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3 WW M4 The Commoner 1UBCB, W20 3 TTS1 I jjr, Bryan's Income maw York "World haa boon Questioning T , vi Tf Mr Bryan to receive compensation ,ier,gLe in connection with the Anti- lorwor? au aid the enforCement inhibition law. Of course, the World's rf.tt?.?J?: to income in general; it raised Etion to ex-Secretary Hoot deriving part . i..Ua ffl not IU l"''u'uv We'".,"lnor.aacr(!tar! 53 from the brewers in the shape of -- Tm tICrriTITIir LUH iUU.t3UUllJ.Clll 111 HIO ' . .. n1Ua tn aiip-cpaf flint, t.hft !To? " prohibition plank from the No in his gratuitous work and it is probable that his gratuitous work offends the World oven more than the work for which he receives compensation. - n.i. l 4.1. - nmnnrlmant in til A .nrnev'sfee for nguuug :"" """""rv; . Ynrk Republican platform, which Mr. Root SSS-who employ Mr. Root. But with Mr, S itTs different. The World's theory is, that fJL who defend vice and crime aro entitled to wrnpensotion, and they only. If a man dares Stake the side of virtue and law, and especial ly that man happens to be Mr. Bryan, he should Kfordlne to tho World's loerfc work without compensation and at his own expense or forfeit Msrieht to discuss the ouestions in politics. And (here is method in the World's madness on this nbfect. It can render more efficient service l-i vice and lawlessness by depriving its op ponents of a livelihood if it can succeed in so olh& than in any other way. The Chattanooera News comes to Mr. Bryan's defense in tho following editorial. "Now they say that Mr. Bryan has been paid by the Anti-Saloon League to sneak in its cam paign for enforcement of prohibition. To the World, of New York, this is a most heinous of fensea newspaper which- while blisterine Mr, Bryan, quotes from a speech of Willfam H. Taft, the same day to strengthen one of Its policies. Who pavs the freight for. or of, Mr. Taft when ke travels to and fro on the earth' speaking for the Leaeuo to Enforce Peace? Answer, the Leainie to Enforce Peace? And why not? Mr. Taft is dependent for a livelihood on his salary as a professor in a university. That is about as much as is the earnings of the engineer of a locomotive. That Mr. Taft is a working man is tot discreditable to him and he deserves praise, not censure, that he speaks in public for causes that he regards worthy." Of course, the World wnoild not question the right of an ex-PRESIDENT to receive compen sation for his work in behalf of the treatv. but wh an ex-CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT it "different. Ho has no right to receive compen sation for anything that the World objects to. Mr. Bryan is not informed as to what Mr. Taft is worth, or what income he has, independ ent Ws 8Deecues. He does not even know 'nether Mr. Taft receives the ten thousand dol lars a year which Andrew Carnegie provided in !m.i But Mr- Bry&n does know something m Ms own financial necessities. As editors and newspaper writers over-estimate his wealth and n orae, it is quite possible the misunderstanding may extend to many who do not write for the Bew8paperSt A statement may .relieve the En. somG and,at the same time, prevent intentional misrepresentations. tW JLnoY tweny-four years since Mr. Bryan's be5n??e F tne Presidency and there has not mal a,yeain that time when he could not have Iha Si !lf financially independent by taking Interl JL i , li(luor trafflc and other predatory these i iL least' 3udStag bA the amounts that of leJ ; G ,s have been willing to pay others ButMr 0mlnence aml les3 Political influence. lecturL ,n has Prerred to make his money ably . JHng, and he has been reason Pense Si S1- In snite of the very heavy ex ence he K ,.upon him bv his Political promin- Bmethinp m ?u able to savG' on an averae CePt durtnrr u n thousand dollars a year, ex ot roBinf e ow months when he was colonel ben hT and two vears and three months acumuhfLa8 Secretary of State. Mr Bryan's accurat'iv na1beln& in real estate, can not bo Wuenf L imated' but taking the rise in h ia wnrfi, ? tbe Property into consideration, ftree hmw. bJtwen two hundred and fifty and as Ws inoned and mty thousand dollars. But baik boiiio ?om his government and farm es, caift a5 real estate does not equal the ance, ha f! i rePairs, plus life and fire insur aQd Writing aJnendent entirely upon his speeches abl to Zl , hia income. Fortunately, he is needs foJ 5f m a Pat of the year, all that he devote ai!fl entiro ear, and is thus able to 0r.. i, B?i ?art ot his time to gratuitousi hlch he if "VnS comes from tho work for c 'a Paid, but he finds more pleasure WELCOME, WOMEN With 34 states already on the Roll of Hon or, and the Delaware and Washington legisla tures meeting on the 2 2d of this month to rati fy, another great reform seems to bo on tho eve of accomplishment another moral victory for tho present generation and tho assurance of others still to follow. Prohibition will be mado permanent with women voting, and the world's peace will be made more secure. Welcome, women, into tho arena of politics you aro needed. w. J. BRYAN. Nebraska Politics During the next thirty days there will be waged in Nebraska a contest between tho pro gressive Democrats and tho reactionaries over, the election of delegates to the Democratic na tional convention and the election of. a national committeeman to represent Nebraska in the na tional councils of the party. The Nebraska primary also provides, for a presidential preference vote, but no candidate for president has yet filed as a Democrat, al though petitions are in circulation by the wet reactionary element with the intention of plac ing the name of Senator Hitchcock before tho voters at tho coming primary election. Candidates for congress, state executive of fices, and members of the legislature, are also to be nominated at the primaries, which will .bo held April 20. The contest in Nebraska between the progres sive and reactionary elements of the party is in reality an issue between right and wrong, bo tween those who believe that tho government should represent the best there is in life and that the government machinery should be used to promote