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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
5
THE (KtDIXOl MAMtl
Thr is coth!r.s so aburd. so contra-Unary
to fact, to cppoMNi to rea
toa teat the general public will not be
lie It if if w olej3Bly aXraed a
fw time in ioa of the treat dailies.
Tak t&e afruoa that trust inaug
urate eci&tonile. In production and re
dur the rot cf to tfc$ consum
er. The bole population M?ra to t1
liev ttf itauuetit. when the fact is
that -very trort mi article ka risen
In price from alt to .tel and that the
price it aiay raid as fooa u the
trukt H formet. It. &een! that the
jp5 of the t'r.itM States hare quit
tlinkiEs and take every statement that
they for the truth without any ex
amination or invtttigation. The dead
weight of the enorrrrOi'i corporation
will csak prolurt!oi tsore costly in
stead of eh s ; :-Elr. it. No one mind
ear overre it ill and tae result in the
etd win fa. The trust may dis
peru with the tervice of a few trav
elling alet raen. tut salesmen create
trade and Il .c It that never can b
!i from a gnral ajtency.
A republican pj-r will announce
that the Standard OH company hat re
dare! the pnee of oil more than on
ha'.f dartsg the iat few year. Every
fellow who readf the paper will firmly
beliee it. a-d from thai on regard the
oil trst a. a r-t philantropie insti
tution. There hae been discoveries of
encrcvu oil Heidi and there are rush
era that po--t forth thousands of gal
lon of o:l a lay ia ail part of the
world, while when the Itocefelier firtt
orrasiacd the trust there were only a
few oil wells In western Pennsylvania.
That Las had nothing to do with low
ering the price of cIL It has all been
brought about by th philanthropic
Rockefeller. Such ara the credulous
XS-ae. t
I? there are any republican weeklies
In th cut who e-litors ever make a
truthfsl stateraent or write a con
cocted, lrgical article ia defease of
their party principles. The Independent
wocd Ilk to exchange with; them,
he- that case to this oSce are not
of that character. Some of thera have
nothing at all bet toiler plate editorial
a "2d none of thera print a full column
of e-i.icria! matter la aa issue. To
thow the character of their statements.
to are taken from the Wasp, which
has a xod deal le than a column of
editorial. It says: t
e-:s to b la a tad way nace!ally,
o;n eomethinc ever 15,000,
"Senator Dietrich and Millard are
:a Wahiegtas. familiarizing thea--ies
with the dutx cf th:r posi
tion." f
As to the truttfalnes of the first
ttenent all the readers are informed.
L'si what about the second? Every
one knows that the two heavenly twins-
went toWaihiifton to arrange for the
distribution cf the Sices. Is that what
i called "familiarizing themselves
with the duties cf their position? If
kj. it would seem that the Idea of the
Wasp ia that the duties of senators is
to d::ribu:e cSch. not to legislate
for this great nation.
It is aid that small ttel factories
are organizing in several different stat
es to take advantage of the high prices
that are expected to result from the
formation cf .he great billion dollar
steel trust. Ind.ixapciis is offering in
ducements end eie or two are well oa
the way. The fooli who bought that
watered ftock may la the not very dis
tant future be found wailing and
gnashing their teeth without one glim
mering hope to lighten their dark de
f p:r. Who can tell? One thing is
rertain that no trust caa long endure
that has watered Its stock three cr four
hundred per cnt. If they had only
been ti.d with fsrty or fifty per
the mullet hads would never
have grunsb!d. but three or four hua
- dred ! r cc-nt tak s the life out of
thing. Not enough can be wrung out
cf the p-o; to pay icterfct and the
th;r.e i!l har to go into a receiver's
hand.
It is Iearc-1 from the ancient papyri
rrfzily discovered in Egypt, speci
mens cf which have U-en sent to the
u'!c universlti- in this country.
that there a more jus-t system cf
taxation ia that country nearly six
thosif.f yers aco than in the United
States at the pr- nt time. Taxes on
farmer were t&-d a the water that
the farmer w-re able to get oa their
la:. -is. No ir, no taxe.. if that
fy!-m had ten applied to the farms
cf Nbrfe.a duritg the years of drouth
cry a family would have save! Its
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home. It was ia fact an income tax,
such as the populists demanded sixty
centuries later.
