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to fix a 'maximum' rato, in accord
ance with I ho specific rccommonda
lion of President. RoohovcU, the rate
to bo fixed ahnll ho a reasonable ono.
It forbids tho commission Increasing
any rato wlilcli has been fixed and
published as such by any railroad. It
authorizes tho rato fixed by tho com
mission to bo rovlowcd by tho courts
only when It Is shown that such rato
does not onablo tho carrier to reallzo
a fair profit on tho capital actually
Invested In tho road, or whero tho
commission haH exceeded Us powers
in fixing tho rato, making it confis
catory. Tho rato, when fixed by tho
commission, Is to become operative
within Uilrly days and Is not to bo
sot aside oxcopt by ordor of the court
of final resort. Tho bill makes no
change cither In tho salary or num
ber of. tho commission as at present
constituted."
Now York dispatches report that
Sonator Dopow is ill and that for tho
first tlmo In many years he requires
tho services of physicians.
Threo French war ships arc off the
Venezuelan coast prepared to deliver
Iho answer of Franco to President
Castro's treatment of M. Talghoy, tho
French roprcBon tntivo at Caracas by
a naval demonstration in Venezuelan
wators. Tho situation is said to bo
very dellcato. Castro is alleged ovon
o havo given offense to American
'representatives.
Luke E. Wright, now governor-general
of tho Philippines, has been
namod by tho president as tho first
Amorlcan ambassador to Japan. Judge
Ida, now vice-governor of tho Philip
pines, will be nuulo governor-general,
while Gonoral James F. Smith will
take the placo now hold by Judge Ido.
Sorlous charges aro made by Porto
Ricans concerning tho indifforcuce of
American officials In that island to the
wishes of tho people.
Federal Judgo Mungor at Omaha
has decided tho (ax suit-between the
The "EARBOOKy
For Deaf People
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. and found he could hear everv
whisper you spoke to him?
T?uPPose you enquired about him
and found that ho was one of the mo"t
reliable, and responsible, citizens of
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The Commoner.
state of Nebraska and tho Burlington
Railroad company In favor of tho
stato. Tho railroad company will ap
peal to tho United States supremo
court.
Tho Gorman govornment has placed
a rush ordor for 20,000 freight cars
at a cost of $50,000,000.
Serious charges are made against
mombers of the St. Louis police forco,
it being claimed that a system of graft
has been maintained in that depart
ment. Directors of Swift & Co. packers,
report earnings for tho past fiscal
year at 12 per cent on $35,000,000 cap
ital stock. They havo voted to in
crease the capital stock to $50,000,000.
Attorney aeneral Stead of Illinois
has advised the state's attorney
at Chicago to file suits against ono
thousand corporations that have not
complied with tho stato anti-trust law
which requires that corporations shall
annually file affidavits that they aro
not connected with any trust or other
illegal combination. Under tho law
every one of these corporations may
bo fined $50 a day from October 30.
A dispatch to the Chicago Record
Herald under date of Denver, January
4, says: "In behalf of a rough rider
named Curtis Waggoner, President
Roosevelt has written a letter to Gov
ernor McDonald asking that Waggon
er's application for a pardon be in
vestigated. Waggoner is serving a
penitentiary sentence of two and one
half years for stealing a horse and
buggy. A friend wrote to the presi
dent, describing Waggoner as the man
who was known by tho sobriquet
'Stick Tight' in the president's regi
ment. The result was prompt. The
president's secretary wrote the request
for tho governor to investigate, but
tho president in his own chirography
ecuteu in 'Please have some one in
vestigate.' Governor McDonald will
comply Immediately.
H. Wilson
Wouldn't you want that man to tell
you just how he got back his full Hear
ing after twenty years of Deafness?
Wouldn't you want to know some of
the things he found out about the Ear,
and about Deafness, in fifteen years
study of both, and of his own case?
wnWell,r;tha,t i?.'ust whnt George H.
