Fergus County Democrat., 1907-11-12
Commonerisms.

The knickerbocker Trust com
pany's finish was in short pants.
Some financial institutions find i
extremely difficult to stand on theil
own copper bottoms.
The fremen on the Lustania are
coming in for somewhat belated cred.
it for that record breakino trip.
# the president still yearns for ex-
citement since the bear hunt he
might find it by going to the rescue
Of Mr.. Burton
Instead of feeling badly Sir Thomas
Upton should think Of the fate OF
several other gentlemen who OF late
have lifted the cup"
While the president was hunting
real bears in the brakes there was
some tall hustling by other bears to
keep from going broke.
Il have been urging tariff revision
Tor the last three years. solemnly
declares Senator Lodge of Massa-
chusetts. Up or down?
what is democrat?" is still the
plaintive query of the New York
World. Pretty nearly everything the
World claims to be and isn't.
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that football seventy-ive feet he must
have had his mind on those who
would revise the tariff now.
Mr.. F. Augustus Heinze is in a
position to give expert testimony to
the fact that the Rockefeller Rogers
combine is not yet down and out.
While Mr.. Hartman and Mr.. Fish
are fighting for control Of the
Illinois Central lot of underpaid
men are keeping the road in opera
ton.
Concerning the disappearance Of
that $32,O0O,00O OF Standard Oil
money two or three Of New York's
financial institutions seem amply able
to furnish an alibi
Surgeons removed portion of Ed
ward Bridgeman's brain, and within
six weeks after he was convalescent.
Bridgeman perpetrated 200 robberies.
The surgical bill of the Standard
Oil company must be something
enormous, and the companys scalp
must look as cut up as patchwork
quilt,
'Tantaline" is new metal. It is
so hard that diamond drill making
5000 revolutions minute was
scarcely able to scratch it in ten
minutes. 1t is almost as hard to
scratch as the hide of a tariff pro-
tected trust
Judging by the Oklahoma election
returns it will not be extremely diff
ficult for the president to find federal
jobs for all of the disappointed re-
publicans The returns indicate a
surprisingly small number of re-
publicans.
A Pennsylvania exchange says the
chestnut crop is failure this year.
Even if true, there is no need for
alarm. There will be a plenty of
chestnuts, among them that one of
revising the tariff by its friends" and
"the foreigner pays the tax"
Some eminent New York financiers
are now in position to realize that
copper securities consisting of nine
ty-seven per cent. water and three
per cent copper are not even so good
as standard silver dollars containing
only fifty cents worth of silver bull
lion
Mr.. Hartman says there is plenty
OF money in the country. Quite true,
and several eastern cities are wish
ing that the country would dig up
and send some along.
Some New York lawyers of "cabi-
net rank" should step forward and
explain how their fees in the Metro
politan traction cases became mixed
up with the yellow dog" fund.
There may be consolation for some
in the rapidly advancing price OF
paper. II the price continues to soar
LOT. of certificates of stock now
practically worthless will become
valuable per pound.