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Y J 1 L let m .4 The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. Watered t the postofice at Lincoln. Nebraska, aa Mcond Mum mall natter. OneYcar , fi.oe Six Months floe In Ctu be ot 5 er more, per yar 7gc Three Months aff SUtglm Cepy ..jg Sanpto Copies Free. Foreign PeMage sac Extra. I SUBSCRIPTIONS can he ent direct to The Commoner. QChey can alio be tont through newspapers which have adver tiled a clubbing rate, or through local agents, whero inch agonta hare been appointed. All remittances should be sent by postofflce monoy order, express order, or by bank draft on Mew York or Chicago. Do not send Individual check)!, stamps, or money. RENEWALS. The dato on your wrapper shows when your subscription will expire Thus, Jan. 31, '05, mcanu that pay mont hai bcon received to and Including tho last lssuo of Jan nary, 1005. Two weeks are required after money has been re ceived before tho date on wrapper can bo changod. CHANOB OP ADDRES5. Subscriber requesting a change f address must glvo OLD as woll as tho NEW addreas. ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application. Address Ul communications to TUB COMMONER, Lfaeala.Nafc -Mr. Wright's figures read wonderfully like a Russian report of Japanese losses. Ono contribution to the g. o. p. campaign fund counteracts two federal injunctions against a trust. Popular election of senators will make the senate a representative body instead of a poli tical board of trust directors. The fact that the New York Sun is supporting Roosevelt is another indication that Mr. Parker was born under a lucky star. It may bo that tho president ig talking as much as ever, but his voice is drowned by the rattle of tho contribution basket. Mr. Parker says the anti-trust laws are not enforced, and the administration press is whining about "a campaign of personalities." The southern watermelon raiser Is just now considerably more worried about the "black peril" than he is about perils of other colors. It is to be hoped that Nicholas will not give tho .new heir a name that sounds like the cogno men of one of those bottled-up battleships. It will be noted that the fiercest opposition to state ownership of railroads comes from those who are opposed to anything but private owner ship of railroads. The Japanese might secure earlier success by- leaving a few General Slocumized life preser vers where the commander of tho Russian fleet could find them . When postofflces are given out as a mark of public confidence instead of as a reward for parti san activity, there will be few repetitions of tho Indianola incident. It is announced that Chairman Cortelyou is not going to make any speeches during the pres ent campaign. Chairman Cortelyou hopes to bo kept busy signing receipts. The man who talks about "granting self government" when the subjects are "fit" for It," is the same man who never would go into tho water until ho learned to swim. Tho Kansas City Journal continues to talk about silver dollars "that can not be forced into , circulation." Has the Journal any silver dollars ' .'on hand that it can not got fid of ? ' It is reported that agents of tho department of commerce are in Chicago for the purpose of investigating tho packers strike. This portends a conjunction between an injunctionless injunction and a spot cash contribution. "Gas" Addicks says his fight in Delaware will never end until ho is "either dead or in the sen ate. Delaware should repudiate Addicks with such emphasis next time that' he will realfce tho impossibility of gQttins into the senate and accept -the other alternative. ".win. The Commoner. The only court injunction that tho beef trust pays any attention to is the one it secures for its own use, Editors Deirr and O'Brien of Manila now real ize tho impropriety of running a paper called "Freedom" in Luzon. A couple of United States warships are en route for Smyrna for the purposo of giving tho sultan of Turkey a post graduate course, in mnemonics. Union labor is preparing for a great parade on September 6.. Union labor should also be getting ready for a practically unanimous parade on No vember 8. Those Manila editors have discovered that they can have anything the carpetbaggers want them to have, and very few things that they are entitled to. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan seems to havo made up his own- mind and the New York Sun's just about tho time the Panama commissions began coming his way. No matter how ignorant a newly appointed secretary of the navy may be about shipping, it never takes him more than a week to discover that the Dolphin is a mighty fine pleasure bpat. WH1S somebody please explain the difference between an elevator that carries people up and. down in a building and a similar contrivance that carries people to and fro between buildings? Tho Denver News says, "Montezuma county is short on candidates but long on Ben Davis ap ples." Political conditions must be something awful in a county that prides itself upon its Ben Davis apples. It was real mean of the sultan to back down before Mr. Hay could send one of his grandiloquent "Pericardis-alive-or-Raisuli-dead" cablegrams. The g. o. p. end of tho campaign is suffering terribly for want of a chance to pose arid spout. Prussia is about to make war uptin its coal trust, and the way to a successful conclusion is very clear. By noting what this republic's pres ent administration has done and" then doing tho other thing Prussia will land an easy winner. An exchange asks the coal trust to explain why it has raised prices if.it has so much coal on hand that the mines have to run on half 'time. The aforementioned exchange will sooner or later learn that the coal trust does not have to explain. Wo wait with, patience for Chairman Cor telyou to point with pride to the administration's record for