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PU" -J-T7J7W"''r"r ftv P' 4 The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. Kntorcd at the poatofflco at Lincoln, Nebraska, as wcond Blasa mail matter. One Year $1.00 Six Months 50c In Clu bs ol s or more, per year 75c Three Months a0 .Staff Copy 50 Sample Cf plea Free. Foreign Peltate sac Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to Tha Commoner. Thoy cnu also bo sent through newspapers which have adver tised a dubbing rate, or through local ngents, whero such agents Imvo been appointed. All remittances should bo sent by postofllco monoy ordor, express order, or by bank draft on Now York or Chicago. Do not send individual chcckH, stamps-, or money. RBNBVVALS. The dnto on your wrapper shows when your subscription will expire. Thus, Jan. 01, '05, means that pay ment lini been received to and Including tho last Issue of Jan nary, 190!). Two weeks are required after money fias been re ceived boforo tho date on wrnppcr can be changed. CNANQO OF ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting a change f address must give OLD as well as tho NEW address. ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application. Addresa all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nek. c, . ' .. Tho Parker boom seems to bo suffering from an ingrowing Hillopus-Bclmonticus. Tho Japancso feat which resulted In bottling up tho Russian fleet at Port Arthur "was a "corker." Porhaps tho Yalu is as crooked as a prairie stream. This would oxplaln the necessity of crossing it so often. Josoph Chamberlain delivered a speech at Birmingham, May 12, declaring that his tariff policy -will yet prevail. Mr. Rockefeller has been telling of some of his early trials, but ho did not toll of some in which he managed to escape justice. Of course tho native Filipinos at tho St. Louis oxposition will bo detained in quarters while tno Uberty Boll is on exhlDition there. Secretary Shaw should ha getting his explan atory department Into good working order. That Shercliffe parole will work it overtime., "Are battleships worth while?" queries tho Kansas City World. That depends on whether you are making 'em or paying for 'em. If President Roosevelt wants a brief platform his party should confine itself to telling what he has done towards carrying out his trust bustine promises. The waning of tho Parker boom is evidence enough to convince oven David B. Hill that tho democrats will never consent to perpetual pea nutiQcation. v Mr. Gage's remarks concerning "blades of grass ' will only have tho effect of showing him that the people are not quite as green as he thinks thoy are. Mr. Cleveland is defending his bond Issues. This means that Mr. Cleveland has something in hand that will occupy his full time for tho rest of his natural life. s John Brisbon Walker calls tho Now York platform a "platform of putty, porsiflage pea nuts and prevarication." That was a Serfeciiv proper punch to place. Peileclly Somehow or other tho administration orcans that point tho finger of scorn at San Domingo Si to extend any index digits in tho direction of Colorado's mining fields. airecuon of Wliilo Mr. Clovcland is writing about thn history of his administration he might spend the fraction of a second in writing about That he -did to enforce the anti-trust law. o P JS TSKSm X. SSi I v.-wvt jyumw uj. view. The Commoner. Tho Yalu- has been crossed so often that It must bo real angry by tills time. Thomas W. Lawson is certainly mistaken when he says he will make the Standard Oil com pany give up ?92,000,000. What he means is that he will try to force the Standard Oil company, into making tho public give up $92,000,000. Democrats who have persistently bolted and maliciously denounced those who remained loyal, are now fearfully wrought up lest the loyal ones go into tho bolting business. The bolters are as inconsistent as they are treacherous. Men who belong to organized labor should noto that this republican congress would not even consider the eight hour bill nor the anti injunction bill. The republican leaders figure that they can coerce workingmen again as they did in 189G, or if they can not coerce them can again fool them with the "full dinner pail" cry. Having read that a man caught slant eyes from associating with tno Chinese, the Houston Post recklessly plunges into lese majeste by warn ing President Roosevelt to watch out lest he catch the watermelon habit. The Post is peril ously near banishment. The Canton, O., district, McKlnley's old con gressional district, has' selected its delegates to tho national convention and adopted a platform indorsing the Kansas City platform. It seems that tho reprganizers are not making much head way in Mr. 'McKlnley's former home. Mr. Cleveland waited until Governor Alt geld was a long time dead before breaking into print with a defense of his actions during tho Chicago strike. But Governor Altgeld's speech on that topic still lives to refute the "explanations" of the man who used the United States army to do the bidding of corporation managers. A reader of The Commoner calls attention to tho fact that the scientists are pointing out the sanitary advantage of coin over paper money. As silver is the only coin within reach, of the people generally, tho scientists may finally drive the country to the use of bimetallism as a pre caution against disease. Success to the scientist?! Will the Tennessee friends of Mr. Parker pause long enough to examine the election returns in Tennessee in 1894? If the Banner and the American will publish tho election returns of that year, they will give their readers some idea of what to expect if the Wall street element again gets control of the party and makes it the tool of the corporations. Some of Mr. Parker's friends, recognizing tho crushing weight of the New York platform, are trying to pull him out from under it by telling what ho thinks on public questions. This might do with ordinary individuals, but Judge Parker knows that hear-say testimony is not admissable especially when direct testimony is so easily ob tained. He will probably line his friends for con tempt if they don't stop trying to talk for him. A subscriber writes at length to give his reasons for believing that the reorganize will tw h ffpture the St Louis conven fc Don t be tion. He is earnestly advised Frightened by to search for the moral in the Their Noise, following story: A resident of 1. 