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THE COMMONER, Llncola.Nftb.
Tho grand dukes seem to have engineered
somo grand flukes.
Russian evacuation of Manchuria seems to
bo well under way at last!"
Organize now! Battles are seldom won with
out preparation. See the primary pledge elsewhere.
Tho swinging of the "big spade" would just
, now please more people than tho swinging of the
"big stick."
Are the able administration editors willing to
take Mr. Garfield's report on tho paper trust with
out flinching?
"This is the age of clamor, not of thought'
says Mr. James Eckles. Mr. Eckles persists in
proving it, too.
Philadelphians are now praying for their city
government, but it looks like an unfair test of tho
efllcacy Of prayer.
Having found his statements unpopular )r.
Osier has followed precedent and declared that
he was "misquoted."
The amount of crepe displayed at tho death
of tho Fifty-eighth congress -would not make a
pair of pajamas for a gnat.
Tho way tho Russians are losing passes would
seem to indicate that the Russian generals have
been members of legislatures.
General Kuropatkin can now understand how
an anti-trust bill feels after it has become ac
quainted with the Oyamas of the senate.
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, , "W, wil1 Kend anUier army," says the grand
duke, Vladimir. Note tho language. Vladimir
does not say, "Wo will take another army."
The Equitable has the center of the stage at
this time, but some of the other big life insurance
companies aro being exploited just as shamelessly. -
The fact that they did not get it will hardly
suffice. The congressmen who voted for tho mile
age grab will have to frame up some other excuse.;
Most of the grand dukes who howl so loudly
for a continuance of the war are taking measures
begaT rlght Where they wore whou "
President Wilson of TVino.eton says tho nroner
way to deal with tho trusts is to moralize hem
KM aWay Clan dlarCOa1' t00-Just wash
Be it understood that no bills are good n
against tho small republics unless tho lonate's
dorsonnaP1)earS JUSt m&st tho uVS erf-
The Commoner .
The Panama canal engineers are unanimously
in favor of building the canal on tho level. If it is
built "on the level" it will be a record-breaker
among big government undertakings.
The Review of Reviews comes out strong in
favor of the election of senators by direct vote
of the people. One by one, the planks of tho demo
cratic platform are being vindicated.
Disclosures of bribery and corruption in tho
Philippine elections is merely an indication that
we have sent over a wrong lot of teachers to in
struct tho Filipinos in s,elf-government.
James M. Beck says that "the one joy of man
in this day and age is to toil for money." Had he
been present at the tinre doubtless Mr. Beck would
have rebuked Moses for destroying the golden calf.
The Garfield report may have to be amended
so as to show that the profits of the beef packers
are large enough to enable them to go to Europe
whenever they are needed as witnesses in this
country.
A Cuban exchange reports that the Cuban
congress has adjourned and that "practically all
important legislation goes over until the next
session." What an imitative lot those Cubans are,
to be sure.
The- mail carrying contract graft should be
investigated, but not by some one who will joy
fully and readily swallow the figures carefully
cooked up by the eminent railroad men who profit
by the graft.
So young Mr. Hyde has decided to allow the
policy holders to elect a majority of the directors
of the Equitable. Well, he is not likely to cele
brate the surrender by another one hundred thou
sand dollar dinner.
New York city's electric light trust has offered
to make a reduction to the city of. $20 per arc
light if the people will drop the subject of munici
pal ownership of lighting plants. The offer is a
splendid argument for municipal ownership.
Tho Lewis & Clarke exposition, which opens
at Portland on June 1, gives promise of being one
of the most important expositions ever held in
this country. It certainly celebrates one of tho
most important features of the republic's history.
