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Extracts from W.
Wmrortng tha Influential.
Two official of the w recked Seventh
IsationAl Uauk of New York wen in
dieted by the grand Jury but they were
not arrested until nearly two weeks
aiier the indictment warn returned
The United States' aviiotant attorney
ixpiaina the delay In the.se words:
"To subject these gentleman, who
are reputable business men. to con
finement in prison from Nt nttMnber 11
until the return of a United States
judtre to the citv who coulil accent bai
would be a hardship ami unfair in view
of the fact that there was no likelih'Mid
of their trying to evade answering the
Indictments.
Can men who do things which a
grand jury lieleves to b deserving of
ind'cttnent Ihj said to bo "reputable
ou.siness men i.vcii ir, In this in
stance, these men were "reputable
business men" why should they be
given more consideration, after agrand
jury has preferred serious charges
against tht-rn, than the humblest citi
zen in the land?
What reason had this United States
attorney for assuming that "there was
no likelihood f their trying to evade
answering the indictment?"
Was it because the evidence was not
suflicient to convict? Then why did
the grand jury indict?
Was it because these "reputable
business men1 lcended upon the good
fortune of influential men accused of
crime to escape responsibility for their
lawlessness?
It is true that in many instances the
authorities art; altogether too solicitous
lest a "hardship" should be imposed
upon influential wrongdoers, but, do
theae wrongdoers ever stop to consider
the hardships they might be imposing
upon the men and women who trusted
their savings to them?
Jfo Time for Despair.
The editor of The Commoner lias re
cently received a- letter from a demo
crat, who, feeling that his efforts have
been fruitless, is inclined to hibernate
for awhile and take no interest in pub
lic affairs.
While this is the only letter of the
kind received, it probably reflects the
feelings of a considerable number of
persons who have labored long and
earnestly in behalf of reforms without
being able to note the progress which
they hoped for and had reason to ex
pect. It is not unnatural that a period
of enthusiasm and earnestness should
le followed by a period of depression
and despondency. Even the best of
men have sometimes halted and hesi
tated in the prosecution of a noble
cause. Elijah, one of most courageous
of the prophets of the olden time, once
became discouraged, but the Lord re
vived his drooping spirits by showing
him that there were thousands who
had not "bowed the knee to lSaal."
So the reformers can take courage
today, for although the enemy is even
more strongly entrenched than we
thought, there are millions who are
atill loyal to JciTersonian principles
and still interested in reforming the
abuses which have grown up under re
publican rule.
The fight must be continued. Wheth
er the battle be long or short, it is the
duty of every citizen to think for him
self, form his own convictions, and
then stand by his opinion, confident
that the right will finally triumph
and the truth will ultimately prevail.
It will be remembered that the dem
ocratic state committee of Ohio sug
gested to the republican state commit
tee that the opening of the campaign
be postponed on account of the attack
on President McKinley. The republi
can committee declined to accede to
the suggestion and took occasion to
deliver a cheap political discourse, but
the republican committee has finally
yielded asI the opening of the cam
jplgn nas been postponed until Octo
ber 19.
The Nebraska anti-trust law has
been declared unconstitutional. It
was be VI that exemption of labor un
ions from its provisions invalidated it.
To be sure! When federal courts im
prision men for daring to ask other
men not to cut wages and refuse to im
prison men for asking other men not
to cut prices, is to be expected that all
anti-trust measures will be declared
unconstitutional.
Some gentlemen calling themselves
democrats who denounced the fusion
of democrats and populists in Nebras
ka are working for fusion between
democrats and anti-machine republi
cans in Philadelphia. Mentioa is
made of it at this time for the pur
pose of calling attention to the truth
of the old adage that "it makes a dif
ference whose ox is gored."
This is the season of the year when
recipes for preserving plums occupy
considerable space in the newspapers.
The grand old plum preserver, Mat
thew Stanley Quay, lias yet to write his
recipe, but he is acknowledged to be
an expert at the business.
The New York Journa4 is now pay
ing its respects to a few "esteemed
contemporaries,' and as a result the
aforesaid contemporaries are taking to
the woods. The 'rotible with, most of
the newspapers that seek to make po
litical capital out of the presidential
assassination is that they neglected to
collect and destroy all their files and
back numbers.
There is something wrong about the
republican prosperity that mikes po
tatoes worth S1.."'J a bushel and fails
to furnish a large crop o potatoes.
