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ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application. -Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nob. MR. BRYAN ABROAD Mr; Bryan, accompanied by Mrs. Bryan, Wil liam J., Jr., and their younger daughter, Grace, left Lincoln September 21 for a tour around the world. They took passage on the Pacific Mail steamship Manchuria, which sailed from San Francisco September 27. They go to Japan via Honolulu. After a few weeks in Japan they will proceed to China, the Philippine Islands, India, Australia, New Zea land, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Holland and the Brit-' ish Isles. The trip will occupy about one year, and the readers of The Commoner will be able to follow Mr. Bryan from the letters which will be pub lished in The Commoner from time to time. In the meantime, push the primary pledge and organize. It is believed that Iling Corn has passed the wire a good winner over Jack Frost. There are no violators of the criminal clause of the Sherman anti-trust law in jail yet. Perhaps Mr. Rockefeller invested in a wig because he believed there was room at the top. Chairman Shonts shows signs of a desire to wrest the cussing championship from Admiral Evans. The canal commission is spending $650,000 a month and is not digging that many spoonfuls of dirt. The beef trust is not yet ready for trial. It must have located-a few dollars it has not yet secured. The pass may not be a bribe but- well the republican officials In Nebraska are returning theirs anyhow. The Fairbanks presidential boom has moved again. It has shoved over to make room for the summer straw hat. Some of these splendid defenders of "national honor" in 1896 should have reserved a little de fense for personal use. They need it. If the democratic party takes good care that it shall deserve to win in 1908 the matter of a candidate is one that will settle Itself. The Equitable is not quite so lonesome as It was a few months ago. There is plenty of company for it in the prisoner's dock now. The beef trust says it will be ready for trial 'soon." That is when Mr. Hyde will return and when the republicans will revise the tariff, The isthmian canal commission gives signs it exhausting all of its money and all of the country's patience in its amusement enterprises. The Commoner. The canal commission might lend a little encouragement by throwing an occasional shovel ful of dirt between decisions for new hotels and pleasure resorts. The Standard Oil company lias just raised the price of refined oil a half cent per gallon, which should be good news to Dr. Harper of Chicago University. It may be true that no man can serve two masters, but Mr. Perkins has given a splendid imitation of a man who does it well enough to draw two fat salaries. It cost the government $40,000,000 last year to have the mails transported by the railroads. Now perhaps you can see why the railroads take such an interest in politics. The American board of foreign missions has decided to table all resolutions against "tainted money." Mr. Rockefeller is exceedingly dense if he fails to take the hint. The insurance scandal calls renewed atten tion to the fact that there is a vast difference between drawing a salary of $75,000 a year and earning a salary of $75,003 a year. Congressman Brownlow is working to make the highways good, and President Roosevelt is working to make the railroads good and up to date both movements have made equal progress. Senator Lodge says he wants it understood that he does not reflect the president's views when he advocates a ship subsidy. Neither does he reflect the views of 99.99 per cent of the peo ple of the country. Every day's testimony in the insurance com pany investigation reveals another reason why the insurance grafters so roundly denounced Law son as a humbug and an adventurer when he first began his story of "Amalgamated." Get out your atlas and look up Baku. Trouble over there means trouble here, for Baku fur nishes half the world's supply of crude petroleum and you know what that means just as soon as Mr. Rockefeller gets ready to move. Mr. Morton of the Equitable says he wants his agents to get business, but not by rate cut ting and high-risk methods. Does he mean this as an intimation that they can work the rebate game that Mr. Morton worked while with the Santa Fe? Lawson's Charges Were Mild When Thomas W. Lawson began his revela tions in the gigantic game of loot and graft he inumatea tnat there was some thing radically wrong with the big insurance companies. Im mediately the mjfrtnfrpre i these companies charged Law son with seeking to precipitate a panic, and de clared that he was an adventurer, or worse. In addition they declared with renewed energy their own honesty. Mr. Lawson reiterated his charges and presented enough evidence to warrant an in vestigation. The .investigation is hardly begun and already developments reveal that Mr. Law son not only had ample warrant for his charges, but that he did not give even a hint of the cor ruption that prevails. Now that the investigation a started let it be thorough and complete, and J??,m fV,0 haV,e. gambled an speculated in trust funds be brought to book. How Great Steal is Worked The scandal in the government printing office calls renewed attention to the immense waste of ijuuiic money m that institu tion. Thousands of tons of useless publications are issued from that office every year, and lucumy purpose tney seem to serve is to increase Hhe remuneration the rail roads receive for carrying the malls. Every time the mails are weighed for the purpose of fur nishing a basis from which to figure what th railroads shall receive for transporting them he mail cars are loaded down with "Pub. Doc's "'that are weighed and re-weighed all along the line Tons of such matter are carried during the' weighing season, and then the government nav? n mt ba,8i2 f?r the ensuin& twTorTur yePars Mil ions of dollars are wasted in printing these useless books, and other millions are worfe than wasted-actually stolen-by mailing S out during the mail weighing season andhenTayng .VOLUME 5, NUMBER the railroads for them every day in the ,, , years to come. The purchase of the tvnSm0r machines is not the only crooked deal in i 5 under cover of the government printing bfflce The syndicates working inside of the hi i surance companies is only another phase X a n ga?e so lons wo"led by 2 Old Game railroads under guise of JS Under a New freight" lines. A number' Name directors of an insurance com. . pany organize a "syndicate" and purchase bonds of other syndicates ThZ bonds are then sold at a big profit to the insur. ance companies as an "investment" for the benefit of the policyholders. The same game is worked differently by the railroad companies. Railroad officials organize a "fast freight line" and re name a lot of cars belonging to the company These cars are then loaded as specials and the railroad pays car mileage on its own cars to tho "fast freight line." In this way earnings to tho general stockholders are kept down, an excuse offered for the maintenance of exorbitant rates and a few men on the inside pocket the proceeds! 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