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w,v,f7VVJB8fl fe fV., -'. '" - The Commoner & ' - Vpfc 21, NO, 8 4 The Commctfier .- ISSUED MONTHIiY "'' if r Entorcd at the Postofllco at , Lincoln, Nebraska, Aft Boabnd-clAsa matter. ' ' WirtfJAta J. BRYAN, . CHARLES W. -BRYAN, Editor and Proprlotor Associate ICdr ami publinmir Edit. Rma and Business Ofilcc,, Suite 207-Press Bldg. ' j" Ono Ycnr. ........ .fl.Ort Six Month .CO In Clubs of Five or more per year , . .75 .Three Month, , ... -& Hlnglc Copy 10 Sample copies Free. Foreign Post. 2Gc Extra 7- ftmiflrtiLiPTMNM nun bo uont direct to The Com-. moncr. They can also be sent through newspapers which havo advertised a dubbin Tate, or through local agents, where such agents, jh.ave been ap pointed. All remittances should, Jm, sent by post office money order, express order, or by ban urait on New York or Chicago. Did not send Individual checks, stamps, or currency. : ... HENKWALS Tho date on your wrapper showir tho time to which your subscription ls,,nald. Thus, January 21 means that payment has peep received to and Including tho Issue of Utthuary, 1921. OHANGIS OP ADDItESSSubscrlbers ' requesting a change of address must give old as well as now address. ADVERTISING Rates will' be 'furnished upon appllcatlpn. Address all communications to-, t , THE COMMONER, LINCOLN, NED. , - - , Tho former kaiser is proving conclusively that he has.none of tho instincts. of a Teal Democrat; He is making an awful lot of-noise because Hol and has levied a heavy income tax upon him. If her se.t didn't fit any' better than most of them, it might reasonably1 be that the Chicago woman ffom whom, a burglar, slole her false teeth while she wag asleep - looked upon the whole thing as a kindly deed. .'!' 'U ftp. encouraging note of optimising wo are told, is. Bounded by eastern manufacturers. They sure riiusi have boen reading that list of Christmas presents that Congressman Fordney and the Re publican party have included in their new tariff l' i i : More tlian a million and a half dollars was expended bymen and women who, witnessed the world's championship fight between Dempsey arid Carpeiitler. We see now where the hopeful prophets pf good times coming get their inspira tion. "' ,The news items say that a Are has been burn ing in the-Hocking'valloy coal fields for twenty fiYO years ;jand that no means of Rutting it; out have been successfully tried,. ,. Who coal trust shpwed; a lack of its usual diligence in not ad vertising this as -one reason why it must have more jnoney for the coal that Is left. ' ' The department of commerce reports that the exports of farm products in tho last twelve months have been four times the 'prewar aver ago, Somebody ought to take sufficient pains to got this information to QJd Man- Supply and Demand who is generally supposed to run the price-snaking machinery. With wheat less than half what it was a year ago he appears to have, got his levers mixed. . The turnover .tax is the latest devJitiQ. that .Re publicans have suggested as a means V of raising the necessary four billions of annual revenue, It ia a. scheme by which a tax is collected every time a business man makes a-turnover. There should be some means devised by. which it can be distinguished from the effects 'of federal re serve bank deflation which caused so many men to make a turnover over of their property to the sheriff. ' ""'V i,i . .The. grain dealers of the .we.st , whose ' profits anil business are threatened .by the great co-operative organization of farmers uiider the name of the United States Grain Growers, Inc., are seeking to. bring to their aid in the fight to crush the farmers' movement all of the chambers of commerce and other business, organizations that vxq susceptible to the back-scratching argument The people should see to it that their represen tatives in office free these co-operative move ments from, every legal hobble,. If this is done they w.ilj ,nqt need to fear the- money, of the grain gamblers. t x e ' ' V v- ' ' The Human Side of Life (Royal Dixon; in Houston, Texas, Chronicle.) Last year at Estes Park, Colorado I had the pleasure of appearing a number of t mes on the torture platform with William Jennings Bryan. H s great power and personality are undeniable. And although he has been running for the presi dency sinco I was a very small boy, I marvel at hfs youth and personality. Today in going through some books I find a remarkable lecture which he gave before mini erbus Chautauqua and college gatherings on "The Value of an ideal." It has since been published under this title by Funk & Wagnalls Company of New York. And no one can spend an hour in a more profitable way than by read ing it. "The ideal must be far above us," says Mr. Bryan, "to keep us locking upward to it all the time, and it must bo far enough in advance to keep us struggling toward it 'to the end of life. It is a very poor ideal that one ever reaches, and it is a great misfortune for one to overtake his ideal, for, when he does, his progress ceases. I -was once made an honorary member of a class and asked to suggest a motto. I suggested "Ever-Green" and some of the class did not like it. They did not like to admit that they had ever been green, not to speak of always being green. But it' Is a good class motto be cause the period of greenness -is the period of growth. When we cease to be green and are entirely ripe we are ready for decay. I like to think of life as a continual progress toward higher and higher things as continual up folding. There is no better description of .a really noble life than that given in holy writ where Solomon speaks of the path of the just as 'like the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.' One often hears a man boasting of being self made. This type of a man is. to-be pitied. I always feel like saying what I heard a" cheap politician say the other year in replying to such a man that is, "surely one, could tell thatGpd never made you!" We all owe much to our en vironment, and few are there among us who have ever paid our parents for what they have done for us. "We, have received so niuch from the generations past," says Mr. Bryan, "and from those about us that, instead of boasting of what we have done we ought to learn humil ity and be content if at 'the end of life we can look back over the