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ir ' v 4 Commoner. VOLUME l04, NtTMBBR .51$, A - v -K ' i rip' nli M ilW L. Hff wi ll ijj : F k & I- a - the Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY '-v; -s .. &: Entered Rt the Postofflce at Lincoln, Nebraika, M second-class mattor. WlIAtAM J. Biiyan - Charlies w. IJryan Editor and Proprietor Publisher Richard I MxrcAi-rK Editorial Jtoomn and Btwrincaj A&soclato Editor Ottlce 324-330 South 12Ui Street Oae Ycr fl.00 Six Moiitlrrt. ...,.., . .RO In Clubs of Five or more, per year,,. ,78 Three Montkd .28 SlriKlo Copy1 . Sample Copies Free. Foreign Post, 5o Extra, SUBSCRIPTIONS can bo sent direct to The Com tthAor. They can also bo sent tardus'' newspapers Which have advertised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, whoro sub-agents have boon appoint ed. All remittances should bo sent by postofflce money ordor, express order, or by bank draft on Now York or Chicago. 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Hates will be furnished upon Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nob. WHAT THE TARIFF HAS DONE FOR ME . T. Pidgeon, Jamestown, Ohio. What has tho tariff done for me? Well, it haij done a plenty. I have had a busy life. For more than thirty years of it, averaging sixteen hours a day to provide' for a family of seven, on a small farm. My state and county taxes average about $80 a year and the federal government, I find, taxed me not less than $20 per capita per an num (a strange way to encourage the raising of large families) hut statesmen (?) and poli ticians come around at different times, to tell me how blessed and happy such as I was to have the foreigner pay my tax, and being a faithful Tepublican I believed everything until at last somebody "blundered and the true inward ness of the matter was revealed. The best way to pluck a goose Is when the goose don't know it; for 'there will be less squacks and more feathers. Such was the commendation I re ceived for standpattery. I am now seventy years old; my children are all doing for them selves, and some of them may be deluded with the notion thatall a common citizen has to. do is to follow the lead, but I know that tho'leaders of tariff robbery were to keep ns in darkness. Horace Greeley says: "Slavery is older than history, and was ever conceived in darkness and cradled in obscurity."- But even editors of pre tentious newspapers today will promulgate the abominable heresy that it is not the province of the common citizen or layman to know how legislation is accomplished. , Pirates used to ,sail the high seas aad attack their prey In the open, but now, like the vampire, they fan him to sleep while they suck his blood. A study of the tariff and its guilty advocates has taught mo tliat it is one of the most cunningly de-r vised systems of robbery that' was ever per petrated on any people. Long, live Mr. Bryan and The Commoner. WHY NOT PUBLICITY? The Lincoln (Neb.) Star says: "If the com mon people were better boosters they would get better recognition in theYiointment of federal fudges. The corporation lawyer always has plenty of boosters behind him That's why it is that as soon as there is likely to be a vacancy, at once is instituted an imposing parade of names of corporation lawyers." The Star is right. A well-meaning president is apt to be imposed upon by corporation attor- neys unless ho Is on his guaTd. Why not have a littlo publicity as to recommendations? The law should compel the president to keep a record of all verbal and written endorsements and lay them before the senate, so that sena tors could judge of the influences which are active in soliciting judges. There ought to be secrecy about the appointment of monto ' such, important life positions. Turn on the light. , . of the history of .their time. They contain morja a Ot important information. fhnn-r?sm h .fnnmltin vTt the same space -elsewh ere. , .: - In mentioning the above books I have not in-v eluded school books, for these, I take it for granted, the reader has already studied. "ThoV books which I have enumerated are of perma- nent value. They deal with tho most important -of sciences, the science of life. fa,--- '.'If LIQUOR LEGISLATION NEEDED The Miller Curtis bill now before congress reads as follows: "A bill to constitute intoxicating liquors as a special class of commodities and to regulate the interstate commerce shipments of such liquors. "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, that all fermented, dis tilled, or other Intoxicating liquor shall consti tute a special class of commodities, and, as a special class, shall be admitted to and carried in interstate commerce, subject to the limita tions and restrictions hereinafter Imposed upon interstate commerce In articles of such special class. "Sec. 2. That the interstate commerce char acter of all fermented, distilled, or other intoxi cating liquors admitted to interstate commerce in accordance with the provisions of this act, and transported from one state, territory, or district of tho United States, or from any foreign country into any state, territory or district "of the United States shall terminate upon their arrival immediately within the-boundary of the state, territory, or district of the United States, in which the place of destination is situated, and before the delivery of said liquors to -the consignee Provided, That shipments of such ' liquors entirely through a state, territory, or district of the United States, shall not bo sub- ' ject to the provisions of this section while in transit through such state" territory, or district of the United States." Why should this bill not pass. By what logic will a democrat oppose it? If the state can be safely entrusted with legislation regulating mar--riage and divorce, prescribing rules for the descent of property and even