Harrison Press-Joarnal GEO. D. CANON, Publisher. . HARRISON, . . KEBRASKA The New Jersey Judje who propose! to squeeze the water out of the trust stock will not be looked upon as a prosperity promoter in certain quar ters. Municipal ownsrship has seized the people of Fulton, Mo., and they have voted to purchase a cemetery. This comes very near running municipal ownership into the ground. The population of the Indian empire, according to the census Just taken, is 294 millions. The returns show an In crease In British territory of ten mil lions, and a decrease In native states of three millions. Members of congress returning from Cuba are relating all sorts of stories concerning the situation down there. All of which but goes to show that a man can find out almost anything he prefers to believe if he will but be persistant. The toy-making Industry of Ger many las enjoyed great prosperity (luring the past few years. Cape Col ony, British East India, Eastern Asia, North and South America and Austra lia buy German toys, and the demand seems to be increasing from year to year. The legislature of AUbama has passed the much discussed "White House" bill, carrying an appropriation for the purchase and maintenance or the old Jefferson Davis house In Mont gomery. This relic of the days of the Confederacy will now be given its proper place and made an Interesting feature of the capital city of Alabama. The death of Baron Satge de Tho rent at the age of 97 deprives the Le gion of Honor ot its oldest member. The baron served for many years in the French army and afterward mads his home in Ireland, where he mar ried. One of his sons served in the British army. The baron spent the lat ter part of hi3 life upon an estate in the Eastern Pyrenees. A remarkable contrast to the map In precious stones which lately aston ished Paris, Is the railway map on tiles, put up at York Station, in Eng land, by the Northeastern company. It is made of white tiles, the lines being marked in black and burnt sienna. It Is about six feet square, and each tile is eight Inches square. The com pany intends to have similar maps at all Important stations on its own sys tem. Prince Henry, consort of the Queen of Holland, is extremely busy at the present moment getting together a perfect armory of spotting guns, most ly of English manufacture, in view ot his approaching trip to the-island of Java, and to the remainder of the Dutch East Indies. He sails early In the month of June; that is to say, Just about the time the honeymoon may reasonably be expected to have begun to wane, and will remain absent until the end of the year. Scores of old barns In Ohio have floors and mangers of black walnut, put In fifty or seventy-five years 'tgo when the chief endeavor of the pianeer iras to clear the dense forests for crops, So popular is black walnut furniture abroad that English and French agents buy even old barn timbers and fence rails. One of the few walnut groves left In Ohio was sold last month for export as lumber. The larges tree eight feet In diameter at the stump brought twelve hundred dollars. Many of the coast towns of Califor nia Instituted last year on Memorial day a unique form of tribute v the memory of our sailor dead whose un known graces lie in the ocean. Bands of children marched to the wi'er's edge and while singing patriotic songs strewed the sea with flowers. It is now urged that this pretty cerei-ony be made a national custom, and with this Idea in view a circular, signed by Mrs. Armitage 8. C. Forbes of Loi An geles, Cal., is being sent about, urging all Interested and influential people to concur and assist In perpetuation the ceremony. Max L. Poldrose, of Bromberger, Germany, was some time ago compelled to leave the Fatherland oa account of certain articles which ap peared In his paper, the Bromberger Tageblatt, giving deep offence to the crown. Recently his father died and h succeeded to the title of baron and M estate of $127,000. His brother se cured amnesty for him, and he will return to Germany after wedding Miss Aba Franklin at Chattanooga, Tenn. He Is about 30 years old and a gradu ate of Heidelberg. While In this country he worked as a baker, and re cently bad been employed at Lebanon, iBd. The preparation of a simple and cheap .artificial stone I bncomtn an Important German Industry and likely eventually to supplant brick making. The Ingredient! are only lime end uai la the proportion of from four to six parte of the latter. The materials are thoruogbly ml tea and shaped Into Moeta at U see tree Use. The latter an ikes fat Is taCar. which la tzStt, e4 aataiCtai to a mtmm ares f st frt3 into 11) f 'Ji fee , n triVirJ rtr vr?!i a n t i. INTELLIGENT FRANCE NO TROUBLE THERE OVER LABOR AND WAGES. Tba Yarlon Revolution Hit Taught the Plutocrat a Wboleeomn Leaeon Injnetlce) to Labor Would B Bw uli with tbe Sword. The employes on the Paris under ground railroad had a strike and have settled their strike. The terms of the settlement amaze the outside world. Those terms are especially amazing to the American and well they