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4 . r H ' ' &$m K.' "Hpl . ! .' v: ir y fc.& ., ;" , ? v &, 4'- t ' . ET' ?! V i Si.. ! ' Fill 3 1 . .v ; . fu R:V.:. iwt si . ftP !' t. i'.- tt' ! , The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. Kntcrcd tt tlie portofflco &t Lincoln, Ncbraika, as Becond class mall matter. One Year Si.eo Six Month 50C In Clu b ol 5 or more, per year.... 7SC Three Months B 5!ilCepy 50 Sample CoplerFree. Foreign Postage gac Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to Tha Commoner. They can also bo sent through newspapers which have adver tised a clubbing rate, or through local agenti, whero sub tigcntBhavo been appointed. All remittances should bo sent by pnutofflco money order, cxprcBB order, or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not Bond Individual checks, Btampa or money. RENEWALS. The date on your wrapper shows when your rubscrlptlon will expire. Tims, Jan. 81, '05, means that pay ment lias been received to and Including the last Issue of Jan uary, 1005. Two weeks arc required after money has been re ceived before tho date on wrapper can bo changed. CMANGR OP ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting a chango of addresB must give OLD as well as the NEW address. ADVERTISING rates lurnlBhcd upon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. -- Mi-i.i.- ii 11 1 - 1 ll,l- ' Is it not about tlmo for Delaware to plug up fiomo of tho "Cas" leaks? It appears that Senator Burton drew a "vindi cation" of tho Senator Dietrich brand. It appears that Mr. Neidringhaus drew a little too much froth on his campaign plans. Another explanation may bo that tho "Mys terious Strangor" has not yet sobered up. Tho "Mysterious Stranger" seems to havo played an ovcrtimo engagement In Missouri. By confining their flesh diet to dried flsh the Japanese havo also avoided acquiring. a putrid beer scandal. Tho campaign of 190G and the campaign of 1908 will bo won, if won at all, by beginning work right now. Undo Joo Cannon does not seem to figure among tho "wild anlmal3 I havo subdued" listed by President Roosevelt. - Mr. Neidringhaus' two St. Louis friends prob ably boliovo that they have received the worth of their money in advertising. Speaker Cannon i3 talking very much liko a man convinced that ho can sit in the speaker's chair and do a lot of white houso thinking. Attorney General Moody has the advantage of having ex-Attorney General Knox's record beforo him, thus making it easy to avoid following It. Perhaps tho threat of an extra session was uttered beforo tho corporations and trusts had made up their minds that they would not allow it. ft MMMM Up to dato Togo and Nogl havo not been called down by somo parlor warrior. Tho military af fairs of Japan seem not to havo been Corbinized as i et. Congressman J. A. T. Hull will not be able howover, to make enough of a light on General Miles to secure tho Miles' reputation for military Governor Douglas seems to bo one of those old-fashioned gentlemen who believes that arbitra tion laws wore enacted for tho purpose of brim-in-about arbitration. B,m& With such an example beforo them as that set by the victorious republicans of Missouri tho dem ocrats of that commonwealth will probably mako their majority about 150,000 next time. Mr. Neidringhaus is having trouble tHn lis feet into Francis Marlon CoSkrSS snofs hm this is not duo to either bigness o 'he Srlnl haus leet or the smallness of the CockrSf shoS" Did your subscription begin with th Ml. issue ot Tho Commoner, four year! aeo? T fiFSt this Is tho tlmo for renewal C ,? If so' sreat o Wcrk bySg ,!?' $&," The Commoner. Tho gentleman nominated for senator by tho republican legislators of Missouri is of tho opinion that a senator in tho senate is worth two in tho Busch, Thomas Carter has again been elected sena tor from Montana. Senator Carter seems ablo to continue tho good work of making "Footprints of Time." Doubtless tho railroads would accept any kind of a law regulating rates provided they were per mitted to select tho judges who would bo called upon to interpret tho law Governor Deneen has decided to dispense with tho services of a military staff, and Governor Folk has laid down iron-clad rules that lobbyists must follow. Clearly the light i3 breaking H. II. Farmer of Hillsvllle, Va., wants to know where he may obtain a copy of a book written by Dr. King and containing an account of his expe riences as a practitioner of medicine. The governor of Delaware says ho is going to drive lobbyists and boodlers from the state house.' "Gas" Addicks is ready for the governor to drive him from the state house to the senate. Noting the fact that 7,000 Pennsylvanians were punished last year for wife beating, the Joplln Globe is moved to remark that this proves that Pennsylvanians do something besides voting the re publican ticket. In its issue of Dec. 23, 1904. The Commoner in referring to "Poltlcs in New Zealand," inadver tantly made a mistake in the address of the pub lishing house. The editor and publisher is C. F. Taylor, 1520 Chestr-it street, Philadelphia. RENEWALS & 1 ...... - - a a iuiu proporuon or commoner sub- & scriptions will expire with the current & & month. Subscribers are requested to send & & In renewals promptly, to avoid delay in & & re-entering. The new expiration date will S & usually appear on tho wrapper of tho & second issue after renewal is received. ? &&&&&&&&&&&& & The Washington Post wants an extra session so Washington people may the sooner become ac quainted with the new faces. The Post would bet ter wait a bit; perhaps some unexpected faces may show up. The Chicago college professor who died from overwork must have been trying to discover some method of making the college authorities believe that a mere professor of sciences is worth as much salary as a football coach. The republican leaders are so thoroughly in sympathy with President Roosevelt'3 railroad pol icy that they are providing him with the support of such gay old anti-corporationists as Knox Depew, Burkett and others. People who do not understand why the eov ornment printing office turns out so much printed matter would learn something to their advantage by investigating conditions about the time the government mail weighers board tho mail cars The Washington Post insinuates that there is no use of having a canal commission "Inasmuch as there are no useful duties for the bodv tn . form " Does the Post mean this as a SSopmSSs" ernmenU " "republica" form of gov- Hover! ng Now In Mid-Air Thn Rr Pni mv.