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t wjjrBwwwy?; 'fWf"'1 "jwvt The Commoner. Vol. a, No. 13. 10 XMMM M I K Hft HI W nL -II 1111 Mill Hill IIKMftWHIMIM M I FfH IIS J? 9 & CATALOGUE AND ! BUYERS GUIDE N? 70 rtS S OUt ONLV SAlJTSAMAf We have been woritfngr tojrcthcr on this cata logue for thirty years. Wc soruidflf this number to be as eef the ideal Duyw'a Guide as, the World hto ever seen. We have done our btot and cur assistants have done theft utraoaUo tell the TRUTH tbout everything' listed herein. flfffifayWHtf jXrvnt taubMko HnssisgR MONTGOMERY WARDLfi CO. "OAHAVINUI ft MAPISOM STRtCT. CMICAOO. Know What Your Dealer Pays THIS book tells pretty nearly what your dealer pays for everything. It quotes wholesale prices on 70,000 articles, and shows pictures of 17,000 of them. It includes practically everything that anybody uses, wears or eats; and its prices are the lowest ever quoted. It will save the average family at least $100.00 per year some $500.00. Two million people send for this book yearly as a buying guide, and we want you to have one, too,. THIS BOOK OONTAINS 70,000 Prim 17,000 Pictures 1,000 Pages 3. HI pt9Jf9Jff9Jff C A Qfl VAAPA w have been selling merchandise by mail at about what dealers pay. Ours rOl Ull I BW5 is the original catalogue business, and the greatest mail order house in tho world. This enormous business has been gained and held by underselling everybody, treating customers fairly, and doing as wo agree. Turn USIIiAM D Ainu) A are now numbered among our customers. We carry for them I WO 171 1 1 1 1 U 21 I GypiG a stock valued at $2,500,000. We employ 2,000 clerks to fill their orders. It requires 100 typewriters to write our letters to them.. VtfbBI HaaJ Thlfe RaaIt because you can rely on it. 'Other catalogues are offered I UU I16H I Ilia UUUK you, but this one i3 best.- Our house is the oldest and' largest, and our prices are always the lowest. Our guarantee .is the fairest, and our record of a quar ter century assures you of fair dealing. We keep our customers. Ufa fIIll'2imflAA Qal lf lff IAMI and safe delivery. Every article in our cata if 6 IllieirCiniUO $aiR9ialIIUII bgue is described exactly as it is. Not the slightest exaggeration is ever permitted. But if anything you get doesn't suit you in quality, or price, or fit, send it back and we will replace it. Or we will send your money back, and pay transportation Dotn ways, we consider no expense or euort too great; to avoid navmg one aissansnea customer. TttfA Tltmifc&tftfff fAPAfPt IN flltH wo tnousana average dealers together will not buy so much in a year as we. The makers who I WO I fill U$Cllli VlOl OS III llll v sell to us have no traveling expense, no credit risk, no losses, no salesmen to pay. They save the whole c6st of selling the same goods to 2,000 separate stores, scattered everywhere. The fiercest competition in America centers in the effort to get our trade. Tho prices wo pay are never much above cost; and goods that we cannot buy low enough are made in factories of our own. Is it any wonder that we can sell for about what common dealers pay? We get along with a fraction of tho profit charged by stores. We have no salesmen no selling expense save our catalogue. A dealer must make several times as much on each article to pay his expenses and live. Our expense is but a small percentage when spread ovor sales that amount to millions of dollars annually. Wo simply combine the buying and selling of two thousand average stores. We save the wasteful methods that cost more than the merchandise, and we give the saving to you. This is tho modern method of .business, and the buying of the 20th century will be done more and more by mail? In this way we are now saving our customers from four to five million dollars annually. You will become one of those customers when you see this book. Cut thb (Up out and send It with IS cents In stamps Today, Mentf omery Ward 4 Co., Michigan Are. C Madison SI., Chlcafo Enclosed find is. ctntt for partial postage on your 1000-page Buy trt Guide to, ?yb , - - JVatttm (Uo turo to wrlto very plainly.) Postofficc- County. .State. & Send Only 15 Cents If you want our catalogue, fill out carefully the slip, to the left of this, and mail it to us tpday, enclosing 15 cents. This catalogue which we offer vou costs us about 70c to mint, even in million lots. The Dostace on it costs us 22c more. We ask you to send us but 15c (less than half the postage alone) just to show that you do not send from mere curiosity. J. his book will save an average family at least Si uu per year. If you don't find that it will save you at least a hundred times what it costs you, simply write us, and we will cheerfully send your 15 cents back. Please send today, before you forget it Be sure to enclose this slip in an envelope. Michigan Avenue and Madison Street SWij ...Chicago 8 W a 41 M notified tho custom house authorities at San Francisco not to allow any guns to bo shipped from thlB country to tho lnBiirKents in China. Tho irrigation bill was reported to 1 tho houso April , 7. It has . beeu amended so as to make it conform to the views of the president