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Rochester (Pa.) Commoner: Tho
domocrats should speak on tho local
issues of tho day. They should make
thomBolvcH heard and understood. Tho
pooplo aro Interested In tho affairs of
tholr own boroughs and townships.
Thoy wish to improvo their school,
streots, sanitary condition and adjust
tho public taxes. Thoy aro seeking
uomo party through which tho pressing
rcformst at homo can bo secured.
Loxlngton (Ky.) Gazette: Tho dem
ocratic party can not hopo to receive
tho asslstanco or tho inlluenco of thoso
that aro under tho dominion of preda
tory wealth. It must look for its suc
cor alono to tho groat masses of tho
pcoplo who havo long been burdened
by unjust discrimination, indefensibly
exorcised against them.
' Van West (0.) Times-Democrat: A
man was fined ?5 and sent to tho work
house for thirty days from Celina this
week for stealing a half bushel of
potatoos from a neighbor's garden lust
Biimmor. Ho ought to have stolen a
bank or a railroad.
Carrollton (0.) Chronicle: Tho big
nowspapors aro rofusing Thomas W.
Lawson's advc Jsing though ho ten
ders full rates in cash. Tho big trusts
havo taken their advertising out of
Everybody's Magazine becauso it is
publishing Lawson'a articles. "Wall
stroot is striking back which means
that Wall streot is hurt.
Sullivan (Ind.) Domocrat: Democracy
must stand for definite political prin
ciples to win tho confidence of the
votors. Tho imitation of republican
tactics only increase tho weakness of
tho minority party.
-- Aurora (Nob.) Register: Away over
on tho back page of newspapers it is
announcod that tho Hill currency bill
is to bo given right of way after tho
holidays and that congress will keep
at It until somo currency measure is
passed. Just how much It will resemble
tho Fowlor bill a very short timo will
rovoal. Tho only question seems to
bo whether It will bo bad or worso.
ganization along conservative lines is
not what tho democratic party needs.
Hastings (Neb.) Democrat: Tho wire
fence factory of Fremont closed Jan
uary 1. In their closing statement the
company says "the fact is we aro not
able to compote with tho fence trust.
We havo to pay as much for our plain
wire as tho trust will sell the manu
factured fence." The trust can crush
opposition when it will. Small fac
tories that ought to thrive all over the
country seem to have no show against
tho great trusts. Republicans tell us
of good and bad trusts, but wo have
never yet heard of a good trust.
Troy (0.) Democrat: The "ship
subsidy" crowd is buzzing around the
capitol as if they owned the whole
government maybe they do for all
we know.
Rochester (Ind.) Sentinel: Freedom
of tho press, of conscience, and of
speech; equality before the law of all
citizens, right of trial by jury, freedom
of the person defended by the writ of
habeas corpus; liberty of personal con
tract un trammeled by sumptuary laws;
supremacy of the civil over the mili
tary authority, a well disciplined mil
itia; separation of church and state;
oconomy in expenditures, low taxes,
that labor may be lightly burdened;
prompt and sacred fulfillment of public
and private obligations; fidelity to
treaties; peace and friendship with all
nations, entangling alliances with
none; absolute acquiescence in the
will of the majority, the vital princi
ple of republics these are doctrines
which democracy has established as
proverbs of the nation, and they should
bo constantly invoked and enforced.
Pontiac (111.) Observer: There is con
siderable discussion going on by con
gressmen out3ide of congress about
revising tho tariff. It will not be done.
This discussion is like the president's
message regarding the trusts and rail
roads. It i3 simply talk.
Mr. Bryan at Memphis
On January 6, Mr. Bryan addressed
the Jackson club of Memphis. He took
as his text "Watchman, what of tho
night?" Tho Memphis Commercial
Appeal, in its report of this banquet,
says:
"Tho banquet 'tendered by the Jack
son club in honor of William J. Bryan
last night at tho Hotel Gayoso was one
of tho most notable gatherings ever
assembled in tho city of Memphis to
do honor to a distinguished visitor.
"It was an occasion of which the club
may well feel proud. It was graced by
a really excellent spread. It was em
bellished with the finest flow of ora
tory probably ever heard at a political
function in this part of the state. It
witnessed the assembling of as fine a
body of representative democrats as
were ever gathered in the south. It
was adorned with the presence of tho
peerless 1 ader of the democratic party,
the man who in the opinion of millions
of his fellow democrats, stands for all
that is boldest and best, for all that is
purest and proudest in party princi
ples, William Jenning3 Bryan.
"The banquet Jiall was simply but ef
fectively decorated with American flags
and palms, the tables bearing at in
tervals draped flower pots containing
pink blooming azaleas. There were
221 guests at the tables, and during
the later courses of tho banquet a
number of others dropped in, hoping
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to hear the oration of tho evening,
that made by iur. Bryan.
