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"" ""35 ' Vk. The Commoner. ISbUED WEEKLY. Kriterwl at the j.otoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, fcs second iilum tnttll matter. CrcYcar -oo Six Month 5c In Clu li of s or more, per jtor 75C Thrte Months 350 5liiKlCopjr 5c Sample Copien Free. Foreign Posinee 52c Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to Tbe Commoner. Tlicy cn also be sont through newspapers whloh have tdyer Used a clubbliiK rate, or through local agents, where Hub iKi'iils 'jave been appointed. All remittances should be sent by pottofllec money order, express order, or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not send individual checks, stamps or money. RENEWALS. The date on your wrapper shows when your subscription will expire. Thus, Jan. 81, '06, means that pay ment has l?n received to and including the last Issue of Jan uary. JU05. Two weeks arc required alter money has been re ceived before the date on wrapper can be changed. CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting a chango of address must give OLD as well ns the NKW address. ADVERTISING rates iurnlf-hed upon application. Address all communlcatlona.to , THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. v A grout deal of Panama canal work is being done in the salary division. Republican talk of revising the tariff seems destined to end in adding a tariff to coffee. Mr. Rockefeller might try making some liberal contributions to the anonymous conscience fund. Perhaps the public would be willing to pay these congressmen mileage for traveling the other way. If "grafting" is prevalent in this country the fault lies at the door of people who permit the "grafting." Secretary Shaw sees a treasury deficit so large that he wants a few new tariff schedules to use as plugs. It remains to be seen -whether that grand. jury is as easily handled by the beef trust as Mr. Gar field seems to have been. The Colorado republican way of seating an executive followed precedent, at any rate. The precedent was set in 187G. Peace will come very quickly when the Rus sian grand dukes are compelled to lead reinforce ments instead of sending them. Some Pensylavnians assort that Kansas is talking to much about oil regulation. But Penn sylvanians have been taking too much. Senator Piatt of Connecticut says tariff re vision is a chestnut. It may be, but it is a nut mat the g. 0. p. must crack very soon. Having learned from Mr. Garfield's report that it is not making good profits, the beef trust bocK. S t0 giVG dl'eSSed beef Prices nnoP General Sherman Bell has been telling New Workers what ho would have done had he been given the task of breaking the subway strike Now York laughed. smite. if Add,cks ,lfts been defeated again, but whether it was because Delaware objected to him on moral grounds or because the Addicks purse did not hold out remains yet to be seen. The primary pledges are rolling in at a r'-inlri rate. Every new pledge received makes more fl the preservation and ultimate trlumnii n! ?if, cratic principles. Are you enlisted? P dem If this foreign travel epidemic amomr bonf trust employes keeps up the beef trusf may find it necessary to go into the ocean pasaemrS Ln ship business as a matter of economy " The report that Secretary Slnw nn,i a Allison have recently visited Now vL?? Seator with some gentlemen , conceSnis 2irtil C?S,ult has a familiar sound. The gStlemeJ 5 ,r?vl,8l0n schedules under consldeiSn? PrteCtlV tariff The Commoner. It is reported in Washington that the ac counts of the canal commission have been kept with "great laxness." In private business that kind of laxness often ends in court and winds up at the gates before the big stone house. Another "get-rich-quick" concern has just made a successful failure. This time Philadel phia was the scene of operations, a city wherein there are numerous "get-rich-quick" concerns ope rating along political lines without molestation. 4 The proposition to christen the new battleship Kansas with Kansas crude oil does not meet with the approval of the committee on arrangements. The commitee probably feels that enough of oil was used in getting 'the contract properly placed. The Wisconsin railroads that have decided to postpone needed improvements until the "anti railroad agitation" subsides are giving an interest ing imitation of the man who amputated his pro bosis in order to wreak revenge upon his physiognomy. Seeing the need of more revenue to make up for republican extravagance, the republican lead ers have devised a plan for raising it. If you imagine that they will raise it by putting a tax on those best able to bear it you will have to guess again. A reader of The Commoner asks where he can find a copy of a poem entitled "Kelly, and Burke and Shea," which -was written by a man named Clark in 1898. If any reader of The Commoner can give the information on a postal card, it will be published for the benefit of the enquirer. Some of the insurance companies are threat ening to leave Arkansas because of the passage of ' an anti-combination bill. If the people of Arkan sas will now establish an insurance department and furnish insurance for their own people at cost, the companies that retire will not be missed. Governor Hoch of Kansas suggests that the battleship named after his state should he chris tened with Kansas crude oil, instead of wine. This would he entirely - appropriate, for Kansas just now is devoting herself to oil, and if her prohi bition law were enforced she would not have much to do with liquor of any kind. Mr. Jas. B. Forgan, a Chicago banker, in a recent speech at Elgin, 111., advocated the branch bank system and gave as his