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i K N The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. Entered at the postofflco at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class mall matter. One Year $1.00 I Tnrec Menths age Six Months gee I 2hire Copy go M Clubs el 5 or mere, per I Sample Cepks Free. r 75c I FerelKB Peatafe 52c Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to The Cewweaer. Thoy can also bo sent through newspapers which hare adrcr tiscd a clubbing rate, or through local agents, where sub agents have been appointed. All remittances should be sent by postofflce money order, express order, or by bank dralt on Mew York or Chicago. -Do not send Individual checks, stamps r money. RENEW AL5.The date on ydur wrapper shows when your subscription will expire. Thus, Jan. SI, '05, means that pay tocnthai been received to and including the last issue of Jan uary, 100& Two weeks arc required alter money has been re ceived before the date on wrapper can be changed. CHANOE OF ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting a change ol address muBt give OLD as well as the NEW address. .. ADVERTISING rates iurulshed upon application. Address all communications to THE COA1MONER, Llacela.Nek - A pass may not always be bribe, but it is either that or a very plain suggestion A message of 18,000 words is the natural result of six months of tottled up vocalization. The conservative usually wears out the breech straps while the radical is acquiring col-larmarks. A number of St Louis families that went to Europe for the exposition period will now emerge from the attics. The Indications are that the Standard Oil com pany has been forced to sit up and take notice of public sentiment. Mr. Lawson seems to have put Boston and Massachusetts well into the Philadelphia and Penn uylvania corruption class. When democracy insists on doing right, re gardless of expediency it will not' cut so sorry a figure in the election totals. The New York "World calls it an "astounding disaster." And yet the World wants to keep on courting the very samothing. The New York World attributes the defeat to 1896. The trouble with the World is that it can not see beyond its office door. Sir Thomas Lipton will not try for the Amer ican cup next year, doubtless because he is still behind with his orders since the last advertising campaign. It is difficult to find a good but Inexpensive present for father and mother. Books are always acceptable. See advertisement of "Under Other Flags."' The only tariff revisionists who will accom plish anything are the protected industries, who will frame new schedules -giving them a 'little more "protection." The St. Louis exposition having repaid the $4,500,000 borrowed from Uncle Sara, Uncle lies Shaw should now give come more figures explain ing that $27,000,000 deficit. If the men who manage the railroads were .also the managers of the life and accident insur ce companies, there might be a reduction in the number of railway casualties. "" Missouri went republican in 1894, and in 1896 gave a democratic majority of upwards of 60,000 The democratic majority in Missouri two years hence will approach the 100,000 mark. An English magazine refers to Miss Roosevelt as the "princess royal of America." Bless the dear ola English publication, we've got millions of princesses of that kind over here. Joseph Leiter seems to bo anothor eminent coal baron who imagines that he is a trustee of The Commoner. tho Almighty, with a- commission of about 100 per cent on all financial transactions. With tho approach of the glad Christmas time a great deal of worry and perplexity may be avoided by remembering that a good book is al ways an acceptable Christmas present Tho Sioux City Journal Is worried about the future of the democratic party. The Journal is assured that democracy's future is in the hands of democrats, not in the hands of tha trusts. Tho Delaware peach crop receives no more attention, owing doubtless to the more profitable business of making "Gas" Addicks think he standu a show to bo elected United States senator. These be strenuous days for Secretary Shaw. The St. Louis exposition has paid Uncle Sam all it owed him, and Secretary Shaw will have to look elsewhere for. an explanation of the deficit Walter Wellman says, the president haa re ceived so many protests from the "stand-patters" that he has abandoned all efforts for tariff re vision for at least a year. It's the same old story. All hope that the president's literary train ing would lead him into "Doiling down" his mes sages has failed. The next cabinet office estab lished should be that of "secretary of the "blue pencil." "Under the able leadership" of the New York World New York state gives Roosevelt a plurality of 180,000. This is one of the sneering paragraphs about "able leadership" that the New York World did not prink "We are not here to get all we can," said young Mr. 