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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.
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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.-
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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
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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
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