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Return tmwsmaihc mail will bring the Drafts, p r e -p a I'd. Try them, then if you are fullv HfitlRfiori with the benefit received, send us One Dollar. If not, they cost you nothing. You decide and wo take your,, word. Address, Magic Foot Draft, Co., SCCI Oliver Building, Jackson, Mich. Send no money just your address. Write today, jf.fi m,M uPvM!R)fBBHflRBBB:'9 Jt'BWTTSBMKM! JO Cherry Trees $. Whypayhigh "Ml " 7 prices for nurs- 40 Concord Grape $1. ery stock when Jtf jftbUl or 5 cent ud $$$&? fAIRBURY NURSERIES. Box E Fairbury, Mobr. Strawberries From Seed RIPE FRUIT IN 4 MONTHS - rviM ,. Thin Wnmlnrftil V.L-1.-1 Strawberry J a greatourloelty, ItKrojyarapldly.andwlUbegfn to fruit In abont'4 months ner Bowing teeds, and contlnara to bear fruit constantly all Htm iner and fall. X pint of brrli haylns been picked from one plant as lato as October, Seeds sown In tho honso In winter will produce early fruiting; plant yhlcU will bear until late In fall, and If talrnn In 4Ka hnnu Lwlll frnlf. oil wMav tjitM U& 15 Vl 1 WMt.. A AtUStO S5TiSi,i?A.RJ'bt?EBY,etePe Rnd wlen empty envelop WTII BROS. 8EKD CO., Box 437, AUBURN, N. Y. If tho people are ruling And don't get what they want, , 'Tis sure that the "interests" Have a good cause to vaunt. From -the government power The people are so far That the public officials Vi With the "interests" star.' If the public officials Tho "interests" betray. They have" found they'll be lonesome On next election day. But this rule can be canceled " By passing the "recall." Instead of fearing the few, Thoy will then fear the "allft- Pass the "initiative" 4 .. And law-makers will know They must favor the people Or sit in a back row. . - . " The "referendum" comes next . Lest law-makers forget -Their action is not final But might take a back-sot. 1 There will be other measures, ' As tho "primary act," To purify politics r- And make freedom a fact. yj When the people get control ' Do not think that they will Pass laws for the "interests' t Which their own rights will kill. Now the custom seems to be : For officials to say; "How much for the 'interests,' How little for our pay." J. C. Hiberly, Copeland, Idaho. in time take them in too, to share the plunder and spo. They have been taken in. The fact is the peo ple got just what they want when they elect their representatives. If they didn't want Cannon in congress they wouldn't elect him; and if con gress didn't want Cannon for speaker Cannon would be "spiked." The people do get what they want if thoy don't tho fault is theirs. Ours is a free country, and the people rule; if they don't ours is not a free country. Let the discussion pro ceed; we, the people, may learn something about who rules, why. and what for. "the municipal lighting experiment" of Toledo, costing $1,500,000. in bonds, "of which $1,050,000 still re? main unpaid," was "unsuccessful . from the start," and, "after seven I. O W PRICES. Ornamental Iron fence Is cheaper than wood for .Lawns, Ghurahes, Cemeteries, Public Ground. Best 1'onltry nnd Frm Fence. Free Catalog. Write for Special Offer. THE WARD FENCE CO., Box $63, Deo.tur.Inil. C. M. Nichols, Thatcher, Arizona. -1 have been reading all the letters in your valuable paper, in answer to Senator Owen's great question with much interest. I think the majority of the voters get just what they vote for at the time Jthey do the voting; they get flattery, money, cigars, whis ky, etc., and a large per cent get a big bluff to vote thus and thus or lose their job, therefore they vote for the job. There are enough of this kind of voters to elect men to the favored few, or their officers, or their hirelings to make the state and national laws in their favor, and they get what they want. So it is the minority of the voters that vote in telligently for the greatest good for the greatest number of people and they are the men that do not get what they want. If these men could have what they wanted they would have had W. J. Bryan and enough men of his type to have made laws for the good of all the people instead of tho favored few. If all of the so-called democrat papers would fall in line with The Commoner and edu cate the peqple on the true demo cratic principles enough of the voters mentioned above could be edu cated to vote intelligently and tho majority of the people would still get what they wanted; then we 'would havo a government by and for the people. . Reuben Reid Adams, Sheridan, Ark. In answer to Senator Owen's question, I desire to say the reason the people do not get what they want is because they have not the initiative and referendum and W. J. Bryan for president, and the reason W. J. Bryan is not president is be cause he is the one man on the earth who would rather be right than to be president. H. M. Peters, Watseka, 111. Per mit me to chime in on tho question. It is well to dispuss this question. It is high time that we should think upon it, My answer is this: The people don't get what they want be cause the people havo been too trust ful; they see the prosperity of tho trusts which their trusted represent atives have promoted and fostered, and they have been hoping and trust ing that their representatives would ANOTHER "TAINTED NEWS" OUT . - PUT , -. When in. San Diego, Cal., a move ment for the municipal ownership of the local gas service was recently made, the people there were victim ized, as in many another place they have been, with "tainted news." The paper that supplied, the "news" but probably not the "taint" that be ing furnished free by some "tainted news" bureau was the San Diego Union. It published daily what it called an "epitaph" on municipal ownership of some kind in some place far enough away from Cali fornia to make verification difficult. Among these epitaphs was one on what it called "the late municipal lighting plant of Elgin, 111." An other was on "the late municipal lighting plant of Toledo, Ohio." This Is the "tainted news" we alluded to in an editorial on "Tainted News from Topeka." Of the Elgin plant the San Diego Union's "epitaph," No. 4 in its series, said that "after only six years of 'letting tho peepul run their own af fairs,' " Elgin "sold out her pretty municipal liKhtiner nlant nt n ina p fover $100,000;" that Elgin had "had enougn or it in a very short time, and so her nice municipal lighting plant also went the way of all such." Now, the truth is that Elgin did not get "enough" of her municipal light ing plant. It was taken away from her through a deal between certain members of tho city council and tho local traction company, secretly; it having been rushed through a special meeting of the council in tho form of a ten-year contract with the traction company. The officials who engU neered the deal havo ever since been under a cloud in Elgin in conse quence; and Elgin has appropriated funds and is about to let contracts for tbe preliminary work of re-estab-Jishing Its municipal lighting plant In connection with its municipal wa ter works plant. The San' Diego Union's "epitaph" on the Elgin light ing plant was an inexcusable lie using those words, as Mr. Roosevelt would say, "scientifically and de scriptively and because no other terms express the fact with the nec essary precision." Likewise of ILe San Diego Union's "epi aph" No 2, on the "Remains of into IS?? Pal anting Plant of Toledo, Ohio." 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