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Jrr1 m ?JMJ' VVM " n(yt V - ! ll-V- s H'.' i P-. 12 The Commoner. 'VOLUME 4, NUMBER 3e A PRIVATE OPINION Arthur Mcttwon is writing sonic in teresting articles lor the New 1'ork American. His iatcst is entitled "Loob Reports on the Letter," and is as fol lows: (Special by Wireless Telepathy.). Oyster Day, Sept. 13. "Loeb."' "Your Excellency." "What do you think of ray letter of accoptanco, now that it has been print ed for the instruction of the country?" "Complete, forceful, masterful, un answerable, perfect, Your Excellency." "That's your official view and en tirely correct, but havo you any pri vate opinions on the groat document?" "Well, sir" (eyoing the big stick which the Infallible One was sandpa pering) 'if I wore to oifer any criti cism, sir, I should bo only repeating the words of ot'hers, sir, and a due regard for my personal safe" "Out with it, Loob, I have an open mind and a teachable spirit, ana I promise you a safe conduct back to your office." "Then, sir and remember I merely repeat what others say your remarks on the tariff are a little, just a little, strong. You assort that the tariff has nothing to do with the trusts, while Havomo'yer, who ought to know some thing about it, declared on oath that the tariff was tho Mother of Trusts." "Plaveinoyer's an ass to make such an admission." "Yes, sir. And there's the Steel Trust. Schwab, you remember, wrote to Prick that 'wo can make steel rails at $12 a ton, leaving a nice margin for foreign business,' and you aro awaro that, thanks to the tariff, the Steel Trust has a monopoly of tho home market, where it charges $28 a ton for rails, while it sells them to Canadians and Europeans for $& less. And it's the same way with a great' many other things, sir. Take clothes, now. When I was over in London last I had several suits made that cost mo $12 each; they'd havo cost $60 each in New York. The tariff en ables American clothiers to sll shod dy clothes, to' the poor at double or three times -wliat straight woollen . goods cost abroad. And the Beef Trust, too. Owing to tho tariff, which pro tects it from Canadian, Spanish-American and Australian competition, the cost of living in the United States" "Hang the tariff, Loeb! Leave criti cism of that to the democrats. Wo must stand by the protected interests or they wouldn't stand by us, and then where'd wo be?" "Yes sir." "You wouldn't bo a president's sec retary if it wasn't for the tariff,. Loeb." "No, sir." ,"Then it stands to reason that tho tariff furnishes employment to tho industrious and respectful poor." "Yes, sir." "Anything clso?" "On tho subject of the anti-trust "Yes. slr- Trust, thouch for two years tno ovi- uenco of its guilt has been in your nanus. And it's asked why you Uiunt oruor Knox to prosecute our Beet Trust friends and send thom to jail instead of getting out an iniunction which hasn't worried tnem a bit. ft is contended, Your Excellency, tuat you aid no moro against tho trusts than was needed to Keep up a bluif lor polit ical purposes, and that wnen ivnox said right aLter tho Merger decision, in order to reassure tho Morgans and liockofellers that the government aid not intend to run amuck ho disclosed tho real policy of the administration." "What moro, Loeb, what more in Heaven's name, what more?" "I've been asked, sir, in reference to your contention that everything you did as to Panama was not only strict ly constitutional and internationally according to Hoyle, but to tho last de gree high-minded and noble, whether, if von were President of Columbia in stead of president of tho United States, you couldn't manage to iind something to say on tho other side." "But, confound it, Loeb, I'm not president of Colombia yet." "No, sir." "Well, that point's disposed of; what next?" "It's freely said, sir, that you are the most remarkable president this republic has ever had." "Of course." "And that your majesty in referring to tho merits of your own adminis tration is calculated to cause the por traits of all the other presidents in the whito house, from Washington to Mc Kinley, to turn their faces to the wall." "Naturally. They were good enough in their time, some of them, but they had their limitations." "Yes, sir." ' "'- "Go on." "It is generally remarked, sir, that if confidence is the basis of national prosperity you havo more than enough to supply tho whole country and open tip every mill that's been closed. It is also said that your presence in the presidential chair renders expansion absolutely. necessary, since the United States, as now bounded, is altogether too restricted a field for a universal genius like yourself a Napoleon in war, a Wilhelm in administration and a Talleyrand in diplomacy." "Loeb." "Yes, sir ". "Tho appreciation and trust of my fellow countrymen move me deeply. During my next two terms we shall have expansion." "Indeed, sir?" "Yes; Diaz is old, and Mexico ripe. Central America is quite unat for self-government, and South America is worse. They need the .leading mind and the correcting hand of n Mnci- of Men, Loeb." I "VnB a "Parker! What, you daro to men tion in my presence tho name of that man who has the unspeakable effron tery to openly attempt to deprive me of my office? Begone, you uniiuthiui dog!" "Your Excellency, I beg "Begono!" "Your Highness, I implore"' . "Go!" "Your Majesty, I" "Leave me!" "Your Imperial Majesty, I" "Oh, well, LoeblFI'll overlook it for once. Hang this stick on tho wall be side my sabre and get back to your work." - laws, sir. some exoentlon is taken to your statement that they have been or impartially and enthusiastically enforced." "Great snakes! Have the carping hounds forgotten the Merger suit and tho Beef Trust Injunction?'' ' "No, sir; but thoy say you havo nerve when you speak of the 'con sistent and steadily continued action of tho department of justice under the present administration' in applying tho statutes, considering that you haven't moved a stop against tho Coal Draki's Palmttto Wini. For Indigestion, Flatulonoy, Constipation and Catarrh ot tho Mucous Membranes. ' Evory cas Is cured absolutely with ono Uo,so a day; gives immediate relief and cures to stay cured, Seventy-five cents at Drug Stores for a largo bottle, usual dollar size, but a trial bottle will bo sent f reo and prepaid to every reader ot this paper Who ueeds it and writes for It. Address your letter or postal card to Drake Formula Com pauy, Drake Building, Chicago, 111. And Seoinc C1n.nn.r1n nnA c, j.v- West Indies under foreign flags an- "Does it, sir?" "To some extent Hmf a.i Loeb." ' "" ; uu "Your Excellency?" "At the newt- nntianv - . ..