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i tl')pypwiwiffiw(Pit.wmiMia,mnj !JWJPf iMfipfiMWp The Commoner, 10 VOLUME 3, NUMBEIt (0, It t m t: i5ft i Look Abeadl ! Old winter's coming swiftly with its blighting cold and snow To lock tho laughing fivers where tho crystal waters flow; But beyond tho snow clouds flying, and beyond tho chill and gloom, Is nnother golden summer with the roses all a-bloom. Cold without, and chill and dreary and tho blasts are fierce and strong, But within is love and laughter and tho days are full of song, For the snow will all be scattered and the rivers onward flow In another golden summer when the fairest roses blow. Is your life besot with trials and your i pathway rough and steep? Does grim fate keep step beside you and a gloomy vigil keep? Laugh at him and watch the coming of a better day ahead In another golden summer with its fairest roses spread. Hard Luck. "I'm in a peck of trouble," sighed Pinkloy. "What's the matter, old man?" asked Winkley. "Matter enough. I've fixed it with the tariff schedule committee and got my little old tariff graft ready." "Congratulations, old man." "Yes, but now that I've got the tar iff sohedule I want, blamed if I can fthink up anything I can manufacture to fit it." Ia Great Troublt. "0, but this is simply awful," groaned the employe in the postoffice department. "What's wrong, my friend?" queried " the sympathetic listener. "Everything. 'Here I am as siclc as I can be and don't dare ask for the medicine I need." "How's that?" ,"If I ask: for pain killer I'm likely to "be fired for lese majeste, and if I don't-I'm likely to die with the cramps," The Reformer. He talked a Btredk about reform And spoke of honesty; At boodling he did loudly storm And said, "It shouldn't be." But when into high place he went ' And saw great signs of graft His form with mirth was double bent And he just laughed and laughed. You see, hopes of reform are vain At hands of men like Mr. Payne. Touched. "Hello, Blivens! You look badly. ,What's the matter?" I'm a .victim of the X-raise." "Jewhilllkers! Is there no rem edy?" "None that X know of, Bivens and he raised the me. You know Rlvens." Just met X off of Busy. How doth the' bus coal man now Improve each shining minute, And in, a trice l.otet up the price J For all that there is in It?" O! Ceur. The Humb'lo Citizen, following the usual rule, wont to the Prominent Financier for advice. "About seven years ago you told us that we needed confidence and not more money, didn't you?" queried tho Humble Citizen. "Yes, sir; confidence was lacking, therefore money, which existed in plenteous abundance, went into hid ing and the business of the country was paralyzed," replied the Prominent Financier. "And since then the per capita cir culation has been vastly increased?" "Yes, sir; in their wisdom the gen tlemen guiding our finances have sup plied the country with a vastly in creased circulating medium." "And every dollar is as good as any other dollar now, isn't it?" "Indeed it is. With the scotching of the free silver heresy the confidence in our fiscal institution has been strengthened and fear no longer be numbs our enterprises." "And with a vastly increased cur rency, every dollar of which is as good as any other dollar, our business iq booming and there is no sign of a business depression, eh?" "Business is not what it should be iu industrial circles, owing to a re stricted currency," said tho Promi nent Financier. "We need a more elastic currency." "But a few years ago you told us that money based on gold was the only safe money. Now you talk about elas tic currency. What does that mean?" "Your desire for knowledge is com mendable. By elastic currency we mean a currency that will respond to the demands of business. We propose establishing it by permitting banks to issue notes based on their assets as sets such as first mortgage bonds, rail road securities, penwipers and worn erasers. This will enable the banks to supply a volume of money suffic ient for puhlic needs whenever an un usual demand for mney is mani fested." "But I thought you said we had money enough seven years ago, and now you say that despite the vast in crease in the volume of currency we "Yes, that is true. What I mean to say is " "That while we only lacked confi dence then and had plenty of money, we have plenty of confidence now, but lack the money?" "Yes, that's it," said the Prominent Financier. "And if we let the banks issue mon ey on their assets we must, in all fairness, let farmers issue currency on their cribbed corn and stored wheat, the merchant issue currency on his calico and beans, the newspaper man issue currency on his brass galleys and shooting-sticks, the blacksmith on his anvil and bellows, the " "By no means," shouted the, Promi nent Financier. "When you want ad vice on money you should seek a man who deals in money. The banks alone should be allowed to issue money on assets because the business of a bank is dealing in money." "But if the government must guar antee the bank currency why not have the government issue it in the first place?" queried the innocent Humble Citizen. "Look here!" shouted the Promi nent Financier. "I thought you came to mo for advice and enlightenment But I see you are one of them blamed anarchists that is always trying for to upset the established order of things. You are one of them there" "I wa3 only asking for information, sir," interrupted the Humble Citizen. "No, you ain't, either. You are one of them blamed socialistic agitators who is trying for to array class against class and stir up a war be tween labor and capital. Yon are a menace