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. The Commoner
ISSUED WEEKJLY
WlLMAM J .BUYAN ClIAULUS W. BttYAN
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THE COMMONER. Lincoln, Nob
' -No matter bow pure the food Is, it should be
'thoroughly masticated.
1
;: To Senator Foraker. "You may get 'em, but
can .you keep 'em? Russell A. Alger.
, , . If everybody has to pay fare .there is no
..reason. why the rate should not, be reduced.
" Jy'The railroads wound up, the old year and
began the new year in a very bloody way.
Mr. Rockefeller seems to have acquired the
'press agent habit in its most virulent form.
Manufacturers of adulterated food products
are also bemoaning the interference with vested
'rights. -
'.Mr. George W. Perkins will be excused if
; he says a few more real mean things about the
"''"muck rakers."
r
-TVT r5.ii rvr-l rt 1--. 111 j
',,'- '. uubucuuBim yii not join in. tne demand
for an increase of a paltry $2,500 a year in the
senatorial salary.
Justice Harlan says the country has not out
. grown the constitution. It seems that it has
merely outrun it.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish declares that any
TrVn dT weP n 5'0Pyear. or even
less. . Most of them do.
ik JSSinExtiSwe lhe paper trust is knocked out
. , mat makes a paper trust possible.
. The height of sarcasm seems to have Wn
; reached when Philadelphia expressed pity to?
San Francisco in her graft troubles
woulbew'ellto11 iS "0W in force' "
. so much money theyHo?mlBMtPeDle haYe
invest MSK
ton concerning the White House 'W'8"
Prom this distan'cefX Z ?
The Commoner,
Mr. Rockefeller started the new year by
letting go of $3,000,000. Prior to this, however,
a lot of us let loose of it first a little at a time.
Dr. McGeo describes Mr. Rockefeller as "the
incarnation of concentrated effort." That sounds
much better than some descriptions we have
heard.
If Governor Hughes lives up to his advance
notices ho is going to create a lot of trouble
for the eminent gentlemen who paid the expenses.
w ?? ABryce miSbt not cut as much ice in
Washington society as Sir James Bryce, but he
would attract more attention from the people
at large.
Sir Thomas Lipton says the American people
arc making money by "leaps and bounds." He
must have been watching some of our dodging
politicians. &
Why should Mr. Rockefeller take a gloomy
view of 1907 just after that Ohio court decided
that the conviction of the Standard Oil company
was wrong?
The Texas railroad commission has ordered a
reduction of twenty per cent in Pullman rates.
The porter and the vacant upper berth Jiave not
yet been disturbed.
Having been knocked out by the anti-trust
law the paper trust proceeds to keep right on
doing business in the same old way but under
a different method.
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correcting the stencils entails an enormous
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making their renewals promptly. The cor
rected expiration usually appears on the
wrapper of the second issue after renewal is
received.
It is reported that Mr. Harriman says he
would give up all of his wolth if he could. If
he can not let go of his own accord there are
plenty who will help him.
Philadelphia had a "mummers' parade" on
New Year's eve. Political conditions in Phila
delphia indicate that the city has a" similar parade
-every municipal election day.
The Washington Post seems inclined to the
view that the child labor evil can be investigated
and remedied with the investigator sitting in an
upholstered easy chair in a palatial office.
Mrs. Russell Sage says she can find plenty
L PPrTtunities for charity without going out
side of New York. This may be a pointer for the
prosperity shouters to consider.
, f ston minister declares that, he can bring
the dead to life. He should be invited to try his
hand on some of the promises contained In the
last republican national platform.
n,o l"16 noted by careful observers that
advann?,i8?e?l08 f0r "secure" life insurance are
SfnTthp n the, S,aine gentlemen who were be
hind the old and discredited schemes.
n ,.JUt.th year 1887 Jolln William Austin ivas
a resident of Nebraska. His relatives in Scot
wnl havV,t heard from him -for many years.
