The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923, October 13, 1905, Page 4, Image 4
4 The Commoner. .VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3J f i 1. I The Commoner ISSUED WEEKLY Entered at the postofllce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class mail mutter. On Year SI.00 Six Mcnihs v...50o Xn Cubs of 5 or more per Yiar 75o Throe Month 25c binle Copy be b ample Copies I too h oiaijtn loiafie 5o Ex ti a. SUiobCKiPl IONS din be sent direct to The Com moner, 'lliey eun also be sent tnrougli iiewapaijers which have udvertiaed a clubbing rate, or through local agents, wheie suu-aigenis have been appointed. All icnmtunccs nhould be Kent by pOHiotllce money order, cxprcsH order, or by bank dmlt on New York or Chicago. Do not send Individual chockH. stumps or money. RENEWALS. The date on your wrapper showa when your subscription will expire. Thus, Jan. 31, utJ, ' mi'unt. thut piiyiiient lias been received to and includ ing the last Issue of Jamuaty. 1UU0. Two weeks uie re(julrcd ul'ier money lias been received befote tno date on wrapper can be changed. ChANOEUK AtfliREsS. Subscribers rcriuusting a change of address must give OLD as well as UieNlSW address. AoVr-RTISiNG rates furnished upon application. Address ail communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nob MR. BRYAN'S LETTERS Mr. Bryan took passage on the Pacific Mail steamship Manchuria, which sailed from San Francisco September 27. He wiii go to Japan via Honolulu. After a few weeks in Japan he 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. Speaking of the Loomis-Bowen controversy, the asphalt trust has not said a word lately. Now that it is no longer "headquarters of the nation" Perljnjigcter Bav win emulate the clam. .aOvlBrftWHW ft--" -!-- T 1 The Washington Post says that Secretary Shaw is airing his presidential boom. Hot air ing it, of course? ' It is a mighty mean man who begrudges Mr Thomas W. Lawson the nice little vindication he is now wearing. Hall Caine says he is not going to write a book about American millionaires. That is good news as far as it goes. The press humorists will meet in- Philadel phia next year. By that time "Boss" Durham may be able to see the point. the limit. The advocate of a high protective tariff who exhibits incipient signs of consistency lays his claims of being a protectionist open to suspicion. The Sioux City Journal says that "Mr. Mc Call must be credited with convictions." Yes, of their kind. But there is one kind that has not been .rendered yet. Mr. Taft is quite sure the Filipinos will not be ready for independence for a generation. But is Mr. Taft quite sure that we wiirhave swiped all they have by that time? A lot of big corporations might find it pos sible to save a lot of money by merely obeying IheMaws for a year or two, but it would be hard ou the proiessional lobbyists. M Vl I I IB ! Mr. Hamilton denies that he spent that $100, 000 of New York Life Insurance company money to influence legislators. Perhaps he influenced them before he got the money. they did was did a year ago. They couldn't hPiiv t was teumg the truth when he started h. of "Frenzied Finance" but the broadest asser 5 that Mr. LaWRnn mnrl nhm.f u "-7, a.SSertiOD3 eminent financiers were narrow when SmSj with the fajfo that have since deveBS is probable that the eminent financiers n, .selves will-hardly care to engage in anTcoutt game. '" LaWBOn- at ,B st to A lot of eminent financiers who were going to prove Thomas W. Lawson a "vile prevarica tor," are entirely too busy defending their own characters to attend to it just now. Administration organs are bragging loudly about the amount of money deposited in the banns. But are idle freight cars in a railroad terminal a sign of rushing business? Newspapers that have never given anv mr ticular thought to the matter of providing amSS ments for the thousands of Home children in the tenements and Before All sweatshops of the great cities Else are just now wonderfully in- terested in providing amuse ments for the men engaged upon the Panama ca nal. There are thousands of workingmen in America who are barred from all healthy amuse ments by reason of onerous conditions forced upon them. Why not give them some attention' Factories and mines are full of little children whose lives are being ruined. Why not some show of newspaper interest in their welfare' While we are building hotels and providing amusements for the canal workers, why not do a little in that line for the hundreds of thousands of workers right here at home? The gcntldmen who were so wonderfully con siderate of the "widows and orphans" in No vember, 189G, seem to have lost all interest in them before December of the same year. OTHERS MAY HELP Taking advantage of the special offer, Com moner readers have sent in yearly subscriptions in number as follows: W. C. Goodwin, M. D., Odessa, Mo., 15; Philip Kellett, Mt. Leonard, Mo., 10; A. J. Beale, Cynthiana, Ky., 9; Nathan Smith, Fulford, Colo., 9; William S. Gilliland, Karthaus, Pa., 10; J. H. Williams, Fayetteville, Ark., 10; James Dundas, Ona. W. Va., 8; John Bratsing, Philadelphia, Pa., 12; A. Jannoy, Mar tinsburg, W. Va., 6; Albion P. Mann.