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The Commoner.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
Vol. 6. No. 19
Lincoln, Nebraska, May 25, 1906
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CONTENTS
, Mr. Bryant's -Letter
. Mr. Roosevelt's Surrender
Bulheley's PRornEOY
Swapping LaEollettes for Walshes
Stories op Men and Beasts
Press on Roosevelt-Chandler Episode
Watteeson on Plutocracy
Sixty Forms op Discrimination
Washington City Letter
Comment on Current Topics"
Home Department
Whether Common or Not
News op the Week
WILL RESCUE POPULAR GOVERNMENT
An Iowa republican paper asks, "What's the
use of the Democratic party in Iowa, anyway?"
The Washington Post adds, "We know some peo-
.gplehwpUld amend that ques'cion by leaving
out 'In Iowa,; "
- .Yes. For instance, JohnD. Rockefeller and
other trust magnates; also the men who have
grown rich through favors obtained under the re
publican tariff; also the Aldriches, the Fo rakers
and their masters who seek to perpetuate the
impositions placed upon the people by the rail- '
roads.
But the honest people who, mislead by the
falsehoods and sophistries of republican politi
cians and financiers, voted the plutocratic
ticket, may yet find the democratic party very
useful in saving the country from the radicalism
of the republican party on the one hand and
the radicalism of the socialist on the other.
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"REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES"
The Portland Oregonian (Republican) is in
dignant because some one suggested that it is
difficult to determine just what "republican pol
icies" are. The Oregonian says:
"If we wish to determine the principles
of the republican party we ask what Mr.
Roosevelt, its great leader, advocates. In
the same way, to learn the principles of the
democratic party we must inquire what its
leaders stand for. Those leaders are Gorman,
Ryan, Belmont and their plutocratic con
freres. Mr. Belmont stands for the street
railway combine which is swindling the people
of New York out of hundreds of millions of
dollars. Mr. Ryan stands for malodorous life
insurance and the system, of high finance
which is based upon it. Gorman stands for
plug-ugly politios in Maryland and the United
States senate."
It is of no moment to the Oregonian- that its
party derives its campaign fund from the "rail
way combines" and the "malodorous insurance
and system of high finance." It is of no moment
to the Oregonian that the American people have
recently had a clear cut demonstration of the fact
that Nelson W. Aldrlch, representing, in the United
States senate, the Standard Oil and allied inter
ests, is the "great leader" of the- republican
party, to whose decree even Theodore Roosevelt
must yield.
The Oregonian should have said: "If we wish
to determine the principles of the republican
party, we ask what the men who provide its cam
paign fund, advocate;" and if there are any who
are yet in doubt, Nelso& : Aldrich of Rhode
Island, can enlighten th
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IN THE TROPICS
Mr. Bryan's Nineteenth Letter
In a tour around the world one travels by
steamer about six thousand miles through the
tropics. Entering the torrid zone soon after leav
ing Hong Kong, almost touching the Equator at
Singapore and not entering the temperate zone
again until he is nearly half way through the
Red Sea, he has ample time to study the temper
ature, and our opportunities were still farther
enlarged by the trip to Java, which carried us
nearly eight degrees below the equator. While
on the water the heat is not so noticeable, being
relieved by the ocean breezes, but on land one
suffers during the middle of the day. It is not
that the heat in the shade is greater than the
summer heat in the United States, but one can
not always be in the shade, and the rays of the
sun are piercing to a degree which is incon
ceivable to one without experience in these lati
tudes. At the seaports, too, the heat is intensi
fied by the weight and moisture of the air and
the temperature is practically the same the" year
round at least one who visits this part of the
world in the winter time can not imagine it
worse.
While the native population work barebacked,
barelegged, barefooted, and sometimes bareheaded
Americans and Europeans resort to every possible
device to protect them from the climate.
The white helmet hat, with a lining of cork,
is the most common headwear for both men and
women, and it does not require a very long stay
here to convince one that it is superior to the
straw hat. White clothes which reflect the rays
of the sun are also largely worn by both sexes.
For evening dress, men sometimes wear a close
fitting white jacket, reaching to the waist, and be
fore breakfast they lounge about in pajamas of
variegated colors.
Eating extends through the entire day. Tea or
coffee can be had from five to eight, breakfast is
ready at eight or nine and ends at twelve, lunch
or tiffin as it Is called here, occupies the hours
from one to three, then tea follows at four, and
dinner is served from eight to ten thirty. These
are the hours for Europeans and Americans, and
for those natives who have adopted foreign ways,
but most of the natives look as If they had missed
some of these meals.
We are among the dark-skinned races hero.
Chinamen are a darker yellow than those seen
farther north, the Malays are a dark brown and
the Tamils are quite black, while the Slngaleso
and Indians are between a' black and a brown.
Mark Twain pays a high compliment to these
dark-skinned people at the expense of the white
races, contending that their complexion is always
good while the white face has freckles, plmpleg
and moles to mar It.
There are two great seaports near the Equa
tor which every traveler visits, viz: Singapore
and Colombo, and most of the boats also stop at
Penang, a thriving city on the Malay peninsula
some four hundred miles north of Singapore.
Singapore is on a small island of the same name
not far from the mainland, and its harbor is
full of sea-going vessels of all nations. The ships
from Europe to China and Japan call here, as
do also the boats between Europe and Java and
between India and Australia. Here, too, are to
be, found representatives of many nationalities,
twonty-nine distinct languages being spoken in
this o&eclty. The Portuguese were the pioneers
and there are still some descendants of the early
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