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The Commoner.
ISSUED WEEKLY.
Wil.MAM .1. HllYAN
Keillor Hint l'i(iiililir.
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(iidoi, cr ly 1-r.nk dinft on New Ywk tr Chicago. JJo not howl
IndUldiiiil (I.ccKh, kImiij Mir money.
DIKCOV1 IKVAJH KK.-lt In fdii:d Hint a Inrno majority of
Mir MiliWillii'iH iiicfcr not lo hnvo IhclrMil ccrliitlniiH Interrupted and
their (lien biolccn In nn tlipy fall In iiinlt bPforo expiration. It Ih
llieiefuro nimiined that cnntlimanco Ik debited iiiiIchh MibKcrllieiH
on'cr (IImuiIIiiiuukt, i Itlur ul.en hiI.m rllilm: ir at any ttmo during
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rul'EtilMlMi will explip. TIiiih .lanutiry III, '07, iiipiiiih tlint pajinmt
lino b(cn Kichpil lo ami IkIimIIiik Hip If.Ft luiio of .lamiary, lt07.
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(Into on wrapper can be cliniiKod.
CIIANiiF. VV ADDIlhSS. FiibucrllprH rnjueUliiK n cliniiRO
tf iiddrem mint ivo 01.1) iih veil as tho NKW addreus.
AI)VHUrl'JSIlSi -JtatPH fiirnlfihed upon application.
Addrcm all comnninleatlonB to
THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
The spring hat will soon be sprung.
The Jp war scare seems to have exhausted
Itacir thundering in tho naval appropriation hide v.
A scientist tells us that a twenty dollar gold
piece has an odor distinctly its own. So has a
cent.
Now York has six living ex-governors, but this
. Interesting fact was not gleaned from the New
1 (rk newspapers.
An exchange mourns the lack of a rhvme for
bwooloiiham. And that, too, when we are all busv
In lorgettin' "Ham."
rlho energy displayed in digging up the facta
about the Rrownsvillo affair would have excavated
about one-half of the Panama canal.
"The House of Lords may fall," savs sin ex
change, well, ,t wouldn't make much of dent
in the ground If It did.
ii,. ft, 7n tla n ,() loml tuo world in arconau
t es. Hit they ought to watch some of our modern
financiers "ballooning" stocks uuli.i
A scientist asserts that the germs of iimnilv
may be found in certain grains and vegetal
Sure-corn and rye, for instance. l"u.s.
The Commoner.
Japan's refusal to grow excited over war talk
In this country must be taken as an indication that
Japan has been reading up on our Ilobsons and
Perkinses.
It is barely possible that Mr. Rockefeller ex
pects his donation to result in turning out a lot
of unhorsily men like the chancellor of Syracuse
university.
It seems that until we have solved the problem,
"What shall we do with our insurance companies V"
it will not be necessary to worry about our ex
presidents. 4
Mr. Harriman sarcastically declares that the
interstate commerce commission ought to give him
a Job. Isn't the commission keeping him pretty,
busy as it is?
As long as the 5,000 a year collectorships hold
? ', nl0ml r!;,(!VnH mul l,"hcr8 will I e wil m -for
the Uoosevelt-Foraker scrap to go on.
no tan?' 'TT my thAwrlcan women can
not talk, it Henry can ever llnd an end to one
ot his sentences he might listen for a bit.
nnnw!lR?(,n0,nor's b,B donation to education
can ie aw lully near crowding a murder trial out
of ilrst place in the slug head department.
February 13 was the ninth anniversary of I ho
sinking of the battleship Maine. Consider able 1 is
tory has been f.uule during the nine years
The czar has one advantage not possessed hv
American politicians, if he does not like tho 5
suit of the election he merely dlams it void.
A Russian general was shot as he loft tho
to JlMi A l f "S W0llld ther be slSt thin
to sit through some performances at the thifres!
If any of those Rockefeller stnei- i,m,i.i i
anectcHl by legislation, woidi tc cile boll n
tl,sprefer honest legislation torSSlS
tl.M?rysUlf Siol"!? frh;?H WOOO to eduea.
ii mi. i in s in uie slue of tho sea e containing tu-
widow's mite continues to be lowest. b
Educational institutions like the one presided
over by Chancellor Day will not need for funds
as long as they are presided over by men like
Chancellor Day.
"The river and harbor bill is reaching for tho
100,000,000 mark," observes the St. Louis Globe
Democrat. This is due to the 85,000,000 easy
marks in the country.
A man was sent to jail In Washington the
other day for sleeping on the treasury department
steps. He wasn't a congressman interested in the
river and harbor bill.
The second number of Tom Watson's Jeffer-
sonian is a delightful magazine. It is full of the
sparkle and brilliancy which characterize his
speeches and writings.
Senator Dryden's physician said he was suf
fering from a malady that prevented him from
entering the race for re-election. Was it a case of
congealed extrometies ?
A great many republican organs observed Lin
coln's birthday by printing his picture and care
fully refraining from making quotations from his
speeches and messages.
Oklahoma need not hesitate between the mis
tletoe and the alfalfa as the state flower. Just
think of how many men have gotten into trouble
because of tho mistletoe.
