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tft i vmwn ijwjpw - .v;wigttss!jrtf"' ' ""W The Commoner. FBBHUABY 27, 1003. ii WHERE THE TRUSTS BUILD NESTS FW- If any serious action ia to bo taken against the trusts, dear fellow citi zens, the action will have to be taken pretty, soon. Please believe that be fore many years shall have passed the man who advocates interfering with the truBts and their reciiless operations vWill be looked down upon as a dangerous agitator and an enemy ' of property. Today the average citizen is in fav or of curbing the trusts, of attacking them through the tariff, or taxing them, of worrying them into decency. Bdeaiise, today; it is understood that a few powerful trust builders own the trusts, collect' the trust profits, and that any trust regulation will be at the expense of these few very rich men. Buti very' rapidly indeed, and very t intelligently, these" big trust men are putting themselves' in a safe and strong position. They know the American citizen Very well, and they know that out of a hundred citizens in this age. of com petition, and of anxiety for the fu ture, at least 80 per cent think with ' their pockets. The trusts are estab lishing for themselves millions of lit tle footholds in millions of American pockets. And you will find it very hard 'indeed to interfere with the trusts when these millions of American pock ets shall begin- thinking and sym pathizing along trust lines. The steel trust issues about fifteen hundred millions of securities. Of this,, some five hundred millions in ' bonds represent what the property cost These five hundred millions of .bonds.. are-.carefuly held. .by Mr. Car negie, who has two hundred millions of them, or more, and by the other 'wise ones. The thousand million dollars of oth er steel securities will soon be lo cated in the pocuets of the people. As rapidly as can be managed, the great trust mon are selling their stock in small parcels to the citizens of the country. In live years from now the stock of the steel trust, and of many other big trusts will be owned by forty or fifty millions of the country's inhabitants. The small citizen who has saved a few hundred dollars will have the money in steel, or sugar, or railroad) or tele phone trust stocks. Then, when a trust is hurt and Its stocks go down there will come a roar from the hundreds of thousands of small stockholders. When the trust shall have distri buted their holdings among the voting pockets of the nation, their squeez ing of the public will mean a little more interest on their stocks. And this little more interest will make the individual stockholders forget that it represents extortion and an increase in the price of the necessaries of life for all their fellow citizens. Among those who how own steel stock, even a very little, how many do you think are more interested in the rights of the people than in the price of their stock? Each man who has a little money influences a certain number of other men, his sons, or poor relatives, or employes. You all knbw that if a man today says or does anything that seems to threaten the savings banks he com mits political suicide. The average man who has ninety dollars in the savings bank thinks more of that ninety dollars than he does of the Declaration of Independence, the Old and New Testaments and eternal sal vation all rolled into one. New York Evening Journal. Imports and Exports for Eleven Months. The treasury statement on bur for eign trade for the eleven months end ing with November shows that the tendency toward an increase of im ports and a decrease of exports has been constant For the single month of November the imports amounted to $85,390,776 in 1902, as against ?72, 566,307 in 1901, the exports to $125,- KNOWS NO DISTINCTION Rich and Poor Alike Suffer From Ca tarrhinThls Climate. All obsoryant physicians hnvo noticed the enor.mo.ns incroaso in catarrhal disrates in ro oent years, and tbo mont liberal unri pnlight cnad'havi cheorJnlly given their approval to the new internal remedy, Stuart's Catarrh TabW-ts. aa tho most successful and by far the safrat rimedy for'cotaTrh yet produced. Onn woll-known catarrh spocinliBt. as soon as ho had mado a thorough tost of this prepara tion, discarded inhalers, washes and sprays and now depends entirely upon Stuart's Catarrh Tablets In treating catarrh, whether in the bond, throat or stomach. Dr. Hisdellsoys, "In patients who had lost the eense of smell entirely and even where the hear ing ha bpgun to bo affectod from Catarrh, I hav had flno results after only a few wenks' nt-o of btuart's Catarrh 1 ablets. I can only ex plain thoir action on the theory that the c caus ing and antisontic properties of tbo tabh'ts do Btroy the catarrhal gorms wherever found ho cause I huve found tho tablets equally valuable iu catarrh of tho throat and stomach as in nasal catarrh," Dr. Esfnbrooksays: "Stuart's Catarrh Tablets are especially useful in nasal catarrh and ca tarrh of tho throat, clearing tho membranes of mucus and speedily overcoming the hawking, coughing andexpoctorating." Any sufferer from catarrh will find Ptnart'a Catarrh Tablets will givo immediate relief and being in tablet form and pleasant to the taste, are convenient and always roady for nso as they can be carried in the pocket and used at any time as they coutain no poisonous drugs, but only tho cleansing, antiseptic properties of Eu calyptus bark, blood root and HydrasMn. All druggists sell the tablets at CO cents for template troatment. 