years and be assured that we have given to the world a service equal in value to that which we have received. There is abroad in the land a speculative spirit that is doing much harm. Instead of trying to earn a living, young men are bent on making a fortune. Not content with the slow accumula tions of honest toil, they are seeking some short cut to riches, and not always scrupulous about the means employed. The "get-rich-quiclc schemes" that spring up and swindle the public until they are discovered and driven out, prey upon the speculative spirit and find all their victims among those who are tryinir to cpf something for nothing. b get ""What we need today is an ideal life that will make people as anxious to render full ser vice as they are to draw full pay; an ideal that will make them measure life by What they be stow upon their fellows and not by what the rece ve. Not only must the individual have an ideal, but we must have ideals as groups of in dividuals and in every department of life We have our domestic ideals. In. business it is neces sary to have an ideal. It is as impossible L build a business without an ideal as W?obUid SnSJSS? IthUt- a Plan' SomG tWn that com petition is so sharp now that it is ImnnJShL to-be strictly honest in business; some ttffiftta t is necessary to recommend a thing : not r5 it-is, but as the the customer wan isit to "b? There never was a time when it was mort nW sary than it is today that business shouM he built upon a foundation of absolute integrity Every profession has its idealsthose of w medicine, the ministry and the rts. These Wy greatly, and who can say that one profession has ideals better than another. I have knnlnn? thieving lawyers and also of thieving ministers and I have always known of many VonderfS men in each of these great proXim, S combined ideals of tmktmrtTft determines the quality 6 nation There Tifc BLeaJt ,war d,d not wake us any Voraa-tiSt sibly, but t opened ,our eye to the Tow mK, that many -people in our midst have, and to tho fact that we Ttitiet change our ideals or .. civilization is doomed. '1 uur Mr. Bryan says: "There is-this, difference bo tween ideals and other things of value, namelv that an ideal can hot be patented or copyrighted We often seo things that we,, can not hope td possess, but there is no ideal, however high, that can not bo ours if we desire it. The highest ideal of human life 'that this world has ever known was that presented to mankind by the Man of Galilee, hut it was an. ideal within the comprehension of the fishermen of his day, and the Bible says of him that ths common people heard him gladly." And so it should be with all of our ideals. They should be understood by all men and women, and that man who fights his battles with, great ideals there is no disgrace nor dishonor in his defeat. Mr. Bryan said that whi)e 'many had rejoiced over his defeats, that if his defeats prove gpod for this countryhe also" will rejoice over-thm'. This only is one able to do who has a great ideal. "IF yOV WERE HERE" (From Hudson, N. J,, Dispatch, June 7.) When the casket that retains the body of Mrs. James F. Mmturn, wife of -Supreme 'Court Jus tice Mihturn, was'qlosed last Thursday, Juno 2, at the JMittturn home in Hpboken, there was placed in it the manuscript of a poem written by the judge in 1017, the subject of which was the partner to whom he bade farewell the day of the funeral. It was composed while Justice Min turn was recovering from an illness at Belvidere. The pbem which it is in fullest sense shows what fervorous sympathy existed between his wife and himself, and the strength. of the bonds which united them even though distance sep arated them physically. Only occasionally does the many-sidedness qf public men come to general attention, and while the mass of the public look on the justices of the Supreme Court through the cold atmosphere of the court room, rare incidents Wing to light the fact they too are human, liketfie others of us; iiave their sentiments 'qf love and. sympathy, a moved by the occurrences of nature and of the spirit, Without douhtthe spirit that united Mr. and Mrs. Minturn- -when' the judge composed the poem has developedjinto vaRunioh of spiritual ity wnicn sua binds them. . s From a copy of the pee1, i, taken- several year's ago in recognition of the beauty of sentimen which pervades it, and the artistry of its The Hudson Dispatch, without the knowledge .of -the Justice, is able to present it, and does so despite the delicacy of thepecasipn in the be lief that its spirit will instruct others toward the attainment of ideality in1 married life. 10 "IF YOU WERE HERE" . ' (To mV Wife.fi . "If you were here!" how happyI would be To, hear the merry Iaugh,0;W To greet the smile, ""':v To grasp the loving.hand, ahMee The beaming face, and notcThe light Of love shine forth; ' rT,- And all the while A V- To see the rosy morn dispel the night If you were here! If you were here, another moon-Would shine And other stars would tell 'm'e'qrou 'are mine; Another world would wtiirl about in space; Another heaven would' beam from out they . 'face; . .. .-.,. The birds would sing with gfedsome thrill, Jhe brooks, the woods, th'(ftfip$ling rill, .Would have a charm more ramjoaore dear If you were here X , If you werelhere! i PRAISE 1?ORBRn The Sentinel recently Tepliod .to' an unjust aspersion upon the name ah"d fame of William Jennings Bryan, and improved'the Occasion to recount some of his many achievements in be half of good government and better conditions of life. The Lincoln Journal copies Tho Sentir.ol article in full and acfds the following kindly words which, we imagine werewritfen by Bixby: "Truly, attd nobly spoken, Frank; Mr. Bryan has been an asset to Lincoln hhd Nebraska, and the political and moral atmosphere is cleaner because of his life and influence hereabouts than it otherwise would have beenv That Mr. Bryan has made a tow -wild -political conjectures is only proof that he has . been: 'briive enough to prophesy when other politician looked wise and wiar?d, 9. een outspoken, of toner in the right than, in the wrong, anoVjhas the confide"00 and good will pf, his neighbors ,in his pjirt of the vqrld and, their enduring well Mshes.J '-Gw mpn.t.Mlnn.yne,!, .SjJv . ' year's i Iment ' forriA ledge i so-- V t 1 .i .. sJ'i.J v i .fc. H-. ili,m. . 'SrJkA-Ml