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The Commoner.
VOLUME 4, NUMBER 44
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"pHIS is the "Champion Boy" of tho State of Wash-
ington. Hia uarao is Harry Ireland. The smile on hlo
face is duo to the fact that he had in his pockot a check
for $25 from THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.
TAHIS $25 is in addition to the regular commission he
receives week after week for selling THE POST.
TTARRY is a hustler. The long strip of paper ho
holds in his hand is covered with closely written
signatures of people who have instructed him to
deliver THE POST for four consecutive weeks.
TIE PERSUADED several prominont business men
"A to sign at tho top of the sheet and their names
influenced othors to sign until tho list becamo longer
than he is tall.
nHIS is ono of the many ways wo have suggested
" to help boys to sell THE POST. It makes the
work so easy that thousands of boys have taken it up.
Some aro making $10 to $15 a week after school hours.
HVTOU can start in this business, at once, without
capital. Send us your name and wo will forward
10 free Copies, which you can sell at five conts each.
This will supply capital for the next week's ordef.
$300
IN CASH TO BOYS
Who Do Good Work
m AC H MONTH
The Curtis Publishing Company, 214 Arch Street, Philadelphia
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pleaded, and, if proved, should bar any
judgment or execution in their favor.
jEnormous c.s are their illegal accumu
lations, even the trusts must do some
"business on credit. Such an act as this
has been passed in Missouri, and, I be
lieve in Arkansas and Texas, and pos
sibly other states. In some states, not
ably in this, the trusts have been able
to defeat similar bills when introduced.
That the trusts should earnestly op
pose such legislation is conclusive an
swer to those who say tho law would
have done no good. The trusts may
bo trusted to know their own interests.
Whenever and wherever hereafter Buch
bills shall Introduced, if the matter
has been discussed Deforehand and
public opinion has been unmistakably
indicated, legislators will turn a deaf
ear to trust lobbyists, "charm they
ne'er so charmingly."
2.. This' state has passed a statute
that forbids any corporation chartered
in another to do business here until
such company has been rechartered in
this state and has become a North
Carolina corporation. Many other
states have passed a similar statute.
This has been held constitutional by
tho supreme court of this state, and
'similar acts have been sustained by tho
supreme court of the United States.
By its rigid enforcement every corpo-
Bright's Distast
Caused tho death of Doctor Bright. Bright's
Disoaso is simply slow congestion of tho Kid
neys. In tho last stair 0 tho congestion becomes
acuto nna the vlotim lives a few hours or a few manufacturer
(Intra Vmt- to nnef. anvintr TIVin lnol,llni.a K-J.l- I u"uul''UJ l. ,
noy trouble is caused by sluggish, torpid, con
gested livor and slow, constipated bowols,
whoroby tho kidneys are involved and ruined.
DraUo's Palmetto Wine is a foe to congestion
of Livor, Kidneys ex.1 tissues. It promptly re
lieves tho congestion and carries it out of tho
Liver, Kidneys, tissues und blood. Drake's
"Palmetto Wine restores tho mucous membranes
to healthy condition, relievos tho membranes
throughout tho body from Inflammation and
.Catarrh and cures Catarrh, Constipation and
Liver and Kidnoy disease to stay cured. It
ration doing business In this state
will be subject to state control and reg
ulation. If any of them are proved to
be trusts, or otherwise doing an ille
gal business, they can be wound up
and forced to cease their operations.
3. Another just measure is one re
cently put In force in Germany, by
which a graded tax is laid upon tha
earnings of corporations, the per cent
of taxation being proportioned to cross
earnings. This discourages very large
aggregations of capital and tends to give
small manufacturers and small dealers
an opportunity in the struggle for ex
istence. It is a just application of the
maxim, "the greatest good to the
greatest number," jvhlch must bo the
basis of all good government. It is
better far that we have a very large
number of prosperous, well-to-do citi
zens, with moderate incomes, than a
few multimillionaires "high rolling"
in London and New York, while the
masses of our people are struggling
for a bare living. A similar applica
tion of the German principle is the
graded inheritance tax and graded in
come tax in England, by which the
great fortunes aro heavily taxed, rais
ing in this mode about one-third of
the annual revenues of the British em
pire, while the small estates are lightly
taxed and those under a certain sum
are ontirelv,exempt.
4. And there is still a fourth measure
of relief. The trusts operate by un
derselling the small dealer and raising
tne price or raw material to tho small
and arter they are
elves relief immediately, builds up vigor and
health, prolongs lifo and makes it enjoyable, A
trial buttle always gives rollof and often cures.
A. trial bottle will bo sent to every reador of this
aper who will write for it to Drako Formula
Company, Drako Building. Chicago, 111. A postal
ard will bring this wonderful tonlo Palmetto
medicine to you absolutely free. It is a boon to
Uscase-ladcned, paln-riddcn men and women.
forced out the trust reduces tho price
to the producer and raises it tov the
consumer. This can do met by a stat
ute empowering the courts in such
cases to issue writs against any cor
poration that has thus reduced prices
of the manufactured article from again
raising them, and making an attempt
to do so a forfeiture of the charter,
provided a jury shall find that the re
duction was made for tho purpose of
destroying competition. As under the
out a charter therein, this would closo
out all such operations. Individuals
may reduce prices at will; but when
corporations created only by the state
use their powers against the public in
terest, it can bo made cause for with
drawing those powers.
