mmmiiwn i ntJ'i!iuiywww.- inn wwmMW'WWviwmi)l yiW
OCTOBER , 1808
The Commoner
13
J!
tWs tbbbb b9 BaT h
llETVAKTto tH too all about oar liberal t)an ci furnfflv
if Inr home for the MOnla all finrttn mantra n credit.
Ws want to explain to iou bow wesdwfallv coavtnknt mir
crsdlt Mrrico Is, and how ft cItm jou from tea to thirty
months in which to par for your purchasesbow it enable!
rm to btij a clnele article, or to fumlih roar hone com
plet and to eajoy the full ttso of the fnrnlehinti while pay
Inr for them la mail amount from month to month as .too
earn tho motier. We charee abtolBtely BotMag for Oils
credit accommodation Be l&tarest bo extras of aay kind.
Etsry salaried an, ererj wnie earner, ever farmer and
erarr family of mTl incocao in the eoontry should have
thlt helpfal Credit service. TOU should hare U. Vo tell all
abont the plan in oar We Fall Catalog. Writs fur It today.
CATALOG NO. 134 FREE
Do not spend a cent for anything In the line of borne fur
nlthtnrs until yoa hare reeeired this catelot yoti can't
afford to. It offers the uvxt artlttlo fornUhlnn deafened
for the undent home at prim ron cannot possibly equal In
roor home town or of u7 other bmU order bona faralih
tsg lnitltsttsa la America, Jt Is a Urea and beautifully
Illustrated relume, picturing a wnnderfally extensive line
of Trnnltare, Carpets, Run, Draperies, BtoTM, Sefrlrera
tors, Oo-earts, Crockery, Sewing Machines, Clocks, BUrtr
ware, etc, etc., Illustrated very elaborately la colors.
This Elegant J
HOOKER
4
LfeeM
LaaBF elfin SBBJ
la Aaerlcaa Quar
ter Sawed Oak.....
Massive frame beautifully tarred.
hits seek, broad ears oa
each side, Tety eemferU
We; seat has tall set tem
pered steel s prise. TJp
holstered la ruaranteed
Hantecket Leather, which
has the wrarlac quality of
genuine Leather, k mar
t1ou value.
Shipped en SO DAYS'
FREE TRIAL.
Terms 75c cash, batanoe
n&Tihla COo ner month.
22 Croat Storea. We Month
positively handle more foods than any other store or combi
nation of furniture stores In America Bona excepted. We
enjoy buylnz advantaces which enahles us to sell at lower
prices loan any uiuer concern in vuo uiuiucu, n rue mr our
nit catalog xoaay. SAiibrAUiiun ok twin muKti bauiu
$15 to $23
$6 Trousers FREE
WITH YOUR FIRST SUIT ORDER
Suits Tailored
to your order
" PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED
$100 FORFEIT will be
paid to anyone who can
prove that we do not cut.
trim and tailor every suit
and extra trousers strictly
to order.
To advertise our all wool,
stylish, city tailored Suits,
we will make
you FREEol
charge, with
your firet
suit order, an
extra pair of
$6 Trousers
of the same
material as
jour suit, or
of a hand
some striped
trousering.
Write to-day
for our Free
Troaaer
offer, and
samples of
the latest all
wool suitings
(including thenewbrown,
gray and olive shades)
Fashion Plates. Tape
Measure, Order manic and Guarantees to ht you
perfectly, and save you money or refund your
money in fuil.
UNITED TAILORS
261 thlled Tailors lid., CarsMler St. :: CHICACI
C -PATENTS that PROTECT i
Oar 3 books for Investors audled ea receipt of 8 ets. stanps 1
R.S.& A. LLACEV, Washington, D.C. Eatab.lSSS.
1PEUTC Mv Sanitary Coffee
HUCri o Maker produces pure,
sweet coffee needs no settler and
never wears out. baves coffee, money
and health. Every wife buys at hight;
new invention; exclusive territory.
Send l'c for BUc. size, postpaid.
DR. LYONS, 154 lay ! Fekin. 1.1.
7 per cent First Mortoae Loans
ON NORTH DAKOTA FARM liANDS
are pafo as Government Bonds. We loan for Cor
poratlonB, Banks, Estates and Private Individuals.
Seven per cent net; collect and remit Interest
without charee. Reference furnished. Correspon
dence Follclted.
FltlED-UBMMI ABSTRACT COMPANY,
JaUMeatOYTOI, W. D.
this morning's papers.. As to most
or what you say about mo personally
1 do not regard any answer as nec
eitsary. When you say that 1 am un
fair to your platform you reiterated
certain opinions as to which I had
quoted, with my hettrty approval,
Governor Hughes In my first letter,
and these, therefore, it Is also un
necessary to answer. You have not
answered tho Hughes speech, and, in
my judgment, you do well not to
make tho attempt. You say tjiat your
platform declares in favor of vigor
ous enforcement of tho law against
guilty trust magnates and officials,
and that tho platform upon which
Mr. Taft stands makes no such de
claration. It was not necessary.
