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??i"r-- '(miTrrwnmwiimtim9 pwp V r ., ., .: o The Commoner. .VOLUME 4, NUMBER it . ?"' use. jpWET VZmw B" JH I flr iff Wr Implement Prices Guaranteed toolsthe kind you like to Don't pay doublo prlcoa, when a postal will bring you our froo Implomont Cataiocuo No. 145, Junt off tho pross, completely iiiuatraune and descrlblntr all tho iaaI. i on a jm4r HaWo w"' u. .-!i ii.. . ' jirm m tested im "" ou "' -.aEfiX ' r,1-mn onch one do slcnod for a cortaln uso and cuaran teod to do what It is in tended for, as woll or better than any other similar make. Every implomont oclocted and approved bv Mr. F. L. Shaw, for eleven years Manacer of D. M.Osborn Implomont Com- " pany, now isupt. or ever KrowlnB Implemont and Vohlclo Division. Mr. Shaw bellovos that quality is more Important thanDrlcoandlnpro- Earlnc catalogue No. 145, has eon careful to select only tho finest and bast tool of each kind. Tho leading manufacturers of tho United Statos make our foods: come wo mako ourselves. Our Implements are In uso evorywhero, satisfying others, and we know thoy win sat Isfy you, Write at onco for our free cat atonia No, 14S, it Illustrates, describee and prices almost every kind of a farm tool or Implement known, from tho Midget 60c. corn shollor to tho well-known Banner Disc Harrow. Wo hayo stoel beam plows as low as $0.30. culti vators for $9.25, corn ahollerfor $4. 1 0, harrows at $8.75, gas on- Metal Wheels. Hay Tools All Kinds. MbhhIk or ni iff lira wb i t rrrr 1 CPpPC3 iacSVS.B ffaWrWWwiwJ 48 su Write M plnoa $74.50, all for 3k. Honestly made, cor- Prlcc, flHKlW rcc dsen and Vuuiuiuuuu lupienso. mi . - J . - , u ua auuu you a catalogue and you can see for yourself. You can look over tho entire lines, compare our prices ano uou iur yuuraou uiai wo can save you anywliere from 15 to 40 por cont.; cataloguo al30 gives contains order blanks and gives much doslrablo ininrm.lllnn. Tim .nrlnn nrllllnn Im ...... .. I.. Ask for Implement catalogue No. 145. Address Montgomery Ward & Co. 32 years World's Headquarters for Everything. Michigan Ave,, Madison and Washington Sto. : Chlcaifo DIRECT TO YOU SMMKff EM turera who nell jou on buimy at sixmo prloe doalarn pay by tho enr load. OurVHfttomMndo VohickA nro limit iroin uost niutorlrtl. Gaarnntood two yoora. Our X a B?f,auniB ouy Bom nt 10, HatlsfQotlon Ritarnntoed, Got our Ilhnrnl 30 DAVfi TRIAI Bnd fmlirllt ntT.IM llimnna. HI.....I.. ... t . , ?' '. "" ii-.';. 7.J-, 7 ";, 11 jiuoiii.omj.ih, iowohi prions. iFmtn?&V'.tgLJrone avinr Catalogue. U.S. UUUUY A OABT CO.,ll88l. Cincinnati, wim IBV ATjKaiu iaffiJftffiulST.Vn .DEATH TO HEAVES. unarutuu S UUftrAnlAMI .Kt BBS50K .'.; HKTVTON'S Hem, Congh, DIh te-por and Indlgettlun Cure. K Yttcrluarv bdcoiMo fur wind. V.hrot and itomaoU troubles. aironp recommend. 11.00 par cn. Uealert. Mall or Kx. paid. '1 ho No ton Itcnu-dy Co., Toledo. Ol.ln. Toledo, Ohio. $30 WEEKLY ff Poultry nnd Ktnek Knni StralRht salary and all cxponscn til 111BI1 with rn ti Inlniln.. roultty and Block Homodlos. fond for contract and now plan for Introduolnic romcdlos. Wo mean bust nosa and furnish boat of rororoncos. Dopt. II. U.ltoyal Co-op. MfB. Co., Iudlanapolls, Ind. "uyai True Importanco of Merger Case. Tho morger decision falls. into two divisions. The first , pronounces that the Northern Securities company was formed in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, and that this partic ular law is constitutional. Therefore th'o Northern Securities company must, in effect, xlissolvo Itself into its orig inal components. This is the loss im portant of the two natural divisions of the decision. The second division treats of the powers of congress to regulate inter state and foreign commerce. This is the more. important part, for the su preme court here seemingly declares that congress, in its, efforts to control trusts, may go not only as far as the Sherman law, but much farther. Manifestly this is tho nub of the decision. The Sherman law has not been an