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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
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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
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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.
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