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6 The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY. Wll MAM J. IlltVAM Killloriiml Pioprlotor. It KM A III) I., iMlCIL'AMM'. Awoclnlc Ktlllor. UllAIU.IW W. HllYAM 1'ilMMinr. KiJItor'nl IIooiiih mid Hiislnrw 0Tlro 324-330 Kouth Vih Strrpfc. I'lilnnl nt the I'oMomco fit Lincoln, Nrli., n.i urcoid-clnw matter (tiifVciir - tfl.OO HaJtlniillin - - .BO ChiliFolI'lvc or mom, I'rrYrnr - .75 So Thrio IVIoiiHih Unci' Jpy b'niniilf Copli'M Krrp. FoicU'ii I'ctiu- M CrniFVtXtTti. .StmsCltll'TIONS can bo Hont direct to llio Gom monnr. Tlioy can ulw ho hciiI through newspapers which liavo iidvortlHod a eluhhliitf nitc, or through local HKcntH, whom HUh-agonlM have boon appojnt od. All remittance!? hIioiiIiI bo sent by poBtofllco 'money onlor, expreHH nnlor, or by bank omit on Now York or Chicago. 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ADVlSlt'l'J.SlNc; Hates furnished upon applica tion. Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. Every John D. Rockcf oiler 1ms his Day. Tho flrBt stop in tho revision of the tariff will bo a very thorough revision of congress. ,i Ico King Morso will now need a lot of his cornered product to cool his heated indignation. Mr. Stillings will have to secure an election to congress before ho can got another leave to print. In tho meantime recruits for tho "army of a million" will always find tho recruiting station open. Mark Twain has been in Bermuda, prob ably on tho scent of some of that badly invested money. Tho way to win tho battle for 1908 is for tho forces of democracy to begin now Organize! A Michigan justice has decided that "a sau bark nitB,luslieo-" Tlmt ,s th0 word, with the 1 ho report that tho republican party in Florida is divided must, In tho very nature or tilings, bo very much exaggerated. vi "S0t ? M('SQ. cont f0nd." says the Now York Evening Post. How much more gracoful and polito that is than the usual expression The Ananias clubs havo received a largo number of editorial recruits since the prefi Foulko February 10 to William Dudley Tho latest announced International mar riage Is declared to be a lovo match. Of com-se dolVrT3 tU UU0 aUd h l0Ves th0 Aeu A Now York paper gleefully mentions the day in which tho Now York market reached to mark? elJf "' f tU now year "ate? sotted fflBnrffiS founVole?1- expofir s wlnM.r izizr rst The Commoner. Colonol John Temple Graves declares that "women should- receivo men's wages." Wo know one woman who receives a man's wages. Tho election of George Ado as a delegate to the Chicago convention must not bo taken as tin indication that former republican platforms were not fables. The attempt to prove that the poet Long follow was a plagiarist merely emphasizes tho fact that wo would all feel better if a lot of poets would not attempt to bo so original. "Shall tho democratic party die?" plain tively queries tho New York World. Having survived the World's blackjack and poniard tho evidences of longevity are very gratifying. President Roosevelt's latest public uttor ance recalled to mind and view tho name and features of William Dudley Foulke. Mr. Foulke still wears the same puff tie and minute goatee. Every time a republican organ claims that its party will carry Missouri this year, 75,000 Missouri democrats who forgot to vote four years ago wink 75,000 left optics and snicker audibly. By holding down wages to the starvation point the Pullman company Is enabled to make such large profits that it can give its employes a month's wages as a matter of "generosity" and "charity." Tho attention of the Paragraphers' Union is called to section 13, article 23. Observance of the rule therein laid down will put an imme diate stop to this R. E. Morse gag concerning the return of C. W. Morse. VOLUME 8, NUMBER 6 President Roosevelt appointed Mr. Rossiter as "acting public printer," and Secretary Cor telyou refused to accept the Rossiter bond, thus compelling tho naming of another man. The Cortelyou big stick must be reckoned with, too. The Japanese minister of finance is said to have made a mistake of $20,000,000 in his budget. This would seem to indicate that tho Japanese minister of finance was a newspaper roporter before he accepted a public office. oooo A WORD OP CONGRATULATION Mr. Louis F. Post of the Public, published at Chicago, 1447 First National Bank Building, announced a few weeks a.go that the publication of the Public could not be continued unless ho received assurances of a larger support. He has just announced that the responses to the appeal were so generous as to assure the continuance of the paper, and The Commoner hastens to con gratulate him and his readers, who deserve even heartier congratulations. Mr. Post is one of tho ablest as well as one of the most conscientious editors in the country, and the Public stands in the front rank as a molder of public opinion. It would be a loss to journalism if he were com pelled to abandon his newspaper enterprise, and The Commoner rejoices that the readers of the Public are to have the benefit of his observations and logic for at least another year. The Com moner is pleased to bring Mr. Post's paper to the attention of the reading public, and it can assure any of The Commoner readers who may be inclined to subscribe for the Public, that they will not be disappointed in Mr. Post's