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' - , w ., miwmMmmmtmmit0& ilfliea'tfWilWWaatfWsM'ttrfiM """ " " " ij 4 The Commoner. VOLUME 11, NUMBER k ft ' fii '-j The Commoner. ISSUED WEEKLY Entered at tho Postollico at Lincoln, Nobraaka, as second-class matter. Wxivliam J. Bktak Editor And Proprietor RlCUARD L. TAXZCKl.VV. Aesociato Editor OnAiiua W. Bktak Publisher Editorial Booms And Bunlncm Ofllco, 324-330 South 12th Street One Year 91.00 SI Month SO In Clubs of Flvo or more, per year. . .75 Three Moaths. . ... .28 SIhkIc Copy 05 Samplo Copies Free. Foreign Post, 5o Extra. SUBSCRIPTIONS can bo sent direct to Tho Com moner. Thoy can also bo sent through nowspapors which havo advertised a clubbing rate, or through local agents, where sub-agents havo been ap pointed. All remittances should bo sent by post ollico money order, express order, or by bank draft on Now York or Chicago. Do not send individual checks, stamps or money. RBNISWAIiS Tho dato on your wrapper shows tho timo to which your subscription is paid. Tin January 21, '11, means that payment has been rj cclved to and including tho last issuo of January, 1911. Two weeks aro required aftor money has been received beforo tho dato on wrapper can be changed. ' CHANGE! OF ADDRESS Subscribers requesting a change of address must give old as woll as new address. ADVBRTISINGBatoB will application. bo furnished upon Address all communications to THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb. Practical Tariff Talks During tho canning season this year tho sugar trust raised prices higher than in many years. Tho reason assigned was a shortage in tho foreign crop, but there are those who recall that earlier in the year tho trust also lost several millions because of some trouble over weights down at Now York. It is probably & great source of comfort to the American people to know that there is no danger of a republican administration further crippling tho trust by any destructive tariff legislation. Tho sugar trust is ono of tho most sacred of our institutions. A number of senators have been known in years past to go out of their way, to foreswear their party beliefs, in order to prevent tho duty on sugar from being lowered. When the last taTitt revision was in progress some daring souls among tho congressmen actually desired to admit sugar free. A compromise was effected whereby the tariff was cut down from $1.95 a hundred pounds to $1.90. Persons over forty years of age will remem ber that there was a timo when it was easy to purchase sugars of various colors, ranging from light to very dark brown. They will also recall that this sugar had a flavor that no white sugar of today possesses. They have also doubtless noticed that they don't get any great quantity of this sort of sugar any moro. Now during the recent stringency in supplies, it would have been real nice if tho people who couldn't get enough granulated sugar to supply their needs could havo had access to some of tho old brown, sugars. But the sugar trust and tho congress of the United States have made that impossible. This has not been done in an open and above board manner, but by actual skullduggery. When one reads the history of sugar tariff legislation in this country, he may be excused from having some doubts about the delegated power system of representation. - Anyone desiring to import sugar into this country must pay a duty unless it comes from .Porto Rico or Hawaii, or from the Philippines. If it comes from Cuba it gets a reduction of 29 ' per cent. On refined sugar this duty Is now .1.90 cents a pound. If it is unrefined sugar and if it is above No. 16 Dutch standard in. color the tax is the same. The effect of this S high tariff, applying both to the refined and tho I unrefined above a certain color grade is to give the sugar trust control of the American market. The process of refining sugar is a very simple one, consisting of removing the dried molasses ftrom tho outside of the sugar crystals. The more molasses tho darker the sugar, but so far as purity and taste aro concerned the light brown is the equal of the refined. The purity , of sugar is not determined by the color test. 4 pr. Wiley, yearB ago, said that the color test The Campaign in Nebraska JUDGE W. L. STARK Judge W. L. Stark's nomination as ono of tho three candidates for the supreme court on the democrat and populist tickets will strengthen tho reform movement in Nebraska. Ho was three times congressman from tho Fourth district and that district never had a moro faithful representative. Ho was on the county bench for ten years, and has for a third of a century been prominently identified with every progressive movement that has swept over the state. He adds strength to the ticket and will, as a member of tho supreme court, reflect credit upon those responsible for his nomination. JUDGE J. R. DEAN Judge J. R. Dean, tho high candidate in the primaries, has already proven his fitness for tho supremo bench by the splendid record that he made whilo judge. He has ability, integrity and courage, three of the essentials to a good judge. No mistake was made by the two parties in nominating him. JUDGE