Take the corporation lawyers out of the important offices in this country and about two-thirds of them would be vacant.
The banker has no more right to regulate the quantity of currency that shall be used by the people than he has to limit the number of cattle that shall be raised.
Enforced poverty is taking many a man out of the ranks of yellow-dog politics and making an independent voter out of him.
It always gives me a pain in the left hind foot to hear a man who wears a hoot-owl look on his face, a quid of tobacco in his mouth and a double-barrel patch on the bosom of his pants talk about “money that is good in Yurrop.”
About the only thing that Bryan can reorganize out of the Democratic Party is a bob-tail flush, and that is just what the Republicans want him to do.
A stand-patter is a fellow who is too lazy to move, or who has plenty of feed in his own trough and doesn’t care for anyone else.
The Beef Trust might possibly make good its plea of innocence, were it not for the fact that it has been “caught with the goods.”
The cotton growers who met in New Orleans in January decided that the Wall Street “bear” was worse than the Texas weevil.
Yellow-dog politics is the spirit that moves a man to ride to hell in a two-wheel cart drawn by the Democratic mule or Republican elephant, rather than to go to heaven by the independent route.
It is gratifying to know that a real effort is being made to “control” the railroads. The failure of such an effort is the best evidence that it can’t be done. Then will come public ownership.