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WILLIAM J. BRYAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
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gf6. - No. 38.
Lincoln, Nebraska, October 5, 1906;.
Whole Number 298;
Pew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May"
No man who is financially connected with a corporation that is seeking privileges ought to
ict as a member of a political organization, because he can not represent his corporation and the
foeople at the same time. He can not serve the party while he is seeking to promote the financial
interests of the corporation with which he is connected.
CONTENTS
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Mb. Bryan's Letter
Admissions oir a Standpatter
The New Xoek Contest
, Railroad Influence ,j
- -' Dr. McGuffey lr.
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Secrets and Depositors , .-
The War Burden
FitoM The People
j. Tux Wages of Dishonesty:'
'-Comment w Current Topics
. Home Department
Whether Common or Not
News of the Week
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IS IT TRUE?
Referring to Mr. Bryan's declaration con
cernlng corporation agents and party organiza
tion, the Penn's Grove (New Jersey) Record
clears the ground of all non-essentials and hits
the nail on the head when it says: "The only
point that calls for decision is the soundness of
his position. Is he correct when he says that
'no man who is officially -connected with a cor
poration that is seeking privileges ought to act
as a member of a political organization?' The
time will come, we believe, when the people
will answer this question in the affirmative, and
when that time arrives we shall see many new
faces on the political horizon."
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TAKE HEED
Governor Deneen, addressing the Illinois State
Bankers association, said: "The opposition of
those whose business is properly subject to gov
ernment supervision and control to legislative
regulation plays into the hands of the extremists,
persistence in this opposition can have but one
.result a tendency to substitute for the idea of
icovernment supervision and-.regulation the idea
,of government ownership."
Railroad managers win ao wen to ueeu iuv-
ernor Dencen's warning.
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TRUSTS AND THE TARIFF
"Tho trnnta nre no necessary part of the
tariff," remarks the Minneapolis Journal. Trusts
lay not be a necessary part 01 ujb protective
iriff, but they are a most natural part, xne
iriff' affords conscienceless manufacturers an
innrtunitv that thev are not slow to grasp,, ana
le result is a robbery of the people under legal
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"The Fat Boy's Friends will Stop Him when They get ready,
The Admissions of a Standpatter
Secretary Shaw, who, by grace of President
Roosevelt presides over the treasury department,
seems to have an ambition to be known as the
prince of standpatters. As a member of the
president's cabinet, he has been exposed to re
form, but has never caught it He is apparently
immune to reform, believing that the republican
party has done everything that it ought to have,
done, has done nothing that it ought not to have
done and that there is no error In it This
genial and talented apostle of the doctrine of
contentment has recently visited the south for
the purpose of palming off upon southern demo
crats some second-hand high tariff garments
whicli the republicans of Iowa have outgrown.
Having seen his ideas repudiated by his own
.party in Iowa, ho presents them to the people
of remote sections with as much assurance as he
used to present them in his own state.
,. It is fortunate for the democratic party that
it hag among its opponents so candid a man as
Secretary Shaw, for In his speech at Saulsbury,
N. C, he admitted practically all that the demo
crats contend for when they advocate tariff re
form, although he made the admissions' without
Intending to do so. There was a refreshing in
nocence In the manner In which he would state
a proposition in one part of his speech and
answer it In another. For Instance, In the first
part of his speech, he attempted to minimize
the amount of goods sold abroad cheaper than
at home and in this effort he used the following
language: "A non-partison industrial commission
was appointed by congress m 1898, which, after
spending more than three years In the Investi
gation, filed its report in 1902, which was pub
lished In eighteen large volumes. This report
contains all available evidence on this subject
After making careful compilations from thft
data therein contained. Senator Galllnger, of New
Hampshire, stated on the floor of the United
States senate, in April, 1904, that approximately
$4,000,000 worth &of American manufactured pro
ducts are annual sold abroad cheaper than in