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rw -ytqv w wwwji il('fWrtJ!iA"11 W.V "V The Commoner - ift-J The Commoner. ISSUBD WEGKLY. Entered at the postoflicc nt Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class mail matter. TERMS-PAYABLE IN ADVANCB One Year $1.00 Six rionths 50c In Clubs of 5 or more, per year 75c Three rionths 25c Single Copy 50 Sample Copies Pre. Foreign Postage 52c Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to The Commoner. They can also be sent through newspapers which have adver tised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, where such agents have been appointed. All remittances should be sent by post office nioucy order, express order, or by bank draft 011 New York or Chicago. Do not send individual checks, stamps, or money. RENEWALS. The date on your wrapper shows when your subscription will expire. Thus, Jan.,, '04, means that payment has been received to and including the lat issue of January 1904. Two weeks are required after money is received before the date on the wrapper can be changed. CHANGE OP ADDRESS.- Subscribers requesting n change of addicss must give the OlyD as well ns the NEW address. ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. Organization will prevent demoralization. Speak quickly and organize democratic clubs. Organize democratic clubs now and be ready for tho primaries in 1904. Mr. Ilanna appears to bo working his ex planation department in two shifts. Mr. Hanna's attempts to cut tno guy-ropes of Tom Johnson's circus tent wero dismal failures. Tho Myron T. Herrick gubernatorial boom in Ohio has tumbled into tho turn-table pit , President Harrison also mado some". pretty good speeches, but he failed of re-election. It appears, cldo, that tho, republican reorgan izes are having some trouble over in Iowa. It is unwise to enumerate tho busted "merg ers" until the supremo court has guessed. Those Lorimered republicans Jn Chicago aro figuring on how they can delorimerize themselves. It is barely possible that Mr. J, J. Hill's at tack of pessimism is for publication purposes only. "Speak in a Pickwickian sense and carry a softly stuffed club for tho trusts," is tho real meaning. Tho formation of holding companies may bo stopped, but the work of consolidation will go right ahead. A working democratic club in every voting precinct will onablo loyal democrats to keep tho party democratic. Sporadic brigandage" has a very euphonious .sound, but it does not prevent tho people from' knowing just what it is. Tho carving may be done differently, but Hill and Morgan will get tho choice meat, -while the pooplo will got tho nock. It appears that Senator Allison favors reci procity, not as a course of procedure, but mere ly as a campaign dodgo. Tho "Subscribers' Advertising Department" continues to grow. It is recognized as a business getter by all who have tried it. As a rule tho newspapers that howl loudest about "yellow journalism" are the nowspapers that are "scooped" with astonishing regularity by the competitors they denounce. m Well, the girl who reads The Commoner has tho satisfaction of knowing that, when sho gets married, sho does not have to hire a man to take her, as tho heiresses do who marry titled for eigners. . Mr. Morgan speaks of "undigested securities" with all the emphasis of a man who does not feel the need of liberal doses of pepsin. A great many people will not thank Dr. Funk for fixing up a scheme whereby departed credi tors can still send in their little duns. When the president arrives In Des Moines Governor Cummins "will be expected to. hide his "Iowa idea" in tho executive mansion rain-barrel. Tho president seems much more afraid that the people will hurt what he calls the good trusts than ho is that tho bad trusts will injure tho people. Tho Washington Post says: "Senator Alli son agrees with tho Post" If this is true tho Twin Egg Balancers should tour the vaudeville circuit New testimony presented in the Goebel mur der cose is calculated to make ex-Governor Tay lor snuggle up a little closer to Indiana's chief executive. The steel trust has just published a statement of what it calls its "earnings." This language of ours affords plenty of opportunities for disguis ing tho facts. During the strike at Nishi-Novgorod the "Rus sian troops killed 130 strikers. The Russian gov ernment must be dealing out "riot cartridges" at a great rate. The latest fire in the Beaumont oil fields may be taken as an indication that Mr. Rockefeller will soon see tho necessity of giving tho price an other boost Col. Myron T. Herrick is busy showing some political friends figures to prove that the mayor alty result really has no bearing on the guberna torial situation. In view of tho kind of men who make up tho average Pennsylvania legislature we cannot hlamo the legislators for being a little bit touchy on the cartoon question. J. Pierpont Morgan speaks of "undigested securities," but he may bo figuring on grinding them up into some new kind of breakfast foou for the trust promoters. u As1,t,hf farmers are putting in their crops they will have time to compare their slow pro cesses of accumulation with the get-rich-quick plans of the great monopolies. Mr. Rockefeller has made a proposition to donate a few thousand dollars to the University of Nebraska, and now Nobraskans are preparing to squirt cologne into their kerosene. Owing to tho acceptable state of neace and quiet in the Philippines several regiments of sol diers are aboard transports and on their jour ney. Home? No, to the Philippines. 