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iiifpHipiiBPiPi The Commoner. WILLIAM J. BRYAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Vol. 5. No. 39 Lincoln, Nebraska, October 13, 1905 Whole Number 247 CONTENTS .- They're Worried in Ohio Tub Guilty Must Solve It Question of Location . Line Plainly Dr wn Give the People Rklief The First Crime An Income Tax, Too An Effective Example Bark Lantern Methods WnEN the Boat Has Touched Shork Comment on Current Topics The Primary Pledge News of the Week THEY'RE WORRIED IN OHIO They are worried in Ohio Foraker is gray with fear, They are worried in Ohio Herrick sees defeat is near. And the wholebig bunch of bosses Jtrjam the, small est up, to Cox . . See the o. p. ship drifting on the sharp and cruel rocks. They are worried 'in Ohio Foraker doth now avow That the president is urging democratic meas ures now. And the railroads say it also, and it's backed up, too, by Dick They are worried in Ohio and it makes the bosses sick. They are worried in Ohio they have beat the straddlebug. They are worried in Ohio Herrick will fall down ker-chug! For while standing on the record made up by the president ! ,' They declare he's much mistaken when on reg ulation bent. They are "wet" among the drinkers and are "dry" among the dry; On two stools they have their .optics and to sit on both they'll try. But when they attempt reclining on the two they'll fall between They are worried in Ohio cogs are gone from the machine. They are worried in Ohio Cox complains of "throwing, mud." They are worried in Ohio Foraker is sweating blood. Dick is working like a Trojan, Herrick smiles a sickly smile, And the gang of greedy grafters are in terror all the while. "Stand by Roosevelt!" they're shrieking; "Don't swap horses in the stream!" "You must stand pat on the tariff!" O, it's fun to hear them scream. But the democrats are busy showing up the doc tored books Got 'em worried In Ohio and it scares the Coxite crooks. W. M. M. "Can the democratic partv be trusted?" quer ies a republican exchange. The answer depends upon whether the question Is asked from the standpoint of the men mixed up in the insurance game or from the standpoint of the people who foot the bills. If by the former the answer is an emphatic negative. AN OHIO PUZZLE k ri TH S ' l( ffl ,-- mi JilfAM msm' IP n mms REPUBLICANS KEEP OfF ?SwSrTal TTSz. t,i . . .UVil' ..- .., - w, -' o 5775 mmmmM lexers! It (M. .j OHIO VOTER-"Now how can I stand by Roosevelt and keep off democratic ground?" THE GUILTY MUST SOLVE IT "Suppose," asks the Minneapolis Journal, a republican newspaper, "that President Roosevelt determines that that $48,000 shall bo returned to the New York Life, who is going to return i?" Is it but of place to say that that is a ques tion for the conscience stricken? The fund might be made up by small con tributions from every member of the party. Or it might be completed by a popular subscription to which we have no doubt many democrats who, while feeling no responsibility, would bo glad to contribute by way of helping their republican friends out of the hole. At all events, when stolen money has been located and the necessity for its return has been generally recognized, the burden of devising the means whereby the stolen property Is to be re placed falls upon those who took it, and those who profited by the theft. THAT FOREIGN TRADE "There are many reasons," exclaims the Mil waukee Sentinel, "why American manufacturers have been able to build up a foreign trade." To bo sure. With an undue profit at home, with the advantage of skilled American mechanics and the best and most modern machinery, why shouldn't tho American manufacturer bo able to build up a foreign market? But if the American manufacturer can pay ocean freights and under sell the foreigner In the foreigner's own market, why should the American manufacturer fear the competition of the foreigner in American mar kets with ocean freights in his favor? If the American steel rail maker can make and ship rails to Liverpool and sell them at a profit for $18 a ton and he does why should ho be glyen tho benefit of a tariff law,- that enables him to charge tho American consumer $27 a ton? A QUESTION OF LOCATION While Mr. Bryan Is In the Holy Land, he should not fall to locate the spot where Judas got his thirty pieces of silver, and erect a mon u it there. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (republican). In the meantime woulJ it not be well for the republican national committee to return to tho policyholders of the New York Life Insurance company the 148,000 pieces of silver already lo cated by the testimony of John A. McCall. m il ba-1&y.V&t,- jVfc, j. . .:L- fe.iUii j -'