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The Commoner;.
VOLUME? 6, NUMBER I
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WAGON SENSE
Don't Lrnnk yourbaclc ana kill your
liornea with lilK whcol wagon.
For comfort's nalto got nn
Electric Handy Wagon.
t in onn Tfnn f Iron nnrt money. A
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mako your old wagon now at urnaU
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ELECTRIC WHEEL CO., DM238. QuIocj.lU.
Steel Roofing "
100 Squato Foot,
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WE PAY FREIGHT EAST of COLORADO
Kzcont Oklalioma, Indian Territory and
Toxwj. HtrIctlynow,iicrfcctBtcolHlioots,
Cand 8 foot long. TliobCBtroollng.Bld ng
or colling youcnniibo j painted twosldo
nat,corrugalcdorvcrlnipod,8il0pa
Hanaro. Wrll" for free catalogue Ao. IJ an
onmtftll fromHhrriflV anil Itecflfcm' 8leu
CHICAGO IIOIMK WIKKCKING CO,
U5tk fc Iron Bin., Clilenso.
HICn 1'KH MONTH AND MXUNSKS to men
iB nil hitroiliirliiK our King iVl'ilt.().r.,,AL7,'Mr
IUU and other Hiiorhiltlos. HATiAltY CON
TltAOT nnd Freo ynniilo8 funilflliuil good men.
J)KK1N0 MKU.IU Dupt. 15, Chicago.
$80 A MONTH SALARY iriSWiSTSS
to Introduce our (Junrnntccd Poultry nnd Hjock
IU'iiiimIIch. Hcnd for contract jvo mean liiislnoM and fur.
lilaubcstrufurouco. C.lt.lilULKIll'O., X3DJ Springfield, Ilk
A YEAR IN COLLEGE ,
I'.'OO cash imld to onu young iiiiiti or lndy In each
county who wants nn education. Plan very simple
and does not Interfere with other employment. Suc
cess sure and you can select tho school. For par
tleiilura address Morton II. Pemberton Ccntralla,
Missouri.
ONE-WAY RATES
Every day from March 1st to May
i5th, 1905, tho Union Pacific will sell
One-way Colonist tickets at the follow
ing rates, from Missouri River termin
als, Council Bluffs, to Kansas City in
clusive: $20 to Ogden and Salt Lake City.
$20 to Butte, Anaconda and Helena.
$22.50 to Snokane and Wenatchee,
Wash.
$25 to Everett, Falrhaven, What
oom, Vancouver and Victoria, via Hunt
ington and Spokane.
$25 to Tacoma and Seattle, via Hunt
ington and oPrtland or via Hunting
ton and Spokane.
$25 to Portland and Astoria, or Ash
land, Roseburg, Augene, Albany and
Salem via Portland.
$25 to San Francisco, Los Angeles
and San Diego.
Correspondingly low rates to many
other California, Oregon, Washington,
Montana, Utah and Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every day
on Union Pacific between Missouri
River and Pacific coast; double bertli
$5.75. For full information call on
or address E. B. S'losson, General
Agent, Lincoln, Neb.
together with some miscellaneous notes
upon Europe, conclude tho European
letters reproduced.
In Mr. Bryan's now volume are pub
lished several speeches which will be
read and reread with interest. The re
ligious element runs strongly all
through tho addresses. In each there
aro sentences and paragraphs worth
quotation. Walter Williams In Colum
bia (Mo.) Herald.
Tlio Romanoff Dynasty
The Romanoff dynasty of czars, of
which tho present empercr of Russia is
n member, has ruled the empire since
1613, when Michael Feodorovitch Ro
manoff was elected czar by an assem
bly of representatives, following a na
tional uprising. Tho previous rulers
tho descendants of Ivan HI., who threw
off tho yoke of tho Mongols in 1469 be
came extinct about 1592, and the coun
try had been torn by wars among the
nobles and by popular risings against
thera. It was as the champion of the
last of these risings that the Romanoff
dynasty came into power.
oJniS5! g-r0Wth 9 th0 ,Rus3ian
empire bogan about that Hm
chael purchased notion f
time. Mi-
the Poles
and devoted himself to strengthening
tho empire, but under his son the ter
ritory given tho Poles was recovered,
and his grandson conquered the Cos
saclra and fought tho first successful
war with the Turks. Another grand
son of Michael, Peter tho Great, is con
sidered in many respects the real
founder of the empire as a modern
power. It was he who introduced into
tho semi-Oriental customs of the Rus
sians of his day the Occidental customs
which have been so fruitful a source
of trouble ever since. Under Peter the
empire wrested territory from tho
Turks, Poland and Sweden, and the
interna.1 administration of the govern
ment, as well as its foreign policy,
was placed practically on the footing
it now occupies.
Tho next period of rapid develop?
ment in Russia came under Catherine
II. (17G2-9G), who ascended the throne
after causing the murder of her hus
band, Peter III. She furthered the
spread of western civilization in the
empire, enacted laws favorable to tho
development of commerce and indus
try, and introduced administrative
changes. She was the guiding spirit
in the spoliation of Poland, and fought
tho Turks in two successful wars. Her
son, Paul I., carried on a constant fight
with his aristocracy, and established
the censorship of the press and the se
cret police system. Ho was preparing
to make war on England when he was
assassinated by conspirators.
Alexander I., who assumed power in
1801, was a lover of peace, and abol
ished serfdom in the Baltic provinces.
It was he who fought Napoleon, and
led him into the disastrous invasion
of Russia. The latter years of his
reign were less liberal, and his son car
ried on a reactionary nolicv. His
grandson, Alexander II., however,
proved the most liberal of Russia's rul-
era, and, while prosecuting the expan
sion of the empire in all directions, in
stituted many internal reforms. Ho
abolished the secret police, and was
said to bo about to propose marked
changes in the form of government
when he was assassinated in 1881.
His son, Alexander III., took as ad
visers the extreme reactionaries and
n.utnnrnfa TTr wno onnnnndni r iorM
.v. ii ., WW UU,l,GOUCU All J.OUt I
by Nicholas II., the chief feature of
whose reign has been the development
of Asiatic Russia. New York Tribune.
Wages at Fall River
The manufacturers of Fall River
have made their statement showing,
apparently, that they cannot run their
mills without reducing the pay of their
operatives 12 per cent. The reply of
the Textile Council, representing the
operatives, is that employees in the
cotton mills cannot live upon wages so
reduced.
The operatives go into details. "Pre
vious to the reduction in November
1903," they say, "a weaver operating
eight print cloth looms, producing five
and one-half cuts per loom per week"
luwiveu ?y.oo iier weeic. Under the
proposed reduction a weaver operating
12 looms, if ho or she could produce
five and one-half cuts per loom per
week on the 12 looms, which experi
ence has proven they cannot, it is very
evident that he vould be receiving less
than $7.50 per week, or equal to a re
duction in wages in 13 mnntho nf ,,..
$2 per week, and operating four more
looms."
But this is not a matter of techni
calities, of variations in mechanical
requirements, it is a matter of living
Can men earning $7.50 a week feed
and clothe and house their families as
the people of Massachusetts wish their
citizens to bo fed and clothed and
housed? Does not such a condition of
existence look to degeneration? r
" Better bid farewell to the cotton in
dustry altogether than to retain it at
such a cost. Boston Post ,
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