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W KmVfRSRK SS-J7 !.'' WW- . '1 "V - w- - I I 10 The Commoner. VOLUME 12, NUMBER 16 The Organ Malcer Mu Your wia wSiSB! 13 Time to Pay t 0g!,:ffii-.JJS The Adlcr Plan Wipes Oul The Middleman All Rccordo Broken In Most Stupendous lintlrcly Swept Awny By My Dlrcct-From-Fnctory, Krcc-Home-Trlnl Scllinc Plan. It Will Pay You To Rend Every Word Bclowl An Attlvr Oram In your liomo will 1)0 11 never fnll IntrHOurco of jilonsuro, refinement, cduention and cul ture, innklnK homo Uioniniitattrnctlvo plnco on cnrtli, payin for lUelf over nnd over njtaln by LrinKinK into your homo llfn that which money c n not buy-linppl-iienn nnd contentment. . , , ., , Itdvnliio cannot tin measured in dollarn nnd rents. Think what n nattofnctlon it will ho to liiton to ita Hwcct music what pleasure to iiinfrtolta nccompunlmont tho oonn wolove with tlionnen wulovo hi-st. 1 llrmly liollovo thnt If thero wrro nn Adlttr Oman In every homo In America wo would ho better busi ness men, hotter working men, better fanner, better cltlr.otM bocnuHO of tho HovntlnK power of music, nnd bccniwo I wanted to mnko It iwasihlo for every family to know tho dellnhUi of music, 1 havo originated tho wonderful Atller plan of rcllinir orfinns which liaamndo tho "Adlcr" a hotiiiehold word; more tlmn 75,000 of thcao famous ornnnu nro now in tho hoinca of tho people. Tho timo ban nrrlved this very day for you 10 nond for my Wonderful Kreo OrRnn Cntnlotr. Learn how you con hnvo tho World'H best Orirnn winner of lilfrhont prir.o nt St. Loufa World's Fair sent to your homo for 30 Days Trial without pnyinjr n cent. So enny, too, to buy nn "Adlcr"! Junt nend for my Cntnloi. Seloct tho Adlcr Oruan you liko beat. 1 will uliip It nt onco. Have It a month free. Send no money until you decido to buy. Then, if you decido to keep It, nftcr thorounh examination, pay mo nt your convcnicnco in small nmountn. I chnrgo no Interest. I will do oven moro than that. If, at tho end of n vonr. tho "Adlcr" fall4 to mako irood on ovcrv noint I claim for it, I will refund every dollar you hnvo paid. Anu more: l win uivo you mo longest nnu nironcesc miarnmeo ever maiio on nn organ tor no full years. You boo how easy it is to own tho finest oruan made. I can nnd will nnvo yon $43.75 becauso 1 sell direct from tho $500,000 Adlcr Organ Factory (frrtatcst In exlHtcnco) nt lowest wholcsalo factory prices. Tho naior i'ian uiorouRiuy wtcckb nil rciau organ prices, ntaolutcly nponginu; out all "In botwocn" extra, middlemen's prolits you pay on other organs. Mnil rntmnn V on can't nfforil to buy any organ mull iiiimium until you nco my plan to aavo you $48.76. So write for my Organ Hook right now; FREE; xuo uoupon or n rosiai win unng ic CYRUS L. ADLER, President, Adlcr Manulaclurlng Co. Louisville, Ky. CYRUS L ADLER, Prcs't., Adlcr MTfl. Co jzvj IV. uiestnui si., Louisvme, ny. R. Send me mv cony of tho Wonderful Fraa IIln. tratcd Adler Organ Book. , NAME , ADDRESS I I t H Mil J tidAL i lliliiiii tiyiyMiijjjmiJMiiLi SKXATOH K13KX OX PENSIONS (Continued from Page 7.) of the government. This extraordi nary statement, coming from tho pension ofllce, was based upon com putations shown to havo been utter ly without merit. Tt has been satis factorily demonstrated by Gen. Sherwood, by computations mado from tho ofllrial records of the war department, that tho total increase of expense resulting from the Sher wood bill as passed by the house of n rntu.ni si Hvns could not exceed $45,000,000, while under the pro visions of the original bill as intro duced in the house, denying the benefit of its provisions to soldiers having an income of $1,000 per year, the increase of expenditure would not exceed thirty-five millions. MISPLACKD ECONOMY The chief objection to the Slier wood bill is based upon tho charge that it calls for an extravagant ex penditure of public monoy and vio lates tho promise of economy in tno administration of the government. I have not been greatly interested in the discussion as to what this or that bill will cost. It is a reflection upon the integrity, the honor, and tho flnaucial ability of this nation to consider a question of that kind in that light. Sir, I have already shown that to pay an honest