and the largo portion of tho country that stood with him in opposition to its first form. Tho committee on foreign affalr3 announced that they will make a fav orable report on tho Sulzer resolution, calling for all Information in tho pos session of tho administration with re gard to tho alleged British camp at Port Chalmotte, La. Tho houso committee on banking and currency has ordered a favorable report on tho Fowler financial bill. This moasuro provides that the govern ment is "to maintain tho gold stand ard, provide an elastic currency, equalize tho rates of interest through out tho country, and further amend the national banking laws." At a meeting of the senate commit tee on the Philippines, much displeas ure was expressed at Secretary's Root's action withholding reports from those islands which are considered very Im portant. A resolution was adopted calling upon the secretary of war to report any and all information he may have from General Chaffee. On April 7 the houso passed the umnese exclusion bill, after the adop tion of several amendments. One of these excludes all Chinese of mixed blood and another prohibits the em ployment of Chinese sailors on Amer ican ships. The bill reenacts all the existing exclusion laws and extends them to the Philippines and other pos sessions of the United States. On March 15 the house adopted a resolution calling upon the secretary of war to give all information in his possession in regard to the transport service between San Francisco and the Philippines. Secretary Root answered April 8, showing that great corruption existed In the service, and gives re ports and facts to substantiate these charges. A recont dispatch from Manila an nounces the arrest of the editor of Freedom, a newspaper publication In that city, in the charge of sedition, be cause of certain articles printed In hl3 paper reflecting on the civil govern ment there. A mass meeting was held and it was resolved to send a cable message to President Roosevelt in re gard to the matter. Tho now famous merger case involv ing the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways, has been taken before the United States supremo court for trial. Former Attorney General Griggs appeared for the railroads and ho de nied all basis of action. The case was brought by Attorney General Stratton of the state of Washington and Is practically tho same case that was re cently tried in Minnesota, The house passed the senate bill ex tending the charters of national banks twenty years on April 7, by a vote of 1x7 to 48. The debate on the measure was brief, the democrats . being- taken completely by surprise, and though they made an attempt to filibuster against the bill, It was not successful. Mr. Fowler of New Jersey explained that the bill would extend the charters of 650 national banks, representing a capital of $123,753,300. The United States supremo court through an opinion delivered bv Chtef Justice Fuller, sustained the right of Kansas in the irrigation controversy between that state and Colorado. Tho suit involved the right of Colorado to appropriate the waters of the Arkan sas river for purposes of irigatlon, which right Kansas contested. This decision is important in its bearing on the irrigation bill now before the house. On April 10 the suppressed report of Governor Gardener of the province of Tayabas, Philippine islands, was made public. This is the report re ferred to by General Miles In his correspondence with tho secretary of war. According to this report tho Americans are -charged with great cruelty and abuse of tho Filipinos In that province, and it Is pointed out that unless better treatment is ac corded the natives, .the last vestago of loyalty to the United States will be lost. The revised house bill establishing civil government in the Philippines was perfected and reintroduced in the committee by Chairman Cooper April 8, and this revised measure was pre sented to the house April 11. This bill differes from the senate measur9 . In that it provides a complete form of civil government to go into effect when the war terminates. It further provides that all legislative power shall be vested in two houses, the Philippine commission to be appointed by the president and the Philippine as sembly. The census is to bo taken within thirty days after the promulga tion of peace. Thereafter the islands are to be divided into election districts and, tho regular way of electing on a branch of the legislature is provided. ' CUBAN RECIPROCITY. The fight in tho house over the Cuban reciprocity measure has come to be a "catch as catch can" proposi tion. The republicans are greatly divided on the aiiGBtinn. nvho n also division among the democrats, but it is reported that when the meas ure reaches the senate, the democrats of that bpdy will present a united front acting upon a well defined policy. An Associated Press dispatch under, date at Washington, April 10, saysri The report of the house committee on insular affairs on tho bill for the ad ministration of civil affairs In the Philippines was filed today Uy Chair man Cpoper. . ' It says now is the opportune timt