A reciprocit wincu'wm oestroy the
breast-works which proteet the arro
gant trusts that have so long posed as
infant industries, is a species of tariff
reform that will be acceptable to the
American people.
The American boat has won the
race and the cup stays on this side of
the Atlantic Now we can sing "Col
nmbia Gem of the Ocean."
Amont'is not long, but it affords
one anarc Jist plenty of time to realize
the full majesty of the law in this re- J
public. t !
(Comment 1
J. Bryan's Paper.
Tha farm.
As, the dally papers have seen fit to
make some comments upon the house
which I am building, it may not be
out of place to present the facts to the
readers of The Commoner. In the
spring of 1HD3 I purchased five acres
or ground about three miles southeast
of Lincoln. The land is situated on
the top of a beautiful knoll overlook
inff the Antelope vallev. The view
from this spot is unsurpassed; as far as
the eye can reach the land is under
cultivation and the colors change with
the crops and the seasons.
In 13117 twenty acres wer.s purchased
adjoining the original five, and in M'.H
I leg.in improving the place by setting
out an orcliani and slialu trees. Since
then ten acres more have lcen added,
so that the farm now consists of thir
ty-live acres. Our only son is past
twelve, and believing that life on a
farm will be beneficial to him as well
as pleasant to the rest of us, ,we are
now a lxut to realize the plans made
years ago.
The first day of October was the sev
enteenth anniversary of our marriage
and the fourteenth anniversary of my
removal from Illinois' to Nebraska.
To celebrate this double anniversary
Mrs. Bryan and I went out to the farm
on that day and helped to stake off the
ground for the house and took out the
first shovelfull of dirt. The founda
tion will be put in this fall so that the
house can be completed early next
spring. When it is ready for occu
pancy a picture of it will appear in
The Commoner until it is completed
the plans are subject to change.
Unkind and I'ntroe,
ihe .Nebraska rotate Journal is re
sponsible for the following paragraph:
"It will be noticed that the localit-
ties in this country where the names
of a large part of the citzens end with
'gosz, 'ski,' and cek,' can be safely de
pended upon to give democratic ma
jorities."
As 'gosz' is the termination to the
name of President McKinley's assassin,
the Journal paragragher evidently
meant to cast a slur upon the demo
cratic party and upon some of the for
eign voters. He would have been more
frank if he had named the nationali
ties to which he referred. It is un
kind in anyone to vent his prejudice
against a race merely because a mem
ber of that race has become an assass
in. We have had three assassinations
in this country and no two of the per
sons guilty of the crime belonged to
the same race.
If. however, the Journal means to
intimate that the entire foreign vote is
democratic, its editor ought to read
the speech made by Mr. Ingersoll after
the election of '00 in which he credited
the foreign-born voters with having
caved the country from a "dishonest
dollar." The only plausible reason
why the foreign-born voters gave their
support to the republican ticket was
that the democratic party was not in as
good position as the republican party
to supply literature printed in the var
ious foreign languages.
It is unfortunate that many of the
republican papers have used the nation's
calamity as the excuse for partisanship.
Public questions ought to be discussed
according to the principles involved
and not by appeal to ignorance or pre
judice.
Harsh Rut True.
The Philadelphia North American in
discussing the proposition that the
right of free speech be abolished is a
bit severe in its premises, although en
tirely levelheaded in its conclusions,
when it savs:
"Only a very extraordinary kind of
fool can be made to believe that be-
cause a murderous wretch has taken
the life of the president it becomes
everybody's patriotic duty to cease
criticising the trusts, cease discussing
the problem of poverty and the dangers
threatening the republic through the
rapid growth ot enormous fortunes
which have their roots in monopoly."
There being no congressional or na
tional campaign on, the Chicago Tri- j
bune is again an anti-high protective
tariff organ. The Tribune is afflicted
with this sort of thing. When the
real test comes the Tribune will have
recovered, thanks to the kind ministra
tions of the affable specialists em
ployed by the tariff barons to attend
to such cases.
The Massachuetts democracy en
dorsed democratic principles as "enun
ciated in the last national platform"
and nominated Hon. Josiah Quincy for
governor. 1 lie candidate nas Deen
counted among the gold democrats, but
gave active support to ticket in 1900
and notified the gold democrats of his
state that the democracy of the nation
would not go back to its political at
titude of a decade ago.
The best monument that can erected
to the memory of Wm. McKinley will
be American homes as full of love and
tenderness as the home at Canton was
before the assassin's bullet was fired.
