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rfWFf t t The Commoner JlTiT, W19 ywtii ; k If I: ' . i I. 11PCe8sitles and thereby to eliminate the ' oflia of the "middleman".. The resolution at- itckcd the biS Pckers' alIcslng; control' of food' prTho Resolution, which, wag approved with I ''Whereas, it is claimed the autocracy, of, the f'beef trust and food combine profiteers' is fast icnslaring American peopie mrougu- uieir un f interrupted manipulation of the so-caJled in- tL ho verv life of this republic, .and our na- Itional government ' ,, . I "Whereas, it is eviuenu liu. uiuuuvi uquiumo L. umntii its control of all means of market- . 'n, nonaction nf Ufa. its. control of marietta land cold storage houses throughout the United Istates, IKed it so it can profiteer a w-illiand Collect triDUie Hum ueuitof evejy juuo ut uuu :int Miorpfnm. there ia but one safe and sura way for the people to extricate themselves from fpeople of each municipality to withput, delay, MAhlish their own Joint markets and cold r.i-.n nnnnlina ami tnlrn. rvoi fho lYioana rvf Iraarketing their own food within tli,e ci'.y limits." I M M ly Mil I HIM TEXAS SUGGESTS ACTION TO CURIVTHE PROFITEERS An Austin dispatch, dated July 12, "says: The full text of tile bill designed to lower the high fcost of living introduced in the Texas legisla ture, follows: A bill to be entitled an act to define profiteer- ting and prescribe penalties therefor, and to pro vide for the enforcement hereof, and declaring fan emergency. Be it enacted by the legislature of the' State i of Texas: .. Sec. 1. That any- person, partnership, joint ;Btock company or corporation, now or hereafter engaged in the mercantile business in this state, ?who shall expose of offer for sale, or cause to ;be exposed or offered for sale in unbroken pack ages to the public in this state, any article of goods, wares or mercandise.- without havine: .plainly written, stamped or printed thereon, the true, actual cost price thereof , to, such, person, ipartnership, joint stock company or corporation, ;BJiau be guilty of. profiteering and shall be punished as hereafter provided. : bee. 2. Every person and each member of a I partnership or a joint stock company, who shall -.1)0 guilty of Drofiteerine as defined bv Sec. 1 of this act, shall be fined in any sum not less than $25 nor more than $600, an-i may be Imprisoned sin the county jail not less than 10 days nor more than 90 days: : Sec. 3. Every cornoratinn -whioh shlt . tm guilty of profiteering as defined in Sec. 1 of this act, snail be fined in any sum not lesa than $100 ,nor more than $l,.0a0i such sum to be recovered 0y a SUlt bt'OUCht in tho nrrrriQ nf fho. aii-a hv lithe district or the county attorney, and such uui wnen so recovered shall be paid into the iroau and bridnro fund nf fim nmrttv miitma fio ! offense was committed, less a commission of I'm Gr rent t0 the dh3trict or county attorney rfm. i " iuw up013- a second conviction ."r a VtQlatlOn Of this law. fh nhnrfor nf aur-h fhn mi ? sha11 also be forfeited; and upon we ming with the secretary of state of a certi nm copy of such decree-, he shall at once enter le same unnn ,ta t,. .i ... E-Bhill i, -'"" m uauor rt;uufu anp. same Ithp iff the effeSfc of revoking and cancelling -fnrM,o i ,, or saId corporation without any ) and n 1 j. -"wi. Ul OV.UUU UL Muy JLIULUIU, , nu no charter shalr thereafter be issued by the ate to anv enrnnMttftn fm i Ij : , mercantile W,ess: - , oee. 4. Thp inv, j f n. onlv ?AUsi"ess used' Sec. 1 of this act, shall :trom othn include-those who purchase th n,, bUUU" wares or mercnantfise,- for "ie purpose nf ffr i n.. ....- IBUPh i "oivis mi- uaie lo- Lire piumc wch goods wares or merchandise. ' ' Pricfl kl i;.e laeuage "the true, actuaT cost not h. !rne ' u to c. 1 of this act, shall or carrhS "i6 to include any drayage, freight any SS llar8es paid by the purchaser or aaturity flowed on bills paid before Sec r t1 ' M. ,. aC.L articlfl flf mmla Tir7.ocf t- mar. loosed tn i exposed or offered for sale or 1 tlon of q e?Posed or offered for sales in viola- I EeparatP : cma act' snalli constitute a Spo 5 Q?nae. der his, act. Ua tfiis 'fittfT ct tliat tllere is ow no statute fasainst profited0 ?recUnff & P,Gflnle - -iKuxu auiar iJtuunitJciug.i (5D 00000000 MONOPOLY TKR -CAUSR OP HIGH LIVING COSTS the fundamental reason of the exarbl fij1 f ?f 1Jvlng. -o make the cStof living. higher i3 thj reason aud the pur-po- of monopoly, and th - reactionaries itt congress and in the legislature of Snsttet are, tlle tools big b-Mipon uses to that 6nd. No wonder the poonlo ' are against them." Gifford ttnohot. Jn address bofore the Uepubllcan Preidn tial Club, Boston. 60300'000000 0 wide-spread, and the near cl'-o of the preiout session of the legislature, creates an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule re quiring that bills be read ir three several days be suspended and the sauie is now here so sus pended and this act shall take effect 30 days after the adjournment of the present called ses sion of th3 legislature. PRISON AND FINES IMPOSED tfTOX 17 FISH PROFITEERS A Boston dispatch, dated July 9, says; Sen tences to the House of Correction and fines were imposed today on seventeen men connected with the financing and management of the fish in dustry of New England. They had been found guilty of conspiring to raise the price of fish in war times, and of creating a monopoly. F, Monroe Dyer, of New York, president; Ernest A. James, treasurer; John Burns, Jr., manager; and Joshua Paine and Joseph A. Rich, directors of the Bay State Fishing Company of Maine, were sentenced to serve one year each and to pay fines of $1,000. Tvelve other men connected with subsidiary or associated firms of fish dealers were sentenced to six months each, with $500 fines. Sentence was stayed in each instance, pend ing a ruling by the supreme court on exceptions during the trial. THREAT TO HANG