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fy. 1 1 .J- v: .1 " V v i 6 The Commoner. The Commoner ! C ISSUED WEEKLY .WXUilAM J .BltYAW CHARLES W. BBTAW Editor and Proprietor. Publisher. Richaud L. Metcalfe Editorial Rooms und Business Associate Editor. 0010632-1-830 So. 12th Street. Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class mail matter. Ono Year $1.00 61x Months SOo In Clubs of 5 or more por Year 75o Thrco Months 25o Slnglo Copy .5o Sample Copies Freo Foreign Postage 52c Ex tra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can bo Bent direct to Tho Com moner. They can also be sent through newspapers Which have advertised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, where sub-agents have been appointed. All remittances should bo sent by postolllco money order, expross order, or by bank draft on New York or Chicago. Do not send Individual checks, stamps or money. 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Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln. Neb " 1907. And we wrote it right the very first time. i i : "Brycer M. P.," will look good as Ambassador Bryce. The doctrine of "lese majeste" seems to be talcing root in American soil. The way to win a victory for democratic "'principles in 1908 is to begin now. Simon Guggenheim will succeed to the seat - now filled by Senator Tom Patterson. i do not get enough salary do not earn, any at all. i "The Woman In tho nn'i , t been unusually busy in diplomatic circles lately. A cursory reading of the sporting pages will reveal a large number of pennant winning base Dall teams right now. ' The asbestos lined Santa Glaus and the in candescent light have done much to decrease the Christmas casualty list. ?y ,this. time the sPrings under the seat pn the water wagon" are either riding awfully hard or very comfortably. President Roosevelt's "ineffective chaos" makes Grover Cleveland's "inocuous desuetude" look like a 1906 calendar.' "The Christmas trade of 1906 broke the record says a commercial agency. Shake, Record; we know how it feels. A congress whose individual members werp paid according to the services the rendered to the country might be worth trying! enaei t0 lution It Is lroSf 00d reso tlon you ought f S J trsss: sees? x i-xx'- pared to "copper" all such "iSJ by a PbnoatI'oD7aSoUIOWed WaSpS? 1' C f "y ,efeat" will be able to !wv nsToLn,1CrlH,g 1C 'Ulr Mr. Hicks of Bakorsnoia g Proortlately as The French necretarv of war hns tn.irpn fHirh -in a dirigible balloon. This may portend a resig nation rrom secretary Taft or the manufacture -of a record-breaking balloon. Battles, military and political, are won by long preparation. Democracy should begin now the work of organization and preparation in order to insure victory next year. Mr. Harriman is now engaged in on effort to turn the course of the Colorado river. This wiil be a small job compared to turning the tide of opposition to railroad control. It seems that Mr. Harrimaiuhas shoved Mr. Morgan over into the "ten, twenV, thirt," class, or at least reduced him to the "chaser number" on the financial vaudeville circuit. The list of the congressmen who .voted against the salary increase .does not include the names of all the congressmen who believe they are -already receiving sufficient compensation. Emperor William is now declaiming on the importance of good cooks. It is time for the cooks to rise up and point to the importance of having good things to cook provided by the head of the house. David Graham Phillips .declares that one per cent of the people of the United States control 99 per cent of the wealth. . And the one per cent seems to think its membership has a vested right in the 99 pef cent. REN EWAL8 The subscriptions of those who became subscribers with the first issue of The Com moner and have renewed at the close of each year, expire with this issue. In order to facilitate the work of changing and re-entering the addresses upon our subscription books and mailing lists and obviate the ex pense of sending out personal statements announcing that renewals were due, sub scribers are urgently requested to renew with as little delay as possible. The work of correcting the stencils entails an enormous amount of labor and the publisher asks subscribers to assist as much as possible by making their renewals promptly. The cor rected .expiration usually appears on the wrapper- of the second issue after renewal is received. A Harvard expedition has started out to ex plore "No Man's Land" in South America. The chances are that when they reach it they will discover pre-emption notices stuck up by Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. Harriman. Yale is offering for sale a defunct female seminary bequeathed to it by a former Yale graduate. Several other universities not defunct have already been sold at private sale to emi nent gentlemen not yet deceased. Those Minnesotans seem to be laboring under the delusion that they really have some right . to a voice in the matter of what dividends they should be compelled to pay to the