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5r5v5m-""JH" J""S imsifmsaiiummi ,2 ,..., WWIWWIINIWWPWIP The Commoner, OCTOBER 0, 1903. 15 Rheumatism .Cured Through the Feet Jackson Man Discovers an External Curs by Analyzing Foot Sweat. Cures Nino out of Ten In Jackson Try It-FREE! Anyono cim trywith ut paying n cont-tho famous MRglc Foot Drafts, which always bring comfort and almost always rcrtnancntly euro Kucumatism, cither chronic or acute; no matter how severe Hundreds of thousands of pairs' of Drafts have been sent on approval nil over the world and tho makers aro still sending them to every sufferer they can hear of. Send your name today. You get thcDrafts by return mail. If you are fully satisfied with tho help they give you, then yon can send One Dol lar. If not, keep your monoy. Yon decide. others in some other way. It la esti mated that tho Standard Oil company has taken, by contract or by force, the business of 10.UU0 corporations and merchants in all parts of tho Union. Tho few present great railroad lines of the country have been made up by the combination of hundreds of smaller lines, some extensions of one another and competing lines. fto one knows but that within the next ten years a greater man than J. Plernont Morean will arlso. who will combine into one organization all the industries of tho land, so that the workman who works for wages can find but one possible employer and the purchaser of wares but ono possible seller. A monopoly is economically desir able, that is for tho monopolists. The United States Steel corporation can produce, no matter what it sells them for, its goods cheaper than tho ele ments out of which tho combination in' composed ever produced them. The Standard Oil company Is economically holy, for it pays 40 per cent dividends. The sugar trust is economically cor rect, for whereas the individual sugar refiners lost money on small capitali zation, the sugar trust pays big divi dends on a largo capitalization. The railroad combinations are economical ly impregnable for they pay. If Mr. Morgan's shipping- trust and Mr. Schwab's shipping trust are failures, they are exceptions to the rule. We cannot, therefore, rely on natural forces, on tho laws of supply and de mand, or on economic considerations. If they are undesirable, if the people of the American nation would be bet ter off without them, they must put those limitations on by tho action of tb,elr legislatures, their congress and tfiofT rnnrfa T'hrt AmnWoon int rmiaf mSJAoSS and 'the African association jucKson, juicnigan, lor a pair oi uraiis lrco on t must uine mu leuu. approval, valuable booklet for rheumatics also I TRADE MARK ff ft,' fjk Sixty-eight per cent of tho nitrogen of the foot sweat drawn out thrdugh the great foot pores and absorbed by Made Foot Drafts is in the form of tho poison Urea, tho basic cause of jxiieumausm. xuo poison is drawn out in ox ce dingly small particles', but the Drafts work SM hours a day, slowly but surely, and when tho euro is once effected, it is permanent, fpr the cause of Rheumatism has been removed. Tho drafts aro comfortable, sard nnd sure. Don't suf fer needlessly. You are not risking a penny and tho chances aro nine out of ten that the Drafts will cure y . u, as thoy havo bo many thou amis of cases Just liko yours. Mrs. F. N. Potter, of Shelton, Conn., writes: 'Twasa poor miserable object when I first ap plIccMho Drafts,. Now I bless the day I, heard of them." it would take, you many weeks to read tho gratolul letters of cured old rheumatics trom every land on earth to tho makers of Magic that any corporation or individual who ongages in interstate commerce must furnish its services or supply its goods at lower rates wherever, by any combination, competition is prevented than where competition is left free. Third If necessary the state Itself can enter tbe industrial field as a pro ducer, and restore tho force of com petition to its former supremacy by becoming Itself a competitor of tho great trusts. Two Women, President Roosevelt has, through hid postmaster general, removed from the Greenwood, Del., postolllco Miss Hul dah B. Todd, on the specious plea that sho is "obnoxious" to tho mouthpiece of "Gas" Addicks, Senator Alleo. Miss Todd had served five years as post mistress at Greenwood and had given the fullest