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' "WIfSBfWfWIWJPVM 't ' u 4 The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. Kntcrcd at tho postofllco at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second. Uinta mull matter. One Year $1.00 Six Months 50c In Clu b ol 5 or more, per year 75c Three Months 3&a Single Copy 55 Sample Coplea Free. Foreign Poatajre 52c Extra. The Commoner. Pert paragraphers who have found Phila delphia a fruitful source of "sleepy" jokes will have to look elsewhere now. How about tne "stand-patters" who can hear no demands for tariff revision? The theatrical company organized to exploit Nan Patterson has scored a dismal financial fail ure. Occasionally the public manages to do the right thing without making ,any particular fuss about it. SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to Tho Commoner. They can also bo sent through nownpapors which have adver tised a clubbing rate, or through local agent, whoro sub tgento bavo boon appointed. All remittances should bo sent by postofllco money order, express order, or by bank draft on Now York or Chicago. Do not Bond Individual checks, stamps or money, RENEWALS. The date on your wrapper shows jvhenyoor subscription will expire. Thus, Jan. 81, '05, meana that pay Bicnt hai been received to and Including the last Issue of Jan uary, 1S05. Two weeks arc required alter money has been i' eclved before tho dote on wrapper can bo changed. CMANOB OP ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting & ehnnga of address mast glvcOLD as well as the NEW address. ADVERTISING rates lurnlshcd upon application. Address 11 communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Na. GOING ABROAD Mr. Bryan is contemplating a trip abroad for tho investigation of economic and industrial ques tions. Mrs. Bryan and two younger children will accompany him. A number of countries will be visited. The Commoner will publish a series of letters 'written by Mr. Bryan, setting forth tho roaults of his inquiries. The trip w:i begin about the middle of September. The czar says ho would rather die than sign an ignominious peace. But if he doesn't sign a peace pact of some kind several hundred thousand other Russians will die. If the czar really loves his "little children" now is the time for. him to show it. It remains to be seen whether a naval board of strategy will try to wrest the laurels from Togo's brow. The indications are, however, that the Japs are not yet sufficiently civilized to en gage in that sort of thing. The primary pledge plan of organization is proving immensely popular. Pledges are coming in by hundreds every day and from all sections of the country. Sign a pledge and send it in at once, and then see that your neighbor does likewise. President Roosevelt should invite his cabinet to get together. One denounces the idea of pro tected manufacturers selling their wares cheaper to foreigners than to residents, and another de fends it as a sound business policy. Here is an opportunity to do considerable work in the line of pacification. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 22 The platform adopted by the republicans Ohio is very much like the platform adopted iS the republicans in the nation Avoiding last fall. The delegates to tho The Ohio convention instead of do Question clarlng for any particular legis lation on the rate question con. tented themselves, after endorsing the effort to enforce existing laws, with a declaration in favor of such further legislation as may "after full in. vestigation seem to the republican congress and administration wise and conservative," etc. They put the responsibility on the republican con gress and president, and endorse in advance any. thing which they may do. This is a complacent way of avoiding the question. Hon. L. A. Rosing, of Minnesota is interesting himself in the establishment of the Minnesota Municipal and Commercial League, Improving with subordinate branches in the City various cities and towns. Its pur Government pose is, as its name implies, to ad vance the interests 'of the various cities in municipal and commercial matters. The League devotes itself to the questions which con v cern the improvement of city government and the securing of equitable transportation rates and facilities. There ought to be such a league in every state. Those desiring information in regard to the Minnesota League can communicate with Mr. Rosing in care of the governor's office at St. Paul. CONTINUES TO GROW Organization precedes victory. . Messrs. Iioomis and Bowen should get ditrv to the concrete facts of that asphalt deal. Tho construction of the Panama canal has progressed to the increase-of-salary itage. 10 "" '."V.trv leYiTe(KlfrmvtviitCt throads'TnaVe commenced a systematic effort to coerce Trying to the country editors into oppds- "Tl!rti!e inS railroad rate legislation, or The ." at least into ..silence regarding ' 'tri6 matter. ' 1'Touf me mrmue of letters received at The Commoner office it is evident that not all of the editors will be coerced. Notice is called to the matter in The Commoner Have you resigned from the Equitabladicgc Jn order that the editors who are approached may lorate yet.' If not you are behhuMtto Umes. - know The people Philad . . .aAaSZ niu:?KnH L IJIAICjIYB vUdnnfltoiuie ea ru UaHkHHMr KKmxWA case uiscioses wnat tno grafters by trying in real ilfonso, of Spain, is making a tour of neighboring countries. His near relatives have told him all about the United States. Some eminent sailors at "Washington, who have seldom been to sea, can no. understand how Togo managed to win so handily without a naval board of strategy. Secretary Shaw says he is going to reduce the deficit by cutting down the incidental ex penses? All right, but let him look carefully after the- "accidental" expense. Tho eminent gentlemen who have accumu lated millions by tariff favor