Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1909)
m" 'y- liyj-TTWip ..' f ;j. - c The Commoner. MAY 28, 1909 13 Vf To Nelson W. Aldrich O, Aldrich; Mr. Aldrich! With the accent on the '"rich," You've got tariff tension tightened to the very highest pitch. You have got the screws all tightened till we feel the. awful pinch; You have got us roped and hog-tied to the last hole in the cinch. Did you ever pause a moment as the days were gliding by And reflect that any lemon could be squeezed till it was dry? Well, you've squeezed us like a lemon in your awful tariff coil, While you looked out for the int'rest of your client, Standard Oil. O, Aldrich; Mr. Aldrich! With the accent on the '"rich," You have driven the consumer to the last remotest ditch. You've made use of Little Rhody to enhance the tariff graft, And at ev'ry plea for mercy you have long and loudly laughed. With a pose so patriotic, and a statesman's lordly mein, You have been the motive power of the tariff grab machine. And you've run us 'twixt therollers till we're nothing but a splotch, But, unsatisfied, you tighten up the screws another notch. O, Aldrich; Mr. Aldrich! With the accent on the '"rich," You've forgotten what you promised and you take another hitch In the tariff coil about us; and upon the senate floor The revision that you promised sim ply means "come through with more." When you said "revision downward" it was but an Aldrich joke, For you really meant to raise meant to raise it when you spoke. Well, you've got us, Mr. Aldrich, right where Caleb had the hen, And "revision- a la Aldrich" simply means to boost again. O, Aldrich; Mr. Aldrich! With the accent on the "'rich," This is old Czar Trust's dominion and you are the czarovitch. With a "rod of steal" you rule us, and you laugh our plaints to scorn, And you make us pay rich tribute from the day that we are born. You have but to snap your fingers and we've got to toe the line Or the trusts you speak for daily grind us into powder fine. If we kick they'll bring a panic so It's starve or pay the freight, And it's sure as day of judgment that we'll get an "Aldrich rate." "defenders of the national honor" and "protectors of tho national credit," has just been caught in the crime of defrauding the government by means of false weights. Where Sam Parks grafted a dollar tho sugar trust magnates have grafted thousands. Notice any four-column scare-heads in tho great daily news papers? Read any denunciations of the men who compose that giant trust? Any insistent demand from the great dailies that the big men of the sugar trust be put into the same kind of stripes that adorned the body of Sam Parks? What great daily newspaper that demanded tho impeachment of Sam Parks is now insisting that the sugar trust mag- nates be thrust behind the same bars that confined the crooked and ig norant labor leader? And, after all, what is the differ ence between tho dishonest Sam Parks, labor leader, and the dishon est sugar trust magnate? How it Really Works Little Willie Wishington once read a story about Ve boy who was look ing for a job, and seeing a sign, "Boy Wanted," took the sign down and went in and said to tho boss, "Mister, here's your sign." And when the boss angrily asked what the boy meant by bringing in the sign the boy replied, "Why, you don't need it any more, for I'm the boy." According to the story the man was so Impressed by the boy's action that he immediately employed him, and now that boy is general manager of the establishment and a half-owner, too. So Willie Wishington started out to look for a job. When he saw a sign "Boy Wanted," he took It down and marched proudly into the office of the establishment. "Mister, here is your sign," proud ly exclaimed Willie. "What'n thunder do you mean by taking down my sign and lugging it In here, you Impudent little rat!" shouted the irate man. "Why, certainly you need it no longer, sir," said Willie, "seeing that I am the boy." A minute later Willie struck the sidewalk in a heap, and a red-faced man, muttering things to himself, tacked