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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
Thorough organization Is a long slop towards
victory.
The lame duck industry is growing in this
country.
Tho bouquet handed to Mr. Shouts was a lemon
! when it was handed to Mr. Wallace.
If King Leopold is wise ho will put that Congo
snap in the hands of a holding company.
That Brownsville affair seems to have boon
fully as black as li has been made yellow.
The "theatrical trust" may claim to be a good
one If it means a curtailment of tho output.
If Mr. Guggenheim thinks he has purchased
an honor he ought to get a new dictionary.
The interstate commerce commission has just
handed Miss Tarbetl a handsome endorsement.
It seems that Mr. Depew did not devote his
temporary retirement to hunting up new jokes.
One-third of the Panama appropriation spent,
and still hunting for a man to take charge of ih
work.
Mr. bhonts should give information as to how
he escaped being thrust into the "We are Seven"
' class.
It seems that Mr. Shouts had the foresight to
submit his explanations before submitting tho
resignation.
Mayor Tom Johnson counts that day lost whole
low descending sun sees no injunction busted, or
no new one begun.
SI. Valentine's day will afford Senator For
aker and the president another opportunity to ex
change pleasantries.
The last Gridiron Club dinner seems to have
afforded several gentlemen tin opportunity for in
dulging in red-hot roasts.
There is one good feature about the newspaper
reports 0f the Thaw case. You do not have to
read them.
The free seed distribution will continue, but
despite this tact graft seed is not as fertile as it
used to be.
"Swettenham is a type," says the Chicago
Tribune. Perhaps, but he is not built on h2
"point system." L
In 102S a large number of Joseph Benson For
akers will be just about a year too young to vote
as their namesake talked.
lho Joint postal commission starts off well Ik
making its first recommendation to the effect that
the ra o paid the railroads for tnuisporUng t e
malls be reduced to an equitable amount!
r,JV7yi tj?0 AV0 ma11 Rwoltenhnin we also re-
SsUns-tiK:"101101,0 viindepv,,t -ui f
In view of all the facts the least Mr. Shonts
could do was to declare the president wholly right
on the ship subsidy proposition.
A number of congressmen lost in last Novem
ber's shullle are now being cared for by the clever
distributor of the political "plums."
The Roosevelt "Third Term League" is not
paying a very high compliment to the sincerity of
the gentleman it professes to admire.
If the trusts and corporations are paying
Chancellor Day for those speeches it is time that
their affairs be put in charge of guardians.
The stage might bo "reformed" by first reform
ing the people whose patronage makes it possible
to prolitably present plays that need reforming.
The Atlanta Constitution declares tho Georgia
peach crop uninjured. Bracing winter weather
has a beneficial effect on the Nebraska "peach"
crop.
The news that Senator LaFollelte is n vn.-
tarlmi will be a g.eat surprise to several em S
gentlemen who have bumped aga nst the
oni Wisconsin. They have bmiipposlnK h t
he dined on iron fillings and drank re blood
Carnegie lake, near Princeton, means tlmt the
camera fiends will have more opportunities to snap
a largo, fat gentleman who sits armed with a bam
boo rod.
The Filipinos are not investigating the Stand
ard Oil company, and there can no longer be a
doubt that the Filipinos are entitled to a specific
promise. .
.lust as soon as the Brownsville matter is set
tled something else will be sprung to keep the
senate from taking action in the interest of the
whole people.
The Louisville Courier-Journal explains the
ship subsidy bill in a few words. "It is not to
build up trade, but to give ship owners a profit
without trade."
The fact that the government is holding Mr.
Rockefeller's new wig until he pays duty on an
increased Invoice, means a lot to those of us who
must use his oil.
Chancellor Day never loses an opportunity to
demonstrate the truth of the old scriptural quo
tation: "The ox knoweth its owner, and the ass
its master's crib."
It is reported that King Edward has forgiven
William Waldorf Astor. If tills is an assurance
that William will remain abroad we hasten to
thank Edward Rex.
A commission has succeeded in averting a
tariff war between Germany and the UnPoa
States. This simply means that the tariff barons
can go right ahead exploiting home consumers.
The old-time populist who sprung the Ocala
platform on a Nebraska republican county con
vention and had it adopted with a whoop, has ,
right to" demand admittance to the humorist class.
The Brownsville incident may seem to bo oc
cupying all of the senate's time, but do not worrv
The river and harbor pork barrel is receiving the
needed amount of attention.
Confronted by Minnesota's determination to
keep him from pumping $60,000,000 of water Into
his railroad stocks, Mr. James J. Hill is now a
rabid opponent of state's rights.
Being an expert statistician General Groves
nor will have no difficulty in tolling us just how
much he has missed by not having the salary bill
passed about twenty years ago.
It remains to be seen whether Uncle Sam can
hire competent men to manage canal affairs faster
than they can be employed away from him bv
the interests opposed to the canal.
CongressmSn who have had a 50 per cent in
crease in wage to offset tho increased cost of liv
ing should now take cognizance of the working
men who are not able to enforce u wage increase.
Senator-elect Guggenheim is such a method
ical business man that he will ha-ve to be careful
when appearing before the bar of the senate with
ids credentials. Ho might submit. the receipted
bills.
Inlk about reporters violating confidence
Just think "of that Roosevelt-Forakoi-incident !
newspaper dinner, and not a newspaper man
present who will say a word about it!
As John Sherman said about resumption "tho
way to regulate is to regulate" and it must bo
plain to every intelligent man that if the rail
roads can not be regulated by the people then they
will bo owned by the people. y
Men who strike for an increase of 10 per cent
in wages are enjoined, guarded by the militia and
cited for contempt. Congressmen avoid all these
things by merely dodging a vote but getting the
money.
It has been just about two years since the
Panama- canal was to be constructed without de
lay, and here we arc waiting for the appointment
of somebody to succeed somebody so something
may be done.
Just as soon as a successor can be found for
another Panama official we will have some more
predictions of speedy accomplishment of the Pan
ama canal work. If predictions were canal dirt
ships would be crossing right now.
Admiral Davis seems to be something of a
hero himself. lie emerges from the Kingston
trouble with credit. He lias not been misquoted
and lias said nothing that can be condemned. In
short, Admiral Davis has said nothing.
The congressmen have refused further appro
priations to develop the frog industry. Just be
cause they have raised their own salaries the con
gressmen need not imagine that all the rest of us
have as many greenbacks as we want or need.
The government statisticians who are endeav
oring to make it appear that living expenses have
not increased faster than wages should confer
with the congressmen who have secured a 50 per
cent increase in wages on account of the in
creased cost of living.
Governor Iliggins of Rhode Island actually
wants "Boss" Brayton driven from the state
house. It must be that Mr. Iliggins actually in
sists on being governor. If this is true it is the
second instance of the kind in many years, Gov
ernor Garvin affording the first one.
If Mr. Harriman and other railroad magnates
are not more powerful than the authorities, it
is very easy to make a demonstration the people
will readily understand. We have for many years
talked about doing something by way of obtain
ing relief, but the "captain of industry" continues
in the building of plans for oppressing the people,
and the people seem more helpless than ever.
The interstate commerce commission in its re
port concerning the Standard Oil trust says:
"Standard buys advertising space in many news
papers which it fills, not with advertisements but
with reading matter prepared by agents kept for
that purpose and paid at advertising rates as or
dinary news." The New York Evening Post says
that the public is entitled to know tho names of
the journals that are subsidized in tills manner
and demands that the commission make public the
names of these papers. Why not?
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