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Subscribers requesting a change oi address must glvo tho OLD as well bb the NEW address. ADVERTISING, rates tarnished upon application. Address 11 communications to , . - ' THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. -- ' The packing house trust has given the. law f supply and demand a hard blow. . The meat trust seems to he playing tag with Mr. Knox's trust busting endeavors. Speaking of . date raisers, Russia seems to. have embarked in the businens in real earnest. Those intermittent flashes from the east are caused by Mr. Hanna's frantic wig-wagging for help. At any rate Mr. Dowie. affords some Wall street gentlemen an opportunity to forget their, other miseries. If Mr. Hanna -will stop calling for help for a moment perhaps we could again hear the 'call from Macedonia. Organized labor should make note of the fact that men like David M. Parry always vote and talk the same way. Quito a number of "captains of industry" are trying to explain the mysterious disappearance of their shoulder straps. From-stentoriously shouting "Let well enough alone" Mr. Hanna has changed to plaintively wailing "Let me alone." If the money question is dead, as the repub licans claim, why do they keep on trying. to force tonics down its throat?- , '- As lone as Wall". street haa an elastic snnrp- tary of the .treasury it v?Ill not worry so much about an elastic currency. . " If the Dingley law was responsible for our "unexampled prosperity," pray what is respon sible for the recent slumps? As election cay draws nearer Mr. Hanna lias . increased reasons for believing that Johnson and Clarke are "dangerous men." If Mr. Shaw is going to make use of that surplus to aid Wall street Le will have "to hurry. Congress will meet in a few days. Having" talked at some length about what young men should, be Mr. Schwab is now well fitted to pose as a "horrible example." ' The reputation. Mr. John Hay made by 'Ma Chinese diplomacy appears to be in need of some newJhems around its several euges. When other excuses. fail Russia still has that one about "duty and destiny" to fall back on to offer in explanation of her continued occupation of Manchuria. When the "grafter" Is thro out ho busies himself trying to get back in again. When a re former gets in he grows so careless and confident that the "grafter" soon displaces him. "Graft" ton rtwaysbusy. Jteform too often takes too much The Commoner. ?? The- Houston Bost says that John R. McL,ean of Ohio is again sulking in his tent. The Post is mistaken. Mr. McLean is busy trying to poison.'1 the democratic wells. Recruits for .The Commoner's, subscription campaign are coming in at' a gratifying rate. But there is plenty of room on the muster roll for several thousand more. . " Perhaps Mr. Hanna would not feel so badly if the gong on Tom Johnson's automobile sounded more like thd telephone bell did when Mr. Estes G. Rathbone called up. a Ohio republican who hail Mr. Hanna's special railroad train with every manifestation of de light, are terribly wrought up over Tom Johnson's plutocratic automobije. Mme. Patti will use for an encore on .her forthcoming tour of America a song entitled- "The Last Farewell." It is to be hoped that she sings it with proper sentiment. If the president still yearns for big game he might venture up into the wilds of Wall street and gun for the bears that have been chasing somo of his great and good friends. Mr. Roosevelt has given Mr. Hanna an in dorsement, probably in return for the indorse-' ment Mr. Hanna gave the president in response to that Walla Walla telegram. After they get through with the "head -.hunters" in the Philippines the Oriental contingent of our army might be utilized at home in the work of scattering the place hunters. A scientist declares that a sunflower sucks up 145 pounds of water during its lifetime. Some philanthropic gentleman should sow a few pounds of sunflower seed in Wall street. Those who have recently taken occasion to glance in the direction of the truly good -Abdul Hamid of Turkey doubtless noticed a slight lower ing of that potentate's left eyelid. Perhaps the extra session has been called1 for the purpose of giving the financiers .time to ex plain what they want. Then the regular session can be devoted to giving it to them. If the continuance of "prosperity" is contin gent upon the re-election of Mr. Hanna to the senate, then "prosperity" is balanced upon a foundation that is altogether too insecure. Mr. Postmaster General Payne comes out of the woods long enough to say he will not take to the stump. ,The umbrageous forest untrod by man is plenty good enough for Mr. Payne rigtit now. Mr. Morgan has given about every reason but the right one for the terrific slump in Wall street. The real reason is that the people are becoming acquainted with Mr. Morgan and his associates. General Buckner declares that he has sur rendered his