may be. The employes of the underground railroad in Paris are government em ployes. Their strike Inconvenienced the pub lic and even the radical French people were annoyed with the strikers. In other European countries and In this country, as the news reports very truly Bay, the strike of those govern ment employes would have been dealt with very summarily. Three engines of civilization would have been brought into play effectively. First, the police; second, the caval ry; third. Galling guns." But the police, the cavalry and Gat- ling guns were tried on the French people long ago and that little matter was fought ont and settled. The men who govern France know that at a certain stage In the proceedings a courageous people will not stand Gat ing guns, cavalry or police. They have found out In France that the way to deal with striking workmen is Just the way the government official would like to be dealt with himself if he were a striking workman instead ot a well paid public officer. pw- - . i , i . , , that 1 UK Bifmiiig Citrli Cuiiijiiaiucu t"- their day's work was too long and their pay too small. The pay was in creased and the day was shortened which was perfectly right. Each employe Is now allowed one day off in seven, and ten days vaca tion every year with full pay which is perfectly right The young men employed on the road are compelled to do twenty days" work in the army each . year. Their wages are paid while they are doing this compulsory military work which is perfectly right. If a man is ill he gets his pay as long as he is ill up to three hundred and sixty-five days, and the company In whose service he has become ill pays his doctor's bill, hU drug store bill and any extra expenses involved which is perfectly Just and fair. No Btriker is to be dismissed Because nf ha vine taken Dart In the strike. A benefit fund Is provided for the em ployes of this government enterprise and the company pays the membership subscription to the benefit fund with no deduction from the workman's pay. The above seems a horrible narra tive to the energetic American exploit er of labor. It would have seemed very stupid. In fact quite incomprehensible, to the French government at any time before the revolution. But the revolution taught France and some other people that a nation like any other structure, is Insecure when its foundation is agitated. The foundation of a nation is the enormous mass of working people, and that foundation the French have learned to respect and to treat well. We shall learn as much here some day. Let us hope we shall learn more peaceably than the French did, DEMORALIZING THE ARMY. The revelations of corruption at Ma nila are Decullarly painful, because they Involve so many army officers We are accustomed to dishonest poli ticians, but our army and navy, as rule, have been morally clean. They have been so, of course, be cause the atmosphere of the service has tended to keep them so. Army and navy officers are not made of any special clay they are simply the pro ducts of their training and associa tions. The environment that braces a naturally weak character Is hard to build up and easy to break down, it took only a year or two after the Res toration to destroy the moral tone that Cromwell had created In the English army. Prussian omcers weie u iu be models of austere honesty at tne time of the Franco-German war; now the German army Is honeycombed with corruption. The American army hitherto nas been email. Its officers could all have been accommodated la a single club of moderate size. They have grown up together, like one great family-, and the opinion of their order has been a regulating force of tremendous power. Bee lies, they have been among a huge civilian population, alwaya jealous of a standing army, and they have felt con tinually under obligations to be on their good behavior. But now all these old safeguards have been relaxed. The army has been tripled In site. It has been scattered over half the circumference of the earth. It has been diluted with civil ian officer, brlnaing Into It the tradi tions of the stock pit, the real estate market and the law courts. Above all. It baa been set down among subject peoples wboee public opinion could be Ignored, and It baa been allowed to svpprssa the publicity that might have eUecked transgressions. waea an aSeer In this country say Ctvptala Carter-He accused of Irrem IviOm, ke has to disprove the charges. Wfcaa Editor Rice brought such ac ta Manila Be was brought Ooeaoel Crowder, and according la Hi aoeonat tnls ftrmiririTT immtir Crawdef Boat yea tfclak yoa are Crowder Then you still think ymm are right? Rice Yes, sir; I know I am. Crowder I am sorry for you, young man; if you still persist in saying you are right, my orders are from General Macthur to deport you. Rice If you will give me a fair trial In court I can prove that I am right Crowder I'nder martial law such characters as you receive no trial. We have not the time. Rice Can I see the evidence in the Investigation which you claim proves my charges false? Crowder