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MR. BRYAN'S LETTERS
Mr, Bryan took passage on the Pacific Mail
steamship Manchuria, which sailed from San
Francisco September 27.
He will go to Japan via Honolulu. .After a
few weeks In Japan he will proceed to China, tho
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.
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"Forget it" is President jyicCall'a latest cry.
For years lie has been leaving off the "for."
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fr3rfT"ouble-rth the gentlemen who talk
about "honest graft" is that they are always work
ing tho other kind.
It is reported that the republican national
committee has $400,000 on hand, and it is well
known that several life insurance companies have
explanations on hand.
' Charles G. Dawes insists that the beef pack
ers are not guilty, which statement indicates Mr.
Dawes' opinion that they pleaded guilty merely
to save further annoyance.
The prolonged silence of Vested Rights may
bo taken as an indication that it is resting up for
the purpose of giving People's Rights another
solar plexus blow when congress convenes.
v.News of the shortage of the apple crop does
not thrill us. When "De. Peach" fell because the
. worra of graft had eaten into its center we felt
A too bad to have any little old apple crop failure
- affect us.
The directors of yie Hall of Fame seem to
havo overlooked the eminent scholar who first
propounded the "how old is Ann" query.
Secretary Shaw is advocating a ship subsidy"
while making speeches in the west. Is it pos-
sible that the secretary can think of nothing but
tho high seize?
"When we get around to tariff revision,"
says tbo Lincoln, Neb., Star, "we will take it
up as protectionists as republicans." Does this
foreshadow another revision upwards in return
for campaign contributions?
When a cabinet officer finds it necessary to
remove a subordinate he will doubtless find the
whitewash brush and pail right behind the icor
where the president -left then after bidding fare-
well to Morton and Loomls.
President McCurdy announces that ho has
appointed a committee to investigate the Mutual
Life Insurance company. The Amalgamated As
sociation of Bank Tjurglars has a standing com.
mittee on the inves'tigation of banks.
President McCurdy says his salary of $160,000
a year was a "mark of appreciation" of his able
management. There are a great many policyhold
ers who look upon it as the hallmark of a very
deft touch.
President Havemeyer was recently shocked
by an explosion in a Colorado mine which he was
inspecting. Explosions have also shocked several
insurance presidents recently, but they were not
mine explosions.
Senator Dick seems to believe that the peo
ple will only get a "square deal" by allowing his
senatorial colleague, Mr. Foraker, to take the
ca"rds into railroad headquarters to be prepared
for the deal without a cut.
The Kansas City Journal thinks -that demo
crats should be tired of seeking tariff revision
after all these years of useless effort. We note,
however, that the -Kansas City Journal is still
striving for that Jnew union depot.
Mr. Beck complains that Mr. Hughes frames
his questions in such a way that Mr. McCurdy
is put in a bad light. Some of these days it may
dawn upon the Beck mind that the McCurdy
answers have a great deal to do with it.
The statement that this country consumed
3100,000 pounds of Mocha and Java coffee despite
the fact that less than 350,000 pounds of it was
i;aised, need "not excite comment. Just think of
"what a life insurance w6 paid for and didn't get.
The Boston girl who has invented a machine
that will count a million dollars a minute is
.slow. A number of eminent financiers long since
invented, machines that would bring them in. miKt
lions faster than the Boston girl's machine could
count them. ., - -
The Kansas City Journal declares that the
disclosures in the insurance scandals have' been
made by a republican committee in tho repub
lican state of New York. And the Journal makes
no. pretense of being in the same class with
Puck and Judge, v
President McCurdy complains that Mr.
Hughes is "trying to make a fool of him." But
President McCurdy is wrong. Mr. Hughes is
only showing the "policyholders how foolish they
would be to s stand for McCurdy any longer.
The .Kansas City Journal complains because
Governor Folk's action in a recent case "gives
official acknowledgment to the political power
of organized labor." The Journal would perhaps
prefer to continue the g. o. p. acknowledgment of
the political power of organized greed and graft.
WHERE THE REMEDY LIES
President Ripley declares that the railroads
lose 'money on every car of dressed beef shipped
from Kansas City to Chicago. As long, however,
as the railroads stretch every nerve to secure this
dressed beef business the people will naturally
regard President Ripley's statement much in the
same light that they regard the statement of the
little boy who declared that he was one of three
children of the same parents, but never had a
brother or sister. There is but one explanation
of the boy's statement, and the explanation is
obvious the boy was mistaken. But if the rail
roads are losing money on the dressed beef busi
ness they might find relief in treating the pack
ers like they do ordinary shippers,
JJJ
BUT WHY DEFEND THE EVILS?
A number of John D. Rockefeller's neighbors
called on him September 26. It is explained that
the purpose of the call was to show that Mr.
Rockefeller has the affection of those who know
him well. Andrew Squire, who addressed Mr.
Rockefeller in behalf of his fellow citizens, de
voted considerable attention in his address to
what was in effect a protest against railroad
legislation. He paid a high tribute to tho Stand
ard Oil company and to- the truBt system in gen
eral. Is it not a bit strange that men who pre
tend to gather in defense of the nersni i
of their townsman find it necessary to deft
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The criticisms of Mr. Rockefeller dn tmf ,
to bia lovability or his lack S lSJaWUtv. f?7
are directed against the evils for which hi t?
part responsible, and it is significant tint tfc
who rush to Mr. Rockefeller's defense w th ha
.pretended purpose of testifying to his bomS
charms, find it Impossible to disassociate tS
hero from the great wrongs against XchZ
American people are protesting.
JJJ
THE QUANTITATIVE THEORY
Writing in "The Commercial West," publish
at Minneapolis, Henry D. Baker of rhfi
S?ni,!ses Mr Bryan ft)r "tho dire Prophecies of
1896." Then Mr. Baker proceeds to show tno larse
increase in the supply of gold, concluding his
article in these words:
When the increased need for mon to
cover the enormous gains in world value s and
world commerce is considered, It would cer
talnly look as if the miners for gold, inroad
of accomplishing a national inflation are
really instead averting a disastrous contrac
tion, and are thereby making the human race
as well as themselves, the beneficially of
their pluck, energy and skill.
In the . statement quoted Mr. Baker clearly
gives confirmation to the quantitative theory for
which theory Mr. Bryan contended.
JJJ
BUT "THE FOREIGNER PAYS"
The Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal, a repub
lican newspaper, says: "Dog meat is no longer
obtainable in Germany, according to the reports,
but the dog in the manger is doing business at
the old stand. American beef and pork a plenty
and at bearable prices are knocking at the gates,
but inside the walls horsemeat has risen in price
with the elimination of its competitor the dog,
and the people are turning to coarse sea ilsh and
rabbits for their semi-occasional bite of flesh. Beef
and pork on the hoof are sixteen or seventeen
cents a pound, all because the German land own
ers have influence enough with the government to
obtain a prohibitive duty on those products."
But perhaps "'the German landowners" are
"the trustees of God;" perhaps they are defend
ers of "national honor," or it may be that they
are the "devoted champions of the business in
terests of the country." Do they not know that
"the foreigner pays the tax" when it comes to
tariff duties? "Protection which guards and de
velops our industries is a cardinal policy of the
republican party." Why not a cardinal policy with
"the German landowners?"
JJJ
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