After long and fruitless efforts at
recruiting the administration has giv
en up all hope of getting an army of
100.000 men. Officers for It have til
been appointed and their commissions
are for life, but the American young
men would not enlist. Companies will
be reduced to a minimum so that there
will be a sufficient number of regi
mental organizations to give all the
officers a place. Plant some more corn,
sow some more wheat to pay these offi
cers their salaries while they do
nothing.
For the twelve years that Pettigrew
was In the United States senate he de
voted all his time to the Interests of
the people. When he failed of re-election
he went at it and made a million
dollars Just to show the plutocrats that
If he wished to turn his attention to
money-making he could beat the
sharpest of them at their own game.
Besides that he qualified himself for
future membership in the Washington
millionaires' club.
The New York World is very much
perturbed because it says that the "re
publicans will steal the tariff issue."
The Independent is not at all per
turbed. First, because it has foreseen
that they would for a long time and
kept its readers posted on that sub
ject, and, second, because It seems im
possible to get any sort of a reform
unless it is labelled republican since
Cleveland made democracy everlast
ingly disreputable.
The American Economist is so
wrought up over the tendency among
some republicans to go hack on the
sacred doctrines of "protection" that it
has begun an argument, planned after
the sound money papers. It begins at
"the age of barter" and works slowly
onward toward modern times. In "the
age of barter" they didn't have tariffs
and therefore they Vere all barbar
ians. That settles it-
When the panic of 93 was inaug
urated the western bankers had all
their money in the Wall street banks.
It will not be that way next time.
There are a laYge number of tankers
In the west who have been taught bet
ter by the populists. The others will
get skinned Just like their fool breth
ren did la the last panic.
Rockefeller should donate another
million dollars to the Chicago univer
sity to start a department called "Fun
stoa Ethics" That Is the code of
ethics that has enabled Rockefeller to
gather his millions and he ought to
specially endow a department to teach
it-
Mark Hanna swears by the holy
horn spoon that there shall be no tink
ering with the tariff at the next session
of congress. He had to do that to al
lay the excitement among the tariff
barons of New England, some of whom
have not been able to sleep nights
lately.
Current Comment
The 'Peter Cooper club of Omaha is
not dead it does not even sleep. On
the tth of May it will have a ban
juet. The following speakers have
accepted invitations and will he pres
ent and deliver addresses, namely, W.
J. Bryan. General Weaver, Jerry Simp
son. W. V. Allen", and the editor of The
Independent. There Is a general invi
tation extended to all the populists of
the state to attend.
The emperor of the Philippines and
Porto Rico, suzerain of Cuba and
president of the United States started
on his journey across the continent
and back last Monday. All of the court
and thousands of gaping, disfran
chised plebians of the capital city
turned out to see him off. The train
on which he rides is the most gorg
eous that has ever been seen in this
or any other country. A pilot engine
precedes the special from five to ten
minutes and another follows to assist
in cafe of accident. Ten hours "ahead
the special main track on each division
is cleared of all freight trains. Forty
secret service men in plain clothes,' the
most expert detectives in the United
States, accompany him as a body
guard. No monarch in Europe ever
went forth la more royal state ortet
ter guarded. Aside from the Immense
cost of the train and its equippage the
traffic of a continent is to be disar
ranged. The newspapers announce in
great bead lines. "Triumphal Tour"
and "Demonstrations of Loyalty."
Loyalty to what? Loyalty to the
"man who stands for large armies
wars of conquest and colonial posses
sions. Under this reign, the cost tl
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no way to ret full value for vour woo
h except by shipping direct to market. The fewer
fl hand your wool passes through before reaching
-J'J-i manufacturer, the more proiit there is for you
TO THE MANUFACTURER.
t99 s. Water St., CHICAGO
government has risen to $10 per capita.
Figure it out for yourself and see. Gov
ernment expenses appropriated by the
ast congress, Sl.500,000,000: popula
tion, 74,000,000. - -
It was not long ago that the Cheer
ful Idiot was standing on his head and
twiddling his toes because he said that
the populist governor was pardoning
all the criminals in the penitentiary,
when the fact was that he had not is
sued a pardon during his whole term.
The other day Henry Bolln, whom the
republicans elected to office in Omaha
and who embezzled over $100,000, was
seen walking around the streets of that
city a free man. and the Cheerful Idiot
had not a word to say.
