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HARRISON PRESS-JOURNAl GEO. O. CANCN. Editor. HARRISON, - - NEBRASKA NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES. Mo smallpox epidemic at Earneston Jk curfew ordinance has been parsed At FUllerton. , The Inhabitants of York county wanl rural free mail delivery. Citizens of North Loup at a epetla: lection voted the waterworks bonds. An Investigation of the Trentor "ballot stealing deals will be Instituted Miss Blanche Platte of Grand Island as started for a tour around the world The remains of Jesse Hale, company A, Fourteenth infantry, will be buried at lncoln. John Woehlfe of Holdrege got tlrec or life and took strychnine, dying verj shortly after. The Lincoln city council has decidec to accept the loan of the capturec Spanish cannon. Tuesday s snowstorm was genera throughout the central and eastern por lion of the state. District court for Hall county ad Journed on account of the absence ol Judge Thompson. 'The remains of Fred Pegler, killed Ir the Philippines were interred at Pal myra Wednesday. Re. Rev. EL A. Osborne of Holdreg Is to be rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church at Creighton. Company K, First Nebraska, at Co Jumbus, has been mustered in by Ad jutant General Barry. At North Loup the board of health has ordered the schools closed on ac count of scarlet fever. The Nebraska City fire depart raenl gave its thirty-second annual masquer ade ball Wednesday night. "While some excavating was beinf done In the cellar of a store at Gretns a. skeleton was unearthed. Tho Farmers' State bank has beer organized at North Loup, with an au thorized capital of JJO.OoO. The executive committee of the su preme council of the Court of Honoi wet at Beatrice Wednesday. C. C. and T. E. Parmele have jusi completed plans for the new Parmel opera house at Plattsmouth. Word has been received from th Philippines that George Stark of Beat rice is dangerously 111 in Manila. Governor Poynter has appointed dele gates to the pure food and drug con gress, to be held at Washington. At St. Edward Wednesday A. D White pleaded guilty of illegal selling of liquors and drew t'iO and costs. Attorney Dysart of Nelson has de cided to locate in Omaha, where he wit elate himself with V. O. Strickler. Helen Kazda, 5 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marten Kazda of Te cumseh, was accidentally scalded tt death . The Abraham Lincoln club of Lex ington celebrated Lincoln's birthday with a banquet. Hon. Jack MacCol.1 was toastmaster. R. P. R. Millar, an old resident of Lincoln and the veteran general agent there of the Missouri Pacific, died sud denly Wednesday. Frank L. Densmore. charged with the murder of Mrs. Densmore and Frank Laue, has secured a change of venue from. Buffalo to Dawson county. A mass meeting of Grant county peo. pie was held in Hyannis Saturday tc protest against the leasing of Nebraska public ktnc? to stockmen. The stai board of education on "Wednesday considered the investment or school funds, but took no definite action. There is now between Jl'OO.OOf and tSOO.OOO uninvested. The state board of transportation on "Wednesday heard the complaint of Robert Wrigley of Ellis, who declares that the Rock Island railway Is dis criminating against the farmers of his community. NOTES OF THE DAY, Kid boots are going up in price In England. The reason given is that too many young animals have, been killed to provide them. It is estimated that the various the aters and opera houses in Germany re ceive subventions to the amount of about $500,000 a year. Among the 1,500 Cubans who took the census of the islands were many wo men and they received the regular re muneration of Z a day. There were but two alarms' of Are In the city of Spencer, la., a city of 3,000 Inhabitants, during last year, and one of them was a false one. Forty-one lives were lost in the Colo rado coal mines In JSS9. one for each 173 miners employed. There were also recorded ninety-seven accidents with out fatal results. The 8alvatlon Army for the second time baa failed to get a foothold In Mexico. Mexican laws forbid all relig ious processions In the streets of cities. The natives of the Philippines manu facture a very saury, transparent fab ric for ladles' dresses from the fibres of the pineapple leaf. It In called pina troth, Connecticut figures from Its recent state school census that it has 2t per rent more Inhabitants than It had In MM. The population of the country on this basis Is Ti.13D.M0. Water Is the hardest of all substances to heat, with the single exception of lydrogen gas. The easiest two are mercury and lead, which stand In this HBcpict on nearly the same footing. 