writings. The Public occupies a unique place and deserves such an increase in its number of readers as to give it a permanent place in the newspaper field. CHAMP CLARK IN THE HOU5E Speaking in the house on February 13 Champ Clark of Missouri described Mr. Roosevelt as "such a belligerent personage that his lightest word is a challenge to combat." Ac cording to the Associated Press report Mr. Clark said that Mr. Roosevelt could not express his views upon any question under heaven, "even upon a subject so prosaic and threadbare as the passing of the state of the weather" without precipitating a row, his extreme adherents swearing that there never had been "such a weather prophet on earth since Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden with flaming swords and his extreme enemies vocifer ating that he knows no more about tho weather than does a ground hog." The president's whole public life, said Mr. Clark, had been one session of spectacular fights. No man had been more viciously assailed by men of his own party, "and none was ever, while still in the flesh, so lavishly lauded by some of the opposing party." "But " ho said, "tho truth is that this extraordinary man has waxed stronger and stronger by waging his battles." Even defeat, he declared, had made him a larger and more commanding figure "So," he said, "amid the swirl of things the dohige of words, the shouting of the captains tho beating of tom-toms, the groans of crippled republicans, the yells of friend and foe " one who was a personal friend of Theodore Roose volt, the man, but political opponent of Roose velt, the politician or statesman, had "but little chance perhaps of being heard in-this babel of voices." Mr Clark, however, insisted that he would have his say. He spoke of his personal 1 king or tho president, and said thut, although after the manner of strong men, the president had pronounced virtues and glaring faults of character, he had never abused him nor had ho grown hysterical in admiration of him but ho had supported him when he was right ami fought him "tooth and nail," when l l e 1 wrong He believes that was the way the presi dent should be treated. "We must indeed "said Mr Clark, "entertain contempt for the invei te brate sycophants who grovel before him or all occasions and who, no matter what he does or says throw high their sweaty caps in tho air and shout Io, triumphe, Io, triumphal' " Mr. Clark spoke of the claim tw r dent Roosevelt was botte? th i , fc Pref1" "which fact," he estimated SSlyhliuidP& established without running aiiv fmi? ? danger of being translated after til Eminent Elijah in a chariot c fir Thy eLnf?11 ,f Ks iWlmt,Ver th l-oslSs0 v Suegsod; laults, he Is not a democrat." Occasionally he said, the president very much to the delight of democrats and confusion of republicans, "ap propriates or absorbs, borrows or seizes a demo cratic idea'V and from his high coigne of van tage urges it with tremendous force, for, ho said, the president obeyed to the letter at least one scriptural injunction: "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do iwith thy might." It was tho heavy hand, or "big stick" of the president, he declared that had driven so many republicans "pell mell into the cave of Addulam where there is weeping and Wailing and gnashing of teeth and much profane swearing," and, he added, "so far as he has advocated democratic ideas, so far as ho has mauled wicked republi cans with his mailed fist or thumped them with his big stick, he has deserved the unstinted praise of all lovers of our country." No one knew, continued Mr. Clark, whether or not the president was a great man. He quoted from an old saying, "Count no man happy till he is dead," and said it was a safe and sane rule to pronounce no man great until he was in his grave. "We have not enough perspective neces sary to fix his status in history," he said, "and it is sheer folly to attempt it." Individually he wished the president well until March 4, 1909, when he hoped the president would quit forever, "for no president will ever be elected to a third term till the republic is on its last legs." Everyone could be honest, he main tained, even if he could not be great, "and," ho added, "if you republican big wigs would bo candid you would confess that you are not half so much enamored of the president as you seem to be. The republicans, he declared, grew red in the face lauding the president to the skies, for he s still the dispenser-in-chief of pie." A republican statesman bereft of pie, said he, was a spectacle to make the angels weep," but ne said, when ho saw republicans trying to apotheosize him by "mere lip service," it seemed i , th, lady doth Protest too much. In con S?n. r Clark said: "In the impending connict I summon every democrat in all this oroad land to service under the democratic ban Sri? . democtic principles principles which the immortal Jefferson enunciated, which the heroic Jackson upheld and which are as dear n !ief S of tlle peoille thls day as they were nej5 a&?- lighting under that banner and t?ni Z, princiPles we won fourteen presiden anrt nl01n,Ut of thlrty and ca win again e?erv Sfn? "? WG drlvo the publicans from ernmonl tn ?,' PTr' therel)y restoring the gov otic niSmthf0f?afe WlsG wholesome and patri-voutlblshei''1161,8-11 mmatlon d- f yJl vlUltit.l..JfiajrilMfkwOtt. .