That platform approved the policies
of the administration and promised
to continue them, and here, as usual,
I have only to compare your words
with tho deeds of tho administration
and of Mr. Taft. You merely prom
iso in your platform that you Intend
ed to do Just what this administra
tion has actually done and is doing.
Thrust At Olney
To show tho differenco between
deeds and words. I will compare the
record of this administration with
tho record of ono of your moBt prom
inent supporters at tho moment
Mr Olney, attorney general under the
last democratic administration.
While Mr. Olney was attorney gen
eral no cases whatever wero brought
under the anti-trust law against
combinations of capital, the only new
cases which he brought being direct
ed against comb'nations of working
men. During that entire administra
tion the only qases' brought against
combinations 'of 'capital under the
anti-trust act were four in number,
two of which wero unsuccessful, ono
of the other two being tho case
which was decided by Judgo Taft in
favor of the government.
Under this administration a mass
of such cases have been brought, in
cluding the case against the North
ern Securities company; against the
neef packers; against the Federal
Salt company; against the Otis and
other elevator companies; against
tho American Tobacco company;
against the powder trust; agaiust
tlie Virginia-Carolina Chemical com
pany; aganst the Standard Oil com
pany, and others.
Claims Success
In a number of these cases the
government has already succeeded
by injunctions and otherwise. Some
of the cases are now ponding. In
hardly any important case against
great law-breaking corporations has
the government yet suffered defeat.
As regards suits to suppress railway
abuses, under the last democratic
administration, xl.ere were no indict
ments against shippers for receiving
rebates or secret rates. Under my
administration there have been
forty-nine indictments for secret re
bates, resulting in eighteen "Convic
tions, and In only four cases have
these Indictments failed. The other
twenty-seven cases are still pending.
Among the railroads -which have
It mere promised are empty indeed,
and they would not be made now
with any possibility of performance
resulting if it were not for the
achievement above recited.
Tho Steel Company Case
You state that tho steel company,
with ray express consent, purchased
one of its largest rivals and thus ob
tained control of over 50 per cent of
the total output. This action of the
steel company (which increased its
share of the total output by only
four per cent and In no way altered
the standing of the company under
the law) may have been a violation
of your plan, the absurdity of which
has been exposed by Governor
Hughes. But there was no violation
of the law. T was cognizant of the
entire transaction. It was not en
tered Into fcy the steel corporation
on its own desiro, but sololy at tho
urgent requests of tho corporation
purchased and of the big banks hold
ing that corporation's securities, In
order to enable them to prevent a
crash which would havo turned tho
panic of last fall Into tho moBt wide
spread disaster. I should indeed
havo been derolict in my duty If I
had not so acted and efficiently used
all the power of the government
whore It could no legally and prop
erly used (as !t was In this case)
to seo that tho panic was kept within
the smallest possible radius and tho
damage caused as slight as possible.
You would better understand tho
principle on which I acted if you
would rid yourself of tho idea that
1 am trying to discriminate for or
against any man or corporation be
cause ho or it is either wealthy or
not woalthy. I regard bucIi discrim
ination In either direction as utter
ly incompatible with a spirit of hon
esty and fair dealing.
Bases Distinction on Conduct
I base my distinctions on conduct,
not on rolatlvo wealth. When tho
samo men who wero leaders In tho
steel corporation acted in connection
with the Northern Securities suit In
a manner which I regarded as con
trary to the law, by my direction a
successful suit was immediately un
dertaken againBt them. If thoy vio
late the law in connection with any
act of tho Bteel corporation I will
Immediately proceed against them.
Until they do violate the law they
will bo troated precisely as any other
corporation, great or small, which
obeys the law, is treated.
I treat each man and each corpor
ation with a view solely to whetln r
be or It Is acting rightly on a given
occasion. Let no give you an ex
ample. I have proceeded against the
corporations of which Mr, E. H Har
riman is thp head on certain points
where I believe they have violated
the, law. But when, In connection
with the breaking of tho SaKon sea
dam, one of the Harriman corpora
tions repaired the dam, I last winter
did everything I could to have con
gress reimburse Mr. Harriman for
so much of the o ligation as I folt
ought to come upon tho United
States. I would hold myself unfit
to be president if, because T prose
cuted Mr. Harriman where I thought
he had broken the law, I yet hesitat
ed to do him Justice where I thought
the facts required that justice should
be done him. In exactly tho same
way I have acted and shall act as
regards the steel corporation.
