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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1901)
CjTisca Prcss-Jc:rcal a. a. rairrs, rua.. HARRISON, NEBRASKA Ov watrlch forma are profit. Urea art worth $100 plc u4 good specimen yield about 2a worth ot MtHn t piucmng. Fifteen thousand two hundred and amy feet is toe hetgnt ot the mow 11m ob the equator. It la about 5.000 feet In the latitude of London. To the kid glove trade of the world France i the undisputed center, and the beautiful city of Grenoble, 400 mile oath of gay Paria, ia the veritable cradle of this moat interesting Indus try. A road la being built in the high Alps which paaaea the Great St. Ber nard and also the hospice of that name. Thla great engineering feat will be fin ished and opened to traffic la July of next year. The total annual production of tim ber and firewood of the German for eats ia estimated at 38.000,000 tons, and this ia aupplemented by an Import of 4.000.000 tons. The material progress of the country would not be possible had it not the large home production to fall back upon. The roof garden at the Merrltt building. Eighth avenue and Nine teenth street. New York, has been crowded every night aince it waa opened, July 1. The admittance la free, and religious meetings, with much music, are held every evening. Although the garden hold 1,600, the crowds were so great last week that hundreds had to be turned away. The Foreign Tract society has trans lated Bunyan'a "Pilgrim's Progress" Into no less than ninety-five different languages and dialect. Some of these, a might have been anticipated, are of a Jaw-breaking character. So much so. Indeed, have the compositors of the Oxford University Press found the Eskimo language to be that they have demanded a higher rate of payment in regard to it A comparative statement concerning the importation of pork, bacon, and lard into the Philippines during the calendar year 1900, as compared wkh the calendar year 1899, has been pre pared in the division of Insular affairs of the war department. The total im portation of these commodities for 1900 was valued at $233,523, as against $144,569 for 1899, showing an increase of -61 per cent. That concrete is to take the place of brick and atone as a building material ia the hopeful belief of Mr. Edison, who ha discovered a cheap method of making Portland cement Before many years, he says, a contractor will Just Take his wooden form one of twenty or thirty standard shapes and go out and-"pour a house" which will cost very little and will be fireproof. Hail the happy day! Such a structure should be almost as imperishable as the bill for the rent The Oriental maxim that nobody should run if he can get along by walk ing, or stand if sitting will answer, or ait if It la possible to lie down, finds many adherents in days of extreme heat Telephone offices are unusually busy because so many people resort to them to save making a trip, and street cars are filled with those who would otherwise walk. In abort, all easy ways of doing things are at a premium. with the result that those persons who are employed in the occupations that save physical effort on the part of the public are worked harder than ever. Public attention has been centered of late upon the Chinese in their own country; but the position of Chinese In the United States now demands con sideration. The act of 1882 suspended the Immigration of Chinese laborers for tea years, and the act of 1192 continued the exclusion for tea years more. This part of the law will expire by llmita- Uoa next year. A bill will be Introduced la the next Congress to extend its pro visions for another period of twenty years. Oa the ether hand, an effort will be mad to repeal the act Thus the whole aueetioa of the treataMnt of Chiaase Immigration will be ta tho smaller places ia horses have to tw borrowed for the fire engines. Often thirty to fifty min utes an wasted in getting which, when aa alarm of Ira given, wars at work at their daily duty. A considerable amount of time is also lost In finding the proper har- Th horsing of stea la cooatry sutnets a vary dOeutt problem There I hardly a towa of aay state ia tbe Unit Mat which does aot have one or mare fire etnas, ami they eaa be got way with a daisy of from thirty eoes to a Blast aad a half, wall ta the larger dties even thirty weald he Ca of the most notable i as so ' of good ghyslsee, who, la i of exacttaej Berries at as It was am l ta. ftwL sr task. - Tt m 1 - er;t-ef-Oe-wy western izZLxZi oa "esswaed node. t esa earns fit hspaaaurd, THE GAME OF GRAB. IN WHICH THB POOR MASSS HAVE NO SHOW. TraaspaHaHe CnMu to Be, flat tae mass Wttl Bee- Oa SB Treats Bate All leaaetrtas. From Philadelphia comes the sews that the meeting of Messrs. Morgan, nanna. unscom ana uma ib York lately had behind it a much greater combination than the bitu minous coal combine The new com bination, it Is asserted, is nothing less than a combination of the Pennsylva nia railroad, the American Steamship Line, the Chesapeake and