The Colorado senate, which voted to send Gug
goniicini to tho senate, has expelled a member 'or
accepting a bribe. The bribe was offered and ac
cepted two years ago, however.
An appalling feature of Mr. Rockefeller's re
doLS aS C(lucatlon is thG volume of vociferous
defense of corporations and trusts that will flow
from tho lips of Chancellor Day.
is an VonnilTr yS th ipre80nt f row trouble
ill. nl,lt ot,tl10 1)eoi)le- 0f course the peo
ple should have hustled harder and made moro
money to turn over to tho railroads.
Rut could not the general public give moro to
educational institutions If they did not avo o
pay men like Carnegie and Rockefeller sucllmio
commissions for handling the money? a
Now that diey have raised their own .w
perhaps the members of congress will conse, M
Chicago's socialist dully TOln0,. ,,. ..w ,
l.uve $(1,000 before the eml of next veek' He t
Start It "rSt "P f,ml lws WW ",
The publishers would like to be Xn Ty C",n,'y
the output of cougresslZl wludjCning, ,'eSt,',Ct
It having boon reported that Pi-pairtonf t
velt declared that the place for S'l Roo;,G
Home, Secretary Loeb m ight jusJ as will VY
Proparations to assume rcpQnXill'ty Joftlfe'e-
The Sioux Gity Journal says that few mon
would give ?32,000,00'0 to education, as Mr. r0(4
feller has done. This is very true, -but there ju
tJiousands of men who would dearly love tn i
able to do it. ,)0
An eastern man bought a railroad ticket ami
because he wanted to lide on top of the coah liJ
was adjudged insane. Perhaps he was sensibio
enough to want to get us far away from' tho
wJieels as possible.
Tho administration opposes tho iinn r
a full report of military Ss in tlio i?hiiV,nIf,lls
on the ground that it would ie furnil ihu Llipi)lnes
information to Japan Thr roii In K t0 ,m,CH
in that It would bo1 Krnlslung f ffiSformiffi
to the taxpayers of the United States. '
Congress experienced great difficulty in distrl
buting tho river and harbor appropriations. Tho
difficulty was not in ascertaining where the nionov
.was most needed -for river nnd harbor improve,
meiit, but in ascertaining where it would do tho
most political good.
It will be very generally admitted that Mr
Harriman was not egotistic when lie remarked
that lie could run the interstate commerce com
mission fully as successfully as tho commission
lias run the railroads.
President Orr of the New York Life Insur
ance company says that if his wishes are con
suited his official connection with the company
will be short. A lot of policyholders are short
without being consulted.
A Detroit newspaper man has won a prize of
.$250 by writing an arllcTe about Colorado. There
are men in Colorado who could make more than
that by writing an article on the state, provlilod
they told what they know.
Noting the fact that the naval appropriation
bill carries $95,000,000 the Knoxville Sentinel
wants to know why one new cruiser should not
be named "Knoxville." Squandering money like
that certainly "Knocks all."
The house judiciary committee has decided
against a national child labor law. The interests
that maintain an iniquitous tariff seem able aloo
to prevent anybody disturbing their plan of em
ploying children at starvation wages.
No, Rinaldo, the Nebraska legislature whMi
is demanding an income tax", begging for a reduc
tion in the tariff on lumber and .denouncing the
ship subsidy steal, was not elected by democrats.
It claims to be it republican legislature.
Ihe workmen who have succeeded in stopping
the flow of the Colorado river into the Salton sea
should be hurried to Washington and set to work
on the break in the treasury that is flooding the
districts represented by the "pork" congressmen.
Wo are not yet ready for a censorship of The
press. The proceedings of a court are public prop
erty and the public can be trusted to rebuke a
newspaper which in publishing them uses lan
guage which offends the moral sense of its reader.
Judge Parker has upheld President Roosevelt's
right to discharge those negro troopers. Yes,
Alton R. Parker. The flowers of which James A.
Garfield spoke seem to bo blooming verv pro
fusely over the garden wall of politics these'bright
days.
Electricity as a cure for disease is being used
more and more every day, says an exchange,
borne very bad cases of disease have been cured
by electricity in New York, most of the cures be
ing performed at a famous resort upon' the Hud
son river.
Women ticket sellers are to be employed on
the New -York Elevated road. The reason given
is that they are more dexterous in handling and
making change than men. The real reason is that
they can be secured for about half the wages that
men demand.
A newspaper declares that there would bo
moro Rocket oilers in tho world if young men
apunt us mucn effort n mmiov mm.-T, ,, timv
love making. Perhaps, but there is some
wrong abOUt tho vniin ,o ,.,ir. -rtrrtiiM
. .., . ' "" " 1IKU1 MliW V-l.v.
niiier miiKo mono, than to make love. Resides,
haven't we enough Rockefellers now?
do in
tiling
A republican member of the Nebraska legisla
ture deserves the medal as the most consistent
5;S1? ' i J'le yoiQl nSl"st the adoption of a
esolution asking congress to take tho duty off of
lumber and steal, saying that while ho "favored
e moving Hie duty on lumber lie did not want the
I ,!? f 101U0VG(1, lrom Rtoel- 'And. his lumber costs
v "I hventy ti,nos wmit "Is steel costs him every
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