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T March 21, 190a The Commoner, 11 In Olden Days men were broken on tho whoeL now tlioy buy Eteotrlo Steel Wheels. and save money. Thoy flt any wagon. Mado with either stnd;. cored or straight spokes. Lotus toll you how to mako a low down wo eon with any Biro wboel. any width tiro. Catalog tells. It'a froo. Electric Wheel Co., Box 238, Qulacy. U GINSENG ICKK HCHIATOR (O..SHIIICFIEID. OHIO. jimwhimbi m& mmthw tOR flfin "fused for loss iPtJUUU tuanonnncrobya Missouri man. Tho dried roots cnlH In iifc vnnt f $7 fYltMiit nAnmJ Thoprico has prndually increased for 25 years. Boots and Seeds for salo for Spring delivery Full instructions for its cultivation with each ordor. Writo for pamphlet tolling all about Gin long. Mcdowell ginseng gardens, Joplin, Misf ourl. Send si yesr aMrma andwewilltHewjow bewtosaakeOsda-y absolutely tare! we -. a at M ' - .1 II vae locality wnere you live, etna ui xolaln tho buiinen fully, remember ef S3 for every day's work.abiolotely lure. Write wm, EOIAIi HlHOrACTOKUa CQ Vox 70 1 f BctreM, Kfek. ft J a Bay Sure r Km furnish the work and teach vou f rae. -roa 'wot Send ui your address and "p 1U imembarwa guanttteeaclef'jproat BLACK DIAMOND SEED OATS Test 40 lbs. per bushel, wonderful yfoldor and en duranCo rust proof 100 lbs, $2.C0; 500 lbs., 112.00. Sacks froo. Cash with ordor. Wo carry a full lino of cholco farm Boeda. UENItY BROTHERS, Fairfield, Iowa. SELECT RANCHES FOR SALE. Select list of grain, fruit and stock ranches In East ern Washington, for Ealo by J. G. Elliot, Colfax, Washington. Ranoral Arrant 8 Farms and Ranches. Best UCllDlal H&Dlll part of Nobraska for stock and farming. Writo for list. A. M. Templln, Palmor.Neb. K best by Tcst-77 YEARS. Wo PAY CASb 5YVAMT IUUJ.tr. SALESMEN fTk B VYCCklV Stark Ncrsery, Louisiana. Mo.: nnyllle. N. V &m Ell Catarrh Cure (a compound with or "III without tobacco.) The only remedy on earth guaranteed to euro or money ro funded. Writo for free sample. EE-M Co., At lanta, Ga. TIMOTI1Y CLOVER MILLET Per Bu...$3.10 $0.20 $1.50 Until our supply is exhausted. Sacks frco. Cash, with ordor. Writo for prices on corn and oats. HENRY BROTHERS, Fairfield, Iowa. Our comploto book telling all about this wonderful Ginseng will bo sont FREE TO EVERY -RDTlY Rnndlnc thnir niimn and address to Chinese-American Ginseng Co., Joplin, Missouri. GINSENG Union Central Life CINCINNATI The POLICY-HOLDERS' Company Highest interest rate; lowest death rate; pays largest dividends. Good agents wanted. Address John M. Pattison, Pres., Cincinnati. J. M. Ed tniston, state agent for Nebraska, Lincoln. NohandIlnjr"dead" matter, nor searclilncr over Danes of crossed off items, as with book records. No re-writ-Ing-, no transferincr. The Y and E Card system Is a living re cord: new cards aro DUt In frnrtlv thoir V.VXAaa !. .IJ ..1. fll.t. 1. ?.. . . . si r i"-c uiu uma rucau maiicrj are taken out. Hy having plenty of guides the exact card you want can uc Eonen oitnosi instantly. No matter what, nor how h 7' Vru3 ' .u Ke,eP u,e l-ara System will keep tw ..t. ttuu 4uits.cr. dcuh wr i-ar, ry o. 3707 1 iimpi & troe Mfg. C., Btncsler,K.Y. New York Chlcajjo "Boston St. Louts rouaaeipnia rittsburg Toronto Dan l-rancisco Cleveland Uaiutnora Weekly News Summary. (Continued from Page 9) llnois will re-enact the anti-trust law eliminating section 9, which was de clared unconstitutional by the United States supreme court, tho stato will have the most effectivo anti-trust law extant." This decision, according to Chicago newspapers, will result in tho dismissal of suits against 700 corpora tions In Cook county. REPUBLICAN CAUCUS. On the evening of March 11 the re publicans held another futile caucus on the Cuban reciprocity question. Those who were opposed - to doing anything for Cuba attempted to ad journ the caucus sine die, but on then motion of Speaker Henderson the ad journment was taken until March 18. This is regarded as a distinct triumph for the president in his contest with the house majority. The Chicago Record-Herald says: "No more angry crowds of men fiver wnllrnrl onf. nf tho frail of the house than were the beet people of the west when they started home at half past midnight. They de nounced President Roosevelt, the