Ohio, with the fleet of ocean steamers sailing from Newport News, and the bulk of the shipping s tb great lakes. The combination of interests thus forming in conjunction with the Ley land line deal, will put into the back ground even the gigantic billion dol lar steel trust It will give to the promoters snd to the new combine the control of transportation from the lakes and the west practically to Eu rope. The deal ia so gigantic in its con ception as to be almost beyond be lief, and would be so were it not for the organisation of the big steel trust with such ease and the rumors which reached this country from Europe while Mr. Morgan waa abroad. This transportation trust will have the foreign trade of the United States almost st its mercy, owning as it will nearly all the wharfage at t great ports and with a community at in terests with the other lines of trans portation that reach the seaboard, it will be able to raise the foreign rates on wheat, corn, cotton and the other products we export to the old tune of all the traffic will bear." This of course will mean that the price to the farmer and producer will be accord ingly decreased. The trust question is certainly be coming interesting and the magni tude of the combinations is enlarging as the feed the smaller onea have been feeding on tend to larger growth. It Is also well to remember that the four men above mentioned form the combine that Is demanding the pas sage by Congress of the ship-subsidy steal, and if they are able to control the next Congress for that outrageous measure they will doubtless be able to prevent all anti-trust legislation. The coming Congress will bear close watching and It will be well to in form your Senators and Representa tives, who are Republicans, that their actiona will be strictly scrutinized. It is a matter of congratulation to Dem ocrats that all the members of their political faith with hardly an excep tion, are opposed to the subsidy scheme and favor anti-trust legisla tion. THB REPUBLICAN CRY FOR REFORM. The Republicans are In great fear of a coming storm; they feel they are losing the confidence of the honest people. Hanna and the men who have control of tne party machine are great bluffers and ruthlessly override any that raise even a faint cry for refor mation. The enormous patronage at their bestowal has so far been able to stay revolts In all quarters but the stopping of the mouth of a politician does not satisfy the people who are paying the fiddler, but who are not allowed to name the tone to which the dance is set Republican editors all over the country are urging reform, they are in touch with the people and know their unrest Independent news papers are more outspoken and see the coming storm, the Indianapolis News, for Instance, says: "Republicans them selves are beginning to see the neces sity of doing something to set things to rights. So we hsve Republican protests against the ship subsidy, re publican demands for the lowering of our tariff duties, republican denuncia tion of the corruption in Pennsylvania and Maryland and republican argu ments in favor of still further strengthening the gold standard. A member of the president's cabinet has declared himself against the robbers la Pennsylvania. It will be well for the sen is utHority if they read the danger signals." This ery will not be heeded by Han na and the machine that control Congress, they are latent oa ship-subsidy stasis aad legislation of similar atrodty. The small honest element of the republican party In Congress will be pot down with a high hand and their efforts to legislate against the trusts win be laughed at This Is the Democratic opportunity and they win show their hands by giving the few honest Republics aid to reform the corruption that rales the party ia power. There will not he enough of them to legislate la the oaattac Coagress bat .the Democrats win glre them a ehaaee to stand ap aad he coasted aad thee sppsal to the eoaairy for a aew deal in IP. THE TRUST AND THEIR ALLIES. That tresty RepabUeaa orgs, the Bcotoa Advertiser, whose breath of KM In through protection, la aoita chv tarhed sheet the rati prosily treaties. It declares that it was the some of them, that beaded oe? the ml proelty treaties daring the f-fcty -sixth realism The Adrtreasr ascJarss that th fJaas of ttt let-, t rx Uteres wtJe. ttt Itoraattogtoa; Cat Cent fcaar&s rpeo tzZm to the racist CM CiT wore smwCX T taaorer ear c ta t3X3 KM. al Ct VSIB the friend, of the admletatratlon j petntea out isu ue twirea would do no hert to Arorica tadue tries and would rather be of benefit to many important lines of trade, the lobbyists simply retorted that they did not care to havehe experiment tried. The Advertiser further states that the President "is now considering the ad visability of making some appeal to public opinion, which may be aroused uScieniijr io cum pel iiia Seuaui iaiu disregarding the orders of the trusts." This proves the contention that the iruais are in control of iue nainiini can party and dictate to the