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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 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, Denrmrk, 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.
, That, full feeling this morning?
It seems that Mr. Depew warped his memory
nuts dGtailS by wrappins ifc around chest-
There seems to he more underground work
on the Panama canal than there is work on tho
canal itself.
People" were wont to laugh with the senior
senator of New York. If they laugh now it is not
with him, hut at him. -
i Jr. Depew's "up river" friend should he
Joined by several others and the trip should not
end short, of Ossining. .
A Missouri schoolboy defined a friend as "one
who knows all about you and likes you just the
same." That is hetter than Webster.
President McCurdy has generously lopped off
one-half of his salary. Not to be outdone in gen-
srs WhSr are perfectiy wmins t0
of ' SSKY i Uinabl lo rememl)er the name
J, J dropped around once a year
Mr nnni88" PeJhp,JS tbe frIend for to tell
Mr. Depew a new funny story.
- Mr. Lawson declares that Mr. Roeers heat
him out of $12,000,000 In the collapse of the
Amalgamated deal. The loss of that amount wouW
make a newspaper man real mad Uld
iQ J? M' Blick contends that public opinion
is all the supervision rhnt iif , "Pinion
panto neea. It teSJuSU to ZfS.T
Beck to struggling vafant mft X
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The Commoner.
vailing calendar. Wisdom prompts such a course,
for any opportunity to skip eleven such days as
Russia has been enjoying for several years
should be seized with avidity.
VOLUME 5, NUMBER
9
elected mayor of San Francisco and ,
has been elected mayor of Toledo tJ nVell8t
Bional politicians seem to be on the nin Prfc
"Wo can not stop the practice of giving
rebates," pleads a railroad man. Every state
has an institution for the cure of habitual law-breaking.
xi. A JePublican or&an ventures the prediction
that the president and the senate will have no
trouble in getting together on a rate regulation
measure. Perhaps. But is that a compliment to
tho president?
It Is announced that the mine owners are
organizing for a labor war on the miners. Per
haps at some not distant day the public will also
organize and teach the mine owners a thing or
two. Who knows?
. Another 'lasr survivor" of m, t , ,
gnde'Ms dead. The la?t survivors of 7' "
charge seem to hang on almost m ton?? a"
some Hfe insurance president ,CloU?y M
promises of tariff revision JmU"
JewsA rarixft 7
lor the relief of the oppressed Rnl"'e ,tuna
There is nothing strangeabout tin nit"?
love has advanced so far these days ,lnt?'y
notongw be bounded by either 5 'I
A prize waltz 3r has-been elected mayor of
Providence, a professional violinist has been
The European powers are now enloyin- their
annual picnic of handing redhot ult malum? to
the sultan of Turkey. The suit-in nnS
unon 1S7 T?, Hke thG "PuMtoS1! sS
"he peSpie." t0 deal fai
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