1 . x a Mirmesta swamp district heard that frogs' legs were commanding a hteh price m Chicago. "How much will you nav for frog saddles?" was the question hereto to I Chicago commission house. "We'll pay Sl.50 ner dozen; how many can you furnish?" replied the commission house. "Ten thousand dozen" re! SeceSte &Sg? & ttThfoTifr& au x could get- iSOT Mr. Frederick T. Warde tho wmi i tor, recent occupied a'pSWta te7 ". an X Moral and aa saylns that if .1 '? IU0leu Immoral. BtsYnfval flay! T "managers present paw T Jb,ou raands." Mr. Wardeii ,,m, ' ,the p"bll de real facta or inSna lv fif, rSonuit " Ho. The dramas which pander L! geneial ' are written by men who to5M nn?PmY?ii tasle3 wise. That the public USS VOLUME 4, NUMBER ig, dramas is evidenced by the fact that they ar short-liyed, while the pure dramas live sei after season. The so-called "problem pla',,a ceed for a time, but are soon forgotten, while n?n that breathe high morals arid deal with lift! n its virtuous phases survive season after srWr, Has any one of Clyde Pitch's inane "dranvS dealing with subjects" tabooed in Christian w. survived more than one or two seasons? Has Si one of the "sex" dramas ever rounded out thr or four successful seasons? Not one of them But dramas that breathe love and virtue piavR' n "Shore Acres" and -The 'Old Homeatead-plas! that touch, the heart's tenderest emotions iik 'Rip Van Winkle-IIve year after year and 'neve? lose their charm. Mr. Warde cheapens the the tre; he lowers it in the estimation of thinking men and women, and he indicts Its chief claim for popular favor, tho claim that it is a public educator, when he asserts that it panders to de praved tastes because it "pays." Several years haveN passed by since Mr. Roose , velt made, his somewhat famous "shackling of "Bless Mo SJnnInit Sleecb at Minneapolis. wiess Wo SIllCQ then he has been elevatea I he Thing Is to a position giving him ample Hollowl" Power to "shackle cunning as fnrn ., . . . uwe ave in the past shackled force but he has utterly failed to "make good the implied promise. The Rooseveltian promise to curb trust rapacity recalls the story of a man who had never seen a ship, but who was elevatea to the proud position of secretary of the navv One of his first official acts was. to visit a battle ship lying at anchor at the nearest navy yard After acknowledging the salutes of the officers and men he walked across the deck and peered down an open hatchway. Starting back with a look of surprise he exclaimed: "Bless me, the blamed thing s hollow!" During the three years of Theo dore Roosevelt's administration the people have made the same discovery concerning his promises of trust busting that the secretary of the navy made concerning his country's battleships. f,TiLe N?T York ,pril3Une. in an effort to de fend the riotous extravagance of congress, says.i AdmH i'We, are committed to policies, ii 1 ui involyinS expenditures un inpaltablo dreamed of under Cleveland and Truth. Harrison." For once, at any Twin i. 7 , ,rate' tne Tribune is correct.' During tho administrations of Cleveland and Har rison we entertained no thought of swaggering SnZan0'11? "WOrld P" and TeSng ??fr f? Am?rIcan of colonialism call w v3rlmntenace of extravagant carpet bag government on the other side of the globe. millio?nnnS ag T had no thouSnt of expending for lS Ln needle battleships and big armies bum. n? I PUrpos6 of b6ing aWe t0 Pse as a manv thi raggaIfc among e nations. A great S5ings are haPPening in these days that SLU" by the men who founded this fauafit? w,PVWllat they th0USht would be W; 1iberfcy and right. The Tribune about JT1011' voiced tnls &t tru IrSLr ? !ied of expenditures," But they inc inhf'niSf dreams are raPIdlv degenerat ing into nightmares of oppressive taxation. the utPP?JSr6laiid!? contributIng a great deal to the literature of the present day, most of it in ClevelntMro , snaPe of essays explaining Cleveland s and dofendinff Ufl MtIo wWIe Oreat occupying the White house the Concern. SQcond time. Mr. Cleveland is fora n , , Quoted as saying that he pre vp?r ry brief Platform for the democracy Uis who TOiii nere a several millions of democrats Mr U ?ead,ily admit tut a statement of all of nnIan.d'a demcratic principles would not SS, yi,?iVGS half of a sheet of common note paper. iJut while Mr. Cleveland is posing as a democrat and giving yards of advice 'and explanation to democracy, and urging a brief platform, it will oe noticed that he feels impelled to write yard iong explanations of a great many things he did wane president that either were not mentioned in the platform upon which hd was elected, or were in direct contradiction to the principles es poused by the party which twice .'honored him. Mr. Cleveland's concern about a 'platform is seem ingly very great, and. the fact is enough to create considerable wonder, for Mr. Cleveland not only refused to carry out the principles set forth in the last platfqrm upon which h.eiwas elected, but insisted on carrying out policies-that were In di rect .contradiction of both tb , platform' and the traditions of democracy. I , 1 i i If KlMrWW UHiujua -- i mUwUrfrdtlflfc.fl