ow ' irr!t v ilJ,-v;. v . j v a , wx V I- ,. - '-WW J JUNE 1, 1906 The Commoner. 15 anyway. And this suggests another matter, namely, that the pending statehood bill provides that every one of the judges of the statehood elec tion and all of the election com missioners shall be republican, and that their decisions shall be final. This is the acme of partisanship. G. W. T. Conrath, Bowling Green, Ohio. Enclosed please find check for $2.00 for my subscription to The Com moner and the 4th and 5th volumes of The Commoner Condensed. Before closing I wan'c to give The Commoner a plan to not only largely increase its circulation but its sphere of useful ness. I suppose it would be re sumption on my part to point out J;he gravity of the present situation to The Commoner, its distinguished editor and his able official family, but cer tainly the recent trip and utterances of our late lamented candidate for the first office within the gift of a free people were that his element will stop at nothing to frustrate the re forming influences within the party's lines. Party history records no more unworthy attempt to scuttle the craft that refused to be steered by him into the harbor of the capitalistic class than our recent candidate has afforded us. If they can't rule the democratic party they have resolved to ruin it. What more successful coup could be designed than to sectionalize the. party? His was no plea for Tiarmony; harmony might spell success for the democratic party, and thai his friends' and political associates don't want. They know that the Parker stripe can't win as a candidate for the demo cratic party. They know that a Jeffer sonian democrat would ruin all their schemes of robbery, so they scheme to split the party and thus get a repub lican president fayorable to their ideas. To frustrate their plans will require all devotion and self-sacrifice that the rank and. file are capable of, and as a means to that end I submit the following plan for your considera tion. Every man knows that wheri he enters a barber shop 99 chances out of 100 he has to wait from ten minutes to two hours to get a chance to be shaved. You know and I know that we will pick up any paper, no matter what, how old, or wtiat its politics, and will read it to "put in" the time. Now what I propose is this. Let us start a "Barber Shop Fund," or, better yet, devise some means by which we can as individuals or as a body, see that every barber shop has one or two Commoners every week for the next two years. If we can get 20,000 Commoners in barber shops in the United States they will be read by close to half a million men overy week that very likely never see a Commoner. I would do this by asking some individual in' eacn town or district to take up the worK. I would send out cards for the barber to sign agreeing that if the paper or papers are sent to him by mail or otherwise that he will put them in his shop as he does other papers for the benefit and convenience of his cus tomers. I will be giau to subscribe and pay for copies for all the shops in my town that I can get to sign an agreement to allow the papers in their shops. Mary E. Walker, M. D., N. P., Os wego, N. Y. -All this talk about the different "republican candidates for the next presidency" is but a sleeve laughing, for the one who is planning I In all imaginary ways to be the same. Everybody but the blind candidates can see this, even the unlettered coun try people. I can not see a ray of hope for our country without the help of woman's suffrage and woman's influence. As the first woman who talked the same at Washington, D. C, and who started going to the poll to vote I have the deepest interest in the exercise of the W. S. constitutional duties of the women of America. Senator Sumner and Chief Justice' Chase told me personally that "my crowning constitutional argument will open the doors through which all worn en will yet walk and vote." I do not assert that Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Colorado, that have equal suffrage through that argument, have all at all times since the equal exercise of du ties and rights of woman citizenship come up, to the highest claims that I make for women; for some of them need educating as The Commoner can educate, and instill the higher prin ciples and duties of citizenship. Men who take the Commoner ought to read it aloud in the presence of women whether they now vote or not, and make them understand that their sanc tioning right principles regarding na tional affairs is a duty as well as "raising men voters," if they consider