are unreliably in formed that those who have paid the most of it are still in favor of continuing it. Secretary Taft's little trick of alienating Sec retary Shaw's newspaper party reminds us more or less of what Sherman said about Alger's corn ering some colored southern delegates. The United States court at Cincinnati has de clared the wall paper trust to be an illegal com bine. It is to bo hoped that the court will be able to make tho decision stick better than the wall paper usually does. The Commoner's circulation continues to grow and much of the increase is due to the generous effort of Commoner readers, who have ,, , ., - ., fi!L'uttuy'T,tare of.che special subscription offer Letters from various sections of the cojTsr-moiWir " to place The Cc?1""" x" w" """- " " of their neighbolrs- If eery 0 reader who approves ofM tne work which this paper is doing would undeWte to secure five subscribers on the "Lot of FlWe plan' The Commoner woul(l .iHMes4Mruii(s JBrpi men, many oz wnuni uiigut oe persuaacfp-c unite wren tne aemocracy. Following are a few samples showing the popularity of the special subscription offer: Enos Gray, Casselton, N. D., sends fifteen new subscribers for The Commoner at club rates, five for $3.00. y James Whitungton, Raymond City, W. Va., sends club of ten subscribers to The Commoner at clubbing rates. A New York City reader sends list of thirteen new subscribers and says it is only a matter of finding time to go and see loyal democrats to get their subscriptions to The Commoner. T. B. Snider, Bardwell, Ky., sends list of thirty-six subscribers to The Commoner at club bing rates. E. T. Payne, Quinton, I. T., sends list of eighteen subscribers at clubbing rates. According to the terms of the special sub scription offer, cards, each good for one year's subscription to The Commoner, will be furnished in lots of five, at the rate of $3 per lot. . This places the yearly subscription rate at 60 cents. Anyone ordering these cards may sell them for $1 each, thus earning a commission of $2 on each liiold, or he may sell them at the cost price aim" find compensation In the fact that ho has contributed to the educational campaign. These cards may be paid for when ordered, or they may be ordered and remittance made after they have been sold. A coupon is printed below for the convenience of those who desire to par ticipate in this effort to increase The Commoner's circulation: t"hat others are being likewise tempted. As an evidence of the fight that the railroads are preparing to put up against the railroad rate regulation, attention is called to tho Make Your fact, that some of the railroads are Position addressing letters to country edi Known tors asking for "a concise opinion" on the subject of railroad rate regu lation especially, whether the papers addressed are in- favor of it or not. The railroads have an organization already perfected and are prepared to reach the entire public. It is necessary for tho people to encourage their representatives. Every reader of The Commoner should make his position known to his representative. The four Now York highwaymen who held up a bank messenger have been convicted and sent to Sing Sing. This should be a warning. It would have been far safer and doubtless more profitable to start a bank. . President Roosevelt lias not yet visited Florida and Arkansas, and announces his intention to do so as soon as possible. Up to date tho president has not been able to penetrate very far into railroad regulation territory, either. The appointment of a Bonaparte to the cabi net reminds us that the people do not want any Moscow fiiasco in this campaign against illegal rebates and extortionate freight charges. One may find humor in the most unexpected places. It may bo found in such an uninteresting thing as a railroad tariff sheet. For Humor in instance, although Kearney, Neb., Unexpected is 200 miles nearer the Rock Places Springs coal mines than Omaha, Omaha people pay less for Rock Springs coal than the people of Kearney have to pay for the same kind of coal. The tariff sheet's explanation is that Omaha is affected by water rate competition, being on the Missouri river. Tho humor lies in the fact that all the freight brought into Omaha by the river route during the last dozen years could be put in a gnat's eye without making the insect blink. It is that sort of "com petition" that is robbing the consuming public. When the California Cecision was first rend ered invalidating the law providing for the recall a public officer it was re- People's ported that It declared against Rights the constitutionality of the Supreme principle of the recall. The Citizen Bulletin, however in reporting the decision says that it turned on' the fact that a technical error of the city clerk in validated the election. It seems that while the lower court decided that the recall was uncon. stitutional the higher court decided the case on the technical error rather than upon the prin c pie. Certainly there can be no valid constitu t onal objection raised to a law which protecte the voter in his right to have the services of an honest representative. To hold that a man's right to a salary is higher than the people's right to bo represented would bo an absurdity THE COMMONER'S SPECIAL OFFER Application for Subscription Card 5 10 15 20 25 50 75 100 Publisher Commoner; I am Interested in In creasing The Commoner's circulation, and de Biro you to Bend me a Bupply ot subscription cardB. I asreo to use my utmost ondcavorto sou tho cards, and will remit for them at the rate 01 60 cents each, when sold. Name Box, or Street No.. P.O. State. Indieuto the nutrber of cards wanted by mrk ing X oppoBito one of tho numbers printed on end ol this blank. If you believe th6 paper U doina a worJt that merit' encouragement, flU out the above coupon and maim to The Commoner, Lincoln, Neb. ' . .A ,, . , AifHuMtUt fc.K')lcV" ,