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WJWWP'' I'MWt " - I ji f IV w w Si- v 4 The Commoner. KSUEO WEEKLY. Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Kebrsslea, Mifcecond cJsrsmall nutter. Oie Year !. Ix A'onlh see la Clubs of s or wore, per 7r ..7jc Tkree Mentha a 3iMgleCpy f Cempte Ccpfes Fr. Fereizn Pestae 52c Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can be tent direct to Tfce CsBBHmer They c&n also be lent through newspapers which have adver tUcd a. dabbing rate, or through local agents, where such ajrenta have been appointed. All remittances should be sent bj post office money order, express order, or bybankdralt on New York or Chicago. Do not tend individual checks, stamps, 07 money. RENEWALS. The date on your wrapper showswhen your inscription will expire. Thus, Jan., ', means that payment tasbeen received to and including the lastleeuc ol January HC4. Two weeks arc required niter money Is received beiore the date on wrapper can be changed. CHANGE OP ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting a change ol address must give the OLD as well as the NEW address. ADVERTISING rates tarnished upon application. Address) 11 communications to THE COMMONER, Liacela, Ne. ; is song? "Whale Colombia" to become our national The president is determined that Crum shall have one more try at the "door of opportunity." t An interesting discussion appears on page 3, and the attention of Commoner readers is called thereto. When the Chicago Chronicle talks about "sham democrats" it is time for the general pub lic to laugh. The Nebraska senatorial scandal is another argument in favor of popular election of United States senators. Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt performed that Panama coup" in order to attract the limelight irom Mr. Hanna's Ohio victory. n In the opinion of Mr. Hanna "what the saint ed McKInley said" amounts to nothing when there Is no campaign on hand. The "Lots of Five" subscription campaign la progressing at a satisfactory rate. Are you tak ing an active part in, the campaign? . Has It come to pass that appeals to national honor and to justice are to be denounced as Im pertinent by congress and cabinet? The people who wink at the buying of sena torial .seats have very little grounds for com plaint when senators sell their political patronage. 4 . The territories will knock separately for ad mission this time. And despite its platform prom ises the g. o. p. will do a little "knocking" on its own account. Emperor William has had a polypus removed from his throat. The polypus Is raging In quite a large majority of this government's administra tive departments. The manager of a government department who can prove that there Is no graft In his divi sion will be eligible to a paying -position with the dime musee circuit. Are the gentlemen opposed to the promotion of General Wood quite sure that the' Jai Alai'busl ness is eligible to the "protection found in " the statute of limitations? -The organs that had no difficulty in locat ing the causes of the industrial depression in 1892-96 are giving some exhibitions of ground and lofty tumbling In their. efforts to locate the cause of the Industrial depression of 1903. The administration action in the Panama case is hardly square with Mr. Roosevelt's announced determination to carry out the McKinley policies. The McKinley name is good to conjure, with, but the McKinley policies are obstacles that arc not allowed to deter our strenuous executive. The Commoner. Senator Hoar's remarks concerning the antl Smoof petitions are useful as showing with what small favor the average senator looks upon the rights of the people at large. Those Ohio employes whose wages are oe ing cut to the bone are of the opinion that Mr.. Hanna's "let well enough alone" cry referred only to Mr. Hanna and his business associates. The amountthe government pays for carrying the mails and for rent of postal cars comes very near paying the entire cost of running the pas senger trains which carry United States mail. . The Philadelphia Ledger is talking about "the passing of Perry Heath." The Ledger Is mis taken. It is not Perry who has passed It Is mere ly the time embraced in the statute of limitations. Having executed a complete somersault on the tariff question, President Roosevelt feels quite able to execute a similar- acrobatic reversal on the race question if convinced that it Is expedient. Mr. Hanna is on easy street so far as his sena torial place is concerned, but he must watch those gentlemen who are inclined to seduce Mr. Herrick into taking second place on the Roosevelt ticket. The steel trust is preparing to create a $15, 000,000 vacuum in the dinner pail. But this will not prevent its chief buglers from making the usual appeal when campaign time comes again. Nebraska republicans love to talk about the "redemption" of Nebraska from "demo-pop rule." Recent grand jury indictments in the federal court at Omaha indicate the extent of the "redemption." Republican sneers at the "solid south" would be in better taste if "solid New England" did not cling to its idols with a tenacity never equalled by the states, south of the old Mason and Dixon line. The York (Neb.) Democrat refers feelingly to "chump factories." Managers, of chump factories who are looking for raw material are kindly, re ferred to the overwhelming republican majority in Ohio. Has the president ever thought of trying the Injunction on recalcitrant republicans. Some of his warmest friends and