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The Commoner.
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"Hold on!" porsistcd the othor, "We'll
call an ambulance." Underhlll punched
tho persistent man In tne face. Wit
nesses who had seen tho fall pinched
themselves. Policeman McManus per
suaded Un dork 11 to wait for an am
lmlnncG. When Dr. Johnson, of Roose
velt hospital, came ho said the only
injury was a couple of broken ribs,
and advised Underbill to go home.
"Not on yer life," said Underbill. "I've
got work to do. You peoplo go away
and let me alone." And tho wonder
ing spectators saw him climb back
to tho sixth story -nd' begin laying
bricks.
Missouri and the New York Life
Representative Grosvenor of Ohio
ventures an opinion -that there will be
no "tampering" with the tariff.
President McCurdy of tho Mutual
Life Insurance) company says that
under no circumstances will he resign.
- The Nebraska supreme court has
sustained the anti-cigarette law; also
tho inheritance tax law. The court
also, dolivered nn opinion sustaining
tho law prohibiting the use or tne nag
in advertisements, m the particular
case under discuss'on, tho Hag was
used as a trade mark on bottled beer
and this mark must be abandoned.
Former
son died
Congressman
October 23.
Jerry Simp-
Secretaries Shaw
listed in tho Ohio
-id Taft have
campaign.
en-
Governor Folk of Missouri willtako
part in the Ohio campaign. He will
make a threo days' tour of Ohio, No
vember 2, 3 and 4. The governor's
itinerary will be announced later.
The stato board of
Jiesbta has issued a
ding tho employment
any person suffering
sis, and debarring children suffering
from that disease from admission to
the schools.
health for Mill:
circular forbid
as a teacher of
from tuberculo-
Congressman Landis of Indiana and
chairman of the sub-committee of tho
congressional printing investigating
committee, says thai one million dol
lars a year may easily be saved on
tho public printing bill.
The Nebraska supreme court, In an
opinion delivered by Commissioner
Alberts, has decided tnat the officers
and directors of a national bank arc
personally liable for false reports
made and published oy them, and that
it is no defense that such false re
ports were made and published by
the officers ofvthe bunk without the
knowledge of their falsity. In the
cases under consideration judgment
against tho officers or a certain bank
amounting to $40,000 was affirmed.
W. H. Vandlvor, ' Missouri's state
superintendent of insurance, has sent
to John A. McCall, president of the
New York Life Insurance company
the following letter:
"The recent startling disclosures
in regard to the management of tho
funds of the New York Life Insur
ance company, and particularly the
testimony of yourself and other offi
cers of tho company given before tho
investigation committee of tho New
York legislature, make it my duty as
superintendent of insurance for the
state of Missouri to communicate to
your company tho views and require
ments of this department to the end
that the policyholders tin this state
may not be defrauded of any portion
of the dividends or surplus earnings
that are justly due them on, the prem
iums that they haVe paid.
"The public has been very properly
taught by yourself and other officials
of great Insurance companies that the
funds of the mutual company consti
tute a fiduciary trust, held and ad
ministered for the use of those named
as beneficiaries, many of whom are,
or will be, widows and orphans; and
many thousands of people have taken
insurance in your company because
or this very fact and the assurance
that every dollar of assets belongs to
the policyholders. That any portion
of the 'policyholders' premiums or
profits on premiums could be diverteds
to political purposes, or other uses not
contemplated when tho premiums
wero paid in and not consistent with
the avowed purpose of a life insur
ance organization must be considered
hy all right-thinking people as gross
violation or a sacred trust, if not em
bezzlement as defined by the statutes.
that all moneys taken by your order
from the treasury of the New York
Life Insurance cdmpany and donated
to any political committee, campaign
fund, or legislative agent, or lobbyist
for aiding or in defeating legislation,
whether audited or unaudited on tho
hooks of the company, iwere taken
without warrant of law or morals, and
without proper appreciation of your
responsibilities as trustee of the
funds committed to your keeping.
And, therefore, this department must
insist that all funds so used by you
or by your order, and particularly
the sum of $148,702, -which amount
confess to having contributed
you
out
the
r.nmmtttflGR for the years 1896, 1900
and 1904, must bo replaced in the
treasury of said New York Life In-
niiVnnnft nnmminv within the next
j thirty days.