effectual barrier to tho forma; tion of trusts. But congress may now devise somo broader, stronger meth od to control them. The decision of tho court Is: "That congress has the power to establish rules by which interstate and international commerce shall be governed." This commerce which congress may "establish rules" to "govern" includes not merely "railroad carriers,," but "combinations even among private manufacturers or dealers." jurieiiy summarized, therefore, that decision gives more power to the fed eral elbow to deal with all corpora tions which do business outside the limits of their own states. And the crnnr nirHm'Irv iP In rem nnnwiflnnB do business outsido the limits o their own statos. Tho Sherman law, in effect, sought to deal with the trusts by preventing them by legislating that two compet ing concerns should not, by coalescing, ceaso to compete. But since the passage of the Sherman law there has been a great change in politico-economical thought. Nowadays competi tion la not t.hn fntlnli wlilol. if nnr was. Many people who formerly be lieved in Adam Smith's theory of un restricted competition have of late years changed their minds. They say combination is an economic advantage to tho combines, and that therefore combinations are inevitable, law or no law; that combinations will cease only when thoy cease to be economic ally advantageous; and when that time comes laws to check them will be superfluous. At all events, whether the views of the; now school are sound or unsound it is evident that tho Sherman law has not checked the formation of hun dreds of trusts, many of them finan cially rotten, and the majority to bo ogally described as "in restraint of trade." Even tho Northern Securi ties case won under the Sherman law yiu uuvc uo practical effect as far as a reduction of fares or freight tariffs goes. Tho Great Northern and North ern x-uwiic aro owned by the same people as before tho decision. These owners aro now informed that they cannot maintain tho convenient de vice known as the Northern Securi ties company to check competition bo tweon them. The stockholders of the two roads will promptly resort to some other device to check competi tion, Time will quickly show that when two companies do not wish to them th Sheman act canaot make . But in upholding the Sherman law m itself a feeble thing, tho supreme court has indicatoi tw '1Itme onact a series of bToaT sweepTnl comprehensive, and effective laws to check and control the power oT th? gigantic, dangerously powerful trusts Congress may enforce fun m bHni7S' possibly it may fequlro copwmtlojs doing an interstate or foreign w. ness to take out federal instefS of or" as woll as, state charters it mav th? position as AC preseit nnme COm probably uphold sucU laws "' WUld American -corporations have wirip ly outgrown state bounds Sif, , out a charter in New Jersey1 anc PdS business all over tho coi mSv 2 ? an arrangement Is anS, ffh merger decision is an Si . TI;e cause it tends to niter t,rtant l3e" ment and to ostiblls n nrrango over what aro In effect "S??1 C?ntro1 porations.--ChicagoffT.bSne naICr- Wecshington News. The United States supreme court holds that persons traveling on rail roads are not entitled to recover dam ages in case of accident when they ride on passes. The case decided was that of John D. Boering and his wife, Mearling Boering, against tho Chesa peake Beach Railroad company. Mrs. Boerine was in.iured in an accident on tho road while traveling on a pass is sued to herself and her husband, con taining the usual stipulation of ex emption from damage. It was urged that she had not been made aware of tho stipulation, and that even if not liable on general-principles, tho com pany must be so on account of her ignorance. The court did not accept this view. Senator Frye has introduced a bill similar to the one introduced by speaker Cannon in the house, pro viding for tho incorporation of the Carnegie institution at Washington. The president has accepted the res ignation of former