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The Commoner
WILLIAM J. BRYAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
Vol. 6. No. 33
Lincoln, Nebraska, August 31, 1906
Whole Number 293
CONTENTS
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, Mb. Bryan's ' Letter
Just Liklk Hamilton
The Farmer and the Tariff
: . . . To'o Bad, Indeed 1
'' "Small aud Petty People"-
A Monument to Trades Unionism
From the People
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, , Observations
" Don't Forget It
Comment on Current Tofics ,
"IJome Department
Whether Common orISot
"News of the Week.
"THE ALDRICH PARTY"
y The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal (Rep.) insists
upon calling it "the Cummins party" in Iowa.
When will the Sioux City Journal consent to- the
republican party In the nation being called, "the
Aldrlcti party?''
If the party in the Hawkeye state is to bear
"the "governor's name because ho is Its master
there, with what reason shall we object to 'the
party In the nation bearing the name of the juaan
who measured swords even with-the occupant .of .r
the White House, and proved himself to be the -
.master of the party in the senate?
NOT FRIENDLINESS - " i :v
The Kansas City Journal (Rep.) says: "The
. legitimate friendliness of the government for sil
ver is shown by the fact that Secretary Shaw is
redeeming silver dollars in gold. When 100 cents
is behind 51 cents' worth of metal, it shows that
silver is tolerably safe yet."
It was only a few days ago that Secretary
Shaw announced that silver dollars would be
redeemed in gold; but never in the history of
this government has a silver dollar, clothed with
full legal-tender powers, gone to a discount.
The fact that Secretary Shaw ordered that
silver dollars be redeemed in gold was not a sign
on the administration's part of friendliness for
silver. It is part and parcel of the plan to re
tlreand destroy the silver dollar -which, even
when it has had less than "fifty-one cents worth
of metal" has been not only "tolerably safe" but
absolutely safe.
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"INSPECTORLESS" INSPECTION
The failure of the Milwaukee Avenue bank of
Chicago, the "Stensland bank," again calls at
tention to the flagrant disregard bank Inspectors
have for their duties. It is entirely within bounds
to say that one-half of the bank failures during
the past decade could havo been -prevented if in
spectors had performed their full duties. In the
case of the Chicago bank above inentioned the
old and easily detected plan of using fictitious
names, or the names of obscure individuals, on
loans' whereby the money was abstracted by the
dishonest bank officials, was resorted to. This
could have been detected in the very start had
the inspectors performed their duties. Now that
the officials have fled with the money the inspec
tors have no difficulty in detecting the plan fol
lowed. Their examination of the wrecked bank
discloses what should have been plain at the time,
that even as far back as 1901 the bank's accounts
were $250,000 short. Thorough inspection Is the
only safeguard of those who are depositors in
banks, and the people who pay for this safeguard
have a right to demand that it be a safeguard In
fact as well as in name.
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IN THE LAND OF THE TURK
Mr. Bryan's Thirty-third Letter
.. I was unable to crowd Into the last article
all of Our experiences in the land of the Turk,
so I devoted It to Constantinople, leaving to this
paper the discussion of the sultan, his religion
and his government.
Abdul Hamud Kahn II., is the present sultan
of Turkey. He is sixty-three years old and has
occupied the throne for nearly thirty years. His
family has been supreme in Constantinople for
twenty-four generations ever since the taking
of the city by the Mohammedans. He is not only
an absolute monarch throughout the domain of
Turkey, but he is the spiritual head of the Moslem
church. His power Is really due more to his re
ligious position than to bis sovereignty. He is
credited with doing more for the spread of edu
cation than his predecessors, but he can hardly
be called an enthusiastic patron of learning. He
endeavors to maintain cordial relations with Euro
pean powers and is on especially good terms with
Emperor William. When he wants to show him
self friendly to a nation he appoints some repre
sentative of that nation to a place in the army,
navy or other department of the public service
at a high salary, and he gives decorations to such
foreigners as he desires to honor.
Every Friday about mid-day he goe's to a
mosque near the palaco to pray and the occasion
is one of great Interest to those who are Jfortu
,Ba,ttenqi?gh tafllpWn, ftdmls?Jou to the, grounds,! ,
as his journey from the palace to the church is
a brilliant pageant. Tickets of admission must
bo secured through the diplomatic representatives
and we are under obligation to the American
legation for an opportunity to be present.
As early as eleven o'clock, bands, companies
of infantry, troops of cavalry and bodies of police
could be seen marching toward the mosque.
From the rIght,ovcr a hill, came the cavalry
mounted on white horses and carrying pennants
of scarlet upon their spears; from another direc
tion marched the custodians of the sacred ban-,
ner, a flag of black silk with texts from the Koran
embroidered upon it In silver, then others and
still others came. Before time for the sultan to
appear several thousand soldiers had assembled
and been assigned to their respective stations by
officers in attractive uniforms. Drawn up sev
eral lines deep they guarded every entrance to
the sacred precincts.
It was a gorgeous spectacle, for the Turk
is a fine looking soldier. This may account for
the tenderness with which the sultan is handled
by the "powers." And there was sufficient va
riety in the uniforms to lend picturesqueness to
the scene. The invited guests occupied a large
front room and an adjoining garden from which
they had a clear view of the broad street, freshly
sprinkled with sand, and of the mosque about a
block Away, hen all things were in readiness the