democratic principles. There is a very general Impression among loyal democrats that Buckner's -"surrender" happened several years ago. Former Secretary of the Navy Long is said to be recovering his health. He would have no dif ficulty in getting a White house testimonial to the effect that he never did suffer from writer's cramp. Secretary Shaw Vent over into Kentucky to $ve Uttle aid and encouragement to his party. Mr. Taylor, however, contents himself with writ ing interviews under an Indianapolis, Tnd., date line, ' t VOLUME 3, NUMBER - ' . - TherMInden (Neb.) Courier says that ! , no. excuse for the rise Jn the price of 'coal I V Courier evidently forgets' that the coal mlna o ers want the money. . . na ow&' - Tho.gpjd-bespangled colonels of Coloradn vent dowtn to Victor in JCull janoply arraved h unfortunate in meeting 'with MrsXngSon ' 2? Langdon made the colonels loo.'; like "steel com Professor Langley still believes in his airshin vlth a faith that is second- only to the averaS republican's belief 'that his party will some im or other, revise the tariff in the interests of thJ consumers. . lU0 The Chicago university has put over one of the gates some hideous flgu-es, such as were em ployed in the middle ages .'to scare the devils away, but Rockefeller inows that they were not intended for him. l Mr. Secretary Shaw is proceeding like a man who believes- that congressional action on tho financial situation could be obviated by merely bitching an enacting clause to the present secre tary of the treasury. If anybody asks Russia why she does not evacuate Manchuria doubtless she will reply that the largest amount of evacuation consistent with Manchuria's welfare and' our duty shall be se cured to that territory." The Commoner Condensed, Vol. 2, is now be ing mailed tojpurchasers as fast as received from the publishing house. ..Those who have ordered the book and have not already received "it should ad vise us at once. Ponderous platitudinzing on the subject of ' good citizenship" will not suffice to destroy the memory of certain trafficking "in office in order to crowd through a measure at the behest of men who thought only of their selfish interests. Because President Roosevelt invited John Mitchell to lunch the - Globe-Democrat shouts: "Guess the labor vote won't be lost, after all." The average republican organ always did proceed on the theory that labor had ho higher ideal than a full stomach. President Roosevelt is quoted as objecting to Perry Heath as secretary of the republican na tional committee. But.it will be noted that the objection was not entered until the people be came acquainted with facts that the president must have known all .the time. A federal judge has recently issued an order restraining a body of men from visiting, ad dressing, writing to, making signs to or otherwse communicating with another body of men. Is tho time at hand when every citizen must have a fed eral judge's "0. K." on the visiting card? The Cleveland -boom has received another boost. ' Senator Hanna-said In a meeting at Clove land: "Grover Cleveland Is another great demo crat, greater than his time or his party." Now who will be so rash as to question Cleveland's democracy or -jp-eatness after this generous indorsement? The transportation interests arrayed against ,' the canal proposition may now a expected to ibase their opposition on the fact that the canal will of necessity be a watered proposition. Tho nere mention of water Is calculated to make tho former "captains of industry" shy like a hydro- phobiac dog. Mr, Hanna says that if re-elected he will do JJ m0St f secure a shIPPing subsidy. This 2 mti J Q up the sentlemen who bavd been ' little slow in answering Mr. Hanna's appeal for n. ?u FmciBC0 Examiner devotes a col-, umn of editorial space to telling "why the Ameri can girl marries the duke." In the lanLaS of Uncle Mose, "it is mos ingenuraUKe a Mr. Clarke is entitled to the thanks of tho whole people for making public the fact that Mr. Hanna's legislative prosperity-making has been confined to introducing two measuresone to pen sion ex-slayes and the other providing for a" shipping subsidy. Mr. Hanna should be in his seat on the opening day of -congress and maUe prosperity perpetual by introducing a couple of more bills. mflJEJ?1?1! says that Mr- Hanna is "a wise and patriotic statesman." Tnis is the first intf! mation the public has w ,.; 5r Vr l " bust aSDi!?a,?J.?aA that. r- Hanna can lions p welSat In mountain Syren and Shipping, a marine journal, has "been Investigating and declares that It costs aB much to keep soldiers and sailors on a receiving ship as it would to board them at the Waldorf Astoria. It might have added, too, that some of the ships purchased during the Spanish-American war cost almost as much as the Waldorf-Astoria Without beiner unv tiearAr flint hostelry's worm tnan the receiving ship grub u like the Ypauori- Astorja cuwme. iff- m J-. ' mr