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The Commoner.
VOLUME 7. NUMBER 5J
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Governor Sparks of Nevada has
called an extra session of the legis
lature for the purpose of considering
the Goldfield strike, President
Roosevelt has permitted the federal
troops to remain.
Dr. Nicholas Sehn, one of the
world's famous surgeons, died at his
home in Chicago.
James B. Stowe, who from 1897
to 1901 was consul general to South
Africa, died at his home in Kansas
City.
Chief Justice John B. Cassaday, of
the Wisconsin supreme court, is dead.
Former Governor Lanham is ill at
his Texas home.
was knocked senseless by a robber
last night in front of her home, 1337
L street, Northwest. Her pocket
book was stolen. Miss Tyler had
been to the Louise Home for Aged
Southern Gentlewomen, where her
aunt, Mrs. Letitla Tyler Semple, a
daughter of President Tyler, had
died a few hours before. She was
ascending tle steps of her residence
when the robber attacked her."
-Application for the appointment of
a-receiver for the Seaboard Airline
was made to the federal court at
Richmond, Va.
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This dispatch from Oklahoma City
was carried December 30 by the As
sociated Press: "Twenty-three hun
dred barrels of beer, valuedat $17,
500, belonging to the New State
brewery, was today. poured into the
sewers of this city by United States
Internal Revenue ..Collector CharleV
Howard. The brew was completed
after Oklahoma became a state. The
state authorities would not permit
its sale and shipment from the
state."
A Kansas City dispatch" carried by
the Associated Press follows; "Kan
sas for Christ" is to be the slogan in
a statewide evangelistic campaign
that is to be. pushed simultaneously
in every county of the sunflower
state next year. Hundreds of min
isters from various denominations,
together with numerous evangelists,
are .to hold reyivals. An entire year
will be spent in the movement and
an effort is to be made to demon
strate to the whole country what may
be accomplished in concerted relig
ious work carried forward on strictly
business' lines. The great revival is
$$$ under the direct leadership of
KKevv William Eflwnni Tnri.o.n
& -who planned it." '
The following appeared as a news
paper despatch under date of Wash
ington, December 29: "Miss Letitia
Tyler, sixty years old, a clerk in the
navy department and a grand
daughter of President. John Tyler
Two Ways
rHolY9 you, noticed a difficulty in
breathing short, quiqk breathwlion
Y2 a walkIn&. !?oln up staiVs, Jinff"
fe otLnhaTihiSaL f Ut
Take Dr. Miles' New' Heart Curr nt
once. It will strengthen "? buUd un
the weakened nerves and muscles of
healthy ' and mak you one and
This Is one way the riirht wav
Neglect it a little while and y will
then notice Fluttering PainftntioJl
Dizziness, Fainting Sn?fis, pS in In ?? '
glon of heart, sido and shoulders atom"
SerioSsV1 KIdny t'oublei. i?&oi,!b
It is the other way tho wrong way
Dr. Miles' Hearr Cure
is a safe, sure remedy, and is curing
Sssf $ir&$ht lon ?fflK
f8?7V3& fi'vWtlVoft
?te , .to,ok Dr- Mes' New Heart
ur. which restored mo to perfect
health." A. M. BASSETT, '
The first bottle wflfTeSoS?: ?f !S'ot
tho druggist will return- your money:
Bishop Edward G. Andrews of the
Methodist Episcopal church, died at
his home in Brooklyn.
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS
Under the leadership of Ross G.
Moore antf Jess Gandy, a Bryan club
was organized at Broken Bow, Neb.
Democrats and popujists are signing
the club list as rapidly as opportu-'
nitv affords, and the organizers write:
"We hope to have one of the best
working clubs in Nebraska."
TRAVELING MEN'S CLUB
The following is taken from the
Lincoln, Neb. Journal:
The Nebraska Traveling Men's
Bryan club held a meeting last, night
at, the Lincoln hotel and elected offi
cers for the ensuing year. About
thirty men were present. It was
pointed out that the need for activity
was approaching and they would pre
pare thus early by perfecting their
organization. The following officers
were elected: President. A. V.
Johnson of Lincoln; twelve vice
presidents from the various congres
sional districts, A. G. Shreve of Lin
coln, Mr. Watska of Humboldt,
George Rogers and E. P. Berryman
of Omaha, Charles Cronkelton of Be
atrice, Frank Gates of David City, J.
W. Hiler of Ed car, Jack Corey of
Hastings, Harry Bovdston of Lincoln,
W. L. Birnev of Crawford, and Wal
ter Nye of Kearney: secretary "Will
H. Love; treasurer, Samuel S. Hud
son; recording. secretary, Harry
Boydston.
An executive committee of seven
was selected as follows: W. D
Wilhoite, H. H. Puerh, E. B. Zimmer
man, C. J. riess. Charles Branch, O.
C. Reasoner, and Charles Tucker, all
of Lincoln.
The constitution was changed to
allow of twelve vice presidents in
stead of five as formerly required. It
was thought that a wider spread list
of these officials would tend to keep
the interest of the club at a fever
heat. Some little discussion oc
curred over the manner of represent
ation in this body of vic& presidents
but the matter was finally decided
bv electing men no matter what dis
trict they were from. The meetings
were arranged for the first Saturday
niebt of each month.
The Nebraska Traveling iMen's
Brvan club was organized in 1896
and was verv active during the first
campaign. Since then it has been
more or less Inactive. The election
of officers last night was, the pre
liminary move towards renewed act
ivity in the coming campaign.
