,umr
nom&Tor Sovm-,Sr a 3ustwhon wjr stall
The Commoner.
What the people demand is something in tho
way of a shackle that will manacle instead of
ornament
Mr. Morgan is having difficulty in finding tin
"foreigner" who must pay the tariff on that art
collection.
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By locating the strawberry mark the presi
dent may be able to recognize his Cuban reciproc
ity treaty.
Those Buffalo detectives seem to have a reg
ular Philanderknox time in running down tho
guilty parties.
The report of Mr. Cleveland's western tour is
calculated to make the encyclopedias take to tho
tall timber.
The trusts seem to have sown a few germs of
trachoma in the optics of the legal sleuths in and
about Washington.
Since his offer to Ithica Mr. Carnegie might
arbitrate the drainage canal differences between
Chicago and St. Louis.
Mr. Rathbone's renewed activity may havo
the effect of making Mr. Hanna tremble every
time he hears the telephone bell ring.
Those Wabash employes might try applying
to that federal judge for a writ of mandamus com
pelling their employes to raise their wages.
There is something morally wrong about the
man who would rather achieve victory in a bad
cause than sustain defeat in a good cause.
Miss Tarbell was rather sarcastic when she
wrote of Mr. Rockefeller that "nothing was too
large for him to undertake or too small."
My, how the president did scare the packers!
They were so badly frightened that they just got
together and went into a trust sure enough.
Perhaps all the rivers have been booming for
the purpose of showing that all the water in tho
country has not been poured into the trust stocks.
Mr. Carnegie might save Uncle Sam a big
bunch of money and at the same time satisfy his
announced ambition by financing the Panama
canal.
It is wonderful how skillfully the reorgan
izes manage to evade mentioning some demo
crat for president who is not more interested in
republican methods than he is in democratic principles.
Of course organized labor will rush frantical
ly to the support of a political party led by the
man who used the federal army in violation of the
Szed laSor thG railradS M against or-
Some of these days there will be an admin i
tration at Washington that will give 'the porta U
of Lincoln ana Jefferson preference over sfnslc-
tieWhTte nouse.S SlVeS in adrnine the "
i.t T1?ero '"i!1 t0 p,enty 0l "new issues" in 1904
affWiSEr wifi -'"VehoThr
onlyVooToo0 rH,a0tf tbat he admlttea ning
Already the president's -western tour l h
tag made the occasion for humorous jibes from
Missouri is democratic because thnf i ,Q
en orSe' rA u
question might spend a little time on thfs one
threendaT;?tUriaLyuZneaifCr,nSS'y0r
interest and attract the IttenUon of e pcoS
.VOLUME 3, NUMBER it
The last congress was very extravagant buf
as there is still some money in the treasury tho
republican leaders are looking forward to the
next congress with pleasant anticipations.
If it was wrong for Addicks to try to buy a
senatorship with his own money, what shall we
say of a republican congress that conciliated the
trusts by allowing them to continue their ex
tortion from the American people.
It is now announced that Mr. Addicks will
take up his abode with the Addicks senator and
entertain tho senators and congressmen. Tne
anti-Addicks republicans of Delaware did not, af
ter all, keep the gas man away from Washington.
The Chicago Chronicle is engaged in the ef
fort to defeat Carter H. Harrison for re-election
to the office of mayor of Chicago. Can it be pos
sible that Mr. Harrison's position on the munic
ipal ownership of public utilities has anything to
do with the attitude of Mr. Walsh's newspaper?
The Missouri courts have just fined a lot of
packers $5,000 each for violation, of the state's
anti-trust laws. The same thing was done wit'i
the insurance companies a few months ago. Mis
souri officials and courts seem to labor under the
antiquated notion that laws were made to be enforced.
The New York Times says that "it is'a curious
ana not a creditable circumstance that the visit of
the secretary of the treasury to Wall street should
be the occas on of local excitement and newspaper
speculation." True enough, but it must be so as
long as the treasury department Is run in -the in
terest of Wall street '
!HonC!?fnSntJReil?r-""Yes' yu can -obtain som
ht ?ISL incrit?t of the republican attack on
the trusts by reading the account of "the new
merger of the packing interests. The new co
fhTnfwtal'eSi in seven Packing companies and
the other rivals, Armour and Swift have three
directors each in the new company.
iha Jeaaer LThe Commoner desires to know
book tmiM e publishers or the author of I
bvR n""edJEmancipation of the Workers,-'
tionwrn ciL ,? -any reader havinS this informa
ln . ,Send lRn a postal card to The Commoner
to Vhnf w1 bG aPPrecIated by tho inquirer
to whom the information will be forwarded.
In a campaign speech the other day Mayor
SrS"JjB0n0f. C?icag0 asserted that the rich were
dir?ig U!?,p taxes' Immediately a lot of. wealthy
;?w ?h0 are PPsed to Harrison raised the
tS SG ? tFing t0 "array the Por aSat
does frn J iS ? Charge' COmiS as lt
wminl T? Y1?3 f PeoPie aays so ready and
willing to mingle with and work among the poor.
efforThtenenr f AfShaistan put a stop to an
fnTthP i sraIin his dominions by hang-
sSa wK5 f10 startedTthe corner. The Ameer
zed SfiSiJ Course- Had he been fully civil-
itica? eTfent ldavef curdd an injunction for po-
could hnvp P fr ?d men runS the corner
monev tn 1!? rigllt ahead and made epough
election a camPaiSn for the Ameer's re-
thouKht i ll1 l?S r!Publiean leaders-have not
tiUon Jrrt1 71 q t P attention to the pe-
iuSbe? o 'in e Senate' sIgned a lar
lece nrofoLn. minfnt men- including many col-
tiS Pof Phn n'nfnnd &l?B tor such an investiga-
Peopi ? to leamfrL11?11,8 ,as W0uld enabIe the
nesspq L5 i om Amorican and Filipino wit-
tSrVoucrS? V'tion of things. The peti
is Somary to filn0 n that, ,under colonialism it
hag offidaTs v,L 1 ? ?! evIdenco only of carpet
coloniai polled lnterested In maintaining a
Partyhis wenBi?n G?rman's leadership to the
cinnat Enqui?e ?i bf. toe comments of the Cin
Enquirer s?vr and;tho New York World. Tho
mht? of the country will
Put CpaTo? Senator Gorman as the man to
there.'' The New Ynri1 ,Vaclc ond keep lt
ing Mr. Gorman ncT?C World says' "In Belect
the senate h?v?J?itU?lr leader tne democrats of
and a pou ffi, aw ast got Jder who can lead
will follow iim wh0 lmows tbe game. If tney
and scaUeT a i thoVm y t0 flop around
if Mr. Hanna wm dld1flnthe last congress.'' Now
"logy X 2mp5 K congratulations, the
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