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,i April 25, 190a .The Commoner. ii illlllnOLLARS Shoveling Out Public Money. BETTER THAN SPRAYING. Don't lug bands of water around when spraying Use the poison direct. Our Common Sense Dusf Sprayer and Ioioet Exterminator Is a most Ingenious device that Is rapidly supplanting the old methods. It blows the finely Eswdered dustlntoeverynookand crevice. Reaches thobot ohm well M the topi of Lam. DUejilaiMtUronplaaU.Tlaei, ihrobiudtreea Juil M effeetlr. for Tennto on poultry ana pigs. MonnplithuitpnTlag. DeierlptlTaelxculuaaoa teiUaonlalafree. lIir.LIB BPHT BI'KAVKR t'O , Taxga. BT. JOBKI'II. MO. PATFMT QCPIIDCn or Fkes returned. Fiikb rHI.QJM I oCUUntUoplnlonastopalontablll. ty. Send for our Guldo Book and "What To Invent, finest publications over Issued for f rco distribution. Patents secured through us advertised without chargo In Tho ratent Record. Sample Copt. Fuee. EVaks, "Wilxrnb fc Co. Washington, D. C. Ell Catarrh Cure (a compound with or M without tobacco.) The only remedy on 111 earth guaranteed to cure or money re funded. Write for free sample. EK-M Co., At lanta, Ga. I; AT Cfll IfQ lama trained nureo. 13 yoara I HI I ULTVO ago I reduced 45 pounds Oh, so easy. No starving, no wrinkles, no regain. Simple, yon tako It nt homo. Nothing to soil. Incloso stamp. Write today. Miss 13. 0. Topping, 318 Ogdon Ay., Chicago, 111. $75. Millions of; dollarsjust how many millions nobody has been able, or will ing, to confess are to be handed over to a few rich ship owners by tho re publican congress without return in service to the government. This ship subsidy bill is denounced by some Of Its flnmofirn.r.ir nnnnnnntK AMD NINETY"FIVE CENTS In tho Rfinnto na nlnna .InMolnHnn Mm- 41a 1jl.iuiJAil 1Im1i hhkiJa. VQWIiVWU nnwlMeaelEfiOEMEREllCYCLE, That Is a milrl niinrnp.rnHntfnn Tf ftS-Iaon wheel, any height frame, high grade equipment; , including- hlah grade guaranteed pnewatie Urn. adJaetahU IS WOrSO than ClaSS legislation, WOrSO 1ulb4Io aara. tae leather earertd grlpa, padded aadale, flae ball ... fcearbHTpedali, aleUl trlauilaaa, beaatirally aalihca tareaga than gTOUp legislation. It is ring leg- at, nay celer enamel. Strewreat Guar ah tee. .,,., .. . . SI0.95 for the celebrated lMfKenwetf Bicycle, islatlon a plain Steal Of public money Sl5.75forthoMKheiiaT5lhlntUiaadeoBrlhreaeroynifor the benefit Of a handful Of men aUekelJelat, Napeleen or Josephine, complete with th TaiytaeatialpBieaCincludmgMorcaB&WjIsjht highest Whose Only real Claim to the loot IS jrrade pneumatio tires, a regular i50.oo bicycle. io days freetbm aJtssiai tuy want ifc- r ever heard of, write for oarfrtoiwa Bleyete Calalae. This raid On the trea8UrV Is made by Addrea., SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., CHICAGO, senator Hanna and his accomplices under the pretence that its purpose is to "build up tho American merchant marine." Experience in our own and other countries goes to show that tho mer chant marine cannot be built up by the bounty system. But even if it be true that, with the United States treasury to draw on without limit, ships can be multiplied, why should these ships be owned by private persons? If the public is to pay for the ships, why shouldn't tho public own them? Mr. Hanna will be horrified at the suggestion. To his enlightened and conservative mind, government-owned merchant ships would mean "social ism." But it is not socialism, in Mr. Han na's view, to buy ships with the peo ple's money and then give them to his friends. And he is right. That is not social ism. It is robbery. There is every indication that in spite of the thorough exposure made of this ship subsidy outrage by tho democratic senators, it will be passed by the republican congress. Every wage-earner in the United States will be taxed to supply the millions bestowed under the bill upon such deserving objects of charity as J. Pierpont Morgan. The wage earners of the United States number about fifteen million men, women, and boys and girls of ten years of age and over. Their aver age earnings are $400 a year, and on tho average each wage-earner sup ports two dependents. That is to say, three persons must live on $33.33 a month. About a quarter of the work ingman's wages goes for rent and about half for food and fuel. That leaves him about $8.30 a month for clothing, medicine, recreation and a savings bank account. Professor Robert E. Ely, secretary of the League for Political Education, in considering these figures, taken from the federal census, justly says that "the terms of our economic problem cannot be solved by thrift alone" meaning