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ADVERTISING Rates furnished upon applica tion? - Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. Uncle Sam, Miss Oklahoma. "Learn to be a good loser," said Mr. Taft to the Filipinos, and in a voice loud enough to reach Cleveland, Ohio. "" Mr. Taft should hurry home and do some thing to offset the Piatt endorsement of the Taft presidential boom. Senator Plat's salary as senator is less than one-third his salary as president of an express company. This explains a lot of things. We shudder to think what might have been our country's fate if it had not been for de- riatured spelling and reformed mintage. It now transpires that J. Pierpoht Morgan made ' a very comfortable profit on his gener osity in rushing to the financial rescue. ?,. A number of eminent defenders of the national honor who were so vociferous in 1896 are now either trying to keep out of jail or to get out. "Is Mr. Bryan safe?" queries the Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Speaking from the standpoint of interests very near and dear to the Gazette yimes, perhaps not. Let's see, how many years ago was it that we heard som.e severe denunciation from repub lican lips of a democratic issue of bonds in time of "profound peace?" A great many concerns that never thought of increasing wages when business was unusually-good are reducing wages cheerfully because a flimsy excuse presents therefor. s, And jtfst about the timo this country gets all that gold over from England, along will come some lords and dukes and such and take it all back again with their American wives. ,,' ti The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman an nounces, that Tiereafter it will decline all liquor advertising, desiring to be in a position to de mand the enforcement or every law adopted by the' majority vote of the people. Its own prefer ences are not to be considered. This same spirit manifested by every newspaper apd every citizon In Oklahoma along all lines, will make that state the best governed, and therefore the model, state of the union. The chairman .of the rivers and harbors committee of congress is now able to personally chart a lot of dangerous rocks and reefs in tho, Cleveland political channel. The Michigan college professor who advo cates a kingship for President Roosevelt may only bo playing for a bid to join the faculty of Chancellor Day's university. The "In God we trust" motto will not ap pear on .the new gold coins. We print this as a matter of information, realizing that a ma jority of people would never know it from experience. . ' VOLUME,'7, NUMBER a upper ' central portion of , the map represent . Chicago, the' city where Judge Lanuis sat S he soaked tliat fine on the Standard Tim lesson No. 1. lilat is Some army officers who recently signed a "round robin" are being disciplined by the pres ident. They should have dug up a copy of one signed in tho vicinity of Kettle Hill about nine years ago and sent it in. The Pittsburg Telegraph, says: "In dealing with the Indian situation the government will need to proceed with caution." What, is there danger of overlooking something that; might be safely taken from the Indians? The Santa Fe has been caught rebating -igain, but owing to the fact that there are no cabinet vacancies at present the gentlemen re sponsible for it will have to remain in the rail road business for a while longer. A few evenings ago the president and some of his friends witnessed a wrestling bout be tween two Japanese at the White House. At the same time the "country was engaged in a wrestling bout whicli-it did not enjoy.- y The Milwaukee Sentinel asserts that the republican party "means tosevise the tariff and will so declare unequivocally in its na tional platform." This, too, in face'-oCthe fact that the Sentinel has just lost its humorist. The Washington Herald complains because a few contemporaries "swipes its paragraphs." " The Herald has no real grounds for complaint. Very few men are able to withstand all kinds of temptation, and the temptation to "swipe" Herald paragraphs is among the great ones. After defending the unspeakable "water melon rind preserve" the Washington Herald now rushes to the defense of the prune and the dried apple. The gastronomic department of the esteemed Herald is in need of a fearless blue pencil. -. The Pittsburg Dispatch makes a few re;-' marks about "the defeat of Mr. Bryan and his theories." The defeat of Bryan, to be sure but will the Dispatch kindly point out a few of, the "defeated theories?" The quantative theory of money, for instance. The Chicago beef packers gave a banquet at which every dish served was a duplicate of some well known English dish of the fifteenth century. It will be noted that the packers did not take advantage of the opportunity to ad vertise their own canned goods by eating them. The editor of the Canal Record receives $10,000 a year. The Canal Record is a weekly publication fathered by Uncle Sam and is not in it with a lot of weekly publications lathered by newspaper men who are glad to see the books show a profit of ten per cent of $10,000 every year. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat editorially says: "Mr. Bryan has just stated in New York that the president's methods may have been responsible in a degree for the flurry," The trouble with the St. Louis Globe-Democrat 'is that it would rather be unfair and wrong than to be fair and right. Mr. Rockefeller confesses that geography always did puzzle him. Now for a siege of mnemonics. That large blotch on the lower "half of .the map is Texas, Mr. Rockefeller; and that little round dot by the side of that lake in the The Baltimore Sun has made a vicious at tack verbal, not physical on pumpkin pie If it has in mind the Baltimore canned pumpkin we concur In all the $un says. But If it refers to the lucious brand made from, the golden glo.bes that ripened in Nebraska's great corn fields then we .insist thajt he court take cogniz ance of tho Sun's mental condition. A few years ago a lot of re-publican organs hooted at Senator Peffer because he insisted th! people could do business without money xZ they are insisting on the people being satisfled to do it just that way. u lf, I?16 national banks have sufficient boudq on which they have not issued notes to enihin them to take out some $40,000,000 more in currency why all this talk about the immediate need of an asset currency? -"Uncle Joe" Cannon says he "is in tho hands of his friends." And doubtless "Uncle Joe" is perfectly willing that they should let their left hands remain in utter ignorance of what their right hands are doing. A Colorado man has just been sent to jail for selling a gold mine uat did not exist. How foolish of him, when he might have sold non existent railroads and become a "Napoleon of Finance" or a "Captain of Industry." The Portland Oregonian says the "silver folly" of 1893 caused gold to hide away. And now, esteemed Oregonian, tell us please what is causing not only gold, but silver and paper money as well, to hide away at the present time. One hundred millions in "certificates of in debtedness" bearing three per cent interest would certainly seem to demand an apology from a large number of eminent administration organs and statesmen who had much to say about "a bond issue In time of peace" a dozen years ago. In 1896 with a per capita circulation of $22 the, republican organs insisted that there -W&splonty of money, the only thing lacking be ingCQUfidence." With a .per capita circulation of $34 tocfejH&ey are insisting on an asset cur rency in order Eo"XtyJde money for emergen cies. Have they, then7l5st-e6&3ence? United States Judge Grosscup feels temtoy--hurt because he has been indicted as a director of a railroad that recently had a fatal accident. His judicial feelings might be preserved by resignation. Somehow or other it does not strike the public as being quite the thing for a federal judge to be a director of a railroad corporation. MORGAN IS MAGNANIMOUS (Continued from Page 3) president never would come together again. Yet, late in the spring, when agitation by state legislatures and others against railroads intimidated investors until the railroads were forced to curtail their construction program, MR. MORGAN DROPPED WHAT FEELING, IF ANY, HE MAY HAVE HAD and came to tlio White House and arranged for President Roose velt to have a conference with Marvin Hugnitt, president of the Chicago and North Western railroad; W. H. Newman, president of the cw York Central railroad; C. S. Mellen, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail road, and James McCrea, president of the Penn sylvania railroad. Mr. Morgan sailed for Europe before arrangements for the conference were completed, and it fell through. President Roose velt at that time safd he always felt he coum obtain Mr. Morgan's co-operation for the gener a good; that Mr. Morgan always dealt with mm v a frank manner, concealing no hidden meaim or motive behind his words. The president ire quently has expressed his admiration for iu . Morgan's great ability and his breadth or uw and action. i.ffpm This feeling made the conference betweei Mr. Morgan, his associates, Mr. George F. ' Mr, Robert Bacon and the president, a suct Mr. Morgan's statement, when he left the v" House, that "everything is being done thJ -be "done, day and night," to help th e BltuaUon. showed his view of the efficiency of the c-oi ative policy. MR. MORGAN'S INFLUNou WITH THE ADMINISTRATION AS A U IS REGARDED AS VERY STRONG. Seciewg Cortelyou possesses the confidence or THE PRESIDENT AND MR. MORGAN to sut an extent' that it is believed the entente preserved so long as mutual action is neces t fc"'-t''r "w" i ZjTtSBQx&lUJSS&gBWi ifrwiri "fcit,r