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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
"Uncle Joo" Cannon still selfishly refuses to
lot them use his popularity as a life belt for the
Roosevelt candidacy.
Republican tariff reform seems to have emu
lated tho oxamplo of those Russian battleships
and "turned turtle."
Colonel Younghusband of Great Britain seems
to bo having almost as great trouble as President
Muchhusband of "Utah. .
As the days go by it becomes more and more
evident that democracy is not going to trust the
men who deserted and betrayed her In her hour of
need.
President Roosevelt is quoted as saying that
"tho mother of ten children is superior to the
president of tho United States." But why the
numeral?
Boef is said to command fabulous prices in
Port Arthur. Now we Know what has happened
in these United States. Tho trusts have us "bot
tled up."
Loyal democrats are not likely to trust their
cause in the hands of men who would make tho
'democratic party a republican annex to tho trusts
and corporations.
Tho democratic party cannot compete with
tho republican party in bidding for trust sup
port. Tho republican party is too well intrenched
in trust coniidence.
Judge Fonner in a speech at Now Orleans
'declared that tho codo Napoleon would preclude
great accumulations of wealth and go far toward
remedying tho trust evil.
Ex-Governor Prank Black of New York will
make tho spoech nominating Theodore Roosevelt
in tho republican national convention. This "in
sures" a choice bit of spell-binding.
So Governor Odell has. vetoed the gas bill
signed by Mayor McClellan. Tho mayor did not
help his presidential boom by tho signing' of a
-bill which was bad enough .to incur tho veto of a
republican governor.
There is a growing suspicion that in due time
will como a Whito houso pronunclamento to tho
effect that after all It is not necessary, in view of
the stronuous ability of tho g. o. p. presidential
candidato, to havo olther a chairman of tho na
tional committee or a vice presidential candidato
The Commoner
Noting that the government's expenses ex
ceed its receipts, August Belmont is taking an ac
tive interest in politics once more. He scents an
' other bond issue that may be profitable it he can
bo assured of a pliable president.
The men who are trying to make the demo
cratic party as much of a tool of plutocracy as
tho republican party, are the same gentlemen who
have always voted the republican ticket when they
could not frame democratic platforms and namo
ocracy's affairs .". "'" l"e con of dem-
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The Nashville Banner has discovered that
"the republicans give unmistakable signs of their
opposition to Judgo Parker as a presidential can
didate." The strange part of this 13 that it was
not found in the Banner's humorous department.
Mr. Pulitzer is writing magazine articles ex
planatory of his proposed school of journalism.
Mr. Pulitzer might put somo of his ideas into
practice, on his New York "World and St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. Example is much better than
precept.
The Commoner loses one of its staunchest
friends in the death of Mr. James M. Nolan of
Rochester, N. Y. He was a delegate to the Kan
sas City convention and was at all times an earn
est supporter of the principles set forth in that
platform.
In a recent issue of Tho Commoner reference
was made to some rabbit stories. A Texas reader
of The Commoner suggests that the rabbits de
scribed must have been under the influence of a
liquor somotimes sold to the cowboys "that will
make a rabbit fight a bull dog."
The Commoner reports with regret the death
of one of its devoted readers, Jonathan Spear, of
Rockland, Me., who died recently at the age of
ninety-one years. He had lived a life whose no
bility was measured by its usefulness, and he
made a deep Impression upon his community.
Tho Iowa delegation to the St. Louis conven
tion has been organized as follows: Chairman,
E. M. Carr, Manchester; secretary, A. R. McUook,
Elma; assistant secretary, A. W. Wooster, Osca
loosa; treasurer, H. C. Evans, Des Moines; sar
geant at arms, John F. Dalton; assistant sargeant
at arms, W. K. Currio, Mt. Ayr.
Tho proposition to convert the Woman's
Building at the World's Fair into a sort of Hall
of Fame in which to exhibit the pictures of rep
resentative society women is arousing consider
able opposition. The Topeka Capital publishes
an article by Mrs. J. K. Hudson, wife of tho ox
congressman, protesting against the effort to give
society women precedence over women .who havo
been prominent in various avenues of usefulness.
Tho Baltimore Sun, which bolted the ticket
in 189G, but supported the ticket loyally in 1900,
is trying to get into the band wagon of the reor
ganizes. It complains because Mr. Bryan does
not fall down and worship at tho feet of the Wall
street crowd. It wants "a sensible, conservative
democrat on a platform true to Jefferson' an prin
ciples.' Now, if the Sun will just suggest a plat
form that will be satisfactory to it, the public can
Diidgo how much of real democracy there is in the
Sun's program.
No Placa
In
New York.