that the poor in the mass cannot lift themselves out of poverty by saving, since on the average they don't earn enough to enable them to save anything. And yet this republican congress, led by Mr. Hanna, who lately has been aiming to figure as a special friend of tho workingman, proposes to take the scarce pennies from tho pockets of the working men, women and chil dren and put them, to the amount of many millions of dollars, into the pockets of a few men who are in the transportation business men for tho most part already enormously rich. It is a scheme of pillage at which tho whole country would rise in indig nant astonishment had not the whole country become used under the protec tive system to seeing everything taxed In order to enrich somebody. New York Journal. 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Personal checus not received, but 1 and 2c postage stamps aro accept d. Address Vincent Pub. Ce., KS&. THE FAVORITE i LUDWIG I "3 PIANO. f Jlwarded medal Paris, WOO. Endorsed by Jlrtists, musicians, Vcacbws, and 35,000 Pleased Purchasers, Theso well known instruments, cele brated for their Quality, Tone and Finish can be ob tained by dealers in any state at most moderate and advantageous terms. LUDWIG & CO., Mfers.. Southern Boulevard, New York. Send for catalogue and prices. Matthews Piano Co. . . General Agent for Lincoln, Neb. The Beef Trust. Tho Kansas City Journal, a repub lican newspaper, in its Issuo of April 16, contained an article relating to tlw exactions of tho beef trust, from which article the following facta and flguros aro taken: 'On year ago export steers sold in tho Kansas City market for from $5.15 to $5.40 per 100 pounds; yesterday they sold froin $6.75 to $7. A year ago cows sold for $4.3S to $4.65; yesterday they brought from $4.75 to $5.25. Hogs were selling a year ago for from $6 to $6.12; yesterday they sold for from $6.76 to $7.15. Theso are the rises which havo taken place in an entire year. DURING THE SAME TIME THE BEEF TRUST HAS RAISED THE WHOLESALE PRICE OP BEEF FROM ABOUT $6.50 PER 100 POUNDS TO $10.50 PER 100 POUNDS, AND HAS INCREASED THE PRICES OF ALL ITS OTHER PJIODUCTS PROVISIONS OF ALL KINDS. INCLUDED PROPORTION ATELY. While the amount It has had to -nav for beef steers has increased from $1.40 to $1.60 per 100 pounds, IT HAS RAISED THE PRICE OF BEEF $4 PER 100 POUNDiS. It has increased tho price of beef from $7.25 per 100 pounds to $10.50 per 100 pounds since the latter part of February. During the same time tho price of tfeef steers in tho Kansas City market has Increased from $5.60 to $7, tho latter of which figures was the top price yes terday.. While the price of beef steers has been Increased only $1.40 per j.00 pounds, tho beef, trust instead of bearing its fair share of tho bur den Imposed upon the whole people, haB increased the wholesale price of beef to tho butchers of Kansas City $3.25 per 100 pounds. It appears, there fore, that ther packers have increased prices a great deal mbrd rapidly than tho condition of tho market has justi fied. There IS still A FURTHER CIR CUMSTANCE to be taken into consid eration in drawing an indictment against tho beef trust. This is tho fact that last summer and fall, when thousands upon thousands of head of all kinds of live stock were being rushed Into tho Kansas City market, they were buying It at very low prices, AND STORING IT AWAY IN THEIR REFRIGERATORS. They have since been able to take out this refrigera tor meat and place it upon the market AT THE SAME PRICE THAT MEAT MORE RECENTLY KILLED BRINGjS, AND HAVE TPIUS MADE IMMENSE PROFITS UPON THE TRANSAC TION. These largo quantities in their refrigerators would havo held down prices to a certain extent IF THE TRUST HAD NOT BEEN BENT UPON MAKING MORE THAN A FAIR PROFIT. In considering, the packers' profits, the fact must never be forgotten either that they are able to UTILIZE EVERY TART OF THE ANIMAL. It is esti mated that It costs about $9.60 or $10 per 100 pounds to "dress out" a steer that cost yesterday's top price in this market $7. This is a liberal estimate. By this it is meant that the packer ex pends $9.50 or $10 per 100 pounds in buying tho animal and preparing all its good parts for market. But In this estimate is not counted the liver, horns, bones, hides, etc. Both hearts and liver, which wero formerly given away, are now being sold to tho butch ers for 6 and 8 cents per pound, res pectively. Tho bones are converted into fertilizer. Hides sell for $6 per 100 pounds. The horns are sold to be made into knife handles and many other articles. 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