adminis tration, which seems to be helpless in their hands. ' There is no doubt that a number of senators such as Aldricb, Allison, Fairbanks, Piatt the pair of them, Hawlcy and others are friends of the trusts, but there are a number of sen ators who are not controlled by them, copcee the reclpoorty treaties on con stitutional grounds that all lawa for taxation must originate in the house of representatives and cannot there fore be a matter of dicker between the executive and foreign countries. TAXATION OF RAILWAYS. In every state in the union the rail roads pay much less taxes in propor tion to the property they own than the farmer or the business man. In Ohio this eyil haa become so great that Tom Johnson as mayor of Cleveland is making a fight to equalize taxation and of course the railroads and other corporations are fighting him bitterly. The Democratic state convention has backed up hla efforts by a plank in the platform on this reform, which reads: " "The acceptance of free passes or other favors from railroads by public officers or employes shall be made ade quate ground for vacating the officer held by them. "All public service corporation shall be required by law to make sworn public reports, and the power and duty of visitation and public re port shall be conferred upon the proper state and local auditing of ficers to the end that the true value of the privileges held by these corpora tions shall be made plain to the peo ple. "Steam and electric railroads and other corporations possessing public franchises shall be assessed in the same proportion to their salable value as are farms and city real estate. "The proceedings of the Republican majority of the state board of equal ization are a scandal. Property values instead of, being equalized were in creased or diminished at the dictation of political bosses pursuant to corrupt combinations and conspiracies."' The Republican convention declared in favor of a revision of the revenue laws of the state so that all classes of property will bear their just burdens of taxation. As the Republicans nave had control of the legislative and ex ecutive branches of the state govern ment for several consecutive years one is impelled to wonder why they have not long aince accomplished the re vision. That the trusts rule the Republican party Is getting to be well understood by most of the people. In return for the special privilege that have been granted the trusts they find the money to elect Congressmen and thus con tinue to bleed the people. In this connection the New York Times says: Whatever opinion our statesmen and our economist may hold, it is plain that the beneficiaries of Dlnglerlsm are not prepared to dispense with the blessings of a system under which they have found It delightfully easy to get rich. Congressman Dalzell is one of the spokesmen of this class of wide-awake Americans. He thinks thst the granting of tariff concessions even to the products of Cuba will raise 'serious questions.' we should asy so. Porto Rico. is smaller than Cuba, yet the howl that went np when It was proposed to establish free trade with that island, our own Island, was so terrifying that it frightened the President from his plain duty. " The Standard Oil people hare bought another little trust only a matter of about $60,000,000, known as the Linseed Oil Company, and the price of linseed oil has been on the Jump erer since. This advance in price does not agree with Republican predictions that the formation of trusts molts la cheapening the product Tbeic Is a tariff on Unseed oil of M cents a nsltca, allows the trust to tats the price at least that much aad not experience say eompetltloB. When yon paint year house or barn you pay the trust a large tax approaching 40 per cent of the cost of the oil aaed aad this tax la collected by the trust by adding to the pries over what the same product eonld be imported for aad by the pro t action graatad the trust by the Re pabUeaa tariff. The trusts hare lawyers employed ta aad oat of Coacress. Perhaps tale waa what the Omaha Bee waa think la; of whoa H mid: "Coagisttman Oisorsaer, who has developed the aa fortaaate faeaSty of sayisg the wrong thJag at the rtsht tame, has agaia at tracted attsattoa to himeelf by a fwarth of J7 oratloa devoted Ian ty to a defease of .the trust. Coa jjittmit Orosrsaor la eridoatly eMMoea of the fact that the trusts toaaaaatly keep the shiest lawyers of tho eoaatry their pay ran far Caee De 1. jiat'a Cay are mialsg vtt epaa. era fcl ts tsixJ pr- fsstttai at Ca. . GAINST THE UNIONS. TRUSTS ENDEAVORING TO OBLITERATE LABOR UNIONS. Tha rtM aa the aal Warfean Oat? She Oaaata Wet ar a War a Ba tenaieetWa Tat ta Laaer taaelie Bee Thai Wym Aleteet Claae. The strike of the steel trust workers Is said to have been brought about by the trust to once tor aii seitie the labor question. The labor organiza tions are in the way of the plana of J. Plerpont Morgan and for some time he .has been preparing for a gigantic war on trades unions. The leading Republican