"Notice is hereby served upon tne
New York Life Insurance company,
through you as its president, that un
lesB this requirement is met or as
suranco is given that it will be met
without unnecessary delay, I, as su
perintendent of insurance for the
state of Missouri, will proceed under
the provisions of section 8022, Re
vised Statutes of Missouri, to cancel
or revoke the license of the company
to do business in this state.
"There are many other transactions
disclosed by the investigation now in
progress, particularly the payments
of large sums of money to one Judge
Hamilton, without any accounting or
auditing on the books of the company
and the occupancy of costly real es
tate of the company by members of
your family, and at a rental so low
as to be practically a gift of the prop
erty, and also tho protection of a
subsidiary company from the loss of
many thousands of dollars hy the use
of policyholders1: money, as well as
tne immense and disproportionate ex
pense of the company in its mad rush
for new business; all of which indi
cate the grossest impropriety and the
recklessness in management, and may
call for further investigation and offi
cial report.
"But from, .the facts already dis
closed, it is evident the intent of the
policyholders of the New York Life
Insurance company, as well aa the
public generally, is to demand a
change in the management of the
company. This department will
therefore, insist that a new president
and vice president and finance' com
mittee be put in charge of the affairs
of the company as soon as its board"
of directors may be able to effect the
change."
Mr. ' Vandiver has given tho attor
neys for the Life company thirty days
in which to show cause why the com-1 railroad
pany should not be expelled from Mis
souri. Attorney Judson representing
tho New York Life claims that the
insurance commissioner has no au
thority to bar a company from' a state
on the grounds that Mr. Vandiver has
chosen to expel the New York Life,
Mr. Judson claims that unless the in
surance commissioner can show that
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ttr rllf ahtrrlrio lilll.. -.i
0 wi. uuijius uiiio mm payine tho
double rate per cwt. All tho comii
tions in this and similar o(vos mCiJ
establish the belief that tin InrteneJ
ent'fl freight money was n.-.iu Z to
the Standard Oil comply (iirl;
or Indirectly, as they appr ,r to I Hi
and pay for 80 many barrels at car
lot rates no matter who owns hl
various lots making up th. oar' load
The independent making this state!
ment to me is a thoroughly reliable
man, and I regret that I am not per
mitted to name the towi, 1)arue3
and railroad referred to. Rut tho ian.
road agent dare not give ; copy of
the Standard bill of lading for fear
vf. losing ins 300, anu tne lung suffer
ing Independent oil dealer cummonly
called "independent" says if he made
a signed statement it would di privo
him of his little oil business, front
which he supports his faniih
Oil refiners and dealers have long
known that the freight rates ve ex
tortionate, particularly on lo. than
car lots. Not long since I billed a
half a car as a full car, and me ship
ping bill came back reducing the
small rate so I would not repeat an
act exposing the injustice of the
overcharge on small shipments as
compared -with car rates. The open
rates on oil to those who Ret poor
service and no rebates, advances
from year to year by land and water
routes while rates on other commo
dities decline, and the very man who
suffers most from the injustice and
criminality of the "common carriers"
dare not expose the crime "lest he
lose oven- that he hath" in the way of
business or livelihood.
ol the f una of tho company to tne company is insolvent he has no
republican national campaign I power to act.
Contrast freight and express serv
ice with pur postal department, and
none but the exploiters can oppose
public ownership and management of
transportation lines, giving equal
rights and services to all. Nearly
twenty years of the defeat and in
operation of'tlu interstate commerce
law gives little hope of the much
talked of "square deal" ever coming
to the people until our governments,
state and national, make it as safe
for' its citizens to name men and
system violating tne hto,
human and divine, as u now
is for one to expose a rogue u
the postal department. The people
deplore unjust tax burdens and grieve
ovor the- misappropriations and lar
cenies of our much trusted insurance
officials of the '.'national honor kind.
