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v-i-s , -jt, vv "TV s . V U i .., V H . , I 12 The Commoner. VOLUME 7. NUMBER 5J i:at '. I V. (II "I & u i 1 m , '(! si Governor Sparks of Nevada has called an extra session of the legis lature for the purpose of considering the Goldfield strike, President Roosevelt has permitted the federal troops to remain. Dr. Nicholas Sehn, one of the world's famous surgeons, died at his home in Chicago. James B. Stowe, who from 1897 to 1901 was consul general to South Africa, died at his home in Kansas City. Chief Justice John B. Cassaday, of the Wisconsin supreme court, is dead. Former Governor Lanham is ill at his Texas home. was knocked senseless by a robber last night in front of her home, 1337 L street, Northwest. Her pocket book was stolen. Miss Tyler had been to the Louise Home for Aged Southern Gentlewomen, where her aunt, Mrs. Letitla Tyler Semple, a daughter of President Tyler, had died a few hours before. She was ascending tle steps of her residence when the robber attacked her." -Application for the appointment of a-receiver for the Seaboard Airline was made to the federal court at Richmond, Va. . , This dispatch from Oklahoma City was carried December 30 by the As sociated Press: "Twenty-three hun dred barrels of beer, valuedat $17, 500, belonging to the New State brewery, was today. poured into the sewers of this city by United States Internal Revenue ..Collector CharleV Howard. The brew was completed after Oklahoma became a state. The state authorities would not permit its sale and shipment from the state." A Kansas City dispatch" carried by the Associated Press follows; "Kan sas for Christ" is to be the slogan in a statewide evangelistic campaign that is to be. pushed simultaneously in every county of the sunflower state next year. Hundreds of min isters from various denominations, together with numerous evangelists, are .to hold reyivals. An entire year will be spent in the movement and an effort is to be made to demon strate to the whole country what may be accomplished in concerted relig ious work carried forward on strictly business' lines. The great revival is $$$ under the direct leadership of KKevv William Eflwnni Tnri.o.n & -who planned it." ' The following appeared as a news paper despatch under date of Wash ington, December 29: "Miss Letitia Tyler, sixty years old, a clerk in the navy department and a grand daughter of President. John Tyler Two Ways rHolY9 you, noticed a difficulty in breathing short, quiqk breathwlion Y2 a walkIn&. !?oln up staiVs, Jinff" fe otLnhaTihiSaL f Ut Take Dr. Miles' New' Heart Curr nt once. It will strengthen "? buUd un the weakened nerves and muscles of healthy ' and mak you one and This Is one way the riirht wav Neglect it a little while and y will then notice Fluttering PainftntioJl Dizziness, Fainting Sn?fis, pS in In ?? ' glon of heart, sido and shoulders atom" SerioSsV1 KIdny t'oublei. i?&oi,!b It is the other way tho wrong way Dr. Miles' Hearr Cure is a safe, sure remedy, and is curing Sssf $ir&$ht lon ?fflK f8?7V3& fi'vWtlVoft ?te , .to,ok Dr- Mes' New Heart ur. which restored mo to perfect health." A. M. BASSETT, ' The first bottle wflfTeSoS?: ?f !S'ot tho druggist will return- your money: Bishop Edward G. Andrews of the Methodist Episcopal church, died at his home in Brooklyn. DEMOCRATIC CLUBS Under the leadership of Ross G. Moore antf Jess Gandy, a Bryan club was organized at Broken Bow, Neb. Democrats and popujists are signing the club list as rapidly as opportu-' nitv affords, and the organizers write: "We hope to have one of the best working clubs in Nebraska." TRAVELING MEN'S CLUB The following is taken from the Lincoln, Neb. Journal: The Nebraska Traveling Men's Bryan club held a meeting last, night at, the Lincoln hotel and elected offi cers for the ensuing year. About thirty men were present. It was pointed out that the need for activity was approaching and they would pre pare thus early by perfecting their organization. The following officers were elected: President. A. V. Johnson of Lincoln; twelve vice presidents from the various congres sional districts, A. G. Shreve of Lin coln, Mr. Watska of Humboldt, George Rogers and E. P. Berryman of Omaha, Charles Cronkelton of Be atrice, Frank Gates of David City, J. W. Hiler of Ed car, Jack Corey of Hastings, Harry Bovdston of Lincoln, W. L. Birnev of Crawford, and Wal ter Nye of Kearney: secretary "Will H. Love; treasurer, Samuel S. Hud son; recording. secretary, Harry Boydston. An executive committee of seven was selected as follows: W. D Wilhoite, H. H. Puerh, E. B. Zimmer man, C. J. riess. Charles Branch, O. C. Reasoner, and Charles Tucker, all of Lincoln. The constitution was changed to allow of twelve vice presidents in stead of five as formerly required. It was thought that a wider spread list of these officials would tend to keep the interest of the club at a fever heat. Some little discussion oc curred over the manner of represent ation in this body of vic& presidents but the matter was finally decided bv electing men no matter what dis trict they were from. The meetings were arranged for the first Saturday niebt of each month. The Nebraska Traveling iMen's Brvan club was organized in 1896 and was verv active during the first campaign. Since then it has been more or less Inactive. The election of officers last night was, the pre liminary move towards renewed act ivity in the coming campaign. ' -m . Secretory Taft Opens Campaign (Continued from Page 3) most substantial financial loss, are naturally sore and depressed. They believe, and generally they are right, that this disaster has come upon them without fault of theirs; It is unjust to them. Np matter how many symptoms of the coming trouble there may have been panics always come with a shocks and a tre mendous surprise and disappoint ment. And hardly is the panic over but' a fierce discussion arises as to the causes of its coming. With va rious motives editors and public speakers rush to the front to fasten upon some thing or some one the responsibility for what has hap pened. It is entirely natural that in the condition of mind in which the suffering business men are left by the great strain and trial such sner- .gestions should receive marked at tention and that the more definitely the personality of the scaneerhat nnri be fixed the more pleasure it gives me victims or the catastrophe. their' fondest hopes crushed and have only