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The Commoner.
JANUARY 0, 1005
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HABITS CHAIN
Corto.lrv Hivblts Unconsciously Formod
and Hard to Broak
An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces
sary to break a life-long habit would, if
it could be transformed, lift a weight
of many tons.
It sometimes requires a- higher de
gree of heroism to break the chains of
a pernicious habit than to lead a for
lorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady
writes from an Indiana town:
"From my earliest childhood I was a
lover of coffee. Before I was out of
my teens I was a miserable dyspeptic,
suffering terribly at times with my
stomach.
"I was convinced that it was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet I
could not deny myself a cup for break
last. At the age of 36 I was in very
Poor health, indeed. My sister told
Me 1 WaR It! rlnncro. nP V.nnnrni-nrr n
coffee drunkard.
"But I never could give up drinking
coffee for breakfast although it kept
rae constantly ill, until I tried Postum.
J learned to make if properly accord
ing to directions, and now we can
nardiy do without .Postum for break
last and care nothing at all for coffee,
l am no longer troubled with dys-
xvut ' do not have sPells of suffering
"h ray stomach that used to. trouble
o so when I drank coffee." Name
gven by Postum Co.. Battle Creek,
Look in each;pkg. .ior,the famousllt-
uooir. -The Road to Wellville.'
he suggested a method which was cer
tainly perfect of its kind. He began
by letting me into the secret that the
chances of a McKinley victory in the
election the following week looked
pretty bad, and that the latest canvass
of the states showed that unless some
thing radical were done, Bryan wuld
surely win. Hanna had called into
consultation half a dozen of the biggest
financiers in Wall street, and it was
decided to turn at least five of the
doubtful states. To do this a fund of
$5,000,000 had been raised under Rog
ers' direction, to bo turned over to
Mark Hanna and McKinley's cousin,
Osborne, through John Moore, the Wall
street broker, who was acting as Rog
ers' representative in collecting the
money. It would bo legitimate for the
national committee to pay out money
to carry Delaware and he, Rogers,
would arrange it that the coin to sat
isfy Braman and Foster should come
through this channel. Thus he would
be completely protected.
"Lawson," said Mr. Rogers, looking
at me with intense and deadly serious
ness, his voice charged with conviction,
"if Bryan's elected, there will be such
a panic in this country as the world
has never seen, and with his money
ideas and the crazy-headed radicals he
will call to Washington to administer
the nation's affairs, business will sure
ly be destroyed and the working people
suffer untold misery. You know wo
all hate to do what Uncle Mark says is
necessary, but it's a case of some of us
sacrificing something for the country's
good. Bryan's election would set our
country back a century, and I believe
it's the sacred duty of every honest
American to do what he can to save
his land from such a calamity."
The "System's" conscience has its
own quaint logic the logic of self-in
terestand this is how it reasoned:
"The election of Bryan would disturb
our control of American institutions,
therefore American institutions would
bo destroyed by Bryan's election. On
ns, 'the System,' devolves the sacred if
exnensive duty of saving tne nation,
and, however abhorrent to our fine
moral sense, patriotism compels us to
spend millions in bribing and corrupt
ing the electorate so that virtue,
'Standard Oil,' and J. P. Morgan may
continue the good work of caring for
the public's interests as their own."
As I listened to Rogers' exordium
on the duties of a citizen in an emer
gency, I remembered the "Standard
Oil" code "Everything for God (our
God); God (our God) In everytning.
It was so essentially "Standard Oil,
this willingness to commit even tnat
greatest wrong, subverting the will of
the people in the exercise of their
highest function the election of a
president but only that good (their
good) might come of it. It was no
more than seliish greeu inwwu Uu .
the noble trappings of morality, an In
famous crime disguised as patriotism.
Doubtless, the excellent, God-fearing,
lawlabiding citizens of the doubtful
states who read this and learn how
i, "Cwfom" riRffin.t-.firt tneir win at "
polls, will cry: "Monstrous! Can such
things be in America?" and then will
resume their interrupted occupation of
"letting well enough alone." However,
this is aside from my story.
Having clearly set tortn me i'"""""
situation through which we should be
saved, Mr. Rogers proceeded to map
out my own program. First, I must
perfect an alibi tor mm "".