Ex-Sneaker Hp.nrtprcnn ir, n.,i.i . .
that "New York Is no pTaco 'fV'a man ZlTZI
uuo 1cb- rne JLOuisvIlle Timpq
adds that "success in New York
Times may or may not be correct. But it in
orally believed that a one-legged nmn VnJ 2
poor show of getting ahead in N?w York fnr
the reason that whilo his leg is hXff niw?
he has not another one to get along wtth K
financial events in New York dty Zo Cm
a peradventure that "leg nulling e beond
chief occupations of the men who T f Q
"captains of -industry ' Who pose as too
Tho iconoclast continues to mr , ,
wl, The latest one & SWf and S
FcesA fd mechanical mllkoJfHe
New Danger ."at with the aid of a small
i 1 gasoline engine ami i,
ch.ne, one man will he ahloTooVeVai
' .VOLUME i, NUMBER W,
expert milkers. While this will relieve th i
hand of a task, it will also Tmoek the nn? a
out of rural life, for with tho mechanical S l
Jn operation what becomes of the pretty milkmnii'
of poetry? Tho old and familiar couplet WhJlS
are you going, my pretty maid? I'm going a-mnv
irig, kind sir, she said," will lose its potentialiw
What poet can find inspiration for bucol'c rhvn
in a network of wires and eccentrics and cam
and vacuum tubes? One by one the poetic thinm
of life are smashed, and tho utilitarian displaces
the dreamer and the singer. It ma be profitable
financially, but, 'after all, is it not possible that
-wo would be bettor off with less profit and mora
of song and story?
Tho Govern
ment Lottery.
The government is again going into tho lot-,
tery business, this time for the purpose of dis-
posing oj. trie land included la
the reservation about to bo
opened In South Dako'.a. Tho
lottery will be conducted on tho
same lines as the one hv whuu
' the Oklahoma lands were disposed ot, to tnc public.
Apart from the bad morals of this form of dis
posing of government land, it works an injustico
in that those who are most in need of the land
are unable to comply with the government condi
tion that they must appear at designated points
wjithin the reservation and register. Those bc3t
able to comply with the conaitlons are in less
. need of additional land 01 property. It would
seem that the government could find a way foe
the equitable disposal of this land without resort
to a scheme that smacks of tba Louisiana lottery.
Vaccinate
Your
Farm Land.
Science is doing some wonderful things tkeso
days, but it is doubtful if it has done anything
more wonderful than making
worn-out farms fertile by in
oculating them with the germs
of fertility. We vacclnato
against disease, so why
not vaccinate our farms against the disease of
barrenness? The idea is Tery simple when onco
you grasp it The agricultural department at
Washington has discovered how it may bo done.
The department cultivates tho right kind of
germs, and then compresses them into cakes
something like yeast cakes. A small cake is
shipped to the farmer, who throws it into a bar
rel of. water, and lets it dissolve. Then he soaks
his seed grain in this water and plants. The seed
has taken up tho revived germs, ami the germs
set to work to enrich the soil. And the best part?
of this seeming fairy tale is that it is true.
Shoe manufacturers in Massachusetts thought
they wanted free hides until Senator Lodge con-
vlnced them otherwise. Tho
Only shoe men find themselves ham-
Dreamed pered in procuring raw material
It. by the scarcity as well as by
the" tariff that increases its cost
to them. Tho tariff on hides was ostensibly for
the benefit of cattle raisers, but really for tho beef
trust and leather trust. When the shoe men pro
tested and demanded free hides they were warned
that any agitation in favor of tariff changes would
certainly be dangerous to the whole protective
system, and that "pauper-made shoes from Eu
rope" would soon drive their wares out of tho
market. And then Massachusetts shoe men who
have been paying the duty on hides, paying Ameri
can wages and ocean freights and underselling
European shoe men in the European market, be
came frightened at the "free trade bogy" and
meekly withdrew 'their request.
Cool Heads
Win
Safety.
Every great disaster has its compensations,
and the horror of tho Iroquois theatre fire has
brought some good results. iu-eatre-goers
realizo that but for
the panic which ensued in the
Chicago playhouse, hundreds of
UVUa 'WUU1U UttVO uu" ill
The result? has boon to Impress upon tho public
mind the necessity of acting with judgment un
der such trying conditions. At Proctor's theatre
in New York city the other night fire broke out,
and in a short tiino tho theatre was full of smohe,
and the stage a mass of flames. Tho audience
refused to become panic-stricken. Exits wero
promptly opened, policemen and firemen P0,
the way, and in less than six minutes 1,700 pei
had marched out of tho theatre and away irwj
the danger zone. So coolly did the peP10 "
that not a wrap was found in the theatre aw
the flames wero subdued, and only one W0"lc
hat was found. Haji tho audience become
stricken many deaths would have been u ,
suit. There io a lesson here that all should aw.
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