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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.
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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.
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