By a queer coincidence the state that
profits most from the business of char
tering trusts, combines and monopo-
:es also harbors the worst gang of an
archists in the republic.
The difference between proclamation
and performance is shown by the news
from South Africa. While Kitchener
is proclaiming the Boers are perform-
The Sultan is not so much interest
ed in the peace of Europe as he is in
the pieces of Turkey.
Just as long as American naval of
ficers exhibit the kind of "cowardice'
and "catiff flight" exhibited by Schley
at Santiago there is no immediate
danger of any foreign navy bombard
ing our coast.
Twenty Mlloa a Tear.
London is 12 miles broad one way
and 17 the other, and every year sees
about twenty miles of new streets add
ed to it
Married people are like shoes If
exactly alike they are rot a weXl-flttiag
rafr.
WAR UINO FACTIONS.
DIG BATTLE GOING ON IN
LICAN PARTY.
REFUB.
Leader An Working; at Cross Par.
Poms Tha lloneat Kloment. tha
Li on eat Klonivnt and tha Ignorant !
snout to KlruaTfle for Maatorjr.
Will President Roosevelt rule Con
gress or will the legislative department
of the government be Independent of
the executive.
This is an important question as
the outcome of much momentous leg
islation depends upon the answer. The
revision of the tailff Is at stake, for
President Roosevelt having declared
for a continuance of the policy of the
late executive which Includes recip
rocity In its full meaning, not only the
reciprocity of the French and other
treaties, but a general lowering of the
tariff or even free trade upen trust
production that are sold cheaper to
the foreigners than they are to our
own people.
Nearly all the Republican leaders In
Congress have declared against tariff
revision, but this was before President
McKinley made his notable speech at
Buffalo advising the opposite course.
If he had net been stricken down by
the bullet of the assassin he would
doubtless have brought the majority
of his party to this reform. Can Pres
ident Roosevelt do as much, will he
ever attempt it? That a large element,
probably the majority of the repub
lican party, are opposed to any med
dling with the tariff, even to the ratifi
cation of the reciprocity treaties is cer
tain, this same faction are controlled
by the trusts and nothing but the fear
of defeat by the people will change
their trust prepossession and inclina
tion. The leader of this trust faction
is Mark Hanna and his declarations on
trusts and the tariff are well known.
The New York Commercial speaking
for this element of tha republican
party pays: "We are inclined to a be
lief that it is not easy not practical
anyway to get at a consensus of re
publican sentiment in this subject be
fore another Congressional election. If
It were to be precipitated in Congress
next December, the result would be In
our opinion that an acrimonious de
bate would be stretched over the en
tire session with no settlement of the
question at the end, but a most deplor
able unsettling of business for the bet
ter part of a year.
Let the republican Congressional
conventions in 1902 determine approx
imately how the republican masses feel
on this question of "tinkering in the
tariff" then republican law-makers
could proceed more intelligently in the
matter. This procrastination of course
means that the trusts think that with
a united effort they can control the
eleclon next year of a majority of the
fifty-eighth Congress and in any event
as that Congress will not meet until
December, 1903, and any legislation of
this character would not be possible
until the summer of 1904, they would
have a long pull at the tariff that they
are so loath to let loose from.
THE REAL AIDS TO ANARCHY.
It Is well to note that In all this
rampant rubbish that some of the re
publican newspapers are using to
prove that so-called "yellow journal
ism" la responsible for anarchism in
the country, that those that are the
loudest and most blatant have the
most unsavory reputations and are the
outspoken organs of organized polit
ical robbery. Some of these are con
trolled by the trusts and all are con
trolled by the plutocrats who thus
hope to throw discredit on every news
paper that has dared to say one word
against their monopolies. Others have
been worsted In the keen business
competition with the so-called "yellow
Journals" and in trying to inflame pub
lic opinion against them they hope to
get even. Of these the New York Sun
is the most striking example and that
most conservative of newspapers the
Staats Zeitung says: "If the question
must be discussed what causes and
elements are working into the hands
of anarchism we do not hesitate a mo
ment to denounce the Sun and its fol
lowers cs the most dangerous of these
eiements,
Their nauseating cynicism.
their derision of all nobler sentiments,
their support of all most corrupted
elements, now on this side and now
on the other, their continuous perform
ance in villifying workingmen on the
one hand and their unlimited advo
cacy of capitalism based on the prin
ciple of "might is right" on the other
these are methods of warfare which al
lied to calumny, distortion of the truth.
aye, even bareracea untrutniuiness,
breed hatred among the classes, act as
Irritants and conjure up blind fury
against their own pompous insolence.
