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' "P'JWWPHWBfrn"- M k V 0 -- 4 The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. Entered at the poitofflco &t Lincoln, Nebraska, u second tiara mull matter. Ore Veer fi.ee I Three Months as Six Month 50c -Sluzle Cpy S In Clu fc of 5 or more, per J Sample Coplc Free. ycer 75c Forefgn Po5tte sac Extra, SUBSCRIPTIONS can be sent direct to The Commtu They can also be sent through newipapera which hare adrer tlicd a clubbing rate, or through local agents, where snb agentaJbare been appointed. All remittances should be sent by postoffice money order, express order, or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not oend lndlridual checks, a tarn pa or money. RENEWALS. The date on yonr wrapper shows when your inscription will expire. Than, Jan. 81, '05, raeana that pay ment has been received to and including the last Issue of Jan uery, l'X5. Two weeks are required after money baa been tr ceived before the date on wrapper can be changed. C1IANOB OF ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting ft change sf .address must giro OLD as well aa the NEW address. ADVERTISING rales furnhfhed upon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER; LtecoIa.Nsfc The reformed Equitable seems determined to get along without a court jester. Before the canal can be cut enough red tape must be cut to fill a bigger ditch. It seems that Engineer Wallace preferred throwing dirt to cutting red tape. ' Tfc setintry is "rapidly learning that a United State $ttiator is just as human as any other ma 9f. Rockefeller might turn an honest dollar r imo by hurrying around the 'circuit after Mr. &vson. That Chicago -grand jury doubtless has had many hearty laughs at the credulity of Mr. James Garfield. .. , . . .. . - 1. "Hesplte the whitewash thnrn o , ;. it of asphalt clinging to several parties 'to the Loomis affair. MnJ?r' Taft' sccrcty of war, has sailed for Manna. In a couple of weeks the earth is' due to take a decided tip. t nJil0 vestigating our missions abroad Mr. Loomis will have an excellent oportunity to buy up a few more claims. . y t,,i advanced in price 10 cents a ton on July 1. Mr. Baer is evidently getting some more kinks out of his trusteeship. By the time the universities get through con ferring degrees upon liberal millionaires everv man of millions will be a man of letters y Jtightminded people will be unable to spp wherein the dishonest employers of Chicago are any better than the dishonest employes nf eat deal 0f mud ls flylnS m the vicinity of the Panama canal, but it is not of the kind that makes a showing injthe work of Lcayation. Secretary Shaw is trying to explain why there J hueo deficit without mentioning the fct that it was due wholly to republican extfavagancer t ,Tlle stockholders in the Lewis bank of qt Louis will be slow to try "absent" treatment -Lin jvhenthey Lave a feeLg of fulSTblne n. ?y'ith0 Tay' wllat has Mr- Taft to say about the resignation of Mr. Morton from an $8 000 cSSV013 t0 aCept a ?50'Mobnwi?i?a Another bank reported all right by govern ment bank examiners has been proved all wrong What do bank examiners do to earn their sal aries? Politics? saI tice1toih ;ul ?lobomocrat prints a no uce to the effect that parties leaving the citv acfd esVu wTay "T th lmper ent to tffl mints of fhtWhy 8PoU ono of tne chi argu meats of the average St. Louisan for a vacation? The Commoner. Mr. Taft thinks our criminal courts are a disgrace to civilization. Having thus expressed himself Mr. Taft should now report on some of our federal courts. Mr. Wallace took a better job and was se verely scolded. Mr. Morton took a better job and was given a clean bill of health and a letter of recommendation. That Chicago grand jury managed to give the names of a few corrupt labor leaders while skilfully concealing the names of the wealthy merchants who put up the money. Senator Mitchell was doubly unfortunate in .that he got into trouble just at the time when the supply of whitewash was exhausted in taking care of Morton and Loomis. When Mr. Taft scolded Mr. Wallace for tak ing a job that pays better he forgot that we are holding on to the Philippines in- violation of our principles because it pays. Work on the Panama canal ls progressing fully as rapidly as the Panama canal promotors expected. That is the reason why they forced the selection of the Panama route. A New York physician declares that science will cut down the meat supply largely in the ordinary man's diet. That is not what has cut down the ordinary man's meat supply. Before exhausting all our wrath on the im porters of Chinese cheap labor, let us give a little attention to the business of importing alien con tract labor by way of the Atlantic seaboard. , There was no lack of big men in the cabinet a generation ago. The reason they did not step out of the cabinet 'into $100,000 jobs was that there was not enough jobbery going on in those days. Nothing In this country has been touched by a trust," declares William Travers Jerome, "that has not been caused to grow and improve." Of . course Mr. Jerome bars the trust magnate's con science. ' ''-.. In yew of recent events, notably the Mor ton incident, the Loomis incident, the Wallace incident and the Santa Fe incident, it is not at a strange that Mr. Roosevelt felt impelled to fnn ?ankers JncliPe.d t0 