Argues 9 reason that during the panic Against His which followed 1893 the reserves Own Plan increased, but were withdrawn from the correspondent banks and kept in the local banks. Mr. Forgan uncon sciously makes an argument against the very sys tem which he advocates. Under the branch bank system the branches would at once be called upon to furnish money for the central bank, and in any financial distress the small communities would bo sacrificed to the large centers. Chides Cripples for " Limping The Washington Post says: "Silver has at tained its proper place; that is, it is worth what I tZr, . ietcaes what it i worfth- Jt is strange that gold standard advocates can be wV0 a pIain economic tion arfects the of would fall as compared with silver nmi-iLf gold advocates constantly overlook thi f? th5 alk as if silver only hafSt the benefit of le lation giving a monetary use to the metal. g 'ntSSSV that he use it tiTnrnft ",?3erea d certainly has gj concerning courtesy, as well as ? ?? Meas about "relS accept a favor and then turn ni,?? W,ho would return favor, to say notlinc S an(1 refuse would be accused of lac intl?f w?er!ng thanks tleman. And If tho K religious work, wh? nothavo Sfy , S g00d for oon, gambling hoifse andoch ovn'8 ifUl sa" three means by which rnS ?Tn adjuncts money" may be accumffi?0'1?16 of "devll's from men like RockSSnS Is an tSFF? gifts sands of Christian men ZaXZZ & Merelv a Matter of Courtesy .VOLUME 5, NUMBER i2 ister who would, talk as this Sioux City minkt is said to have talked, certainly has forgotten c? Paul's words: "If eating meat maketh my brotho to offend. I will eat "no meat while the v0pS stands." a Rev. Herbert S. Johnson of the Warren Ave. nue Baptist church of Boston, in opposing tht Rockefeller gift said that his in. Calls fluence upon young men was "a It Baneful thousand times worse than the Influence influence of a saloon keeper or the proprietor of a den of vice and that for a church to accept his money would alienate more than ever the great laboring classes from the church." "Laboring men," he says, "care nothing that a busness man engages in 'family prayer if he raises the price of coal during a coal famine." Easy Ministerial Method One of the Boston ministers who favors the acceptance of Mr. Rockefeller's money, says: "I lau to see now Mr. Rockefeller can he considered different from many of the people who isit our churches on Sunday and. ner- haps, contribute ill-gotten gain." Such a statement leads one to. wonder whether Mr. Rockefeller, if he visited the church of such a preacher, would hear anything that would lead him to believe that his gains are ill-gotten. Too many of the large churches are made congenial for the large law-breakers by the absence of any reference to the more indirect and more colossal forms of wrong-doing. The Witness Is Handy The report that the government is about ready to prosecute the Santa Fe for granting illegal re bates to the Colorado Fuel and Iron company is interesting, and will be greeted with cheers when it Is demonstrated that it is well founded. There is unimpeachable evidence on file proving that the Santa Fe is guilty, and President Rosevelt can lay his hands on the chief witness without leaving the room when a full meeting of the cabinet is in session. The only difficulty is that the witness in question may take refuge in the plea that his testimony would tend to incriminate himself. The Child Labor Evil Several state legislatures have this year added to former good work along the lines of discourag ing the employment of child la bor by raising the age limit from 12 to 14 years. The child labor evil is one of the greatest evils that menace the future o the re public. The child that is forced into a mill, mine or factory is deprived of both education and physi cal development, thus destroying possibility of fu ture usefulness as a citizen, depriving the child of natural rights and-alegrading general labor condi tions to a lower level. ZThoughtful men and women are giving more and more attention to this evil, with the result that conditions are being bettered. The Biters Were Bitten The investigations in the Chadwick case brought out the facts tliat Mrs. Chadwick was not the only one who violated tno law. Nearly every banker with ffhom she dealt charged her more than the legal rate of inter est. In some "cases the interest charged was nearly 100 per cent. No wonder there was some hesitancy among her victims about prosecuting her. Her career has shaken the faith of many of the people who in 1896 were asked to believe and really believed that the financiers were the only truly good. Experience has demon strated that men may prate about honest money without being honest, or even within the law, in their business dealings. The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch an nounces that there is an awakening" in that state upon the subject of education. Virginia A large number of persons deep Upon a New ly concerned for "the uplirung Crusade of humanity," as the Times-Dis-,, patch puts it, are going out into the country districts to speak "face to face and heart to 'heart with the people, and urgo them to improve their schools and prolong the school terms." Doctor Alderman, recently chosen as head of the Virginia University, is taking a lead ing part in the movement. It is fitting that the state which gave Jefferson to the Union, and which contains the state university founded by Jefferson, should Interest itself in the education of all of the people. Jefferson contended that uni versal education was necessary to enable the peo ple to wisely discharge their duties as oitizens. tafKdSfcwTJC ifiBBSBmSMBsaiimttwi per ?.;?'' i-v 3tmSU ,&