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The Commoner.
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THE COMMONER, L'ncoln, Neb.
Fingers all there?
Illinois undertakers have decided -to call
themselves morticians. What's the difference?
Gr,aft has been discovered in the British
array. ,; Nothing more cosmopolitan than "graft."
Senator Foralcer declares ho will fight tho
Brownsville matter to a finish. Wo can see it.
The "Black Hand" seems to be very much
Jn need of the immediate attention of tho "mailed
fist."
Mr. Rockefeller, doubtless feels like whisper
ing, "cut it short" into tho ears of Chancellor'
Day, ' .
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Undor the circumstances tliejcnidsoutrht
to be willing to pay forfine use hi tho
postal department,,-" .
.-" If (Senator Foraker can control the negro
vote, what's the use of any other republican
trying for olection?
Even the French people will admit that
there is an appreciable difference between wine
riots and bread riots. . "
Czar Nicholas may discover when too late
that tho douma which suits him will not suit
the Russian people at all.
u ,Tii fll!ladelphia Public Ledger calls Col
liers Weekly a "yellow journal," Well, we pre
fer "yellow" to "washed out."
jit A num,be0f gentlemen "close to the presi
dent" are talking like men who would prefer
being closer to the appointment.
The Now York Life Insurance company is
fw telling by its actions just what it thinks of
tho Hughes' insurance revelations.
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j. , rj??. Knox boom nas sixty-eight delegates
Seh,n.dJt; hQ Grant boonr had we remem
ber rightly, 312 behind it and yet!
Attorney General Jackson of New York has
Joe ded that an oyster- is a wild animal. Nature
Taking will now receive a fresh impetus.
The average American can begin to appre
ciate conditions in Russia whon he learns that
during the last year that country spent $20,000 -000
for prisons and only $12,000,000 for schools
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In addition to the Pennsylvania delegates
tho Knox boom is weighted down with the en
dorsement of several Pittsburg millionaires.
Mr. Rockefeller has paid a fine for "scorch
ing" with his automobile. Up to date ho has not
paid Texas that flno for "burning them up."
With a $24,000,000 dividend on a $12,
000,000 capital the Adams Express company
does not seem to be on the ovo of bankruptcy.
Tho Now York World, having received-tho
answer to Its question, "What is a democrat?"
should not blame others because it is not able
to grasp it.
In View of tho stories they have .been forced
to wire out we do not blame the San Francisco
telegraphers for striking for shorter hours and
bettor wages.
Senator-elect Gore of Oklahoma has been
blind since boyhood. But he has been able to
see a great many evils perpetrated by the trusts
and monopolies.
It strikes the unprejudiced observer that
tho Japanese are. awfully anxious to secure ad
mission into a country where they claim to be
so badly treated.
If President Roosevelt wants to tackle a
really live question, lot him consider for a few
moments the addlepated man who persists in
rocking the boat.
A large number of newspapers owned by
) men who also own the railroads are explaining
why Governor Hughes was right in vetoing tho
two-cent fare law.
General Funston's remarks about the "un
whipped mob" is in very poor taste. That
"unwhipped mob" helps to pay for the Funs-tonian-
shoulderstraps.
If Secretary Taft visits theP&iiippines
while his boom is afloatheFilfpinos deserve
to be excused if thoy'fake it to be an intimation
that the franchise is in sight for them.
:- An explorer has discovered another race
""of pigmies in Central Africa. He could have
.found them nearer homo by exploring in the
fastnesses of "standpattism."
Paragraphic Punches
If Milwaukee is going to back Taft, then
his boom will not likely dry up and blow away.
Los Angeles Express.
Nothing in President Roosevelt's James
town speeches on Georgia day was half- so elo
quent as his silence on the tariff. Norfolk
Pilot.
Goyornor Hughes says reason is his only
guide. That's one that most of the politicians
have overlooked. Baltimore Sun.
When the railroads talk about their "im
paired credit,' they romind us ot the boy who
cut his own finger and then wondered why it
bled. Atlanta Constitution.
. It is said that the president will not reply
to Dr. Long. There seems to come times' when
silence is the better part of wisdom, even for
the president. Bristol Courier.
If Czar Nicholas keeps on he may eventually
furnish the text for a I'eal "Decline and Fall of
the Russian Empire" for future Weggs and Bof
fins to study. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Pittsburg will not take "The Bath." But
this bath was a picture by a French -artist, and
it. didn't wear clothes enough to stand the
Pittsburg climate. Baltimore Sun.
More men have been raised in the back
woods who have not been ashamed of the family
tree than many of those raised in the garden
of culture. Baltimore Labor Leader.
The Missouri justices of- tho supreme court
have decided to wear gowns on the bench. vW -.,
are prepared to expect almost anything of Mis
souri since that fluke in 1904.
Governor Sheldon, of Nebraska, has sprung
a new and nobby silk tile. But the governor
knew enough not to make a break of that kind
during the campaign. Sioux City Journal.
"Be a good boy, Willie, and some day you
may be president and have 10,000 camels named
af ter youYsays the JDallas News. Do .you mean. J
-WillierBr?tf willfe T. Y Washington Herald. '
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Mr. Roosevelt's remark that the best crop
of all is the crop of children is probably all
right, but nothing could be better than the crop ,
of June brides' looks. Kansas City Journal.
While cutting a $24,000,000 melon the
Adams Express company is putting up a plea
of poverty in Nebraska in order to prevent a
twenty-five per cent reduction in express rates.
.The Philadelphia Public Ledger is not sat
isfied with Mr. Bryan's answer to the New York
World's question,. "What is a democrat?" Some
department store manager must have told tho
Public Ledger.
It appears now that Mr. Roosevelt did not
ejaculate "cut it short" during those Georgia
day speeches. Sometimes he restrains that
"habit of talking aloud." Milwaukee Sentinel.
"The common people hold the power," ob-
serves Ambassador Bryce, which is probably the
v first time Rockefeller, Morgan and Harriman
have been called so. hard a name. Detroit News.
An exchange mentions the fact that whilb
delivering a speech recently Mr. Fairbanks kept
his eyes on his feet. Perhaps he knows how
anxious some politicians are to pull ,them out
from under him. Washington Post.
Funny, isn't it, that when the railroads
want to raise rates they do not make inquiry
and satisfy the public as to the justice thereof;
but when the public reduces rates' the railroads
insist upon inquiry.
San Francisco "will, protect itself from futuro
fires with fresh water reservoirs, salt water
pumping stations and three large pumping boats.
Other cities should have the foresight "to profit
by this hindsight. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
An expert drilled into the vault of the
Pennsylvania state treasury with a common
breast drill in less than four hours. A lot of
other experts wore ahead of him, and they used
only their fingers and brains.
A paragrapher says that it is undignified
for Mr. Bryan, to travel without a secretary. .If
he traveled with a secretary when he did not
need ono then some paragrapher would "think
it very undemocratic. Too bad, but.it is im
possible to please some critics.
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And now comes rf press dispatch from In
dianapolis to tho effect that tho Standard Oil
company is using a five-gallon can which is
three pints short. The company, so the dis
patch reads, refuses to allow its 80,000 cans
to be inspected. Can it be that there is any
connection between tho. three pints and Mr.
Rockefeller's -contributions to educational institutions?
Twenty more indicted furniture dealers
who pleaded guilty to violating the anti-trust
law have been fined from $10 to $25 each at
Portland, Ore., where ther.e seems to be little
disposition to run amuck. Indianapolis News.
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