We are convinced that a single one of
these contemptible articles on the
problems of labor, as they are to be
found frequently in the Sun does more
mischief than all the stuff thus sharp
ly criticised by the Sun, that other
papers are emitting for the "benefit of
anarchism."
CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES.
The Boxer uprising completely upset
all the carefully laid plans for the ex
ploiting of the Chinese empire. The
buildings of railroads and the opening
of coal and iron 'mines will have to be
deferred to another generation. This
opens up another question that will
soon have to be settled, namely, the
continued occupation of the Philip
pines. These islands were supposed to
be the key to China and the proposed
exploiters of that Empire were the
power that forced the extraordinary
change of front on the part of the late
administration in its final dealings
with Spain. As the protocol shows
there was no intention of annexing the
Philippines when that instrument was
signed. Their purchase was an after
thought. There being but small hope
that the Chinese will allow our ex
ploiting syndicate to Invest its money
In China, will the continued occupation
of the Philippine Islands pay for the
great cost it now is and will be In the
future? Are the people of the United
States willing to be taxed nearly $100,
000.000 a year for the sake of holding
on to these islands.
The proposed civil government will
more than eat np all the revenues of
the Islands and If the same extrava
gance is continued in the future, and
t flora mm tiartlv holn hplnir more Of
it, In the past, the people of the
country triU have to pay a large part
of tte till for even the civil govern
ment Then there Is the array of oc
cupation to be provided for; at the
lowest estimate this will cost $50,000.
000 a year. The building of dock
yards and the Increased navy will
largely increases the above amount.
The islands must be fortified to pro
tect the navy yard and arsenal anJ
these bills will be a continuous drain
on the United States. Will It pay,
even looking years into the future?
ARE THEY FRIGHTENED?
Nearly the whole of the dally press
of the country, haye seemed .o be unit
ed in suppressing the facts about the
trusts, combines, and monopolies, but
under the stress of the election this
fall the Columbus, Ohio, State Journal
appears to have become frljjhtened at
the unanimity of the peopl i In wish
ing the trusts controlled and says In
an editorial: "The public Is witness
to another deluge of watered stock
whose only hoe of dividend lies in the
ability of the manipulators to maintain
a monopoly in all iron and steel pro
ducts with all that monopoly makes
possible.
"The new company swells the total
capitalization of its constituent com
panies from about $757,000,000 to $1,
100.000,000, or over 45 per cent. Thi3
would be monstrous enough if it came
at the first flood of water, but it Is
water upon wogyfc
"Nobody pretends to believe that the
Carnegie company was worth J320,-
000,000 and yet. it went into the com
bine at $510,000,000. It is notorious
that the other seven companies whose
aggregate capitalization is about $437,-
000,000, represented -an actur.l invest
ment of not to exceed one-third that
amount. Even wjuthe high price of
their product during the last two years
they were unable to earn enough to
give their stock a market value in the
aggregate of 75 per cent of its aggre
gate par valuation. Yet about $100,
000,000 more water is poured into the
outrageous over capitalization that al
ready existed."
This coming from a leading repub
lican newspaper of the state where
Hanna rules the roost shows that they
sea the retribution that Is sure to
cQe and that the trust load is even
to heavy for the well greased Ohio
machine.
When Mark Hahna went to Nebras
ka about a month before the last na
tional election after conference with
the leaders of the Republican party
and a division of the swag they were
Instructed to "do anything" to beat
Bryan in his own state and the Fed
eral officials at once went to work.
The agent of the Omaha Indians was
one of these worthies and he deter
mined to corral the vote on the reser
ervatlon. The Indians tell, says the
Nebraska Independent, that the agent
promised forty of them that he would
appoint them policemen if they would
vote the Republican ticket. As there
were only four policemen to be ap
pointed the promises were not kept
The Indians novctlrnk that they know
somethlng aboutifV- ftTys f Mark
Hanna politicians. " '
polltlc
The republicans of Kentucky cer
tainly do take the cake, if thh tale
that the Nebraska Independent tells
auoui mem is a true one: wnen a
republican gets a federal office there is
no stopping him. Down in Kentucky
one of them wanted a postoffice that
was held by a woman whose dead hus
band had been a prominent democrat.
