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VOLUME 7, NUMBER 27
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MR. METCALFE'S BOOK
"OF &UCH IS
THE KINGDOM"
And Other Stories from Life
NOW READY FOR DELIVERY
JOHN M., HARLAN. Atiociafe .Tuitice. United
Slntci Supreme Court: ' Your little book. 'Of Such
it the Kingdom,' hat been rend by mo with more
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RICHARD L. METCALFE
LINCOLN, NEBR.
Care The Commoner-
John D. Rockefeller as a Witness
Sioux Falls (S. D.) Press: The
public will thoroforo receive with
satisfaction the mandate of the court
should it visit tho extreme penalty
upon tho Standard Oil offenders.
Fort Worth (Tex.) Record: What
ever may bo tho amount of tho fine,
Standard Oil company will not be
seriously affected financially by the
payment thereof. It has come to be
a pretty well established fact that the
dear people are tho ones of last re
sort when it comes to paying the
flues that are assessed against cor
porations. The assessment of fines
is no punishment at all. The cor
poration simply smiles when a line
Is assessed and passes it on to the
people Tho remedy, therefore, lies
deeper than in a monetary forfeit.
If tho men who direct illegal prac
tices were severely dealt with the
Illegal practices would stop. There
would bo no necessity of injuring
tho legitimate prosecution of the in
dustry nor of weakening honest in
vestments. It is. the lawlessness in
any industry and not the Industry
itself that should be destroyed with
out delay or evidence of fear by the
courts, and some day that will be
done.-
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Dallas (Tax.) Times-Herald: John
D. Rockefeller has returned to his
home at Cleveland. John D. is not
well posted on Standard Oil matters,
William Telford, his financial man, is
doing Europe and tfill not return to
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Buy a Home in Nebraska
FINE FARM LAND VERY CHEAP.
FOR SALE A number of one-quarter, one-
' half and whole sections of farm laud in Perkins
county. Nebraska.
This land is all rich prairie land, every acre of
which can be cultivated. The soil is black loam
and very productive. " -' ? - , . -v
The country is healthful, the land beautiful, and
01ll.-r.fl 4-rv 1 ttrHttcl Wirhrl ntimtn .
There are well Improved farms, good neigh-'
bors, good schools, good churches, and a good
town all In sight of this hind.
;Thls land is located from one to five miles from ,
authrivlng town on the Burlington railroad. .
There are, three other good, towns In Perkins
county. " (
45 BUSHELS OF CORNIER ACRE '.WAS ,
RAISED LAST YEAR ON LAND ADJOINING
THIS LAND, t ,
,G0 BUSHELS. OF WHEAT PER ACRE
RAISED ON THE SAME -KIND OF LAND . IN
THE SAME COUNTY IN 3906.
ALFALFA GROWS IN PROFUSION NEAR
BY ON THE SAME KIND OF' L, AND.
For each year during the past three years tho
crops raised on land in Perkins , county sold for
more than the COST PRICE of the same land.
Farm this land one year and its present .selling
price would bo doubled.
It is as productive as tho best land In Iowa or
Illinois. Sell 20 acres In those states and your
money will buy a quarter section of tho land I
am offering for sale. Excellent water at a depth
of 40 feet. No better country on earth for raising
all kinds of stock.
Oats, barley, and rye are profitable crops.
Do you want a farm while this lam' is within
your reach? Cheap farm lands will soon be a
thing of the past. A quarter section of this laml
, will make a nice nest egg. I am offering this land
for less than one-fourth what the same kind of
soil Is spiling for GO miles distant I can verify
every statement made above. If interested call
on mo or write for prices aud detail descriptions.
As an investment or for a home It will pay you
to Investigate. Co-operation with other agents
solicited. Audress
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America until late in tho fall. Happy
is the man who can devote till his
time to sacred things aid unload re
sponsibility on his wicked partners.
Columbus (Ohio) Press-Post: It
Isn't every billionaire who can leave
tho making of his fortune entirely
in tho hands of a board of directors,
as Rockefeller claims to have done.
Joplin (Mo.) Globe: Mr. Rocke
feller's tremendous business ability
is unchallenged. From penury to the
pinnacle of "the world's richest man"
is a gap that could be bridged by
nothing excepting tremendous abil
ity. Is it conceivable that a man of
such remarkable talents could be in
ignorance of the policies and plans
of tho company of which he is the
president, in which he is by far the
largest stockholder, from the earn
ings of which he has for many years
received an annual income of a dozen
or more millions?
Manifestly, it is not conceivable.
It is not believable. Mr. Rockefel
ler may not have perjured himself
according to the letter of the oath
in his testimony at Chicago. But in
the spirit' of the obligation he un
doubtedly did perjure himself. Pres
ident Roosevelt would probably call
Rockefeller a liar were it up to him
to comment.
