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The Commoner.
FBBHUABY 27, 1003.
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WHERE THE TRUSTS BUILD NESTS
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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.).
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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
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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."
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