up against the front of the building a sign which read, "Boy Wanted." Thus did Willie Wishington ac cumulate the first lesson in experi ence. A little later he knew bettor than to believe every story he read In the newspapers. Tho Very Great Difference A few years ago a New York labor leader named Sam Parks, business agent of the Structural Iron Workers, was detected in using his office for purposes of graft. For weeks the great dally news papers were filled with scare-head stories about Sam Parks and his crooked work, and his, methods were held up as a sample of the awful means used by organized labor to enforce its demands. The daily news papers experienced extreme difficulty in finding words of sufficient strength to enable them to express their con tempt for Sana Parks. Sam Parks, be It remembered, was a mechanic, without much education, and he died in prison. But and note the difference the sugar trust, composed of men whom wo have been asked to look up to as Wanted A short time ago there appeared In this department some verses un der the caption, "The Biggest Boy." A Kansas friend wrote some verses in reference thereto and sent them to this department, but they have been mislaid. If this meets the eyes of the Kansas friend will he be so kind as to send the verses in again? tho first men ho met was Ira Poter, who had onco owned Bill's father and mother. "Well, Bill," said Uncle Ira, "I hope you have come back an honest boy." "O, yaas, sah, Marso Ira; I'so hon est now. Dey done toadied mo t' be honest while I wus down thar." "Well I am glad of that, Bill. What did you do while you was in the prison?" "I done worked in the shoo shop, sah, putting pasteboard soles on shoes what you sol in youah store, sah." Commencement Note "I understand that your daughter graduates this year, and that she is to bo tho valedictorian of her class. What will bo her theme?" "0, It will bo tho loveliest you ever saw rose appllquo over Alice blue, with a ruche of chiffon, tho dress being cut empress with a long trail edged with point lace and tho bodice garnished with steel cut beads with short sleeves trimmed in Irish lace of almost priceless value with medallions down tho left side to give it that lovely French effect and the corsage satin faced O, I tell you my daughter's themo will make them all sit up and take notice." Sud Mistake "Poor Whilkens has been sent to tho pen for ton years." "What was his crime?" "He put a tie on tho track and wrecked a'train." "What was his idea robbery?" "No, he had a grievance and it preyed upon his mind. So ho took revenge by throwing a train in the ditch." "How foolish. He should have worked his way into tho manage ment and then wrecked tho whole road. It would have paid better and he would havo been hailed as a great man instead of being shut up as a common criminal." Brain Leaks Moral Training Bill Toll was a colored youth who lived in a. north west Missouri town. One day he found a pocketbook con taining $50, and although he knew the pocketbook's owner Bill spent the money. He was arrested and sent to the Missouri penitentiary for three years. When his term expired he came back to his home. One of A good book is cheap at any price. No man is wholly bad if his child ren run to meet him. The man who stirs up trouble Ib usually blistered by tho splatter. Getting something out of life de pends on putting something into life. If each man could make his own weather we'd have more to worry about. The smell of gasoline is no sure sign of the ownership of an auto mobile. Good nature is the lubricant that makes the wheels of life run smoothly. An occasional look at your boy's room may explain why ho is on tho streets so much. The man who looks upon his work only as a necessity misses all the joy of his opportunity. When we get so old we can't warm up at a ball game we're going to seek an asylum In a paresis hospital. When somebody explains to us tho spring resurrection we will be quito ready to diagram tho scheme of hu man redemption. The trouble with this thing of sowing wild oats Is that so many