All the patrons of the office, both re
publicans and democrats, were in favor
of the woman retaining it. Not one of
them would sign a petition for the
applicant. One would suppose that the
office seeker would have given up, but
he did no such thing. He finally mar
ried the woman and then she resigned
and he got the office.
United States Senator Clark of Mon
tana, the only democrat that is a
multi-millionaire, is having a tussle
with the railroad trust or that part of
it represented by Harrison, Gould and
their clique. He is trying to build an
independent line from Salt Lake City
to the Pacific, this would afford great
relief to the people of that territory
from the almost unbearable extortions
of the railroad trust The whole rail
road trust is fighting him wherever he
haa interests in Montana, in Wall
street and elsewhere, dui tjiaric is a
persistent fighter and the prospect
seems favorable that he will succeed
In getting his railroad completed.
One of the doctors who attended the
late President, when asked about the
deceptive bulletins, said: "We are un
der martial law and have to do as we
are told," and the facts are that Sec
retary Root, who was in full control,
had these bulletins Issued In the in
terest of the Wall street financiers who
were afraid if the whole truth about
the condition of the President was
known, that a financial panic would be
precipitated, which with a little time
they hoped to avert. As it was the
banks had to call on the United States
treasury for help.
Democrats need not worry about
who will te their candiate for presi
dent. Send good delegates instructed
for the principles you believe in and
the candidate will be forthcoming. As
Mr. Bryan said: "The issues before the
country are principles, not men. The
anxiety of the administration organs
to discuss men is based on the fear of
principles."
"With new oil wells In Texas, Cali
fornia, Tennessee and Wyoming the
price of oil would ni Rurally decline,
for we have J. PierponJ Morgan's word
for it that supply and demand regu
late prices. Perhaps it may with the
steel ? trust and '' would with the oil
trust If rebates and special privileges
were abolished-
The high protective tariff breeds
frauds and smuggling and the enor
mous robbery of the government by
the silk Importations in New York are
doubtless but one of a hundred, if the
whole business was investigated.
Some of the gibbering Idiots who the
trusts employ to edit their newspapers i
. a a a. A
are claiming that to criticise or car
i
'
toon the trusts is breeding anarchy.
REPUBLICAN RULE.
J
HAS BOUGHT A COSTU BRAND OF
PROSPERITY.
Tba Good Times Ileitis; Knjoyed Malntr
by tha J'eopke Who Were Navar In
Want Wane Earner No llctler Off
Than They War l'nilr ClavaUndlssu.
The Republican party has so many
sins of commission aud omission to
answer for that it is hardly possible
to enumerate them all, but it is well to
bear in mind some of them, especially
as it is constantly with Pharisaical
airs denouncing others in platforms
and on the stump.
It has defied and violated the anti
trust law and has allowed capital to
combine and its chosen servant the
attorney general of the United States,
whose duty It is to see that such laws
are executed, has taken no steps to do
60.
Through the protective tariff it has
given the trusts a monopoly, thus al
lowing wealth to accumulate in the
hands of the few until the power that
accompanies money la greater than
the power of the people.
By the lack of enforcement of laws,
both federal and state, those vast mo
nopolies called trusts and corporations
generally refuse and do not pay their
share of the taxes, either state or fed
eral, thus throwing the burden of pro
tecting those immense interests upon
the middle class, the farmer and the
wage-working and poor.
Under its fostering care the banks
and trust companies have grown eo
great and their profits so enormous
that even more than one hundred per
cent dividend has been paid by some
of them, and this was in a great meas
ure made possible by the manipula
tion of United States bonds and the
use without interest of the money
loaned to them by the United States
treasury.
Under Republican rule the striking
wage-worker has been denied a trial by
Jury, by introducing a system of is
suing injunctions by which the courts
forbid them to do what the law does
not prohibit and when they have ig
nored the injunctions have imprisoned
them for no crime. If a thing can be
legally done by a workman, the judge
has no right to forbid by injunction.
If he has committed a crime, he should
be arrested and given a trial by Jury.
Under Republican rule railroads have
been allowed o violate law and go into
combinations that leave whole cities,
communities and states at their mercy.
One can be favored and another de
pressed. Under Republican rule the nation
has been forced to abandon the foun
dation principles upon which the gov
ernment was founded, and an empire
has been made out of a free republic,
in which class distinction are more
clearly marked than in any monarchy
of the old world. These are part of
the things and only part that the Re
publican party has done, and has left
undone.
OtJK BOASTED PKOSPEItlTY.
