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Speaker Cannon is not in favor of forest
preservation. But some of these days an aroused
peoplo will convince "Uncle Joe" that he hasn t
tho "deadwood" on a congressional dictatorship.
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 19
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PARAGRAPHIC PUNCHES
Secretary Taft is planning a trip to Panama,
not having been anywhere, 'special last -week. .
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The Commoner.
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Tho New York baby that is rocked in that
thousand dollar cradlo will bo subject to the
same plebian colic that other babies must en
dure Looking zealously after the "Interests" of
the people is making "Uncle Joe" almost stoop
shouldered. Chicago Tribune.
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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
Take 'em off and put it on.
Tho newspapers are now speculating on
"when1 Mr. Cannon and Mr. Aldrich will adjourn.
- If Mrs. Dimness is still alivo doubtless she
would liko to have hor case reviewed by her
friends.
Western wool growers are wondering why
tho tariff on wool is not operating with niore
zeal for their benefit.
This is tho season of year when a lot of
mon overlook tho lawnmower in their anxiety
to get some nooded exorcise on tho golf links.
Speaker Cannon is earning his increased
wage but as to deserving it that, as Mr. Kip
ling would say, 1b another story.
Pour members of the Swathmore football
squad have boon discharged for eating pie. As
between football and genuine American pie, give
us pie.
"There never was a better time," says tho
Pendleton, Ore., Tribune, "to show our attach
ment to tho republican party." Nor never a
better time to show your disapprobation.
Speaking of optimism, the prize optimist
seems to be Representative Hobson who bolioves
that sooner or lator some nation will agree to
take the Philippines off of Uncle Sam's hands.
It appears that William Waldorf Astor
bought and presented to Great Britain the flag
of a country that made him rich and under
which ho refuses to livo and for which he never
fought.
Tho Illinois republican convention endorsed
Cannon and advocated tariff revision. That con
vention was made up of humorists, not statesmen.
President Roosevelt told a Denver woman
that he "swears by Colorado." Doubtless, but
ho does not swear "by" Harrlman, Long,
Shonts, et al.
Under a protective tariff that enables Mr.
Carnegie to enjoy an income of approximately
$75,000 a day, 175,000 cotton mill operatives
in Massachusetts had their wages reduced ap
proximately $27,500 a day.
Tho Now York World's editor is writing on
"What is truly democratic?" We suppose he is
not the ono who played the stock market while
writing and printing editorials calculated to
affect the price of securities.
President Roosevelt may now offer as a
samplo of the administration's deadly enmity
towards tho trusts the refusal of congress to
give tho steel trust a whack at tho $40,000,000
contract for four new battleships.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says the em
ployes on the Panama canal who stay through to
tho finish will be apt to form an historic or
ganization. Well they might. It would bo tho
only club of centenarians in the world.
Wo may now reasonably expect a lot of ad
ministration organs to point to those destructive
vkiuuuuiu uiurniB as remouuve justice for not
listening to the frantic anneals of tin rnniihiinn
ibib utuure naoptmg mat constitution.
The denial from Mr. Fairbanks' campaign,
managers that he is about to retire is super
fluous. "To retire" means to retreat, to go
back. And it is generally conceded that Mr.
Fairbanks' candidacy could not be much further
back.
Tho Sioux City Journal reprints a Chicago
Tribune paragraph commenting on the number
of times Mr. Bryan's name appeared in a single
issue of The Commoner. In the same issue of
the Journal Mr. Bryan's name appears fifteen
times in one editorial.
The United States senators who sought to
be "funny" when the "Mothers' Day" resolution
was up for discussion will see tho serious side
of it when men who love to pay reverence to
their mothers get a chance to say a few appro
priate words to the aforesaid senators.
The republican organs that denounced tho
democratic administration for having a deficit
are now praising the republican administration
for having a deficit, saying it means "getting
the money back into the channels of commerce."
That's shooting around the hill to hit the deer.
THE MIST AND THE SEA
The mist crept in from the sea
Out of the void and tho vast;
And it bore the silver rain t
A shimmering guest in Its train,
And many a murmuring strain
Of tho ships that sailed in the past,
Soft as sleep's footfalls be
The mist crept in from the sea.
The mist crept in from the sea.
And folded the length of the shore
In the clasp of its mothering arms
As though it would shield from harms;
And lulled were the loud alarms.
And lost was the rage and roar
Of tho surge, so soothingly
The mist crept in from the sea.
The mist crept in from the sea.
White, impalpable, strange;
Full of the wafturo of wings,
Of eerie and eldritch things,
Of visions and vanishings
Ever in shift and change;
Silently, hauntingly,
The mist crept in from the sea.
The mist crept in from the sea.
And bode for a space, and then
It heard the imneriouR nnil
Of the deep transcending all
And it knew Itself as the thrall
P tllG world old master of men, .
So, still as tho dreams that floe
Tho mist crept back to the sea.
i New York Sun.
The national deficit reached at the end of
April $51,500,000, and it still has two months
to accumulate in. Birmingham Age-Herald.
The term "the idle rich" is a misnomer.
Most of them are busy either in the divorco
courts or before the grand juries Omaha Bee.
Uncle Joe Cannon's hide is rather thick, but
it is certain to be punctured a good many times
before being hung on the fence this fall. Salt
Lako Herald.
John D Rockefeller says he "loves each
and every one of his fellowmen." But, why
shouldn't he? Haven't we been good to him?
Detroit News.
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There are two kinds of foolish speculators"
those who speculate with other people's mon
ey and those who speculate with their own.
Chicago Record-Herald.
It is doubtful if any damaging information
can be gleaned from an examination of such
"books'" as the paper trust is anxious to' have
examined. Kansas City Star.
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There is one thing to be said in favor of
the roller skating nuisance: It doesn't) stir up
a lot of dust and leave the odor of gasoline
ucumu it. oiuui jity journal.
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The czar released 20,000 political prisoners
at Easter. The czar is on to .the fact, that if
you are sufficiently despotic in the fall you can
be so beautifully clement in the spring.Chi-
cugo .rust.
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A start has been made toward securing
proper official residences for American ambas
sadors, and the hope may be pormitted.tnat
none but proper Americans shall ever" reside
therein. Pittsburg Dispatch. ' ' '
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It has probably come to the point in some
localities where a "cullud gemmen" attending
a republican state convention doesn't feel espe
cially prominent unless he is kicked out of the,
hall once or twice. Washington Herald.
Nevertheless, there is not the slightest
probability that the Standard Oil company will
go into the hands of a receiver. Mr. Rocke
feller will continue to do whatever may be
necessary in tho receiving line. Chicago
Tribune.
It will be noted that Mr. Bryan at the
Cooper Union meeting neither blinked, dodged
nor evaded the question put to him regarding
negro disfranchisement in the south, but met
it fairly and squarely like the man he ls.-r
Nashville Tennesseean.
When Representative John Sharp Williams,
the minority leader, offers 162 democratic
votes, as signed to a petition to the speaker,
and calls attention to the fact that about thirty
republicans have introduced bills to put wood
pulp and print paper on the free list according
to President Roosevelt's recommendation, he
submits the supreme test of good faith to the
majority and they decline it. New York
World.
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ONLY A STARTER
Richard Bennett, Great Falls, Mont.
I enclose draft for $14.40 covering
twenty-four subscriptions. This makes
a total of 115 names that Allen Pierce
and I have secured in Great Falls, the
past few weeks, to join the million
army. This is only a start in the good
work. We hope to see the same work
done throughout the state in the inter
est of genuine democracy as expounded
by our great leader.
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