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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb,
A PARALLEL
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch.)
Washington D. C
January 3. Six rail
road presidents callod
at tho White Houso to
day to protest against
further railroad legis
lation. Thoy woro re
ceived with respect,
and aftor a two hour
conference with the
president it was an
nouiiicod that, tho presi
dent would mako somo
alterations In his mes
sage. Tho visitors
woro President Mellon
of tho Now York,
Now Haven & Hart
ford; Pros id out Mc
Crea of tho Pennsyl
vania; Prosidont Lo
vott of tho Union Pa
cific and allied Ilarrl
man lines; President
Baor of the Philadel
phia & Reading; Pres
ident Filley of tho
Southern and Prosi
dont Brcwn of tho
Now York Central.
It is understood thoy
sought to convince tho
president that further
legislation at this time
would upset conditions
in tho railway and in
dustrial world which
generally have boon
righting themselves in
tho past two years.
They woro preceded
by Mr. J. P. Morgan,
who called at tho
White Houso earlier in
tho day and paved the
way for tholr reception.
Washington D. C,
January 3. Six con
sumers arrived in
Washington today to
urge further relief
measures in behalf of
tho people. They woro
John Smith of Iowa,
Bill Jones of Minne
sota, Bob Williams of
Kansas, Joe Miller of
Indiana, Tom White of
Nebraska and Jim An
twino of Missouri.
Thoy were promptly
chased across tho Po
tomac, and aro in hid
ing in the tall timber
opposito tho capital.
Thoy attempted to see
tho prosidont, but Sen
ator Aldrich beat them
to it, and when they
reached the White
Houso they found it
barred. By this timo a
gonoral alarm had been
turned in and they
took to their heels.
Late in tho after
noon Speaker Cannon
and somo others went
across on the ferry and
chased them with
hounds, but as dark
ness came on thoy bo
camo very difficult to
see, and tho hunters
returned on the last
boat without having
dislodged them. It was
officially announced
after tho excitement
that the president
would not make any
alterations in that part
of his message.
OF COURSE
A Washington dispatch says: "Many senators
HnGfPTen1tltIV03 dec!at0 that th0 administra
tion b federal incorporation bill if passed as now
tentatively drawn will afford a shelter for every
criminal combination in tho United States
That is just what it was intended to do and
SiiSS faX5t can not be S-
Tinnrv C. Shurts. South Lebanon, O. As a
lifetime republican I certainly and most em
phatically endorse the humane and progressive
national policies advocated by Mr. Bryan against
tho rank, unbusinesslike methods of tho horde
of republican grafters and incompetents in
charge of national and state affairs. Waste
fulness, gross extravagance, high taxes, unneces
sary bond issues and the carrying out of every
fool idea for the sake of increasing tho great
army of officeholders, should cease or bo cur
tailed within tho limits of our revenue. Will
try and get you five additional subscribers soon.
J. W. Walker, Atchison, Kan. Enclosed find
my check for $3 for livo subscriptions to your
valuable paper to be sent to the following parties
for tho year 1910. It has been my custom to
subscribo for ilvo copies every January 1 for a
number of years, four to my friends and one
number to myself. Every democrat and every
republican ought to read your valuable paper.
Reading it from week to week makes you a
better American citizen if one is inclined to
look for knowledge in the political and homo
lifo of our nation. Had its editor not been
honest, truthful and fighting for a righteous
cause his influence and work ere this time would
have come to an end. His life's work will live
and posterity will embrace sit years after he is
dead and gone. Ho is more potent for good,
though defeated for office, than those who en
joy the emoluments of office and victory. I
havo read the many opinions of many letters
that havebeen written to your paper and pub
lished in same from time to time, trying to ex
plain the cause of the democratic party's many
defeats especially when Mr. Bryan was our can
didate. It can all be summed up in a few words.
Money, and when you contemplate that our gov
ernment employs almost 400,000 people in their
service who all more or less take an active part
in our elections, have the means with which elec
tions are won, it does not require much thought
how It all comes about. Recent developments
in various corporations and government depart
ments attest to this statement. What an oppor
tunity for President Taft to enshrine himself
into the hearts of a great majority of the Amer
ican people. Will he do it? Not from the tone
of his first message to congress where, for in
stance he regrets the sugar trust's employes
and clerks' great frauds and would try and
make tho people believe that the heads of this
great trust, who seem to be mightier and more
powerful than our government itself, were Ignor
ant of what was going on in their business.
