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.'- 4 ( VOLUME 4, NUMBER 40 v h n It 1 1 m 1 The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. M Kntfirod nt the nofilofttca at Lincoln. Nebraska, as BCCOnd class mall matter. Ore Year M, $1.00 Six Months 50c la Chi bs of 5 or wore, per year .75c Three Alenths as 3liiICepy 58 Sample Ceplea Free. Foreign Postage 53c Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent' direct to The Commoner. They can also bo sent through newspapers which have adver tised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, whero sub agents 'javo been appointed. All remittances should bo sent by postofllce money order, express order, or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not send individual checks, stamps or money. RENEWALS. The dato on your wrapper Bhows whenyour subscription will expire. Thus, Jan. 81, '06, means that pay ment has been received to and including tbVlaat issue of Jan uary, 1905. Two weeks are required after money has been re ceived before the date on wrapper can bo changed. CHANOB OF ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting a change . of address must givo OLD as well as tho NEW address. ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application. Address all communications to TUB COMMONER, Lincoln, Nafc Quite a number of mills are starting up for political purposes. Mr. Carnegie, however, managed to work quite a few big schemes after he was 35. Tho 'policy of silence" io also advocated by the bank burglar and the porch climber. It is quite evident that by "not l running amuck" was meant doing absolutely nothing to curb tho trusts. Tho trusts who bar from work all men pver 35 will keep right on putting tho tariff tax on men of all ages. The trusts seem to think they can decpive tho worldngmen by making the dinnerpail smaller in order that it may be kept full. Mr. Watterson Is meeting with some trouble in his efforts to drive out tho short' editorial para graph with seven-column editorials. "Mr. Babcock of Wisconsin and Senator Spoon er of the same state are wearing their wig-wag flags to tatters signalling for help. Mr. Armour is enthusiastically supporting , President Roosevelt. The head of the beef trust knows an injunctionless injunction when he sees it Among other reasons for asking a policy of si lence regarding the Philippine situation is the mat ter of $15,000 a year salary for the governor general. .The indications are that the financial man agers of the g. o. p. committee are doing con siderable "big sticking" in certain financial cir cles. , K It is to bo hoped that the newspaper man who has just been made postmaster general will pro ceed at once to blue pencil a lot of the rascality in the P. O. D. The forty million dollar deficiency silence of Mr. Shaw has b.een rudely shattered by the sten torian six million dollar surplus shouts of the same gentleman. Mr, Carnegie says he will have peaco oven if ho has to fight for it. And Mr. Carnegie will have a protective tariff even if he has to finance the whole republican campaign. It seems, however, that Senator Spooner dtd not begin to feel sorry about It until It threatened to defeat him for re-election. That kind of 8or- row often overwhelms men. The Commoner. Albion W. Tourgee Is writing campaign docu ments for the g. o. p. committee. Mr. Tourgee is holding down a fat consulate at Bordeaux, and is a stand-patter from away back. A ?2,000,000 oil company in New Jersey was sold for ?200 the other day. That forcibly re minds one of the difference between republican promises and republican fulfillment. The postscript to the Roosevelt letter of ac ceptance is due, overruling the United States. su premo court oh that common law point. Tho su preme court must not grow presumptuous. Congressman Landis says "Indiana will go 60,000 for Roosevelt" The congressman got his hand two boxes up and two boxes to tho left out of tho way when ho reached for the first figure. Tho announcement that Hay will be retained In the event of Mr. Roosevelt's election is inter esting only for tho reason that it shows one office for which Mr. Cortelyou will not be mentibned. An administration organ declares that tho United States steel corporation is trying to make trouble for Roosevelt The campaign may be un usually quiet, but certainly it is not lacking in humor. Perhaps General Grosvenor's failure to submit any election figures is due to the fact that ho realizes the hopelessness of trying to compete with Carroll D. Wright's figures on wages and the cost of living. Governor Corbin bases his opposition to tho marriage of army officers on the ground that the cost of living has greatly incrqase'd. Corbin is breeding a reprimand that wilL make the Miles snub look like a fulsome compliment. The Yale News blames the rigidness of the examinations for the decreased attendance at that college. It may be possible, however, that the in creased demands for physical development on tho football team has something to do with it The Philadelphia North American is printing long editorials in advocacy of the. protective tariff. The North American circulates largely in a com munity that votes solidly for a municipal system that filches millions annually from tho pockets of tho taxpayers, and such a community is fertile ground for the sowing of protective tariff seetl. Will Not Explain It . Can Not -The Cedar Rapids (la.) Gazette gives a wholo tariff sermon in one short sentence when it says: "So far as the farmers are con cerned they will understand a great deal better tho benefits re ceived from the tariff if some one Will exnlain whv.it makes nn dif ference to them whether they sell their products for tho protected market or for exportation." in other words,, if protection protects the farmer he should get a higher price for the product soid for home consumption than for the product sold for foreign consumption. But tho fact is, the price of the product sold at home is regulated by the ex port price. Wheat is "protected" by the Dingley law, but this country exports wheat instead of im porting it Thousands of Nebraska and Kansas farmers vote in favor of a "protective duty" on lumber when thef? states have no native supply and are compelled to buy from outside states and of a lumber trust that is bulwarked behind that same tariff. The tarTK is a good thing for tho men who make tho goods and are enabled to .add tho amount of the duty to the profits, but what about the millions who have to pay the added profits? J. Ogdon Armour says he likes Roosevelt be cause "he is a man of decided views." He seems' to have decided to tlio complete satisfaction' of Mr. Armour and his beef trust. The St Louis Globe-Democrat complains be- ' cause the Filipinos aro holding meetings looking to independence. A little dip into history vlll disclose that the Globe-Democrat is merely trying to imitate George III and Lord North Calamity Like This Is Needed Speaker Cannon declares that the election of a democratic house "would be a calamity." From opeaKer cannon's standpoint perhaps . it would. He would lose an $8,000 job, the trusts would lose their grip on the pockoidooks of the people, the railroads would bo compelled to accept just what the public must accept In the way of laws and the enforcement thereof, the carpetbaggers in the Phil- !SSJVJliW0Uld iavxt t0 l00k around for some other profitable graft, the postofllce swindlers would either have to fly to some foreign shore or goto jail the trust magnates would find themselves con fronted by criminal prosecutions instead of in junctions that did not enjoin, thj hangers-on at tL public crib would find their supply of sustenance -.cut off, the corporation lobbyists wouldifind them selves compelled-tQ give honest, work for the ap propriations they secured, and an army of useless clerks appointed for political reasons would have to return to their homes and go to work, indeed calamitydire calamity-would befall a whole lot of beneficiaries of special interests if a democratic congress should be elected oh tho eighth dav at next mojith. A little study of history will reveal that Cha tam anu Barre were also admonished to keep still because their talks had the effect of stirring the American colonists to renewed efforts for inde- ' pendence. tT Mj-j.?10' lat0 attorney general and now a United States senator by appointment at the earn A 0. est solicitation of Frick and Cas A yuestion satt, is stumping the country for For the republican ticket. At Phila- Mr. Knox delphia lie asked: "What individ ual would dismiss a faithful, ex perienced, competent and successful management of a great business enterprise and substitute one without experience, aptitude or sympathy with its purposes?" The answer is quite easy no wise individual would do such a thing. But what in dividual would retain in his employ a blustering maker of promises that were never fulfilled, who Ignored tho rights of fellow business men, wasted the receipts of the business by employing useless incompetent and dishonest underlings, and con stantly ridiculed as "old fogy and antiquated" tho business ideas that made the individual employer wealthy, influential and respected of all men? Be .ing so free to ask questions Mr. Knox should not object to answering one occassionally. Secretary to the President Loeb should read up. It is quite evident that he is not familiar with the writings of his illustrious- chief. Recently Captain Glenn, democratic nominee for governor of North Carolina, madfi URO nf n mmfntfrm frnm one of the Roosevelt books to the effect that "there ran through the veins of tke southern people a streak of coarse brutality." Thomas S. Rollins, chairman of tho republican state committee of North Carolina immediately wrote to Secretary Loeb and asked him if Mr. Roosevelt had been correctly quoted. Secretary Loeb's reply was im mediate and emphatic, but sadly lacking in truth. He replied: "The statements you refer to are ab solutely false" Mr. "Roosevelt is the author of a book entitled "Life of Thomas H. Benton." The book was copyrighted by Mr. Roosevelt in 1886. On page 161 of "Life of Thomas H. Benton" will be found the following sentence, written by Theodore Roosevelt: "Slavery was chiefly responsible tor the streak of coarse and brutal barbarism which ran through the southern character." This is proof positive that paptain Glenn's statement was not absolutely false." And the proof was so near to Secretary Loeb's hand that he can not be excused for being ignorant. Rosevelt Wrote It Himself A Pleat In Abatement The Milwaukee Sentinel, commenting upon Senator Spooner's speech delivered few nights before, says: "A more eloquent appeal for the maintenance of representative government, a more vivid portrayal of the dan gers that threaten sfilf-erovern- mont, a more patriotic, inspiring call to arms in defense of the ideals of the fathers of the republic it would be difficult to conceive." All of which sounds very pretty, but when put alongside the acts committed by the party to which Senator Spooner .belongs it shows the folly of the sen ator. Imagine, if you can, the fathers of the re public holding such, an "ideal" as that contained in the republican party's Philippine policy or lack of policy. Reflect for a moment upon tho spectacle of a man making eloquent appeal for self-government, and denying the right of self government to a people who want it enough to die for it, but who aro held in subjection by the party of the man making eloquent plea for self government. And then Imagine, if you can, a man making eloquent appeal for the maintenance of representative government and boasting of his fealty to a party that makes mock of representa tive government and caters to the trusts and cor porations. Representative government, forsooth! Senator Spooner's party is ,the party that stands In the way of reform in the method of electing senators "because popular election of senators would give the people and not tho trusts representation in the senate. Senator Spooner's "eloquent plea forqibly reminds one of tho youth who murdered his parents, and when adjudged guilty and asked what he had to say before sentence was pro nounced, entered a plea for mercy on the ground that he was an orphan. 4 -!.. t 'Attvlfi-i if. ti 1 1 -1 i'V HOHmnHHSM fMiMJ-rfflftr