Harrison Press-Journal a. A. PU1PPS, Pabllauer. HARRISON. - - NEBRASKA Ths Nebraska State f",am Warded has forbidden the farmers to fight the grasshoppers longer with poison, say ing that the loss of birds and game is loo costly a price to pay for the de Itruction of comparatively few Insects. A famous entomologist says that not one mosquito in- four hundred ever tastes human blood. To know how to avoid making the acquaintance of thai one ia the important thing, and on that problem the scientists seem to be making good progress. By the will of the late Jacob H. Rogers, the locomotive builder, th bulk of his fortune, possibly eight mil lion dollars, is left to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a3 an en dowment fund, the income to be used for the purchase of objects of art. This will place the museum on a splendid footing. Commander-in-Chief Frederick St George de la Tour Booth Tucker of the Salvation army, is now a citizen of the United States. The commander has secured his final naturalization papers, having been in the United States th6 required five years. He will vote at the coming election but will not say what ticket he will Indorse. A railroad company that operates coal mines in Pennsylvania recently prevented its striking miners from in terfering with non-union workmen, who were employed in pumping water out of mines, by building a barbed wire fence seven feet high about the pump house and dynamo plant and thea charged it heavily with electric ity. Youthful aspirants who plan to make a living by writing poetry ought to note the fact that the livelihood of the English poet, Austin Dobson, was earned as principal of the fisheries and harbor department of the Board of Trade. He has Just resigned after nearly half a century of service. A few men only can earn fame as poets Fewer still are they who can trust to the productions of their muse to pay the butcher's bill. As soon as the weatuer will permit and proper locations can be selected, there will be pitched near Boston the first of a number of camps for con sumptives. This camp (and each suc ceeding camp will be like it) will con sist of ten piano-box tents, arranged in a circle, with an open-air fire in the center, and surrounded by a duck wall eight feet high. Each of these tents will be a consumptive's home: a con sumptive will sleep there, even through the coldest weather, with no other protection than plenty of felt blankets, felt sleeping boots, and two-inch gallon jug of hot water. At a result of a tangle in the steer ing gear of his automobile, Arthur r'asker of Philadelphia met with a pe culiar accident He started to take i spin down to Baltimore recently, but turned aside from the high road when i few miles out from the city. He was coursing at a speed of eleven miles when suddenly, without apparent cause, the machine spurted and veered to one side. It was going at the rate of seventy-five miles an hour when it lumped a fence and struck a tree. For tunately, instead of being an upright tree, it was leaning, and instead of be ing crushed by the impact the ma chine slid up the tree and lodged In the branches, forty-five feet from th ground. Mr. Fasker was unhurt. He ;1 imbed out of the seat and slid down the tree and walked to a farm house, where he hired a farmer to bring him to town. According to the Medical Record, gang of swindlers has been playing despicable trick on numerous pharma cists la Brooklyn. A man goes to Irug store with a simple prescription has it made up, and takes the mix ture away with him. In an hour or two, or the following day, the pur chaser returns with the medicine, which lie says he gave to his wife or child, as the case may be; and that the patient was nearly killed by poison which was there through the blunder of the compounder. He says hit pby- tlclan has analyzed the mixture and iemonatrated the presence of poison ind he allows the druggist to test It then and there. The. poison Is, of ;ourse, found, as the swindler ha idded it himself, and he thereupon an a ounces his determination to sue tb irugglst for damages to atone for the results of his alleged blunder. If the pharmacist becomes frightened at the idem of a suit for damages, and think It may be possible that a mistake has been made, be maf accept the sugges Jon of the blackmailer to settle the w out of court, The amount of set :lement If said to vary from 150 to 1200. Miss Mattle Helen Beals, the young a-oman of Wichita, Kan., who drew t farm near Lawton, Oklahoma, In the recent land lottery at El Reno, was narshal of the new town of Ltwton tor on day, and she says that was raough. 8n says: "I am mighty flad td get oat of Lawton. Such mooting, drinking, robbing and kill lag yon Barer saw. It makes me hud lar. I don't think tnare are a dosen roanM on th town ait. But those n a il trantad." 