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Secretory Taft
Opens Campaign
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most substantial financial loss, are
naturally sore and depressed. They
believe, and generally they are right,
that this disaster has come upon
them without fault of theirs; It is
unjust to them. Np matter how
many symptoms of the coming
trouble there may have been panics
always come with a shocks and a tre
mendous surprise and disappoint
ment. And hardly is the panic over
but' a fierce discussion arises as to
the causes of its coming. With va
rious motives editors and public
speakers rush to the front to fasten
upon some thing or some one the
responsibility for what has hap
pened. It is entirely natural that in
the condition of mind in which the
suffering business men are left by
the great strain and trial such sner-
.gestions should receive marked at
tention and that the more definitely
the personality of the scaneerhat nnri
be fixed the more pleasure it gives
me victims or the catastrophe.
their' fondest hopes crushed and have
only been able Jo come through the
crisis with -the greatest effort and
The Fight With Corporations
"This mental attitude of the busi
ness community which I. have de
scribed as. likely to be found after
every financial panic is clearly pres
ent today. The economical and po
litical history of the last four years
gives it especial importance, because
it offers to certain elements in the
business and political community an
exceptional opportunity. Let me in
vite your attention to that hiBtory.
It is that of a giant struggle between
the national administration and cer
tain powerful combinations in the
financial world. These comoinations,
for lack of a better name, are called
'trusts.' They engaged in different
lines of manufacture and production
by assembling large amounts of cap
ital into one mass in a particular line
of business managed by artful and
skilfully devised, but illegal methods
of duress, to exclude competition and
monopolize the trade. They became
the dictators to the great railroads,
however powerful and however
threatening the withdrawal of pat
ronage, secured unlawful and dis
criminating rebates, greatly increas
ing their profits and still more com
pletely suppressing competition. Man
aged with conspicuous business abil
ity, these trusts went into legitimate
foreign trade and largely increased
our country's exports. The profits
which they realized enabled them to
engage in other enterprises carried
on by legitimate methods until the
hold which they acquired in the busi
ness community gave them a posi
tion of vantage, it seemed hopeless
to combat. The basis of their origi
nal success and the maintenance of
their power was the violation of the
Sherman anti-trus law and the inter
state commence law, and for a time
both laws were but dead letters upon
the statute books of the United
States. The purpose of the adminis
tration of Mr. Roosevelt -was to make
those men, however nowerfni nmi
wealthy, to know that the laws upon
the statute books were living things
and must bo obeyed. It was not
proposed that the legitimate nntAr.
prises that were carried oh. with the
capital of these men should be de
stroyed. It ,was not proposed that
the foreign trade which Iniired to
the benefit of the whole country
Should be struck down; but it was
determined that those who were mak
ing the statutes a dead letter should
be subject to restraint by injunction
processes and punishment by indict
ment not as a matter of -revenge
not to gratify the exercise of power
but to eradicate systematic lawless
ness from our business system. In
this struggle the administration has
been greatly aided by the pojpular
sympathy awakened by revelations as
to breaches of trust by the managers'
of some of the great Insurance com
panies; by revelations as to the mis
management of the Internal affairs of
great railroad companies; by the "dis
closures as to the enormous amount
of rebates extorted from the railroad
companies by" these trusts, and by tho
conscienceless stock - jobbing and
over-issue of 'bonds and stocks
shown to have occurred in the man
agement, of some of our great cor
porations. A Moral Awakening
"There was a, moral awakening
among the people and the hands of
the administration were held up in
the work which it was doing. On the
other hand the 'men and the inter
ests which were the subject of at
tack were not idle. They had their
partisans guilty and innocent. The
guilty, of course, wished to- defeat
the administration by any means. The
innocent were those who had become
involved with trust magnates in
legitimate business transactions and
to whom the attitude of the admin
istration seemed one general opposi
tion to the whole business community.
'One of the great manifestations,
one of the monuments in this moral
progress was the passage of the rail
road ratfe bill. It met the opposition
of many of the railroads, not be
cause they were in sympathy with
the trusts, for I think they in many
respects had been more sinned
against than sinning, but becauso
they resented that close control, that
rigid supervision which the public
demanded in view of the possibilities
which the disclosure as to their past
transactions revealed. The fight
made by the administration has been
a noteworthy one. And now, after
a victory has been won. after there
has been introduced into the hearts
of all men; and especially of these
leaders, tnese trust managers and
financial opponents of the adminis
tration, the fear of the laws the
panic comes on. The trust magnates
solidly intrenched with, great finan
cial resources, . are not the ones who
suffer the most of it. It is the men
who have not such unlawful or fruit
ful methods of making money.
"The agents and sympathizers and
defenders of the trusts and others
innocent, but mistaken, now rush
forward to place the blame of the
present conditions upon the adminis
tration. They seek to use the panic
as an argument for giving- up tho
moral victory which has been won.
Apparently they would take a retro
grade step back to the conditions
which existed five and six and ten
years ago, when, unhampered by
statute law, these trusts were build
ing the financial bulwarks which
they are now fighting. ,They rely
upon the soreness and 'the mental
Strain and sufferincr thrnnerh which
.all the honest business men of the
community have had to pass as a
golden opportunity for driving home
their attacks upon the administration
and for paralyzing the onward' move
merit toward" supremacy of the law.
Blomo tho Administration
"I have set iorth "what I believe
to be the real explanation of the
panic. Let us examine the specifica
tions Of Our onnnnentfit Tinw mode to
show that the administration is re
sponsible, In the first place it is
said that the policy of the adminis
tration has he.en directed for the last
four yqars against organized capital
and that it has thereby frightened
investors. I deny it. The course of
the administration has been directed
against such organized capital as was
violating the statutes of the United
States and no others. It had every
consideration and desire to assist or
ganized capital which Was engaged
in legitimate business. It Is- true
that the execution of the policy of
the administration has led to the
bringing to light of public critiolsm
of the violation 6f the law by influ
ential and powerful. corporations and
their prosecution. Through the in
vestigation of national and state
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