That vast wealth Is being accumu-
lated by banks. trusts and individuals
Is aPParent to every one, that the rall-
roads- and cosporations are paying
large dividends and laying up reserves
is evident from the statements they
issue and the great advance in the
price of their stocks. The newspapers
and public men are loud in their boasts
of this class prosperity, and those of
the Republican persuasion are trying
to make us all believe we are equally
prosperous.
An article in the Pilgrim Magazine.
after noting this, says: In the face of
such a clamorous celebration of the
national wealth it has been difficult for
individuals to secure a hearing long
enough to say they are not getting
their share of it. If a Kansas or Ne
braska farmer sees his corn shriveling
under the hot winds, he has only to
pick up the paper to read that Secre
tary Wilson, ex-Secretary Vanderlip
every officeholder and supporter of the
administration says that the damage
to corn has been greatly exaggerated,
tf a farmer in Ohio, Michigan, or the
far northwest notes that the operations
of the woolen trust have forced down
the price of wool to a point at which it
is scarce worth clipping, he can still
read in the newspapers of farmers buy
ing automobiles with their surplus
gains and deserting populism as all
rich men should. The emblematic full
dinner pail looms so big that it makes
many a man ashamed to speak of his
empty cupboard, while with the biggest
per capita circulation of money the
country has ever seen, a man is ob
viously himself alone to blame if his
share has not correspondingly in
creased. It is so flattering to know
that Mr. Rockefeller and you made
over $10,000,600 last year, you natural
ly hesitate to identify your share as
the $600.
Probably never In the history of the
world has so much money been made
by a few men as in the last year
Perhaps never did the men who made
so much money give so little useful
service in return.
In earlier ages of our industrial life
a man has worked a lifetime to create
a business, adding a little to his plant
as events justified it, extending his
trade, and heartily content if after en
joying a comfortable income as the
fruits of his industry himself, he was
able to leave a sound, remunerative
business to his family. But that is not
the ideal of business life today; the
men who are making the most money
and notoriety out of the steel business.
for example, never saw the inside of a
mill. Where the old-time manufacturer
built up his own mill or factory, work-
in? In it and understanding its every
detail, these men Z.r juggling slips of
paper called stock and bonds, consoli
date a number of mills and elect them
selves to position of enormous profit
and tower.
FREE TfUDE IS DEATH TO TRUSTS.
The Protective Tariff League haa
taken a great deal of pleasure In try
ing to magnify the number and Im
portance of trade combinations in free
trade England, tbi trying to show
that it is not the protection given the
trusts in the United State3 tbst is one
of the main causes of their monopoly,
as in free trade England trusts are
likewise, numerous. Even this nron of
the League has now tumbled down for
tne few combines that have been
formed in England Lave with one ex-
'
are practical!
bankrupt.
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ijiiihu ui nun u'viijiu is ii u i iui in Buua,
in tne nrst place tno rree-traae poiicj
of tho United Kingdom subjects thesi
ombincs to the competition of tht
whole world, and now that over-production
in the textile industries is se
riously threatened, even if It has no
actually arrived, they can do longei
maintain monopoly prices. When many
of the younger men associated wltt
tho private firms as Junior partners oi
simply as salaried managers and ser
vants, have been cast adrift in the ef
forts of the combines tosecureoconomy
ntl1 lm r en Itnul ti Add -.n t Vl A I 0 1
fa t U V i DlUl L IH UUDlllvn S
own account, only as a rule, in a mod.
erate way, but with the most modern
machinery and careful attention to
every detail, which more than coun
terbalances any supposed cheapening
of production on an immense scale,
and their competition is already being
keenly felt."
This shows that if our frusta here
are shorn of tho protection they en
joy under the preecnt tariff, many of
them would find it impossible to main
tain the enormous prolits they are now
making, for competition would com
pel them to sell as cheaply as the for
eign product could bo sold here. It is
also possible that in come lines of
production similar competition will
start up. as in England, from those
who have been let out ot business
when tho trusts were organized and
again give them a chanco to earn a
living at work they have been used to.
As the tariff is so high on most of
these trusts productions that it has
been prohibitive in nearly every case.
there will be no loss of revenue to
the government as there Is nono now
paid, as the trusts is protected from
competition by the Si. or CO p?r cent
or even higher duty hat the custom
house would demand.
AN Alt C II 1ST AM AIM-II1ST.4.