8b thinks nVa win fat 131,090 for bar farm, vtik ia to b rat a? into town lota. THE KOBBER TARIFF IN no WAY PROTECTS LABOR. AMERICAN Still a Mendacious KepresentatiY of the Party of Trusts ao.4 Comhln slf to Bolster t p 1U Alleged UeneBU to Our Working Men. It Is not very satisfactory to quote that mendacious representative of the president. Gen. C. H. Grosvenor, for he has a habit of crawling out of any tight place he gets Into by denying the interview, but as the one about to be quoted sounds grosvenoresque and is being quoted by the trust organs who take Grosvenor seriously, it may be ell to expose its absurdity. Speaking of the increased number of American products he found for sale in England, he said: "I understand that Mr. Bab cock would take the duty from all these articles. While that might not be fatal to our prosperity,- it would cer tainly cripple our strength. The tariff assists in developing our foreign trade. It this tariff is removed the goods of j foreign mills will be rushed in on s, weakening our manufacturing j strength. I find we are selling barley England. If the tariff was off, Can- dlan barley would kill our barley production. The same arguments are as good now as when the McKinley bill was passed. "I find in this increased transporta tion for foreign markets an additional ncentlve for the building up of our merchant marine. We should not hesitate to take prompt measures to bring this profitable carrying trade un der American control. Mr. Babcock's proposition is practically one for free trade." In the first place, Grosvenor knows very well that the Babcock amendment to the tariff bill only proposed to place the iron and steel products of the trust on the free list and especially provided that articles manufactured from them, such as cutlery .should still be protected. Grosvenor calls that free trade, which will arouse the ire of Babcock, who lately declared he is still an ardent protectionist. This dis agreement of these Republican breth ren can be viewed with equanimity by those who wish to Bee real tariff re form. Grosvenor, like all the trust repre sentatives, knows that the weak Epot in the tariff policy Is that the farmers of the country get no protection while they have to pay the tax that the trusts add to nearly everything they use. This is why he cites the tariff on barley and says he found we are sell ing barley in England, and that "if the tariff was off, Canadian barley would kill our barley production." He might have added that he found our wheat and flour there also and that the same result might follow If there was no tariff on these articles, but that would have been too barefaced even for this trust advocate to argue. The tariff on barley is thirty cents a bushel and we are evidently growing more barley than we can consume or we would not be exporting it: the sur plus, like our surplus of wheat and corn, has to seek the best foreign mar ket it can find. The surplus of the bar ley crop of Canada has to find the same market. The price Is fixed by the English buyers and the price of barley in this country is fixed by the price of the surplus sold abroad. Would Canadian barley, even if the tariff was removed, be sold here for less than it will bring in England? It would surely seek the highest market. The Tear Book of the Department of Agriculture on page 781 reports that the exports of barley in 1900 reached 23,661.602 bushels and that the export price fell from 60.7 cents a bushel to 47.4 cents. This official Information Is rather unfortunate for Grosvenor as with this large surplus to sell and the conse quent low price, the Canadians or any other foreign growers would certainly not look to this country for a market. It Is also an equally unfortunate argu saent for protection that the price of burley is almost the lowest on record wUh the highest tariff. This is the wonderful protection that the farmers are getting under the Republican tariff, showing that protection to any farm product Is Impossible as long as there is a surplus of that product that muBt be sold abroad. CONTROL BT TAXATION. It Is well to remember when leglsla tlon to control the trusts la being pre pared that the most potent power that can be used against them Is taxation this can le applied by the states them selves. Not by any unfair mode but by making them pay equally in pro portion to what other people pay ac cording to the amount of their prop erty. At present the monopolies do not pay but a small part of what they should. The steel trust owns or con trols 80 per cent of all the Iron mines in the northwest which in a great measuse enables them to be the glgan tic monopoly tbey are, on this they do not pay one-tenth of the taxes that they rightfully should. Mr. Schwab testified before the Industrial Com mission that these iron mines were extremely valuable for the reason that they contain only a limited supply of ore, a supply which cannot "last rery long, perhaps 60 years." He continued: "We own something Ilk 60.000 acres of Connellsville coal. Ton could not buy it for 160,000 an acre for thre Is no mora Connellsville coal." I believe that Connellsville coal will be ex hausted in M year." Th Columbna Press Post ia commenting on this aid: "That monopoly control of th (aw materials, without Which there can be no Industry, furnishes the trust an impregnable fortress against which the boats of labor cannot hope to pre vail with their present methods of warfare. "It is contrary to public policy to permit such a gigantic monopoly of raw material provided by nature. "To prevent such a monopoly there are but two courses open. One is so cialism. If we were to try to cure the evil of private monopoly by tak ing the remedy offered by socialism we should probably be like the Irish man who said that, on account of the awful medicine prescribed for him, be was sick a long time after be got well. "The other course is that suggested by the platform of the Ohio Demo crats, the most radical anti-plutocratic platform ever adopted by tho Democratic party. Mr. Schwab says that the Connellsville