1 J?h?, CinciI?tl En(luirer seems to resent the S SSS?n ? Jefferson's thday. It might offe? a prize to the person who will guess nearest to the number of years it will require to suppress all mention of Jefferson's principles. BUppres3 If Mr. Morgan still thinks that the list of tariff protected articles is too large ho might s cure a compromise with the people on a baste that removes steel productsjrom dutiaSl? Hst HHtiiTinn mmoner is supplying a form of con So0,n and membership blanks to all who con template forming democratic clubs for tho nur- Sr0inciples.UPll0l(1Ing and fwarding demoio Tho Indications are that Uncle Mark Hnnnn 6ontebst SaifT " aKglSaSvo contest that ho will have to forego tho pleasure of managing and financing anothe? natlonTeam- ho Jm rntamefir8ttdecidea what kInd a crop vlZ rfcHe' then plants thQ see and cultt- aSanVv SmE ? th ifleama to determine the quantity of the harvest So with tho reformer he must decide what principles ought to bTap' plied, then he must preach the doctrine and trust t6 events' to vindicate his position, Only by such methods can progress be secured. ' Y 1 VOLUME 3, NUMBER H. The merger decision is still .disturbing Wall street. Has therhigh water mark of 'combination been reached? - Secretary Root declares' that there is nothing in General Wood's record to warrant an investi gation, and General Wood still has that silver service. This seems, amply sufficient to both Root and Wood. Tho Salt Lake City Tribune might start an other guessing contest and offer a reward for tho best guess (50 cents to accompany each guess) as to the number of postoffice employes who will bo convicted as a result of the present investigation. Having exhausted themselves in their wild enthusiasm over the president's merger busting exercise the administration organs are begin ning to realize that the men who made tho merger will go right ahead doing just what they tjid before the merger was knocked out The army officers charged with smuggling in Porto Rico are not to be prosecuted, Secretary Root having ordered proceedings stopped. This, added to the Woods incident, leads ono to infer . that Secretary Root is beginning to imagine that the commissioned officer can do no wrong. The postmaster general promises a full and fair investigation of the postoffice department scandal, but before indulging in any undue re joicing it might be well to recall that the people were promised the same thing when the Philip pine situation was undergoing investigation. Mr. Rockefeller has notified the regents of the Nebraska" State University that if the people of Nebraska will raise $33,333.33 ho will raise the price of oil a cent or two a gallon and donate enough more to make it an even $100,000. The proxy generosity business is being overworked. People who are in doubt when to call them soldiers and when to call them constabulary should bear in mind that they are soldiers when you. denounce the administration's course in tho Philippines and constabulary when the adminis tration is explaining why they are needed there. fcil ! I. I ! .- Comparing our courses in Cuba and the Phil ippines the Washington Post says: "In the Phil ippines wo have not created a new nation; wo have simply bought an old one." This seems to disagree with something wo- have heard about the Philippines being "thrown into our laps by providence." It is reported that Senator Allison will be in vited to draft tne platform for the republican state convention, which is an indication that the Iowa republican platform will be susceptible of quite a Jarge number of interpretations unless the senatorial mind has lost its exquisite - powers of balancing. A subscriber sends in the following query:i "Stephen, third earl of Richmond, died in 1102 or 1104, and was succeeded by": his son Alan, fourth earl of Richmond. How many sons did Alan have and what was the date of the birth of each? If any subscriber can furnish the de sired information The Commoner will forward it to the one making inquiry. The rivalry between New Jersey and Dela ware, each trying to show that it is a better PQ?e, 1 the otlier for the usts to organize, is certamiy a melancholy spectacle, and reminds ono 2 I e wo ambitious papers that contended with 3 ?" 'op th0 hnor of beinff the cause of a SS3 1 X cid0; each paper inslBting that he had hte life columns the news that led him to take tirrfv 2 7 h0 ftlnk that the trust evil can be en intn th? m by ftat0 law would d0 well to examine SoS K? Jfirsey las A Now Jersey corpora nav 2? fC fnntIy sent out a cIrcuIar offering, to 'laws of nL rh corporation organized'under tho torraiilrSeyVa,nd " corporation agrees "It is thl maIntaIn the corporation. It says: its cirnSn? n W,ay of doIng Rainess." With forth thftndvIS.fenclosfd a pamphlet that sets tton law nv!a?age l the New Jersey corpora New ELS3 6w Se 0lLother atates' asserts "the do and yJE8 areihe safest to organize' un- tenths 5 Kn te t0 the fact that nW nine wer. Sn?ia L?e.59rporaons recently, organic t 'i New Jersey ine lawa of the ta-to. ' x HH&foLurfiU