1 On of the oldest hoetelrles In Eng kaa 10 the new Inn of Gloucester, bat In pit of the centuries which have rolled , by atac It waa bulrt Its once appreprl - Ma iBBTHpthm atUI clings to It. Two KaMM Staler HMorteal library iMhBiui urn wm toim of n -c l.Jff.W boobsaa4 sajsaeileia. L rlt, .tW MMf aWMMM Mb)eU POWER OF THE TRUSTS MEN FORCED TO THE WALL BY THE COMBINES. The Small' Merchants and Man ufacturers Crowded Out of Their Business, (Jas. Creelman in New York Journal.) The most tremenduus fact revealed by Mr. Bryan's tour through the eastern states is that thousands of small busi ness men and manufacturers who sup jxirted Mr. McKinley In 1898 have de cided to support the democratic party this year. A more significant move ment can hardly be Imagined. This means that the crushing power exerted by the trusts is driving the vic tims of this all-engulfing, rapacious system of centralization out of the par ty dominated by Senator Hanna and Mr. McKinley. the open agents of the trusts and syndicates. For the first tinr? the trust has be come a factor probably a controlling factor In practical politics, not only in the west and south, but also In the east, and particularly In New York. While Senator Hanna is arranging with POSSIBILITIES OF AMERICAN POLITICS. , . D?ar Children, this In a Groat and Good man. go Great that the fctate of Nebraska tseiids him to represent it In the Penate of the United States. So Good that he can lay aside all Prejudice and, while Hen ing Nebraska, can, at the name time defend the Great 'Standard Oil Trust in the Law Suit which Nebraska is urging against the Trust. Isn't he a Good Thing? the trusts for a campaign fund of t23. 0UO,0X that Is Eatd to be the estimated sum Mr. Bryan has been receiving as surances from hundreds and hundreds of business men who apposed him in 1896 that they will aid him now in self defense. There Is little real opposition In the country to corporate combinations and trusts formed and operated for the pur pose of reducing necessary expense and solving the problem of cheap and in telligent distribution. Workmen and consumers alike recognize that organ ization and system aie necessary cor ollaries of cheap production, and that with reasonable opportunity for com petition the general public will ulti mately get the benefits. But the cry which rings from state to state and increuses In volume and Intensity every week is a cry against a system of absolute monopoly, backed by government favoritism, which Is crushing out small proprietors, shutting the gates ot opportunity and converting a large and Important body of hitherto Independent business men into salaried employes. The change has been swift and almost noiseless. In every city and town are to be found scores of hir ed men who, only two years ago, were in business on their own account. These men were helpless to resist the over powering weight of the trust system. Let any man In any part of the coun try Investigate this statement In his own community. The great danger which threatens the country I that no man will be able to engage In any of the businesses controlled by trust un less he does wm hireling, and that, with competition destroyed, the nrlaaa of the necrsesries of life will be flged arbitrarily by the trusts, without re- traint. do to any store In urj from In trust system. hi. h Mr. Man neighborhood ami ask whether the I na ssya is a icmhI thin, trusts have reduc ed prices. The lappij rtils Is the su prune denn rutlc Itsue rise in the pttce llhln the past year) , leader and no -eimhiiiailon f l-ad-1s startling, almost Incredible. jwg it power or lmpoit- Kenatur Hanna says public ly that the ' sure. It is ehanmng vole every h.ur. trusts are dclng good by lowering the 'There may I difference of opinion te cost of manufacture and distribution, i ganllng legislation on the subject, but That is true. The Journal has said the! every man I have met seem to under same thing. It is a part of the order if ! slam! that Ith a president and cabinet progress. Organization and systematic free ffi.m the control of the trusts the economy. whether by trusts or other- j country has a better chance to strike wise, must cheapen manufacture. 1 n the giant crimes of the trusts than have failed to find any man w hose is possible w hen. the president and the opinions on any subject are worth hear-'cabinet place the whole power of the Ing w ho is willing to say that it is nongovernment tehiml the criminal win- a goou cuing id lessen me cost of pro- tiuclng any necessary of life. But Senator Hanna has nothing to1 say about the fact that the trusts have ! oeeome so powerrul. so ruthless, that. while the cost of manufacture hi'fciow- 1 Ing less, the price to th- consumer is' increasing. The startling rise !n the prices of articles manufactured by tlie I trusts completely unmasks the gtgnt.