coal is worth $60,000 an acre and declares that the ore field of the northwest are of almost inestimable value. "The employe of the trust, if he says enough to own a bovine, will pay taxes on CO per cent of the full value ot that house. Would it not be interesting to now how much taxes the trust pays on its 60,000 acres of coal fields? "President Schwab says the value of the great ore fields of the northwest Is more than equal to the entire cap italization of the United States Steel Corporation. Why does the trust acquire prop erty in all these fields? "Certainly not because it has any present use for them, but because it wants the legal power to keep others from using them eo tliat it may com mand a monopoly price for this raw material. "The way to destroy that monopoly power is to tax It to death. Let the trust pay taxes on the true valuation of its property and it would not find it so profitable to hold Idle the raw materials without which competition Is impossible. The power to tax Is the power to destroy. With that power intelligent ly used, the people could eliminate the element of monopoly from Industry, ncrease the security of all legtlmate forms of property and Increase the op portunities for remunerative employ ment for both labor and capital. But no one is going to drive them to free dom. Until they gain wisdom we must expect their blind protests to end in failure." WHICH SHALL IT BET That disinterested capitalist, Mr. Carnegie, made millions out of steel and has for the past year been trying to appease his conscience by building libraries. But the Homestead horror is a spectre that will not down and his vast fortune that was wrung from the exhausting labor of thousands is but of little use to him. The trust has taken his place and it too wants its pound of flesh and being a corpora tion It will never make restitution like Carnegie. In commenting on these ex traordinary mutters the New York Journal says: "Is it better for the United States that the steel Industry with all the minor industries depend ent on it should support in comfort a million human beings, the steel work ers, their wives and children, or that It should make a dozen human beings enormously rich so that they don't know what to do with their money, or in fact, how to give it away? 'Is it better for the United States to have a quarter of a million steel work erg well paid, educating their chil dren, feeding their families properly? Or is it better to have Mr. Carnegie scattering millions, Mr. Morgan buy ing fine pictures and yachts and brie a-brac, and Mr. Schwab drawing 1, 000,000 a year? "For our part we are bound to say that we think a great national Indus try should be made to support lncom fort and In plenty a great section of the American people, that It should muniflclently reward organized genius but that it should not be distorted into an instrument for manufacturing a few multimillionaires regardless of those who actually work. "If the founders of this nation could return, which would please them more "To see a million homes made happy by a great American Industry? "Or to see a few Individuals rendered cynical. Intolerant and over-bearing by Tast, useless wealth?" When Lord Pauncefote returns to Washington he will bring with him a new treaty that the "Birmingham Post" bears from a most reliable source will be satisfactory to bo- na tions. The Post alao says ar- Im portant announcement" will be .oade soon. Tbe people of the United States will be quite anxious to hear this "an nouncement" and know how much of our Alaskan coast and territory !s to go with the deal. It is said that Pres ident McKinley bas smoothed out some of tbe rough places In the United States senate for the new treaty. That Is a stranrje tale that comes from Tampa, Fla., and monstrous If true, that a committee of citizens or ganized by the cigar trust, kidnapped the labor leaders who were heading a strike of the cigar workers and trans ported them by sea to some unknown place. On of the kidnapped Is said to have escaped from the vessel. How would it do for Morgan to kidnap tb leaders of th steel strike and trsns- nort them beyond aeas? The b strange times, my masters. Tb Monroe doctrine need not worry any of th European nations, If they do not rtalt America on any land stealing tpdttlon. SIAVES UNDER FLAG. THOUSANDS OF BONDSMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES. Official Report to the National Govern ment Ulies Feet and Kig-nrrs A Con stant Hoorce of Trouble to American Bulers In far fcaat. Not long ago the Manila government sent us the news that one of the dattes t the Sultan of Sulu had abolished slavery. This was an evident effort of the censor to lead us to believe the whole institution as it exists In our new possessions was being extinguish ed. The official report of Col. Pet- tit and Major O. P. Sweet, who are the commanders of the United States troops In the Islands where slavery and polygamy exist, tell a different tale. The first named officer says: "Under our orders I believe all Fili pino slaves and captives have been turned over to us, and further slavery, either by conquest or traffic between Islands, has been prohibited. The abolishment of slavery can be at tempted In one of two ways by war or by purchase. The latter would be futile. I cannot Imagine a more deso late people than the More slaves would be If set free. Their freedom would be of short duration. War could be had for the