admirers have found it very useful in dealing with obstreperous working-men. The republican legislature that elected Sena tor Dietrich was pointed to by administration or gans throughout the country as a "rebuke to Bryan." Now the organs have another1 point coming. " Secretary of Agriculture Wilson cheerfully admits that there is a vast amount of grafting in his department, in which Secretary Wilson and his' department differ from other secretaries and de-1 partments. x , If ho can postpone action long enough Senator Dietrich may seek refuge behind the statute "of limitations, and if he does he will iind quite -a lot of congenial republican company enjoying the same harbor. Why not make Mr. Schwab manager of the Panama canal operations? He could organize a company and Inject enough water Into the 'stock to wash out a channel before the dredges could get up steam. The consumers of oil should make ready for another hold-up. The Stanaard Oil diviaends this year are 1 per cent below last : -ar"s dividends, and you know Mr. Rockefeller is too poor to stand such a slump. Emperor William having decided to enten his yacht Meteor in the international yacht race," the Houston Post wants to hear from some more mon archy Messrs. Rockefeller, Morgan, Hanna and the czar of Russia should step to the front and announce their Intentions. A republican administration that hails with! delight the French recognition of Panama forgets the republican administration that protested, so strenuously against the French recognition of a certain section that endeavored to set up a separ ate republic a few years ago. .. . I .VOLUME 3, NUMBER (5, It is reported that Addicks is to retire t politics, but it would be just as well to di the report Mr. Addicks has a little mau?, delivering a few delegates to attend to beforp v can gracefully retire. e co The attention of the governor of Indiana u respectfully called to the fact that Governor Bert ham is to hold office for another term and that he is now ready to accept ex-Governor Tarlor m5 insure him a fair trial. - Jir ana General Wood .is now called upon to -ten to the front and tell where he got it This groyne inquisitiveness on the part of the people is be coming quite wearisome to a large contingent of administration favorites. Having promised all kinds of reforms, the sultan of Turkey insists that he has done all that may be fainy required of him. This re minds us that Mr. Philander Kno occupies a very similar position as regards attacking the trusts. The Durbin vice presidential boom 13 cal culated to make cold chuis play tag up and down the spine of one William S. Taylor. Anything cal culated to remove Durbin from the Indiana state house is exceedingly dangerous to Mr. Taylors well-being. The daily newspapers print the names of the few men who occasionally "clean out the betting ring." Owing to the fact that even the daily newspapers are confined to certain limits as re gards size, the names of those -who are cleaned out are never printed. Those deluded persons who point to the oust ing of Congressman Roberts as a precedent for ousting Senator Smoot overlook one very vital point. Roberts was a democrat in a republican congress, and Smoot is a republican in a re publican congress. "With, all Its superb vitality the democratic party cannot survive constant defeat," declares the Indianapolis "News. But the democratic party has survived constant defeat The trouble seems to have been that the democratic party could not endure some of its latter day "victories." A few years ago Great Britain laughed with glee at the suggestion that she might be com pelled to pay: damages, for allowing the Alabama to put forth from her shores. This is a hint to the prominent administration leaders who laughed witK glee at mention of the Panama affair. Shall the democratic party fall under the control of men who always vote tha republican ticket when they fail to make the democratic par ty so nearly like the republican party t at an ex pert cannot detect any difference? Thxt is a ques tion that every loyal democrat should ponder over. Having denounced and ' exposed fraud and corruption in the Island, Editor Bird of Porto Rico is in jail -for being an anarchist" and agi tator," and a menace to the goyernment Editor Bird should have accepted a slice of the graft.aiJ posed as a patriot If he expected to stand m with the powers that be. It has been qulte.a while since we heard any remarks on "clean men" from Theodore Roose velt Such remarks might tend to offend a large number of gentlemen now officially connected w the administration and depended upon to do con siderable rounding up of the delegates to the next national republican convention. . '. Mme. Melba says she has no 'further use for advertising and does not care what .the newspa- pers say,, about her. If the newspapers snouw take the fair lady at her word it wouldn t oe year ere she wpuld add a . note, or two to nj register by frantic efforts to attract the attention and favorable comments of the newspaper-. The anthracite mine owners have secured I a court decision relieving them of abiding ; by ; w strike commission's findings or paying the jujfa ment for back wages fibtained by the miners, am tad the miners refused to abide by the flecisio they would have, been --anarchists," tl0(ai "agitators" and "demagogues.", As It is : the cu mine owners are only administering the i w ' reposed in them as trustees of divine providence. It Is all- very dear when you once understand i i 1 vl j'i - V