- ' industrial and commercial conr-pirs j which is bleeding the whole country, .to man is saie bow. ."So man uares to interfere with the pilljse. Within one year me iraMs r.ave nearly doubled lr. to twelve cents, and it now fends out power and In perfec t organization. Yet j as a valentine to consumers a card prices in retail stores everywhere are i announcing the addition of another c ent going up and up and up. If you are j per gal'cn on February H. This is n not already aware of thif ask your advance of five cents s gallon, or C'i wife, your housekeeper, your butcher. per cent, within less thun a year, your grocer. This is the most over-j What is the excuse? What the ra whelming thing on the whole metal, f s-n? It costs less, not roue, to pro political or economic landscape. This j du-e the c rude oil now than it did a It is that is driving tens of thousand? year ago. It costs bsi, not more, to if not hundred of thousands, of new j serine and deliver it. recruits to the democratic party. Mo- j The Standard Oil company last year nopoly stalks grimly on the ashes of competition. These are not theories; the- are plain facts. I personally know that even important bankers have informed Mr. Bryan within the past few weeks that they feel the enslaving, humiliating clutch of the great trusts and syndi cates, forcing them this way and that against their will. The business com munity Is losing Its Independence; the trusts, with a newly awakened realiza tion of power, are raising the prices of everything they manufacture; In small towns and villages clerks are taking the place of proprietots. President McKinley and Attorney General Griggs are sympathetically In active. They know that the supreme court of the I'nited States has declared in the most positive and unmistakable language that the anti-trust law passed by congress Is constitutional, and that it Is sufficient to reach the criminal na ture of the trust conspiracy. The presi dent and the attorney general know that at the present time there is being organized the most extensive and Irre sistible combination of railroad trans portation, hand in hand with the other trusts, and that the nation ia becoming weak and bloodless under the burden. But they also know that Mr. Hanna expects to get t2i.0O0.00O from the trusts to be used In keeping the administra tion In power. The attorney general re fucses to enforce the anti-trust law. and the president wl.l not compel him to do It. The result of my Inycatlgatlon In Maw York and the middle west during the pact few weeks la a Arm convic tion that for the first time the country kt aroooed to the real peril to a re publican form of government arising I binutior.s. J , TYPICAL TRUST EXACTION. An Object Lesson In their Methods of Doing Business, Tork. tFpeda!) -The Journal says: Less than a year ago every woi kman in the country could buy oil for his lamns at eight rents a gallem in cans. The Standard Cll company I j has einee successively raided the price j paid liO per cent dividends on a largely fictitious capitalization of tlW.OOff.uO1). With such profits to the good. It has centalnly no excuse for inc reasing the price of its commodity by CZ'M pet cent. But to the second question. "What Is the reason?" the answer t easy and obvious. The Standard fill company is a conspiracy of greed against need. It enjoys a monopoly "worse and more oppressive than any ever granted by the Tudors In Eng land's most despotic times." It is not satisfied with do per cent dividends on Its watered stock If by Its monopolistic control of the market It can moke the owners of kerosene lamps pay more. And it can. Would Mr. McKinley disturb it In view of "what was done during the caria last year," to quote Hepburn of the Htandard oil bank, to Gage lu June, 1837? INDIANA fiAS ADMINS LOW. Manufacturers Afraid It Will Not Last Long. Indianapolis, Ind. (Special.) One of ine most important mantis to Indian ians discussed at the annual meeting of the Mate board of commerce this week was the state's gas supply, which waa opened by Judge M. A. Chapman, and a plea for the shutting off of the gas from private use that it might be used for manufacturing purposes. II I Ml were not done the gas would book give out and the great manufacturing interests In the cas belt would have to shut down. . He said the prosperity and growth of the gaa belt cities had been altogetiVi due to the finding of naturul gas In the field and that this was proved by s tint. in. which shcrw that the nrhl eun ties which form the gas field hd i population In 10 .f 2r.'tK. whiih I had been Irnresie-d in ZS3.1M. "ft tax duplicates rhome-il that In 17 the taxable property amounted to tltyz. l'ei. whlcn umeunt hacl been ir.cre.esv in 10 to tIJO.Ml.SiS. In 1W. he ta.il the entire country contained only tin r. email factories as are generally found in an agricultural country, wl.tr.