There are some newspapers in tho
United States that would bo greatly
offended if they were styled anarchists
and yet they are attempting to destroy
all that they do not believe in and that
is as much the teachings of anarchy
as the miserable fuiminntions of Herr
Most. The Inter Ocean and the Brook
lyn Eagle are examples of this, one
styling itself Republican and the latter
calling itself Democratic! God save the
mark.
The Eagle says: "We are glad we
never wrote a yellow editorial to the
effect that law is a bloody shame, that
man who works with his hands
should rightly be killed by a man who
works with his mouth, that sweat of
jaw is better than sweat of brow."
Commenting on this the Nebraska
Independent says it is glad that It
never had any sympathy with a man
like the one, who under tho present
circumstances would write like that.
He is one of those who never did a
day's work causing the "sweat of the
brow" in all his life, and he never saw
an editorial of the kind that he de
precates. What is more probable he
is a patronizer of such papers a.a Herr
Most publishes. It was there, and there
only, that such writings have appeared,
that this journalistic skunk would have
his readers believe that such doctrines
have been taught by all those who
have not believed in the gold standard
banks running this government, and
bides his venom behind such state
ments as the above. He rightfully be
longs to the same class of degenerates
as the one who assassinated the presi
dent. NO RELER IS THIS COUNTRY.
In speaking of the President of the
United States many newspapers and
nearly all the preachers call him the
ruler of the country. This is a great
mistake. Under our Democratic Re
publican form of government there
can be no rulers, the officers electel
are the servants of the people and not
their ruler, or are we advanced so far
towards imperialism that our officials
have in a measure usurped power that
the constitution dees not give and as
sume to rule? Under our new colonial
government in the Philippines the
army is the ruler, tlicugh the farce is
being enacted of a civil government,
and the governor-general is a ruler
with despotic power, which the mili
tary execute, the power being derived
from the President. That is imperial
Ism. Ruling other people in that way
may accustom the people of the United
States to a despotic form of govern
ment that in the end they may sub
mit themselves to be rule!, but a3 long
as grass grows and water runs there
will be a Democracy to resist sucn
usurpation. We want no ruler in this
country, we must have honest ser
vants of the people to carry out the
work, for the time, for which they
have been elected.
Prince Kropotkiu is a noted anar
chist and last spring he paid a visit
to this country and was Invited to
Chicago to deliver lectures by Presi
dent Harper of the Chicago Univer-J
sity, which is the Rockefeller college;
President Draper of the Illinois State
University. High society in Chicago
entertained him, amongst whom were
Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs. Emmons
Blaine. They wined Jiim and they
dined him, showing him distinguished
consideration generally. Of course
Prince Kropotkin is not an anarchist
of the bloodthirsty kind, but he be
lieved in the doing away with tha
present systems of government. It io
rather a ghastly Joke on those Chi
cago people, who are now being
laughed at by the anarchists of that
city. But then being a prince covers
a multitude of sins in the eyes of the
leaders of society, and it seems even
college professors also.
Sheriff North of Alabama, who da
fended bis negro prisoner at the risk
of his life, has done the noblest deed
for the South and is entitled to the
thanks of the people of the whole
country. Lynching is a remnant of
barbarism and must be stayed.
Ths ftteel strike, whichever vdt It
cuuiJ, tt in it a laai iug cv use iur luu
i . .
irusi iu raise piicea, u, as is usual,
the trust will vin anyway it goes.
The report of the Pennsylvania bu
reau of miners shows that 677 persons
were killed about the mines in that
state last year.
ceptlon all failed or
MRS. IDA L, ROSER
.
ftrnml.tf Icro of T.X-l rcslucn.
mr llnllr
Writes to
. J a 111 CM J. Oin.
Mrs. Plnkliam Nayiujj:
Deah Mrs, IMs-haw : I havo lren
oarrled for nearly two years, and
r have not been bles.f with a child,
have, however, stiTered with a com
cation of female troubles and pa n
hxl menstruation, until very recently.
MRS. HA It. UOSKIU
"The value of Ivdln 12. IInk
liam'.f VBt!Io CoiiixmmiimI win
called to my attention by an intimate
friend, whoso life bad nlmply been a
torture with inflammation and ulcer
ation, and a few bottles of your t'om-
Cound cured her; she run hardly
rlicve it herself to-day, ho enjoys
such blessed health. I tM.U four
bottles of your Compound r.:l '''-nslilcr
mj-sclf cured. I am once more in fluo
health and spirits; my dmiientie and
official duties all seem easy now, for I
feel so strong I can do three times
what I used to do. You have a bout tf
friends in Denver, and among the bet
count, Yours very gratefully, Mus.