honesty, sobriety, right living and fair dealing on tho one side and oh the other between those who would use the government to promote their own pecuniary interests and those who profit by the lienor business and all 'the vice, misery, debauchery, etc., that that business produces. Mr. Bryan has filed as a candidate for dele-gate-at-large to the national convention. It is his intention to make a speaking campaign in Nebraska for the election of delegates to tho na tional convention and for the candidate for na tional committeeman who have filed on the ticket with him as progressive Democrats. Mr. Bryan will also advocate the election of the candidates for congress, state executive, posi tions and members of the legislature who pledge themselves to the" progressive cause and wlio aropposed to the modification, nullificat on or "Seal of the states' and national constitutions and the enforcement laws adopted by the vari; ous states and congress fhat have made the liquor business an outlaw in the United States The candidates for delegates-at-large, district delegates to the national convention, and the Mnt for national committeeman, who and law-abiding element of the state, otn men M s7cond-MrB. ft B. ToWl, Lieut. Albert ft May. q . sidner, Mrs. Marie Third Seymour S. &" Weekes. T7ideren. V. E. Stahl. Pourth--George Landmen, v &f Bea1' RATIFY NOW Nov that four fore t?a two-tMrds ho senate have voted for revisL subtracting seventeen more bahV8 u is no longer a matter thirteen ieconcila teat of the of personal opinion iu1tarDBi!overnraent. Demo senSte's belief in 5X4ainTraUcation with crats can not now vote agarn Incipl0 out repudiating the most lunoa BRYAN of democracy. A Soldier President Tho proan dUpatohes indicate that qulto a number of Republicans aro laboring under tho delusion that tho country ncodn a professional soldior for president. If, theBo "Worshippers of the Sabor," as John Bright onco put it, will take a few minutos of thoir timo and road tho Literary Digest of Janunry 24th, they may trans fer thoir support to some civjlian candidate. Tho Digest of abovo date glvos a rovlow of tho dis cussion in Great Britain aroused by tho massacre in India. Brigadier Gonornl H. E. II. Dyer, commanding British and Indian troops, fired without warning upon a mooting of Indians, kill ing five hundred and wounding fifteen hundred in ten minutes. Tho wounded woro loft to dlo or recover as tho case might bo, because, as tho General oxnlalnod, "thnt was not my Job, thoro wero hospitals." General Dyer's reason for fir ing WITHOUT WARNING was to mako "a wldo impression." Ho found a crowd assembled in a public park; ho did not know what tho speaker was talking about and did not think It nocossnry to inquire. Ho opened firo AT ONCE. His mothod of ascertaining the number of killed and wounded was not to count them but to count tho rounds of ammunition used and ostlmato tho oxecution done by tho rules of military sclonco. Papers like tho Manchester Guardian doscrlbo it by saying that few more dreadful instances can bo found in tho records of Jrltlsh rule in India. It was, according to tho Gunrdlan, "as If a madman had boon let loose to massacre at larco." Thoro aro othor Instances, such as re quiring the Indians passing thru' a certain street to go "on all fours" because of a crrmo that had beon committed in that locality. Tho London Dally Nows Rnonks of it nn "fHkhtfulnefm" trans planted under the British flag, and that too after the armistice wa3 signed. But it is not necessary to quote further. At tention is called to tho "incident," as such mani festation of militarism is usually described, to point a moral. There, is no reason to believe that General Dyor was a bad man; ho slmnly car ried the military idea to Its logical conclusion. The professional soldier knows nothing but surgery and he has a system of logic all his own. As there is no other remedy but shooting, it must be resorted to whenever the occasion re quires it; and if It is to bo done, tho moro quickly it is over the better. A warning, in tho Indian incident, might have scattered the crowd, so that the numbor killed would' ave beon re duced and thus the impression mado would not have been so distinct and "broad." A military man in the White House would look upon questions from tho military point of view, and, though entirely honest in his opinion and patriotic in his purpose, might order "im pressions" mado when a civilian would reach tho same ond without bloodshed. It is no reflection upon a military man to say that he should bo UNDER THE DIRECTION OF A CIVILIAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF ra'ther than himself have the responsibility of enforcing laws. Tho service-men seem to be quite opposed to a military man for president. Even though ex perience in the army was brief, it was long enough to enable them to seo the dlfforence be tween tho military idea and the methods of a republic. It was greatly to the credit of our returned soldiers that their interest in their country is greater than their admiration for mili tary rule. W. J. BRYAN. THOSE 412,235 LINES The World, answering a question from Mr. Bryan, (see porrespondence on another page) admits that during the last six years it has re ceived pay from 412,235 lines of liquor adver tising, and it asks its readers to believo that it is not influenced by advertising that bears so small a proportion to the total advertising. In tho case of tho World it would be'charitable to assume that the editor's defense of the liquor traffic rests upon a money consideration, for the Influence of money is understood. The Bible tells us the love of money is the root of all evil, and we know that the love of money has led to a great deal of sin. For money, many men have been willing to steal; for money, some nave, been willing to murder; for money, a few have been willing to sell their country; for money, one man was willing to betray the Saviour. If the World will admit its opposition to prohibition is due to lovo of money, it can at least claim a large com panionship. W. J. BRYAN. t 2 t m :-?- ri fc m V ' ' 4 Al m :m -10 m w! 'ftS w i li M 'ft ;-?J & - V T iMMrtW" WrWt jjmiit. 4i