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The Commoner
.VOLUME 8 NUMBER 52
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The Commoner.
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Nevertheless and notwithstanding, -rthis-. is.
not a nation of Ham ' .:
Judge Wright's, temper Aloes' not .hear .out'
the claim of judicial' balance.' l ' '
, fc. Anyhow, if you made it and only kept it a
day or two you gained something. , H. .
Owing to the' limited1 supply of 'jails Judge,
Wright. can not punish all of, them. "'' " '
.' We have 'night riders" up.inttlfis country,
but papa is usually the pack .animaK m. -
Tho cotton batting Santa' Claud Rhnwhrl nn
as numerously as usual'in the casualty columns.'
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S&pBPSenator Piatt's book of memoirs will merely
wmijuuijwo mo Bjouma possiDiuues tor tne Piatt
forgettery.
Mr. Hearst, it seems, is now sufficiently
tamed to walk right up and feed out of the
. presidential hand. i
We venture the opinion that the truly good
Dr. Lyman Abbott will not pay his assistant
editor space rates.
' The supreme court has decided that the
interstate commerce commission can do every
thing but something worth while.
Perhaps that Missouri decision will give us
an idea of what Mr. Rockefeller meant when he
said the oil business is "hazardous."
In 'view of the events of the last seven years
we will object to any suggestion that tho na
tion's executive be paid on a per word basis.
Just for a joke a New England widow ad
vertised for a husband and won. Whether the
ad paid or not doubtless depends upon the point
of view.
The deficit will amount to about $150,000,
000 by tho end of the fiscal year, but perhaps
some plan may be evolved whereby tho members
of the Ananias Club may bo assessed $3 apiece
and the deficit thereby made food.
The Baltimore Sun wants to know if a man -should
marry on $6 a week'. Certainly, if' he;
can. But ho "ought to experience great difficulty''
in finding tho woman.
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-WHAT'lSTHE DIFFERENCE? -
Mr. Carnegie did not give the tariff com
mittee any figures on the cost of steel making,
but he did give it a vivid object lesson 'in the
profits of steel making.
Noting that tho Russian and Turkish gov-'
ornments were growing more liberal Judge '
Wright perhaps thought it necessary to pre
serve the old-time balance.
The crank who attempted to pull the whis
kers of President Fallieres of France, should
not be punished too hard. He might have tried
to pull the ..presidential leg.
Champ Clark declares that $5 is, the -average
price of female hoadgear. But we are not
going to base our estimate of Mr. Clark's statis
tical knowledge on that one assertion.
It was David who declared in his haste that
"all men are liars," but David's hurry was a
slow walk compared with our exceedingly japid
chief executive. He includes some women,
It seems much easier to locate the "re
sponsible party" in a labor organization than to
locate the same individuals in a trust using
the Sherman anti-trust law as a" searchlight.
in preparing for tha celebration of the Lin
coln centenary it should not be forgotten that
one of the greatest monuments to Lincoln's
memory ,is the Nebraska city that bears his
name.
The Omaha Bee suggests that this ought to
be' a great , year for. base ball because it has
two nines of its own. . O, it iwill'be .too easy;
The first -nine will be going strong whefi-'the-other
nine Is a dead one. ' t ; ' k
Some day, perhaps, the people of the west,
who feed the World, and the people1 of the south',
who clothe the world,' will see the folly of allow
ing a handful of men in the east to rula them
and exploit them for their own selfish benefit.
The fact that Androw Carnegie has contrib
uted $150,000 towards the purification of Pitts
burg affords the suggestion that' right sthere ia
an opportunity for Mr. Carnegie to die poor, it,'
will take an awful bunch of money to purify hat
town. ,T ' " ; -
A man named Brownell occupies a dozen
or .more pages of Scrlbner's Magazine to tell us
that Edgar Allen Poe was not a1 literary genius,
that he had no. imagination and that he lacked
culture. Perhaps, but .will some ope kindly in
form us who Mr, Brownell is if any. .
The Philadelphia North American "sincerely
hopes it will never have to support Mr. Bryan
for the presidency." No danger! Assuming
superior virtue the North American will never
be able to find a republican so bad that it would
oppose him if Mr. .Bryan were the opposition
candidate. The North American deceives no
one but itself by its virtuous pretensions.
PARAGRAPHIC PUNCHES
"Why shouldn't I fix the price of coal?"
asks President Baer of the Reading road Evi
dently' still strong of faith in his divine com
mission at the mines. New York World.
