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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
Organization, not reorganization, is what dem
ocracy needs.
Every time Mr. Hanna hears tho "chug-chug"
of an .automobile he dodges.
The people who foot tho hills are not sending
any delegations to Oyster Bay.
Tho Battle of Bereuit or Bayroot will bo
fully as terrible as needful for campaign purposes.
Despite the difference in farewells tho chances
are that Miles will bo remembered quite as long
as Root.
When labor votes as it marches tho most
difficult part of the labor problem will havo been
solved.
It transpires that Consul Magelssen was not
assassinated; and Turkey has expressed its regrets.
The indications are that Mr. Hanna will ho
compelled to withdraw from politics., to a certain
extent
Mr. Cox failed miserably in his efforts to bring
about the John R. McLeaniflcatio.n of Ohio democracy.
Tho asset currency scheme is projected solely
with a view to continuing the overtaxation of tho
people.
Tom Johnson is a lucky man. Tho Chicago
daily newspapers are, with ono exception, fight
ing him.
The indications are that the 1:50 trotter is duo
long before the trust busting republican administration.
Wo can heat John Bull sailing yachts, and we
are giving him a close race in the matter of
Imperialism.
A number of the g. o. p. spoilsmen, are still
of tho opinion that Mr. Bristow is Bashi-Bazouk-in'g
on "them.
Mr. Hanna says ho is not worried, but it may
havo been noticed that he shys every time ho
smells gasoline.
The Commoner.
Of course tho land force won the victory at
Portland. What elso was to bo expected when
the summer girls were all ashoro?
Tiio indications are that President Roosevelt,
will havo no difficulty whatever in forcing con
gress to do just what it warts to do.
All this Turkish trouble was stirred up hy a
mistake in a cipher. The country is troubled with
too many ciphers in Washington just now.
The rumor that the president would soon bust
a trust sounds very much like that report about
tho assassination of Magelssen.
But is General Miles quite sure we can devise
& war automobile that will not be more dangerous
to ourselves than to tho enemy?
Tho "Subscribers' Advertising Department"
continues to bring gratifying results to all who
avail themselv.es of tho opportunity it affords.
Organize a democratic club in your voting
precinct and he prepared to make a strenuous
fight for the supremacy of democratic principles.
MMMMMMHMt
Perhaps the administration is so appalled at
tho task before it that it hesitates to tackle tho
job of unearthing all the frauds in the departments.
If Mr. Hanna is so cocksure of an easy vic
tory in Ohio this fall of courso ho will omit the
fat-frying expedition.
The president went after Turkey with a big
stick, but it must bo remembered that Turkey
provides no votes and is beyond the reach of tho
fat-fryers. The trusts are differently situated.
Mr. Carnegie says he wants the toiling masses
to have more sweetness and light. If ho really
means it he might go to pumping oil and re
fining sugar.
Governor La Follette is pleading for good
government, and as a result-the g. o. p. bosses of
Wisconsin are denouncing him as a "populist"
and "demagogue."
The republican organs which had such rare
sport with the populistic "warehouse pawn shop"
are not having the same kind of sport with the as
set currency scheme.
KILL THE ASSET CURRENCY MEASURE!
IT IS UNSAFE. WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE
CURRENCY WHEN THE CASHIER ABSCONDS
WITH THE ASSETS?
New York republicans who decry fusion in
Nebraska are striving with might and main to se
cure fusion in New York city for tho purpose of
re-electing Mayor Low.
General Miles is quite correct in saying' that
tho automobile would make a good war engine.
If it proved as fatal in war as it has in peace' it
would 'be something fearful.
Of course the mere fact that it did not tell the
truth concerning Mr. Bryan's campaign speeches
in Ohio this fall will not trouble the conscienco
of the Chicago Chronicle.
Aguinaldo has issued an address to his peo
ple to stop gambling. This is likely to make him
persona non grata with Perry Heath and other
guessing contest gamblers.
It transpires that the Chinese editor who was
beheaded had been writing poetry about Tsi An.
Being an empress Tsi An does not, however, have
to offer this fact in evidence.
Speaker-to-be Cannon has not said a word
about "rubber currency" for over a week. Tho
vulcanization of Mr. Cannon's currency views
seems to be almost complete.
yOtfrjME 3, NUMBER
Tho sporting editor's chair in Mr. Pulitzer's
' college of journalism' need not remain unoccu
pied. All that is necessary Is to decide whether
the occupant shall bo a fisherman or a hunter.