asking. It is for the United States government to decide If it wants it. The Mores have plenty of arms and ammunition and a coun try passable only by its waterways." Major Sweet says: "Tho question of slavery, although not recognized by the United States, is still a fact, and is a constant source of trouble on ac count of slaves escaping from one mas ter to another, or their being stolen. Whenever a question of relating to slavery comes before me, I simply make the owners prove they are slaves beyond doubt, in which case I have nothing to do with them, but in case I can pick a flaw in their title, I give the alleged slaves freedom papers. Thousands of Mores are held as slaves who are by right free people." Thousands of free men slaves under the stars and stripes and the Taft commission and the home government doing nothing to free them. "If they are slaves without doubt, I have noth ing to do with them," says this officer. Sixty thousand troops hunting down Filipinos and not. a man or gun used to even attempt to suppress this trade In these unfortunate and miserable people. Congress has given President Mc Kinley full power in the Philippines, Increased the regular army to 100,000 men, appropriated all the money asked for and yet he has made no move to suppress this blot on our civilization. In his tour through the South and West his every hour theme was full of rapture and exultation that the flag waved over freedom and prosperity. How free and prosperous are these slaves? But they can dally gaze upon the flag. The Republican party has made President McKinley as great an autocrat in the Philippines as the Czar of Russia is in his dominions, and Russia with all her barbarous customs has none of this. Yet the American people with their jyes open but blinded by partisanship or the pelf promised and distributed by the Republican machine, voted for Imperialism, of which this slavery in the Philippines is one of the attributes MYSTERIOISLT DISAPPEARED. The politicians who are running the Republican party are having piled up against them a good deal of evidence that they are not only the greatest treasury looters that the United States has ever been cursed with, but they ire also guilty of pillaging the gov ernment archives to accomplish their ends. Evidence of this was lately pub lished and the Washington Times ?ays: "It was developed yesterday that all of the secret correspondence of the Signal Corps of the army relating to the Spanish war has mysteriously disappeared from the files of the war department Among the missing docu ments Is a dispatch from Colonel Allen to General Greely, announcing the presence of the Spanish fleet In Santi ago harbor. This message, It Is said, was immediately communicated to Sampson, who allowed eleven days to elapse before taking any steps to meet the situation. As the original of this communication and the official en dorsements which may have bjen made upon It are very necessary for Ad miral Schley's counsel to see, perhaps the public need not be surprised to know that it has been put out of the way. The excuse Is offered at the depart ment that possibly General Greely, chief of the signal corps, deliberately may have destroyed the records, with a view of concealing the names of per sons used In the secret sarvlce of the United States. But nobody will be deluded by any such subterfuge. If General Oreely bad done a thing of that kind It would be a matter of pub lic record and his reasons and author ity for the act would be spread upon the flies of the department. He Is conveniently In the Philippines, and will not return until November 1, so there are several weeks during which the onus mar be laid upon his shoul ders problematically. All the same, the American people will conclude that the signal service records have been stolen for a purpewe. as many public record have been stolen or falsified for Tar tans, but always infamous, purpose during tbe fast few years. "On would think that the Samp son ; scandal had become too hot for even ft administration to bear, and that it would do something in tb.; iia of an attempt to convince the coun try that it is no longer an active party to the conspiracy against the victor of Santiago. It would better make the effort before it Is too late; because every day now adds to the proof that a plot has been hatching ever since August, 1898. to rob Admiral Schley of hlB laurels and transfer therr. to Samp son, the man of the Mantanzas mule. AN ADMIRABLE PLATFORM. The Democrats of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, adopted at the late convention a most admirable platform which shows that the fiscal policy of Tom Johnson, the mayor of Cleveland, Is spreading beyond the confines of his own state aiid is worthy of more extended adoption. The most Impor tant declarations are: "The Democratic party stands for equality of rights and demands equality of opportunities. It Is opposed to the granting of special privileges to individuals or corpora tions. It, thtrefore, condemns the pro tective tariff and demands that taxa tion shall be for public revenue only. It condemns the trusts as a monstrous outgrowth of privilege and it propo3e3 to destroy the trusts by the simple de vice of withdrawing from them the benefit of the laws under which they have established and are maintaining monopolies. All goods controlled by trusts should be placed upon the free list; and every legislative advantage now conferred