speculation should not ran to make the future assuredly easy by takinc a course in bookkeeping. Then, when landed in jail, they can secure an easy berth awav from the herd of common criminals. - In the rush let it not be forgotten that qpn retary Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the SI0.' San backbon enush to go right on with the MitcheH prosecution in spite of all the influ ence brought to bear against it. PaimmaATuWfaitf rGSS dispatch under date of lanama, July 13, follows: "The government in accordance with the dpqfroa f Z &"vermnent in .eueve the JtA'$ sr s?esr in;zhat " - panic by ?oo much "old- nTaK W for silver." Also the demand Outwitted By Railroad Managers TOlln Tl VaAM.. M . -';o --- icwuu uuuai is tne great est humbug of the age. At the rate of progress being made the weeds grow up and choke t i. , c v,autu ut cue end faster than it can be extended at the other, and wth double the progress now made it will take a half century to excavate it. It is beginning to dawn upon the people that a huge confidence game ws perpetrated on them when the Nicaragua roTite was abandoned at the behest of the tanscon- tutlT1 Pn radS' and the Panma routoTubsTi. tuted. Railroad magnates who had opposed a canal for a generation suddenly took a deep into?- VOLUME 5, NUarBER 27 est when the. Nicaraugua project seemed as,t , and became strenuous advocates nf..? asured, ; route. The result is that the "canal wnri a? ing delayed, trouble is being fomSfj8 bo" scandal Is brewing. In the famous Cnl cut of 350 feet only alluvial soil countered and excavation is easy. But L .falls to the amount of thirty inchest T hours, washing down the banks of the o,f will take as much money to keen tin L, , lfc stretch of canal free from ImpSsiWe mu 1 "n? u would to fcuild the Nicaragua5 canal M? ?" mans' interview has given the people i hd , how they have been again outwitted by the 112 raUofdl? f the SZ i ,Th! San ancisco Argonaut relates a peculiar incident of university life at Berkeley, and St- Beaton " ?!? moral iS concealed there- Beaten m that may be found by suffi- ycJi?,r ?ent in7eStigation' Flv S- Cook fsof a college fraternity 4f tailed to pass their examina. tions and were not allowed to graduate with their class. This particular fraternity had its "frat 5e ' d the members employed a Japanese cook. The young Japanese, unlmown to his em ployers, was taking the college course, and on the day that five of his employers ignominiously failed, he graduated with honors and was given a-diploma. If Paul Morton did not retire from the cabinet because he was offered a more profitable position, what did he retire for? And What if he did, in what respect does Difference, he differ from Mr. Wallace? Please? And if there is no difference between Mr. Morton and Mr. Wallace on this point, why was Wallace roundly denounced while Morton was given a letter of recommendation that was little short of fulsome in its compliments. There are a great many peo ple in this country who have been asking them selves the above question, but as yet no answers have been given. Perhaps the administration chiefs can provide them. Longer Journeys Now Possible , ?en Jules Verne wrote "Around the World in .casnty Daysheo&pent a great deal of time fig- unug out train ana snip con nections. And all the world took a great interest in the sup posititious performance of x-nineas i'ogg. were Mr. Fogg alive now he could make the journey in consid erably less than two-thirds of eighty days, and make it much more comfortably. But it is also true that in making this journey around the world he would take more chances of - mking a vastly longer journey in wonderfully less time. With our ninety-miles-an-hour trains and careless switchtenders the dangers of taking a journey into eternity in the fraction of a second have been materially increased. It seems that our penal institutions are al ways in need of expert bookkeepers. Every time - we hear of some prominent Many banker or financier being sent Bookkeepers . to the penitentiary for dishon Needed esty we hear also a few days later that the prisoner has ,been put to work as a bookkeeper in the warden's office. It always happens that the new book keeper is a. man who plunged to the extent of millions and lived like a prince while he was busy getting away with other people's money. One is compelled to-wonder why it seems neces sary to have so many bookkeepers at a peniten tlary, and why it is that the above described class of prisoners always furnishes the necessary men. Already pleas for mercy for Uanator Mitchell are being made, and it is a pleasing commentary nn ihn TOllHntrnoDa nf Jin Out raged public to forgive those who have betrayed its trust in them. But would it not be we I to rememDer mat iou w" consideration for the guilty is oppression of tlio innocent? Senator Mitchell, it is true, is an old man; but his position and his years of experience, his knowledge of law and his clear conception of right and wrongall these would seem to demand that punishment be even more severe than in the case of a man less favored by nature and by circumstances. In our sympathy for the guilty let us not forget the duty that is due the inno centthe duty of punishing the wrongdoer that the innocent may be the better protected. Consider The Innocent Ones '1 : W ' I I , , " .":'&&!G :f"jrr.,;jft:s.a IV