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Vol. 6. No. 1
Lincoln, Nebraska, January 19, 1906
Whole Numberr261
CONTENTS
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Me. Beyan's Letter-Hawaii
Tile Sixtii Yeab
Pensions fob Honesty
Call Rockefeller . -
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Laughing at the Law
In the Line of Duty-; .
"Lafr" Young- Knew
Washington City Letteb
Comment on Cubbent Tories
. Tiie Pbimaey Pledge
News of the Week
THE COMMONER'S SIXTH YEAR
In the first issue of The Commoner, published
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tei,ne commoner
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has been chosen."
With this issee'The Commoner enters upon
its sixth year. Thanhs to the generous co-operation
of those . readers who believe that The
Commoner has established its right to the name
it bears, the beginning of this year seems to be
full of great promise promlso not only for the
continued co-operation of those readers whose
kind words and substantial aid have been so
helpful, but promise of enlarged opportunities
for The Commoner to do battle for the people
and to wage war against those who would op
press -the people.
It would be too much to say of any publication,
as of any man,-that its ideal had been realized.
In language with which the readers of this pub
lication are familiar, "the ideal must be .far
enough above ub to keep us looking up toward
it all the time, and it must be far enough in
advance of us to keep us struggling toward it
to the end of life." But every publication and
every individual can do his best, and when one,
ever keeping in view a lofty ideal, does his best,
he does all that may be expected of- him. While it
'would be too much to say that The Commoner has
realized its ideal in the field it has chosen it
is not too much to say that it has proved its
right to the. name it bears provided it has
shown fidelity to the-qommon people and has
exerted its best efforts along that line.
It is for the faithful readers of The Com
moner to say whether this paper has discharged
its .duty; and the kind words and generous co
operation of which The Commoner has been the
grateful beneficiary have greatly encouraged The
Commoner's editor and. all the members of ita
working force. For 1906 it can be promised, as was
promised of former years, that the efforts of
this publication will be ever exerted in support
of that doctrine wherein the, people are recognized
as the source of power, where the government
is required to respond to the desires and con
form to the character ' of its people, and where
"the greatest good to the greatest number" is
the end ever to be kept in view by the public,
servant.
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Administration papers point to the recent
earthquake in Nicaragua as a vindication of the
commission that selected the Panama route. Per
haps, but there are multiplying evidences of an
earthquake in Panama canal affairs that will make
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UNCLE SAM What Kjve You Done With What I Gave You?
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Crossing the pacific Hart ail
' Mr. Bryan' First Letter
There is vest in an ocean voyage. The re
ceding shores shut out the hum of jbho busy world;
'the expanse of water soothes the eye by its very
vastness; the breaking of the waves is music
to tho ear and there is medicine for tho nerves
in the salt sea breezes that invite to sleep. At
first one is disturbed sometimes quite so by the
motion of the vessel, but this passes away so com
pletely that before many days, the dipping of the
ship is really enjoyable and one finds a pleasure
in ascending the hills and descending the valleys
into which the deck sometjmes seems to be con
verted. If one has regarded the Pacific as an un
known or ah untraversed sea, the inipression will
be removed by a glance at a map recently pub
lished by the United States government a map
with which every ocean traveller should equip
himself. On this map the Pacific is covered with
blue lines indicating the shortest routes of travel
between different points with the number of miles.
The first thing that strikes one is that the curved
line indicating the northern route between San
FraTicisco and Yokohama is only 4,536 miles long
while the apparently straight line between the
two points is 4,791 miles long the difference be
ing explained by the curvature of the earth, al
though it is hard to believe that in following tho
direct. line a ship would have to climb over such
u a, 'mountain vapge of water, so to speak, as to
'inafteHt? shoitferi forgo ten degrees north, The
time between the United States and the Japa
nese coast has recently been reduced to less than
eleven days, but tho northern route is not so
pleasant at this season of the year and we sailed
on the Manchuria (September 27), going some
twenty degrees farther south by Honolulu. This
route covers 5,515 miles and is made in about
sixteen days when the weather is good.
The Manchuria is one of the leviathans of tho
Pacific and is owned by Mr. Harriman, president
of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific rail
ways. Tho ship's crew suggests the Orient, more
than three-fourths being Chinese, all wearing the
cue and clad in the national garb. There is also
a suggestion of the Orient In the joss house and
opium den of the Chinese in the steerage.
In crossing the one hundred and eightieth
meridian we lost a day, and as we are going all
the way around, we cannot recover it as those
can who recrosa the Pacific. We rose on Satur
day morning, October 7, and at nine o'clock were
notified that Sunday had begun and the remainder
of the day was observed as the Sabbath (OSm
ber 8.)
According to the chart or j
ab'ove there are thrrim
the Pacific. Honj
the Midway.
Honolulu, al
two liundrc
Islands, al
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