Ho is about forty-five years of age. If this reaches
the eye of Mr. Austin or that of any one able
wniB informalIon concerning him, he or they
will confer a great favor by writing to Riclmrfi
'Malone, 81 Broomlands St., Paisley, Scotland
.VOLUME 6, NUMBER 52
A captain of finance declare... th.i. i.
spend all he has to rehabll ?,? be m
Bins. We do not Imow ho" mucSZnr ?!
has, but wm cheerfuIIy SLTWlt 2S33
board she Wa8 sp,TtUns foundling tilf BS
Phase us. We fcan see Hght thZthl USS
The intimation that the lack of coal onr
SSSt?dn0?.mope PGOple to locate govern,
xnent ownership was immediately followed bv E
StrS f ieS -"ea
tion that having lost the power to buy another
KS T mlm money he ls entitled to To?d
the one already bought
nTlie ?la ?ear wound up with a horrible rail-
E? tm? Gnt' and the new year was hered
1?, ! e .even more horrible. Our annual
slaughter on the railroads is equal to our total
losses in the Spanish-American war.
Mr. Perkins, recently indicted by a New York
grand jury, asserts that President Cassatt died
of a broken heart"hounded to death by icon
oclasts." Does Mr. Perkins dub "iconoclasts" all
those who insist on stopping graft in high places?
Strtnnn.tlle Chicago Board of Trade declined
from $5,000 to $2,000 during 1906. It is not gen
erally believed that senatorial seats showed any
such marked decline. The ruling market price
for senatorial seats, however, is never publicly
quoted.
e PeoDle of New Hampshire, Massachusetts
and Maine have long had trouble with the B.
& M. In the west Nebraska and- Iowa have long
had trouble with another B. & M. President
Roosevelt was merely falling in line with a large
number of his countrymen when he accumulated
a bunch of trouble with B. & M.
The difference between Mr. Perkins and
President Cassatt was in part as follows: Presi
dent Cassatt was opposed to graft and did his
best to wipe it out. Mr. Perkins switched $800,
000 worth of bonds to deceive investigators, be
sides doing several other things that President
Cassatt would have scorned to do.
Mr. Richard L. Metcalfe,, our associate editor,
has just published a little volume entitled "Of
Such is the Kingdom." It is a reprint of the
nature studies which have appeared in The Com
moner from time to time over his signature. To
those who have read them, they need no praise;
to those who have not read them1, The Commoner
commends them as soothing, strengthening and
inspiring. The articles are really heart talks and
explain the secret of Mr. Metcalfe's success as a
journalist. He knows human nature and is uni
versal in his sympathies.
A PATHETIC APPEAL
The editor of The Commoner has received the
following pathetic anonymous appeal which was
also mailed to every member of congress:
"For heaven's sake stop Shaw's inflating the
-currency on a rising price index. He's but licens
ing drummers to book orders for industrial stag
nation. The dollar is growing cheaper every
month, yet he inflates the currency. We already
have the sixty. cent dollar Bryan wanted in 1896
that's cheap enough; stop Shaw. The interest
' rate is the specific safety valveour only safe
guard from expansion, explosion, collapse, stag
nation. Stop Shaw's screwing down the safety
valve! See Bradstreet's of November 10, (Price
index November 1, 8.7409; October 1, 8.5480; No-
yeniobr5 1' 1905' 8'2097; July ! 1904 7.6318; July
1, 1S96, 5.7019; January 1, 1892, 8.1382). Money is
the cheapest since greenback days. 8.3333 is
cheap enough. He should contract the currency,
but for heaven's sake stop Shaw's Inflating the
currency until the price index turns downward."
W Does it not seem strange that the very men
who were so afraid of inflation ten years ago
are so anxious for it now. They were afraid of
the substance when more primary money was
demanded and now they are crying for the shadow
in the form of an asset currency.
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