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The Commoner.
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VOLUME 3, NUMBER, 48.
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approving anything he wants to do
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Tho Meanest Han.
I'vo heard of men so awful mean
They'd skin a flea for hide and
tallow;
And lick a soup bowl slickiajjid clean,
. No matter if 'twere deep or shallow.
I'vo heard of men so mean oflielirt
They'd squeeze down hard on ev'ry
dollar
Until tho goddess fell apayt
And was compelled to loudly "hol--
ler."
I.'vo heard of men so mean and "near"
The thought of wear gavo them keon
twinges. t
And so they climbed the fence for fear
Tho swinging gate would wear out
hinges.
And once I knew a man so mean
His heart was wont to quickly flut
ter
If children at his board were seen
. To use molasses on bread and butter.
But of all men described as mean
There's one who's worse than all
the others;
His heart so small, his soul so lean,
' That all good thoughts he quickly
smothers.
He is so mean, and always was,
That, as excuse for never giving,
Ho says there is no Santa Claus
And he's tho meanest fellow living.
Do Tell.
A mun in Popocatapetl
Complained ho was not feeling wetl.
Said ho, "I'm sure
I can't endure
A long, protracted, hard sick spell."
Pessimism.
The Optimist--"Well, what do you
expect to And in your Christmas
stocking?"
Tho Pessimist "The same old
bunion."
Those Wily flattens.
Sue "I've had the loveliest after
noon!" Prue "What have you been doing?"
Sue "Jack has been teaching me
how to skato."
Prue "But I thought Charley
taught you how last winter."
Sue "0, lie did, but Jack doesn't
know it."
Second Thought,
"The world refuses to do me jus
tice," complained, the trust magnate
who perceived that the people looked
upon him as one wltno'ut conscience.
"Why complain about that?" quer
ied a friend. "Think what would be
your unhappy lot if the -world did mete
out justice to you."
After thinking it over the 'trust
magnate felt better.
Too Previous.
"Alas, there are no more worlds to
conquer."
So saying Alexander plunged into
the river Styx.
Some time later Alex looked back
and saw where he had made a mistake.
"I should have waited a few cen
turies and secured control of the oil
market."
Words and Deeds.
"The world is mine!" exclaimed
Monte Cristo.
But unfortunately they were only
words.
The man who had the deeds merely
hoisted the price of oil another notch
and declared a dividend.
In Boston.
The Visitor "And what do you
want Santa Claus to bring you?"
Fit. Courcey De Graco Beaconhill
(etat 5) "After due deliberation and
considerable study of mythology I
have nrrlvftrl nf flio rrmnlnslrm 1-hnf
Santa Claus is merely a figment of tho'
imagination, tnereroro I deem it hljyii
ly improper to longer pose as one who
pretends to boliovo in this mythologi
cal personage merely tor the Ulterior
purpose of acquiring rrom ,confiding
progenitors those trilling things which
please only for the time" and have no
direct bearing upon one's future bet
terment." What Santa Cleus Should Give.
To 'Mr. RockefoLer A conscience.
To Mr. Morgan Ability to feel sym-
"pathy.
To Mr. Schwab The ability to forget.
To Mr. Baer An enlightened under-.
sianuing.
To Mr, Hanna Better choice in the
selection of friends.
To Colombia Justice.
To Competition A resurrection.
To tho Government Honest ser
vants. To the Citizen An awakened sense
of duty.
To the Trusts Knock-out drops,
To the World Arbitration.
To' All People Everywhere Self
government. To the Corruptionists Stripes.
To tho Press Freedom.
To Men A true conception of charity.-
Brain Leaks.
Some straws show which wax the
week's wages go.
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You cannot get God -ward as long
as you look dollar-Tfard.
The man yW cherishes a grievance
seldom hap-- anything else.
Tho earnest seeker after truth does
nondrop into tho rear pew
Charity with a brass band accom
paniment has a string attached to it.