-u now plate and window- class, eUci, n n tiles, flies, paper, straw board, bicycles and tin plate are laigely produced Thousands of worklngmen have moved Into the field and new schools and homes have been built as a result. H acso held that the growth had benefited the entire stale and had developed i ail road properties In an unhoped for mariner. He said the possibility of the total failure of the gas was a matter for grave apprehension, the more so because theories advanced to the effect that by drilling deeper wells snot net vein of porous rock containing gas would be found had proved to be with out foundation. Muncle, he said, drew its gas. like Indianapolis, from a depth of l.ficjo feet, while at Itedkey wells had been driven Z.'M) feet without find Ing new deposits of gas. Cities wmoh formerly produced gas enough within their own limits to sup ply all their hcwr.es and factories are now compelled to pit-ej gas from a dm tapce. and the pressure in the best neios has been reduced from pounds to the square inch to 1T.. He said that If pipe lines and pumping stations were discontinued ur.d pte- vented from "sucking life out of th gas lielt" the supply mliclit last lh factories for twenty years, povidinx. the supply were cut off from private homes and business Ileuses, wheieus It would be gone within three years at the present rate of consumption. He uMvanced the theory tlvit gas was a luxury In private homes, whereas it was u necessity in many fac tories. The suggestion ss not well received by delegales from cities who want gas for fuel. ' Real Sixteen to One Caval. Sparta, Tenn. (Special. A regular 16 to 1 gavel is In process of construc tion for the next democratic national convention. I. if. Fairbanks of this city, who made the gave! used at U.e Chlcugo democratic conentioii lilch nominated W. J. Bryan In and also mude the beautiful flagstaff of mood from every state and teiritory in the Cnltrd Slates, v.'hlch was ex hibited at the Centennial exposition, la now making a gavel to be composed of a piece of wood from each state and territory, to be bound at each end mlth eight strands of silver and a strand of gold In the middle, to represent It to 1. It Is the expectation of Mr. Fairbanks to present the gavel to the democratic nominee. NO OAMK UKTH AWAT. In killing game the Boers use a bullet of, which the lead point Is exposed, se I hat It "mushrooms" when It strtkea. On entering (he bullet expands and tears an ugly hole. If It strikes side wise the effect Is horrible. ADOPT RESOLUTIONS. DECLARE FOR OPPOSITION TO THE MONOPOLIES. Convontlon Adjourns After Arrang ing Committees to Propagato Principles Affirmed. Chicago, 111. tHperial Louis F.Post of Chicago reported for the committee on platform and resolutions, lie mid the report of the committee ha4 been unanimously agred on. and Introduced Prof. Wills, who read the report of the committee, prefacing it v.ith a full list of the committeemen. An address to the American people on the trust question formulated by the resolutions rommittee was react by Prof. Wills. He then proceeded to read the platform. Both paiK-rsr' Here punctuated wilt! great applause. EiOLITTIONS AriOJTU). After a protracted dt UUe the address to the public cm the rcxtrt of the reso lution committee was declared adopt ed. J. It. Sovereign of Arkansas Intro duced a resolution which was adopted. denouncing the auti-sralplng bill as a trust measure, discriminating unci un Juet. I pon reconvening of the afternoon seaeion Chairman Monnctt ruled that the report of the committee- on national organization is privileged business. Jle called on the chairman of Ihe commit tee. General J B. W eaver of Iowa. Gen eral Weaver stated that the report had been unanimously agreed to In com mittee unci Bkcd the convention tc adopt it in the same manne r. Secretary Norton of Alabama tner rvaci the report. The constitution recommends that tn name of this organization shall be tht American Anti-Trunt league, uny Amer ican citizen of satisfactory character and qualifications shall be eligible; lo cal leagues to be coriijsecl whe rever found of not less than live members, county leagues of five or mote local leagues; local