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4 Paragraphs About Men and Measures By SAM W. SMALL The Yeaster nonnet is still rising in price. •y . • " ««. A “Babe” Bailey has acted up to his name, for sure. ilium ■ Abe Hummel is lending his mal odor to the Thaw trial. The government will soon adjourn to Sagamore Hill. What we need is more steel cars and fewer “steal” cars. Speaker Cannon went down to fire a salute to the canal. There is a London “Rotton Row” and a “Georgia Rotten Road.” At last Fairbanks is warming up to his presidential campaign. Revelations of evils should be follow.- ed by revolutions for righteousness. Somebody must put Harriman wise to the story of Captain Scott’s coon. Hold onto your cotton until the other fellow turns loose his money at your figure. Beveridge may yet be heard yellling for some one to help him turn Bryan aloose. Thaw may not have been insane when he shot White, bat he certainly was mad. Tom Lawson seems to have won a big pile on the copper stocks that he coppered. It is time for the farmers of America to put a few homespun statesmen into the senate. The new comet does not carry a long tail. Perhaps its career will be a short story. Spooner will now 7 proceed to show the railroads some of his tricks of the artful dodger. Harvie Jordan is making a noise like the Tom Lawson of the cotton market. Watch him! A Democrat should be a man who fights for the Public Good —“fodder or no fodder.” Tom Johnson seems too busy with his own campaign to manage one for somebody else. Anyhow, Ex-Secretary Shaw can prove that he has been recognized as Trust-worthy. e——— mi i ii ..■.■hh o <■* The Bryan-Beveridge magazine de bate is another case of “too long be tween drinks.” Two cents a mile is plenty to pay for the risks one takes in riding on railroads these days. In Tennessee Ex-Senator Carmack is helping to kill the liquor interests that aided in his dehorsing. •The Sultan of Turkey needs a whack of the Big Stick on account of those delayed American claims. Harriman is foxy, but he is due to lose several joints of his royal rail road tail, all right. Pennsylvania will never forget her bad luck in getting a $13,000,000 state capitol faked upon her. The farmers feed the nation. They can also govern it, if they would only • unite to do the work. Foraker’s forlorn hope is in the Black Brigade and it is still the bete noir of Republican politics. Mr. Bryan got a great ovation in Boston, where tariff revision is getting to be a very rampant riot. The railroad magnates are probably ready to testify that the president suf fers from “brain storms.” The school and church furniture trust has been indicted. It ought to hire DePew to defend it. You cannot make a railroad commis sion see rotten things about a road when it refuses to look that way. The throwing open of 28,000,000 acres of coal lands to public entry makes the coal trust hot in the collar. Dowie is dead, but Dowieism in some form will flourish as long as fools are born among the children of men. The plutocratic idea of a franchise is that it is a “lettre de cachet” direct ed against the people’s property. Ex-Senator Burton leaves the Mis souri penitentiary but that is al] of his conviction that he is free from. The railroads buy a man into the United States senate and then buy him out again, as in Spooner’s case. Ex-Senator Blackburn of Kentucky, as a canal commissioner may have to be coached some on water questions. Southerners will always honor Car mack for having the word “Rebellion” stricken from future official records. Anybody who has seen Fairbanks can believe that he “stands high” in the ranks of presidential candidates. What’s the matter with the gold standard? Thought it was guaranteed to stay put and never, never wobble! There are other southern senators than Bailey the sources of whose af fluence might profitably be inquired into. The new senator from Montana is a North Carolina tar-heel. That explains his ability to get there and to stay there. “The Rise and Fall of Jerome” will some day make as entertaining a sto ry as that of the other and older Rome. Carnegie must aim to live a long time yet if he expects to die poor. He grows richer faster than he grows poorer. Pennsylvania will also pass a two cent fare bill. She isn’t afraid the railroads will withdraw from the state because of it. TH® WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. You can safely bet that Spooner did not quit the senate to go over the hill to the poor house —nor to avoid going there, either. If the railroad magnates feel una ble to run the roads any longer, per haps the people can take hold