-Mineral, Va., 10; Allen Scott, Plato, Mo., 6; J. R. Barnett, Chrystal, Wyo., 6. The following named subscribers have each sent five yearly subscriptions: J. K. Soward, Fithian, 111.; W. B. Pierce, Pulaski, N. Y.; N. J. Blosser. Willits, Calif.; D. S. Lowrey, Copperas Is it not a mistake to say that those Chicago VK , S? T ' W t T " T W-vHLa.ii.i. o -nrl..i.i 4 4- u u T. Wolfe, Blue Mound, Kans.; John T. Washing- packers PaiuW-, MoW.ZimmWn; Alderson, to say that they advauunffiSi -YvT'va DTWSHaw. Barboursville, W. Va.; Z. The only ones who are surprised at the revel ations of corrupt use of trust funds to influence elections are the gentlemen who so used them. They had expected to keep it dark forever. Senator Piatt says he wants to die in the harness, meaning that he will remain active in business in politics. The senator has some ex press business in politics, it will be remembered. collection from the consumers of dressed meats? A wire tapping gang in New York City re cently stole $75,000 worth of electricity. We may now expect one " of the gang's leaders to get up and "thank God" that he stood up lor the national honor in 1896. Senator Foaker's Ideas about rate making were doubtless formed while assisting in- draw ing up some republican. tariff schedules. ' There is no need to worry about those con victed Chicago packers not having enough money left to purchase their winter supply of coal. President McCall "thanks God" he did, and a few men applaud him. Other men have been sent t Jail for misappropriating trust money. - Mr. McCall's solicitude for the widow and orphans is truly "touching," whether the word "touching" is used in its best or in Its worst sense. There is no sentiment in the hearts of the gentlemen in charge of the postoflice department; neither is there any music in "Tailholt" their souls. With owlish wis- Not dom and due disregard of pub- Carrol Itoh lie feeling they have declared "Tailholt" to be lacking in euphony, therefore thepostofflce of Tailholt, Ind., is no more. In its place we are to have Carroll ton. In the name of all lovers of real poetry, The Commoner protests. When James Whitcomb Riley wrote "The Little Town o Tailholt" he made that village famous, and he added to the gaiety of nations. And now to have the sordid, unpoetic, prosaic and unsentimental postoftice au thorities wipe the village from the map is too much. Where Bowen Was Wrong It will be noted that Mr. Loomls Is not the first eminent gentleman connected with the pres ent administration who retired upon his vindi cation. , "Put your thoughts on the higher things of , life,"- says Mr. Rockefeller. Yes, and let Mr. (Rockefeller secure all the oil holes punched in ,the lower. , President McCall declares he is not a million aire. Perhaps some determined defender of Vhonor" Is spending Mr. McCall's money unbe known to him. fc The Argentine Renublichas decided -to adopt & nigh protective tariff, and the decision has re sulted in -malting very angry a lot of American manufacturers wlio inBist on being protected to . Mr. Bowen's chief offense seems to have been that he had the temerity to disclose the shortcomings of a gentleman who had secured the confidence of the president. According to the attitude of a majority of the republican organs. Mr. Bowen should have remained silent and not made public the actions of a republic official, because that meant discrediting the president and the party. This Is the characte istic republican view. President Roosevelt has not only been un fortunate in the selection of pome of his friends, but he has been doubly unfortunate in rushing to their defense in spite of the manifest truth of severe charges made against them. M. Livingston, Iberia, Mo.; William Guptau, South Elgin, 111.; R. B. Tullis, Elkton, Ohio; P. McLindon, Williamsburg, Kan.; Thomas F. Bale man, Valparaiso, Ind.; Dr. O. A. Lambert, Marietta, Ohio; W. F. Russell, Benton, Tenn.; Henry Meyer, Shellrock, Iowa; John Connell, New Bedford, Mass.; George W. O'Brien. Beaumont, Texas; C.' M. Wilson, St. Louisville, Ohio. Everyone who approves of the work The Commoner is doing is invited to co-operate along the lines of this special subscription offer. Ac cording to the terms of this offer cards each good for one vear's subscription to The Com moner, will be furnished in lots of five, at the rate of $3 per lot. This places the yearly subscription Any one ordering these cards may sell them for $1 each, thus earning a commission of W on each lot sold, or he may sell them at the cost price and find compensation in the fact that ne has contributed to the educational campaign. These cards may be paid for when ordereu, or they may be ordered and remittance made alter they have been sold. A coupon is printed ueiow for tbe convenience of those who desire to par ticipate In this effort to increase The Commoner s circulation: THE COMMONER'S SPECIAL OFFER Application ton Subscription Cards Publisher Commoner: I am Interested in jn creasinjr Tlie Commoner's olroulot Ion. ana at sire you to send mo a supply of sunsc"''11 cards. I apree to use my utmost endeavor i sell the cuius, and will remit for them at inc rate of 60 cents each, when sold. Mr. Lawson is going to call a great conven tion of policyholders in life insurance companies, ana deciare3 that before he gets through with his disclosures there will be from 100 to 150 big Insurance men servinc .. x, ' , - from o!ght to fiffcy years In the penitentiaries of the country. And people are not pooh-poohing Mr. Lawson's assertion like Lawgon Has a Huge Scheme 5 To 15 20 25 50 75 100 Name. Box, on Street No p. o Stats Indicate the number of owJAS marldntr X opposite one of the numbers pi ed on, end of this manic. If you believe the paper Is doing a work that . rner- us encouragement uu uuw . -- -- - It to THE COMMONER., Lfncoln, Neb. affl jAh.Ak JV.i. ' . ,a.j... i a . i-- . AlLWW . !jH.irittrWrtF p iTHm H'm' -, fofflfl