Back we go step by step towards the
mperialistic conditions of the 16th
century. The other day two women
were stripped to the waist in Virginia
and publicly whipped by the sheriff for
mmorality. If the matter would end
there it might not produce any very
disastrous results, but it will not end
there. In the very nature of man and
society it cannot. There will.be re
flex action. Brutality will become less
hateful to the public and the chivalry
which always has been the protection
of woman will be partly effaced. The
universal protest that has 'gone up
from every part of the union may pre
vent a recurrence of such official acts.
What sort of a man must that sheriff
have been who applied the lash? .
It is said the battleship Maine is
about to be floated. The contract was
given to a wrecking company that re
ports that the vessel is but slightly in
jured and can be repaired. There is
over $500,000 worth of . ammunition
sealed up in its water-tight compart
ments that is uninjured. There is no
longer any doubt that the Maine was
blown up by a mine fired from the
shore. The wire connecting it with the
shore has been found and traced to the
firing station.
The reports coming from the Phil
ippines concerning the frauds in the
commissary department show that the
conspiracy was wide-spread and, that
very many officers are implicated. One
or two privates and non-commissioned
officers have been convicted, but the
great thieves and officers in high
standing have not been. If it takes as
long to try them as it did Neely and
Rathbone most of them will die of old
age before the cases are disposed of.
What The Independent has said about
the demoralization of the army of con
quest, 10,000 miles from home, is far
less than the trutu. Nothing else could
be expected.
The other day, three weeks after it
appeared in The Independent, a Chi
cago daily printed the letter from the
American consul in St. Petersburg
denying the stories that had appeared
in the dailies about the uprising in
Russia. The fact is that the papers in
dulge in such universal lying that one
can believe nothing. There may be up
risings in Russia and it may be the
peaceful land of the blest for all that
any citizen of this country knows
about it in this age of mendacity.
The Cuban commission has been to
Washington and gone home again.
There was every effort made to over
whelm them with compliments and
attentions. Officers of the army who
spoke Spanish were detailed to at
tend upon them and they were wined
and dined all the time they were in the
city. A formal dinner was given
them at the White house and every
other honor, regardless of cost, was
conferred upon them. The Machiavel-
ian theories of diplomacy were worked
for all that there was in them. What
the result will be we will have to wait
to see.
The head-line, "The Chinese Puzzle,"
has appeared so often in the dailies
that it has become tiresome. As long
as a press censorship exists it is not
much use for the average citizen to
trouble himself about China or on any
other public matter. He can get noth
ing that he knows are facts upon
which to base a judgment. The best
he can do is to guess at what is prob
able. The latest dispatches say that
there has been considerable fighting
done by the German troops under
Waldersee. It appears that one regi
ment got into a trap and lost several
men, but they say they finally drove
the Chinese clear across the great wall
Meantime it seems that the German
people are getting very tired of the
whole business and would be very glad
to get out of it.
Callahan, one of the parties to the
Cudahy iflidnapping case, was ac
quitted by the jury before whom he
was tried. The verdict is considered
by all parties to be the most extraordi
nary ever handed in by a Nebraska
jury. The evidence was so complete
that It did not seem possible for a
doubt to exist as to his guilt, yet the
jury found him not guilty. The verdict
is the subject of discussion all over
the country. Callahan is still in jail
and may be tried on other charges.
The American minister to China,
Mr. Conger, has come home, as he
says, on sixty days' leave of absence
and the republicans of Iowa propose
to run him for governor. Other re
ports are to the effect that Conger
came home at the request of the presi
dent because he did not like the course
that Conger had pursued. That is
flatly deDied by Mr. Conger. What the
truth about the matter is, is no conse
quence anyhow. What difference does
it make to the farmers, who these days
get up at daylight and work until 9
o'clock at night, to clerks in the dry
goods stores or the toilers in the fac
tories whether Mr. Conger is "elected
governor of Iowa or goes back to Chi
na? If any great number of these
workers should stop producing, Mr.
Conger would be short of his salary
in either position.
Yesterday the big show at Buffalo
was opened and Nebraska had on ex
hibltion three or four republican poli
ticians for whom the recent republican
legislature provided good salaries.
That is all that Nebraska will have to
show to the east. It is a grand exhibi
tion of the resources of this state, and
not altogether deceptive, for republi
can politicians were the chief product
last fall , and winter.
