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rvmx-!zn - va "! "J" u A 6 VOLUME J- NUMBER 2 1 . W W The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. WlM.TAM J. IlllYAN- Oil AIU.1CS W. IlllYAN Kdltor nml Proprlotor. Publisher. IticiiAiinL. Mktcamt. Editorial Jtooms and lluslnerci Associate Editor. Offlco 321-330 Soutli 12th Btroot, Entered nt tho rostofllco nt Lincoln, Nob., oh second-class matter One Your - - &1.0O bix Months - - .BO In Clubs of Vivo or moro, PorYcnr - .70 Three Month 25"o Single Copy So Sample Copies Free. For al (oi Postage 52 Cents Extra. EUHHOItlrTIONHcan be nont direct to TiiKCoMMONicn. Thoy mn also bo pent through newspapers which have advertised a club bing into, or through local agents, whoro Md-agcnts havo been appointed. All remittances should bo sent by postomco monoy order, express order, or by bunk draft on Now York or Chicago. 3)o not send Individual checks, stamps or monoy. 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ADVEHTISING.-HatCH furnished upon application. . AddrcsR all communications to THE COMMONER, Lfncoln, Nob. Tho sixty-cent wheat harvested by the farm er is now selling for a dollar. The next time Mr. Harriman should view the boat race from an airship. t The commons seems inclined to give tho Chouse of lords a dose ofdoumazltatlon. It seems that the Pennsylvania state house ; graft was really an intern Vonal affair. .. . It must have been, a "glorious Fourth.' 'The casualty list is one of the longest ever. When is tariff reform not tariff reform? That is easy whon it is left to the friends of the 'tariff. Next year's political battle will be won only ?y organizing and perfecting the plan of cam paign now. .Xt - That little Harriman incident at the boat ace is calculated to make Chancellor .Day see ' red again. General Funston might get ahead of that "uirwhipped mob" by eating its salt and then abusing it. , It seems that Mr. Rockefeller's money is not to be allowed to talk, for him in Judge Landls' court. Kiug Edward has the. veto power, but he does not dare use it. The royal "big stick" needs a foreign tour. The recent flurry in wheat on the board of trade is an indication that the "lamb crop" is all right, all right. Tho next democratic candidate for presi dent will be nominated by the rank and file of the democratic party. Judge Landis is making tho Standard Oil magnates dance, but the people who buy oil' will have to pay the fiddler. Governor Hughes vetoed the two-cent fare aw in New York because the legislature had made no exhaustive investigation of the matter We presume Governor Hughes vetoed the law after a long, careful, exhaustiveand, rigorous investigation. That is the logicanHference. The Commoner. Judge Landis seems quite certain that tho Standard Oil forgettory is not as perfect as its , price raising machinery. Between rotten ties, rotten rails and rotten management tho traveling public seems to bo getting moro than it deserves. The fancy vestmakors have gone cm a strike for higher wages. They object to putting all the big checks in others vests. If Dr. Wiley's anti-pie crusade includes, only tho dried apple, the prune and the dried peach articles, we will be with him. An Oklahoma man insists that a cougar at tacked him in a village hotel. Thoy sure do raise big ones down in Oklahoma. A New York broker has been sent to Sing Sing for stealing a lot of bonds.. And bonds may be printed so cheaply, too. The New York World still asks; "What is a democrat?" The answer that will please' tho World will not please a democrat. Mr. Harriman has "bumped up against the. curious fact that there is no such thing as "the right of eminent domain" on water. Strange that the railroads have not offered as an argument against the 2-cent faro that tho price of everything else has gone up. While elevating their tracks the railroad managers might do a little elevating among themselves without injury to the public service. There is another side to the "lay in your winter coal now" question. If we do, how are we to pay tho iceman? Or see the ball games? Tho naval lieutenant who arrested Mr. Harriman would look pretty good occupying a place in the legal department of the adminis tration. , , .. ' "War is cruel and you can not refine it," is the inscription under the Sherman tablet in the Hall of Fame. Euphemistic, but not liis-torical. By the way, perhaps it would be a good idea to turn this little matter of trust magnate regulation over to some of the junior naval officers. General