debt, or to follow the common instincts of humanity by caring for the defenders of the re public in their old ago, is not an extravagance and violates no pledge of economy in government. But, sir, this cry of economy in governmental expenditures has a new and strange sound. It has been seldom heard during the past 12 year's, while the expenses of govern ment have nearly doubled and climbed up to the enormous figure of a thousand million dollars a year. It was not hoard in connection with the appropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars for the Panama canal, nor has it been insisted upon during the time that the taxpayers of the nation have been contributing a halt billion dollars or more in carrying out the work of subjugat ing the Philippine Islands and benev olently assimilating tho Filipino people. It was not urged while 200,000 new offices were being created or while the salaries of all the princi pal officeholders in the United States were being largely increased because of the high cost of living. It is a cry that is only heard when tho proposition is made to care for tho soldiers of the nation and is only heard then becauso they have grown too old to hold official station and because it is thought that on ORNAMENTAL IRON FENCE Strong, durable- and cheapor than wood. Hundreds of patterns for UwTis.churches.cemetorles, public grounds. etc. Write for frrn (v-itntnmtn n.i.1 r..l.i ward fence CO., Box 963, DECATUR, inb. account of old age and decrepitude tnoy can no longer exert great in 4j4&bJU. e ijazEssa T- "TJir'tiiliini i ill "- ORNAMENTAL. FENCS 9t f.t- All .--. OOC 'twttu-'H dicer lunuwmc.con lJ IKin WOCKjJ - more Uuuble. Don't buy afcac umii you nn our frc CtUJOfW and Sptcf.l Price. . W, can ivo you mhn. ' Kokomo Fence MirJrim. rA.. ill North St. Kokomo. lad. . Learn How Oklahoma makes Bank Deposi- tors Safe - : Our New Booklet now being mailed on request. Friends of this inform can raatorlallr aid In its Bonornl adoption as woU as Bocnro thomBolvw from aia?2n1y StaKPOnIUfl: m account ltb 4 per cent Interests on Time Deposits and Savings Accounts, M, G, Haskell, Pres. H-E- Davis, Ass't Cah. Muskogeo, Okla. Four years successful operation.. fluonco in the political affairs of the country. Distinguished senators hero have, with great labor, added up all the miserable pittances received by each of these old veterans during the past 47 years, and with a horror-stricken air hold up before us the enormous total of noarlv $4.nnn nnn nnn When tho proposition was made to double tho salary of the president of tho United States and then add $25,000 per annum for traveling ex penses, did anyone tako the time to give to tho public the total sum of all tho moneys paid to all the presi dents since the formation of tho government? Or when tho proposition war mnnt. a few years ago to increase the salaries of senators and congress men, was any computation exhibited of tho total amount paid to tho mem bers of tho two houses during the century and a quarter of our na tional life? Tho salaries of tho postmasters throughout tho country aro in creased steadily year by year, yet we have heard from no source the vast amount of money that has been paid to these patriotic, self-sacrificing officials during the years of tho past. When pork-barrel appropriations are asked and made for costly public buildings at crossroads and county seats and for the improvement of streams too small for flatboat navi gation, no senator has ever thought of undertaking the mathematical feat of calculating the enormous amount of public money that has been thus wasted during the last half century. These mathematical prodigies of the senate never let loose thoir re strained energies except when the heroes of Gettysburg and Antietam, Chancellorsville and Lookout call the attention of the government. to its broken pledges and its inexcus able ingratitude to the men who saved its life. Mr. President, in the course of the debate here on yesterday, while senators were suggesting economy in other departments of government as a means of providing sufficient revenue for liberal pensions, some thing was said in the way of jest about the free barber shop and free baths in marble rooms provided for senators. These