No; the investigation was placed in competent hands and does not need your approval. Your state ments have been proved to our satis faction to be without foundation, and you will be deported as an Incendiary character and a menace to the military situation. You are too young to let go on slandering men of honesty and capability, and I consider your charac ter as having fallen to Its lowest level. In writing and publishing such articles you endanger the foundation of our military system. Such conduct as this I consider equal to traitorism. Rice So far as being a traitor, I have served my country In the field for over a year ana never naa my iun of country so much as questioned. while you have never been under Are and never expect to be, and you dare question my patriotism! I have more patriotism to the square inch than you have in your whole carcass. Crowder Be careful; a few more words and I will put you In BUlibid (the Jail.)! The order of deportation was then Issued, but before the ship soiled Colonel Crowder gave the culprit an other chance, In this fashion: Crowder The military governor (MacArthur) directs me to ask you that if your conduct is satisfactory up to the time of your deportation and he sees nt to remit your sentence, wm you promise that in the future you will never write articles of a similar character against any officer of tne military? Rice No, sir. I hold the right to publish anything, anywhere, whenever I have proof of my statements. Crowder Your case is hopeless. Thereupon Rice was put Into soli tary confinement, where he stayed un til tie shin was ready to take him away. The subsequent proceedings seem to show that Immunity from criticism Is not Just what is needed to promote a healthy administration. Publicity is even more imDortant among "sub jects" than among citizens. MORGAN AND GAMBLERS. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, leading cit izen of the world, crossed the ocean. Two professional gamblers on the boat gave a modest Imitation of big financial deals. They played with the other passen gersbut not with Mr. Morgan, Mr. Morgan sat down, took one look at the small professional gamblers, and was horrified to discover that these gentle men had arranged what Is known as a "sure thing." The gamblers could NOT lose, the passengers were BOUND to lose. The two professionals, of course, did not get eleven hundred million dol lars. or even one million. But they did get twenty-five hundred dollars Mr. Morgan denounced them to the other passengers and they were com pelled to give back the money. Honor to J. Pierpont Morgan for his quickness of sight and promptness of action. We thank him, on behalf of a great public, for having thwarted wicked attempt We hope the two professional gam blers will never be so impertinent as to walk down to the corner of Wall and Broad streets, In New York, where Mr. Morgan has HIS office, and give their opinion of the game that played there. Is We learn with considerable Indigna tion that when the gamblers were ex posed they alleged that there waa an element of humor In their being ex posed by Mr. Morgnn. There was nothing humorous about It There is an enormous difference between selling for eleven hundred millions something that you never owned and working the insidious ace from the bottom of the pack Into your own hand. HURRAH FOR LIBERTY. The captain of the port in a town occupied by American troops seems to be an exceedingly formidable person age. It was for lese majeste against the captain of the port of Manila that Editor Rice was banished from the Philippines by Gen. MacArthur with out trial. Even more summary meth ods sesem to be In vogue at Havana. There the captain of the port, when bis dignity was offended by two Cu ban edltori,auromond them before him and forthwith sentenced one of them to thirty days and the other to sixty days' imprisonment at hard labor. He based these sentences on the ground that a certain article In the paper with which the culprits were connected was an Insult to himself. Neither of the men Imprisoned had written the ar ticle. And yet the ungrateful Cubelis pretend not to enjoy American liberty! Chicago American. The heirs of Cornelius Vanderbllt are lighting tbe payment of an Inherit ance tax of 9M,208, Imposed on tba trust fund left by W. M. Vanderbllt for tbe Children of Cornelius. They say that this Imposition was not legal. But their regard for legality does not seem to load them to take any steps toward paying up tie 118,000,000 or so of par soaal taxes that were daa and nat paid as tba Cornelius VaaaerWlt estate while its late owner waa allta. JIKTliODS OF TltUSTS. PAVING THE WAY FOR OWNERSHIP. PUBLIC The rromUInc Toafe Heail It U the Hrad or tbe Truat Toad Knd of tba AE ' Competition formation of Labor 1'bIods. The head of a toad, like the head of a trust, is superficially a hideous thing to look at. Sometimes it is alleged that valuable Jewels are found In a toad's head, and on this account the hideousness even of the fur-famed horned toad of the west becomes less repulsive. The trust