Foster and Braman and lmpres-Ins
them that he was auso luieiy
affair, and must under no c lrcurn
stances be brought into it; next I must
convince Addicks tc the sam effect,
and in addition tell him that Mr. Rog-
self in readiness to moot John Monro
and Hanna or OBborno as soon as an
appointment could bo arranged. That
afternoon I got tho word and wont to
26 Broadway, and from thoro Mr. Rog
ers and I went over to John Moore's
office, slipping in the private door from
tho rear street.
"John," said Mr. Rogers. "I am go
ing to turn this matter over to von
and Lawson, and I am to have nothing
further to do with it. What you two
agree to will be satisfactory to me,
and remember, both of you, every dol
lar that is paid is paid by tho national
committee, but after It's all settlod,
and if there is no slip-up, I will look
to Lawson for whatever is expended.
is it understood?"
Wo agreed that it was, and Rogers
left us. Thomas W. Lawson in Every
body's Magazine for January.
VWW had angrily refused to get into tho
? ... A niimrU Sr nr a nrr- ? mix-up; that I should then hold mv-
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I left Braman and went down to Mr.
Rogers. After a careful canvass of the
situation it was settled that the only
w out was for Rogers to furnish the
money to release the receivership, in
consideration of which accommodation,
Addicks should forfeit the old Boston
companies to him through Bay State's
failure to comply with the terms of the
May contract which matured the fol
lowing Monday. Rogers would admin
ister these companies in trust, applying
their earnings to the liquidation of the
bonds, and after these latter had been
paid off. would turn them back to the
Bay State company for the -benefit of
its stock, or he would release the com
panies to us whenever we could raise
tho money to redeem them. Thus Rog
ers would make sure of the amount of
his original investment, the million
dollars profit tho May 1st deal per
mitted him. while. I should have se
cured for my friends and the public
the amount of their investment in tho
property and a good profit for the
stockholders to boot. To secure Ad
dicks' consent to this arrangement was
the difficulty, and there was but one
condition that would induce him to
give way his terrible plight in case
tho receivership became permanent.
Having reached this point the next
problem was how to get the money.
Rogers refused absolutely to be a par
ty to any payment that could be traced
back to him. He canvassed, the sources
of hazard; first, through treachery on
tho part of Foster, Braman, or Addicks,
ho might bo accused of bribing a court
officer, the receiver; Addicks might
blackmail him by charging5 him with
conspiracy, or a conspiracy charge
might bo brought by Bay State stock
holders, and he be held for tremendous
damages. He refused to put himself
into any such trap. I put forward a
dozen ways to meet the emergency, but
he would have none of them, Finally
THE VALUE OP CHARCOAL
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A Compliment To Bryan
Tho administration managers in
Washington have paid a tribute to tho
ability and statesmanship of William
J. Bryan. They have come out in ad
vocacy of the anti-trust remedy which
Mr. Bryan was tho first to suggest five
years ago, and so closely do they fol
low tho Bryan lines that the parallel
is almost complete.
Commissioner James A. Garfield of
tho bureau of labor, an appointee and
friend of President Roosevelt, and es
pecially in charge of corporation pub
licity features, in his annual report to
congress, delivered on December 21,
after discussing trusts, advocates as
a remedy federal control through the
issuance of licenses, requiring every
corporation doing interstate business
to secure a license from federal auth-
l'w People Know How Unful it 1
f'rascrvlnsc Health and Uauty
Noarly everybody knows that char
coal is the safest and moat enlclont
disinfectant and purifier in naturo, but
few roalizo its valuo whon taken into
tho human system for tho samo cloan
sing purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that tho moro
you take of it tho hotter; it is not a
drug at all. but simply absorbs tho
gases and impurltloa alwnys prosont
in the stomach and intestines and car
ries them out of tho system.
Charcoal sweetens tho breath after
smoking, drinking, or after oatlng
onions and other odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectunlly clear and Im
proves the complexion, It whitens tho
teeth and further acta as a natural and
eminently safe cathartic.
It absorbs tho injurious gases which
collect in tho stomach and bowels; it
disinfects tho mouth and throat from
tho poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell chnrcoal In ono
form or another, but probably tho host
charcoal and tho most for tho money Is
In Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges; they
arc composed of tho fluent powdered
Willow charcoal, and other harmless
antiseptics In tablet form or rather in
the form of largo, pleasant tasting loz
enges, the charcoal being mixed with
honey.