"It was distinctively a Bryan occa
sion. The guest of the evening domi
nated, not offensively butby the com
manding geniality of his presence no
less than by the towering strength of
his individuality, tho thought, the elo
quence and th3 general spirit of tho
evening. .
"The toastmaster of the banquet was
Hon. Hardwig Perres, who opened the
festivities in the following ndat little
introductory speech:
" 'It is wise for well-intentioned men
to take counsel of the past, discarding
that which has been tried and found
valueless, finding inspiration in that
wJiich has helped and strengthened.
" 'It is idle to try to separate men
and epochs. They are indissoluble and
the quibble is academic. We look back
to the lives of those who have im
pressed their individuality upon their
fellow-men by their success and
achievement and find that those who
in every department of activity havo
made the greatest and highest success
were men of singleness of mind and in
all respects honest.
" 'No man can retain tho respect,
much less the love, of his neighbors or
his people, who is a beggar in charac
ter, a charlatan in capacity, a rogue in
intention, an imbecile in conceit, a
giant in insincerity, a tentacled taran
tula in every form of graft and dishon
esty from ::etit larceny to continued
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O'Neill (Nob.) Independent: There
is but one way to settle the railroad
question and settle it right and for all
timo and that is government owner
ship and operation. That this will be
tho final result no man doubts and yet
many of 113 voto so as to make it a
long timo in coming.
Commancho (Tex.) Pioneer-Exponent:
President Roosevelt recommends
in His message that every silver dol
lar bo made redeemable in gold. Many
people bolievo silver money is now re
deemable in gold, because it is said
we havo tho gold basis. But they are
mistaken. Tho silver dollar has no
redeemer except the redemption that
come3 from receiving it from public
dues, and this is all the redemption
any government money noeds. Money
is a certificate and it nay be stamped
or printed on any material. The fact
that tho silver used to stamp a dollar
on sons ior only 40 cents "cuts no ice "
Tho gold in a gold dollar would prob
ably not sell for ten cent3 if all na
tions would cease coining gold To
tio silver to Rothschild's gold 'is to
further placo the welfare of tho people
in tho hands of the money power.
Greonsburg (Kan.) Signal: It has
boon clearly demonstrated that reor-
Clay Center (Kan.) Dispatch: It is
rather discouraging that in connection
with the republican senatorial election
in Missouri there should also be so
much talk of boodle. In all the history
of Missouri this is the first time scan
dal has tainted the choosing of a rep
resentative in the United States senate.
Columbus (0.) Citizen: The demo
cratic party in Ohio needs no rn-nr-
ganization, nor does anyone propose to
reorganize it. But if democrats will
drop quibbling and largely imaginary
dissension and act in unity, they may
bo able to save themselves and their
neighbors from exploitation, at the
nanu3 oi me grafters who
raiding the state.
are now
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"PamkiWev
(PERRY DAVIS')
Cures
Colds
Sugar
This country produced 600,000,000
pounds of sugar last year, or over seven
pounds for every man, woman and
child in the country. But this was not
a marker to what it imported, or to the
total consumption, which was 4,250
000,000 pounds, or 7G pounds per 'cap
ita. "It is difficult for the average
man to realize," says the Washington
Post, "that he uses half his we gift in
sugar every year." Tho American
swee tooth is the biggest in the world
Judging by other people, Americans
eat and drink too much sweet 3? ?n
addition to half their weight in sugar
every year, there is maple sugar also
and the natural sweetning in fruit and
other articles of diet-Topoka Capita
UNDER
THER FLAGS
A NEW BOOK....
'-' BY
...WILLIAM J. BRYAN
A collection of articles written by Mr. Bryan while in
Europe, Cuba and Mexico, together with a number of
recent speeches and lectures never before published in
book form.
CONTENTS
Oi the High Seas.
Tariff Debate in England.
Ireland and Her Leaders.
Growth of Municipal Ownership
Thanksgiving Address (London
England).
France and Her People.
Republic of Switzerland.
Three Little Kingdoms.
Germany and Socialism.
Russia and Her Czar.
Rome, the Catholic Capital.
Tolstoy, the Apostle of Love.
Notes on Europe.
Pearl of the Antilles.
Birth of the Cuban Republic.
Mexico First Visit.
Our Sister RepublicMexico.
Value of an Ideal.
A Conquering Nation.
Attractions of Farming.
Holland Society Address.
Imperialism.
"I Have Kept tho Faith."
(S't. Louis Convention Speech.)
Naboth's Vineyard.
British Rule in India.
Philo bnerman Bennett.
Wonders of tho West.
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