President Roosevelt says there should be no rebates allowed on freight rates by the railroads. It is plain to be seen that if we had government ownership the President would not allow “rebates,” but it is safe to say nothing will be done, for these railway corporations have a way to interest members of Congress in these profits, so that no law to curb them can be got through Congress. If we had government ownership even a Republican President would give us relief, but as it is he is powerless.—The Forum, Denver, Col.
It is easy to see now that the St. Louis convention was the crowning event of damphoolishness.
Almost anyone can be fooled part of the time, but nobody but a fool can be fooled all the time.
The yellow-hammers that are now in control of the Democratic party insist that they are going to hold on.
The consensus of opinion among Populists seems to be that they won’t take any more of Dr. Bryan’s medicine.
The Democratic party may not be dead, but it is disfigured beyond recognition, crippled beyond recovery, and disgraced beyond redemption.
As principle has been abandoned, and there are not enough offices to go round, there is nothing to hold the pieces of the Democratic party together.
There is a man down in Texas who is so particular as to “what’s in a name” that he won’t kiss a “grass widow” for fear of catching the “hay fever.”
If the South will set its face forward instead of backward it will see the dawn of a new era, an era that will make her the mistress of the commerce of the world.