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5""r$r-M?"nw XX t "' The Commoner. 16 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 20. r liH ." 1HitisssS THE METROPOLITAN MASKED BATTERY. IR005EVeUTl CLEVELANQ IRQCKFEI-Ufl 1 It makes a great deal of difference WHO owns the paper, and "what INTEREST he has in the policies which his paper advocates. CLUB LIST. Any one of tlio following will bo tent with THE COMMONER, both one year, for the club price Periodical mar bo sent to different addresses if dcBired. Your friends may wish to join with yon in sending for a combination. All sub scriptions aro for one year, and if now, begin with the current munbnr unlew otherwise di rected. Present subscribers need' not wait un til their subscriptions expire. Renewals re ceired now will bo entered for a full yoar from expiration date. Subscriptions for Arena, Lit erary Digest and Public Opinion must be NEW. Renewals for those three not accoptod. Foreign postage extra. AGRICULTURAL. Reg. Club Price Price Finn and Home, temi-mo $ .W $1.00 Farmer's Wife, mo . 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These meddlers and marplots are of two kinds republicans who begin to fear that Roosevelt is a reincarnation of Bryan, and pseudo-democrats who believe, or affct to believe, that wis dom will die with -their idol. We need hardly say that tho choice will not lie with these officious pa triots who, by tnoir own account, en acted tho role 'of Brutus in the elec tions of 189G and 1900. It is the mer est dream to imagine that sackcloth and ashes will bo the garb of the six millions who voted for Iho Nebraskan in both those memorable contests Rather is it to be supposed that this great electorate will think and act for itself. If history has any lesson on such points, wo must infer that tho republican party will become more re publican, and that the democratic par ty will become more democratic, as tho years roll on. As a matter of fact, the differences between the rival organizations are congenital, and pierce to tho very marrow of their being. A fanatical lover of the Hub once declared that Boston is not a place, but a state of mind. It may likewise be affirmed that republicanism and democracy are not mere badges to bo worn or dis carded at pleasure, but are habits of thought which draw thinkers in op posite directions, just as the centri petal and centrifugal forces draw ma terial things toward or away from the earth's center. This view of tho caia is exceedingly well put by Mr. Bryan In a letter which he has recently ad dressed to tho New. York Indepen dent: "The difference upon the money question, among those who understood it, was not so much a dlt ference of opinion as a difference of but another way of saying that -a leopard is to be recognized by his ua changeable spots. It is indeed perfectly true that th silver question, terribly important in itself, was but one item of a long pro gram; for the demonetization of the white metal, stripped of all technical ities, simply stood for the capitalist's eternal hunger after the unearned in crement. So, too, advocates of a pro hibitive tariff seek an unfair advant age, and lovers of government by in junction would prostitute public pow ers to private ends. Between these believers in utterly opposite creeds there can be neither compromise nor reconciliation. The great gulf is fixed in human nature and will endure to tho last syllable of recorded time. Th struggle of 1904 will turn upon the old issues, though they be modified as to outward form. For our own part, wo care little about the personality of tho demo cratic nominee, provided only that ho represents the principles for 'which the party must light, if it Is to hav9 the slightest claim to the suffrages of the American people. At the. council-board of the first president thero sat two masterful men who embodied ideas which aro coeval with tho rasa itself. Hamilton's name is synonym ous with privilege and centralized ad ministration, while Jefferson's renown ream upon ma ueienso oi tne many against tho few. If those pre-eminent statesmen should return to the land of tho living, they would find no dif ficulty in aligning themselves on tho controversies of this generation. The trimmer may perform a useful function in periods of dead calm when the ship of state is in the dol drums and therefore needs no reso lute helmsman. It is not so when the huge craft i3 in the straits, menaced by breakers and storm-clouds. In that w.u, vuuiu j.o ouyicmu neea rnr n edge of the chart is without a flaw. No fresh water sailor is to be ac cepted as a pilot now. nor will we have a captain who would take us to sea under -sealed orders. The demo cratic party has made one voyage of that kind, and has no stomach for another. If the country prefers repub lican policies, the reins of power should be entrusted to republican hands; if democratic remedies are de sired, a truly democratic doctor shouid be called in. Let us have no more of the quacks who give bread pills and poison by turns, without thought c? the patient's disease. The practitioner of this kidney is but the undertaker's advance agent New Orleans Times-Democrat sympathies, and that difference ex- navigator whose vision is keen whose ists today as it did then." This In J nerves are of iteel and whose knpwl- Too Precipitate. The report of the postofuce inspec tor who investigated that attack upon the negro rural free delivery carrier in Tennessee must have been some thing of a shock to the postmaster general. Instead of being a wholesale Insurrection against the postal system calling for either suppression by tho troops or suspension of service it turns out to have been the act of two individuals who had not even tho sympathetic support of the commun ity. The ensuing suspension of tb service, puniBhing the whole district for an assault in which it had no concern, is thus made to appear as most humiliating instance of failure to ascertain the facta before acting. But precipitancy seems to be a char acteristic trait of the present post office administration. Tulloch's charges were waved aside before they were filed. The investigation which has led to the resignation of one offi cial and the suspension of another was pooh-poohed at the outset. After the mistake of suspending the rural delivery service at Gallatin is cor rected it might be well if the depart ment officials devoted a few hours to the consideration of the folly' of be ing too previous. Pittsburg Dlspatch- mt mmmmk RS9SS1