Mr. Sheldon's list of contributors to tho
republican campaign fund will do excellent ser
vice for years to come as a political register of
,our leading American millionaires. New York
Evening Post. .
Some local men who havo sustained a fortv
per cent cut to wages since November 3 are
? DSJ?P nig?t?inm l?7 to fire t where
their Share of the Taft prosperity comes in
Johnstown Democrat.
Gompers has been Indorsed and the Ameri
can Federation of Labor Is in politics. We shall
hereafter see a scramblo between the parties"
wiee ??? Promtae the most for the laboi,
vote. St. Louis Star, '
- ' (Editorial in Denver News,) r
Mr. D. J; Keefe, head of a Longshoreman's
union, and recently a vice president of the
American Federation of Labor, has been appoint
ed commissioner of immigration by President
Roosevelt. We should like to cite a few bits of
recent history bearing on this appointment.
After the platforms of the two parties were
adopted, the American Federation decided to
support the democratic national ticket. Mr.
Keefe was a member of the council which
reached that decision, and he acquiesced in it.
There was not a dissenting vote.
Later on in the campaign Mr. Keefe changed
his attitude, and came out for Taft.
The democratic campaign managers made
the charge that this change was due to corrupt
motives. They charged that on a certain day
Mr. Keefe visited the White House, and was
-promised the appointment as commissioner of
immigration if he would- break' away from his
fellows in the Federation, vote for Taft, and
endeavor to divido the labor vote.
, -.Mr. Roosevelt made his usual answer to
such charges. He issued a statement branding
the charge as a lie, and the men who made It
as liars.
-Mr.- Keefe went on -record as saying that
during his White House visit politics was not
even mentioned. He also continued to work for
Taft, and to discredit Mr. Gompers, and the
Federation as much .as possible.
And now, after the .campaign Js over, Mr.
Hoosevclt gives Mr. Keefe the very appointment
which the democrats charged ho would give.
Jn View of these Temarkable events, the
News has two questions to ask:
Question No. 1 What is the moral differ
ence between buying , a man's political support
with a federal office and buying, it with money?
There is a, financial difference, because when you
buy with money you. pay the bills yourself, and
wrhen you buy with office the nation pays them.'
But what is the moral difference?,
Question No. 2 Who is the liar?
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REDEEMING "THE FULL DINNER PA&l"
v7' '"PLEDGE v.a . r'
A Minnesota reader ok The CommoneVr
writes 'to say: "On tho 14th of this month Jhe""
Great Northern railroad reduced the section
men's wages from $1.35 to $1.21." lW.,
The Philadelphia North American (rep. Kin.
its issue of November 3$, referring to the.J.Gs
Brill Car company of, Philadelphia says: "Two
days after Taft's election there was decreed by
Uho company a 'readjustment' of the. scale of
wages, which amounted, in effect, to a ten per
cent decrease. This has fallen upon the work-,
ing force in several of the largest .departments'
Following is an extract fromvthe.New York
Sun of November 26:
'A year ago in October, during the panic
the Great Eastern Clay company, located on
South river between South Amboy and New
Brunswick, of which Robert Lyle is the man
ager, cut its minimum wage to ninety cents for
a working day of ten hours. Thereafter the
highest pay for unskilled operatives was $1.1 5
a day. The company promised, so the few strik
ers who speak English said today, that when
prosperity came, after the election, the .wage
rate would be raised to fifteen cents an' hour.
Tho operatives heard during campaign times
that if Taft was elected' prosperity would come
at once. After the election they waited for tho
prosperity. When the raise was not forthcom
ing the men working for the Great Eastern Clay
company struck."
The New York Evening Sun of Thursday,
November 26, tells about the strike Involving
the National Fire Proofing company and other
firms at Perth Amboy, N. J. Tho Evening Sun
said that the strikers numbered from fifteen
hundred to two thousand, and added: "The
strikers say that, during the financial panic,
their pay was reduced from $1.60 to $1.35 a
day, but that tho employers promised to restore
It to its former level if Taft was elected. Taft
was elected, but the pay remained at $1.35, they,
lay."
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RETIRED i
Thomas F. Ryan is retiring from business.
on account of his health. Man Is not as -wise
as the Almighty, When God created man He
fixed a limit beyond which man can not go in
.his effort to monopolizo business, but the, man
,made corporation has no natural limit at which
it. must stop and look after its health. O that
the truBts were only mortal, like man!
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