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THE COMMONER, LiawIa.Nak
If China Is wise she will begin praying to
bf saved from her friends
Let the democrats of the country "hare faith
in the wisdom of doing right"
Judging by the reports the Japanese forces
are not led by any favorite physicians.
Japan seems determined to call the czar's at
tention to the desirability of calling upon The
Hague tribunaL
Every time a Russian "regret to report" comes
rnrJ,i ,m h,e reSeneratlon of democracy that
forced a lot of recreant leaders to fall back uuon
the demand for "reorganization." P
Owing to the fact that they have no ne-ro
hn??.efntS reacue them' e7 Japanese army
has refused to organize any "rough riders."
All this interest in the integrity of China
8hKK U? !n marked contrast to the indifference
exhibited towards the integrity of Colombia.
L5SSS5f f confl,ct and stammers "
tttTmp? l0'00 mIIes but y SS
tPhertnSfthweslB0 Wh are about to Sttta
arXgtb' UP M
a as aSwtts
but arrived at It && ".
janltors, wo are rarjwiy SfSS'nJ?1?6? and
Docker and gold lace ? ?t Xunction. fCker-
President Roosevelt has again iin n
appointment upwte a whote 0??.e- T"'3
rhetoric on thorites'? tte aSft"
The Commoner.
Thoie newspaper pictures of Russian and
Japanese warships serve to vividly recall some
interesting pictures we saw prior lo and during
the Yanko-Spanko war.
While lighting over Korea and Manchuria
Russia and Japan should keep a sharp eye on Mr.
Rockefeller. The king of kerosene might lake a
sudden notion to pocket the territory himself.
The Kansas City Journal says: "Mr. Bryan
has the deepest scorn for issues that are calculated
to get votes." The Journal and its kind are in
terested most in getting votes no matter how.
Mr. Root resigned from the cabinet to become
attorney for one of the biggest trusts in the world.
He should have called upon Attorney General
Knox before resigning and learned a thing or two.
If there Is anything in precedent Mr. Whit
taker Wright's mistake did not. consist of dishon
esty, but in not having a title to his name and
assisting some other fellow to do the dirty work.
That loud noise from the shores of Chesa
peake Bay Is being made by a few thousand Bal
timoreans scratching away the ashes to find the
proper places for laying bigger and cotter foundations.
Latest reports from Wall street are (o the
effect that a lot of eminent financiers in that
neighborhood are something of broncho busters
themselves. They appear to have made the
president bridlewise.
What is neutrality?" queries the Kansas City
Journal. Well, it seems to have been license to
sen mules to a monarchy making war on a Ht
tle republic a few years ago, and a grandstaud
Play at the present time for the purpose of help
ing out the party that formerly bought the mules.
The New York World is booming Cleveland
;2r ? mocratIc nomination. A few years ago
the World was denouncing Cleveland because he
showed a "vexatious indisposition1 to heed the
Wor d s plea not to let the bond gamblers work
woerkirnTo7derThe Wrld'2 f0rgettery is in ood
J. Sloat Fassett says we have an Interest in
the preservation of Korea because we have a com
mercial treaty with that country. Mr FasetHs
MMSSS." when a chance f0? SS-
tn i?enry Wattersn refuses to be reconciled and
In his anger and stubbornness he falls into the
"Marse Henry f uinaS hX many Wh
i M.i je Diinaed by their passions.
o Sv?eClareS, that "the democratic
Once More,," Party needs votes," and that
oWM
polled ra
cast for the candidates of any nartv n?, , b?eu
further fact that this record wX ? - ld lne
in 1900, Mr. Watterson's tatemnmV!16
with a large grain flriM !nt wln be taken
so heated menfaTly as to Jl 2Se Wh, are aot
Mr. Watterson says he m i?2nf PJain facts
to it." This is sad w T , use to be a Parly
democrats are becmw J tho fact that
Ycars oyed the results of tSit Tic!