economy and offer to prove it by showing that less than ?50,000 of the ?500,000 ap propriated to fight the trusts has been expended. The coal trust has so much coal on hand that it is compelled to put the miners on half time, and such a small stock on hand that it is forced to elevate the price 10 cents a ton every day or two. The coal trust evidently is not worrying about the shackling of cunning" just at present. The dispatches tell us of a MIssourlan who recently died at the age of 87 without ever having seen a locomotive. But stranger things than that happen every day. For instance, we've had at torney generals of late years who never saw the criminal clause of the Sherman 'anti-trust law. After mature consideration the Chicago Trib une has again decided to whoop it up for the z o. p. and a high protective tariff. The only feature at all surprising in this decision Is that tho es teemed Tribune waited until the middle of August to announce its decision. august The Illinois educator who proposed that the text books for the schools should be made by con! victs at Joliet should hasten to learn romeuSn The idea of children studying from convkade books is too repugnant to be considered. BesTdes it takes printers to make books. resides, The New York Sun has decided to eunnorr Roosevelt The Sun is a J. Pierpont MorgaHr gan. J. Pierpont Morgan is the financial agent of tho Panama canal commission. The fiStiS agent is already ?400,000 better off 'by reason or his position, and there is more in stent p,?i?5 ".Why is the New York Sun anpng iLlwltr "Volume 4, number 32, as Mr Addicks, ho of unsavory fame i r , having given vent to tho following ' "tW ...... in Delaware is n 3 H Addicks Simplifies M&ttors Parker-it T a?,VL i00seveH oj dicks." If this bo rue Z are wonderful oilSi"1?1 Delaware. The result bo overwholmiritfiv niw , , J8"11 shold ba torious Addicks that even he, with an J T bold impudence, would not again darenn to public office. The mere fact "that such nPlra as Addicks should have any following afaii T discredit to Delaware, and as ho has simni ft ? matters so much Delaware should piceedtoS him a lesson ho will never forget, ach Tho Gixmbling Mania "Getting something for nothing" has h charms for the average man-and woman. This Js uuuutuiy uemonstratcd in New York city by what is known as a 'free straw hat distribution" On a selected date all the im t. lt Porting and jobbing houses on; Broadway throw from their windows their un saleable stock of straw hats, and the vast crowds that gather provide entertainment enough to re pay the "donors." The same motive that impels well-to-do men to stand around until hats begin sailing through the air, and then grab for one at the loss of dignity, impels men to seek the gaming table in the hope of securing big returns upon the turn of a card or the roll of the dice. Tho gambling mania Is v growing in this country, and its evil effects are noticeable in every day's issua of the newspapers, which report defalcations, em bezzlements, breaches of trust and suicide. A Doty Not Fittingly Observed It was eminently fitting that "Ehillppiue Day' at the St. Louis exposition should have been made the occasion for a great military pageant. It is reported that 5,000 soldiers were in line in the parade. Doubtless the pa rade was beautiful to behold. but it must have called up sorrowful memories to thoughtful Americans who witnessed it. The 6,000 soldiers in the parade about equalled in numbers the soldiers that have been sacrificed upon the altar of imperialism; about the number, that succumbed to fever and bullets and disease in the "colony." But the military showing was not sufficient to point out all of this miserable Phil ippine business. It did not include a division made up of widowed wives and bereaved fathers and mothers. It Included no division showing the $600,000,000 worde than squandered in attempting to engraft the" un-American doctrine of colonial ism upon our system of government. "Philippine Day" at the exposition was not fully taken ad vantage of by those who insist upon holding tho islands for commercial reasons and attempt to excuse themselves upon humanitarian grounds. In giving the names of the members of tho credentials committee of the St. Louis convention who joined with the minority in Mr. Corriga.n asking for a reversal of the IUi- wocs nois convention proceedings, Rirfht TKerfl The Commoner inadvertently ' KigJit I hero omitted tne name of j. r. cor- rigan of Minnesota. Mr. Corrigan was the mi nority candidate for chairman of the credentials committee, and ho lent strong support in the minority's efforts to undo tho brazen and undemo cratic work of the Illinois convention. The Commoner regrets the oversight and tenders its apologies to Mr. Corrigan. Labor's Deserved Holiday The labor unions of the country are yiaKing great preparations for Labor Day, which falls upon Cnnfnmar R this Vflai. I' 10U1 U quarters cOmo the reports that the unions are determined to make this year's celebration a i.AnWI vnnlrAr Tt is llOtlCeU, however, that there is a tendency to abandon the parade feature of the celebration and aevote u day to social features, thereby bringing the i lanj and file of labor into closer relations, inis based upon the claim that the parade, by taking ui. tho greater portion of the day, and entailing rta expense and work-, , prevents laboring me" "" enjoying the day in full measure. Labor Jjay u .become ono of the great holidays of tho year, , ui The Commoner rejoices that labor has become thoroughly organized that it can and does w out en masse upon that occasion to snw strength and spirit, Tho Commoner hopes & day to chronicle another fact that lauoi wm j as solidly for its own interests upon election j. as it marches upon Labor Day to show us w trial strength. - '. ' - , S 2 r u -K ,t.. '-fc,-.k.dgla. - EjJjMjwJJgiijwvw(aVj