newspaper of Ohio, the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune which is controlled if not owned by the trust, foreshadowed the opposition to organ ised labor ia its issue of June 26, when it asld: "The declaration of the Read ing Railroad company against the unions really masks the intention of J. Plerpont Morgan to begin a fight for death against American organized la bor. Mr. Morgan is a man who believes in combines for American prosperity, as well as private profit "As a matter of principle, one of the things he is against is the labor union. It Is his conviction that It re tards the industrial development of the people. In the union he sees the lack of progress in an industrial way in England. He bays that the unions have prevented the introduction of labor-saving machinery there. "Of all the Investments, Mr. Mor gan has the strongest grasp of the Reading railroad corporation. It is the basis of his real strength. It teaches the great coal beds, touches the outer limits of the steel business, tempts the grain carrying Interests and great ly insinuates submission to the great opposition carrying companies. In its shops, in its train service, along its tracks, in Its contributing mining fields, the unions have been supreme. Until recently Mr. Morgan has been disposed to rather encourage this. He is fond of dealing with 'organizations. That is his way of doing business. He prefers to make bis deals with the principals rather than to bother with a herd of units. That was a con venience. ' "Now he is confronted with some thing greater than an expediency. He Is convinced that the unions are In the way of tne supreme development of his enterprises and the full growth of his own Industrial America. As he shakes away the hindering tethers of Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and other financial princelings, he feels that be should assume the full Imperial power which belongs to the enthroned money king of earth. That Bounds rather grandiloquent, but It is within the limits of the facts. Americans are do ing the producing for the whole world. That Is the call which he makes to the money lenders and money investors of the whole world. It is taking. It is successful. In his mind, he sees the unions in the way of complete suc cess of hi plans. "Along with many other gigantic things which he is trying to do. he sees it worth his while to try to break the unions. To a man of his strength and power this does not seem an im possible task. The unions are in the way of American development, in his mind. Therfore tbey should be gotten rid of. "An order is iseued to the Reading railroad president thst a war Is to be waged against unionism, and that this war is to gradually extend to such other corporations as the Morgan In fluence dominates or Influences. Summed up, he believes that a union of capital cheapens production and that a union of labor is expensive: "This Information is the result of knowledge of conferences of various Morgan men as to the best way of get ting st the union problem. It is not Intimated that this Is the only way. It la one of them. It is the beginning." This should open the eyes of the laboring man and teach him that the trusts are his enemy and the Republi can party cannot, if It would, aid or befriend him as long as It Is furnished by the trust with the money to de bauch the people In exchange for the special privileges and protecton grant ed them. MODERN FEUDALISM. The reign .of tb present trusts and combinations end the agreement amongst the railroads to heep np rates sad allow no competition Is another form of the feudalism of the dark ages. It has not yet entirely perfect ed combinations la some lines, but Is rapidly approaching that state of per fection whea everyone will hare to gtvs of hit labor or Income to support the heroes of the trusts. The oil baroas, the Steel barons, the sugar barons, the coal baroas, the railroad barons, the moaey barons aad the hundred aad oa leaser lords who control some aecesstty of the people, who under the special privllegos aad protection graaUd them by subeer rieat legislators, tax the nine sun dred and aiaetr-nlne out of a thou saad to support themselves la castles and palaces that far surpass the lord y dossals of the baroas of the mid 41 ages. As thea so bow, this ex tortioa la practiced under the fora of law aad the people are helpless aa lees they rebel. The baroas of the time were sacra of their br tho eoreretga people. To this win roaalge patleae rsutoat oBort to to Coagress aad IcsUtarei who win case the work t&g has been buvbsU ahoat br the trust and eorporatlona through thrtf subservient friend and coadjutor, tho Republicaa party. The Republican party machine u entirely dominated and controlled oy the modern barons In every state in the Union, but fortunately the party of the people, the democracy, la rid of them In most of the states, sad may be relied on to bring about the reforms needed if placed In power. . The effort to control the Democrat ic party by reorganizing