The dally use of those lozenges will
soon tell In a much Improved condi
tion of the general health, bettor com
plexion, sweeter breath, and purer
blood, and the beauty of it is, that ro
porflulo harm can result from their
ccLtinucd use. but on tho contrary,
great benefit.
A Buffalo physician in speaking of
tho benefits of charcoal, says: "I ad
vise Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to all
patients suffering from gns In stom-
ority, the license only to be granted
on condition that the corporation is ach ftnd n0WCiB, anu- to clear tho corn
not a monopoly and that It shall ob
serve certain requirements which the
commissioner enumerates Mr. Bry
an's remedy was a federal license to
prevent monopoly and squeeze the wa
ter out of stocks.
For purposes of comparison, tho two
plans are outlined as follows: Mr. Gar
field suggests the granting of a license
on these terms: (1) Tho imposition of
all necessary requirements as to cor
porate organization and management
as a conuition preceueui. to giumms
the license; (2) publicity of the corpo
ration's affairs; (3) prohibition of all
interstate corporations from engaging
in commerce without such license; (4)
the right to refuse or withdraw such
license or franchise in case of violation
of the law.
Mr. Bryan first presented his remedy
in dPtall at the anti-trust conference
held in Chicago in 1899 Addressing
this conference on September 10, ho
said: "A remedy that I would suggest
is that congress should pass a law pro
viding that no corporation organized
in any state could do business outside
the state in which It is organized uiilu
it receives from some power created by
nnnm.nao n Ur-nnsR authorizing it to do
hunts' o , , mrt-
business outside of its own state, rnat
license can be granted upon conditions
which will, in tho first place, prevent
watering of stock; in the second place,
.prevent monopoly in any branch of
business, and third, provide publicity
u . ,,' r '. oti0nrtJnnR and busi-
as to an ut uiu li." ,,
ness of the corporations.
The two plans are thus seen to be
identical in all material provisions.
W en the Bryan plan was first sug
gested the republicans-or the less dis
gesx " Li Aro nartisan ones-hooted
X it as a mere makeshift, created for
an exhlencv, to be used by Mr. Bryan
fn running for the presidency. Yet
events and the suggestion of the same
tiSions by a partially sobered admin
weapons uy i be a com.
Snsive and efficient one. and that
?' 1 a far-seeing, construc-
plexion and purify tho breath, mouth
and throat; I also believe tho liver
Is greatly benefited by tho dally uso
of them; they cost but twenty-five
cents a box at drug stores and al
though in some sense a patent prepara
tion, yet I bellovo I get moro and
better charcoal in Stuart's Charcoal
Lozenges than in any of tho ordinary
charcoal tablets."
his thunder," for he has declared that
ho will welcome good in government,
no matter through what party It will
come. Denver News.
Changed His Mind
Mr
tive
; Bryan was a far
aryuii o -- - ,a apt to have an tne rest u
statesman. Mr. Bryan is i j BrooUyn EaEle,
Willie is about G years of age. Glvo
him a hammer and plenty of nails and
he will amuse himself by the day. Yes,
and he makes things, too boats,
houses, all sorts of things, showing
pretty plainly that the natural bent of
his mind Is toward mechanics. In
deed, his father long ago said that if
the little fellow continued to delight
in such play he should have a thorough
education In mechanical engineering;
and the boy himself has for some time
declared his intention to be a mechan
ical engineer, when he grows up.
The other Sunday morning, how
ever, Willie was lying in bed appar
ently engrossed in deep thought. His
mother, fondly Imagining that her
prodigy might be working out Bomo
engineering problem that would in time
revolutionize mechanics asked him
what he was thinking about. After
i.i nminiia roflnnf tnn. rltir-
a long penuu ui duuu . -
ing which the impressed mamma stood
in proud expectation, the child grave
ly informed her that he had changed
his mind; that be, believed he would
not be a mechanical engineer, after all.
"Why not?" she asked.
"Well, you see," said he, "they don t
have much rest, they have to work ev
ery day. I guess I'd rather be a min- -.later.
They only work on Sunday and c.
have all the rest ot me ;. -
ILc VJS3 aT this attempt to
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