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situation so far as the soft coal fields
are concerned. The organization of
the independent operators who were
holding out against granting the ad
vance demanded hy the miners at a
meeting tonight decided to give up
the struggle and will sigh the scale.
AH those at the meeting were rep
resentatives of the operators who had
hound themselves not to sign the
scale. A number of other members
were wavering as to entering the
agreement. These latter were not
present, but it was assured that they
to would sign up on learning the ac
tion of the meeting tonight."
The Commoner.
13
As a result of the eruption of Mt.
Vesuvius the people in the vicinity of
that volcano are in a condition bord
ering on panic. Many homes have
been abandoned.
A plan is on foot to give Secretary
of the Treasury Shaw a banquet at
St. Louis, April 26. General John
W. Noble, former secretary of the in
terior, was chosen as grand marshal,
and 'Col. George D. Reynolds was
named on the reception committee,
but both of the gentlemen declined to
serve. Chairman Nelderinghaus of
the republican state committee, has
announced that he would not attend
the banquet. The affair is to be given
under the auspices of the Missouri
League of republican clubs, and, while
the secretary of the league says that
it is to be a non-partisan affair, it is
understood as the beginning of Mr.
Shaw's - presidential boom.
General Ramon Blanco, Spain's last
governor general of Cuba died at Mad
rid, Spain.
Governor Cummins of Iowa, and
George D. Perkins, his republican op
ponent, will engage in joint- debate.
Chancellor Von Buelow fainted
while attending the sitting of the
Reichstag at Berlin. The chancellor
was unconscious for some time. tte
was taken ill while listening to a
speech delivered by Herr Bebel, the
socialist leader.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew has an
nounced that he will not be a candi
date for re-election as a member of
the board of trustees or Tale college.
A movement was on foot to defeat
him. Senator Depew's physician says
he is suffering from a nervous break
down, the result of prolonged strain.
,
Secretary of War Taft delivered an
address at Tuskegee, Alabama, in
which he approved the south's restri
tions on the ignorant negro vote.
David B. Sherrick, former auditor
for the state of Indiana, has been re
fused a new trial. He will serve from
two to twenty years in the penitentiary.
Cannot Rest
Your appetite is gone. What little you eat
distresses you. Strength is failing are bilious.
You have headache, backache, feel blue and
melancholy and cannot rest or sleep. The fact
is your nerves are unstrung, and you are on
the verse of nervous prostration. They must
be strengthened, renewed. They will not cure
themselves, but must havo a nerve remedy.
This you will find in
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It is prepared for just suoh ailments, and is
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If allowed to continue, stomach, kidney and
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"I suffered from nervous prostration. When
I becan tnldncr Dr. Milan "NTflrvine I couldn't
" hold anything in my hands, nor get from one
room to another. Now I do an my own
work."
MRS. OHAS, LANDRUM, Carthago, Mo,
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Tho oil is tho very life of all paints.
Paint mado by tho painter cannot be properly
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machine.
My paint is unlike any other paint in tho world.
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My paint is mado to order after each order 13
received, packed in hermetically scaled cans
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I pay the freight on six gallons or over. h
My paint is so good that I raako this wonder
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When you receive your Bhlpment of paint, you
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If, after you havo used that much of my paint,
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No other paint manufacturer over mado such
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put up in tho best way, that I can mako this
offer.
I go even further. I sell all of my paint on six
t months' time, if desired.
This givc3 you an opportunity to paint yout
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paint at your convenience.
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Editorials by Commoner Readers
Charles W. Bowne, Odessa, Wash
ington The Roosevelt policy is "much
powder and little shot." If the demo
crats hope to succeed by the use of
a little more powder and a little more
shot they will fall between the devil
of republicanism and the deep seas
of socialism. There is no room for
two parties with conservative ten
dencies. All civilized nations are
travelling toward government owner
ship of public utilities1. If the demo
cratic party would succeed it must
become something more than a party
of negatives. The people want some
thing; they do not lenow just what,
but if democrats do not offer a defi
nite measure of relief the first panic
that comes and one Is about due
there will be a mighty migration to
a party with a program. Unless the
democratic party has a progressive
platform and a campaign of educa
tion from now on, it will be worse
off than in 1904. Nearly every jpaper
and magazine in the United States
is helping to make tne people dis
satisfied, but the only party that of
fers any real relief Is the socialist
party. The republicans do not want
to give relief and it remains to be
seen whether the democrats do. The
socialist party is gaining, not because
of the preaching of socialists but be
cause the fostering or special inter
ests are' driving people to socialism
for relief.
been a subscriber to The Commoner
sinco its first issue. Mr. Bryan to
day stands first in me hearts of all
democrats. Best wishes for the con
tinued success and usefulness of The
Commoner.
William Miller, Qultaquc, Texas
Enclosed, find a clipping from the
Chicago Inter-Ocean on the subjectT:
"What is a republican?" It seems to
me that this alone should be suffi
cient to change any honest man who
is a republican, and cause him to 'take
up the cause of democracy. Yours
for the success of the principles you
advocate.
Henry C. King, San Antonio, Texas
Availing myself or your invitatioon
to offer suggestions and comment, I
add a few lines, not that I have any
especial suggestion for the betterment
but to express the great satisfaction
whfch all democrats must feel that
the party, and the country, have so
able an exponent of the true prin
ciples upon which our government
must rest if it Is to endure and to
remain a government of the people.
I must beg to say also that The Com
moner is to be congratulated upon
having secured the editorial services
of Mr. Metcalfe, whose work makes
so effectively for righteousness, for
humanity, and' all the better things
of life. He is a wortny coadjutor of
his eminent chief, the Hon. W. J.
Bryan. The writer has had the honor
and pleasure of meeting Mr. Bryan
on his visits to this city, and has
W. R. Stokes, St. Paul, Minn.Yqu
speak of the facts concerning child
labor in this country as disclosed In
a recent book by Mr. John Spargo.
You indulge a few remarks deploring
and deprecating the facts, and say:
"It Is high time the fathers and
mothers of America arouse them
selves to a realizing sense of the
danger that threatens their children."
But not a word do you offer as to
what in particular should be done
either by them or by anybody else
in reference to the matter. True
you also say: "Tho demand for
'cheap labor' is responsible for this
criminal condition of affairs" etc.
But what would that demand amount
to if those who respond to it were
Independent of it? And why are
they not independent of it? If there
was the chance for men to take their
choice between working for them
selves or working for somebody else,
do you suuppose that conditons
would be as they are described in
the book mentioned? I take it that
you must answer no. Then why Isn't
tne great question of all questions
this: Why Is it that men do not have
the chance to take their choice be
tween working for themselves or
working for somebody else? As I
see things, that which gives hu
man beings gainful vocation and
calling is exploitation of natural re
sources. That is, the use of natural
resourc.es is the basis, either direct
or Indirect, of all gainful functioning.
And hence if the Individual does not
have access to land he is wholly de
pendent upon employment by some
body else for his chance to make a
living; yet no one in the whole wide
world is under any obligation what
ever to employ him. And what is
the result? All who are in this po
sition must compete with each other
to get employment from those who
command the natural resources; or,
of course, from such others as may
be in a business which Is itself sup
ported through the using of land by
yet others. Then what is necessary In
order to relieve those who are in this
predicament of being without land to
exploit? Isn't it obvious that part
of the land must bo freed from the
dominion of private ownership and
made public again so that it may be
acquired by these landless people?
I suppose you have now already
thought of both socialism and the
single tax scheme. But I propose
neither: am in fact opposed to both.
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