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FEBRUARY 26; 1904.
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The Commoner.
VICTIM OF ROCKEFELLERl?an.orat,oa8twrwa8
Mel Hossler's oil -wagon has
stopped!
The Standard Oil company has won
ono of the most bitter fights o its ca
reer of over a. quarter of a century.
That career has been punctured by
broken hearts. Along the way of the
liuge corporation wounded people are
lying.
When agents of the Standard Oil
company approached Hossler with
golden offers, he drew himself up,
curled his lip irjLscorn and turned from
the polished lawyer who called to see
him, in disgust. Then he paused and
sang out over his shoulder:
"Go back and tell John Rockefeller
that all the wealth he has would not
tempt me to give up to him.'
Then 'the assault tfegan afresh, but
Hossler's townsmen rallied to bis as
sistance and bought his oil at the
market price when the Standard Oil
company offered oil free.
For two years the Standard has kept
agents in Chardon. trying to drive
Hossler out of busiriess. He was at
tacked in every conceivable way. He
was harrassed all day,, night wa3 made
hideous for him. and the sanctity of
his home was invaded, and net oven
was he allowed to mutter his evening
I layer in quietude.
Yet Mel Hossler would not give up.
Doggedly he held to his determina
tion to live in spite of the Standard.
But last night under the awful at
tack which never stopped the end
came.
Mel Hossler's mind snapped.
It came after business reverses.
Winter came on and food for his
family and his horses was higlu Then
sickness came and medicine and doc
tor bills were hicher. Finaliv his
daughter, 16 years old, his inspiration
m tne light, feu ill. That blow was
the last.
He went to the jail last night and
gave himself up. Ho said brokenly:
"I have lost."-
His friends say he wanted to be
locked up. Special dispatch from
Chardon, O., to the Cleveland Press of
January 30.
Poor, hungry, bedraggled dreamers!
But they are not alone, for the Japan
ese of all ranks outside of the bour
geoisie and the great nobles are ask
ing the same thing. With eminent
practicality they ask: Why Is it not
as easy to get a government that rep
resents the best conception of man as
to worry along with a makeshift that
is manifestly imperfect?
Before Japan lies the sinister sha
dow of an irresistible conflict. Lon
don M&il.
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FRJEErcan bo paid
How Long Will it Last?
The "City of Celibates" is to be
founded within a few miles of Provo,
Utah, and. the foundation will be laid
within the next few days. That at
least is, the impression of attaches of
the American house, who were on
duty early this morning when a pic
turesque party of foreigners arrived
and registered. These men, eight in
number, are looked upon as the found
ers of this new city, which, .will allow
no woman within itg walls.
About 2' o'clock this morning a par
ty of men,,- nr.ich -resembling . Italian
brigands as portrayed in comic opera,
entered, the American house. They
liad gold rings in their ears, wore
shirts of a spectacular hue, corduroy
suits "and wide -trimmed hats. One
man, who was civilized up to the chin
that is, clad in modern American
fashion appealed to be in charge. He
put the following names on the reg
ister, bis own being first:
John Bubalo, Peter Yovanovich, Lu
ka Tomaservicb, Luke Yocaceric, Luke
Yovanovich, Vaso Yovacerlc Miter
Lukstck and another that was illegi
ble. Bubalo did. not say whence the
party came, but it was gleaned from
his conversation that all had just
come from Ellis Island under his
guidance.
Bubalo was not inclined to be com-
ONE-WAY RATES
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30, 1904, the Union Pacific' will sell
One-way Colonist tickets at the fol
lowing rates from Lincoln:
$20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake City.
520.00 to Butte 'Anaconda and
Helena.
$22.50 tq Spokane and Wenatchee,
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municative, but he said enough to
foster the impression that he headed
a little colony that was going to lo
cate near Provo. The sturdy sons of
sunny Italy with him. would form the
bone and sinew of the colony, and
there would bo no women allowed
within Its purlieus. One of the Yo
vanovich brothers, it seams, had been
deceived by a woman back in Italy,
and, drawing a number of his friends
and relatives about him, decided to go
to the new world and found a micro
cosm where tht foot of woman would
never be allowed. Nothing was said
directly about naming a city of celi
bates, but from, the conversation of
the party that was the inference.
Denver Post.
The Old Japan and the New.
In old in Tapan there were few
violent contrasts between rich and
poor, and, in fact, the industrial plu
tocrat was unknown. The nobly bom
were rich, If rich at -all, only in land
and rice, and they were not envied,
as they seem to belong to the nat
ural order of creation. But today the
tradesman and the manufacturer,
who were once almost the lowest of
mankind, infinitely below the tillers
of the soil, are becoming insolently
rich and are the real lords of Japan,
while the chJldren of Samurai are
glad to get small clerkships from
those whom their fathers despised.
I have been spending much time in
Darkest Tokio of late, and the mi
croscopic misery to be found there
would make a story appalling to those
who fancy that Japan Is nothing but
swaying lanterns and softly falling
cherry blossoms. Buying and sell
ing Is conducted on such an Infinites
imal scale among these submerged
wretches that the sum of sixpence will
provide a handsome stock for a
hawker, in popular lines of food.
Among these unfortunates who of
ten walk the streets at night for the
want of a half-psnny to engage lodg
ings on a damp floor swarming with
vermin, one bears the doctrines of
Proudhon and Ferdinand Lassalle dis
cussed volubly. Their works have
been translate.1 into little pamphlets
and read to the illiterate by the oc
casional scholar who carries a few
thousand ideographs in his brain.
"Jatmn has come so far," they all
say j. Vwhy, will it not be- well to go
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