Funston's reference to the "un whlpped mob" sounded real King George Third ish, don't you know. And so near the Pourth of July, too. Had General Kurokl remained a few weeks longer he would have learned that we burn enough powder in one day to blow almost any old navy off the map. The report that mosquitoes are unusually .bothersome In the region of Oyster Bay simply means the substitution of the "big slap" for the "big stick" for a few weeks. Philadelphia is to have a ten million dollar art gallery. The old masterpieces, "Wide Awake" and "Fast Asleep" will soon find their way there with big price tags attached. The reports of the discovery of a petrified man in Ohio probably have their foundation in the fact that some man has gone into a comatose state in order to escape tho Taft-Foraker scrap. Several Texans have been convicted of using the mails with intent to defraud. The railroads .have been using tho mails to defraud the people for a long time charging four prices for carry ing them. Summer is really here, at last." The story of the baby carried by toy balloons and rescued by a rifleman puncturing enough balloons to let the baby safely to .earth, has made its annual appearance. The only thing lacking is the story of tho boy being fed Into a threshing maohlne by an irate feeder whose hand the , boy acci dentally, cut. - ' Paragraphic Punches 1 . T , , , Fairbanks has money to burn; but ho hasn't agreed to furnish any for a Taft torchlight pro cession. Atlanta Constitution. Tesla is talking to Mars all right. The only trouble is to get a response. Philadelphia Public Ledger. A Marinette (Wis.) girl has been given $14,000 for the loss of her hair. Many a man has gone baldheaded trying to make less. De troit Free Press. If Mr. Roosevelt Could break the solid south He would be willing to break the Washington precedent. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ,, .General Kurokl couldhardly go through the United States more speedily if he had- come over here to write a book cbout it. Boston Globe. If Mr. Rockefeller Is ordered to come Into court to testify he may consent at least to .take the matter under advisement. Chicago News. Ever read what Washington had to say on the third term question? Never mind. , Wash ington was an "old fogy." Sioux City Journal. The increased cost of living has made our honest gold coin a 50-cent dollar; sometimes it is not more than forty cents. St. Louis Post Dispatch. The attorney for the defense has denounced Harry Orchard as a "monumental liar." Had those tall, towering monuments in mind, too, no doubt. Baltimore Sun. Nicholas of Russia Is so unpopular that he could hardly be elected to the legislature . in Pennsylvania, even if he ran on the. republican ticket. Pittsburg Sun. , Colonel Samuel Pomeroy Colt had with drawn from the senatorial fight in Rhode Island. His revolvers, however, are still on the market. Nashville American. " , ", Senator Beverldge alludes to Roosevelt's policies as "the historic movement of the last five years." He meant, perhaps, the hysteric movement. Houston Post. After the meat trust has been broken up by everybody refusing to eat meat everybody will go barefooted to bust the shoe trust, of course. Philadelphia Press. Mark Twain's admission that he started the rumor himself of his offer to bujr Windsor, castle partly explains why he doesn't need any other press agent. Newark Star. There is a serious side even to the life of the professional humorist. Mark Twain has ac cepted an invitation to dine with the staff of Punch. Louisville Courier-Journal. When " Pennsylvania starts afer the presi dency Uncle Sam instinctively begins to nail down tilings in Washington and hunts out a place to hide the valuables. Baltimore Sun. Speaking of the presidential nomination Mr. Taft remarked, "if the duty comes I shall not decline It." In the meantime he is keeping tho country posted as to his whereabouts. Washing ton Post. , It was the New York World that inquired, "Is the law .really an ass?" That depends en tirely upon whether you are making it, inter preting it, or being kicked by it. Washington Herald. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat presents the following for solution; "Conundrum: If two cents more of cotton and two cents more wages are .put Into a shirt, why is the price of the gar ment marked up twenty-five cents?" .Dead easy! Tha thieving .tariff ! LouisvllleCourier-Journal. ;ti iw.jii lift? w & .g j&, t wja kAj JqV..t?Jla,;i(; ajmkM!tttiti6f