The happiest homes are those where
"company manners" are never laid
aside. . , .
The man who waits until New
Year's to "swear -off" on a bad habit
RP.lflnim rlnps. t
. The world will not be what it should
be as long as success is measured' by
the accumulation of dollars.
There is a vital difference between
telling God what you want and ask
ing Him for what you need.
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The average man would give a great
deal for the ability to enjoy just one
hour of implicit belief in Santa Claus.
The man who wastes his strength
weeping over small troubles has ab
solutely no show when confronted by
a great trouble.
One-half of tho world does not know
how the other half lives, and the in
dications are that most of the dne
half does not care.
Every now and then we see a man
During the last year two important
books dealing with the trust problem
have appeared. One appears in Ap
pleton's "Business Series," by Dr. E.
S. Meade of the Wharton School of
Economics and Finance of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania; the other by Dr.
F. E. Horack of the University of
Iowa, appears in the Equity Series
published by Dr. C. F. Taylor, Phila
delphia. The first is- entitled "Trust Fi
nance," and is a study of the meth
ods, organization and management of
industrial combinations. The second,
entitled "The Organization and Con
trol of Industrial Corporations," is a
comparative study of legislation,
showing the provisions of law in the
several states under which- industrial
corporations may be organized, and
the provisions for their subsequent
control.
Dr. Horack finds an absolute lack of
uniformity in the legal provisions rel
ative to organization and control in
the several states, and auite natural-
.ly Dr. Meade finds the same lack of
unirormity In the application of busi
ness methods, and in the operations
of the great corporations. Perhaps
the most interesting feature of these
two works is that both writers.
though approaching the trust problem
from entirely different standpoints,
have arrived at practically ttyesame
conclusion as to the reform, necessary
to insure stability in industrial or
ganizations, viz: that the essential
feature in any reform of our corpor
ation law, to be elective, must be tho
national contra of the organization
and management of our large corpora
tions, tho" 'evils of which are confined
to no vbne state in particular. It is
onJy by such control that the publicity
3f corporate affairs, necessary to in
sure and promote public confidence
can be secured. The present loose
and reckless system of chartering
companies employed in many of the
states has been productive of corpora
tions, the methods of which have been
as loose and reckless as the laws un
der which they were organized, or
more so. Such a condition of affairs
as this must necessarily be transitory;
the demands of a sound business sys
tem must soon supplant the present
method of chartering by individual
states by a national control.
The two works here mentioned are
welcome additions to the already pro
fuse literature of the trust problem.
Both have been worked out by men
who have spent years of careful study
on their subjects, and their conclu
sions are not to be lightly passed by
as mere academic speculation. The
price of Dr. Horack's monograph is
nominal, only 25 cents, as it was pub
lished not for profit, but for educa
tional purposes. It is paper bound,
207 pages, and may be obtained from
Equity Series, 1520 Chestnut street,
Philadelphia.
Books Received.
"Potpourri: Spice and Rose Leaves,"
by Miranda P. Swenson. A little
booklet of verse by a Nebraska author.
The verses deal with themes of heart
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life and family ties are especially
good. The booklet is handsomely
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Pamphlet entitled Where Are We
At? How Did We Get Here? And the
Way Out, an outline of the rise and
progress of American moral and en
lightened civilization, founded on the
natural distinctions of race, and tho
methods employed by foreign influ
ence to destroy it, and compel a re
turn to European arbitrary rule by
the artificial distinctions of privileged
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Who Bules America? truths about
trusts pamphlet, by l Francis A.
Adams. Price, 10 cents. . Ninth edi
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expert of the Iowa Agricultural Col
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A modification of what is known as
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new grass has been tried on some of
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and thus far has done all that was ex
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Next spring these experiments are
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which has industries based 911 grass,
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impartially examined into the experi
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lieve Professor Olin's claims are not
too strong. Chicago Chronicle.
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