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FEBRUARY 9, 190S
The Commoner.
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the initiatory steps to acquire the
Berlin Street Railway company, which
has practically a monopoly of the
street railroads of Berlin and its
Suburbs, and to operate roads upon
the joint account of the municipalities.
The company has a capital of
?25,000,000."
Mr. Tillman has introduced in the
senate a resolution asking the com
mittee on immigration to investigate
the effects of the Chinese boycott of
American goods.
Governor Pattison of Ohio is ill and
his friends are considerably worried.
The Standard Oil company an
nounces that it will withdraw from
the state of Illinois because of threat
ened suits against it.
It is reported that District Attorney
Jerome Is contemplating proceedings
against Justice Deuel and Editor
Mann, a result of the disclosures in
the recent Hapgood libel caae.
A Washington dispatch to the Chi
cage Record-Herald follows: "While
senators and representatives who are
under railroad influence speak of the
Gillespie resolution, passed by the
Iiouse calling for information regard
ing the Pennsylvania railroad com
bination, as trifling and unimportant,
signs are not wanting here of a com
ing4 anti-trust upheavel. It is expected
it will be similar to the one which oc
curred at the time President Rooser
velt ordered Attorney General Knox
to proceed against the Northern Se
curities merger. The Gillespie reso
' lution Was delivered at the White
House early this morning, and the
president at once communicated with
the interstate commerce commission
and instructed it to send to the house
all of , the information it had hearing
upon ttie- matter. .'-Attorney General
Moody has done nothing whatever in
the way of investigating this combina
tion, alleged, to be in restraint of
trade. There are members of the
house who declare that if the informa
tion furnished is proof of the allega
tions made by Mr. Gillespie, a resolu
tion, will be introduced either direct
ing the attorney general to proceed
with an inquiry or providing for an
investigation by a house committee.
It is believed that duch a resolution
would pass by as large a vote as that
whiqh carried Mr. Gillespie's resolu
tion through. It is understood also
that President Roosevelt does not
want any agitation at this, time of the
Pennsylvania combination. He ad
mitted in his message that the North
ern m Securities suit had wrought no
economic change. He has been told
a great many times and by many
persons that it would cause a panic
if he proceeded against such a com
bination and forced the .companies
back Into their original organizations.
For that reason the president has not
proceeded against either the Penn
sylvania or the New York, New Haven
and Hartford, both of which have ac
quired competing lines."
WHETHER COMMON OR NOT
(Continued from Page 10)
friends friends who would do to tie
to, and were friends In all kinds of
wind and weather.
A Lincoln Story
If Abraham Lincoln told all of the
stories attributed to him he must have
been born talking and kept it up twenty-four
hours a day as long as he lived.
And if he split all the rails attributed
to his beetle and wedge he must have
worked at it twenty-four hours a day
from the time he could walk until
he started to Washington. And apro
pos of his rail splitting here is a lit-
Uncle John Eymjin of Macon county,
Illinois, knew Lincoln' when nhe lat
ter lived in that county, and" oftea
worked with him in the woods on the
Sangamon bottoms.
"Abe could split rails, all right,"
said Uncle John, "but ho .liked a
whole lot better to sit on the stumpB
and do the talking while the rest of
us done the splitting. One day, after
splitting an unusually tough log, Abo
set down on a stump, wiped the sweat '
off'n his face and said to me, says
he:
" 'John, did you ever think about
trees being like human characters?'
" 'No, I never did, Abe.'
"Well, they are, John. See that
big hickory over there. It took three
hundred years to .grow, maybe. And
yet I can cut it down In a few licks
of my ax. An' a man can live upright I
and honest and do. the best he can for. I
fifty or sixty years, an' along comes
some fellow an' with a few motions
of his tongue can fell that good man's
character an- split It all up in little
bits.'"
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Brain Leaks
When, a man dodges the sheriff be
tween charitable donations we have a
right to suspect that thf money he
gives is earned by crooked schemes.
A real Christian" is never exclusive.
A man who depends on tips usually
feels tough. T
The little worries of life make the
great troubles.
The interested workman seldom
complains of his taBR. .
A man can not reach and keep high
place by low actions.
There is a difference between sav
ing money and money saving.
A clean heart and a foul tongue
"are never found in the same man.
- A lot of men who are always prat
ing about justice really want mercy.
Some men are to be, congratulated
on never becoming acquainted with
themselves.
Most of us declare that wo do net
like flattery, and then by our actions
prove that we are fond of It.
Just about the time a man gets
comfortably' fixed-in his favorite chair
with the evening newspaper, his wife
thinks of what some caller told her
during the day.
The ' trouble about accumulating
money is that just about the time a
man begins to get" somewhere near
what he wants he dies and is com
pelled to give it all up.
Solomon is said to have had 300
wives, but no reference is made to
the children. Perhaps Solomon made
his reputation for wisdom by not try
ing to answer the questions of his
youngsters.
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