been able Jo come through the crisis with -the greatest effort and The Fight With Corporations "This mental attitude of the busi ness community which I. have de scribed as. likely to be found after every financial panic is clearly pres ent today. The economical and po litical history of the last four years gives it especial importance, because it offers to certain elements in the business and political community an exceptional opportunity. Let me in vite your attention to that hiBtory. It is that of a giant struggle between the national administration and cer tain powerful combinations in the financial world. These comoinations, for lack of a better name, are called 'trusts.' They engaged in different lines of manufacture and production by assembling large amounts of cap ital into one mass in a particular line of business managed by artful and skilfully devised, but illegal methods of duress, to exclude competition and monopolize the trade. They became the dictators to the great railroads, however powerful and however threatening the withdrawal of pat ronage, secured unlawful and dis criminating rebates, greatly increas ing their profits and still more com pletely suppressing competition. Man aged with conspicuous business abil ity, these trusts went into legitimate foreign trade and largely increased our country's exports. The profits which they realized enabled them to engage in other enterprises carried on by legitimate methods until the hold which they acquired in the busi ness community gave them a posi tion of vantage, it seemed hopeless to combat. The basis of their origi nal success and the maintenance of their power was the violation of the Sherman anti-trus law and the inter state commence law, and for a time both laws were but dead letters upon the statute books of the United States. The purpose of the adminis tration of Mr. Roosevelt -was to make those men, however nowerfni nmi wealthy, to know that the laws upon the statute books were living things and must bo obeyed. It was not proposed that the legitimate nntAr. prises that were carried oh. with the capital of these men should be de stroyed. It ,was not proposed that the foreign trade which Iniired to the benefit of the whole country Should be struck down; but it was determined that those who were mak ing the statutes a dead letter should be subject to restraint by injunction processes and punishment by indict ment not as a matter of -revenge not to gratify the exercise of power but to eradicate systematic lawless ness from our business system. In this struggle the administration has been greatly aided by the pojpular sympathy awakened by revelations as to breaches of trust by the managers' of some of the great Insurance com panies; by revelations as to the mis management of the Internal affairs of great railroad companies; by the "dis closures as to the enormous amount of rebates extorted from the railroad companies by" these trusts, and by tho conscienceless stock - jobbing and over-issue of 'bonds and stocks shown to have occurred in the man agement, of some of our great cor porations. A Moral Awakening "There was a, moral awakening among the people and the hands of the administration were held up in the work which it was doing. On the other hand the 'men and the inter ests which were the subject of at tack were not idle. They had their partisans guilty and innocent. The guilty, of course, wished to- defeat the administration by any means. The innocent were those who had become involved with trust magnates in legitimate business transactions and to whom the attitude of the admin istration seemed one general opposi tion to the whole business community. 'One of the great manifestations, one of the monuments in this moral progress was the passage of the rail road ratfe bill. It met the opposition of many of the railroads, not be cause they were in sympathy with the trusts, for I think they in many respects had been more sinned against than sinning, but becauso they resented that close control, that rigid supervision which the public demanded in view of the possibilities which the disclosure as to their past transactions revealed. The fight made by the administration has been a noteworthy one. And now, after a victory has been won. after there has been introduced into the hearts of all men; and especially of these leaders, tnese trust managers and financial opponents of the adminis tration, the fear of the laws the panic comes on. The trust magnates solidly intrenched with, great finan cial resources, . are not the ones who suffer the most of it. It is the men who have not such unlawful or fruit ful methods of making money. "The agents and sympathizers and defenders of the trusts and others innocent, but mistaken, now rush forward to place the blame of the present conditions upon the adminis tration. They seek to use the panic as an argument for giving- up tho moral victory which has been won. Apparently they would take a retro grade step back to the conditions which existed five and six and ten years ago, when, unhampered by statute law, these trusts were build ing the financial bulwarks which they are now fighting. ,They rely upon the soreness and 'the mental Strain and sufferincr thrnnerh which .all the honest business men of the community have had to pass as a golden opportunity for driving home their attacks upon the administration and for paralyzing the onward' move merit toward" supremacy of the law. Blomo tho Administration "I have set iorth "what I believe to be the real explanation of the panic. Let us examine the specifica tions Of Our onnnnentfit Tinw mode to show that the administration is re sponsible, In the first place it is said that the policy of the adminis tration has he.en directed for the last four yqars against organized capital and that it has thereby frightened investors. I deny it. The course of the administration has been directed against such organized capital as was violating the statutes of the United States and no others. It had every consideration and desire to assist or ganized capital which Was engaged in legitimate business. It Is- true that the execution of the policy of the administration has led to the bringing to light of public critiolsm of the violation 6f the law by influ ential and powerful. corporations and their prosecution. Through the in vestigation of national and state (Continued' on JPtLgfij . J-' gaa&j .g ..-.. 4M.AMti.frV ig,SHj&bk.hJm