How do you account for Rocke
feller, the pious, and Rockefeller, the
pirate? may be asked. The account
ant from whom the law should de
mand an accounting at this time is
nobody but John D., himself.
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Nashville Banner: The fining of
a corporation does not fit the punish
ment for corrupt or lawless practice
upon the guilty parties. There may
be many innocent stockholders who
would suffer from the imposition of
an immense fine upon a corporation,
or' the real punishment in such a
case may be imposed upon innocent
consumers, who will be made to pay
increased prices for the products of
the corporation in order that the
corporation itself may recoup. Ex
act justice in. the case of a corpora
tion which has violated the law will
not bo done until the individual man
agers who are, directly responsible
tor tne' lawlessness are punished as
individuals.
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(For reference as to my reliability address First -National
Bank, Lincoln, Neb.)
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. Buffalo ON. Y.) Courier: Old
John p. appeared in court at Chicago
yesterday and he would have ap
peared to much better advantage had
he not excited public indignation and
ridicule by striving to evade service
of the subpoena.
Pittsburg Dispatch: Possibly the
full testimony may develop more im
portant matters in Mr. Rockefeller's
testimony than appears at this time.
But if the outcome should be a free
treatment to tho immunity bath to
gain from him knowledge that could
have been secured from official or
statistical sources Judge Landis' in
sistence on his appearance may take
on a strong resemblance to a boomerang.
day in Chicago. . So far as appeared
he was merely a witness answering
a subpoena like any other witness.
He had not been excused from at
tendance on the ground of personal
convenience; he was not represented
by a doctor's certificate of ill health.
Judge Landis had issued an order
that he should appear to answer cer
tain questions, and he Appeared. lie
did what the ordinary law-abiding
citizen would feel "compelled to do
in the circumstances, .which is tho
more remarkable because heads of
the Standard Oil have not always
shown themselves so submissive to
the law. '
New York Press:, Of course Judge
Landis is not responsible ..for the far
cical nature of the proceedings in
every other respect save that of the
investigation which "he has' set in mo
tion: Judge Landis must know that a
fine o'f $29,000,000 against the
Standard Oil company 6t Indiana
would not be a penalty imposed up
on Messrs. Rockefeller, Rogers, Arch
bold and the other heavy stockhold
ers of (he 'Standard Oil company of
New Jersey, the hblder of the stock
of the Indiana corporations. If he
imposes such a itiVe the burden will
be inflicted upon the oil consumers
of the United States.
A $29,000,000 .fine would be taken
from the treasury of the parent cor
poration that is to say, s the oil
trust and then charged on u tho
books to the cost of production, just
as if it were the 'price of an oil re
finery or the expense account1 of H.
H. Rogers or the salary ofJi D.
Archbold. Afterward the consumers
of the United States will be charged
to make up for it. - y
It would be ever so much better
for Judge Landis to fine the Stand
ard Oil company of Indiana the
lowest amount which' can be
levied under the law so mis
takenly invoked against the mo
nopoly by the department of justice.
If Judge Landis will see this, and
then will have the courage to give in
open court his reasons for refusing
to be a party to the punishment of
the people for the crimes of the rail
road and oil monopoly rebaters, he
will make an enduring name for him
self. '
If Judge Landis is the man we
take him to be from the attitude he
has occupied in this case we shall
be disappointed if he does rio'tf give
it as his opinion that the g'utffti for
crimes like those which have been
revealed in his court is personal, and
that it ought to be brought ho'me to
individuals by means of th'er law
which awaits enforcement on the
statutes. Certainly this is the t;ruth
about the case against the Standard
monopolists, which is well known to
all students of the country's most
aciite economic problem. O5
New Orleans Times-Democrat: Mr.
Rockefeller has been careful notto
afford Judge Landis any assistance
in fixing these fines-, but his marvel
ous ignorance regarding his own
business justifies tho assessment of
a penalty sufficiently heavy to make
the president" of the Standard Oil
company take a keener and more
wholesome interest in, the lawful
conduct of its affairs.
New York World: John D. Rock
efeller cut a delightfully modest fig
ure in Judge Landis' court yestor-
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INVESTMENTS THOROUGHLY SAFE.
1 netting good income from annual
rentals, are Red River Valley Minne
sota Improved Farms besides Increas
ing; strongly in value each year, thus
making two profits on your money.
Prices now $30 to $35 per acre, but in
trinsically worth double. Best soil on
earth. For selected list address O, J.
Collman, Burr Blk., Lincoln, Neb.
J70R SALE 432 ACRES. STOCK AND
a grain farm: stock, household, im
plements all for -440,000; no' trade,
time on pnrt. Box 15&, Rochester, Ind. 'r
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J7 0R SALE SEVERAL HEAT) OF
1 thoroughbred short horn cttlo, in
cluding two calves, and throo cows.. It
interested address W. J. Bryan, Lin
coln, Neb. s
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