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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
Tho newspaper guessing contest must go.
A lottery under any other name is just as
Lad.,,
It took just about 18.000 words for the presi
dent to conceal his thoughts upon the tariff.
Tho standpatters and stayputters seem to have
put tho revisionists off duty before daylight.
How long would the message have been if
President Roosevelt had tackled the tariff question?
The trusts will continue to Chadwickize the
people just as long as the people continue to stand
lor it
The Columbus Press-Post opines that Mrs.
Chadwick may bo this country's J. Pierpontess
Morgan. . ,
'''" 'It may be that President. Rnnsovflif aufParan
a stroke of writer's cramp before ho reached the
tariff part of the message.
"Foolkiller No. 3" performed its mission.
Doubtless Nos. 1 and 2 made tho mistake of stop
ping to expectorate on their hands.
Many public libraries are barring Mark Twain's
books, which indicates that Mark is fortunate in
naving a shrewd and enterprising press agent.'
The newspapers continue to demand "short
and inexpensive" sessions of the legislatures. But
did anybody ever see legislative sessions of that
kind?.
That portion of the message treating of the
Filipino claim of independence sounds as if it
had been written some one hundred and thirty
years ago by George III.
The trouble with tariff revisionists is that
they do all of their strenuous work before elec
tion, and then Ho down to rest while congress
listens to the standpatters. '
Senator Dietrich of Nebraska proposes to work
federal prisoners on the Panama canal. Most of
the federal prisoners are those who could not
secure acauittal on technicalities.
Cartoonist McCutcheon's "Mysterious Stranger"
is good, but it simply means that Missouri has
gone "piking" for the purpose of mingling for a
time with tho bizarre, tho mysteries and the
outre.
The Boston Herald has been barred from
getting government news by order of the presi
dent. The Boston. Herald is the latest convert
to tho belief Uhat lese majeste applies in a republic.
Tho Philadelphia grand jury has indicted fifty"
dealers in adulterated food, probably for tho pur
pose of taking up its time, so it could not reach
pie case of the .registration , list and ballotbox
tstuiierSt
The Commoner.
When tho New York Tribune states "that it
favors tariff reduction It probably means that it
favors a reduction in tho demand for tariff re
duction. The Tribune is long on using language
to conceal its thoughts.
Secretary Wilson pays a great tribute to he
American hen. Tho hen deserves it, chiefly because
she attends strictly to business and never threatens
to quit work If she is not allowed- to frame the
egg and poultry schedules.
A reader of The Commoner asks where he can
secure a copy of a book entitled "Ten Men of
Money Isle." If anyone who Is able to give the
information will send it to The Commoner on a
postal card the information will be published for
tho benefit of the readers.
Carroll D. Wright is talking of resigning, and
naturally the political managers are protesting.
Mr. Wright is the only man they can find who
can come anywhere near making a considerable
.number of people believe that working for $3.00
and paying $4.00 a day to live is better than work
ing for $2.00 a day and paying $1.75 to live.
According to the New York World, when it
refused to support the democratic ticket in 189(5
it was patriotic, honest and deserving of the thanits '
of all men, but when other democrats refused "to
support tho ticket selected by the World in 1904
they were treasonable, shameless and vindictive.
The World should use arnica on its bruises.
The New York World mourfully declares 'that
the election, returns show that "William J. Bry
an's followers fed fat their grudge against the 're
organize.'" TUo World, while still insisting
that it has a right to define democratic principles
and bolt if they are not accepted, refuses to admit
that others have the same rights. The world
grows flightier as the days go by. Also funnier.
Mr. T Bryan receives many clippings sent for
reproduction in The Commoner, but some of them
are so complimentary to himself that he does not
quote from them. The article by John Russell in
the Forum is one of this kind. Mr. Bryan appre
ciates the generous commendation spoken, but
does not want to make use of The Commoner for
the circulation of favorable notices of himself. He
i3 trying to make it the exponent of democratic
principles.
Stored Up
Trouble
In Panama
Secretary Taft is in Panama, striving to settle
seme difficulties between this great republic and
the little one separated, said
Senator Morgan, from its ma
ternal parent Colombia, by a
Caesarian operation Even the
mOSt DronOUnPP.fi JirlTrMnisfrnHn
'organs are showing evidences of being willing to
admit that the whole Panama affair was ill-advised.
