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ISSUED WEEKLY.
The Commoner.
Uncle Joe Cannon's boomers havo over
looked something. They should point to the
fact that as yet no one has named a cheroot
after him and endeavored to sell it for ten
cents.
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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
Tho Master hat is in sight, but the price
is not.
It scorns that some agile Taft supporter in
Ohio cut tho ropo of the opposition lire alarm.
A St. .losoph laundry man is named Dam Li
ilo must he a standpatter and a third term advocate
The negro plank in the Ohio platform may
sufllce to hold the colored vote after tho Brown
vllle affair, and again it may not.
"Vituporous and venomous outpourings,"
says Congressman Nicholas Longworth. That is
what associations will do for a man.
"Ohio solid for Taft" was the headline, but
Messrs Forakor and Dlclc are quite sure they
know whore thoro is a hollow place.
"Mythomaniac" is the substitute for the
"short and ugly word." Tho beauty of it is that
you can apply it to a man without danger on
"account of its being so new and not yet fully
understood.
The Fowler currency bill is so carefully
drawn that tho bankers can do almost any
thing they please under it, and then justify
themselves by pointing to the currency bill's
provisions.
Some eastern papers are surprised that
Senator Owen of Oklahoma should know so
much about finance. They forget that men like
Owen made the groat west, instead of being
made thereby.
Tho Atlanta Georgian mourns because it
will be twenty-eight years before we have an
other February with five pay days. 0, cheer up.
Forty-one days more and we'll have a month
with five pay days.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger is com
mending the Philadelphia police for driving the
newsboys off the streets. But can you blame
the newsboys for not carrying a paper that the
public refuses to buy?
VOLUME $; NUMBER 10
endeavors to deny that print paper was higher
today than it was ten years ago, or that tho
tariff had any effect on the price of print paper
Mr. Dalzell, republican, of Pennsylvania
well known as the high priest of protection in
congress.
Mr. Payne of New York, the leader of the
majority in the house of representatives.
Mr. Bates of Pennsylvania, also republican,
and also a famous defender of the doctrine of
"standpat."
Not one republican said a word in favor of
the proposition to restore to the newspaper
business of the country some share of the pros
perity which republican legislation has taken
away from it in the last two years. Not a
single word -came from the republican side of
the house to indicate that the men sitting there
had any recognition of the fact that the paper
trust, protected by the tariff, was so extortionate
in its demands upon the newspapers of the land
that the business of publishing a newspaper has
become almost precarious from a financial
point of view. Mr. Herman Ridder, president of
the American Newspaper Publishers' association,
is in Washington today and has given out an
interview on this subject which no doubt the
press associations are carrying. - But tlure is no
indication that what Mr. Ridder says or what
the united newspapers of the land may say or
do will have any effect upon a republican con
gress which is wedded to its high protection
ideals.
WILLIS J. ABBOT.
J. Pierpont Morgan complains because the
New York World did not verify that interview
before printing it. Strange that Mr. Morgan
should not bo bettor acquainted with the New
York World, and living right in the same town,
too.
Tho report comes that President Roosevelt
is studying Esperanto. That may bo easier than
hunting through a dictionary for new expletives.
Secure in their own gerrymander the re
publicans of Ohio and Pennsylvania aro very
angry over the suppression of votes in southern
states.
THE LILLEY CHARGES
Congressman Lilley submitted some
charges against the Electric Boat company a
few weeks ago and, a committee having been
appointed to investigate, he has proceeded to
present his case. Undaunted by the fact that
tho committee refused to allow him to have an
attorney, he has presented his charges and
given tho names of a number of persons who
were approached by the company.
Mr. Lilley goes into detail to show the
means resorted to by the company to secure a
monopoly of the business, and he charges that
tho company has already secured an excessive
profit of more than a million of dollars, and
that it will secure a million dollars more if the
present plans aro carried through.
As Mr. Lilly seems to be prepared to make
out his case, the public will watch the develop
ments with interest. It is not often that the
light is thrown upon the methods employed by
tho tax-eaters who gather about legislature halls,
and it will have a wholesome effect if tho com
mittee makes a thorough investigation and ex
hibits to the public tho methods by which these
favor-seeking corporations attempt to influence
tho action of congress.
Mr. Simeon Ford is the latest to be classed
among the "undesirables." Mr. Ford made the
mistake of trying to be facetious on a very
solemn subject.