While European nations today are working and
drifting more and more towards a democratic
form of government it seems that we as a na
tion aro embracing more and more the ideas
and formalities of monarchies. It has come to
pass that courts and commissions appointed by
those in authority decide what laws passed by
our legislative bodies elected for that purpose
by tho people what is constitutional and uncon
stitutional law. This is true in both" nation and
state and is taking away the prerogation of a
democratic form of government from the repre
sentatives In our legislative bodies who the peo
ple elect to make laws for them. This will
not continue as I have faith yet in the judgment
and patriotism of the American people. It is
darkest always just before the dawn
R. H. Brown, Crowther, Texas It is needless
to state that I am thoroughly in accord with
Mr. Bryan's Dallas speech, also his El Paso in
terview on tho Bailey Dallas speech. I reside
on a ranch three miles to nearest neighbor a
very sparsely settled country, less than 1 100
population in our county of 1,200 square miles
I see but few people only when business requires
N m I? te of th0 demcrats in our county are
with Mr. Bryan and against Mr. Bailey, who is
morG repuVlican than democratic in princinleq
This tariff for revenue with Incidental prStS
tion is a subterfuge, a shield behind which pro
tect onist democrats hide. Protectionists appeal
. to the selfish side of man, be it right or wE
but Mr. Bailey goes further than that- he Tad
cates retaliation discarding all questions o t
tice and right. He justifies committing a" wrong
act because some one else has committed a
wrong act. How any honest and intelligent man
who desires the common good, can at the sUme
time bo a protectionist is a problem that 5
n m b0 old- No honest man of intelligence
will attempt to prove nor can he prove thS
protection in any phase is for the common cood
unless he first proves that our federal syftem
of taxation is the best for the mass of the npS
Pie, for the poor as well as the rich, and that Tb
VOLUME 10, NUMBER 6
an impossibility. That many honest men aro
protectionists is true but they are so and only
so by. reason of education, never having them
selves studied the question deeply. If all tho
democrats in the recent session- of congress had
remained steadfast to democratic principles and
had voted democratic on the tariff, there is no
question but what the next house would have
been overwhelmingly democratic and in all
probability the senate too would have become
so as tho terms of twenty-four republican sen
ators expire March, 1911. The battle has been
fought and lost and tthat because of treachery
in the democratic senators and congressmen
whom the people trusted to carry on their de
mands. There is now no hope to regain the
opportunity the democrats had on the tariff
vote for the democratic party to get once more
in control of the government. It is in the minds
of many democrats as well as republicans noth
ings is to be gained by a change when in time of
need democrats vote with standpatters. Where
is the difference between a democratic protec
tionist and a republican protectionist? These
are questions democrats are asking. The tariff
being a hidden tax hence difficult for the mass
of the people with limited opportunities to un
derstand. If a law was enacted requiring the
amount of the tariff tax to be shown separate
from the price of all imported goods in actual
figures on every article imported when sold to
the consumer, would convince more people and
more people would understand by this practical
demonstration than all the arguments possible
to produce. I enclose check for $1.50. Please
extend my subscription to The Commoner one
year and send me one copy Commoner Con
densed, volume seven.
Yearly subscriptions to The Commoner have
been sent in in number as follows: J. W. J.
Enright, Cal., 5; C. E. Livengood, Okla., 5; A.
M. Aikens, Va., 2; Joe A. Huber, la1. 2; Fred
Riepe, la., 2; J. N. Gotcher, Ore., 4; ft. C. Pro
basco, Neb., 2; B. W. Smith, Ore., 5; D. B.
Merrill, O., 4; M. A. Hoyt, la., 6; R. T. Nichols
Kan., 6; B. T. Worstell, O., 5; C. M.. Glover)
Ore., 3; C. C. Dempsey, Wis., 5; John Howard,
Wash., 5; H. J. Craft, Wash., 5; W. R. Hendriok,
la., 6; Emanuel Boeckel, Pa., 5; A. W. Chapin-,
la., 10; Joe Williams, O., 37; Geo. W. KimberV
ley, Wash., 5; S. C. Breis, O., 3; John McReavy-.
Wash., 6; David McKain, Pa., 6; W. P. Stewart
Ark., 5; J. W. Farley, Mo., 3; C. D. Miller, Cal..
5; Marion F. Six, 111., 5; H. Baxter O., 2; N. R.
Tucker, O., 7; H. L. Martin, Col., 3;S. L. Rissler,
Mo 6; Ed Deeds, la., 5; M. J. Rowlands, Wis.,
5; R. J Thompson, Cal., 10; P. M. Litton, Mo.
V ' Livingston, la., 5; T. M. Bartels, Kan.
2; W. C. Gorgas, Panama, 10; W. B. Crabtree,
Okla., 5; J. W. Scanlon, O., 5; Con Geary, Mich.,
o1 ?; S; Intz Kan- 6; Walter C. Fait, N. D.,
2; M. A Frimble, W. Va., 2; Wm. R. Putman,
JN. x., ll; A. H. Holterman, Tex., 2; T E.
Taggart Okla 2; Jas. F. Gallagher Pa., 5; J.
J. Batterton, S. D., 2; J. T. Hanvey, Va., 3; H.
5' g V?' ?; W H' HaSns. Mo, 5; Jas. S,
Terrell Mo 4; D B. Lee, Mo., 5; Wm. T. Gilli
land Pa., 5; H. M. Eldridge, Kan., 5; I. B.
trfn Tini'n5; S,has' Salow' " T. J. Wolver
ton Kan., 10; Chas. A. Menly Texas, 2; R. S.
Jackson, Kan. 6; Melvln E. 'Rector Ind., 9;j
H; ?An11' NVC" 3; Norman Griffith, la , 4
laklrGrinmna-iJ-J' McCann' Pa- 5 M toi
?J tJ CrticTe' IH" 6; c- L- Welgel.
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in? '1 .' h 3lailey' Me- 4! Jolln W. Lain!
Kan 2 On 5SBOn' 51" 2; J' M' YaPle
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Petry, Neb., G; John E. VWren N C B-Vpo
Miller, Mioh., 4; John W. Wennor Pa ?'
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