authorizing the executiori of one conviqted of crime, why', deny to it the right to regulate th transportation of liquor within its borders? Or is the liquor busi ness too sacred to be controlled by the state? But watch and see how quickly some of the ardent advocates of states rights will become nationalists when tho liquor trust issues its commands. CAUTION , Under the headline "Caution" the New York " '". World prints the following: "Unquestionably J the democrats have a good ch&nce for the presi- ' ". dency in 1912. But the best chancers far from' ' a certainty. The only certainty is that it will mean a very hard, hot fight. Missouri for the third time has gone republican. A change of thirty-five, thousand votes in New York would have defeated Mr. Dix. A change of six thou sand votes would have defeated the democratic ticket In Indiana. In New York arid Indiana the democratic state, tickets have only a plu rality, not a majority. A democratic president cannot be elected without the electoral vote of New York, and probably that of Indiana, '.-A' change of forty-two thousand votes in the plv otal states of Indiana and New York in .a total-' vote of about two million would have defeated the democratic tickets this year in both states, and even this year over one hundred thousand disgusted republicans in New .York alone stayed . away from the polls. The ' democratic party " " cannot afford to make mistakes. Overconfldence in 1912 is a great mistake. Caution is wisdom!" "The democratic party cannot afford to mako ... "" mistakes." This is particularly good. It cannot, for in- stancer afford 'to make the mistake it made in 1904, when it swapped the confidence of the people for the campaign funds of the special interests. The Commoner invites the World to make these amendments to its "caution" platform: The democratic party must be progressive. No wall Street candidate can hope to hold the democratic vote. . Democracy must go forwaTd and meet present" ; day problems boldly in the spirit. of. Jeffeison:" an Jackson. : -, ,,,;i ,; t$J &? The democratic victory of 1910 is the result of fourteen, years of democratic fight for reforms;' The party cannot retire now. ,'.. It must go forward. ' - n.. BOOKS WORTH READING Replying to a recent inquiry Mr. Bryan said: The Bible, both the old testament and the new is the first book. The book of Proverbs is especially useful to the young man; its wisdom has not been surpassed; The sermon on the mount should be known by heart. No young, man is prepared to consider present day prob lems unless he understands the teachings of Christ. Christ is not only a saviour hut an example and a teacher, and His words are being, applied to practical life more than ever before. Pilgrim's Progress, is one of the most useful boolcs a young man can read. It is an application of Christianity to life, and the story will make its Impress upon the mind. Plutarch's Lives shouldbe ina young man's' library. There is in this book a wealth of in formation and a richness of illustration which the student will find valuable. Tho Jeffersonian Encyclopedia is the next book which I would suggest. No other statesman liv ing or dead has ever discussed bo large a va riety of subjects connected with the government ' or dealt so fundamentally with the government as it touches the individual, and with the indi vidual as a factor in the. government. If the young man desires a sample of fiction he cannot find better books of the kind than "David Copperfleld" by Dickens, and "Les Mlserables" by Victor Hugo. He should add a book of poems, a collection of poems if possible, or the poems of William Cullen Bryant, if he prefers the poems of but pno; Poetry is -valuable in proportion as it clothes truth in attractive garb, and I know of no poem which more beautifully presents a sub lime truth than Bryant's "Ode to the Water fowl." Tolstoy's Essays is another volume. They are thought-provoking, and the sam may be .said of the esaays-of Emerson and Carlyle, ' ' A collection of orations ought to be included In the list, for the great orations, delivered at crises in the world's affairs, are really an p!tom' JUST LIKE 1004: The New York World has taken the ears of ' the reviving democracy in both .hands and -isw .""': all alone . dragging that patient, 'animal ,al6ngv' the only true way to victory in 1912. Portland ' ' Oregonian. . v : Somebody has to .do itNew York World:' .".." But the World is trviner to. rtn it fnr i oi .: '. . just as n tried to oo Jt in 1904. ' . ....? CHAMP CLARK Champ Clark of Brave Kentucky: ' With his gay Missouri, mules .;'V wml soon oq maKing cnairmen Ana strict congressional rules .' ; That statesmen in a twinkle ':' May change from day to day '-. To give the law a wrinkle ; . ' And unite the Blue and Gray! Champ Clark is daily rising ' "" Like the splendid morning sun " To paralyze the tariff r And the trusts from Washington, But when it comes to practice " He'll find that brain and gold Still run this rushing world As they ever did of old! . i--- ?' - t ' ; - Vj- ' " , '.rV... ru; . - s -i : .- Republicans and demnn.ra In the house and church and stae Are all acting for self Interest ' " Quickly, early, long and late r And though we cut up parties ;! At the polls with nerve and dash ' Each one is working daily jlo accumulate cold cash! -'. i '"ft- 4 ; --. r? a ; , '' r -' . ' c' ' J :", ; -y. . . -i -j- . . ,i TUEJ- 1 'S-.rv.n,, L.-S HLF'itf- 'J . '-Jv "' v. Champ Clark may take example . Erom Carlisle, Reed and Clay . The greatest congress speakers we nave pad unto this day, gvt more than all this child of fate -vMay think himself nuit inoVv That he was born .with hart and brain':: In glorious old KentucW! " JOHN A. v-'4Sfe Washington,.!), C.t December 11. 101 !:- ?:. .v " . . -.TsnJr:' ' , r si! ft-'SSESui - wkLiuiart -r ' M. mm ' " 1 - --"'' .ViV-. i . atXawsA a t'.-