Ida L. Rohkr, 3-') 18th Ave., Denver,
Col." $5000 forfeit If afrov Uitlmonlal 1$ not
If you arc 111, don't Im'sIIuIo to
pctiilMitMcof Lydlui:. liiililmui
Vetfetnl!o Coin pound nt owt,
and will to JUrH. PJnlthaiu,
Lynn, Mass., for Kuecial udvlco
It la free
THE. DEST I
WATERPROOF CLOTHING
III THE WORLD l
' BEARS T113 TffADE MAM
TAKE r13 SUBSTITUTE
ON SALE EVERTWUfcRC j
CAUaOCUMfm 1
StiOWINO' FULL UNPO
6ARMENT3 AND HAln.r
A.J.T0WCBCO..BOSTON,MA. 1
a.
enormous crop;:
North Dakota has just harvoated a w
derful crop of wlx-at ami flax. HT
from the various railway points nlonit
"Soo" Line show yleMs of 'U to 38 but
to tho aero of wheat, aud from 15 t-
bushels of flax ner u-re. J'"lax Is now
bringing Jl.2.1 it buHhcl. Most of tho
crop was raised on newly broken lanl, no
that the flrt crop paya f-r tlie farm ani
all tho labor, ami leaven a haii'Isomo profit.
There Is Mill plenty of rooI tree xovern
nient land open for entry; bIho Rood open
ings to go into busK rut In fhe ti-w town
along the "Boo" I,!no. Tor uVtuTlptl v! c ir
culars, maps and particulars, rli to 11.
W. Casseday, Land AKtiit, "Boo" Line,
Minneapolis, Minn.
loop Oaf 0
(ho
SaiTycr'G Slbfrors
Hawyer'a "PxrHalar Ilrand" Boiu
and Hlickntu ar ttiw brat wnrrpru.f nr.
Hlfllta in tb. world. Mad from tha t.Mt lu
tnaJ.aad warranted waterproof. XdaUa
to atnd tha rough work and watnnr.
J.ook fur the trade nark, H jrour daalar
duoa nut have ihjn, trtit f r catalorua.
11. M. HAWyi.lt A M V li Mlra..
Kuat faanbrtaa;.
S
t or Mure Than a Ouarlnr of a Crnlnry
The reputation of W. L. DouRlna 3.0O
and S3.50 shoes for style, comfort and
wear has excelled all ether makes sold at
these prices. This excellent reputation lias
been won by merit alone. W. L. Douvlua
hoea have tofclv better satisfaction U.an
other S3.00 and 3.60 thorn because his
reputation for tho bent S3.00 and $3XO
boas muat bo maintained. The atsndard
baa always been placed no hitch that tho
wearer receive mora value fcr bis money
in tho W. L. Douglas 3.00 and
hoes than be can get clsewhr-re.
W.L. Douglas tells more 3.00 nnd t3.60
hoes than any other two manulacturcia.
W. L. OauQlat $4.00 OUt Edge Una
cannot ba tauallrrl at anu r.t'm.
Dauatmu B3.00 anil S3. BO
mhomm an mmdm ot thtt mm mm high
grmdm Immtharm u&cd In 95 mna a
mhomm and arr Jumt mm Stood.
Sold by tho beet ahoe dealers everywhere.
Insist spun having; Y. I HoiirIms shoe
with same and priu ataiufwd of a bottom.
Mw to Orrfri- my Uai If W. f. J Vxif'.na
fboci an not aold la your town. a4 ord-r direct lo
tnrj. felicea ant aiijwhera on re. . A of prv an
a i ia. alii Kmul it MrlaifX. air
aoatomov(artuieiii will ni; 4 rou
pttlrtnat will eitutl ft snd rift
vrn maaaanoea, in at Tie. lit aici
car. lake rtieaanremetita il
loot aaahown mi model ; aa
. at jte (tea. rej ; ai 7jr and wmi k
uuaiiy worn; plain '
cap io; ifiTr. ree
loia or lialit aolea.
A Bl guarantee 1.
i.j a pair.
Vaat fatar Kretet. aaea.
faaalaffraa. . L ZJouvlaa, Urockloo, Maak
Answering A4vertlemcat9
Mention This Taper.
Kiac.'y
W. N. U OMAHA.
No. 431901
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