speaker, the powers that bo in the house, the sugar trust, leading repub lican senators and all who had aided in their undoing. This bitterness of defeat, which now threatens to disrupt the party organization of the house, the speaker and his aids will try to allay. They have a week's time in which to do it. ' They intend to seek some compromise which will bring about a better state of feeling. With out much doubt they could have forced through tonight, by a very slender majority, a proposition to adopt the 20 per cent reduction bill. But they preferred not to do it, and to have an other week in which to pour oil on the troubled waters." In the caucus Representative Sibley of Pennsylvania proposed a comprom ise to the effect that the 20 per cent reduction shall bo effective only un til December 31, 1903, thus permitting the Cubans to market two crops of su gar at the reduced rate, after which the old rates are to be restored. SHIP SUBSIDY BILL. On March 10 Senator Vest of Mis souri addressed the senate for nearly two hours in opposition to the ship subsidy bill. He particularly attacked the present navigation laws which he declared were relics of barbarism and responsible for the decline of our mer chant marine. He declared that tho passage of the bill would create a monopoly of shipping interests in this country. Senator Bacon of Georgia asked Senator Frye if it was not true that the ship yards of the United States who are. to be the recipients to a large extent of this bounty were not now in a more prosperous condition than for many years past. Senator Frye said: "It is true." Senator Vest took up this point and quoted from an address to the Chicago board of trade by President McKinley a little more than a year ago, wherein the president said that tho ship building interests of the United States were in a more prosperous condition, than any time since 1854; that the ship yards were full of orders and that we were rapidly approaching the time when we could rival Great Britain in building ships for the foreign trade. Senator Vest also quoted from the annual re port of the commissioner of naviga tion in which he said that in June, 1901, he had addressed communica tions to the forty-six ship yards of the United States asking them for a de tailed account of their business and the amount of the contracts for build ing vessels then on hand. The result of this investigation disclosed tiiat $65,000,000 are Invested in forty-six ship yards in this country; that there are now under contract vessels of, the United States amounting In cost to $78,000,000; that there are vessels of tho merchant marine now under con struction in these ship yards amount ing in cost to $36,000,000, and that there aro 45,000 laborers or operatives employed in theso ship yards. Sena tor Vest said: "This is tho poor, struggling, emaciated industry which we aro now to subsidize out of tho tax money of the people of this country." Then Senator Vest presented a state ment taken from tho Chicago Tribune, one of the leading republican papers, which, in October last, sont reporters to every ship yard in the country and published tho answers given by the owners and superintendents of those yards. Tho Tribune's headlines on this article tell the story. Here they are: "No subsidy to ship builders and all busy- Every working yard in tho country crowded with big orders and more in sight Prosper without aid Capital being invested in vessels to meet the legitimate demands Ocean liners on stocks Some of tho steamers in course of construction to bo among the largest in the world Many plants to be enlarge." Senator Vest contended that these disclosures showed that the shipping interests of tho United States had not been neg lected. He pointed out that twenty five years ago when he first came to the senate, the first thing ho heard from the ship yard owners was the statement that if they had raw ma terialpig iron free, they could suc cessfully compete with tho world in building ships. Senator Vest said: "We gave them free raw material; we (Continued on Page 12.) Shipped on approval and Ten Day JTroe Trial. Not a cent (irpoumqulredonour whocla hi advance. 1902 Models, $9 to $(5 1SO0 '01 Models, het make. 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