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ft 4 The Commoner ISSUED WEEKLY Entered at the postofflco at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class mail matter. One Year $1.00 Threo Month .'...25o Six Months 50o Single Copy... . 5o -.!. c m Sample Copies Free In Clubs of 5 or more , Foreign Postage 52o Ex- per Year 75o tra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can bo sent direct to Tho Com moner. They can nlso bo sent through nowspapers which havo advertised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, where sub-agents havo beon appointed. All remittances should bo sent by postofflco money order, express order, or by bank draft on Now York or Chicago. Do not send individual checks, stamps or money. RENEWALS. The dato on your wrapper shows when your subscription will expire Thus, Jan. 31, '0G, means that payment has been received to and includ ing tho last Issue of January, 190G. Two weeks aro required af tor money lias been received beforo tho dato on wrapper can bo changed. CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Subscribers requesting a chango of address must give OLD as well as tho N13W address. ADVERTISING rates furnished upon, application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nob. MR. BRYAN'S LETTERS Mr. Bryan took passage on the Pacific Mail steamship Manchuria, which palled from San Francisco September 27. - He went 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. The people of several gang ruled cities are preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving in unusually enthusiastic style. 'Boss" Durham of Philadelphia was known to his familiars as "Iz" Durham. He is now known as "Waz" Durham. Boss" Oox is in a position to give some sage advice to other political bosses who insist on waiting until they are shoved. The cemeteries in Philadelphia refused to yawn on election day, the result being that the gang showed up several thousand votes short. . ..The public is informed that President Mc Curdy is. losing his hearing. But the public will be more interested in hearing that President Mc Curdy has lost his job. Astronomers declare that there are 100,000 miles of "spots" on the sun. There seems to' be even more than that on tho reputations of some life insurance presidents. , .-- The manager of Bernard Shaw's indecent play paid a high tribute to the press when he admitted that the daily nowspapers had driven that play from the stage. rJ len President Roosevelt has reformed foot ball he will make a hit by giving his attention to the man who is always standing on the out sWe edge of the rear platform.. The indications are that several Russian grand dukes will have to go to work for a living unless they can organize life insurance com panies and secure the presidency. , . "Turn your, thoughts on the higher thines of life," advises Mr. Rockefeller. That's all very well, Mr. Rockefeller, but it is hard to do it when a fellow has to dig for a bare living. i A,n Amerlcan autoist in France was fined ?4,000 and sentenced to imprisonment for three months for running over and killing a little girl In this country he would probably havo been compelled to send his chauffer to the police sta tion with a blank check to pay a twenty dollar nue , "y Vif.'. The Commoner. , 7 Princess Louise of Saxony is said to owe $900,000. She might issue bonds to that amount and begin- negotiation with a bond syndicate or ganized among a lot of life insurance presidents. To be consistent some earnest administra tion supporter should suggest to the czar that he secure the services of some eminent American politicians to teach the Russian people self-government. When the price of coal goes up the excuses for the increase are numerous shortage of cars, shortage of coal, shortage of miners. The fact that people are often short of coal money seems never to cut a figure.- v-pLTJME 5, NUMBER A'Forced ST1 thenar S8B di 24 the Gang couldn't gag the editorial S ers. The Record, a democnM paper, accepted toe advertisements and ToS the money therefore to the Philadelphia iiSJ for Incurables. Then it roasted the gang to 2 brown turn editorially. The ganc in pj,ii , i ? Phia has looted the city to theSne oi n ot but the Record aided in getting a pu of ft back and devoting it to a good cause !t It will be noted that no one is wasting time asking the insurance company presidents where they got it. Everybody knows. What everybody wants to know is when the life Insurance presi dents are to be jarred loose. The supreme court has decided that a stock holder has a right to inspect the books of his company. Perhaps, but what can he expect to find in books that are doctored up until they 'perplex a government expert? The eminent gentlemen who imagine that they can make the people believe they are "stahQ ing by the president" "while opposing his rate regulation policy have very little conception of the mental perception of .the. people. The packers' claim that' Commissioner Gar field promised them immunity in return for all the facts about their business is a joke and a very bad joke. The packers overdid the busi ness when they cooked up those figures. This is autllitarian age, and even pleas uresare being turned to, practical uses. A Ne- tu -5raSa fdrmer living near -Tbe Hastings, owns an automobile. Progressive and Js an enthusiastic lover , West of what the Initiated call tho - - "buzz- wagon." But he has discovered that the auto is good for other things than riding around over the good Nebraska roads. He -has other things to do, and he has hitched his "wagon" to several things, the chief one being the washing machine. He jacks up the rear wheels of the auto, attaches a belt to one wheel and runs it over a pulley on tho fam ily washing machine. Then he "cranks up" and throws his lever. The whir of the auto wheels sounds good in his ears and he Imagines he is traveling at a lively rate. In the meantime tho good wife sits in .the rocking chair and watches the washing matihine getting in its work. It does not take the American people long to util ize anything that comes along. The pleasure contrivances of yesterday are the utilities of today. EDITORIALS FROM COMMONER READERS Referring to the suggestion that Mr. Cor telyou retire from the president's cabinet, Ed ward Callaghan. of Charleroi, Pa., writes: "Why should George B. Cortelyou be asked to resign from the cabinet while Theodore Roosevelt re mains president? It was to elect Mr. Roosevelt that the big insuance companies gave away the democratic policyholders' money. Mr. Roosevelt knows this to be true. Why not ask him to re sign? P. T. Barnum once said that the American people like to be humbugged. Edward Callaghan says 'that if Theodore Roosevelt and the trusts are not humbugging the American people now, the said P. T. Barnum was mistaken.' "It will even question the veracity of Holy Writ 'can a bad tree bring forth good fruit?' etc. Paste this in your hat for future reference. Roosevelt is singing the swan song." country the prospect of a speedy extinguishment of the debt. Posterity may have cause to re gret if from any motiVes of tranquility opportu nities are left unimproved for accelerating this valuable end." A nation that can and wont pay its debts is dishonest. Some of ours have been running since the civil war,. anA the national bankers will perpetuate and increase it as a basis for their national bank notes. Why should the people carry this heavy load for generations to sustain and fatten the national banks and permit them to dictate our financial legislation ror their own par ticular benefit. They ought to be run out of con gress and our legislatures. . E. F. T. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 3. Our fathers were nbt friendly to bankers being in congresst They (bankers) are out of place there. In the "debates of congress" of 1789 and 1780, pages 445 and 446, united States senate, we find recorded a motion to amend the ninth section of the constitution as follows: "Nor shall any person holding an office or stock in any institution in the nature of a bank for Issuing or discounting bills or notes payable J? :TS? ?n order' under th0 authority of the United States be a member of either house while he holds such stock, but no power to grant any charter of .incorporation or any charter or other monopoly shall be implied." This passed the senate, yeas. 13; nays 12 January 16, 1790. When John Quincy Adams was m congress he held that he had no right to vote on the subject of the national bank of which he was a stockholder until he had disposed of his We will have a perpetual debt as long as national bankers are permitted to sit in the sen ate and house. In his sixth annual message, replying to the house of representatives, President Washington said: "Ad far as may be practicable we ought to Place that credit on grounds which cannot be disturbed and to prevent that accu mulation of debt which must ultimately endanger all governments." In his seventh message, reply, ing to the house, he said: "Whatsoever will tend to the honorable extinction of our public debt accords as much with the true interest of our country as with the general sense of our rnn stituents." In his eighth message, repaying to the house, he said: "I will only add that it win afford me a heartfelt satisfaction to concur in such further measures as will ascertain to our - Owosso, Mich., Oct. 28., Drd you -ever stop to think what we as subscribers to The Com moner could do in the way of extending its use fullness if we only set about it. There are per haps 150,000 of us taking this paper. Now it stands to reason that we are in sympathy with what it advocates or we would not be taking it. This being true why not one and all of us try to endtend its usefulness and do it in this way: Each week when we receive our paper and havo read it let's pass it along. We will probably fintl some art(cU that appeals 'particularly to us, or that we consider especially good. Let's en circle it with a lead pencil and mail or hand it to a friend. Do this every week. Ina year's timo we get fifty-two copies each. Supposing the whole of 150,000 of us would do as I suggest, just think what it would mean? ' It .. -uld mean practically an endless chain cf readers of The Cpmmoner and in my opinion in a few months time would double the subscrip tion list. Let's try it. If you have old copies oh hand wrap them up in bunches and hana" them out to some one who you think wilFread them. "Keep them mov inS." ' ' F. J. McDANNEL. Pittsburg, Pa Nov. 8. Shake, for "truth is mighty and w,ill. prevail" as so oft repeated by W. J. Bryan. Now we wish he were home to help us spread thj glad tidings and celebrate tho glorious victory in Pennsylvania and greater still in the state of that other "stuffed" and now dis credited "prophet" Grosvenor. He can now crawl into his hole and then pull the hole in after him as his day of. usefulness, If he ever had any, 'is gone never to return, for we democrats will give him ai.1 his party a worse licking in 190 than they received at the hands of Pattison and the honest people of the state yesterday. JOHN P. MAHONET. w K