the same a "duty," as the "writers" have Joined men in asserting. NO MATTER WHERE YOU UVE. Karfewa1 3 Yar GaaraateeJ Rnrsl". Harrcja. Hiring. Farm a4 H. llverr.Warana, Hack. LI Terr anAVonj Vehicle. Keai Cart, and Vefeictai &t eTcr7dMcrlpt40n.rronfllll.OO SoWfforeaalioren Eajrr I'm r est aa tew ft 82.00 Monthly or to gait jrourcoBTrnlence. N!aterri. We8raatafs ueiiTery to Tour Hipping' point, sou can try aa Eafiiewooa venlci atroor own BomewiiHOBteeKaaa 1170a aecja to Keep 1(7011 en pay for It lm small eoflYenlent parmeata. Oar ether factories make Piano. Orjras, Talking Machine, sewing Machines, KangM, Furniture and other fttxx. Write today terfVeacrlpUTeprleollUaa4 rail tefonaaMen. Ac&reag THE EH6LEW00D CO. . cMcieoJII. 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OOOOOOOOOOOOCXXXXXXXXXXXXX) i "A Patriot" Tho whole United States is my country, and I raise my voice in asserting that the action in New York city regarding the raising of tiaohey and fitting out of ships to unseat President Castro when our na tion is at peace with his government, is an offense punishable wfch fine and imprisonment; and if the laws of the country are to be respected any more, why are they not? You Know N that, if you haye fainting, smothering, weak aim hunprry spells; if you have shortness of hreath when walking or going up stairs; if your heart is irregular, flutters or palpitates; if you have pains around the heart, in side and under shoulders, cannot sleep on left side; have dif ilculty in hreathing when lying down, that you are suffering from heart troubles, and that it is liable at any minute to prove fatal. Then don't delay. Commence at once to take ' Dr. Miles' New -Heart Cure This famous heart and blood tonic will cure you it taken in time, The time-is when you notice any of the above symptoms, , , "I am glad I was persuaded to try Dr. Miles' Heart Cure. I suffered greatly from shortness of hreath. palpitation, smothering spells and pain around heart. I took falx bottles and was entirely cured. This was two years atio, and I have had nosymptomssince." JOHN K. TODD. P. M , Untopolts, Ohio. The flrat bottle will benefit, if not, the druggist will return your money. Sam F. Hunt, Swanders, Ohio. In The Commoner of April 27th I find an article on National banus contrib uting to the republican corruption fund in 1896. Please inform us if Mr. Arthur T. Sewell of Bath, Me., demo cratic candidate for vice president on Bryan ticket in said year, had his Na tional bank to contribute also, and oblige by answer in next issue of Commoner. (The Commoner is not in a position to give definite answer to this ques tion, although it is not probable that any bank with which Mr. Sewell was connected contributed to his defeat.) VOLUME V OF "THE COMMONER COMENSEIT IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY A Political History and Reference Book for 1905 NOT SO STRANGE . Markley Well, that's the limit! Ascum What's that? Markley Kidder was telling me about a friend of his, named Hawke, who always takes a cab whenever he goes to look for work. Ascum Yes. Hawke is employed at night by a cab company to pick up fares. Philadelphia Press. FATAL THIRTEEN "This talk about the number 13 be ing unlucky isn't so foolish as some people think." "Nonsense!" "It is, eh? Well, look at the peo ple who lived in the thirteenth cen tury every one of 'em dead!" Cleveland Leader. As its title indicates, this book is a condensed copy of The Com moner for one year. It is published annually and the different issues are designated as Volumes I, II, III, IV and V, corresponding to the volume numbers of The Commoner. The last issue is Volume V, and contains editorials which discuss questions of a permanent nature. Every important subject in the world's politics is discussed in The Commoner at the time that subject is attracting general attention. Because of this The Commoner Condensed is valuable as a reference book and should occupy a place on the desk of every lawyer, editor, business, man and other student of affairs. Reference to The Commoner Condensed will enable the student to refresh -his memory concerning any great political event In 1905. For instance, reference to the fifth volume of The Commoner Con densed will refresh the memory as to the details of: THE AGITATION OF RAILROAD RATE QUESTION. POPULAR APPEALS FOR GOVERNMENTAL REFORM. THE BATTLE FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. THE EASTERN WAR AND THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA. SOME OF MR. 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