The Portland Oregonian remarks that "it
has recently become obvious that the republic
of Panama is forever to be a nuisance to us and
a ,menace to our peace." Panama is without inter
national responsibility and its administration con
ducted by professional revolutionists. The San
Francisco Argonaut, which is more than friendly
to the administration, bewails the situation and
asks: If Uncle Sam has got to be fatbTer, mother,
brother, sister, guardian, and wet-nurse to Panama,
lf t?"ame f COmmon sense wh nt adopt the
Sore Heel
And
The Tariff
The student of contemporaneous political his
tory will have no difficulty in tracing, the presi-
uciita anouce on tne 'question of
tariff revision to a sore heel, in
September 1902, President
Roosevelt started on a little
swing around the circle. As
ho penetrated further and further into the west
his utterances in favor of tariff revision grew more '
radical. At Logansport, Ind.,'he spoke of "changes'
in duties upon particular schedules, which must
inevitably and necessarily take place." And he
even mentioned the idea of a tariff commission to
investigate and report to congress. But that was
the climax of his revision talk. An injury to his
heel, received early in the trip at Pittsfleld, Mass
compelled him to cut short the "swing" and re
turn to Washington. Then came Mr. Hanna with
his "stand pat" slogan,, and tariff revisicm Talk
onfgflhG e' '.? 1?aaers was effectually squelched.
What the president would have said had his Seel
not been hurt and his trip extended through jnto
Iowa or Nebraska,, is a matter of conjecture. But
VOLUME 4, NUMBEU 8
his heel was injured, his trip cut Rim
tariff revision utterances silenced frn, and
henceforth. The connection TcSefor? lS "m
wounded-heel and the utter iimorimlr StWcen
in his last message, is so Plain Th"f ,vt lfrl
may read. l ne wll runs
And were opposed to the militia 8VR
The Fixcts Jem. While Mr. Parry wag talk'
, ins tue American Federation
Labor, representing 2,500,000 organized T votkin
men, was in session at San Francisco ami 1 T
Federation by a large majority voted down a JEn
lutkm denouncing the militia of the several JS
Ttfe trouble with Mr. Parry and a Tm ft
companions in the Citizen's Industria a4L?L ,3
seems to be that they insist uTm
ized labor by ltd worst while InBlsltag Sat?!
P oyers be judged by their best, if this h ,JS
P f MI- ?arry's faIrness In all 0 h s di cus"
sions of the labor problem the public wil t tone
take him seriously. l m
Where The
Shoo
Is Pinching
American tanners now import hides, tan them
and export them and get a rebate amounting To
iM.v,..uuty Luu iuu uuty upon
the hides. If the hides are
tanned and the leather worked
up by the leather workers of this
prmnfrv flirt fn..trc .. A ....... .
-.7 " miiu ia hui reuateu.
ihis means that American shoe manufacturers
must pay more for their leather than their foreign
competitors, and naturally the enhanced price of
the leather falls upon those who purchase tho
shoes.- In other words, the duty on hides in con
nection with the rebates, puts a premium on en
hanced prices in this country, and is an induce
ment to ship abroad and sell at a lower price than
is charged the American consumer. Why should
not American wearers of shoes be treated as
fairly by the tariff as the foreign wearers o
American made shoes?
Modified
The
Decree
The presidential ban upon the Boston Herald
has been somewhat modified. Because the Herald
printed a story from Washing
ton to the effect that the presi
dent's sons chased a turkey
across the White house grounds
and snatched a few feathers
from its tail, the president issued an order for
bidding public officials from giving the Boston
Herald's reporters any information. But tho
president has modified the order and the Herald
may now have the daily weather reports and other
"routine" news,- We are astonished that the Her
ald should have printed such a story. The idea
that any boy, much less the son of a president,
would chase a stray turkey, or set a dog upon a
cat, or anything else like that the idea, we re
peat, that the Boston Herald should believe such
a thing possible of any boy is preposterous. The
presidential ban upon tho Herald should have heen
even moro harsh. If we are going to have any
of this lese majeste business in this republic, let
us have it in 'all its glory.
Tho grandson of Stonewall jLckson lias been
recommended to' the president for appointment to
a cadetshlp at West Point. The
'Concessions" New York Sun, referring to this
To fact, says: The president will
Th ?.u do a graceful act if he appoints
1 ne fcoxitn the grandson of stonewall Jack
son a. cadet at the Military Academy. It will uo
an earnest of his good will toward the South
and the south will not be insensible. If the young
gentleman receives the appointment it should w
because he is entitled to the place, and not witn
any idea of "pacifying" the South. There is ro
reason why he should .not be appointed if wortny
of it, and no reason why he should be if unwortny
of it. The Buffalo Times states a great truth wiien
It says, speaking of this case, that "if this appoint
ment is "made a certain class of ponuuuna
newspapers will demand that the South bo wry
good in the future and murmur not when offensive
J4. A- fl i.1.- rt. . mlnn (M mflfle. 1 "
Commoner opines that the grardson
appointments of the Crum order are made, in
nnrnmn-nnr nnlnao fHnf Tl prftT dfion Of StOUeWUU
Jackson is willing to rest the case on bta wn
merits, and not upon any Idea tnat ni i'i ";
ment would be in the nature of a "concession w
the South. Tho South is not asking any conce
sions;" it merely asks that the pestiferous class
of politicians that seek to advance their seir"""' L
ests by treating the South as a country set npam
bo abated as public nuisances.
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