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TiFwpyJwv55; iWPWW,' , The Commoner r frt'a'J VOUMiNOll a!. .-rrt I The Commoner m,.U 1SSUKI MYWTCILT Entered at the roatoiaco at Lincoln. Kchraaku. afl necondclaB3 matter. .,,," f . : ' WILLIAM 'J. BRYAN, CHARLES W. BUrAN;1 Editor,. ami Proprlwtor Associate K3. and Publisher Edit. Rms. and Business Ofllco, Suite 207 Press1 Bids. W -.IMI1IH.miM.IWIIlWll.HI I M ! ! I One Year f.9 Thrc Mo1!im .25 Mx Month..-. . SJbkIc Copy ,. .10 III CJul& of Five or Sample Co plea 'rrp. moro per year... .75 Foreign Post, 5c Extra). SUnscuiPTlONS can bo sent direct to The Com moncr. They can also be aent through ncwHpapcrs which have advertised a clubbing" rate, or through local agent where such aentn have been ap pointed. ,A1J remittances should be Bent by pffst onice money order. expresM order, or by bank drafr on New York or Chicago. Do .not &and hiUivldiml check h. ftnmps, or currency. BRNRWAliS The date on your wrapper shows tl 3 time to whlcl your subscription la paid.. Thua January 19 means that payment has been received to and Including the. Issue of Jnnuary. 1919. CTMAGi: OP AIU?SS Subscribers refjuistlng, a change of address imist give old as well as new address, AVioiiTJSING- Rates will 'bo furnishud Tipon application. Address all communications to THE COM M Oft EH,. LINCOLN NKU. STATIQMISNT OP TIIK OWNISItSIIftN MANAGE MENT, ETCm IIBdUIItBD UV TIII2 ACT OP CONGRESS OP AUGUST 24, 1012 of The Commoner, published monthly at Lincoln, Nebraska, for Octobor 1. 30JA .,, State of Nebraska ) ' , County of Lancaster )53, Before me, a notary public in and for the stato and county aforesaid, personally appeared Chiis. W. Bryan, who, having been'duly sworn according" to law, deposes and says that ho is ithe publisher of The Commoner, and that the following is, to tho best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of tho ownership, management, otc, of the aforesaid publication for tho date shown in the above caption, required by tho Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 4.43, postal lawp'and regulations, to wit: 1. That tho names tind'-addresses1 tf -lite--pub- Usher, dditor, ansoclato editor, and business man-, tigers aroi Publisher: Char'" W. Bryan Lincoln, Nebraska Kdlt'Or: William Jennings Bryan.. Lincoln, Nebraska Associate Editor; Charles W. Bryan.. Lincoln, Nebr, Business Managers: None. 2. That tho owner is: William, Jennings Bryan, Lincoln. Nebraska. . ' , 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, ana. other security holders holding 1 per cent or moro of tho total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. CHAS. W, BRYAN, Publisher. Sworn to and subcribed before mo this 1st day' of, October, 1919. J. R.' F ARRIS, Notary Public. (My commission oxpires Jxily 19, 1924,) President Wilson has - give'n" congress two months In which to deviso legislation for tho railroads before he hands' them back to private control. But imagine the"senato' finishing any job insido of so short a Unie! ' The importation of reindeer meat from north ern Canada is being urged by a Norwegian ex plorer as a means of giving the packers a few nervous hours. What it will probably do is to cause them to wish for somebody to" kick -them lor having overlooked something. " ' " ' General Pershing told thc cbngressional com mittee that ho -was in favor of a modified uhi-! versal military training that began with l the educational institutions and which did not1 take up very much time. In other words, the general would like to have the university military train ing camel get his nose under tho flap of the tent, and then hope for the rest Premier Clemenceau declares that tho euro for mdny of the problems from which the world is Buffering because unsolved is for everybody to got to work. There may bo something io that; although a goodly number of those prob lems are due to the' fact that the people have beori "worked' by the profiteers and monopol- '""O? Views of a Noted "' Economist : ' A New York dispatch to" the Chicago Tribune, v under date of September 29, follows: " ? Moreton Frewen, British economist, globe trotter, and international authority on bimetal-' llsm, came to town today and uttered