- n ,. tUat tuo .mpfno. EbEEK S&3 Of Pnnnmo V.n - ... . 1ULUC - -.. M, Utta au status. He is not a citizen of this country and he is not a citizen of any other country, m fact, he ha? - subject. The Po R can Zhttn T Simply a full fledged citizen His mShSK & ?e made a a territory and iS Jm A Ud ought to be made for statehyooadnd m" his independence now and given hin, promised as soon as a stab.a Pnvl " dependence operation. UnlTwe kw whatT b, PUt lnto aono at Panama Fi m& VOLUME 5, NUMBER what ought to bo done In regard to those who ro. side upon the strip, but if land Is to be held per, manently American principles ought to be applied to it. Wo can not afford to have a lot of people with a status hovering in mid-air and beyond tho protection of our constitution. Mr. Archibald Loomls, late of the National City bank of New York, has resigned. He is the gentleman who loaned the bank's Mr. Loomls money to a Wall street Arm to Stops manipulate some "wash sales" Down and Out ordr boom, a c?rtain atofik, He said he would not resign, and intimated that it was nobody's business how the bank loaned money as long a3 the depositors lost nothing. In fact Mr. Loomls struck a regular "the public be Vanderbilt" attitude. But he has re signed, and now he assures his friends that tho resignation was voluntary and that he never put his foot outside of the law. While Mr. Loomis i3 insisting that he stepped out of the bank there aro quite a number of people who will continue to be lieve that he was pushed Thomas K. Neidringhaus' experiences in get ting a senatorial toga recall "Private" John Al len's story. After Mr. Cloveland'3 Neidringhaus Inauguration "Private" John Can Sco asked for the appointment of a This Point frlend to tne postmastership at Tupelo. Mr. Cleveland put him off time and again, and finally "Private" John said: "Mr. President, down in my district an old fellow died and left hi3 estate to his son, making the proviso that the boy should demonstrate his fitness to care for the property before it was turned over to him. I was made trustee. The boy was a wild blade, and I hesitated about giving him control ot the property. Ai.ter he had called 011 me several times and I had pubhim off, he called one day, and after talking the matter over he looked at mo sadly and said: 'John, when I think of the troublo I am having in gettin' hold of this estate, blamed if I ain't sometimes sorry that pa died.' " According to government statistics the close of the year 1902 saw the completion of 33,415 irri gation systems Irrigating 9,500,- Irrigation 000 acres of land. The Boston eend tho Herald has made some Interest "Big Stick" in& comparisons. It finds that the irrigation enterprises cost ?93,320,452 anu made 134,000 farms profitable. The money spent by Uncle S'am on his navy in 1904 would have paid the entire cost of all these irriga tion systems, and left on hand a balance of ?9,500, 000. According to the government statistics tho amount spent on the navy would have irrigated and made profitable an area greater than the com bined states of Maryland and Connecticut, or more than "half the area of Indiana. Every dollar spent on irrigation has added to the material wealth of the nation. The money spent on tho navy did not increase the general wealth of the country a penny. Tho farmer who is an advocate of the "big stick" policy, or is blinded by the "world power" glitter, should do a little more earnest thinking. Ex-Governor Bulkeley, caucus nominee of tho republicans in the Connecticut legislature for United States senator, is not Tho Bulkeley wholly unknown to fame, and his Ideas of views on certain matters, now of "GttinThero"SGrIous and thoughtful interest to all good citizens are a matter of record. The Loston Herald says "his notions of what is right and proper in business have been illustrated in ways that brand him as one with loose ideas of justice and honor." Somo years ago a Connecticut legislative committee had under consideration a corrupt practices act de signed to prevent brloery and corruption at elec tions. Mr. Bulkeley was before the committee and something that he had said led the chairman of the committee to ask him: "Do I infer that it is lawful and right for you, as a candidate for of fice, to buy a vote which is for sale?" Mr. Bulke ley s answer was: "I think it is right for a can didate to secure that man's vote, if he is without principle and Ignorant, by any means you can use." 1 ho Herald asserts that "there is no doubt in Con necticut that he (Bulkeley) has put this theory or carrying elections in practice whenever he ha3 Sni2I?d Jfc .Yould servo him-" The election ot Bulkeley to the senate will be a very poor way for SLf?pU?1J?m party t0 "ll0ld UP the hands" of President Roosevelt in his fight against the en croachments pf .tho corporations; T.wtnX'Ty-i'1 '7 ' y?1 ' t 4wH.jt. a