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'"' : "V tfttuui jiUMi wmMisj ,ru? - Ms: The Commoner. VOLUME 7, NUMBER 3 6 ir ATi. tT( W3'lk,'alJ ! k ..' " -T. P The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. IVM.M.Vtf J. HllYAN hdltor mid I'rojirlotor. llioiiAitii . AlirnMi.ri: A'Hocliitc Hdllor. ClIAIUiW) W. IlUVAN I'ulillHhcr. Killlorlnl Hooiiih nu IJiihIhoim 011(0 IMl-KW Ho 12lli Slrvot. KiitT(l nt t!i I'oHtiiHlcn ftt Lincoln, Noli., as m-cond-clatH uinll ninllor - 5(3 Olio Vour - NIxJMoiiIIih In Clulwnf llvu or inoro, i'or Year ttl.OO .50 Til row JMdiilliH Klnurlo Copy " .Hninplu OoiiIch Kruo. J-'orclKii J'obIsik" f2 CfJiitM Kxtrn. NIIltHOJtl I'TIONS cnn lo unit illrrct lo TiiK CoMMONim. Tlioy ran ulco lio wnl ttirmiKli iiowpiimrH which hnvo nrivortttu'ilnclulililtiK into, or llin mjh l( ral iicoiiIh, wIiitc Mil -nitcntrt liiivo forun npjio'.Muil All ronilttaiici'H hIioiiM ho went hy poHtnlllcii moiioy otdor, cxiiitkh ordir, or hy hunk draft on Now Vorlt or Chicago. Do not uond Individual t'l.cckn, hI::iiiih or 111011(7. IHHCONTiNUANCHS. It Ih found that a lnn;o majority or cur HiihHcilhoiH prefer not to have their fmhwrljitloim Interrupted and their llleii biokcn In rnfe they fall to remit before cxilratlou. It Ih thoioforo aiKiimed that coutliiiiuuco Ih dcMrod uiiIckh milncrlforH order (IIrci iillniiance, either whin MibwrlbliiK or at any tlmodtirlmr tin; iar. I'iikhi:ntation Coi'iiw: Many j thoiih Hiihtcrlho for frlcmh), Intondliiu that tin1 paper fclutll ntop at tho nil of tho year. If liiHti uo tl iih uti) lon to tlilH eirect they will recolv attention at tho propor llnio. JIISNIfiWALSV-The dalo on jour wrapper kIiowh when your mihHfillitlon will eiplre. TIiiih .Innunry III, '07, moatiH that payment Iiiih liocii received to and InrliidliiK the hint Ifhuo of January, 1907. 'Jwo wcekH aro it(ulrod after money has loon received bofiro tho dalo mi wrapper can ho chancod. CJIANCU OK A IIICI.KH. MiliKcrlliorn rrcjiiRKtliiK cIuhibo or iiddreiti muni i;lvo 01,1) iih well iih tho NKW addreKH. AIV1CKTISIN5 -KatCH furnlfclied '.ipon application. AddrotH all coiiiiniinlentloim to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. All roads load to Harriman. Thoso who "aland by the president" must bo extremely agile. Block signals disregarded result in black sig nals of mourning. Battles aro won by preparation. Bogin now for tho battlo of ballots In 1908. Anti-lobby laws will not be necessary when lobby-proof legislators are elected. The Harriman portrait has crowded tho Bishop Potter portrait to the "dead rack." A list or indicted gentlomen sounds very much like a roll call of tho "captains of finance." Chancellor Day says wages aro too high in this country. The chancellor works for a salary! The car shortage can not be remedied bv hoiderk Ca,S t0 Ul 0u,lnent of IHo stock- A lot of special interests aro shocked to dig. covw that Governor Hughes actually meant what Mr. Rockefeller says he remembers onlv tho mono aSy t0 frg0t mnny " " ! The telegraph columns of the daily nannv The Raisulizing of Morocco seems to w Having raised their own sninrioQ Kn perhaps tho congressman Vu J ?f 50 I)er cent- of thonaopSdpoatS doril SUler th Claims First they called it "subsidy " Tim if , under tho name of "subvonSon q5 5 ,pa8B0d subvention are synonyms fogealing.""81 and who nref "big enacted efllcacU laiaS7 -sehi I-. It is different wi aTons A theatrical manager says that only one drama in fifty wins. This, however, is not an explanation of why wo always see the forty-nine first. A Sioux City woman who sues for a divorce has filed a plea written in rhyme. Naturally (ho husband indicates that he will make no de fense. By carefully avoiding the republican national platform upon which he was elected President lloosovclt manages to advance many popular policies. Dolavaro's new senator is the head of the largest canning factory in the world. Canned legislation, however, is goiiyy out of fashion in this country. Chicago spent so much money on the Shea trial that she feols as if a verdict of guilty should haw been rendered in spite of the evidence and tho facts. The Colorado river is again pouring 'into the Salton sea, and Mr. Harriman can not stop it. It is running in almost as fast as the water into the Harriman stocks. Secretary Root says the Washington news paper men sometimes get things right. A lot of officeholders might well profit by the example of tho newspapermen. Tho lower house of the Colorado legislature has passed an anti-cartoon bill. Men who object to cartoons usually have a reason which they do not care to make public. Strange that no railroad manager has de fended the car shortage by pointing to the fact that increased cars for passenger service would simply mean more casualties. The Shah of Persia has put a public telephone in the city park so his subjects can call him up. Watchful soldiers will see to it that one call is tho limit for any one subject. The spirit of investigation seems to be re sponsible for a very mysterious illness that is driving our captains of industry and finance abroad just when the grand juries meet. Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, pays $100, 000 a year for the privilege of living apart from her husband. At this distance it looks like she had secured a splendid bargain. Farmers complain that the car shortage pre vents them from marketing their grain. Mr Harriman arid his colleagues are not complaining about any inability to market water. Speaker Cannon says, the proper policy to pursue is to monopolize the home markets and then capture the trade of the world. And William Mckinley scarcely six years dead! The price of a battleship like the "Dread naught would pay for the construction of 12 000 box cars, and the country needs box cars much more than it needs new battleships. The Smoot case, tariff revision, the discovery of the assailant of Billy Patterson, the component parts of the moon are matters that seem to be running a neck-and-neck race. for perpetuity. The Wisconsin railway commission purposes knowing why trains are not on time. If this sort of thing keeps up the railroads will wonder if the people really intend demanding theirrights. Admiral Evans ordered American battleshi to do rescue and relief work at Kingston Th? newspapers will not print what Admiral Evns said when he heard of Governor Swettenham' The grand jury that indicted John R w-ilih was negligent It did not apologize for its action like the grand jury did that indicted George W SiTe. ThIS iS discHmination that S1 The chaplain of tho Colorado wiulnf turned thanks in the morning nvocitfon H n?-1'6" are alive, sober and out of jai F But wl m? i 7 l!;0esePS?0 COl0rad t0 L thaSl When that forty-six story New York sky scraper is completed Mr. Rockefeller should take office room on the top story. He would have ample time to escape before a process server could mouut that high. x y Mr. Cortelyou has received the senate commit tee's "O. K." The insurance magnates who di verted stockholders' money into Mr. Cortelyou's hands may now come forward and demand their vindication. The railroad managers point with pride to the fact that no single railroad wreck has ever killed as many people as either of the three earth quakes of recent date, San Francisco, Valparaiso and Kingston. President Roosevelt wants two warships of the "Dreadnaught" type as peacemakers. What he means is pacemakers. But the pace threatens to grow too swift for the people who have to put up the money. In Russia the imperialists kill all the candi dates for the douma who are popular with the people, and the terrorists kill all candidates who are popular with the imperialists. The new douma will be the. survival of the lucky. The Nebraska reporter who found the skulls of some pre-historic men and is writing stories about them is fortunate in one respect. The men he is writing about will never come to the front with the complaint that they were misquoted. The powder trust seems to have made the mis take of charging this government more for powder than it charged foreign customers. It should have confined itself to robbing the people as individuals and contributing to tho g. o. p. campaign fund. Owing to increased volume of work and in creased cost of living, railroad men have been granted an increase of 10 per cent in wages. Hav ing the power to fix their own wages the congress men went the railroad employes 40 per cent better. The report of mammoth alligators brought back by the congressmen who visited the isthmus indi cates that tlie buffet cars and the ship's lockers were equipped with something different from th usual brands. Heretofore snakes only have been seen. Henry S. Persse, Littleton, Colorado, asks for the Southern Confederacy version of 'Columbia.' " If any reader of The Commoner can supply this information he will confer a favor by sending the same to Mr. Persse. A St. Louis physician has discovered an an esthetic that takes away the sensation of pain without rendering the subject unconscious. The public would like to. take it while the railroad managers are explaining the reasons for car short age and wrecks. One evening recently the Cedar Rapids, la., Gazette contained this paragraph: "It is an ex tremely difficult thing to get a man hung in Iowa"." And the next evening the Gazette printed a couple ol columns about the lynching of a wife murderer at Charles City, la. The Minneapolis Journal dubs ex-Senator Pfef fer a crank because he advocated the plan of hav ?g the government issue money on wheat in store. What does the Journal call those eminent lawmakers who advocate issuing money on water soaked stocks in store? A 50 per cent increase in. salaries for con gressmen was predicated on the increased, cost of living. Congressmen who support a tariff that Jneans constantly increasing cost of foodstuffs and clothing should now take steps to have wages of the mechanics increased a similiar amount. a i 7h,e Gov,ernor Swettenham put a stop' to ?,nw ?aTi Si mSn of mercy he dId not d0 much to hold aloft the banner which. bears that more or less familiar inscription "blood is -thicker than water 'the banner which, has been vigor- years W COrtai" qUarterS durIng recent nmn0irii i 7lncent republican, member of the S Zii fTQ Was the only mombe1' f M i yJt aif n dTTth,? C1age t0 denounce the barter contt lfl iUn ? States BonatorBhip. Mr. Vin- of"heSiZnte?lfatnes?im WlU b ln.tho .,i id: a-