221,151, as against $136,455,639. For the eleven months the totals were: Imports, 1902, $874,965,557; 1901, $800, 490.639. Exports, 1902, $1,212,710,063; 1901, $1,328,434,321. These last fig ures include both foreign and domes tic exports, the former amounting to about twenty-five millions in each year. Tho imports decreased in articles of food and animals from $203,450,307 to $193,133,017, the principal increases be ing indicated by a statement of sev eral items of importation as follows:. 1901. 1902. Crude articles for .use in manufacture $274,371,753 $318,110,083 Other articles for use in manufacture.. 79,071,892 89,493,516 Manufactured ready for con sumption ... 126,078,624 149,611,848 On the export side there was a fall ing off in agriculture from $844,987, 224 to $715,771,314 in 1902,- while other decreases were, comparatively speak ing, insignificant The exports of manufactures increased from $363,240, 57C in 1901 to $377,635,961 in 1902. It will be observed that the latter figure is more than half that for the agrlcul turla exports, and it represents an enormous growth of recent years. Through that growth the country has taken rank in the world's markets as a great manufacturing nation. What is called the favorable balance declined between the two years by some two hundred millions, but it is still more than three hundred mil lions, so that we must still be ex pending largo sums In tho invisible ac count to keep the exchange going. The figure is lower now, however, than it has been since 1897. Chicago Record-Herald (rep.). P fc 400,000 FARMERS SCATTERED ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE FINDING A De Lavai Cream Separator the best investment they ever made in dairying. Might not this be true with yoiTtoo? Let the nearest local agent bring you a machine to see and try for yourself. f That is hfs business. This will cost you nothing. It may save you a great deal. If you don't know the agent send for his name and address and a catalogue. The Do Laval Separator Go. riANDOLPH & Canal Sts. CHICAGO. General Offices: 327 VOUVILLC SO,, MONTREAL bI?. VHF27 Z7T.Kr 7 Cortlandt Street, to a. 77 vonn stukt. PHILADELPHIA. ..... , , TORONTO. IMC.W TUHI. 217-221 DnUMM 8r. SAN FRAftClSCO 24a McOcnMOT Avenue, WiNNfPEQ. Dot Gsod-for-Notliing Dog. You vant to buy my dog? Ah, veil, Dere vasn't much of him to sell. His eye vas broke, his leg vas out, Mid nodings else to brag about; Und ven you ask his pedigree, Dot make der laugh come out 0' me It vas a madder, I be blamed, About der vich ho vas ashamed. His breed vasn't in der catalogue, He vas a good for nodings dog. It vas a day I don't forgot, Mit rain und sleet und dings like dot, Dis homely dog ho corned along Und sing me such a hungry song I said: "Come in und take a seat Und have some scraps und tings to eat!" I smile mit him, he smile mit mo, Und look like he vas glad to be, Although not in der catalogue, But yust a good for nodings dog. Each time I come around, you bet He vag dot tail already yet; Und show me plain from either end, He always vant to be my friend. 1 No madder I say yes! or no! Where'er I gone he bound to go. Und ven he lost me, rund around Und smells me out upon dr ground, Den yumps yust like he vj a frog Und not a good for nodings dog. My Meenie vas a leedle to,t, Yust big enough to bo like dot; Und run about und have some play Yust mit der dog, until von day I call her, und she vasn't dere; I couldn't find her anyvere; "Dot dog gone off," my vife, she say, "Und lead dot leedle girl away Ho vas a good for nodings dog,. Und vasn't vorth der catalogue!" My leedle Meenie I03U Mine Got! I never tink I cry like dot! But ven I found dot leedle pet, I cry mo more as effer yet Dot's funny, ven a man feels glad He cries, yust like ven ho feols bad; Der tears vas ynst der same; .oh, my, But vat a difference in der cry! -Dere Meenie sat upon dor log Und pet dot good for nodings dog. Und ven my senses all got clear, I ask me: "Vot's der matter here?" Und looking vere my Meenie said, Dere lay a great big vildcat dead! "Dot dog he killed him," said my vife, "Und safe dot leedle Meenie's life!' I never saw her eyes more vet, Und vile I hug dot leedle pet She hug dot, good for nodings dog, Vot vasn't vorth der catalogue! You vant to buy dot dog? Ah, veil, Nobody's here who vants to sell. My vife she say, "You couldn't buy Von look of kindness oud his eye!" Und as for me dere's not for sale, Not e'en der vaggin' of his tail! Und Meonie told you plendy quick, "In all dis vorld you got your pick Of dose vot's in der catalogue, But not dot good for nodings dog." Fred Emerson Brooks. Hope He'll Succeed. . "Ho alms to be a great reformer, to do more than any one man has ever done to stop the use of profane lan guage." "How does he hope to do it? By preaching?" "Preaching? No; he is trying to in vent a non-losable collar button." The Combination OH Cure for Cancer. Was originated and perfected by Dr. D. AT. Bye. It iu sdothing and balmy and gives rollof from unconsing paiu. It has cared more cases than all other treatments combined. Those in terested, who deslro free books tolling about tho treatment, save time and expenso byad dressing the Homo Office. DH. D. M, BYJE CO. P, O. Drawer 505. 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