It seems that wherever imperialism
The backward sminfi: season has
throughout the country, causing them to be over-burdened with stock
ana maKmg a speedy clearing necessary, xne store anorded an outlet
for many of them, and they didn't stop to count the cost; We share
the benefit with you, as always. v '
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Children's cotton hose, double heel and
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Women's cotton hose,
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exists, depopulation sets . in. Popula
tion decreases both in India and Ire
land. Last year, a greater number of
emigrants left the island than the year
before. Of that total number of, emi
grants 37,765 came to this country.
Great Britain received 6,050, New Zea
land 64, Canada 472 and Australia 834.
Population is decreasing in Porto Rico
and If the official reports are to be be
lieved, McKinley has killed 30,000 Fili
pinos and of course there must be less
population there. This Malthusian
president evidently: thinks that the
world is to thickly populated and is
going to do what he -can to thin them
out. ' ,
Although it is less than three years
since the war with Spain began, there
have been already almost 41,000 appli
pations for oensions filed on account
of it, and this exclusive of the service
in the Philippines. It is estimated
that the total number of men in the
war,on the American side was 274,717,
thoueh of this number only about 60.-
000 were actually engaged. It will be
sefn.. therefore, on this basis, that for
every six men who actually saw service
there have been four applications for
pensions.
Mrss 'Mfltinn whn was confined in a
Kansas jail has gone insane and had
to be restrained to prevent her irom
iniurine herself. It is now said that the
cases against her will be dismissed.
One cause of her mental trouble was
said to be the death of a brother. This
will probably end the "Nation craze"
and things will settle back into normal
conditions in Kansas. The half luna
tics who urged Mrs." Nation on in
stead of restraining her, will probably
not be sent to an asylum, but they
evidently were not of sound mind.
Some attention should now be given to
the Kansas City judge who fined Mrs.
Nation $500 for exercising the right of
free speech. He may not be a lunatic,
but he certainly knew nothing of law.
A correspondent asks why The Inde
pendent did riot print Aguinaldo's ad
dress. There were a dozen reasons for
not printing it, any one of which was
sufficient. In the first place Aguinaldo
was a prisoner under restraint and
anj'thing that he might say under
those conditions would have no force
whatever'. In the second place there is
no proof that what has been published
In the republican papers was ever
written' by him. He is in close con
finement and anything that he would
write would have to have the approval
of the officer in charge before it would
be given to the public. Set Aguinaldo
free, put him outside of the jurisdic
tion of the army and then whatever he
may say would have some force and
deserve printing.
IV M,n III
One of the Cubans who came to
Washington upon his return was re
ported to have said after referring to
the provision in -the Piatt resolution
giving the United States power to send
troops into the island that "although
the United States might withdraw her
forces now, she could send them back
again. This then was a stumbling
block. It was, perhaps, magnified in
the eyes of the common people and
they demanded that if these suspicions
were well founded such a measure
should not receive our sanction. But
President McKinley soon assured us
that these suspicions were groundless.
When we said that by this provision
the United - States had more jurisdic
tion over Cuba than any of its own
states, because in the latter case I un
derstand the national government can
not send troops Into a state without
permission of the state government,
he said: .'Gentlemen, you need have
no fears. Troops will not be sent into
Cuba unless conditions are little less
than anarchy.' "
That is all very fine "and very
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Machiavalian, but those who remem
ber his talk about our "plain duty" to
Porto Rico and that forcible annexa
tion was criminal aggression will
place very little confidence in the
words of such a president.
On his imperial tour McKinley is
preaching the doctrine of imperialism
openly. At Memphis he reminded the
people that addition's had been made
to the city by act of the legislature
"and without the consent of the gov
erned," from which we are to infer
that the people" adjacent to Memphis
had no representation m the Tennes
see legislature, for if they had the ar
gument falls to the ground.' Then he
talks a great deal about our trade with
the Orient, and the riches that we are
to gather from it. The recent statis
tics prove that our trade with the
Orient is but a bagatelle when com
pared with the trade of western Eu
rope. The overpopulated Orient, with
its teeming millions of brown people
who have little that "we buy and are
too poor to buy much that we have to
sell, makes conditions that will ren
der the wild dreams of the imperialist
impossible of realization. '
Governor Savage says that the pest
ering he has endured from office-seekers
during the last three weeks was
enough to kill an ordinary man. The
republican patriots , who think that
they are entitled to office in payment
for party work runs far up into the
thousands in this state.