eminent finan ciers who are exploiting the railroads. Chicago's health commissioner avers, that if the provisions of the pure food law are rigorously carried out boiled rice will be the only food that can be legally eaten. We'll still stick to the soft boiled eggs fresh from -the country. The eminent statisticians of the Dun com mercial agency have at last discovered that it costs more to live now than it formerly did. Tho discovery is very much belated, several mil lions of American housewives having beat tho statisticians to it. The German ambassador at Washington has "had his salary increased $4,000 a year on account of the increased' cost of living in the United States. This fact is respectfully referred to the government statisticians who have been insisting that-the cost-of living has not kept pace with the increased wages. VOLUME 6, NUMBER B1 It seems that just as nnnn nnU , the railroad xnimaaatip uPn coal waa increasing the demand for (lellver - ownership, they found a 21 tnTC" ' , famine. It is wonderful wlat can Z 1 the COal self-interest demands it. dono wlu The Birmingham Age-Herald declare tw 1 'the average, hodcarrier is miles aiinvn n at "'B,0nVin ors and commoWnse too" Znt - fc -should the Age-Herald insult the han?'work7 ' hodcarriers by mentioning them in t Z lng breath with this person? in the satno j The attention of Senator Foraker is miim .to the case of another eminent anuambiS, gentleman who corralled the southern nSS ' gates to a republican national convention only t ' have another equally eminent and amWUou! gentleman rlrvnv th umuiuous - ouvm CUWCLJf, Having been frozen out of King LeonnM' ' "S5d tto.QLe.ConBo, Mr. J. PierpontlC J feels it to be his religious duty to protest agS the. barbarities being practised in that far off ; country It is wonderful what a good conscience rouser this being "frozen out" is. 1 The New York Tribune is deprecating tho ". destruction of American forests. The Tribune ?ny -J?e 'Y' l? a "standpatter" that upholds tho , tariff which places a premium on the destruction ; of American forests. It might be well for the I editors of the Tribune to get together. Noting increased trouble in titled marital . circles the New York .Commercial observes: Perhaps a clean, decent American will get a chance now." We have not noticed any disposi- tion on the part of clean, decent American gen- fctlemen'to complain about their marital chances. " A New York state senator having acknowl edged that it cost him $35,000 to be elected to any office paying $750 a year, the Sioux City Tribune observes that "there are many men with whom the compensation attached to office is not a first consideration." Does the Tribune mean also to exclude perquisites? "WE ARE SEVEN" When Bellamy Storer was added to the list of public men who have been denounced as falsi . fiers by President Roosevelt, the list Included just . enough to remind one of the poem which was one of the lessons in Dr. McGuffey's old "Third Reader," and entitled "We Are Seven." The Albany Argus has been reviewing the matter for the purpose of classifying, if possible, the different kinds of "liars" mentioned by the president and discovers that Judge Parker was "an atrocious liar," that Mr. Whitney was "a deliberate liar," that Mr. Chandler was "a deliberate and unquali . fied liar," that Mr. Bowen was "a disengenuous liar," that Mr. Wallace was "an utter liar," that Mr. Shields was "an inventive liar," and that Mr. Storer was "a peculiarly perfidious liar." It was a prophet of old who exclaimed in his hasto that "all men are liars," but it seems that ho was in too much of a hurry to catalogue and classify them. Mr. Roosevelt seems to have found , the time to at least make a beginning on tho work of classification. JJJ STILL GROPING IN DARKNESS The Sioux City, Iowa, Journal still gropes in the darkness wthen it tackles the money ques . tion. : Referring to the shortage in subsidiary , Spins, . and the refusal of the secretary of the treasury to. buy bullion silver because the price asked is, in his opinion, too high, the Journal says: "There are. now in tho vaults of the treas ury millions of coined silver dollars which have never been used why should not Uncle Sam use these idle silver dollars for which there is no demand by recoining them into halves, quar ters and dimes for which there is demand?" The answer to that is easy. Uncle Sam does not do it because those silver dollars are not idle but are kept as security for silver certificates issued against them; and for the further reason that it would seem very foolish to further reduce the supply of legal tender money right now when the president and many of the republican leaders are inclined to listen to the demand for an in creased money supply and give the people a cur rency based on nothing after decrying for years what they called a currency based on "50 per cent of value and 50 per cent of wind." Can the financial' editor of tho Journal repeat the old monetary table as found in "Ray's Third Part of .Arithmetic?" k ' r - il Win-ifr,M w4fbjlijh tfifc