upon aggregations of capital should be recovered by the peo ple. Taxation should fall, not upon Industry nor upon thrift, but upon spe cial advantages; and It should be ap portioned in accordance with the benefits conferred by the govern ment. The democatlc party, therefore. condemns the existing system and practice in Pennsylvania under which the great burden of taxation falls upon the labor and Industry of the people while aggregated monopoly practically escapes. Corporate mo nopoly Is scandalously favored at the expense of the farmer, the merchant, the manufacturer and the artisan. The latter contributes proportionately a hundred or perhaps a thousand times aa much to the cost of the government as the railway and other privileged In terests and they receive Infinitely less in return. The principle of local op tion in taxation should command the widest recognition." SHIP NCBNIOT STEAL. A conference io soon to be held by the Republican leaders to arrange for the jambing through the next Con gress of the $180,000,000 ship-subsidy steal. The Pennsylvania railroad's team of experienced lobbyists Is re lied on to make Its pathway pleasant and profitable to those members of Congress who are open to this kind of argument and the Administration will aid the atrocity with all the Influence It can bring to bear. The chairman of the Republican national committee, Mark Hanna, Is the engineer In charge and will put forth all his power to pass the steal and our good kind and generous President will sign tbe bill and see that his good friends of the steamship combine get the swag regu larly. They put up a good stiff sum for the campaign fund last fall when Hanna needed the money and of course common gratitude would com pel this promised favor In return. These people who voted for Presi dent McKinley cannot grumble it the steal goes through for It was well known and Indeed proclaimed by those who are Interested that it would pass early In the coming Congress and that President McKinley had promised to recommend its passage and he carried out his part In good faith In his mes sage to Congress just after the elec tion. Doubtless a large number of Repub licans voted for President McKinley with their eyes shut to this and other raids on the treasury, quite satisfied because he was labeled Republican and they voted for Congressmen wko also are pledged to support it on th same broad basis. Democrats can point with pride thai those who have been elected by their votes are solidly opposed to this class of legislation and if a black sheep ap pears when the flock is counted, he will be marked for slaughter at the first opportunity, for It will be known that he has been bought and branded by the Hanna herders. When some poor devil of a moon shiner with no political pull Is caught by the government he la put through the courts and Imprisoned without loss of time. If a bogus sliver dollar or hank bill Is passed, the secret service is everlastingly after the forger. There seems to be great tenderness In bringing the larger thieve, like Necly and Rathbone, who are accused of looting the Cuban postal department, to justice. In the New York customs department peculations have been pning on for a long time and the treasury department had full Informa tlon to that effect but has not dared to even arrest the thieves because of their high political standing. It would hurt "the party" you know. The report that the keg combine of the army and navy departments, head ed by Corbln and Crownlnshlnld, ar to represent this country at the coro nation of King Edward, Is not extrs ordinary In view of the othir antic of these favorite ridden department. Congress should stop this nonsense, anyway, we ar represented enough now with an ambassador and attachei both military and navy and sons ol some father to whom Hanna Is undai some obligations for a good stiff con tiibutlon to the Republican campaign fund. Mme(riillc Rules Mortf and all wise mother make St. Jacobs Oil a household remedy for the simple reahou that it always Conquers Pain Started a Fortune With Ten Dollars. V. R. Beatty, one d"f the new Texas oil kings, was a reporter when the news of a great oil "strike" came in. He got together $10 and by putting that up as a security he "bluffed". tl. discoverers and got valuable lands, which proved so fruitful that he was able to pay the balance due on them in a few weeks. "OH, MAMA, Something Is lilting He." It la not itcblnif piles that alls you or your child, ll I Hie piu or scat worm that causes you or your child to have rectal trouble. Soon, after rctlriuK (or the night the worm appear, it bites and Htfncs and cauc scratching and aching. Mother know what it means when the child cries out: -Ma. Ma, something is biting; me." And sure enoujrh. upon examining her child, she Undi the nauKhly. while, sharp point ed at both ends, the troublesome pin worm Im bedded In the child's recium. Th a worm cause more nervousness to young or old persons than any other disease. And tbe ilebing Is Dot f)lles but pin worm. The only sure and harm ess remedy Is STF.KETKK S PIN WOKM DESTROY feR. Ask your druggist for bteke tee's I'ln Worm Destroyer. In order that you ret tbe right meolclne, send me 26c postage. Will send by return mall. Address GEO. ti. STKKKTFK. Grand Kaplda, Mich, Please mcutlon this paper. Cranks are persons who do not sc things as you do. Row Clothes Are Blistered. 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