PROFITEERS A Geneva dispatch, dated May 2G says: The infuriated populace in Prague, erected gallows in the principal street, whither they conducted fifty-seven food profiteers and threatened to hang them unless they took the oath that they would sell their wares at reasonable prices, says a dispatch from that city. 211 took the oath.' SUGGESTING CANDIDATES L. L. C. Milstead, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Phoenix. There is a halo of romance about Robert L. Owen. If he would, he could not make it dis appear. . He has accomplished many things, but his one-eighth -Indian blood take precedence of all these In the public mind. His decent from an Indian chief still is the main fact in his history. An Indian of princely strain may be president, says a metropolitan newspaper headline, refer ring to him. The "Owen for president boom" is more than a local affair. He is recognized as a presidential possibility throughout the nation. Will "The Groundhog" be president? Robert Latham Owen of Muskogee is many things. He is an M. A., an LL. D., a Phi Beta Kappa, a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner, a Knights Templar, an Episcopalian, an able lawyer and a United States senator. The romance of his heritage goes back to the days of Pocahontas and her stern parent, Pow hatan, says a sketch in Current Opinion. Pocahontas belonged to one of the seven tribes of the Cherokee nation and Owen's Che rokee blood comes to him from the same ances tors as those which Pocahontas boasted. His crdfather was the last great heriditary chieftain of the Armi-Kilawhi. He bore the name of Hiel-Steky-Yearle and his wife was Queen Ouatsis. Senator Owen ia known among Ids Wnrmen Osonostota, which means "The GrOws0S'iaiidfaUier. the sketch continues, bore the English name of Thomas Chiolm,.and Jo was a friend of Thomas Jefferson. It was Chisolm who led tho Cherokee to the radian territory. Q vras highly educated aad poke English and Fronoh fluontly, Owen's mother also was highly educated. When a girl sho rode 1,000 mile to roach a boarding school in Indiana that sho might study music and painting. After completing her courso alio wont to oast Tonnossoo as a toaqher, whero the mot and was married to n handsome younir otigindor, Cdi. Robclrt Owcm. She followed life fortune for ycjirji and wont with him thrbugh wijdornesso, whore ho was projecting rallrqalla. Itobort La,tham is tho youngest 0f two sons, having boon born at Lynchburg, Va., February 2, 1856. He waa educated In private schools of Virginia, being graduated with his master' do gro from Washington and Lee university and a valcdlctoriah of hi cJiujb. "While here fte received tho'proaldonl'a ch.olr hlp a the most diligent student in thp unlver aity and a gold motat as tho most brilliant debater. His Interest in the Indians Ipd him to accept the principalahlp of the Cherokot Orphan Asy lum at GrandSaline He waa socrolary of, tho bpor of education In the Indian Terrttpry. In 18S1-84, meanwhile, beginning tho . practice .of law. During 1884 he lwas. editor of tho "Indian Chieftain", publHidd at Vinlta, and waa United States Indian agent for the Five Civilized Trlboa, 1885-39: , , Tho national banking act was extended over tho Indian Territory by his efforts and under the act he organized tho First National Bank of Muskogee. He was its- first president and served as such for ten years,' Owen also was instrumental In establWhlng the United States court In Indian Territory, with jurisdiction strictly In lino with Indian treaties. He was secretary of tho first bar association in the Territory, and In 1890 was retained, an attorney for the Choctaw Indians In their notlow known as the "leased district case", in which he succeeded In recovering for tho Ohoctaws nearly $8,000,000. He also wa3 attorney for the Cherokees In a suit in which he obtained nearly 1',000,000, iff 1884. tf He conducted tho case of tho Eastern Chero kees through a contest of six years, finally win ning a judgment in the United States supreme court for ?5, 000,0000. Chief Justice Knott said that in his opinion Mr. Owen's argument was tho finest he had ever hoard In his court. He was author of tho act of March 3, 1901, which gave United States citizenship to' tho 70,000 Indians of the Territory. : ' When he became Interested in politics,-'ho plunged Into it with tho same energy that char acterized his private undertakings. He was a member of the national democratic committee, 1802-96. ' ' When Oklahoma became a state Mr. Owen was elected United States t aitor by a majority of 10,000. He began hfs career in the senate by taldng an active part in 'debates on national questions and astonished his colleagues by hfs masterful manner fit debatd. It Is said that there are few men more considerate in jugdment, more affable or more desirous of being absolutely Just. Cer tainly an enviable" estimate. "Neither talk nor listen to scandal,'"" ia his motto. He may be said to have written the last chapter in the history of tho Indians as a separate nation, add for several years he has been writing hfs . name In the history of the federal government at Washington. He stands at the foreground as one of the real leaders of the democratic party. ' None can deny that Robert L. Owdn of Mus kogee is a presidential possibility. Senator Johnson of California had a neatjjt tle presidential lightning rod erected at , on time, bub the junk man Is aboat the only one who seems, to hava had his eye on It since the senator demonstrated that he would rather be wrong on the League of Nations than be president. The Germans; said they- were perfectly willing to sign the . peace treaty, but they wanted it understood ihat it was. only because force com pelled them to ;do bo. They seem determined to convince theore&t ot tho world that not right but force 'isaheionly thing they can understand. i i ' I r i 1 . f ! ft fcM - r ?' u i 'ii(.Z' rfl tifaitoiMtosMt-