satisfaction to tho patrons of the office. She was in no sense ob noxious to them. Sho was first ap pointed to a four-year terra by Presi dent McKlnley, and atxer serving that was reappointed by President Roose velt Sho had served ono year under her reappointment when her official head was chopped off o meet tho po litical demands of Addicks and his crowd. Minnie Cox tendered her resigna tion as postmistress at Indlanola Miss., but her resignation has not been accepted. For about a year now sho has been carried upon tho salary roll of the government, on tho president's orders, though sho has randored not one cent'& worth of service. Sho was personally obnoxious in her official ca pacity to tho vast majority of the pa- BEST FOR THE BOWELS If too hftren't a rernlar, health? movement of tfc female eterr day, rou'ro 111 or will be. Keep your bowel open, and bo wall. Force, In tho ihw at Tlolnnt phralo or pill polion, Ib daneernaa. Tfc smoothed, eaatnat, tnott perfect wajr of keptc tke bowola clour and clean la to tak CANDY OATHARTIO sfc TJfTv1""1. fTl til i m EAT EM LIKE CANDY Pleasant, Palatable, Potent, Taato Oood, D Good, Never Blcken, weaken or Orlpei 10, 85 as M ceata per box. Write for free ample, and book let ob health. Addrcat iJJ tttflln nmey Company, Chicago wNtwYortu KEEP YOUR BLQOD CLEAH PStSIlt SfiGlirGll Mnn nMo'pntcmnbil. I UlUlli UUUUI UU y eoilf for Kuldebook anil what to Invent, limit ui llcalltru 1m tied for fri'O dlitilbutlon. Patents icon red hi ui ndrrrlUed frrc In 1 at nt hocord AMl'l.h i ni'V I IthK. Evana, llki nt i a, Li;pL K, aiblnuton, 1), 0, DO YOU SCRATCH? Kcxvmn fititi All fcMi I iMtum itrd Trial treatment nml tcMtlinonliilHBcnt or0crnti) W. UULLAHD .Mil Theodore Street, Dctroll,MlcjU free. Send no money only your name. Lawyers on Trusts. Tho committee on commercial law for the American Bar association made a report on tho trust question at the last session of the society. The re port was filed and while many of the members of the association took issue with the statements of the report, it was clear that a very large number agreed to it. A Commoner reader asks for the publication of tho report: The committee's report was as fol lows:. The modern combination's primary object Is to control trade and com merce in, plain articles of production and to substitute a more or less per fect monopbty in place of a more or less free competition. It changes en tirely the basic principle of commer cial relations between man and man, and if they aro to continue to grow and develop in the future as in the past will render necessary most im portant changes in the principles of our commercial laws. Combination as an economic force isfast coming to take the place of competition. The competition that- still remains is fast disappearing. Workmen are refusing to compete for jobs. Labor unions aro enlarging the spheres of their activ ity and extending their operations. The union of. the employers is still stronger and more far-reaching than the union of the workmen. "We are now having combinations of combinations. The United States Steel corporation is a comb'nation of a dozen theretofore competing pro ducers who-themselves were combina tions of still others. The property "which the Amalgamated Copper com pany now control i was once perhaps a thousand mining claims, each one very likely owned in common by a half dozen miners. Tho dnrmrrment. store trust has combined the business of lt. I with The report proposed the following remedies: FirstWo can tax them to death, or if that is too radical a remedy, we can tax them until their growth and enlargement is impeded. There are constitutional provisions requiring di rect taxations . to be uniform and in view of these provisions it is probably impossible to discriminate In the mat ter of direct taxation against corpora tions holding large amounts of taxable property. There is, however, a fran chise tax imposed by most of the states on corporations at the time of their incorporation and annually thereafter. This franchise tax Is in a'.raost all states in some way graded so as to tax the small corporation at a higher rate than the large one. The ihst million dollars pays a higher rate than subsequent millions. In our judgment the graduation should be continued, but it should be a grading up instead of down. We