Rev. Dr. Rainsforth called Mark
Twain's attack on the missionaries
"damned lot." and now there is a
great discussion going on in the New
York dailies over the question wheth
er the use of profanity by ministers is
allowable. In defense they quote Ethan
Allen's "By the Great Jehovah," Gen
eral Jackson's "By the Eternal," and
the good St. Boniface's oath, "By St.
Peter's Tomb." If they keep on they
will have ministers swearing worse
than pirates."
The two embezzling bankers who
went out and . shot themselves up on
the Pacific coast have proved them
selves cowards as well as thieves.
They wrote maudlin letters to their
wives and children and then left them
to bear disgrace and poverty and the
wives to .work for the support of the
children. A thief is generally a cow
ard, especially the kind that, act as
bank officials.
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trouble. Take Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup
at once.
George W. Bege has dissolved part
nership with W. M. Morning, Esq., and
has formed a new partnership wfth his
brother, Frederick O. Berge, of the
Kansas City bar. Louis A. Berge, an
other brother, will also assist him in
the office. Mr. Berge retahis the old
offices in the Brownell block and is
putting in one of the most complete
libraries in the city.
Hardy's Column
Quakers Three Noted Women Ship
Subsidy.
We attended a Quaker meeting Sun
day. Our memory was carried back to
the days of our late boyhood and, ear
ly manhood. There was a Quaker set
tlement on the Genesee, about twenty
five miles below" where we were born
and reared, and In this settlement was
the first underground railroad depot
on the fugitives' road to Canada. Fu
gitives from slavery, who stopped at
Order House
dealt heavilv with manufacturers
and Wrappers
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father's house toward morning, were
taken the next night to the Quaker
depot and the night following were
taken to the shores of Lake Ontario
and sent to Canada. Every Quaker
was an abolitionist. There has always
been a warm corner in our heart for
Quakers ever since. ,
The three women are still living
who have done "more to elevate wom
anhood by education and to extend to,
her the rights and protection of law
during the last century, than .any
other three persons, men or women,
living or dead. Julia Ward Howe is
one of the most accomplished women
of the world in every way. She is how
over eighty-two years of age and still
takes an active part in public work..
She is the author of "TheBattle Hymn
of the Republic" and Is' often called
upon, in these latter days, to rehearse
it in public. The hymn was written
in Washington in 1861. Susan B.
Anthony is eighty-one and still at
work with Mrs. Howe for the higher
education of women, their better em
ployment and more remunerative
wages. She commenced teaching near
Rochester, N. Y., for one-fifty per
week and "boarded around," while
men teachers were getting from five
to eight v dollars per .week. A few
years ago the trustees of the Rochester
university offered to admit women as
students if they would raise one hun
dred thousand dollars as endowment
fund, the use of which to be credited
to the expense fund of Ihe institution.
Only a short time ago Miss Anthony
paid in the last two thousand dollars
and completed the fund, so after this
both sexes will be taught in that uni
versity. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is
the third of the trio, though she is
over eighty-five, she is still one-of the
three great woman powers. She is
the woman Gladstone of America for
statesmanship. She was at the first
international anti-slavery convention,
which met in London in 1848, but was
refused a seat because she was a wom
an. She met Lucretia Mott here and
they together called the first womans'
suffrage convention ever called in Am
erica, which met at her house, Seneca'
Falls, N. Y., the same year.
Congressman Burkett compares the
ship subsidy scheme to the granting of
subsidy bonds for building of railroads.
Railroad bonds are voted that freight
and passengers may be carried cheaper
than with horses and oxen.' There is
no promise or thought that ocean
freight or passage will be ahy cheaper
for the payment of ten millions a year
into the pockets of the rich ship-owners.
If our produce could be carried
as much cheaper from New York to
Liverpool as it is from Nebraska to
New York by railroad, it would be a
good investment to pay the subsidy de
manded. Editor Geere told us a few
years ago that the reason our mer
chant marine was petering out was be
cause Americans could make more
money in other occupations. Ameri
cans can do better than raise tea, now
why not take a chunk of China and
then pay Americans a subsidy for rais
ing tea? Mr. Burkett bases his argu
ment on national pride, necessities of
war and business. Away, with pride.
