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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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