league may form state- leagues on such basis c f representa tion as convenient. l.'rail the first national convention is held the national league cluiJI consist ut the national committ-e. the national executive committee anct the national olllrers. TJierciift'-r the national league shall be composed of delegates elected by popular vote tf the members of each state. Keh state shall be enlitlcu to one delegate to the national league and one delegate for eac h additional f." members. A national president, to hold iIlce two years. Is provided tor. with ' IKiwer to choose remaining omcwrs. jn- ludlng a national committee or tnree members from each elate and territory and a national executive rommittee i t fifteen, of which the league oflictrs shall be me mbers and whlt b shall ap point a committee on ways ami ineaus o raise necessary tunas. Provisions for afllllatlng the local leagues with the national organization and levies of dues, etc., txre made, n la rovided that the national vice preM- lt-nts shall act as chief organizer of he state li-ogues and shal lupposnt a hic-f orgnnlzer for ea h county. The; ounty organizer may appoint organ izers for the subdivisions of his terrl- ory. The rcxrl concludes: "The exec utive orninittee shall temrxirarlly appoint he? vice presidents and three me.tior.ul ornmitecmen .and (the. delegates lu onventimi assembled shall make re-- irnmendnllonH to the committee for this purpose, anil trie vice preKioenis no ap pointed -hall. as soon as advisable, call a slate meeting for the puriife of e lecting their success r and perfecting the state organizations. The vice pres idents so apiiointecl shall hold their places until the oflices are filled l.y the slate league and the? national olll cers until the national league I'Hs their places. "Your committee recommends that the-platform adopted by this liody be made- the declaration ot principles f cr the national organization. "Iti solved. That we recommend Hon. M. L. lockwoeiil for president, II. l, Mai tin for secretary. ". T. Bride for treasurer and W, 15. Fleming for llnan .i!,l secretary." General Weaver tiicAcd the adoption i f the report. At the close of Mayor Jones'tremnrks the report of the committee on national organization was unanimously adopted. M. L. Lch kvvood ecf Pe nnsylvania unanimously elected president of the organization. Franklin Went worth of Chicago was chosen secretary. C. T. Unde. Washington, I. C, was elected treasurer, and W. H. Fleming t.f Ken tsic ky. linane ia! secretary. The following committee was up pointed to bear the protest of the convention against the passage of the curreney bill to Washington: W. It. Fleming. William Sulzer, George Fred 'Williams, Mrs. Helen Gougar. F. it. Judge-ley. Willis, J. AW-ott, T. Carl Spelling, Judge William 1'retiss. J. M. Weaver. J. K. Sovereign, W. II. Har vey, J. B. liomuns. J. W. WilMn, John I.. Lentz, M. C. Wetmote and C. A. Tow ne. The committee decided to meet al Washington next Monday afternoon. The ll-t of vice presidents and com mitteemen was adopted without reail Ing and the e onfe-renre recessed until k o'clock in the evening. AIUoCHNS SINK MK. At the night session of the confer ence u resolution by Congressman rtul zer. pledging the nu riibe-rs of the league to boycott gewMls sold by trusts, was lead. Congressman l-tidgele-y and oth ers objected to the resolution. They thought the boycott undignified, but did not object to the members giving moral support to those firms not ldn tilled with trusts. To meet these ob jections the tesolutton was amended and passed in the following form: "Itesolved, That the members of the anti-trust league shall give practical effect to their antagonism to trusts by giving preference so far as practical, to non-trust products. Kdward K. Jennings of New Torle was the first speaker on the evenint program. Next Garrett leroppers ol Kouth Dakota was Introduced and spoke. A committee on propaganda was ap pointed. The committee will, II la said issue a weekly anti-trust paper. Q. A. Hinlth of Michigan read a rvsolatlvu fa. voring sn Income tax, but the conven tion declined to consider It. The conference closed with Are min ute talks by John Isidore of New Tork. Robert Neff of Oklahoma, Q. A. Rmtth of Michigan, II. ". Itlgetow of Ohio and others. The roll of states was called and each given a brief hearing. Chairman lcbweod deetared tht conference adjourned sine die, after he had appointed the toUowlsg members of l be executive rommittee of - the American Anti-Trust league: dartre Fred Wllltaass of MiassckasiHs. V. H. Monnett of Otrto, p. fl. Dow H Kew Tork, Tom I Johnson of Ohio and M C, WttMor of Missouri.