Wilson of Louisville, Ky., tells in his00
pngo "Ear Book." .wu
Mn Wilson is almost as well known
in Louisville as Marshall Field is in
Chicago, or John Wanamaker in Phila-
f A,ndth(;vs. for twenty years, almost
the Deafest man in his native city.
Mmn? one.?,f the thusands who know
him today will certify that his Hearing
is now as sharp as their own,
Few men have studied the Ear so
earnestly and thoroughly, as Mr. Wilson
had to do, for his own sake.
What he positively knows about
Deafness is personal and practical.
f, lt Is n,ot, mero book knowledge, but
the actual facts tested out by his own
hard experience.
"The Wilson Ear Book" therefor
should be read by every man orwomS
who has Ear trouble.-who is Dea?
threatened with Deafness. T
n vTn S '.,Enr Book" wi be sent Free to
Deaf ners'on ffSf. &L,! ?f 5
The wTi.: . Z "" Aaess-.
EDITORIALS BY COMMONER
READERS
D. M. Hall, Washington, D. C
Recently The Commoner printed an
editorial entitled, "Aro the People
Powerless?" Charles W. Browne of
Mica, Washington, made answer by
saying that "under our present sys
tem of government the people are
powerless unless our officials are men
who are strong enough and great
enough to use their means to protect
the people."
But have we any officials which the
people admit are not strong enough
and great enough to protect the peo
ple? I think it safe to say that as a
rule the officials are as strong and as
great for any purpose of the people
as the people are united in demand
ing. Mr. Browne closes by saying:
"Roosevelt should not lose the op
portunity of having his name written
with that of Washington, Jefferson,
Jackson and Lincoln, in order to see
it mentioned flatteringly by the press
of today, that he may bask in the
smiles of those who are rich and
strong."
On the whole his explanation which
depends upon the incongruous and
absurd grouping of distinguished
names, which stand for one thing with
about as much harmony as do oil and
water, reminds me of the way a cer
tain devout person fluent in scripture
quotations started in to say grace.
Thus: "O Lord forgive ire, poor sin
ners of which I am chief and the
one altogether lovely."
May I ask The Commoner as an
exponent of democratic principles to
tell its many readers, myself included,
what an Abe Lincoln democrat is, and
will it also point out how in any way
the public career of Lincoln resembled
that of Jefferson and Jackson?
F. P. Hilburn, Clio, Ark. I have
always been a political worker but
unlike manv I liavfi tifivsr mnrio omr
money out of it. I have been a1 con
stant reader of The Commoner since
its inception and love and honor Mr
Bryan, Mr. W. M. Maupin and Mr!
R. L. MMcalfe. I feel the patriotic
thrill with Maupin and shed tears
with Metcalfe. But I am a laborer.
My friends are all laborers and feel
the sting of industrial wrongs. "I am
a democrat still" but not "very still "
I am trying with tongue and pen to
carry my democracy into the great
industries of this country. I believe
the only salvation for our country lies
in the public ownership of all that
man must have to live, and not only
public ownership but democratic man
agement. My grandfather was a soldier in
the war of 1812 and I have revered
L uiuubh oi an my illustrious coun
trymen from Washington to Bryan
but I have gone a step farther in my
advancement along democratic lines.
I am what is scornfully called a social
ist, probably due to my environment,
but I believe it is because I love my
country more and parties less.
Yours for humanity ana the dawn
of a better day.
A GOOD JOKE '
Harper's Weekly tells of a Balti-
rr?nP Pyisic!an w.h0 boar(led a crowded
car in Charles street. A woman was
standing and a big German was
sprawling over twice the seat aTea
that was necessary to him. Indignant
ly the nhvnlrlnn an i I- .. bUUUL
"See hero! Why don't you move a
For a mnmnnf n . .
VOLUME 6, NUMBER 3
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Lyman T. Gage, has given an inter
view in which he says that he agrees
with Jacob Schiff that there is danger
of a panic unless we have what he
calls "currency reform."
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