Nebraska Newspapers

    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.