W. D. OLDHAM Judge W. D. Oldham was for six years a commissioner of the supreme court where he set an example of industry and conscientious consideration of the questions that came before the court. Ho was assistant attorney general un der Attorney General Smyth and joined in the preparation of the cases brought under the anti trust law. He has for twenty years done yeoman service in every campaign, his eloquence being at the command of tho party in every emergency. Ho adds great personal popularity to his fitness for the position to which he aspires. MR. CLARENCE HARMAN Mr. Clarence Harman, the candidate for rail way commissioner is one of tho most widely known of tho traveling men of the state, a man who will carry into the office unusual energy and large business capacity. His popu larity in, his section of tho state is attested by the affectionate regard In which he is held by the various communities in which he has been intimately known. Aside from the arguments based upon his personal worth and fitness he ought to have the advantage of the geographical argument. The two hold over members of the commission live in the east end of the state, one at Omaha and the other at Lincoln. As the republican candidate against Mr. Harman lives at Lincoln, Mr. Harman furnishes the citi zens outside of the two cities their only oppor tunity to secure a representative on the railroad commission. Those who know Mr. Harman will decide, the question in his favor on his merits; thoso who do not know him personally will appreciate the fact that his election gives to tho country districts a member on the com mission. - CANDDDATES FOR REGENTS The democratic and populist candidates for regents, Mr. Knapp and Mr. Miller, are worthy of support. Mr. Knapp is a graduate of tho University of Nebraska and feels a graduate's interest in the welfare of his alma mater. Mr. Miller is one of the best business men of the state but never too busy to take an active in terest in everything that concerns the welfare of the state, the interest of the nation, and the advancement of civilization. His mind quickly and accurately comprehends a business situa tion, but his heart has never been shriveled by the pursuit of the dollar. When a member of the legislature he introduced and secured the passage of a bill authorizing the establishment of a school of citizenship in the Nebraska uni versity. It would be a fine thing to make him a member of the board of regents and give him an opportunity to help carry out this plan. The school of citizenship when established will doubtless prove a precedent and lead to the establishment of a similar school in all of our state universities and our larger colleges. Mr. Miller's work, however, need not bo described in terms of prophecy but has already won a place in history. Publicity before tho election is an idea that originated with him. Others had been talking of publicity after elec tion, but Mr. Miller asked why not have publi cation before the election, so that tho people would know what influences were at work? This question, was put to Mr. Bryan, in a pri vate conversation and Mr. Bryan immediately adopted the idea, carried It to Washington and had it embodied in the platform of those who were fighting for publicity.. It was then made a part of the democratic national platform. It is now the law of the land and Mr. Miller has had the pleasure of seeing his idea embodied in a bill to which the president has affixed his signature. Surely Nebraska can be congratu lated if a man like Mr. Miller can be brought into contact with the student body of the state. was obsolete, unscientific and antiquated. So it is, and the only uso found for it nowadays is in constructing the joker that means millions every year for the trust. Consumers havo been educated to believe that a sugar is not pure unless it is white. The dark brown grades, below No. 16 don't sell. By making those above No. 16 dutiable the same as refined sugar, the imported stuff fa practi cally forced to come in in a molasses-stained condition. This must be whitened for the trade, and the sugar trust are the folks who do the whitening. As Senator La Follette put it in his speech In the senate: "Tho law which makes light brown sugars pay the same duty as if refined, and which makes the duty on the dark brown stuff lower as the degree of purity falls off, makes it impossible, as a matter of business, for any grade of unrefined sugar to come in except that which must be sold to the trust. And the $1.95 per hundred on refined (the old rate) makes it still more impossible to import that; and thero you are nicely gagged and bound, with your pockets gaping! No wonder sugar stocks have been good investments." C Q. D. WATCH IT GROW Mr. Bryan has given instructions that every new subscriber shall receive The Commoner for a period of two years (which will carry it be yond the presidential election of 1912) for the aum of one dollar. Every Commoner reader is asked to secure at least one new subscriber. Many will be able to secure more than one. Everyone, however, may render somo aid in this work. 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