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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.
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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, '
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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&'
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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.
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