- .. Europe!" TUrk mUSt be driveu from" "Yes, sir." "It would never do to fr.i. - - STS ,C0rds and oaklings w B LO loreet that wo are a .World Power, and that Theo dore Roosovelt knows his duty. Heav- ifc , ? T , me WItu "wonderful gifts Loeb, and I would be recreant , .uiBBiuu on eartli were I not to use them unceasingly for tho Kuld ance of-mankind. At times I " near ly awed, Loeb, by the consciousness which ever nbides with me that t Know It All." ' inat l "Ye3, sir; but Judge Parker" "When tho Band Goes By" A sunlight city square, and earnest faces row on row about; White plumes and flashing gilt and ranks of waiting men. A shout; "Attention!'' Then a stiffening with the buckram starch Of discipline; a baton waves; the band moves; "Forward! March!", Full the merry marching music bursts and roars and clangs and "booms, And a rhythmic oscilation swings along the lines of plumes. There's a pulsing palpitation; there's a quiver in the air; There's a tremor, quick-responsive to the brasses' blatant blare; Clear the clarion of the cornet rides above the glum bassoon, And the chirrup of the pipers lilts in sistently the tune: Lifting, rising, swinging, sinking as it were, the froth of song On the billows of harmonics, tumb ling tunefully along. And like heart-beat of the music, or like tonic pendulum, Dull, isichronically stolid, booms the T thunder of the drum. Yet the quaver and the clangor and the shrillness and the moan All are mystically blended in ono glorious burst of tone; They aro mystically blended, web of tone on warp of sound, With the rhythmic, measured tramp ling on the ringing, throbbing ground. Oh, the thrill of marching music! Oh, the lift and sweep and swing! With foot in time and heart in rhyme and senses chorusing! No man but here is mighty; no arm but here is strong, For arm and man and heart and brain are atoms of the throng That is welded by tho music, and the craven soul may boast A partaker' of the ardor and the glory of the host. And they .pass, platoon and column, under banner, flag and arch, Till the shredded tune grows jargon, tricksey echoes beating through Buffeted by wall and building, splin tered, dyiner. far and fow 'Til tho ear that strains to listen barely hears the fitful thrum Of attenuated music, and tho purring of the drum; Till that fainter echo falters, and one only feels the beat ' Of a great heart throbbing somewhere uuwu cue .vista of the street. Comfort. London'a High Rents He is indeed a lucky man who owns 2AV?2S ?ith.in the four-mSo aTmaU foTtunrinwav TSV, for his houses, shops audioes Ttho case may be. Singularly onouEh i2 not in the West iiC L0?0"8!1' .lt is manv riPrmin -,.. .L uuon, as who advertised j2?i a ll0USG agent ThroemnSn J5.rtaln .Puberties in renta for each nfKed ?1200 yearly boxes. For a BmtoBSe teloPhon i a Buito of three rooms on was for tho the mezzanine floor $5000 a Vfi Six room, n fhn n"'7" .red For shops and business premise., t in Ht-.rfi.nr1 rcmn .""Seaia )UCh. of r.mirno To,i ... .ia!u thoroughfare in the world w iff . Charine: nrna nn,i ..!" Lyceum Theatre pay between sin nan $15,000 rentals, exclusive of rates taxes. Perhaps -one might bo to obtain a vorv nmnii ov, ,000 or $3,500 per annum; but such c jtjuw vvuuiu ouuure very indifferent accommodation probably only the one room which faced the street. Ex. although, dearest regard between and and able $3 Fashions In Names Fasliion in names is a curious study. There is a good, sound reason for most changes and crazes, and the folk who have recently been lamenting that Mr. Barrie has made the name of Mary unpopular aro quite correct in supposing that this change of fashion will have its way. Nothing, of course, could change tho university of Mary in Roman Catholic countries, where it is frequently added to a boy's, name, too. In England tho royal names of the moment are easily first. Albert and Alberta raged throughout England 50 years ago, and today Victoria, shortened to Vera, and Alexandra, shortened to Aline or Alex, aro fairly popular. In tho royalist world of Paris tho names of Dorothee and Amelio were almost as popular as Marie for some time after the marriage of the duke of Orleans, but for certain well-known reasons this fashion did not last long. The casual visitor to Devonshire would say that half the 3 and 4-year-old boys in the place aro called Red vers, and. this was perhaps the least foolish bit of nomenclature connected with the war. Moreover, this was partly a result of the semi-feudal and almost universal custom of christening children after the great man of tho neighborhood. Stanleys swarm round Liverpool, Howards round Arundel. Herberts round Highclere, while at Chantilly the. Christian names of the late Due d'Aumale were adopted even by the numerous English families m of the ineighborhood. London Mail. ' Subscribers1 Advertising Department A little thought will convTnce that this department of The Commoner of fers superior advantages to those who desire to secure publicity. Only Com moner subscribers are allowed to use It, and only, responsible articles nro allowed to be 'advertised. Confidenco In the advertising management will explain in largo measure why ad vertising in The Commoner Is profit able. 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