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ARCH 31, 1905 The Commoner. $360 E PROFIT I IN FEEDING ONE TON TO TOUR CATTLE OR. HOGS. One HiiBdred Ponndt trill make yotfi. 18.00 not profit. "Ialeraatloaal Stoek Food" with tho World Famous Una 3 FEEDS for OSK CENT (t known everywhere. It Is prepared from high class powdered Roots, Herbs. Seed and Dark and parities tho blood, tonei up and permanently strengthens tho en tiro system, Cure and Prevents Disease and lia remarkable aid to Dl go tton and Assimilation to that each animal will gain more poundi from all grain eaten. We positively guarantee that one tonot "Inleraatloaal Stock Food" will mako yon $300.00 net profit, over I tt cot. In extra growth and Quick Fattening of Cattle or Ilogi In Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall and at the tamo time keep your itock Healthy and Extra VIgoroui. Goaranteed to Fatten Your Bloek In SO Dayt leti ttmo and to save grain. If It ever fails the nio will not cost yon acent. "Inter natloaal Slock Food"li splendid for all kinds of Uroeding Stock and Is unlvertally acknowledged a tho leading high class medicated took food of tho world. It la equally good for Uorses, Cattle, Sheep, Host, Colts, Calves, Lambs and Figi. Endorsed by over Two Million Farmersand Ono Hun dred Thouiand Dealers who always sell Hon a "Spot Cash Quaranteo" to Refund Your Money If It ever falls for any rocommonded uio. Guaranteed to Savo 0 Quarts of Oats Every Day for Each Work, Carriage or Driving Horso. The $150,000 Champion, Dan Patch 1:00, eats "International Stock Food" 'Every Day. DAN PATCH mailed FREE "H! yon Hatno This Paper and Stato the Number of Stock Yon Own we will mall you FREE a Beautiful Colored Lithograph of our World Famous Champion Stallion Dan Patch 1 :S0. It Is printed In 0 Brilliant Colors and I s 21 by 28 Inches. See our Large Advor tlsomonts or Wrlto Direct to Our Office.- We employ an ouice lorca or zn wan izs typewriters ana all Nebraska Democratic Editors correspondence is nnswered nromntly. dTAlso Wrlto Us for Any Desired Information." iMTBDMATtnMAT CTrrir cnon rr .i4.titmv"mu "'-'yj" " W J II Minneapolis, Minn. autfl SLIGHTLY USED FURNITURE worn ciio jlnbldjh lira ana ten otbor leading "World's Fair hotels AT ONE-FOURTH COST Iron Beds, SOcf Dressers, $2J0; Extension Tables, fJ.50; Chairs, 25c; Sheets. 10c: 9x12 Rues. S5JX): and everything in proportion. All good as new. Our Bla Wareheusm S Overflowno Room most bo made to handle our contracts. Tho grreateat Bargain Olearinp Salo over held. Complete Oatalogno sent FBEB. Dept J. A. LAHGAN & TAYLOR, St. Louis, Mo. nMRKnrmnl THE NEW VOICE John G. Wooloy, Editor A Journal for all who nro Interested in tho torn poranco movomont. Published weekly News, In vostlgation, Information, Inspiration, and Polities' Blztoon pagoa every week, somotimos moro. It Is a national and international bureau of information on all 8ubjcotB rotating to tho liquor trail a Sub scriptloir price ono dollar per year Iteadors of Tho Commoner who aro not now sub Bcribers to THE NMW VOICE may take advantugo of our special clubbing rate of $1.45 for both pnpors ono year. This offer is not good for ronowula to THE NEW VOICE. Send all ordors to Tho Commoner, Lincoln, Nebr. VICK'S FAMILY MAGAZINE Published Monthly Tho loading horticultural and family Mngazino In America. Tho bost writers on fiowors, fruits, gardens, poul try, nature, children, household and stories. A high grade monthly publication that will bo welcomed to evory homo Regular subscription prlco 50c a year By special arrangements, for a short timo only, wo will send VICK'S FAMILY MAGAZINE and Tho Commoner, both ono year for ono dollar Send all ordors to Tho Commoner, Lincoln, Nebr. 'r n I,, i-"- : MAKE MONEY pulling stumps, Rrubs.etc, .ana clearing land for your fself and others, llereulea SIobd Fuller Is the beet. Catalog free. Hareufas Hfff. Co., Dtpt. 10 Coniinrlllt.li. and Wlilnbey Xlablta cured nt homo without pain. Book of particulars ioolleyTihUI.tAtlaiita.Cla.t 103 N.Pry or St. CI Eft PBR MONTH AND EXPENSES to men aainil Introducing our King Separator, Aerator IWU nnrt nthnr Rnnnlnltlos. HAI.AUY HON. TKACT and Froo Samples furnished good men. DE KING MFG CO. Dept. 15, Chicago FOR. SALE OR. EXCHANGE-280 acre farm: 800 acres unimproved $0 to $10 per acre; (rood soil, roads, schools, markets; must sell; P H. Maine. Stevens Point, Wi3. $ MS iKbestbyTest-78 YEARS. Wop AW CAsn WAIiT MUHci DALKJiusn I n trccair Stark Nursery, Louisiana, Mo.; Dansvllle, N. Y. NATIONAL PRISON CONGRESS The committee on arrangements appointed to plan for the meeting ol tho annual congress of the National Prison association, to convene In Lin coln, October 10 to 20, 19.05, elected Hon. M. B. Reese chairman, and John Davis, secretary, of- the local execu tive committee. J. E. Miller was elected chairman, and Warden A. D. Beemer, vice chairman of the commit tee on reception and entertainment. The fourth annual session of the Nebraska Democratic Editorial asso ciation met at tho Lindell Hotel. Lin coln, on March 22. Charles D. Cas per, editor of the David City Press, presiding. Twenty-four demoratlc edi tors were present, and 'Louis F. Post editor of tho Public, Chicago, was the guest of the association. Tho papers read were full nf infnmci n.i .i - - 7 w ""v""i' uu muuii uiumuiBL me iacc tnat tne democratic press of Nebraska was awake to the needs of the party. The discussions were interesting and full of vigor, and faith in democratic principles and de termination to promulgate them were renewed. As the business session following the regular program the following of ficers were chosen for the ensuing year: William J. Bryan, Commoner, president; Harry W. Risley, Fremont Daily Herald, vice president; J. W. Barnhart, Auburn Herald, secretary treaurer. The retiring president, Mr. Casper, and R. O. Adams, Grand Is land Democrat, were made members of the executive committee. At the evening meeting Mr. Post delivered an address on ''Democratic Ideals in American Journalism," being intro duced to a large and representative audience by Mr. Bryan. For an hour and a half Mr. Post held the closest attention of his audience. The Com moner regrets its inability to publish Mr. Post's address in full, as a synop sis can not do it justice. Mr. Post said In part: A man's democracy doesn't depend upon color or race or caste or station or wealth or dress. It depends upon his respect for the rights of others. Without this he may be anything else you please, but not a democrat. The very foundation stone of democracy is respect for the rights of man. To be a member of the democratic party, that does not make a man a democrat. The democratic party has a whole job-lot of members who don't believe that there is any such thing as the rights of man. It has a whole job-lot of members who would like to use it to trample upon the rights of man. I know many republicans who are better democrats than some mem bers of the democratic party. There are plenty of populists who are better democrats than lots of men who have got themselves stamped with the dem ocratic trade mark. The question is not whether we are loyal to the demo cratic party. It is whether we are true to the democratic principle. The democratic party embraces mil lions of voters who are democrats at heart, even if they can be fooled now and then by plutocrats in democratic uniform and under the democratic flagT What these voters want, and what they have proved they want, Is demo cratic leadership inside of the demo cratic party and not outside of it. Democratic leaders who break away from the democratic party and try to form third parties may serve a good nurnose. Their work mav be educa tional. They may make good political school-teachers. But they cease to be good political leaders. Make no mistake about it, third par ties do not grow from little to big in this country. The reason is plain enough. It is because the election ma chinery of this country does not give small parties a chance to grow gradu ally. If we had proportional represen tation, small parties might grow gradu ally into big ones. So if we had second elections when a candidate doesn't get a majority, as they have on the conti nent of Europe. But under the elec tion system that we do have, the little party is at. a disadvantage. It can not poll its own vote. It barely polls a small percentage of its own vote. Shall the democratic party be aban doned and a new democratic party be formed as in Lincoln's day? Or shall It be clung to and Its democracy re- vied as in Jackson's day? That Is an Issue which can not bo settled by party leaders and newspaper editors. It can bo settled only by tho people them selves. And lot rao tell you that when the poople do call for a new party, there will be no mistaking the call. You won't have to wonder whether it is really a call or only a whisper. When the people call, they don't call in whispers, they "call with reverberat ing shouts. There is no call yet for a third party, but there is a call from tho democratic people to democratic newspapers to revive democracy in tho democratic party. It is the loudest kind of call. Didn't you hear it last November? There have been great difficulties in the way of radically democratic jour nalism. Tho democratic editor who has tried to make his paper truly dem ocratic has been getting lots of experi ence and not much else. Ho has found that the machinery of his party is often Influenced by special interests and that he must submit to these or be secretly pounded to death. His notes haven't been in favor at the bank. Advertisers have discovered that his paper wasn't a good medium. Every plutocratic influence in the com munity has realized that he was run ning a democratic paper, and they have proceeded with wonderful unani mity regardless of party to mako him see that no paper can live without the support of plutocratic Influences. So some democratic papers have been like a notoriously bad politician, regarding whom some one asked: "Has he no principles?" and tho reply was, "Oh, yes; he's got principles, but he keeps them under control." Now I don't intend to be severe upon those papers. When a newspaper must either keep its principles under control or quit, when it must suppress its principles or be suppressed, the editor faces a serious 'problem. It may be that editors ought to be as wise as the plutocratic serpent while they try to be as good as the democratic dove. With all seriousness let us remem ber that there are tlmeB with a news paper as with a ship, when it may be necessary to beat against head winds; that there are times with a newspaper as with a pedestrian on a crowded side walk, when it is necessary to accom modate its movements to the jostling crowd. It would judge newspapers, therefore, by their general course, by the general direction in which they seem to be going, and the general headway they seem to be making. But, my friends, I believe that the dangers and difficulties which have confronted middle-of-the-road democra cy are passing away. Democratic journalism is coming to its own again. The people have begun to distrust democratic newspapers which play fast and loose with democratic prin ciples. They are beginning to place confidence in the democratic newspa pers that are steady and true to the principles of equal human rights and no special privileges. Some democratic newspapers may still make money without being faithful to democratic principles. Many may still have to be unfaithful in order to live at all. B.ut no democratic paper can any longer be unfaithful to democratic principles and yet command the respect and confi dence of the people. And I am opti mistic enough to believe that the time is near at hand I think it has already come when democratic papers that are faithful to democratic principle will not only be the most trusted, but will also be the most prosperous. 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