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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, NK
Uncle Les Shaw has met the deficit and ho
Is its.
Mayor Weaver seems to have caught the gas
grabbers in his little web.
It appears that the Philadelphia city council
was already a long ways past praying for.
Having discovered vhat they can do, perhaps
Philadelphians will now proceed to do some more
of it.
It seems that the gas grabbing gang of Phil
adelphia has been pretty thoroughly Rojestven-slded.
Had "Boss" Tweed been a citizen of Penn
sylvania he might now be sleeping beneath a fine
monument.
.- '-''The New York courts have dee'ded that false
mercantile rating is a crime. Now for over-capitalization
and too much stock irrigation.
"Trim the tariff" is Secretary Taft's slogan.
The beneficiaries of the tariff are making strenu
ous preparations for the trimming of Taft.
By the way, during all this chorus of praise
to the fathers of large families why not have
one or two little strains about tho mothers?
Secretary Shaw says it is difficult to explain
the deficit. "What Secretary Shaw really means
is that he would rather not admit the real rea
sons for tho deficit.
Mr. Parry says the efforts of labor unions to
reduce the hours of work is "confiscation." What
does Mr. Parry call the trust efforts to curtail
output and increase prices?
A railroad manager declares that Iowa's rato
rogulating laws have made it impossible for any
rqally great cities, to bo built on Idwa soil. If
this makes any Iowan sad let him look at Phila
delphia and cheer up.
The Commoner.
of Tho Commoner to assist those who desire to
inform themselves upon political events and their
significance.
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To the state of Delaware, Greeting: Please
note what the aroused citizenship of Philadelphia
did to "Gas."
Those Moros would "better go to organizing big"
trusts and making regular contributions to the
g. o. p. campaign funds. Several sizeable con
tributions might convince, the administration
leaders of their thorough pacification.
The Minneapolis Journal insists that Luther
Burbank should experiment with the rhubarb
plant with a view to inducing more. of it to appear
in the pie. And there is the strawberry and
the shortcake, too.
A thief in Milwaukee stole a toothbrush, re
tail price 15 cents, wholesale price about 5 cents,
and in less than a week after his theft he began
a jail sentence of one year. About the same
time a Milwaukee banker stole $3,400,000. The
banker is not even in jail.
The Ohio republican "platform is a plain eva
sion of President Roosevelt's freight rate regula
tion program. The convention endorses the en
forcement of "existing laws to stop all unjust
discriminations," etc. President Roosevelt wants
some special legislation on the subject.
The Minneapolis Journal says: "Mr. Slason
Thomson, a transportation expert, has been com
piling statistics to show where the money goes."
Is the esteemed Journal sure of that? Is it not
more probable that Mr. Thompson is compiling
statistics Jor the purpose of not showing where
the money goes?
It is reported that Baron Rosen will succeed
Count Cassini as Russian ambassador to this
country, and that his task will be to change the
tide of popular sentiment in favor of Russia.
The czar could accomplish that much easier by
making some wholesale changes in his govern
ment's treatment of its subjects.
The postal deficit will amount to $12,000,000
for the fiscal year, the largest deficit in the his
tory of the department. The deficit is attributed
to the extension of the rural free delivery, losses
in carrying second-class "matter and excessive
charges by railroads for transporting the mails.
The remedy is simple restrict the rural free de
livery and the second-class privileges. Under no
circumstances must the railroads' charges be in
terfered with.
Help
For the
Living
The report that the canal commission will not
buy- any ships at present is an indication that
the "standpatters" have done some tall hustling
about since that famous order was issued.
' John Weaver, mayor of Philadelphia, is tho
man whom the righteous people of that city prayed
for so earnestly a few months ago. And now John
Weaver is fighting for the right like a veteran. v
The notice cf the funeral of Mrs. Jacob A.
Riis contained this request: "Friends are re
quested to send no flowers, but give
the money instead to the poor."
That is worth thinking about, and
acting upon. If the spirits of our
dead look back to us, will they not
rejoice more at the sight of hungry ones fed and
naked ones clothed than at the sight of costly
flowers withering to decay upon their tombs? The
smiles of those to whom the oportunity to smile
is seldom given; the rejoicings of those to whom
the opportunity for rejoicing seldom comes these
will be more welcome tribute to the memory of
the dead than all the flowers that might be heaped
upon their graves.
Why
Are They
Satisfied?
Philadelphia councilmen want to -take the
liberty bell to the Portland exposition. The tax
payers of Philadelphia would like to keep it at
home long enough for it to become an object
lesson to the councilmen.
A-reader commenting upon the article on "A
Remedy for the Trusts" republished from
Public Opinion says: "I may say that if we did
not have Tho Commoner we in darkest Massa
chusetts would bo left wholly ignorant of much
that is going on politically." It is the purpose
The people of other states may be interested
In knowing who the Nebraska gentlemen were
who traveled down to Washington
to assure the senate rate investi
gating committee that "the people
of Nebraska are well satisfied with
nresent rate mrwUHnnc Tf
enlighten tho residents of other states to know
that one of the eminent Nebraskan3 was Mr.
Peter Jansen, one of the largest sheep raisers
and .feeders in the west. Another was Mr Hord
one of the largest individual cattle feeders and
shippers in the world. Another was Mr. Gilchrest
whose line of lumber yards necessitates his shin
ping from 2,000 to 2,500 cars of lumber every year
These throe gentlemon informed the committee
that there was no demand for freight regulation
Perhaps notfrom them. But would it not seem
that men who have no desire to see freight rates
reduced have certain concessions that give them
an advantage over other shippers engaged in
a smaller way, perhaps, in the l mo lino of bust,
ness? Tho mon with tho concessions and the
passes went down to Washington to toll tho com-
mittee that there was no demand for reform
The men without concessions and passes had t
remain, at home and dig up the money to mM!
good the concessions given their more forturn
competitors. ai
The deficit of $12,000,000 in the postal depart
ment for the fiscal year calls renewed attention to
the outrageous manner in which
Why the government is held up bv the
The Postal railroads in the matter of charges
Deficit? for the transportation of tho mails
It is well known thr.t the general
public has to pay unfair prices, but the general
shipping public escapes comparatively easy by the
side of the government. The government pays
about eight times as much, pound for pound, as
the express companies pay on the same trains.
and the government pays rent for the postal oars
while the express companies pay nothing for the
express cars. But every effort to secure fair
transportation rates for the mails is effectually
blocked by the railroads. When it is remembered
that the government pays the :ailroads upwards
of $35,000,000 a year for transporting the mails
the public may have a better idea of why the rail
road managers take so much interest in electing
congressmen and senators, and securing pliable
officials in the various departments of the "P.
O. D."
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