toad, as you will find by examining it losely and studying events, has a head equipped with Jewels of a very fine quality. Many years from now men will be very glad that the trust toad was born, because of the good that will come from It Already we see that the trusts are inevitably strengthening labor unions. They are bringing the men into closer relationship and forming them into greater and more closely united bodies of workmen. They are preparlug for the inevitable and early forcible in crease In wages. The trusts organize admirably the great industries and prepare the day when all of these In dustries will be owned by the govern mentthat Is to say, by the people themselves. The trusts eliminate competition. which Is a stupid, out-of-date form of barbarism, leadtng to cheating, thiev ery and adulteration. The trusts do away with the vast armies of middle men, and, by diminishing every day the number of those who live on the work of others, they compel an ever growing number to enter the fields of useful production. Just at present the Jewel that stands out most prominently in the ugly trust toad's head is "Free Trade." Men have argued and fought and voted, and made speeches, and paraded for Free Trade and all In vain. The more they talked and paraded the heavier were the duties. But when the trusts want free trade they will have it, for the trusts control legislation. And we shall have free trade, for the trusts will want it very soon. A trust engag ed in manufacturing wants to buy as cheaply as it can the raw materia used. The trusts will soon own all the industries, all the manufactories, and fhev will want freedom from tne duties which are now paid on the ma terlal. Already there is in process or formation a great clothing trust. The small man who makes clothing now must pay a duty on wool to protect the American farmer who rais sheep. How long do you think the clothing trust will tolerate this duty on wool? How long do you think the trust en gaged in making clothes in America will tolerate a duty on wool that makes the industry so expensive? Some of the duties will be retained, of course at least until the trusts shall be powerful enough even to despise foreign competition. But one thing after another the trusts will want free from duty, and these things will be freed as fast as the trusts' order given. The trusts are going to do a great deal of good to the masses of the peo ple In time. They will end by forcing universal government ownership of monopolies upon the people. Of course this last step Is a long way ahead, and there will be considerable stiff fighting before It is taken. WOULD MAKE CUBA A STATE Senator Morgan of Alabama believes in dealing honestly and frankly with the Cubans. He propones to admit what Is obviously true, though the ad ministration Republicans foolishly try to make Cubans and Americana bellev it is not true, that the Piatt rider to the army bill practically establishes a protectorate over the island and leaves tbe Cubans no Independence, but onl a limited control over their Internal affairs, subject to the right of the Washington government to take away even that at any time- There is no use In denying that th Piatt rider Is a complete repudiation of the Joint resolution of congress d" daring that tbe people of Cuba were and of right ought to be Independent and that the United States Intended to recognize their Independence and no to exercise any control over them afte the pacifying of tbe Island. Senator Morgan does not believe In denying that the rider repudiates tha resolution, which the president has re peatedly declared we are bound to re spect and carry out In good faith. Th Alabama senator Is opposed to false pretenses and hypocrisy to the dark and treacherous policy which Involved us In war with the civilized and Chris tlan people of the Philippines and won the friendship of none but the polygi mous slave-holding and eml-Bava? Mohammedans of the southern group of the archipelago. Mr. Morgan pro poses to be honest and straightforward and so avoid trouble. And he proposes to go further. He will advise the committee from tbe Cu ban convention which Is about to visit Washington to advise the body they represent to apply directly to congress for admission to the union as a date He will tell them that congress has repented of tho pledge It gave to them and tbe world In 188. and Is not go Ing to grant them Independence. He will show them that they will come far nearer to Independence as a stale of the union than tbey cau ever come in anr other way. Ha will show tbem that as a state they will have two seats In tba tin I ted States senate, seven or mora seat in tba bona of represenUUres and eon trol of their own affairs except In their relations with foreign countries and in some less important matters, while they will be protected by the constitu tion against all unauthorized meddling of the general government In their af fairs. And when it dawns on them that as a state of the union they can go in debt to any extent and be pro tected by the Vnlted States In