and show ’em how! The direct election of United States senators under state laws is the cure for plutocracy and trust domination in the senate. When J. P. Morgan travels on a ship he does not register on the passenger list. He goes incog, so every one will ask who he is. There are 2,500,000 miles of country roads in this country. They will keep the “Good Roads” clubs busy a few hundred years yet. Roosevelt “obeyed the call of the wild” and saved 17,000,000 acres of forests in defiance of the timber ring sters in congress. The fight over Mrs. Eddy is for her cash and not for her creed. The money devil is as fatal to a religion as to an individual. Mrs. Sage has established a $10,000,- 000 foundation. What she expects will be built on it other than a big salary list, is not so apparent. Uncle Joe Cannon is to be entertain ed on the canal zone by an American baseball team. The native “flies” will also interest him some. LaFollette will lecture some more this summer and some more senatorial togas may soon change hands as the result —same as last year. The president prefers to let the new congress see the wheels go round for nine months before they get a chance at the government machinery. The weight of a soul is said to be one ounce. The average value of it must then be twenty pennyweights. Admiral Davis gained so much by Swettenham’s rudeness that he ought to send the latter a handsome souven ir of the profitable event at Kingston. --- - ■ I Richard Mansfield is to be neighbor to King Edward this summer. Let us hope the latter will get onto Dick’s eccentricities and escape “a cussin’ out.” A Jamestown postage stamp carries a portrait of Pocahontas. If all the posterity of John Smith buy one the postal deficit will disappear for this year. The national banks ought to be sat isfied with this administration. It is letting them speculate on all of the people’s money that the national treas ury controls. That “Southern Commission” to har monize the race problem in the south seems to have died in the hatching. It was a silly undertaking, to say the best of it. The report that Rockefeller will leave $250,000,000 to public education and charities is probably like the re- port of Mark Twain’s death —greatly exaggerated. There is one class of citizens yet left off the pension rolls. It is the hundreds of thousands who hired sub stitutes from foreign countries to do their fighting. Burton, the ex-convict United States senator, threatens to go on the lecture platform. It is high time for lecture committees to arm themselves against such attacks. Instead of refusing to pay her law yer $175,000 for ridding her of Boni Castellane, Anna Gould should think of what she is saving and make the fee a cool $200,000. The president has time to reform the government a whole lot before the new congress gets a chance to give away more of the people’s rights and proper ty to the interests. The railway magnates are raising great lamentations because there are legislatures in the land that they no longer own and manipulate for the robbery of the people. J. Pierp. Morgan has gone to Eu rope. He evidently thinks President Roosevelt doesn’t need his advice about how to conduct a govern ment control campaign. Senator Knox probably has too much sense to be bamboozled with the no tion that he could be elected president of the nation. He will never be more than he is—a trusty of the trusts. The latest Panama canal commis sioners are required to live on the isthmus. Yet they say living is hard and dying is awfully easy on that nar row zone twixt time and eternity. The complaint that the railroads cannot borrow money on account of adverse legislation is somewhat fun ny. Perhaps the people who have the money to lend want better security than “water.” The south can command the cotton and iron markets of the world, keep the balance of world trade in our fa vor, and therefore ought to have some rights in the government that other sections should respect. The Thaw trial has caused some strange casep of coolness just the same. Southern men are to largely boss the building of the canal, it seems. Taft is to make another trip to Pan ama. Has the canal got another case of mouth disease? It is said Fairbanks has a boom in Florida. Still those Floridians may hand him a lemen at the last moment. That Kentucky man with a sixteen acre mint farm looks on the Prohibi tionists as his natural born enemies. Atlanta seems to want a state fair if some one will give it to her gratis. It may yet be necessary for the ad ministration to put forward for presi dent some good New York man—like Cortelyou, the friend of the bankers.