Since S", Fop 0Ur currency aid
formed, and the golf Kr arefs" e
iflly wlabUsheJttolS!; not been sol
admitted in the campaign S n fs
membered that eight yeart n.U Wl11 be re"
Party declared in favor SinflS he rePub"can
Hsm; and yet the News iifcfS?onal bimeta1'
publications, insists thaTm MM S. republIca
stood for independent bmSWhilQ ,one Part'
Party pretended to sSi,i fnm?11Ism md another
Mn. the latter SttM011 bimetai
ceived a commission to I e?ei! to Pwer, re
standard. m,S810n to support the single gold
VOLUME. 4, NUMBER
The Dubuque (la.) Telegf aph payS itg 00lllll1l
ments to the Chicago Chronicle in this war
is esteemed as the narrowoi
Very most bigoted, most unreal
Vigorous mg, and ablest disciple 0fl
Compliment. ftory wealth in the countrT
It knows everything: nothing ,
hard or impossible to it; who disagrees with if L5
a liar a demagogue, or a bedraggled expounder -of
anarchy. It would snuff out the life of evemlf
who opposes the designs of its hidden plutocratS
owner, and the vulture-like, vampire-like paras,
class of which he is typically representative ThS
Chronicle is, in its own estimation, ImoeccablP
The opposition can have not even the sllehtiS
element of justice on its side. It is wroiiY ail
wrong and, worse yet, is slinking through allcva
in the dark with a drawn stiletto or a cocked re
volver waiting for an opportunity to shoot tha
first passer-by through sheer lust of murder."
When the indictments were returned against
Senator Dietrich he announced that he courted a
tu- ii- thorough investigation: and vet
Technicalities when he was confronted with
and the investigation he resorted to
Redemption, technicalities. When United
Q - &tea Sentor Buiton of Kan.
sas was indicted, he announced that he would de
mand an immediate trial, ana would invite a
thorough investigation. But it seems that Mr.
Burton has already resorted, to -technicalities,
raising the pos;t that the oflcials with whom he
interceded in behalf of his client had no author
ity to issue a fraud order, and therefore, Senator
Burton is not liable. Technicalities appear to be
yery popular with the politicians who boast that
by their election to office their states have been
redeemed.
R-oosevelt
on the
Parity.
More than a year ago air. Roosevelt, speak
ing at Princeton, 111., said: "Our currency laws
uccu suca moaincation as will
insure the parity of every dol
lar coined or issued by the gov
ernment,, How ioes It happen
Sirn h! Tbri.g about the resut h said was so
dSSSJLi S ? Pssible tha- Mr. Roossvelt has
orS??r?i th parity of every daar coined
Ln 2 ?y tbiSvernnient was long ago insured
7 fl a thettime when the republican lcad
tS SL!? mei:ican People declared in favor cf
SoiitlSf ,Sld -hy electing to power a
S? nfo1 ? ty 7h0Se Platform declared in favor
of international bimetallism.
writt S? On0r reader at LittIe Falls Minn.,
writes to say: "In your issue of January 22 re-
Franklin- f?rrinS to the death in military,
ia ?irde,s of Gen- W- B- Tanklin;
m the is referred to as a confederate.
Civil War I presume this is an error, be
manded thn Cause General Franklin com
27th New YOJlgfademp0sed of the 16th and
sylvanirvoT,?n&ftth,e if.tn Maine and 96th Penu
a diviSon S ? Srii5flS.try he commanded
the lead?n tWhJCn the above regiments were
mation o lt' r the first- pon the ror-
to left GrandStn
---,.. .umnmcjj i.HUL 1111.
Rrvati tn
-.. a. jnere mouther, a
cheeky upstart, -a blatant dem
agogue, a hypocrite and Phari
see, a slick adventurer, a grasp-
tool of rich anri orT&money"maler' a subservient
betters and a nrnmnf0US men' erer of his
revolution oTZr & ,hate Qd strife and
important but ft sTnteVln" H DOt aeher
ing the fine snirif In uT5 wav of sbow
Proach their jHch the reorganized ap--cratic
party. t&Sk of narnizing the demo-
nS ,f the aher of the
Mkinrf a;Tacir? coal trlke commls-
and Evadln SS1' Said: "Capital dlcUtes
. rVadIng !6n no. in a large measure.
8 Si P0USIe8 OJC our national,
hodles. it enable. 5 uWdpal legislative
tnists to mak n. ?e tttt-nMontlre. and the
aoat potortSttnf6. 1aw8 K controls
to give to the?nttfPUbl!c PInIon able
over tSerights SW" of ten priorllft
Strong
For
Harmony.
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