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
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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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