'Rockefeller to his Sunday school class. Is it possible that young Mr. Rockefeller's papa Ahas merely been taking a small portion just for the fun of it? During the campaign an eastern college pro fessor said that a majority of Kansans are crazy most of the time; andxwe have since been wonder ing how ho knew Kansas would go republican by upwards of 100.000. The Baltimore News says that Mr. Bryan's in ability to drop the silver issue has "all along ,been a bar" to his political success. Well, Judge Parker succeeded in dropping the silver question, and he failed to remove the "bar:" The defeat of 1904 n:ed not prevent the elec tion of a democratic congress in 1906. The Greeley defeat of 1872 was followed by a democratic con gressional -victory in 1874 and by a democratic presidential victory in 1876. Grover Cleveland mado a speech at a corner stone laying in New York last week. Before seek ing he as ced to be shown the contents of .the tin box. Did he want to make sure that his "safe and sane" policy was in It? The Panama army is now about the size of an American - college football team, counting in the substitutes. If the Panama army is as dangerous as the average football team Panama should be classed' among the world powers. Those confiding gentlemen who believe that the administration will now proceed to revise the tariff in the interests of the general public should prepare to receive alluring and glittering proposi tions from the green goo(7s gentlemen The jokesmiths who are calling attention to tho fact that Standard Oil dividends were reduced from 40 to 36 per cent t Is year should not over look that tho stock was largely Increased by the addition of water a few short months ago. The 36 per cent may really bo much more than the 40 per cent The Porto Rican commissioner of Immigration is paid $2,500 a year by Uncle Sam. An American going to Porto Rico has no desire to become a Porto Rican. and a Porto Rican can not become an American citizen. It would seem that the im migration commissioner aforementioned has some thing of a soft snap. Bumj- v.,e ttfatctI?n on the Pike known as "Quo Vadis," waa destroyed by fir the day after the .VOLUME 4, NUMBER 47 exposition ttosad. This, is in keeping with ,. historical atmosphere. There was conStX' fire in "Quo "Vadis." conslderablo The congress elected a month ago will convene until a year from last Monday bir?! the present and future congresses are alikn S political complexion tho present congress can ta up tho work of extravagance without waiting The postofflco department has issued a tmiA order against a Chicago mail order firm w of these days the P. O. D. may ibsuo a fraud X against a political party that is always promisl tariff revision and then betraying the peopS, Tho Philadelphia North American favors "amending the tariff," but is opposed to tariff S vision. The North American's view is hearth supported by the tariff protected trusts, each ona of which is prepared to hand in an amendment tn the schedules affecting its interests. It is rumored that Secretary Shaw would ilko to- lay aside his cabinet duties and return to Iowa It may be that Mr. Shaw is of the opinion that a growing deficit during his. term as secretary of the treasury would not be a good card to play in 1908 when the g. o. p. national convention meets. "What is charity?" queries the Columbus Press-Post If one judged solely by the daily news paper enconfums of the generosity f our multi millionaires one would think that charity con sists" in riling up riches borough special legisla tion and giving a part of it away with the aid of expert press agents. The voting machine Is becoming popular with gratifying rapidity'. It has many things to rec ommend it. While tho initial Th cost .s heavy, the voting ma- Voting chine is an economical institu Mtxchino tion lt savep a great deal new . paid out to numerous judges and clerks. It permits of speedy announcement of tho results of the election. It is a time saver in many ways, and it is as good as the Australian ballot in all ways and superior to iu, in many. An increas Jng number of cities use the voting machine each. year, and It seems destined to become general ia all thickly populated communities. Governor Ponnypackc of Pennsylvania was so incensed sby the cartoonists during his campaign for election that he determined to Tho Cartoon put the gentlemen of the pencil Here - out business. To that end he To Sta.v secured the enactment of a law J making it an oriense to publish any portra.it or - cartoon without the consent of the individual in question. Up to date no car toonist has been thrust into a Pennsylvania jail, and so far as known no Pennsylvania cartoonist has neglected any opportunities to cartoon no executive of that state. -The cartoon has come to stay, and is an importai t factor in American poli tical life. No amount of cartooning can perman ently injure a good man r a good cause, but it will put obstacles in the way of a bad man or a bad cause. Cartoons are sometimes brutal, but the tendency is constantly upward, and tho public man who waxes wroth at -the cartoonists and at tempts to prevent them from plying their art merely advertises himself as being afraid of them, and the public is not apt to be long in learning the reason. The newspapers in those states where legislaw tures will shortly convene are unanimous in de manding short sessions, econ MoJclng the omy in public expenditures, w Same Old due'regard for the wishes of the Demand. Now PePle henf ZlnSy they means new. On the contraiy icj have a very familiar sound. Every year the news papers insist upon these things, and then the leg islatures meet, remain in session as long as possi ble, appropriate every dollar possible and serv the interests of tho corporations because the cor porations have influential lobbies on the spot, while the people have to remain at home and eanj the money appropriated by the legislatures. ane when the next campaign comes on tha organs 1 oj the majority party defend the extravagance ana disregard of the public's interests and offer au manner of excuse for corporation control. sort of thing will continue until the peop e mah up their minds to hold their representatives strict account, regardless of party affiliations. i I A , ..... ,, jjgAu.wtmUM