are trifling matters, and I shall not consume any time in dis cussing them. But, sir, when the old soldier and his wife read in the newspapers that senators and con gressmen are complaining that they can not live respectably in Washing ton on salaries of more than $20 a day, with free barber shops, free baths, free Apollinaris water, and free office rent when they read of the senators riding in free govern ment automobiles between their offices and the capitol, only a square in distance, they can not but marvel at the claim .made by some of these same gentlemen that the soldier's request for a pension of a paltry dollar a day is an impertinent de mand, to grant which would be gross and intolerable extravagance. The old soldier, who must pay uouse rent;, pay exorbitant prices for everything he eats and wears, and pay for all out of a pension of $15 or $20 per month, with fond remembrance of the beefsteak now only a memory, must sympathize deeply with his unfortunate repre sentatives in Washington, who, are compelled to eke out a miserable existence on $j525 per month, with un uie mile accessories furnished uj an umjyuipaiuetic government. The distinguished senator from Ohio impressed us all yesterday with, his fervid declaration that he would be rejoiced to support a measure giving the old soldier a dollar a day if this poor government could only afford it. How natural it will be for him as a patriotic American to cover back into tho treasury a part of his next month's salary to aid an impoverished nation in its struggle with adversity. bb It is Said that our rmnelnri ltr.4. i- larger than that of any nation in the world. I have not examined the Jtatjscg. but I hope it is. It ought to be. There was no such war in modern times, and no war ever ac complished such beneficent results Russian or TnrlHah rmno .., ,----- i."oul, uui as an American citizen and in carinc for-these veterans we should havo in mind the American standard of living, and not that of European or Asiatic countries. Surely those patriotic gentlemen who are clamor ing for palatial residences for our ministers and ambassadors abroad that they maintain our national dig' nity and, prestige, would not advo cate a policy respecting the soldiers of the republic which would place thorn upon a par with tho half-fed and poorly clad people of the world's poorest nations. Mr. President, I hope T may be permitted to address some words to my brethren of the south, who rep resent their several states in this body with such distinguished ability. AN APPEAL FOR JUSTICE I know how you venerate tho memories of the great leaders of tho confederacy, who with the great leaders of the army of the union h,ave crossed the great river and are fraternizing on the farther shore. The differences of the past are hap pily ended settled on the basis of fraternity and perpetual union never more to recur. A common hope, a common destiny, and a com mon country, with a single flag, bind us in the ties of a common brother hood. Your interests are the same as the interests of those of us born under northern skies, and I would subject you to no penalties or bur dens which I would not willingly share. My ancestors, even to the first American generation, were born in old Virginia. My father having removed to the north long before the civil war, was a Douglas demo crat and for tho union, and yet, after the war was over, he so longed for the mountains and valleys of his " Po There n -nn Tmft 4 j.1. -:"' ,i, " M,: u. in uie worm so llllL rally1 to" their rich aa thu t;;t" " l "b nfri ' "" ttU "auon so ?rr-"tt sa' .nor a. ppio country's standard in time of dan- w , . "'uu ottuiiuues, II nPfirl ho to contribute of their substance for the care and support of its defenders when by reason of service or ?S they need such care and support The American soldier who hn periled life and oacriflcS hSa fS his country, and who can no lonSJ earn a ivelihood, still deserves ?o live-not as an Italian or French o? Every Crisp, Little Flake Of st Toasties has a flavour all its own. "Toasties" are made of selected white Indian corn; first cooked, then rolled into wafer-like bits and toasted to an appetizing golden brown. 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