Besides tho evils from trusts already
enumerated, these are further to' bd
considered:
(1) Under a normal and just condi-
tion of alfairs the greater profits of.
the producer of the raw material, ol
tho small manufacturer and small
dealer, and the sums saved to the con
sumers by the lower price to them
when there is competition all these
stay at home, and their accumulation
will make the state rich. Under trust
rule all these profits are accumulated
in a few hands and are steadily carried
off to the great money centers,,, to the
permanent impoverishment of the
country dis. icts.
(2) Tho owners of the vast accumu
lations of these illegal concerns, op
erating under the prohibition of both
state and federal statutes, require to
be protected? against the penalties de
nounced by those statutes. To that
end portions of the amounts illegally
levied upon the public by these modern
Dick Turpins are set aside for the pur
chase or control of newspapers, for do
nations to educational institutions
that shall indoctrinate our youth
with sentiments of the beauty and 110
llness of trusts and the liberality of
trust magnates and for the debauching
of elections and the manipulation of
legislatures and congress through "lob
bying" and other well-known and rep
rehensible methods. , They are thus,
truly cancers upon the body politic.
These and other evils are known to
everyone. They are liko the sun out
only in that none can fall to see them.
No one denies the existence of these
evils or apdogizes for them save those
who are employed by 'the trusts or who
are in some way favored or controlled
by them. Public opinion and public
interest aro against tnem but the
trusts survive and prosper exceedingly.
Yet the people can put an end to them
whenever they shall so will. Will they
do it? Shall it be said of our people,
as of the allied armies of 1814, "You
can do everyming, and you attempt
nothing"?
The British government or 1776 in
this country stood for plutocracy. The
whigs of that day, led by Washington,
Adams, Jefferson and others, stood for
a government of men, and conquered.
The trusts of this day are a revival of
the stories of 1776, and stand for gov
ernment by the moneyed classes. Are
we weaker than our forefathers? They
won the right of self-go vernment. for
us. Shall we lose it? Shall we permit
the true center of government to go
back to Threadneedlo street, In Lon
don, with Wall street, New York, as
edge of the real situation shall once
its American agent? When a knowl
get to the masses of this country there
can be but one answer.
Agitation and time are necessary to
reach the rank and file. Storms and
whirlwinds may agitate the surface of
the ocean, but the great depths are not
so easily moved. The heart of Pha
raoh was conquered only by great af--flictions.
The people will surely bo
moved by the greater oppressions- the
trusts are preparing to pile upon us.
Those oppressions will touch the hearts
and quicKen tho intelligence of the
masses as nothing else will. They will
be ready for decision, and when they
are tho bonds with which the trusts
have bound them will burst like tho
green withes that were laid upon Sam
son. Deliverance will come, but it can,
come only .from tho people themselves.
Labor Oratory
Tho workingman or today i3 a
thoughtful1 studont,not easily moved by
divine flashes that aim to stir tho in.
nermost parts of the heart. Decent
tion, often practiced by the sponla
neous orator of voluble tongue, ha3
taught the toiling masses that it i3
dangerous to surrender Individual
thought to others. The best interests
of the workingman demand a higher
grade of oratory, because industrial
problems are -proven to be the most
difficult to solve. Therefore, it re
quires constant study to obtain full
knowledge of tho conditions out of
which these problems come.
An address to be delivered before an
audience of workinsmen should be
thought on careful lines. An intern.
perate, thoughtless, irascible, irrespon.
sible address charged with misstate
ihent of fact brings forth evil results.
The heart should be full of the subject
to be presented on any occasion in
which the workingmen are interested.
The presentation or facts in a calm,
thoughtful manner impress the mind
with lasting effect; where passionate
flights of oratdry are superficial and
fade from the mind once out of reach
of the ring of the human voice. To
please the vanity is not sufficient to
arouse the mind to grasp the eternal
truth, in ignoring which the working
men have made some costly errors. In
order to avoid the same experience, tho
industrial problems require a profound
depth of thought, and words spoken to
right the wrongs of man should flow
from tho soul moved ey an inspiration
that exalts the mind with lofty pur
pose. The boisterous ranting of the crudo
labor orator is out of place and withers
before the wisdom of the new-day ora
tor of brigh1 ideas, with tho power to
lodge them in - fertile minds. It is
the quiet, thoughtful advocate with a
large fund of knowledge who finds the
way to move the untrained mind of
the workingman.
The intelligence of the latter-day
Subscribers1 Advertising: Department
A little thought, will convince Mt
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it. and only responsible articles. are
allowed to be advertised. Confidence
in the advertising management will
explain in large measure why ad
vertising in The Commoner is prov
able. The manager is in receipt 01
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statute referred to in the paragraph
numbered 1 above a corporation cannot
I do business in-a state without .taking J -Judge Walter Clark, in the Arena.
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