Gives a Name
You aslc me to name a single offi
cial connected with a law-defying
corporation who has declared or will
declare that he Is supporting you.
In a St. Louis paper which reached
me at the same time that the papers
containing this published letter of
vours I find a statement from Judge
Henry S. Priest, attorney for the
Waters-Pierce Oil company, tho west
ern subsidiary cr representative of
the Standard Oil company, in which
ho announces that ho Is for Bryan
and states that Wall Street believes
that Bryan will be elected. Tn re
sponse to the question as to whether
ho could quote any of the Standard
Oil magnates as feeling that way he
answered: "1 did not say T saw any
of the officials of tho Standard Oil
company. I am giving ydu what T
found was tho drift of opinion,
among well posted politicians, as
well as bankers. I guess Gov
ernor Haskell is all right. They have
not proven anything on him, have
tbev?"
The newspaper clipping goes on to
say that Judge Priest was one of the
lawyers who fought Attorney Gen
eral Hadley in the state's ouster snlt
against the Waters-Pierce and Re
public Oil companies. His legal
practice is chiefly with the big cor
poration and hla firm la counsel for
tho United Railways company and
tho North American Interests In St.
Louis. Judgo Priest Is credited with
originating tho phrase, "Bribory Is r
conventional offeiiBO," which ho used
In an argument at tho trial of R. M.
Snyder, tho Kansas City millionaire,
now dead.
Support of Trust Magnate
You say that tho trust magnates
know their own intercBts and aro
supporting Judgo Taft. So far as
Bral5BBKBm
BVer jBrKBa
Mayor
Johnson
ctartfMl thin institution
to a bank for nil the
people nml nt his nuc
Kwtlon wo nUoiitcd Uio
now famous
Bank Money
Order Plan of
Banking by Mail
which jplvcs the d porttor ailvnuUKra honover
iiad bofurp. Hy i!i.a unlijuo plan your mono
begins to draw
Four par Cant Interest
tho moment It rrrvclxa us and you receive not
the ordinary, clumpy, unenro prow hook but a
Money Order which Hhowa on It fnco tho
amount or principal and Interest and la a certi
fied chuck,
Cashable Anywhere
At Any Time
By our met 1 1 oil your money Is nlwny on do
poAlUyotalwuyfliri yur puaoMfon ready for
lualant uxu when needed.
"Write for llooldct No. Ti9.
The
Depositors Savings and Trust
Comp ny
Tom Ls Johnson, President
Cleveland, Ohio
Don't Wear
BBflaaTtfaaBiaaaaaBab-
mmmsmmm
a
Truss
U rooks' Appliance, the
modern fdcntlflo Inven
tion, the wonderful mow
discovery that cun run-.
turr wJJI bp M'lit on trial.,
No obnoxious springs or
pad. Him automatic Air
Cuxh ono. Html nml
draw tho broken
pHittf together ms
on would h l oKou
inb. No ralvi-fi. No
crJR00K8,Uel)u.rr lies. Durab'e. cheap.
on triftl to prove It.
Pat, Sept. 10, '01. nenr
UatnloKtio rind mrasuro
blanlc.1 mailed free. Bond name and addrcM today.
C, E. B HOOKS, 7624 Brooks BIJg., Marshall, Wlcfu
WANTED-Traveling talesman to cover terri-(
tory In Ncbnuka. Prefer experienced rnau with
established territory. Will pay for right man.
Ktlw, Wejtten Tea and Hplce Company,
St. Louis, Mo,
BRYAN POST CARDS "rLT
No Order Accepted Less than Ten Cents
Th. Post Card Co. Fr, N.k.
APACHE MOTOR CYCLES
Mad by BROWN A BECK, Denver, Cetera1
ARE WINNERS
both tor UKCfulnr-M and practicability and aro the
Simplest Motor Cycle Made, Write us for Cnta-,
logue of rarao. We also havo the celebrated 1-i
Hone rower Itacycles at tiu.00 each.
Brown and Beck,.
Denver, Colorado
Button H0li
Campaign- Badges
eBasBai?'
m BlBBJBIiBttLm-
7 fSHpflHHBaato!
. HSaaaasaaaH
BBs7feBBBlBSeBsBS
" BBBBiABBBBBBBL!BBBBBBl
aMaaj9aaSMZBB!
eajBesJBaeaj i
SBBBBm (
t
with Tlryan'a Picture In aaUonal colors. COO In hex
tX00.21xixcs$X00. 10 bxes IUUX.
VJZDEKAl. KtlUlFJaUSHT CO.,
Menadneek Uloelc, Cklea&r
f
.
M
-aii
J
i
4
ki
n
41
v
UU"ii . iii''"i(-