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Tho administration will find it difficult to stir
up enough .ruction over tho currency question to
hide tho fact that it has foiled utterly to kep
its promise concerning the shackling of the trust's.
Tho verdict in tho Caleb Powers case is cal
culated to make Mr. Taylor rather chary on any
vice presidential boom that holds out a promise
of removing Mr. Durbin from his present position.
If the advocates of the Aldrich bill are honest
why do they not keep tho money in circulation
by repealing unjust tariff laws that continue to
. pilo up a needless surplus in the national treasury?
Naturally enough the men who are demand
ing the right to Issue currency on their bank as
sets were the men who denounced the populistic
idea of loaning government money on land securities.
Has the New York World any assurance that
it will not again have to open up a fight to pre
vent Wall street bond manipulators from con
trolling Mr. Cleveland's policy?
It having been learned that our counsel in
Turkey was not assassinated we will send the war
ship anyhow. What's the use of having a big
stick if you cannot flourish it?
So. Mr. Murphy, chief of Tammany, denies
that he has pledged the support of that organiza
tion to Cleveland. Somehow the Cleveland boom
can't keep its legs from wobbling.
KILL THE ALDRICH BILL. IT ARRAYS
THE FINANCIERS AGAINST A REDUCTION
OF TAXATION AND LAYS THE FOUNDATION
FOR AN ENORMOUS CORRUPTION FUND.
The Aldrich bill provides for keeping money
in circulation by taking it from the national treas
ury and loaning It to banks at a low rate of in
terest so that they may loan it to the people at a
high rato of interest Tho bill is advocated by
men who want some excuse for perpetuating ex
cessive taxation.
Senator Fairbanks says ho would guard capi
tal against demagogue labor leaders. This is per
fectly proper, but tho senator might spend a few
of his spare moments in guarding labor from con
scienceless capital.
Governor Taylor is horrified at the conviction
of Caleb Powers. But this is not at all strange.
It merely serves to show that Taylor is wise in
sticking to Indiana's republican. ' governor like
cockleburrs to a cow's tail.
Perhaps the gentlemen who opposed the pop
ulist "warehouse" plan will explain why a bank
is more entitled to the right of issuing currency
on its assets than a farmer is to secure a loan
from the government on his assets.
Britain's martial heroes are passing the blame
for the prolongation of theiBoer war from shoul
der to shoulder. In the meantime the men who
are really responsible are trying to rebuild the
homes razed to the dust because of Britain's land
greed.
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Chicago's daily newspapers are almost a unit
in opposition to Tom Johnson's candidacy. In
view of tho fact that tho opposition of the Chi
cago dailies usually results in the triumph of the
ones opposed Mr. Johnson is not likely to lose
any sleep.
-The New York Press is greatly worried hy
the discovery that a number of New York streets
are named for men who were "tories" during tho
revolution. What the Press would do if it struck
something worth worrying over is an unsolved
problem. .-
A large number of men who call themselves
democrats, but who have voted the republican
ticket for eight years because of he money issue,
vould not hesitate to vote the republican ticket
on some other grounds if tho money question
should be eliminated.
The asset currency scheme is to allow a hank
to issue currency based on what it owes. It is
advocated by men who objected strenuously to
the populistic Idea 'of loaning government moneyt
to the farmers and taking for security the food
stuffs that the farmers own.
Tho David City (Neb.) Press has just celebrated-
its thirtieth anniversary, and during all
these thirty years C. D. Casper has been its edi
tor and manager. And for thirty years the Press
has been an ablo, consistent and tireless cham
pion of democracy. Tho Commoner wishes fo?
the Press and its editor many more years of use
fulness in the fight for tho supremacy of Jeffer
sonian principles.
Tho g. o. p. idea is to tax the people in order
to provide a surplus in the national treasury to
lend to the financiers at a low rate of interest w
order that they may loan it to the people at a Ug
rato of interest in order that the people may se
cure money enough to pay the taxes that provides
a surplus that maybe loaned at low interest 10
the financier who want to lend li to the peopw
at a high rate of interest in order to provide tno
people with the money whereby they can pay
taxes that will proviso a surplus that may 00
loaned to the financiers and so onr ab no.
an "endless chain" sohemo this, has the Cleveianu
bond sale beat a mile.
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