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JANUARY 61900 The Commoner. Editorials by Commoner Readers Marquette, Mich., reader I spend almost' all my time in the woods and am far removed from places -where primaries are held, Dut I manage to ret The Commoner once a week. I Tee where '.someone suggests that the postmaster general, Mr. Cortelyou, re-sign his office1 in view of the dis closures made at the insurance in vestigation. Why should he resign? He has done the work for which he was selected. If. I live for another 5 ear I will he out ofthe woods and will try my hand in getting some subscribers foi The Coixnone& If the democratic party wins in 1908 it Will be through the good work The Commoner has done and is still do- C. C. Smith, Arlington, Kans. Mr. Long was in Colorado in 1904 for his health, and perhaps he explained him self to the co-operative and to Pea body how he should vote on the labor and freight question. Perhaps he will explain to the people of Wichita how he stands on these questions af ter he goes to uoioraao ana nas nis prescription filled again. William Hanna, Magrew, Ohio The republicans defeated the bosses last year by nominating Roosevelt for president and he carried Ohio by over 250,000. This year the democrats de feated the bosses in their party by nominating Pattison for governor and he carried the state by nearly 50,000 over Governor Herrick, the republican boss' candidate. A change of over 300,000 in twelve months means something. It means there is at least half that many voters in Ohio the bosses can't boss, and that the buyers can't buy; that the' dis tillers and saloons can't control, and that even the corporation lawyers can't -whip-in -The bosses had every thing in their favor, they had pos session, all the money they could use to advantage, plenty of precedence, and every saloon in the state was a Herrick club and every man behind the bar a walking delegate for him without any regard to previous con dition of color or servitude. They had the most perfect machine they ever had in the state; its very per fection helped to break it down. It showed the lines too plainly around their preserves and It separated the goats from the sheep too early in the season. There is another side to the election in Ohio. Governor Herrick says that in spite or all he had done for the people of Ohio they have been swept away from the moorings of truth by "a wave of prejudice and suspicion." A very grave charge if it were true against the con 0 servative and thinking voters. Who did it? Thought is the flowerpot the mind. The result" of thought is the fruit of the mind and we believe in this case it is good fruit. The elec tion was carried by the disciples of Roosevelt, Bryan, Folk, LaPollette and that class of thinkers, and by the churches and temperance people. Neither one could have succeeded by themselves but let them not forget they can succeed every time they unite and fight to a finish, the trusts, the bosses, the rum power or other evils of our day. They can not suc ceed if they are democrats, Baptists, republicans, Methodists, prohibition ists or Catholics, and if they permit their creed, Or the color of their nair to keep them divided on questions of light. Too many of us had con cluded politics was too dirty for church people and other honest citi zens, for it was rim on the plan that politics is war in that it was J'talit to deceive the enemy, to hire the Hessian and that, to the victor belongs the spoils. So we thought w? handled pitch we would be de JuH But we feel better and cleaner "i I'.lVini? wiinnail fhnm till-hi no 15 it does not contaminate an American voter to mix in politics if his motives are clean clear to tho bono. C W. Browne, Mica, Wash. I would suggest as a cartoon for The Commoner, an elephant with two heads. On one head, as a driver, monopoly end of the elephant, Iloose' republican republic. In front of tho monopoly, end of tho elephant, Roose velt in cowboy attire and with cat tle whip. Back of Roosevelt, the democratic donkey with heels pretty close to Roosevelt's coat tail. At the head of the donkey, and holding his halter, the democratic public. Roosevelt says: 'Darned It I know which way that brute is going now. If he comes any farther this way he'll step on me, surely, and I can't go back." Roosevelt and tho republican ruyuuuc are trying to drive the ele phanUover tho road to tariff reform and government .control of trusts. Monopoly is trying to ride him over President Roosevelt, and the demo cratic donkey is bracing Roosevelt so he can not go back. If I were an art ist I would make a cartoon, but will sent outline sketch so you can see my meaning. You see I have revised it some. Roosevelt says, looking at tho trunk of the elephant: "If this is a head I lose; if it's a tail I win." In the meantime the elephant is hitched to a stand pat nost. Robert R. Jones, Syracuse, N. Y. I write to express my delight and admiration for the many good and excellent productions of your paper. It is a truism, "nothing is more odious than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own concerns and prevents his be ing moved with either the joys or the sorrows of another." How true are the thought magnets, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Thought is a magnet, and the longed for pleasure, . Or boon, or aim, or object is the steel, And its attainment hangs but on the measure Of what thy soul can feel. So too, all grand and noble human thought both inspires and delights the student of the world's history, and vast achievements of men and women. I've been eagerly watching for Mr. Bryan's letters what he sees, the peoples he comes in contact with on his trip around the world. We can't dispute but what Mr. Bryan "has fought a good -fight;" that he hasn't finished his course and that he has "kept the faith." And may he illuminate The Commoner with his brilliant thoughts couched in his elo quent language is my wish. M. V. Koger, Mooresburg, Tenn. Paul Morton, president of the Equit able Life Assurance society, stated a few weeks ago that "people did not want cheaper insurance but, sate in surance" and further "that insurance had become an acknowledged invest ment, one in which a man does not have to wait for death before any one can obtain any good from it." This latter statement was flatly con tradicted by Richard A. McCurdy, president of the Mutual Life Insur ance company, before the legislative investigating committee recently. President McCurdy said that "who ever went into insurance for an in vestment was a fool" that "it only profited the families of those who died." Although President .McCurdy has been charged with gross incon sistencies, in his testimony, he never theless stated a truth here. If any one reason more than any other could be given for the wholesale corrup tion lately exposed in the Old Line insurance societies it is that insur- costs too much, in wnui um and by what other means could hoard of vultures ue iaueneu fii nnnpppRsfirv surmus m early Ih kept policyholders to see their Anyono who will take tho trouble to count Interest at C per cont pay able annually can never say that in surance in tho Old Lino companies is suuu investment except by uvuui. jh long as insurance ut uio present high rate need not bo surprised iiuiu earneu money squandered and misappropriated by those hypocritical defenders of national honor. Some of the companies have been re modeled and started anew, but what consolation is there in tho Equitable? There is Tom Ryan with his $2, 500,000, owning a majority of the stock. Can anyone be so easily duped to believe that this unscrupu lous Wall Btreet financier is In tho Equitable with all this sum for tho ance I way, such a except by atnall consideration, $8,500 a year, which tho law allows him? His ma jority stock gives him power to ap point the president and trustees. Ho appointed Paul Morion as president who while vice president of the Santa Ko gave rebates to tho amount of $1,000,000. In it reaHonablo to bollcvci that ho would not ngaln Imitate tho Romans when confronted with tho in terests of the great ami ambltioim Ryan? There is an old saying that when a man is onco deceived ho can Justly blame his decolver but when again deceived by tho'sntno ono or In tho same manner there is no ono to blame but himself. 'Jt looks very much like tho 000,000 policyholders of the Equitable are fixing to incur self-blame. 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