repudia tion, if they choose to repudiate, they may take Mr. Morgan's advice. But nothing of this sort will suit the administration Republicans. If Cuba hould become a state of the union all Cuban products would have to be ad mitted free Into all the other states of the union. The claim that the consti tutional provision respecting unifor mity of duties, etc.. applies only to states and not to territories would no onger be of avail with respect to Cuba. Free trade with Cuba is not what the administration Republicans want. It is not what is wanted by the Inter ests which have already demonstrated their power to control the administra tion. When the Porto Rico bill was pending in the senate Senator Foraker said in effect: "If we cannot lay pro tection duties on the products of these islands we have taken from Spain, we cannot get out of them too quick ly." That defines the position of the ad ministration Republicans. That Is why they contrived the Piatt protectorate scheme for Cuba instead of treating it as a territory of the United States without keeping up the false pretense of independence to come. The supreme court might hold that the constitution al provision as to duties applied to ter ritories as well as states. In that case It would never do to have Cuba a territory of the United States. That would break the backs of the sugar and tobacco protectees. Auu it WOUid be rVrli W0n6 With Cuba as a state, for there would be no possible way out. Congress can get rid of a territory; it can never get rid of a Btate. Tbe Morgan plan will never be approved by the McKlnley party. GOD MADE THE COAL FOR WHOM? nKIIOI D the hire of tha I.AIHKr-KS who liaTa reaped down your field, whl-h It of you kepi berk by fraud, rrlethj and the crlee of Ihem which hare reaped are entered Into the ear ot the Lord or Babaoth Jaiuee 4. Under the earth's surface at varioua depths, In veins of varying thickness, lies the world's supply of coal. Mil lions of years before men came here this coal was stored away to supply them with heat, when In the fullness of time they should arrive on earth to fulfill their mysterious and still unex plained errand. During thousands of centuries tbe coal was stored slowly, and during other thousands of cen turies it was packed into a stony con dition by the pressure of the weight piled up above it. Today men dig, it out and sell It In the production of this coal you would naturally say that there were only two great agencies. First, God, who made tho coal and stored it away to be used. Second, the men and wom en and children who work In the mines, living In darkness and grime, and bringing coal to the surface. Bui there must be some other great agency responsible for this coal - and for this reason: The coal product of Great Britain last year sold for THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. The total amount paid to all men and women and children who dug the coal out of the ground was FIFTY millions of dollars. Two hundred and fifty millions of dol lars, flve-slxths of tbe entire product, went to some one else. Of course that "some one else" Is the mine owner, the coal speculator. We do not believe that the power which made the coal and gave It to men la quite satisfied with the condi tions under which the coal is dug We have an Idea that a situation which involves extravagant prices for the poor who use the coal, very small pay for the poor who dig It, and two hun dred and fifty millions of dollars fo.- men who neither made the coal nor dig It, is not satisfactory to the Maker of coal mines and the Ruler of th world. We sincerely believe that In II own time He will change a system which needs changing so badly. We believe that a change will com? and that It will be radical. For Dl vine disapproval of the grab-alls li written too clearly to admit of any varied Interpretation: "tio to dow, ye rtrh men, M V.V.V am: HOWL fof roar enl.erlee that (ball come upon yon. "Tear rlrhee ere r or mp ted and your "l our gold aad ellrer I cankered and the met of then ahall ha n wltneaa aealaet yon aad ehall eat roar Heeli It were fire. Te bare heaped trwauor together far tba laal dart." Jaiaee I, S. 3. The existence of a half-starved miner is not pleasant The life of a woman working In the mines Is horrible and tho stealing of flve-slxths of tbe coal from those who dig It out Is abomin able. But we have an Idea that when the time comes to straighten out ac counts the miner will not bare the hardest part of the bargain. fteale far Iowa Seeaaa, Sioux City Tribune: Tbe next leg tslsturs will bare a good time at Des Moines. Tbere Is now a surplus In tbe treasury of about 11.250,000, and It la hardly to be expected that tbe rule of scraping tbe bottom clema will be brokea. r COME AND GO la many form Rheumatism Neuralgia Lumbago Sciatica make op larpe part of human uflering. Tbry come milrtenly, but they go promptly by the nee of St Jacobs Oil which la a certain sure core, wal?..r-..iTlioipMa,i Ey Witir a. rutin atoxi. t ameew. avowae, a, I. 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