to society and I am going for to have nothing more to do with you." "Strange," muttered the Humble Citizen. "The minute a common, or dinary fellow begins to ask questions about this money proposition he is de nounced as an anarchist" In the meantime, however, the Prominent Financier had turned and walked angrily away. A Stu&y Im Color. A beautiful damsel named Mao Thought her tresses were turning to grae. With a wink of the eye She reached for the dye, - -And Mae drove the grae all awae. Freak ef Memory. fWhy do you say that Howells is a mnemonic freak?" "Pie never forgets to holler if the election goes wrong, but he always forgets to register." Brain Leaks. Satan is an expert in selecting as sistants. Hard won, carefully kept; easy won, quickly lost. Hard luck is easily broken by the hammer of pluck. The retailer of gossip is not a bit worse than the consumer. Some men attribute to 111 luck their own lack of push and pluck. -The young man who .does his best i? the first man to earn a rest. Happiness consists largely in being satisfied with not having a great many things we would like to have. A great many men are religious without having any idea of the funda mental principles of Christianity 0 The., difference between peace of mind and piece of mind is what most often results in disaster in the home. The man who thinks he understands a woman Is wiser in his own conceit than eleven men who can render a reason. It is difficult to teach a monkey to like intoxicants. It's different with a man, and the difference is in favor o? the monkey. When we lean, how to run our own business as well as we think we could run another's business wo will turn into Easy street. From the belief that the public at largo is legitimate prey to the belief that any Individual is legitimate prey is a very short step. When a young woman begins declar ing that she will never marry her friends may confidently expect the earlyreceipt of wedding invitations. The young man who knows how to say "no" at tho right time is the young man who gets the most enjoy ment out of saying "yes" at the right time. A Book and Six Bottles Dr. S ho op's Restorative On Trial to the Sick, The cost is absolutely nothlntr to v if Restorat vo falls. I Bimply a"k you to ULV actual trial what this remedy cm" and JM I want people to know what 1 know abou tite prescription. Thero can bo no safe W certain wav tn nnnvtnnn , ." i. .Fr no. mora ,:fe?P:!lorative7monthont?ffil lllU IUUL 1H 1IIHL WI1I1T I Will M 4T I know absrilntnlv timt. u ,ni i-S-"u.?:"K me. will use it. I know you will "villi tat EM cost-S5.60-.if it succeeds. 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Signal: The post office scandal surprises no one. Tho whole, administrative fabric of tho government is permeated with corrup tion, as an old cheese is sometimes in the possession of skippers. And it ia not to he wondered at when it is known that boodlers are selected not only for the subordinate position, but even for the United States senate. Talk Bryan Not Deserting Silver, Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 16. Special.) W. J. Bryan denied tonight that he had made the statement about free sil ver attributed to him by Prof. Brad shaw of Iowa City, Ia. Mr. Bryan said he had beca misquoted, that he had not said to any one that silver would not be an issue in the next cam paign. The nearest approach, he de clares, he ever made to such a state ment is what he often has said namely: that silver was not the para mount issue in 1900, and is not now, but that some phase of the money question always is before the country. Also ho holds that no one is in a posi tion to say when the silver question may become acute again. Maupin's Little I want to have a little heart-to-heart talk with readers of Tho Commoner. Somebody 1 " it was Solomon said, "Of the making of hooM there is no end." He-or some othcr-also saw, "O that mino enemy would write a booK. 1 have written a book not much of ono, Vr A confess, but it's the best I have done so ftr-M I want to Bell it. It is only ono of many boou published not THE ono of many. It is merely a collection of sketches and verses that liau ap peared in THE COMMONER and other publica tions, and is given tho titlo Whether Common or Not It will be vory handsomely and substantiolly bound in cloth, will bo printed from clear typo on gooa dooic paper, ana wi imv ';'" wnrd" 250 pages. Mr. Bryan has written a "lora0 f for tho volume and It will havo a foe film He or his signature attached thoroto. Other BUtw have written better books, but no other autnor ever wanted to sell fhis book any more t ban 1 want to sell mine. If you want to now ww want to sell it, write mo, enclosing mer u tho book. You needn't send the money w tho order, ior.tbo boot win noi .-- Ea livery until December 1,1903. .? u fp 1 von want it I'll 1O10W now wuu w ,-.-- tpf nrlnt nnlv a few too many I lose out. 1 - T,,i your order, and when tbo book is rcau, notify you. Then you can send the price, and I will send you tho book. If JA Sot like it you can givo it to some one who docs like either of us. nmnetingal1 I published a book onco before, expecw b t my Vriends to buy it. Either they .neve rkne of published it, or I overestimated the 1 nung my friends. I am quite sure you will jub Jf book? I know I would like to ; soil you one. you will order now you will lift a eil1 If from my mind. I've talked mf P?J?tor write you want to know moro about this .matter lncb mo. A postage Btamp is cheaper than u of advertising space in such a valuable au lng medium as Tho Commoner. WILL M. MAiPINflb.. aoaa So. i7lh St;' Lincoln, Nrt- : i s''.l fft.