Ttnh frrAfi.tnr ami more fundamental
, oir nf iPA abuses we
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A Very Interesting Study in Oil
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Cannot Rest
Your nppetlto la gone. "What littlo you
cat distresses you. Strength is falling
aro bilious. You have headache, back
ache, fool bluo and melancholy and can
not rest or sleep. Tho fact Is your nerves
aro unstrung, and you aro on tho verge
of norvous prostration. Thoy must bo
strengthened, renewed. TheywlU not euro
thomsolves, but must havo a uorva rom
qdy. This you will find in
Dr. Miles' Nervine
It is prepared for just such ailments,
and is a never-failing remedy, because it
soothes, feeds and builds tho nerves back
to health.
If allowed to continue stomach, kidney
and liver troubles will sOOn be added to
your already overflowing measure of
misery.
. "I suffered from nervous prostration.
"When I begm taking Pr. Miles' Norvlno
I couldn't hold anything in my hands, nor
get from one room to unothor. Now I do
all my own work."
MRS 0HAS. LANDRUlVt, Carthngo, Mo.
Nervine seldom falls to do all wo claim
for it, and so we authorize druggist to ro
tund money if first lottlo does not benefit.
"How the Standard Has "Reformed"
A few months ago an independent
oil dealer in a large town shipped a
half a car of "oil (thirty barrels) over
one of the great western railroads.
The freight rate to the little town
of Blank was 14 cents per cwt. in
car loads of not less than sixty bar
rels per car, and '26 cents per cwt.
if shipped in quantity less than car
loads. The various railroad lines and
systems all talk about competitive
business, but of course make rates
the same to all so-called competitive
points, and most roads have discov
ered the great advantage of receiv
ing and shipping petroleum oils in
less than car lots only one day in
the week. But at some points east
and west the railroads receive and
ship these oils two days per week in
stead of one.
Now to the little town of Blank the
independent of our story -was the
only oil shipper hesldos tho Standard
Oil company, and he arrived at the
unloading point tho same day his
thirty barrels were being taken from
tho car, and he objected to the rough
way his oil was being handled, and
of the
lines.
in knowi
ng men "v
told the freight handler' to be care
ful or they would make the barrels
leak, and he was asked if he was a
Standard manv and he told them no,
but he owned the oil they were un
loading. The railroad agent disputed
him and said that the car of oil was
shipped by tho Standard Oil com
pany to the Standard Oil company,
and showed Mr. Independent the ship
ping bill, proving the independent to
be a mere pretender. Whdn he asked
for a copy of the shipping bill, he
was told that he could not have it,
that the railroad agent would lose
his job if he did such a 4,hing. The
independent had long been forced to
ship his oils by numbers on the har
rels and without stencil marks in or
der to thwart tho Standard spies as
much as possible in tracing his
goods and' harrassing his customers.
But here and now the independent
discovered another of the magic arts
of tho Standard in shipping his oil
with their own in car lots at half the
(apparently open) rate that he paid.
Of course he paid double price on his
thirty barrels, and wont through tho
mental and physical exercise o mak-
suffer
our in
dustrial liberties by denying tho right
to equal and just treatment
nublic by all .transporiauuu
The people are gaining
1...1. .-. on vfttiirllv a
cage, uuu n .. "i"--f - ,,. ATr.
pressors are gaining m vy V"
Lawson has rendered a grent e g
to the public by exposing 1 e Stona
ard 611, amalgamated politlcal-insur
ance-moneyed combine he lw so np
proVlately called ''The Sys un. .J
his example and advice foi'iiei
to follow in sticking to S
to buy ngnt ami .- b.
to out-gamuiv .",,
the SPeruui -
other words,
i on1 rmf-.an.Pnil nte inv ..,i
11310 U."V v,v w, ----- , ., flUU
in buving and selling wiuu- - ief
water-logged stocks, gives o
for our troubles. Our ;
come, if at all, hy "i J the peo
patriotic, political action o. tne
pie. Every day that pa.- .
how the people had the I ni " tJf
portation and money 1ri;71 lte trust
outnumbered in 1896, so th,
funds were secretly turned nf
their owners in the campaign m
and boodle under the cry of n and
honor" when private -- ictory,
privilege turned defeat i: " at.
Wo want no two-faced dee-1 ; mi
forins: Give. us plain dec.. ,,
public ownership of pur ji and
taxation and direct loeM IeC.
the people will -then triumph
tion day. jl B- C
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