a' few . thoughts for American public consumption' in an interview on present exchange conditions in the world. Mr. Frewen said: "Bryan was-absolutely right in 189G, and if Amorica had taken his advice then, she would ' have been spared the agony of a financial re adjustment inevitable, sooner or later. "Silver is coming back into its own and tho " gold standard is passing away. "Unless America relinquishes her gold-stand- ard she is-going to experience increasing diffi culty in maintaining her favorable rates ofex- ' change. " n ; "The-British sovereign gold), before thenar1' was quoted at 4,87 and now quoted around 4.20, will eventually drop as low as 4, where it will remain indefinitely. - . . . :iv 'England will never go back to gold standi ainanb. ard." i uit Silver, according to Frewen. now miote(1n3.fc 114, as against 56 in 1915, will never return to its former level. ; , t m "For moro than 2,000 year3 silver was the: standard of exchange,'1 . he said. ' "Then, h'aclc in 1897, the peoplo lost their tempers Tjieyt! used some horrible language and the . silver standard was discarded. But now silvery has-' taken the bit in its teeth and ,-is back, t& jYst former standard, never to return, again .to.j$j prewar level. ' "Aa a result, America is threatened with.o- ing tho biggest part of her European trade.,Y, j.j'i . U. S. TRADE IN ORIENT TO' BOOM.'' "l "But the sudden 'rise, in value of silver''' '&- change, however, will be a great blessing' for" your country. For the last thirty years the United States has limited its trading with 800, 000,000 orientals Simply because5 "Of the cheap ness of silver exchange. Tales, the Chinese unit, rose from three to eight for ?5, gold, when sil ver was cheap. Now they are back to three' ' again, encouraging American export trade. So,' while exports to Europe may tumble precipit ously, American trade with tho orient and Africa " should incroaso fivo times or more. Exports 'to China in the years to.come from America wills be enormous. Your Pacific ports are scheduled ' for their greatest boom in hiBtory." England, Mr. Frewen said, has forever- lost the gold standard. During the past decade ' India has drawn more than 250,000,000 goluY sovereigns from England. The extradrain. from ! Britain the, last twenty-five years, Mr. Jfrewen" characterized as "spectacular." ; "And as a result she is absolutely andutforiy off the gold standard," he added. ' . ENGLAND'S ONLY HOPE ,- With this pountry the sole remaining larger nat-l2n, m,aintal11 a 6ld standard, moro and . more difficulty will be experienced in maintain ing a favorable rates of exchange, Mr. Frewen said American bankers, he added, already are 8S fe51.th0 elTect3 of tno situation ? a ora?,ion oC freo coinase of silver in Europe and America is England's only hope for an eariy restoration of specie payments, Frewen ad The unprecedented rise in silver also saved ?JSGI ?,nd iher indutries of America from ?tal f011??0 ' Mr Frewei1 Relieved. Steel and iron industries, especially iron, he said, would sunnlv iU ?hi,na' Whri)' with the vhit supply of raw material and cheap labor the American producers would have been undercut and forced" out of existence. uuuercuc A1 ' ' "It PrMderab,c nterqst has been aroused by the publication of newspaper stories to the effect i-mJfyP oetor have discovered a method of transplanting glands to elderly persons with tho "tgSKWi111 beC01Ve as youn m ever. Just afel? tImQ ?opo 8hono brightest the doctor sapped' forward to explain that tho only effect was to make tho old feel younfror for n months. Wall, a few months T long time BUYAN AT HIS BEST (Knoxvillo Sentinel). We liave never seen or heard Mr Brvan in better fettle .and form than in his off ort made here in advoacy of the league of nations While in vigor and fire he appeared to be t e Bryan of his pristine period, it was a Bryan Allowed hniifrriT!, IilosPfcy and broadened Tby both. That the year have touched him liKhtlv baldandaSF4!nU?i H has grown a HtTle more ?? fil,aHnc.tl3r more rotund, but, as he con fessed lumse f, while he knows that Uvo decades Sin I nalf hvo elapscd ain he first sp?ane hito nationwide prominenqe by his "Grown v.?' Thorns and Cross of Gold" speech Smt