It is a fact our chief national pride is
in our millionaires. The first fruit of
the ship subsidy is to make more of
them. Better plan for peace than to
plan for war. We can live and pros
per if not another ship enters or leaves
our harbors for years. The question
naturally arises who will be made to
pay the subsidy? The farmers of the
United States will be made to pay
more than' nine-tenths of it. Their
products pay the most of the freight;
they consume the most of the high
tariff and trust goods. The million
aire pays no more to support govern
ment than the man who works on his
farm or by the day for corporations
and trusts. More than nine-tenths of
Some special purchases from ' over- bur
dened makers. - The prices prove that
we share the benefits with. you.
A lot of men's real balbriggan
shirts and drawers, all sizes, actual
. value 65c, for the clearing.per. Q Q f
garment. ... ... .... . . . ; J. . 03o
A'lot of men's unlaundered white
shirts, warranted Wamsutta mus
lin, French yoke, full shape, rein- !
L Jorce4.irohl" and back,' doubleV
suicnea tnrougnouc, a snirL maae
. to sell at 75c and well worth it '
sizes 14i to 17, our price for the QQn
clearing, each OJu
Special Inducements in Trunks, Suit
Cases, Bags, Etc. -
government taxes are paid by hard
workers. That is the tendency of re
publicanism today grind the poor and
grease the rich. '
ANOTHER TRUST ORGANIZED
Trade Unionlita Think Thy Can Play a
Hand at That Gam as Well a
- . Morgan
With the idea of forming one big
labor uuion of 2,000,000 members, Na
tional President L. R." Thomas of the
pattern-makers; William A. Shaw,
business agent of the international as
sociation of machinists; John Fernan,
district, master workman of the
Knights of Labor; National President
Simon Burns of the window glass
workers' association; John Kunzler,
national president of the American
flint glass workers association, and
National President T. J. Shaffer of the
amalgamated association of iron, steel
and tin workers, and J. W. Pryle, sec
retary of structural iron workers, met
in Knights of Labor hall in Pittsburg
last week. ,
It is proposed to hold a national con
vention at which representatives of the
various labor , organizations will be
present in Chicago, July 1, for the pur
pose of formulating, plans to bring all
the trades unionists in this country
under one federal head. The dele
gates at this convention will represent
nearly 2,000,000 men directly and in
directly connected with the gigantic
combinations that have been ushered
into existence during the last two
years.
It is claimed the leaders of the work
ingmen are alarmed over the character
and enormity of the combines, and
they are inclined to the opinion that
the combinations of such vast capital
bodes no good to them. This was indi
cated in the address of National Presi
dent Thomas. He said that a number
of trades had decided to be repre
sented, and that already the delegates
promised would represent' at least
over 200,000 trades unionists who are
skilled workmen. He presented the
list, which was as follows: Interna
tional . association of machinists, 50,
000; iron molders, 60,000; boiler-makers
and shipbuilders, 40,000; electrical
workers, 25,000; blacksmiths, 5,000;
pattern-makers, 3,000; coremakers, 3,
000; brass finishers and metal polish
ers, 12,000; stove mounters, 3,000.
He added that recently building
trades councils throughout the country
had been organized in Boston, Phila
delphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, Rochester,
New York, Detroit, San Francisco, St.
Louis, Milwaukee, Scranton and Hart
ford. He claimed these trades are es
sential to the trades unionists, and can
be brought under one head, that will,
if the plan proves successful, be oper
ated on the same principle as the com
bines. Organized labor seems to be the only
force of men preparing to fight the
trusts. If they only had the trusts
to fight the victory would be certain
and swift, but they will find that they
will have to fight the courts, the army,
the navy and the hundreds or tnou
sands who have-secured life appoint
ments under this government put in
power by the trusts. Wage-workers
should have begun where the wage
workers of New, Zealand began and
got control of the government. Most
of them have been shouting, working
and voting to turn the government
over to the trusts, and the trusts will
use it against them.
WANTED Trustworthy men and
women to travel and advertise for old
established house of solid financial
standing. Salary: $780 a year and ex
penses, all payable in cash. No can
vassing required. Give references and
enclose self-addressed stamped envel
ope. Address Manager, 355 Caxton
bldg., Chicago. -