Mr. Garfield says the meat trust has not
made money. The cattle raisers have not made
any money. The public has been compelled to
ayi " S"lrb.itant price for meat- It is quite
evident that Mr. Garfield overlooked something
Attorney Charles Aldrich of the Chicago bar
makes some charges against United States Judea
Kohlsaat which, if sustained against an electif a
officer would prevent promotion but Tudges 2
SSSSS8 hGld t0 -- stS
,T!l1 Pre8lcll!nt of an eastern college lias in
pealed to men throughout the country to civo
asifless beha, o Mf0
"Wisconsin railroads have qfnnnr nii
ments and extensions in order to K imProve
to abandon their fight foiustirk le People
amputated his nos fin order to miE I? Wh
abundantly ablo to give thG wjf e.h,S face is
some valuable pointers Wlsconsm railroads
The legislator who accents n roii -i
a "courtesy" has no richr to Ji ad pass as
beef trust offers him w ?el offended if a
offers him f?ee lighT or a n ', 1lghtlng
free coal-all as "courtosL ? UStffers hlni
rcctly, tho pass is a Tribe ly r indI-
w ring'
officials to fix railroadates buttle soyernmont
vince the Kansas oil mofhL le? w,n not con
ireight rates go down from $78 SL?10 have see
as a result of the rece8
n ei?emnAT to havo what they
flotenniA to "? Seno "g U1 the peo J
Pennsylvania could have 2' J10 PPto of
from the Standard oil com?rotectod tnemselvcs
vania railroad years aKoTnfny1aud tho Pennsyl
age to do so. S ag0 If the ad had the cour-
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"The advocacy of a bill by v j n
says the republican Milwaukee' Sentino' 0 i30"
settle its fate with a republican legislature "
Commoner cheerfully admits that sonic rennKii
legislatures are lust about f.lmt i,,.ii.J'u?llcau
honest. A truly representative legislature h
'ever, would consider tho merits of tLe bill'
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A member of the Nebraska legislature i '
explaining his vote against a direct primary hi?
said he opposed the direct n i
Why They mary because it would in hi.
Oppose Direct opinion, have a tendency to 1p
Primaries. - stroy' party harmony and nartv
discipline, and therefore would
be an injury to his party. The member in ques
tion is a republican. A legislator who would put
party good above the public welfare is not the
right kind of material out of -which to manufacture
lawmakers. The direct primary is opposed by
every trust and corporation that seeks to secure
benefits by corruption of legislatures and congresses.
There is a moral to be found in tho history ot
the subway strike in New York city. The unloa
to which the strikers belonged
A Union's was chartered by the Brother
Contract Must hood of Locomotive Engineers
Be Maintained, and had a contract with tho em
ployers. This contract was brok
en by the employes, and the Brotherhood ordered
'the strikers back and revoked the union's charier
when the order was disobeyed. The violation of
the contract by the employes makes it more dif
ficult for other unions to secure working agree
ments, and the loss of the strike points with re
newed emphasis to the needs of an arbitration law
that will prevent such a waste of time and money
Labor unions can not afford to violate contracts,
any more than private individuals or business
firms can afford to violate their contracts.
Popular
In Certain
Quarters.
A contemporary remarks that "the United
States senate is not popular." Our esteemed con
temporary should be more spe
cific. In certain quarters tho
United States senate is extreme
ly popular. Indeed, it would bo
difficult to find a more popular
body with some people and organizations. If our
contemporary means to say that the United
States senate is not popular among the people
whom it is supposed to represent and serve, then
we acquiesce. But who are the people, that tho
United States senate should exercise its ingenuity
and conscience to secure their support and
good will? With the trusts and the great corpo
rations the United States senate is very popular,
so much so that the senate is filled with their rep
resentatives, and the people are utterly ignored.
And the people will remain in that condition until
they arise in their might and put a stop to corpo
ration elected senators by securing the popular
election of senators. """""
The practice of adulteration, or substitution,
has been rather queerly shown by the analysis of
an alleged lemon pie offered for
Adulterating sale in a Chicago restaurant.
the The pie came from a big pto
.Very Pies. factory and was one of several
thousand similar pies sold by
the factory to Chicagp restaurants. Analysis
showed that the pie contained neither lemon, but
ter nor eggs. It was colored with aniline, a chemi
cal acid gave it the necessary sour taste, and tho
paste was made from, starch paste. Thero was
more of the products of coal tar than of vegetable
or animal matter in it, and some of tho ingredi
ents are poisonous In large doses.
The cattle raisers Imow that they have not
grown wealthy from the sale of their catll Tne
employes of the packing houses
Contrary know that they are uiulerpajoj
to Common The retailors that are forced W
Sense. every known device to hnnflio,
only trust prepared ,,rcsS
meats know that they are not growing ririi. i"
consumers know that they are compelled to pay
exorbitant prices for meat. And everybody know
that the men who control the packing trust navo
piled up fortunes aggregating hundred of wH10flDnB
of dollars. Mr. Garfield says the packers maKo b
average of 99 'cents per head .on all beof cottw
killed. Tho beef trust has made not lers wan
$500,000,000 since its establishment. According w
Mr. Garfield that presupposes the slaughter of over
600,000,000 beef cattle Tw. tmv "sane man w
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