innocent people are required to as sist In the harvesting. Just about tho time a young man thinks his services are indispensable he is formally notified that .he may look for another job. We havo often thought we might some time be rich if we could only get into the habit of carrying our loose change In a purse. Thank goodness wo havo never yet been asked to fill out an asses sor's blank while we wore packing our household goods l!or moving. to ALADDIN . HCKJSE $120 Kmck44j4wn dwni taw., tummtt MM41 brr and . W jrou half. prVoM I 1 00 up jo tnmpUia hou. All umb uiitafii. hw 'txMrU, mllivnwk. roofta. Kantware, awtnl, Wihttt) hptlMthin, rtoaaUac. anrf ttimp tnr calMnm. Nth AjwtkJw Cmtmimetion Co a. MkA. A Municipally owned Irrigation system. . Unlimited wntor as frco a the district rlinni Why not havo an Ideal liomol.i nf ffit Wept. C, Hoard ofTrnde, Modtmto, Cii!. Salesmen Wanted BntnryorcomrnlwiJon. Homo wrtnblMicd 179. J. Jr. Cosby tfc IJro., IJox A , DojivIIIo, Vn. 1 T YtMMCUJftlGHGMOE-- m CATALOGUE FREE. DOW WIRE & IRON WKS. LOUISVILLE av IBfe LIWN FENCE Many dcalgn. Cheap as wood S3 pago Catalogue free. Spaelal PrJeaa to Churches and Ccinotcrle. Coiled Spring Fence Co. Uox t 'WifiohMUr lad. tlb& GIVEN FOR SELLING POST CARDS Vie potltlffljr gift both a finom Alloa Hlh Hlrm Wlad, bfanllinlly enrratrd Hoi Id Gold Laid ra.f, Jnrrfano?tuit, fA.lflPT ff(1. .Iira.l mmi fl. ..!.. T..P.. I.m Jill. M1.AA f -!. lyS' . 'M ijwiiw i.viu nju "V lllmr irt will I B Cinto (Jem IrMlnr lllra a fl0 dUmnnrfJ for Itlllnr tiflnarl.r.. .if !.. mihi mu gram arirtMiiariJiat lue per pack.; Order 20 paelas. ri and nlieu told inl ot and ne will ped- llrrljr icnd joa (hi waUb, ring and riiala. ALTON WATCH CO., Dept. 301, Chicago ""bH MlKjf Wlllreducn lnflumod. ".trained, swollen Torulosis, XJniimenta, MuhcIcm or Bruises, Cure the I.HinoiinRH nd Stop JPftln from , a Bpllnt.BIdo Uone or lion Hpavln Wo bllaijr, no hair eonn. Horao can b nied. Morse Book 2 D free $2.90 bottln at donlori or JellTorcJ. ABSOItBINISHm.,forniankind,tl. EeUncca Stralnod Torn Lleamonta.Kn. larcod gland, volna or mnaclca heal W. F. YOUNG, V. 0, F., 2G1 Temple St, Springfield, Matt. 1 c Jtetiritiftil rj 1 Post Cards ree TjiMigtiaffe of Flowers Tho very latest and nowest thlnt? out. Lith ographed In mnny beautiful colors; each card 0IVC8 a different eccne, different flower nnd a different quotation about flowcrx. Bend 4 retntjt In cfnmna in nnv rinut mm fintl nniLrfni. nrirl 1 Uio tct will bo cent you by return mall. Addrcso C. F. ALDRICH, Mgr., 92 East 4th Street, St. Paul. Banking By Mail Made memmmmmmmiwmmmmmammmmmrmmmmMmwmmaMmmmmimmmmmmn Safe in Oklahoma. Hundreds of Banks failed In 1003 thousands of DEPOSIT OTIS hod their na vines Jeopar dized if not lost. Avoid being among tho losers lrf 1907, by ' keeping your account In an Oklahoma State Bank. Depositors from 21 states testify to our abil ity to handlo your business satisfactorily. Booklet containing law frco on application. Guaranty Stafe Bank, Muskogee, - Oklahoma. J. D. BENEDICT, President. M. 6, HASKELL, Cashier. Land Opening Ore? 16,000 acrei lrrirtl land, eosiprlilnr tba famona Teller ranch, 4 mile Uom PoaUo, Colorado. BealdenM not required to aecore title, but prompt reservation aecore "Openlnr tettlement terms," yield Inr, an Immediate profit of about $25.00 per acre. Zand will bo thrown open for aettlement Jane 17th. Write Today for freo particulars how to ret your share d this wonderful domain deoded by U. ft. Government to Senator Teller. Climat of Pueblo famous for health; your farm will bo within a few miles of this bit city; ample transpor tation; Immense markets; land extremely fertile and ready now for plowing. CROPS. All crops natlre to the temperate zono can be raised bountlxnllr. Alfalfa, 6 to 8 tons per acre; potatoes, 400 to 800 bushels; cabbage, 1W crates; can taloupes, 100 crates. tTOC tS WrN "T for maps, nitutraUd rllCEi bulletin, bow to file on easy terms. Special Low Prlco Excursion Rata THB MESA LAND AND TRUST CO. 205 Midland DldtT-. Kansas City, Mo. i ; h i M c'il .i ,ibav.v. "w