would leave perhaps the first hundred thousand free and the first million cheap, and raise the rate with each succeeding million. The United States Steel cor poration has a capitalization of over $1,000,000,000. The gradation stages xn'ght he slow and easy enough to please tho most conservative, and yet result in a taxation of 10 per cent on the last hundred million. How long would the United States Steel corpora tion continue under that system of K-ivfitlon? Second We can compel them to render better and cheaper service. If the combination of the Northern Pa cific and the Great Northern railroads is a great euough public disaster to hav.o warranted tho attention which it has attracted, it could have been pre vented much easier than by a hundred Sherman anti-trust laws by a single United States statute that required any corporation engaged in interstate commerce to reduce its rates 60 per cent to and from every point where nr.mTnrition has been prevumuu u. mi ummmmttMina HiiWMi Ktronir, Chicken Tight. Bold to tlio Farmer at VtkolmH frier. Full Vftrrtttlnl. CaUlotf Free, coin b hi RINOreRCKt-O. UOI M HUtOr,I41tt,0.H.i. Hum n acaln of Tour own. Protect j nun.nl f on wtilxbt on yraln and live kick HMi4Mt h.Inn CMla FIvm Your CH10 Hold on goilajr' Trial Hall hearing. JnUr- changeable onrta.full compound boatn.noloonewelubu trons of the onice, who had the temer-1 1 0. LXh w Mercantile Co. 1 431 W.9ih St. Kanm Clty.Me. ity to say so In resolutions adopted! in mass meeting. Sho recognized tho fact that her presence in the post oflice was obnoxious to the vast ma jority of the patrons of the office, and tendered her resignation. What explanation can bo given of this widely different treatment ac corded by President Roosevelt to these two women? Can It be possible that negro-mania has been carried to tho point where tho jblack sister is protected and cod dled and fed upon government pap simply because sho Is black, whilo the white lady is thrown out of office solely because somebody who is the favorite of some politician wants the job? These question are pertinent, not impertinent Tho country would like to know the exact attitude of' this ad mInlatration toward women, and it has a right to know. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution. SAWMILLS, 4 n. 1'. cuH ?fiuO feet per day All alzra-l'ian-on, Hlnulo Mill and hdcura with 1 atcnt Variable riot I no cod-fort Able urlnd-, Inu M Ills, Vi stor Wlli, lul Mllll, . Bi dao'lcati IteUMCU MUX HTO. CO, IWi U, AtlMU, O. IK UWfl; Hi. Ytfk. i.uai "aa wjmDinea lue Dusjneas ut "?"";?- - nr. n, control uunureds of merchants, some portions mmnauu"'lbrnnereBE Tcan enact forth Thy praise.'" Philadelphia Rec of which they acquire by purchase and or agreement Congress can cimLtjxoti Three Prayers, Three Methodist ministers, as thpy were dining together, talked about short pravers. "A prayer short as 't was irreverent," said the first, "was offered up by a soldier before the bat tle of Waterloo. It was this: 'O, God, if there be a God, save my soul, If I have a soul.' " "That prayer," said the second minister, "resembles one composed by Bishop Atterbury in tbe early part of the eighteenth century. It was a prayer for the soldiers about to engage in battle, and it was brief and Impressive. 'O, God.' it ran, 'if, in the day of battle, I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.' " The third inin i&ter, after a moment of thought, t-miled and said: "When I was a lad I ono day dined -ith two strange aunts. They set mo at the head of the table and bade me say grace. I wa taken aback, for I knew no grace to say, but a text ; opped Into my mind. I rattled It off and after it was over I realized that it was appropriate enoueh. It was: 'O. Lord, open Thou cur Tips and our mouths shall show THE QUI UNb bAHKtllS Lllh of Lincoln, Neb., can use two or thres more good men in northwestern terri tory. If there are any clerks, sales men or traveling men would like to better their condition it would pay to write concerning one of these positions. BOYS! Start business on your own hook. You can make money gelling THE COMMONER. No Capital Needed We will send you the first 10 papers absolutely free. You can sell them for 5 cents each, then order more. Writo for particulars to THE COMMONER LINCOLN, NEB. i .4 ' r'- irU Wft4!l JH !- j