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William E. Curtis now assorts that "Taft
is labor's friend." However, did you ovor see
a candidate who was not "labor's friend" during
the campaign?
Washington Letter
Colonel Goethals says there Is no gold In the
canal zone. This littlo matter, however, will
bo corrected before Uncle Sam gets through nut
ting his gold into it.
Tho American Tariff League has evidently
overlooked an opportunity. It has not yet ex
plained that the recent ranic was due to the
demand for tariff reform.
The Nebraska democratic platform is wor
rying a few people down east. It isn't the word
ing of tho platrorm so much as the evident in
tontion of its framcrs to enforce it.
A lot of tho officeholders explain their vio
lation of tho order not to tako an active part
in politics by saying that thoy are so busv in
politics that they nevor are in their offices
Washington, D. C, March 16. It is rather
interesting to note that while the newspapers
of tho United States, regardless of politics, are
pleading with this congress for the abolition of
the tariff on wood pulp and on print paper, the
only men on the floor of the house who' are
giving voice to the demand of newspaper owners
are democrats. The representative who thus
far has made the most intelligent attack upon
this duty, a duty that was described by the
president as a tax upon inte igenco, is Repre
sentative Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Omaha who
as the owner of a newspaper and a man who
has been in the newspaper b-siness from the
time of boyhood, is able to speak understand
Ingly on tho subject. Mr. Hitchcock has snoken
twice on the paper tariff. He has shown bv
personal experience and irom communications
in his hands from othr publishers that owing
to the tariff on paper and owing to the tariff
on pulp the cost oi paper to publishers has
been almost doubled. I heard part of Mr
'Hitchcock's speech, and as I write this 1 have
in my hand the Congressional Record in which
it is reported in full. Mr Hitchcock spoke for
the newspaper publishers of the country I
find that these gentlemen interrupted him with
JOHN R. WALSH SENTENCED
John R. Walsh, former president of the
Chicago National bank, and owner of the
Chicago Chronicle, who was convicted of illegal
use of the funds of the institution, was denied a
new trial by Judge Anderson in the United
States district court and sentenced to serve five
years in the federal penitentiary at Fort Leaven
worth. The Associated Press report says: "As
soon as the court had announced the refusal to
grant a new trial, the attorneys for the defense
entered a motion in arrest of judgment on which
they argued for some time. Judge Anderson
then promptly overruled the motion and sen
tenced the banker to five years in Fort Leaven
worth. After overruling the motion, the judge,
turning to the prisoner, said: "Mr. Walsh, have
you anything to say why I should not now pro
nounce judgment upon you?' Walsh, without
arising, shook his head slightly and the court
said: 'The character of the evidence and the
character of the crime of which this defendant
has been found guilty call for extreme judg
ment. The facts are, however, that this de
fendant is seventy years of age and that mere
imprisonment is of itself so heavy a punishment
in a case of this kind, I have conclude that the
law will be satisfied with the minimum! penalty,
which is five years.' The court further directed
that all the counts in the indictment , be served
concurrently and further directed that the de
fendant pay the entire cost of the trial. An ap
plication was immediately made to Judge Gross
cup of the United States circuit court of appeals
for a writ of supersedeas which was granted and
Walsh was released under bonds of $50,000
pending the hearing of his appeal."
TO OPEN JOHNSON HEADQUARTERS
An Associated Press dispatch under date
of St. Paul, Minn., March 12, follows: "Gov
ernor Johnson's presidential headquarters will
be established in Chicago, and may be extended
to include New York and Washington. Frank
A. Day, secretary to Governor Johnson, and F.
B. Lynch are now in Chicago looking for suit
able quarters. Their trip may include New York.
Governor Johnson admitted today that Mr. Day
was in Chicago on the headquarters proposition.
He was not sure, though, that such would be
opened. He also admitted that if headquarters
wore opened and an aggressive campaign decided
upon, that those in charge would open additional
headquarters in New York. The governor, how
ever, disclaims any connection with what is be
ing done or any knowledge of what line of
activity is contemplated. Since the action of the
state central committee in indorsing him for
president, Governor Johnson's mail has increased
to vast proportions, and the telegrams are many.
Most of these come from the east. Very fre
quently conferences with eastern visitors are
held. Whatever activity is, being done in con
nection with Governor Johnson's presidential
boom seems to be chiefly the work of intorested
friends. The only aid his excellency is giving
is in the shape of non-interference."
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