It. so that the trusts and corporations can also dic tate its policy, will not prevail if the people are true to their own Inter ests. It Is now the only barrier to the complete domination by the few. and It la a good sign of victory that many newspapers, who left the cause of the people In the lurcb, are seeing the trend of the Republican rule of plu tocracy. One of these, the Ohio State Journal, says: "None of the barons of the feudal times possessed such power as these men." Another, tne Memphis Commercial-Appeal, says: " Modern feudalism is not coming. It has long been here. It Is a much more painful system that the ancient feudalism, which meant the paying of an annual tribute from three grains of pepper to something ot great value In cattle, corn, wine, oil, or money, for the use of certain lands and heredita ments, and when the payment was msde the tenant waa practically su preme lord of the domain for the time being. The other style of feudalism consisted in rendering persons! ser vice of some sort, In peace or war, after which the tenant was free to go and do as be pleased. But in mod ern feudalism the lord who lives In baronial splendor is not satisfied with moderate tribute or occasional service. The poor roan can pay no tribute, di rectly, because be has no money, hence he is required to render con tinuous personal service for the poor privilege of living on plain food, breathing foul air and wearing plain clothen. He Is xiven no "castle" aave such as he rents and pays for In the steaming, sweaty tenement district, or In the suburbs, where the ramshackle cabin broods by the feculent stream or the stagnant and putrid pona. has no" rights of flre-bote, wood-bote, chalr-bote, house-bote, waln-bote, or any other bote; he has no rights at all more than a Mexican peon. He has what he can buy with the remnant ot his beKKarly wage after he has ren dered unto Caesar the things that Caesar claims, and before rendering to God the things that are God's. Mod- prn feudalism is tne nasesi ioriu m slavery. It doe3 not crush e-ut hope. While the claims and gives are riv eted to the limbs the vlctom foolish ly Imagines that soma day, some time, somethlne or some one will BtriKe them off. Doomed to perpetual toll In the service of some one else ne dares be buoyant at times and actu ally rejoices over the fact that he has employment that he has been given leave to toll. The feudalism of or ranlzed capital adds to the ancient feudalism the despotism and savagery of supreme power and unquestioned sway and subtracts from It the bond of sympathy that existed between the lord and his client In earlier times, From present day feudalism every element of humanity has been extir pated, and the effort to rescue the cost of living on the one side and to reduce comDensatlon to the cost of living on the other side Is perpetual conflict 'Modern feudalism Is here and vol umes might he written about it with out exhausting the subject." The Increase of railroad fares and freight rates has been systematically going on ever since the combinations were effected. The freight rates hare generally been Increased in the round about way of raising the classification The Buffalo Times says: "The Pan- American is now complete, but the railroad rates keep the crowds away. This Is corroborated by the managers nf the Pan-American Exposition, who aire out the following information: Wr can cite many instances wner the railroads hsve put up their rates far in excess of what the fare waa before the exposition." This is pretty xood proof that trusts and combina tions do raise prices, notwithstanding the efforts of General Grosvenor and other Republicsn leaders to prove they are sa advantage to the people. There would seem to be another factional fight la progress amongst the Republicans about the future ot Cuba, snd the tariff on her produc tions. One side represented by the New York Press would repel and lm- nnrertsta Cuba, the other side, of which the Inter-Ocean Is the spokes man, would pare the way for "ma feet destiny" which. In this case. means anaexation. The beet sugar sad tobacco combines may yet dis rupt the Republicaa party, and If they do they will be blessings In the dis guise of cormorants. x Just as was expected. Representa tive Orosvenor Is trying to explain whr American goods are sometimes old abroad for less than they are sold at home. He declares that this waa sometimes done at a loss and for the purpose of "subjugating foreign mar bets." hat he does not explain why sots of the trusts keep oa doing this or bow tbey can afford to do so aad pay the freight Into the bargain. But thea Orosrsaor Is merely aa echo of the Protective Tariff league aad not a very reliable echo, either. Perry Heath's bank, the flereaU National of New York, that failed re cently, will, after the stock holders hart beta amsastd 100 per cent only pay tO u:a on the dollar to depos itors. Beak with a poUtleal putl soa't teem to he desirable la vest its. 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