iSSrod the presidential nomination & a great ; p "ae J does riotfeel bid and aa ha u only.juj old Mi.., r2S- has becn said A!f.?at matter d delivery ,r u. uuruw euKue oi nations Mr Brvnn i ."l days never -excelled it, and certainfv In bls subject and with noh$i& .commanded a moro univerail i M? em unanimous supporting sentiment thn' corded him on his plea in this pL f . . ficatlon of the peace treaty and K fr lhe ra- without amendmentsorlLe?daogrrnant not go into the merits of hiraSfloYecaj' best point made by him pihaw fil !5e same senateeomposed of much tZ LI l ik torswho unanimously voted to rotlf J w6,?1" arbitration treaties that p edged K Investigate the merits of quarrels for n"0"5 to before going to war are now hue lslZ the league covenant to delay wlfW months because, tUey allege it is -T nJ 1 7 surrender the nation's sovlreign y ffiE S ifhh-eard of according to them iy 1MU!Un8 M 'Whatever doubt there may have been of ti,. , popular, sentiment oE Knoxville and vicinity on the league issue before Mr. Bryan wielded the cuSgels in ravor" of it before our people iff J? diet of the multitude that heard Mr. Bryan S sipated the- doubt decisively. . -rt '"jTii-AN FIGHT ON ILLITERACY 'As Washington dispatch, dated October 31 ssfr& Eight million persons in the United States who neither read, write nor speak the English1 language, 'will be forced to learn Eng lishwhen Senator Kenyon's Americanization bill becomes a law. The measure seeks to deal with what the senator,considers one of the most serious ques tions .fcn. ; American life, illiteracy and foreign borHf aJlens. The bill is an outgrowth of tho recdntp-invostigations of the senate labor com mittee 4P-to , conditions , which caused the steel sttfik.OjHit ' j - . i - ' Americanize America" is the slogan which tSeaatorvKenyonandhis associate champion3 0f the billhaYe adopted. FiftTnAv.P3r cent of the foreign-born inhabit ants .of the- United States can neither read nor writQ.r 3Fhe Iowa senator says this is a coa ' servative estimate. If the illiterates and foreign-born who can not -speak our language, ho told the senate, should be reviewed from a stand in front of the White House, marching two abreast, and twenty-Uve miles a day, it would take two months of solid marching for them to pass the reviewing stand. 'VDhece are misguided men in America today tthousands and even millions of them," Ken yon said, "They are to be pitied. They do not know.the purposes of America for they have had no-i opportunity to learn. They do not know that this is 'in fact the land of the poor boy; thafc-vmen have given their lives that the doors olvopportunity might bo open to tho children of tomorrow; that the opportunities for their chil dren'. are-the best on earth. '.Our country is to blame because the 'hance has not been presented for. them to know. There woiildf he no menace to the future of America from.; these- men if they really knew wliat Anierica meant. ia itfTHe melting pot cannot boil unless there is fuel- under it, and that fuel is education, tm purpose of this bill is to help furnish the wei for. the great American melting pot "America must awaken to its dangers ana America must not falter or equivocate, aj awakened nation of more than Q,m,m people does not propose that a few w thousand anarchists and bolshevists shall om throw this nation of hope and this land oi ir portunity." . . 0 nT(i. The purpose of the hill is to considei a j; gram of Americanizing illiterates and those i u Sole to speak, read or write the Eng language. The theory of the bill is the process 6f -stimulating the states to adopt certain pulsory teaching of English to illiterates. the money appropriated is JTo among tire several states in a prvae; lhB but is not turned over to any state uwe state provides for the teaching of Engs least 200 hours a year to all residents wu citizens" of the United States between lb an years of ago and all residents of more u months-who are aliens between 1G ana tudied of age. have s Because most persons wno ""D itb the economic conditions in conjuiw-w" . tlier0 spread ot radicalism are convinced g1 unW( must bemtfro Americanization In tWj w it is' regarded as certain, that the Keno will. become' a law,