Governor W. E. Stanley as a member of the Dawes Indian commission. ' An Associated press dispatch says: The supreme court of the United States, in an opinion by Justice Brown, affirmed the finding of the court or claims in tne case or unarles Gagnon against the United States and the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, an Indian depredation case, involving the question as to whether a common law court has jurisdiction to enter a judg ment of naturalization in a case in which it is alleged that naturalization papers had been granted thirty-throe years ago, but of which no record re mained. The point was decided in the negative. Gagnon, claiming to have lost his naturalization papers, applied to the district court in Richardson county, Nebraska, where he claimed to have been naturalized in 1863, to declare him n "nnfiivnii.fwi ?m!. This tho court did, notwithstanding no record of the former proceeding was found. The court held this pro cess to be irregular and refused to allow the claim. The senate invPRffimfir., -,.u.j.. has completed the Dietrich case aud will soon make its report. It is said that the report will give Senator Diet rich a clean bill. Congressman Charles W Thomson of Alabama died at Washington? TrS"?ij;tea press disPatch says. The interstate commerce commission announced its rWidnn tl u" . sslon the Cattle Raisers' ass Tat on o .voSaSQfCOmpla,nant' and th Chicago Live Stock exchange, intervennV against the Burlington and other 1 a ' road P.Omnnnloc -.-iJ . x, UlG laI1- association fo- damages "7 , he the procedure tc , m'o$ iTZ mSsiLrei)tlcn ttKionc5S: mKelio and the what territory the thpoSS Vhw to tion of 1896 app fed an f if reduc that there .was tlvrUnl if t aPPears reduction has hZ, Zy which such wm be allowed to JT' ,defendants tions mayScanM 8,,nce con(Il the making Jt te oS?nU?b8e?uent to the through mtTivoml Z' that reasonable and w hat ftortopy is tUe addi ion of ft? withstanding of2Porcar!nOhkn0s,2l,naI caaP68 the United States is in preparation The existing treaty, which was made by Secretary Gresham and Minister Wu. in 1894, will expire next Decem ber by limitation. Because the admin istration of the Chinese-exclusion act is now confined to the department or commerce arid labor, it has been nec essary for Secretary Hay to call upon Secretary Cortelyou to assist In tho formation oflhe new treaty. Secre tarv Cortclvnii will ripni -nrifi, n. v- .... v.w.1 UAH I11UJ3U sections of the treaty which practical ly prescribe the regulations that shail govern the admission of Chinese of tho higher class and the exclusion of coolies. Secretary Hay will take care of the diplomatic sections to the treaty. "While much reticence is ob served at present as to the lines upon which the new cpnvention is being formed, there is reason to believe that" it will be more liberal in treatment of Chinese wishing to enter the United States, when they are not actually of the. coolie class, than tho existing treaty. There also may be made pro vision for the entry of Chinese labor ers into the Panama canal strip, though this is not certain. An at- temDt alSO Iins llOPn mnrln :t of this opportunity to make more ex- fpncivo non ft nut i. . . .. tTiTii , L "luse moor in tho Philippines. The postal appropriation bill was amended to provide that no part of the appropriation for carrying the ihans should be used for the rental of'cais which have been in service for more than fifteen years. Don't Scold. Irritability is a riervous affection. Strengthen the nerves with Dr. Miles' Nervine. Sleep better, eat better, work better, feel better, and be better. Bold on guarantee. Book on norvoa for postal, Du.1VIiles 'Medical Co.. Elkhart, Ind Subscribers' Advertising Department A HttlA fliniifrhf mill .. ., . this department of The Commoner of fers superior advantages to those who Sinn,?- ?eCln P11' Only Com moner subscribers are allowed to use allnwnrt ?!? resPnslhle articles are allowed to be advertised. 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